Signaling For Performing Battery Saving Patents (Class 370/311)
  • Patent number: 11412421
    Abstract: Facilitating management of network resource allocation based on device effective isotropic radiated power in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise receiving, by a system comprising a processor, a first indication of a baseband output power of a mobile device and a second indication of a minimum peak effective isotropic radiated power of the mobile device. Further, the method can comprise scheduling, by the system, uplink physical resource blocks based on the first indication and the second indication, wherein the scheduling is performed during initial access. The method can also include communicating the device EIRP between network nodes during handover such that a target network device obtains the device EIRP from a source network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Hongyan Lei
  • Patent number: 11412477
    Abstract: A terminal receives configuration information from a first access network device. The configuration information includes a paging area information that indicates a paging area for the terminal in a first mode. In the first mode, the terminal sends a first message to a second access network device when the terminal is in a cell that does not belong to the paging area. The first message includes a paging area update indication. The terminal then receives a connection establishment indication from the second access network device, and establishes a connection between the terminal and the second access network device. The terminal sends a second message to a core network device using the established connection between the terminal and the second access network device, the core network device releases a connection between the first access network device and the core network device established for the terminal in response to the second message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Du, Bingzhao Li
  • Patent number: 11412560
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for supporting sidelink communication between multiple user equipment (UEs), and which may be implemented in various apparatuses, methods, and/or articles of manufacture. In certain aspects a first UE may establish a sidelink schedule with a second UE, wherein the sidelink schedule corresponds to at least a subset of communication resources indicated available to both the first and second UEs by one or more corresponding link availability schedules or the like. The two UEs may then establish a sidelink with the second UE in accordance with the sidelink schedule. Multiple sidelink schedules may be agreed upon in certain instances such that the UEs may dynamically switch from one schedule to another as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Kapil Gulati, Hong Cheng, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11412576
    Abstract: An auxiliary Bluetooth circuit for use in a multi-member Bluetooth device is disclosed including: a second Bluetooth communication circuit, a second packet parsing circuit, and a second control circuit. In a period during which the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit operates at a sniffing mode, the main Bluetooth circuit receives packets transmitted from the remote Bluetooth device, while the second control circuit utilizes the second Bluetooth communication circuit to sniff packets issued from the remote Bluetooth device. In a situation of that a throughput of packets sniffed by the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit is lower than a predetermined threshold, the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit switches from the sniffing mode to a relay mode. In a period during which the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit operates at the relay mode, the second control circuit utilizes the second Bluetooth communication circuit to receive packets forwarded from the main Bluetooth circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Yi-Cheng Chen, Kuan-Chung Huang, Chia Chun Hung, Hou Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 11409349
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes processing circuitry to process an event stream that includes one or more high power events. Tracking circuitry tracks the one or more high power events and power management circuitry manages power consumption by controlling a voltage supply and a frequency of a clock signal provided to the processing circuitry. The power management circuitry controls an extent to which execution by the processing circuitry of the high power events is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Carlos Garcia-Tobin, Jose Manuel Silva Dos Santos Marinho, Ashley John Crawford, Anouk Martha H Van Laer
  • Patent number: 11405914
    Abstract: Techniques are described that provide for waveform selection for uplink (UL) and/or downlink (DL) wireless transmissions based on one or more factors associated with the wireless transmission, a transmitter that is to transmit the wireless transmission, or combinations thereof. UL and DL transmissions may use one of a number of different waveforms, such as single-carrier waveforms that use a single carrier for information transmission of a wireless channel, and multi-carrier waveforms that use multiple carriers at different frequencies to transmit some of the bits on each channel. Multi-carrier transmission waveforms or single-carrier waveforms may be selected for wireless transmissions based on a bandwidth allocated for the transmissions, a capability of a transmitter that is to transmit the transmissions, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Zeng, Wanshi Chen, Tingfang Ji, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11405867
    Abstract: In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform determining by a user equipment that the user equipment has missed, or will miss, at least one power saving signal monitoring occasion, where the user equipment is configured to monitor a power saving signal in a first bandwidth part; and based upon the determination that the user equipment has missed, or will miss, the at least one power saving signal monitoring occasion, causing the user equipment to monitor a physical downlink control channel on the first bandwidth part during an on-duration of discontinuous reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Timo Koskela, Jorma Kaikkonen, Sami Hakola, Jussi-Pekka Koskinen, Juha Karjalainen
