Combining Or Distributing Information Via Code Word Channels Using Multiple Access Techniques (e.g., Cdma) Patents (Class 370/335)
  • Patent number: 10263735
    Abstract: For a first group of devices having a first group size, a set of block allocations is selected from a codebook. A block allocation for the first group of devices is selected from the selected set of block allocations. A corresponding integer number of different orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) tone blocks is assigned to each device of the first group of devices according to the allocation. An orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) data unit to be transmitted to the first group of devices via the WLAN communication channel is generated using the assigned set of OFDM tone blocks. The OFDMA data unit includes a preamble portion and a data portion, the preamble portion having an index to the codebook that indicates i) the first group size, and ii) the selected block allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Mingguang Xu, Hongyuan Zhang, Liwen Chu, Lei Wang, Hui-Ling Lou, Jinjing Jiang
  • Patent number: 10263750
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer-readable media related to cross indication of queue size in a reverse direction protocol. In some embodiments, a reverse direction (RD) grantor may transmit a frame to an RD responder. The RD responder may identify data to be transmitted to the RD grantor based on the received frame. The RD responder may generate a frame that may comprise a plurality of sub-frames. The RD responder may set a sub-field in each of the sub-frames indicating whether there is data to transmit. The RD responder may also set a second sub-field that may indicate a priority or traffic stream associated with the data to be transmitted. The RD responder may transmit the frame (and associated sub-frames) to the RD grantor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Solomon Trainin, Michael Glik, Ophir Edlis
  • Patent number: 10264550
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing a paging indicator channel in connection with high speed channels in a wireless communications network. A paging indicator transmission can be sent on the paging channel to one or more mobile devices. The paging indicator indicates that additional information such as a full paging messages, other control plane data or other user plane data is expected to be transmitted at a specific time instant (e.g., subframe) on the associated high speed channel. A set of parameters can be transmitted on common channels that specify a set of associated subframes in a high speed channel. Mobile devices can analyze the set of parameters to determine the associated subframes and receive the subframes in accordance with a schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aziz Gholmieh, Francesco Grilli, Etienne F Chaponniere, Oronzo Flore
  • Patent number: 10263747
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting or receiving a downlink reference signal. A cell-specific downlink reference signal (CRS) is transmitted in a partial frequency band of the entire downlink frequency band. Configuration information of the CRS transmitted in the partial frequency band is provided to user equipment. The CRS transmitted in the partial frequency band may be used in downlink channel measurement alone or together with a legacy CRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyangsun You, Yungjung Yi, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 10254002
    Abstract: An outdoor unit and an indoor unit communicate with each other. The outdoor unit includes a communication circuit that outputs a pulse signal to be transmitted to the indoor unit. The indoor unit includes a communication circuit that receives the pulse signal transmitted by the outdoor unit. An air conditioner 100 includes at least one photocoupler to transfer to the communication circuit the pulse signal output by the communication circuit. The communication circuit transmits a pulse signal with a first polarity and a pulse width corrected to be shorter by a predefined correction time than a predefined reference pulse width of the pulse signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Soichiro Kurokawa, Yoshiaki Koizumi
  • Patent number: 10257004
    Abstract: A method of transmitting data over a wireless communications channel comprises transmitting a plurality of blocks (70), in which each block (70) comprises a plurality of symbols (71, 72, 73, 74, 75) representing the data. The symbols are transmitted using time packing, or Faster-than-Nyquist signalling, such that each symbol in a block overlaps in the time domain with at least one other symbol in the block. A null guard interval (77) is included in each block, having a length that means that inter-symbol interference is not a cause of inter-block interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Ather Gattami
  • Patent number: 10243639
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for supporting uplink multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) in a wireless communication system. A method for transmitting data according to the present invention comprises the steps of: mapping, to first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols within a subframe, first demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) corresponding to a first antenna port and a second DMRSs corresponding to a second antenna port; mapping, to second OFDM symbols except the first OFDM symbols within the subframe, first data corresponding to the first antenna port and second data corresponding to the second antenna port; and transmitting the subframe by using resources allocated to the uplink, wherein predetermined precodings are applied to the first data and the second data, and the predetermined precodings may be changed according to the index of the second OFDM symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngtae Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Hyukjin Chae, Kijun Kim
  • Patent number: 10243711
    Abstract: A first communication device receives, from a second communication device, a synchronization frame having an allocation indicator that indicates a non-overlapping allocation of pilot tones. The first communication device generates a first data frame that comprises a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a non-legacy training field portion, the plurality of OFDM symbols including only pilot tones corresponding to the non-overlapping allocation of pilot tones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Rui Cao, Xiayu Zheng, Hongyuan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou, Liwen Chu, Yakun Sun
  • Patent number: 10243726
    Abstract: A signal transceiving device includes a transceiver and a microprocessor. The transceiver receives a signal from a power line. The microprocessor performs correlation calculation for the signal with a first predetermined pattern to obtain a plurality of first calculation results, performs correlation calculation for the signal with a second predetermined pattern to obtain a plurality of second calculation results, generates a plurality of weighting values according to the first calculation results and determines a position of a synchronization point in the signal according to the weighting values. When the weighting value corresponding to a sample point of the signal satisfies a first condition and the second calculation result corresponding to the sample point satisfies a second condition, the microprocessor determines to use the sample point as the synchronization point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: PRINCETON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chia-Liang Liu, Yi-Hsueh Chung
