Having A Plurality Of Contiguous Regions Served By Respective Fixed Stations Patents (Class 370/328)
  • Patent number: 11968732
    Abstract: A method of managing a wireless communication between a plurality of accessory devices and a host device includes, at the host device, establishing a data connection with a plurality of accessory devices, obtaining a radio ID for each accessory device of the plurality of accessory devices, grouping the plurality of accessory devices into at least one OFDMA device and at least one non-OFDMA device based at least partially on the radio IDs, sending a trigger signal to the at least one OFDMA device; and after receiving a first response signal from the at least one OFDMA device in response to the trigger signal, receiving a second response signal from the at least one non-OFDMA device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Perry Victor Lea, Krishna Kant Chintalapudi, Steven William Ranta, Gopala Srihari Narlanka, Stanley William Adermann
  • Patent number: 11968719
    Abstract: A method and device for reporting information and a method and device for receiving report information are provided. The method for reporting information includes: storing, by a terminal device, resource information of a random access channel (RACH) on which access of the terminal device to a network has abnormality; and reporting, by the terminal device, the resource information to a network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11968743
    Abstract: A communication method, a communications device, and a communications system to avoid, when an access and mobility management function (AMF) entity fails, a case in which a re-registration process of a terminal that is being served is triggered because a context of the terminal is lost. The method includes: obtaining, by a communications device, a first group identifier of a terminal group to which a first terminal served by a first mobility management entity belongs; and sending, by the communications device, a message related to the first terminal to a second mobility management entity based on the first group identifier when an exception occurs in the first mobility management entity, where the second mobility management entity is a mobility management entity in which a context of the first terminal exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zaifeng Zong, Fenqin Zhu
  • Patent number: 11968527
    Abstract: Prior to associating with a wireless network, a wireless device receives from a network access point, a message containing information identifying (i) identity of the network and (ii) network policies; retrieves the information from the message; based on the network identity, determines whether a network attributes record for the network already exists in the device. If not, the device creates a temporary network attributes record for the network. Based on the network policies, the device attempts to associate to and authenticate the network. After successfully associating to and authenticating the network, the device determines whether the network attributes record for the network has expired. If not, the device renews the network attributes record and implements the network policies stored in the network attributes record If the network attributes record has expired, then the device deletes the network attributes record and implements default network policies for the wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: William Logan, Loay Kreishan
  • Patent number: 11968291
    Abstract: A solution is proposed for controlling access to data that are broadcast over a telecommunication medium. A corresponding method comprises validating by a plurality of validator devices an access request that is submitted by an access device for accessing the data. The validator devices update a blockchain by adding a new block comprising an indication of the access request in response to a positive result of its validation. A provider system transmits cryptographic information for decrypting the data to the access device in response to the new block. A corresponding method for broadcasting data by a provider system and a corresponding method for accessing broadcast data by an access device are proposed. Corresponding computer programs and computer program products for performing the methods are also proposed. Moreover, corresponding structure, provider system and access device are proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Davide Fazzone, Luigi Lombardi, Vinicio Bombacino, Andrea Tortosa
  • Patent number: 11968705
    Abstract: A channel and signal transmission method and communication device are provided. The channel and signal transmission method applied to a communication device at a sending end includes: when transmitting at least two data transmission resources, send the data transmission resources, according to at least one of QCL information of the data transmission resources and a preset rule, where a data transmission resource includes at least one of a signal and a channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu Yang
  • Patent number: 11968017
    Abstract: A method of operating a lower-layer split central unit, LLS-CU, includes allocating a plurality of downlink signals to a plurality of physical resource blocks, PRBs, of a physical downlink channel, generating a data-associated control information, DACI, message including a section description associated with the plurality of downlink signals, the DACI message including an indication of a plurality of sets of beamforming weights to be applied by a radio unit, RU, when transmitting the plurality of downlink signals to the UE, transmitting the DACI message to the RU, and transmitting the plurality of downlink signals to the RU for transmission to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Jacob Österling
  • Patent number: 11968663
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, information indicating that a time interval is associated with downlink phase continuity. The UE may refrain from performing, during the time interval associated with downlink phase continuity, an uplink transmission associated with a time domain resource that occurs during the time interval associated with downlink phase continuity. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11968172