  • Patent number: 11405866
    Abstract: An operating method of a user equipment (UE) to save power of the UE in a wireless communication system is provided. The operating method includes receiving wake up signal (WUS) configuration information from a base station (BS), monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) based on the WUS configuration information, and stopping monitoring the PDCCH based on the WUS configuration information and operating in a short discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle, when a certain event occurs in Active time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taeyoung Kim, Taehan Bae
  • Patent number: 11405856
    Abstract: A user equipment in a mobile communication system including a base station and the user equipment, including: a mode determining unit that receives instruction information indicating a transmission mode of broadcast information from the base station and determines the transmission mode based on the instruction information; and a receiving unit that performs a reception operation of the broadcast information according to the transmission mode determined by the mode determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke Sano, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Qin Mu, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11405865
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a multistation coordination-based data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a station, second data of another station, different from the station, in a coordination group to which the station belongs; sending, by the station, first data to the other station, so that the other station generates a second aggregated frame that includes the first data and the second data; and sending, by the station, a first aggregated frame to an access point. The first aggregated frame includes the first data and the second data. This reduces a transmit power of a single station, and prolongs a service lifespan of the station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qianyi Huang, Qian Zhang, Yunbo Li
  • Patent number: 11395368
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for setting up a relay link to transfer a data frame using a relay in a wireless communication system are provided. The relay link setup method of a source STA in a wireless communication system may include receiving capability information of at least one relay supporting station included in the wireless communication system from an access point (AP) or a personal basic service set (PBSS) central point (PCP), selecting one of the at least one relay supporting station as a relay station, using beam forming information among the source station, a destination station, and the at least one relay supporting station and the capability information, transferring a relay link setup request frame to the destination station, and receiving a relay link setup response frame that includes information on a relay link setup result from the destination station. The relay link setup request frame and the relay link setup response frame may pass through the relay station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyoung-Jin Kwon, Sung-Geun Jin, Kapseok Chang, Woo-Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 11394511
    Abstract: A method of transmitting configuration information and a related device are provided. The method includes sending IDC assistance information to a network-side device, wherein the network-side device includes at least one of an MN and an SN; receiving assistance configuration information of IDC interference cancellation sent by the network-side device, wherein the assistance configuration information of IDC interference cancellation corresponds to the IDC assistance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yumin Wu, Yanxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11395150
    Abstract: An electronic device that coordinates frequencies of coexisting communication protocols is described. During operation, the electronic device may receive messages with beacon information for a communication protocol, where the beacon information is sourced from one or more gateways and is associated with a second electronic device, and wherein the beacon information in a given message includes a frequency of a given beacon and a given received signal strength of the given beacon. Then, the electronic device may provide, from the interface circuit, an instruction addressed to the second electronic device, where the instruction restricts frequencies of beacons from the second electronic device based at least in part on a band of frequencies associated with a second communication protocol used by at least one of the one or more gateways. For example, the instruction may eliminate beacons having one of the beacon frequencies that overlaps the band of frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Jari Malinen, Siby Mathew Tarigopla Pancras, Dinesh Raman
  • Patent number: 11394494
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described herein for providing a single-bit hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback and a multi-bit HARQ feedback in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). For example, a WTRU may receive, via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), downlink control information (DCI). The DCI may include a field that indicates a code block group (CBG) based retransmission for at least one transport block (TB). On a condition that the DCI does not include the field, the WTRU may transmit, via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), a single-bit HARQ feedback for a TB-based retransmission. On a condition that the DCI includes the field, the WTRU may transmit, via the PUCCH, the multi-bit HARQ feedback for the CBG-based retransmission. The WTRU may be configured to provide the single-bit HARQ feedback for the TB-based retransmission and a multi-bit HARQ feedback for the CBG-based retransmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: IDAC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Ananth Kini, Seyed Mohsen Hosseinian
  • Patent number: 11395257
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication method and a terminal device. A first terminal device sends a state update message to a network device, where the state update message is used for updating link state information of a link between the first terminal device and a second terminal device, the second terminal device communicating with the network device through the first terminal device. The network device receives the state update message from the first terminal device so as to update link state information of a link between the first terminal device and second terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Yang, Jianhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11388674
    Abstract: A central IoT controller is described for conserving power resources of mobile IoT devices. Specifically, the central IoT controller is configured to at least monitor power reserves of mobile IoT devices, and in response to detecting that a power reserve has fallen below a predetermined threshold, generate computer-executable instructions that adjust configuration settings of the mobile IoT devices to conserve a remaining power reserve. The central IoT controller may modify a check-in interval for mobile IoT devices, configure the transmission of data communications via more power-efficient communication protocols, or reduce the number of active sensors on the mobile IoT device based on proximity to a trusted geolocation or a trusted device. Further, data communications may be rerouted via a proximate trusted device or other proximate mobile IoT device, in response to such device providing an efficiency with respect to available communication protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Parag Garg, Nicholas LaVassar, Christopher Painter, Dhruv Chadha, Gavin Feuer, Joseph Baird
  • Patent number: 11387949
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and devices for transmitting acknowledgment messages on a preferred cell in a carrier aggregation scenario. A user equipment device (UE) establishes a connection with a primary cell and one or more secondary cells, and determines a preferred cell from among the primary cell and the one or more secondary cells based at least in part on one or more quality metrics. The UE may determine the preferred cell at least in part in response to determining that transmission power of the UE has been limited due to a specific absorption rate (SAR) backoff feature of the UE. The UE transmits a notification to a network indicating that the UE intends to transmit an acknowledgement message to the preferred cell, and transmits the acknowledgment message to the preferred cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sriram Subramanian, Tarakkumar G. Dhanani, Shiva Krishna Narra, Sharad Garg, Vijay Gadde, Madhukar K. Shanbhag, Sandeep K. Sunkesala, Sree Ram Kodali, Haitong Sun, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju, Wei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Yuchul Kim, Hong He, Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar
  • Patent number: 11387953
    Abstract: Examples of the present invention provide a method for allocating Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) channel resources supporting transmit diversity and channel selection. The method includes: receiving, by a UE, Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) information and Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) data from a base station through two Carrier Components (CCs); obtaining, by the UE according to specific indication information, Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) channel resources required for transmitting HARQ-ACK feedback information using a transmit diversity technique; and transmitting, by the UE, the HARQ-ACK feedback information on the obtained PUCCH channel resources adopting the transmit diversity technique. According to the method provided by the examples of the present invention, it is possible to allocate HARQ-ACK channel resources to the UE reasonably and avoid waste of channel resources in the premise that channel selection and SORTD technique are supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingxing Fu, Yingyang Li
  • Patent number: 11384906
    Abstract: Method for monitoring a water supply network (1) in an infrastructure object (2) having water pipes (3) and at least one measuring device (4) for monitoring the water supply network (1) that contains at least the following steps: a) determining at least one structure parameter (5) which characterizes at least one structure of the infrastructure object (2) or the water supply network (1); b) determining at least one water parameter (6) using the at least one measuring device (4), and c) determining at least one probability value (7) for water damage, wherein at least one structure parameter (5) and the at least one water parameter (6) are taken into consideration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: GROHE AG
    Inventors: Bert Depiere, Robert Veltrup, Philip Speck
  • Patent number: 11381993
    Abstract: A hotspot comprises WAN interfaces, each WAN interface coupleable with a wireless WAN, at least two wireless WANs including at least two cellular WANs, at least two WAN interfaces including two ports configured to receive two SIMs, each SIM for connecting over a cellular WAN, each WAN interface disposed in or coupled to a housing; a LAN interface coupleable with a network-enabled device over a LAN, the LAN interface disposed or coupled to the housing; and an aggregator configured to use a distribution protocol to identify two or more WAN interfaces in response to a data connection request; receive outgoing data from the device; partition the outgoing data for transfer over the two or more WAN interfaces; transfer the partitioned outgoing data to the two or more WAN interfaces; receive incoming data from the two or more WAN interfaces; and transfer the directed incoming data to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventor: Behrooz Shariati