    Abstract: An authorization device obtains a registration request associated with an end device, the registration request including a new randomized media access control (MAC) address associated with the end device; determines whether the end device is authorized to use the new randomized MAC address; transmits a message to the end device with a first randomly generated number when it is determined that the end device is authorized to use the new randomized MAC address; obtains integrity information associated with the end device, the first integrity information being computed based on the first randomly generated number; transmits a request to a validation system to validate the end device based on the first integrity information; obtains an indication that the end device is validated; determines policies associated with the end device when it is determined that the end device is validated; and applies the policies to the end device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Carlos M. Pignataro, Robert E. Barton, Jerome Henry
  • Patent number: 11963030
    Abstract: A method performed by a terminal includes identifying a first status for a secondary cell (SCell) of the terminal, identifying whether a first medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) or a second MAC CE is received from a base station, wherein the first MAC CE indicates that the SCell is transitioned into an activated state or a deactivated state, and the second MAC CE indicates that the SCell is transitioned into the activated state or a dormant state, and determining a second status for the SCell based on the first status and the first MAC CE, in case that the first MAC CE is received from the base station and the second MAC CE is not received from the base station, wherein, in case that the first status for the SCell is the dormant state and the first MAC CE indicates that the SCell is transitioned into the activated state, the second status for the SCell is determined to be maintained as the dormant state, and wherein, in case that the first status for the SCell is the dormant state and the first
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11963090
    Abstract: A communication control device used in a terminal device that performs mobile communication is provided. The communication control device controls a communication module of the terminal device to perform direct communication with a different terminal device not via a base station. The communication control device manages whether the communication module is in a search mode or a communication mode, and determines, using information managed, whether a transmission timing of a signal from the communication module determined in accordance with occurrence timing of a transmission event overlaps the search mode. When determining that the transmission timing overlaps the search mode, the communication control device shifts the transmission timing out of the time duration of the search mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seigou Kumabe
  • Patent number: 11962438
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a coherence block for each user equipment (UE) of a plurality of UEs being served by the first cell, resulting in a plurality of coherence blocks, responsive to the determining, identifying a smallest coherence block from the plurality of coherence blocks, identifying a pilot sequence length based on the smallest coherence block, determining a plurality of orthogonal pilot sequences based on the identifying the pilot sequence length, designating, from the plurality of orthogonal pilot sequences, a first group of orthogonal pilot sequences for use in the first cell, and distributing, to each neighboring cell of a plurality of neighboring cells adjacent to the first cell, a respective group of orthogonal pilot sequences from a remainder of the plurality of orthogonal pilot sequences, to prevent pilot contamination between the first cell and the plurality of neighboring cells. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ernest Tsui, Weihua Ye
  • Patent number: 11963179
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for scheduling resources in a wireless communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication node is disclosed. The method comprises: transmitting first resource information to a wireless communication device, wherein the first resource information comprises information related to a first resource associated with the wireless communication device; receiving a request from the wireless communication device on the first resource for a data transmission between the wireless communication node and the wireless communication device; and allocating, to the wireless communication device, a second resource in response to the request, wherein the second resource is configured to be utilized for the data transmission according to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jing Xu
  • Patent number: 11963042
    Abstract: A system for offloading traffic from a cellular network to a broadcast network is provided. The offloading mechanism caters to both unicast and broadcast traffic. The system includes a converged cellular core network, World Wide Web, a CDN, a Broadcast Offload Packet Core (BO-PC), a cellular base station, a Broadcast Radio Head, and a converged UE. The converged cellular core network includes an enhanced packet core, a policy rules engine and a packet inspection and steering unit. The BO-PC includes a Broadcast Proxy, a subscriber database, a Broadcast Offload Service Center, a Broadcast Offload Gateway and an analytics engine. For offloading the unicast traffic, the packet inspection and steering unit identifies sessions that are offloaded for supporting offload of the traffic from the converged cellular core network to the broadcast network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAANKHYA LABS PVT. LTD.
    Inventors: Arindam Chakraborty, Makarand Kulkarni, Anindya Saha, Gururaj Padaki, Parag Naik, Preetham Uthaiah
  • Patent number: 11963244
    Abstract: An information handling system operating a 5G network slice hub service system may comprise a wireless wide area network (WWAN) interface device transceiving data with a radio access network (RAN) within a RAN network slice, a wireless local area network (WLAN) interface device transceiving data with an endpoint computing device, a processor instructing a software defined network (SDN) controller to route data transceived within a set of RAN network slices at the WWAN interface device to be extended via a subset of radio frequencies designated for one or more endpoint device at the WLAN interface device by the SDN controller to the one or more endpoint devices, and routing data on the extended RAN network slice between the endpoint device and the WWAN interface device interfacing with the RAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS LP
    Inventors: Anantha K. Boyapalle, Liam B. Quinn, Jace W. Files
  • Patent number: 11962375
    Abstract: System and method of wireless communication in UAV systems that uses geolocation-based beamforming. The antenna array on the transmit device is first calibrated to compensate the random phase errors of the antenna. During operation, the geolocations of the UAV and its remote control and the rotational position of the transmit device are used to determine a beamforming direction. A beamforming vector is selected based on the beamforming direction. The beamformer on the transmit device then beam forms the antenna array such that data or other information can be transmitted to the receive device in the beamforming direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TaiSync Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Yan Li
  • Patent number: 11962478
    Abstract: It is provided a method, comprising qualitatively checking if an infrastructure provides all features required to fulfill a request to set up a network slice instance; quantitatively checking if an available capacity of the infrastructure is sufficient to fulfill the request to set up the network slice instance; inhibiting the quantitative checking if, according to the qualitative checking, the infrastructure does not provide all the features required to fulfill the request to set up the network slice instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Andrea Fendt, Borislava Gajic, Christian Mannweiler, Lars Christoph Schmelz
  • Patent number: 11963084
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining, by a processing system, real-time information regarding a state of a communication network and capabilities of the communication network; selecting a routing for delivering a message to user equipment (UE) coupled to the network, in accordance with the real-time information; and configuring a messaging path according to the routing. The method further includes detecting whether the UE is in a non-active state and if so, providing a notification on a user plane data path of the communication network; the UE on returning to an active state thus is notified that the message is available via the user plane data path. If the UE on returning to the active state is unable to receive the message via the user plane data path, the message is then provided on a control plane signaling path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Nish Sanghavi, Rajendra Prasad Kodaypak
  • Patent number: 11963210
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an operating method of a user plane function (UPF) in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor are provided. The operating method includes receiving a first parameter for clock synchronization from a base station, and performing the clock synchronization with a neighboring network system using the received first parameter and a second parameter. The first parameter may include information relating to a link delay time between the neighboring network system and a network system comprising the UPF, and a residence time of a terminal, a base station and the UPF of the network system comprising the UPF, and the second parameter may include information relating to a backhaul delay time between the base station and the UPF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangjun Moon, Jungshin Park, Beomsik Bae, Youngkyo Baek, Jicheol Lee
  • Patent number: 11956786
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify uplink (UL) control information (UCI) to transmit during a subframe. The UE may then select a UL channel on which to transmit the UCI based on whether a shared data and control UL channel employs contention-based scheduling. For example, multiple UEs could contend for access to the same semi-persistently scheduled (SPS) physical UL shared channel (PUSCH). Each UE may utilize a different demodulation reference (DMRS) signal cyclic shift to identify their transmissions. In some cases, some UCI, such as channel state information (CSI), may be transmitted on a contention-based PUSCH, while other UCI, such as acknowledgement information, may be transmitted on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). In some cases, the channel selection may be based on a configuration received from a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Ozcan Ozturk, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11956716
    Abstract: A communication method and apparatus for a wearable device, a storage medium and a terminal are provided. The method includes: determining a network camping preference mode of the wearable device, wherein the network camping preference mode is determined based on a network camping priority, and the network camping priority indicates priorities of a plurality of terminal capability levels of the wearable device during a network camping procedure of the wearable device; determining a network version of a network to be camped on; determining a first terminal capability level based on the network version and the network camping priority, wherein the first terminal capability level has a highest priority among the plurality of terminal capability levels and is adapted to the network version; and communicating with the network to be camped on based on the first terminal capability level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: RDA (CHONGQING) MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shu Tan