  • Patent number: 11382060
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for paging User Equipment (UE). According to embodiments, repetition of paging can help UEs to more reliably receive pages when they are operating in idle mode DRX, and in particular enhanced idle mode DRX (eDRX). The UE and the eNB are cooperatively configured to determine an eDRX time interval and a value for paging occasion (PO) repetition based on one or more parameters, such as UE mobility requirements; UE power requirements; latency requirements, and timing discrepancies between base stations. The base station transmits pages, and the UE monitors for said pages, with timing that is based on the eDRX time interval and the PO repetition values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SIERRA WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Gustav Gerald Vos, Steven John Bennett
  • Patent number: 11382166
    Abstract: A communication method according to one embodiment comprises the steps of transmitting, by a base station, a message for transitioning a radio terminal from a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connected state to a specific state different from an RRC idle state; and receiving, by the radio terminal, the message from the base station. The specific state is a state in which a context of the radio terminal is stored in the radio terminal and the base station, and, the radio terminal performs a cell reselection mobility. The message includes an idle parameter set applied in the RRC idle state, in addition to a specific parameter set applied in the specific state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Fujishiro
  • Patent number: 11375579
    Abstract: A multi-member Bluetooth device for communicating data with a remote Bluetooth device is disclosed including: a main Bluetooth circuit and an auxiliary Bluetooth circuit. In the period during which the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit operates at a sniffing mode, the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit sniffs packets transmitted from the remote Bluetooth device and the main Bluetooth circuit receives packets transmitted from the remote Bluetooth device. But the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit switches from the sniffing mode to a relay mode if the data type of packets transmitted from the remote Bluetooth device changes. In the period during which the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit operates at the relay mode, the main Bluetooth circuit receives packets transmitted from the remote Bluetooth device and forwards the received packets to the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit, and the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit does not sniff packets transmitted from the remote Bluetooth device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Yi-Cheng Chen, Kuan-Chung Huang, Chia Chun Hung, Hou Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 11375451
    Abstract: The full efficiency gains of the Target Wake Time (TWT) mechanism specified in the 802.11ax standard may not be realized when stations associated to an access point (AP) are spread across multiple Base Station Service Identifiers (BSSIDs). In such a scenario, TWT as conventionally utilized/specified in the 802.11ax standard, cannot properly coordinate sleep/wake schedules for stations due to associating to different BSSIDs. Accordingly, various embodiments are directed to grouping stations associated to multiple BSSIDs of an AP to allow for the synchronization (or staggering) of TWT, and facilitate multi-user transmissions, both in the uplink and downlink directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Abhiruchi Dakshinkar, Gaurav Patwardhan, Mohd Shahnawaz Siraj, Sachin Ganu, Eldad Perahia, Nitin Changlani
  • Patent number: 11375572
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for sending queries and commands related to an extended idle mode discontinuous reception operation (eIDRX). There are vendor and manufacturer specific mechanisms for determining the eIDRX parameters of different, but there is currently not a network wide, standardized protocol for sending AT commands relating to eIDRX for device. In an embodiment, standardized eIDRX protocol can enable a mobile network to query a device to determine the current eIDRX mode and parameters, to query the device about the list/range of supported parameters, and to program the device to start using a new eIDRX parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Inderpreet Ahluwalia
  • Patent number: 11368923
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless communicator configured to perform wireless communication with another wireless communication apparatus, and a processor. The processor controls the wireless communicator to transmit to the other wireless communication apparatus prescribed information while incrementally changing transmission power by a prescribed degree until a change occurs in a signal reception state of a connection request from the other wireless communication apparatus, and starts transmission of the prescribed information to the other wireless communication apparatus during a next communication onwards at a transmission power based on a transmission power occurring when the change occurs in the signal reception state of the connection request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuho Kyou, Sadao Nagashima, Hiroshi Iwamiya, Toshihiro Takahashi, Takahiro Tomida, Tsutomu Terazaki, Ryo Okumura
  • Patent number: 11368245
    Abstract: The present disclosure provide a blind detection method, a signal transmission method, relevant devices and a system. The method includes: receiving a target signal transmitted from a network device; and based on the target signal, performing blind detection on PDCCH or maintaining a sleep state when detecting the PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Wu, Dajie Jiang, Yu Ding, Fei Qin, Na Li