  • Patent number: 11956796
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for wireless communications involving transmission points. A transmission point may configure a downlink channel (e.g., a physical downlink control channel) based on the configuration of a downlink channel associated with another transmission point. One or more transmission points may manage overlap or offset between downlink channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11956056
    Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more messages comprising configuration parameters for a cell group. The cell group comprises: a first secondary cell configured with one or more beam failure recovery (BFR) parameters; and one or more second cells configured to use the first secondary cell for a BFR procedure. A deactivation timer of the first secondary cell is restarted in response to receiving a physical downlink control channel indicating an uplink grant or a downlink assignment for any secondary cell, other than the first secondary cell, in the cell group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11956812
    Abstract: A method for processing a network allocation vector (NAV) includes: terminating the receiving of a first radio frame when it is determined that a target receiving station of the first radio frame being received is not a first station; and updating an NAV of the first station or maintaining the NAV of the first station unchanged according to a remaining duration of the first radio frame and a first transmission opportunity duration carried in the first radio frame, where the remaining duration of the first radio frame is the transmission time used for transmitting the remaining part of the first radio frame after the receiving of the first radio frame is terminated. The technical solution solves the problem in the related art of collisions with hidden stations caused by an inaccurate NAV update in the existing art, thereby ensuring the accuracy of an NAV update and the fairness of transmission and channel contention, and reducing collisions among hidden stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Han, Weimin Xing, Kaiying Lv, Nan Li
  • Patent number: 11949472
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) operation of an access node serving a plurality of user devices. The method comprises acquiring a speed category for a user device of the plurality of user devices and controlling the MU-MIMO operation in relation to the user device based on the speed category. In some embodiments, controlling the MU-MIMO operation in relation to the user device based on the speed category comprises one or more of: controlling reference signal transmission for the user device based on the speed category and controlling MU-MIMO group affiliation of the user device based on the speed category. In some embodiments, controlling reference signal transmission for the user device based on the speed category comprises controlling a duration of a time interval between subsequent reference signal transmissions for the user device based on the speed category. Corresponding apparatus and network node are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Per Fryking, Jianmin Hou, Harish Venkatraman Bhat, Vanessa Fakhoury, Xin Zhou
  • Patent number: 11949505
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for facilitating scheduling of uplink data using demodulation reference signal and scheduled resources. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise configuring a network device with a periodic rate of specified sounding reference signals with a periodicity using radio resource control signaling. The system can further facilitate estimating channel state information associated with a channel via which the network device communicates. The system can further facilitate transmitting an uplink grant with uplink transmission parameters to set up a physical uplink shared channel, wherein the uplink transmission parameters are determined based on the channel state information. The system can further facilitate estimating scheduling parameters based on a first estimation information associated with the physical uplink shared channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11949482
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for multi-antenna transmission. The UE transmits a first radio signal in a first time interval, and receives a second radio signal in a second time interval; and then monitors a third radio signal in a third time interval. The first radio signal includes first information, and the second radio signal includes second information. Target information is used for receiving the third radio signal. A time-domain position of the second time interval is used for determining whether the target information is the first information or the second information. A time-domain position of the third time interval is associated to a time-domain position of the first time interval. The UE can select a beam direction corresponding to a downlink channel according to its measurement, thereby improving efficiency and performances of downlink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dido Wireless Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11950151
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for applying mobility robustness optimization (MRO) and automatic network slice creation in 5G Self-Organizing Networks (SON). A network system may identify user equipment (UE) performing a handover from a first node to a second node. The network system may apply a MRO function to identify a target parameter corresponding to the handover. The network system may monitor connection measurements and/or radio link failure reports to identify the handover as failing to meet the target parameter. The network system may then modify the target parameter to facilitate the handover to the second node. For the automatic creation of a network slice instance (NSI), a network system may receive network slice specifications and apply the specifications to an automatic NSI creation function. The network system may instantiate network functions according to the automatic NSI creation function to create an NSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joey Chou, Yizhi Yao
  • Patent number: 11950216
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, by a user equipment (UE), for receiving physical data channel transmissions from a wireless network. Such methods include receiving, from the wireless network, configuration information including: a first indication of one or more frequency-domain resource allocations for respective corresponding one or more physical data channel transmissions by respective corresponding one or more sources configured by the wireless network, and one or more second indications of further characteristics of the physical data channel transmissions. Such methods also include, based on the second indications, determining the number of frequency-domain resource allocations indicated by the first indication. Such methods also include receiving, from the wireless network, the determined number of physical data channel transmissions based on the respective indicated frequency-domain resource allocations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Siva Muruganathan, Yufei Blankenship, Sebastian Faxér, Mattias Frenne, Shiwei Gao
  • Patent number: 11949553
    Abstract: In a transmission parameter configuration method, a first node receives a transmission configuration message, where the transmission configuration message includes transmission configuration index information and a transmission parameter corresponding to the transmission configuration index information, and the transmission configuration index information is used to identify different transmission modes. The first node obtains a transmission indication message, where the transmission indication message includes the transmission configuration index information, and the transmission indication message is used to indicate to the first node to apply the transmission parameter corresponding to the transmission configuration index information. The first node performs, based on the transmission configuration index information, data transmission by using the transmission parameter corresponding to the transmission configuration index information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shitong Yuan, Fengwei Liu, Lei Chen, Jing Qiu
  • Patent number: 11950269
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided in which information for a length of a short transmission time interval (STTI) is transmitted to a terminal. A timing advance for the terminal is transmitted to the terminal. The timing advance is included in a timing advance range among different timing advance ranges, and the timing advance range is associated with the information for the length of the STTI. A signal is transmitted to the terminal based on the information for the length of the STTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jeongho Yeo, Jinyoung Oh, Heedon Gha
  • Patent number: 11950311
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a transmitter configured to transmit a first message for requesting resume from an inactive state to a connected state; a receiver configured to receive a second message that includes priority information for cell selection (first information) and indicates a transition to an idle state (release of connection); and a controller configured to store the first information, in which the controller determines, based on whether or not a transition from an inactive state to an idle state is triggered by reception of the second message, in a case of storing the first information, whether to store or discard the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidekazu Tsuboi, Takako Hori, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 11949491
    Abstract: Wireless communication is provided over an extended distance using a line or a series of drones traveling along a transmission path between a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter sends a data signal to a first drone that is within range of the transmitter. The first drone sends the data signal to an adjacent drone in the line of drones which retransmits the data signal to the next drone in line. The data signal is transmitted between drones until it reaches a final drone within range of the receiver. The final drone transmits the data signal to the receiver. As the drones travel along the transmission path, new drones are launched from a location within range of the transmitter to replace drones that land after transmitting a data signal to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Skywave Networks LLC
    Inventor: Kevin J. Babich
  • Patent number: 11950107
    Abstract: One example discloses a first wireless device, including: a band-steering device including a band-detection element and a band-steering element; wherein the band-detection element is configured to receive a first signal from a second wireless device and detect from the first signal if the second device has multi-band capability; and wherein the band-steering element is configured to respond to the first signal by transmitting a second signal to the second device in a preferred band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Anup Ramesh Kulkarni, Zhengqiang Huang, Xiaohua Luo, Devidas Anant Puranik, Mahesh More
  • Patent number: 11950211
    Abstract: A mobile station device includes an information acquisition unit that is configured to and/or programmed to acquire information, which specifies a system bandwidth and a carrier frequency of a second downlink carrier component different from a first downlink carrier component, transmitted using RRC signaling via a physical downlink shared channel within the first downlink carrier component and a communication unit that is configured to communicate with the base station device by aggregate use of both the first downlink carrier component and the second downlink carrier component, where the first downlink carrier component and the second downlink carrier component have different carrier frequencies and each of the first downlink carrier component and the second downlink carrier component has its own downlink system bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei Yamada, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 11950281