  • Patent number: 11356873
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to DL control message monitoring are provided. A first wireless communication device monitors for a downlink control message from a base station during a first monitoring duration. Additionally, the first wireless communication device monitors for a network activity indication signal from the base station during the first monitoring duration. The first wireless communication device detects the network activity indication signal based on the monitoring of the network activity indication signal. The first wireless communication device switches from the first monitoring duration to a second monitoring duration for the monitoring of the downlink control message in response to detecting the network activity indication signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Pravjyot Singh Deogun, Kapil Bhattad, Xiaoxia Zhang, Ozcan Ozturk
  • Patent number: 11356884
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reporting relaxed measurement in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device receives, from a network, a first measurement configuration including at least one of relaxed measurement conditions. A wireless device performs measurements on a serving cell based on the first measurement configuration. A wireless device evaluates the at least one of the relaxed measurement conditions based on results of the measurements on the serving cell. A wireless device performs a first relaxed measurement on the serving cell and/or at least one of neighbor cells based on the evaluation. A wireless device transmits, to the network, a message including an information informing that the first relaxed measurement has been performed on the serving cell and/or the at least one of the neighbor cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Oanyong Lee
  • Patent number: 11356949
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a signal transmission method, a base station, and a network node. A base station obtains a wake-up capability of a terminal device. The base station determines, according to the wake-up capability, a first time position for sending a power-saving signal. The base station sends the power saving signal to the terminal device on the first time position. The power-saving signal is used for indicating that the second terminal device wakes up or sleeps at a second time position. The wake-up capability includes a first wake-up capability and a second wake-up capability. The wake-up time of the terminal device having the first wake-up capability is longer than the wake-up time of the terminal device having the second wake-up capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Weijie Xu
  • Patent number: 11356955
    Abstract: There is provided a method in a wireless terminal device for a wireless communications network. The wireless terminal device is operable in a mode in which the wireless terminal device is configurable to wake at defined instances to monitor a control channel for control messages from the wireless communications network. The control messages indicate radio resources for a shared channel over which one or more further messages are to be transmitted. The method comprises, while operating in the mode, monitoring for receipt of an indication from a network node operable in the wireless communications network in a time window associated with a particular defined instance. The indication indicates that data is available at the wireless communications network for transmission to the wireless terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Yutao Sui, Martin Van Der Zee, Andreas Höglund
  • Patent number: 11356886
    Abstract: A method of processing a network slice based congestion, a device and a system thereof are provided. The method includes: receiving a message sent by a network including slice congestion information; and backing off a target network slice corresponding to the slice congestion information, according to the slice congestion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanchao Kang
  • Patent number: 11356950
    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: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Synapse Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Coleman D. Bagwell
  • Patent number: 11350365
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems may employ shared control resource set (CORESET) configurations for control information monitoring by a user equipment (UE) in an inactive state (e.g., for wake-up signal (WUS) monitoring) and for control information monitoring by a UE in an active state (e.g., for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring). Further, a shared CORESET configuration may support one or more dynamic or variable configuration parameters, such that a shared CORESET configuration may be partially modified to optimize control information monitoring in different scenarios (e.g., to optimize WUS monitoring and PDCCH monitoring when using a shared CORESET configuration). For example, a CORESET configuration may include one or more static configuration parameters (e.g., a time resource, a frequency resource, a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state, etc.) and one or more dynamic configuration parameters (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Peter Pui Lok Ang
  • Patent number: 11347287
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to thermal management of wireless access points including local thermal management, cloud-based thermal management, and thermal management based on optimization and operation such as in a distributed Wi-Fi network. The objective of the present disclosure is for thermal management in access points allowing small form-factors and aesthetic designs, preventing overheating and without requiring reduced performance or reduced hardware. Generally, the systems and methods detect when access points are nearing overheating and alter their operation so as to minimize the reduction of performance in the network while reducing power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Plume Design, Inc.