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of transmitting data, including monitoring a data transmission of a first base station in a preset license before talk (LBT) time-frequency region in at least one fixed frame period (FFP). The preset LBT time-frequency region includes at least one time-frequency sub-region. The method can further include determining FFP transmission mode information of the first base station based on a monitoring result on each time-frequency sub-region in the preset LBT time-frequency region in each FFP, and determining an FFP transmission mode of the first base station based on the FFP transmission mode information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Juejia Zhou
  • Patent number: 11950191
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and techniques for performing sidelink communications. For instance, a first client device can determine a first transmit power parameter for transmitting sidelink communications. The first transmit power parameter can either be received from a base station associated with the first client device or it can be a default parameter based on the first client device not being associated with a base station. The first client device can transmit, to a second client device, a first sidelink transmission having a first power level corresponding to the first transmit power parameter. The first client device can receive, from the second client device, a first sidelink reception having a second power level corresponding to a second transmit power parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Yisheng Xue, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11943833
    Abstract: A method for discovery signally is disclosed. The method, performed at a network node of a wireless communications network, comprises generating an indicator based on one or more control information to be transmitted in a control signal for discovery, and transmitting the indicator as a preamble to the control signal, wherein the indicator is indicative of content of the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Rickard Ljung
  • Patent number: 11943641
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to beam failure recovery requests. In one example, a beam failure of a beam is detected, and a determination is made of which beam failure recovery resources to utilize for a beam failure recovery request based on a network configuration. The beam failure recovery request can be transmitted via beam failure recovery resources. In another example, a scheduling entity determines beam failure conditions associated with detecting a beam failure, and ascertains a network configuration for a scheduled entity that can include parameters associated with the beam failure conditions, as well as parameters associated with determining beam failure recovery resources or for transmitting a beam failure recovery request. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sumeeth Nagaraja, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11943021
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and radio communication method in a radio communication system. The electronic apparatus includes: one or more processing circuits configured to execute the following operations: determining, based on an antenna array corresponding to the electronic apparatus, corresponding a transceiver unit (TXRU) configuration, wherein each TXRU is associated with one set of antenna units having a same polarization direction, the antenna array includes plural antenna units having M rows, N columns and P-dimensional polarization directions, and M, N and P are natural numbers; and adding antenna configuration information to a radio resource control (RRC) signaling to be use in a user equipment (UE) in the radio communication system, wherein the antenna configuration information is used to obtain a number of the TXRU in the antenna configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gaosi Li, Jinhui Chen, Xin Zhang, Zaixue Wei, Nanxi Li
  • Patent number: 11943843
    Abstract: A network device includes: a radio configured to operate in a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi band; a 32 bit double data rate (DDR) memory having instructions stored therein; a system clock configured to operate at 533 MHz; and a processor. The processor is configured to execute the instructions stored on the memory to cause the network device to: operate the 32 bit DDR memory at 1067 MHz; instruct the radio to transmit data to be transmitted in the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi band; and instruct the radio to receive data to be received in the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Billy R. Whiten, David James Williams, Chad Lord
  • Patent number: 11943011
    Abstract: A weight (weighting factor, and Matrix of Steering Vectors) for performing joint transmission together with another wireless base station is efficiently generated. The wireless base station performs the joint transmission with the another wireless base station. The wireless base station includes a wireless control unit and a communication unit. The wireless control unit generates information regarding channel state information between a terminal which is a destination at the time of performing the joint transmission and a plurality of wireless base stations which is a transmission source of the joint transmission. The communication unit transmits the information regarding the generated channel state information to the another wireless base station that performs the joint transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Tanaka, Kosuke Aio
  • Patent number: 11943768
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications at a device are described. The device may receive an indication of a configuration that schedules semi-persistently scheduled resources for transmissions from the first device. The device may also receive an indication of a set of resources available to the first device for requesting a set of the semi-persistently scheduled resources configured for the first device. The device may transmit a message over the set of resources to request the set of semi-persistently scheduled resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lik Hang Silas Fong, Piyush Gupta, Peter Gaal, Jing Sun, Xiaojie Wang