    Inventors: William McFarland, Yoseph Malkin, Richard Chang, Patrick Hanley
  • Patent number: 11350366
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a signal generator which, in operation, generates a transmission signal that comprises a data field containing a WUR (Wake Up Radio) Mode Setup frame; wherein a field of a WUR Mode element included in the WUR Mode Setup frame contains the information on Group IDs (Identifiers) assigned by an AP (Access Point) to the station comprising the transmission apparatus; and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits the generated transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe, Rojan Chitrakar
  • Patent number: 11350362
    Abstract: A downlink scheduling data monitoring method, a downlink scheduling data sending method, and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: starting a timer; and after it is determined that the timer expires, monitoring, by using a first discontinuous reception DRX monitoring cycle, downlink scheduling data sent by a base station, where duration of the first DRX monitoring cycle is in a unit of minute or hour. After it is determined that the timer expires, the downlink scheduling data is monitored by using the first DRX monitoring cycle whose duration is in a unit of minute or hour. In this way, not only power consumption is reduced, but also the downlink scheduling data can be monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yinghui Yu, Lei Liu, Feng Yu, Xiaolei Tie
  • Patent number: 11350367
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for adjusting a time period to delay entering a power save mode (leak guard) for wireless communications. In one aspect, a wireless communication device may adjust a time period to delay entering a power save mode. The time period is associated with the wireless communication device remaining awake to prevent an access point from transmitting to the wireless communication device while the wireless communication device is in the power save mode. The wireless communication device also may provide, to the AP, an indication that the wireless communication device is entering a power save mode, and the wireless communication device may enter the power save mode. Entering the power save mode is at least the adjusted time period after providing the indication to the AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sandip Homchaudhuri, Steve Saed, Srikant Kuppa, Guido Robert Frederiks, Lian Chen, Deepak Shahaji Nagawade, Vishwanath Tantry
  • Patent number: 11343774
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and devices to reduce energy consumption and network traffic related to polling for buffered data packets (e.g., messages) between devices in a wireless mesh network. Based on the requirements of an end device that sleeps to conserve power, a parent device receives and buffers data packets addressed to the end device until the end device is awake. The end device periodically wakes-up to transmit application data, such as a sensor reading or a status message, to the parent device. By including an indication of pending data at the parent device in an acknowledgement the transmission of by end device, additional data request messages and acknowledgements can be reduced or eliminated to improve the battery life of the end device and reduce network traffic on the mesh network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Wing-Yan Hui, Martin A. Turon
  • Patent number: 11343658
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for determining a transmission mode, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes acquiring information for determining the transmission mode, where the information includes at least one of: service profile information about a first service from an upper layer of a first terminal or an application layer of the first terminal, access layer information about the first terminal, transmission parameter information configured for the first terminal by a base station, or capability information about a second terminal of a proximity service; and determining the transmission mode according to the information. This can solve the problem in the existing art of how to perform communication better when there are UEs of different types or different capabilities in a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Mengzhen Wang, Lin Chen, Youxiong Lu
  • Patent number: 11343791
    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device to receive user plane data from a network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications network when the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode, the method comprising: receiving paging message signalling from the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the paging message signalling comprises an indication the network infrastructure equipment has user plane data for transmission to the terminal device while the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode; determining from the paging message signalling a set of radio resources on which the user plane data is to be transmitted by the network infrastructure equipment to the terminal device; and receiving the user plane data from the network infrastructure equipment using the determined set of radio resources while the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Vivek Sharma, Yassin Aden Awad
  • Patent number: 11343766
    Abstract: Example methods for indicating downlink service data and devices are described. One example method includes controlling, by a first station (STA) associated with a radio access point (AP), a wake-up receiver of the first STA to wake up within a preset first listen interval. The first STA receives a wake-up beacon frame sent by the AP, and controls main radio (MR) of the first STA not to wake up within a second listen interval to receive a beacon frame sent by the AP. According to the method provided in this application, the MR of the first STA does not need to wake up within the second listen interval to receive the beacon frame broadcast by the AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Gan, Jia Jia, Xun Yang