  • Patent number: 11943611
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication scheme and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) system with an internet of things (IoT) technology. The disclosure is applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety-related services) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for allowing a base station to identify a ciphering key (COUNT value) for security enhancement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11943027
    Abstract: A channel state information transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving N reference signal groups, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and sending channel state information, where the channel state information includes a first resource index, a second resource index, and first channel quality information, the first resource index is a resource index of a first reference signal, the second resource index is a resource index of a second reference signal, the first reference signal and the second reference signal are reference signals in different groups in the N reference signal groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Di Zhang, Kunpeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11943086
    Abstract: This application provides a symbol processing method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of complex-valued symbols; dividing the plurality of complex-valued symbols into a plurality of sets, where each set corresponds to one transmitted symbol; and performing a copy operation on the plurality of sets, so that two sets corresponding to two transmitted symbols that are consecutive in time domain have some same complex-valued symbols. By enabling two sets corresponding to two transmitted symbols that are consecutive in time domain to have some same complex-valued symbols, a guard interval between symbols can be flexibly configured when a cyclic prefix length is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengwei Liu, Huang Huang
  • Patent number: 11943040
    Abstract: Drone base stations (DBSs) create a radio access network (DRAN) that provides a quick on-demand coverage in areas either for lost coverage due to disasters (providing an emergency communications network (ECN)) or for specific military, governmental and IoT application needs. DRAN Control Functions may be modeled as Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) to operate and control a flying DRAN that comprises a plurality of DBSs, providing near real-time configuration control functions. These unique functions apply to the combined drone and base station sub-components of each DBS. Unique configuration control actions are determining the number of drones, optimal 3D drone positioning, and the inter-drone graph topology by maximizing served cellular user clusters, while factoring in user slices, remaining drone flight times and RF interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NETSIA, INC.
    Inventors: Koksal Boyali, Can Altay, Erhan Lokman, Seyhan Civanlar
  • Patent number: 11943632
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for optimizing antenna beam and performance within a wireless system. In one embodiment, the methods and apparatus utilize so-called “quasi-licensed” CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) wireless spectrum in conjunction with a controller that dynamically adjusts antenna direction, orientation and receive/transmit beam for receiving/transmitting the information at an installed fixed wireless apparatus (FWA) at user or subscriber premises. In one variant, the FWA includes controller logic that tracks Radio Frequency (RF) propagation parameters and optimizes antenna azimuth and tilt to maximize the antenna gain towards a serving base station. As such, service calls by operator personnel to optimize antenna performance are not required, thereby reducing network operating expenses. Moreover, increased customer density at a prescribed service level is achieved through more precise coordination and mitigation of interference between nearby FWA devices and their serving base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: Saran Khalid, Perwaiz Akhtar
  • Patent number: 11943711
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an information sending and receiving method and a communications device. The method includes: A network device configures first information. The first information includes a first field and/or a second field, the first field includes information indicating an energy saving state of a terminal device, and the second field includes information indicating a time length in which the terminal device maintains the energy saving state. Then, the network device sends the first information to the terminal device. In addition, the method includes: The terminal device receives the first information sent by the network device. Then, the terminal device reads the first field and/or the second field, and adjusts the energy saving state of the terminal device based on information obtained through reading. The technical solution provided in the embodiments of this application can reduce energy consumption of the terminal device to some extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaocui Li, Yifan Xue, Yu Cai, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: RE49915
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method including receiving indication information related to a PUCCH resource set of a specific PUCCH format through system information, the PUCCH resource set comprising a first RB offset, receiving a PDCCH including a resource indicator RI through CCE, and transmitting the control information on the PUCCH, wherein an RB index of the PUCCH is determined based on the first RB offset and a second RB offset related to a first bit value of the RI, and wherein a CS index of the PUCCH is determined based on a combination of [a second bit value of the RI, a 1-bit value based on a starting CCE index of the PDCCH (hereinafter, a CCE-based 1-bit value)] in a CS index set, and an apparatus therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Hanjun Park, Seonwook Kim