  • Patent number: 11343862
    Abstract: Communication methods and communication apparatuses are provided. The communication method includes: a first device receives a Layer 2 Protocol Data Unit (PDU) sent by a second device; and the first device determines a connection state in which the first device and the second device need to be according to the Layer 2 PDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11343769
    Abstract: Methods and systems for wirelessly transmitting data between Wi-Fi stations without requiring the Wi-Fi stations to be fully connected to the Wi-Fi network. A first Wi-Fi station generates the data to be transmitted. The data comprises status data and/or wake-up data. The first Wi-Fi station then inserts the data in a vendor-specific information element of a probe request frame and wirelessly transmits the probe request frame. The probe request frame is then received by a second Wi-Fi station. If the probe request frame contains wake-up data and the second Wi-Fi station is operating in a low-power mode when it receives the probe request frame, the second Wi-Fi station will wake-up from the low-power mode. If the probe request frame contains status data then the second Wi-Fi station may process the probe request frame and/or forward at least a portion of the received probe request frame to another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Ian R. Knowles
  • Patent number: 11343768
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a wireless LAN (WLAN) transceiver configured to transmit and receive a WLAN signal; and a wake-up radio (WUR) receiver configured to receive a WUR signal. The WUR receiver is configured to receive a wake-up packet from a base wireless communication terminal and wakes-up the WLAN transceiver. A part of the WUR signal is transmitted by a modulation method different from a modulation method of the WLAN signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak, Geonjung Ko, Woojin Ahn
  • Patent number: 11343872
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for filtering a wireless signal by parsing a wireless signal transmitted from a surrounding wireless terminal so as to extract channel information of the surrounding wireless terminal in a MAC frame and performing adaptive filtering on the wireless signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor Korea Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Jun Ban, Jae Wan Kim, Won Man Kim, Beom Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 11343772
    Abstract: A wake-up signal includes a first part and a second part. The first part is related to a cell of a base station transmitting the wake-up signal and includes a synchronization signal for synchronizing a terminal with the base station. The second part is related to one or more terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Rickard Ljung, Anders Berggren, Basuki Priyanto, Nafiseh Mazloum
  • Patent number: 11337152
    Abstract: Provided is a communication technology of an access point and a terminal that may decrease power consumption by changing an operation state of the terminal from an awake state to a sleep state when a data stream to be transmitted to the terminal is absent or has completed in a transmission opportunity (TXOP) duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ui Kun Kwon, Young Soo Kim, Patil Sandhya, Anirudh Bhatt, Chunhui (Allan) Zhu
  • Patent number: 11337149
    Abstract: A method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) includes receiving, from an access point (AP) by a station (STA), a beacon frame comprising a first field related to a transmission time of a trigger frame, wherein the trigger frame includes frequency resource information to be used for an uplink multi-user (UL MU) transmission, wherein the frequency resource information to be included in the trigger frame includes at least one of first type resource information used for random access and second type resource information used for scheduled access, wherein the random access is performed by the STA based on orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), wherein the beacon frame further comprises a second field related to whether or not the trigger frame includes the first type resource information; receiving, from the AP by the STA, the trigger frame based on the first field; determining, by the STA, UL resource to be used for the UL MU transmission based on the first type resource information and the se
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyeyoung Choi, Kiseon Ryu, Jeongki Kim, Hangyu Cho, Suhwook Kim
  • Patent number: 11336434
    Abstract: An Internet of Things (IoT) networking authentication system and a method thereof are provided. The IoT networking authentication system includes an idle IoT apparatus and a networked IoT apparatus. The idle IoT apparatus encrypts a connection request according to a key to generate a connection request ciphertext and sends the connection request ciphertext. The networked IoT apparatus receives the connection request ciphertext and decrypts, according to the key, the connection request ciphertext to obtain the connection request. The networked IoT apparatus authenticates the idle IoT apparatus according to the connection request to generate an authentication result. The networked IoT apparatus determines, according to the authentication result and a networking condition, whether to allow the idle IoT apparatus to join an IoT network, so as to generate a connection response. The networked IoT apparatus outputs the connection response to the idle IoT apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Zuo-Hui Peng, Zhao-Ming Li, Guo-Feng Zhang, Cui Ding, Jing-Jun Wu