  • Patent number: 10244432
    Abstract: A method for discontinuous reception (DRX) implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) during cell reselection including initiating cell reselection; disabling DRX operation, wherein disabling DRX operation enables continuous reception; transmitting a CELL UPDATE message; receiving a CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message; and enabling DRX operation based on the received CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Rocco Di Girolamo, Diana Pani, Christopher R. Cave, Paul Marinier, Vincent Roy
  • Patent number: 10237783
    Abstract: In response to detecting, at the first time period, that the available amount of the first resource on the computing device is below the first threshold level, the computer system switches the computing device to a first low resource mode, wherein the switching the computing device to the first low resource mode includes intercepting a first data intended to be transmitted to the computing device, the first data corresponding to a first set of one or more applications on the computing device. In response to detecting, at a second time period that is after the first time period, that the available amount of the first resource on the computing device meets or exceeds the first threshold level, the computer system switches the computing device back to a normal operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Pankaj Sarin
  • Patent number: 10237857
    Abstract: When beamforming (e.g., via a millimeter wave system (mmW)) is used for wireless communication, a base station may transmit beams that are directed to certain directions. Due to the directional nature of the beams in the mmW system, an approach to determine a beam that provides a desirable gain is studied. The apparatus may be a user equipment (UE). The apparatus receives, from a base station, a plurality of signals through a plurality of beams of the base station, each of the plurality of beams corresponding to a respective antenna port of a plurality of antenna ports of the base station. The apparatus performs channel estimation for each beam of the plurality of beams from the plurality of antenna ports based on the plurality of signals. The apparatus transmits, to the base station, a feedback signal including information about one or more beams selected from the plurality of beams, the feedback signal further including one or more candidate uplink precoders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Tao Luo, Bilal Sadiq, Juergen Cezanne, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 10237774
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for acquiring the parameters of a mobile radio network (3), whereby regular subscriber terminal devices (1) perform the acquisition without the use of additional external devices (GPS receiver, storage and processing module, notebook . . . ) being necessary. The acquisition of characteristic data can be configured dynamically by the mobile radio system (3) and is preferably performed every time that the user determines a position in any case (when using Location Based Services) or the subscriber terminal device (1) reaches a defined range (4) of the mobile radio network (3), whereby the definition of this range (4) is based either on network-standard field identifiers (Cell ID, LA, RA, URAI TA) or was defined by an open polygon of coordinates. The acquired data are transferred to an acquisition, analysis and processing unit (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventor: Axel Klatt
  • Patent number: 10235295
    Abstract: Scalable Coherent Apparatus and Method have been disclosed. In one implementation a dual directory approach is used to implement scalable coherent accesses in a heterogeneous system. A transaction identification mapping for coherent RapidIO memory transactions between a plurality of external hardware processing elements is used. Source transaction identification encoding is a combination of bits from two advanced extensible interface identifications. Target transaction identification is decoded into a combination of bits for two advanced extensible interface identifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Mohammad Shahanshah Akhter
  • Patent number: 10237007
    Abstract: Aspects relate to allocation of Almost Blank Subframes. According to some embodiments, a plurality of base stations may provide an overlapping coverage area. A first base station may transmit a first message comprising a first subframe allocation repetition period, a first subframe allocation offset, and a first subframe allocation bitmap. The first subframe allocation bitmap may indicate configuration of a first plurality of Almost Blank Subframes. Another base station may transmit a second message comprising the first subframe allocation repetition period, the first subframe allocation offset, and a second subframe allocation bitmap. The second subframe allocation bitmap may indicate configuration of a second plurality of Almost Blank Subframes. The second plurality of Almost Blank Subframes may not substantially overlap in time with the first plurality of Almost Blank Subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 10231164
    Abstract: A method for updating location information includes detecting a change in mobility of a second device, and determining whether an update condition has been met. When the update condition has been met, the method also includes updating a first location management function in accordance with location information of the second device, and forwarding the location information of the second device to a second location management function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Hinghung Anthony Chan
  • Patent number: 10230508
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method for transmitting/receiving signals in a mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: receiving control information; obtaining information related to the orthogonal cover code (OCC) length, based on the received control information; and receiving a reference signal, based on the information related to the OCC length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheolkyu Shin, Youngwoo Kwak, Hoondong Noh, Younsun Kim, Jinyoung Oh
  • Patent number: 10230445
    Abstract: A data transmission method includes steps of: acquiring, by a network side, a current data transmission rule, the current data transmission rule including a mapping relationship between currently-scheduled K UEs and data layers on N transmission resources corresponding to a selected encoding matrix, one UE at least occupying one data layer; and transmitting, by the network side, data to the K UEs in accordance with the current data transmission rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Shaoli Kang, Bin Ren, Yang Song
  • Patent number: 10230665
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for implementing hierarchical and lossless packet preemption and interleaving to reduce latency jitter in flow-controller packet-based networks. Fabric packets are divided into a plurality of data units, with data units for different fabric packets buffered in separate buffers. Data units are pulled from the buffers and added to a transmit stream in which groups of data units are interleaved. Upon receipt by a receiver, the groups of data units are separated out and buffered in separate buffers under which data units for the same fabric packets are grouped together. In one aspect, each buffer is associated with a respective virtual lane (VL), and the fabric packets are effectively transferred over fabric links using virtual lanes. VLs may have different levels of priority under which data units for fabric packets in higher-priority VLs may preempt fabric packets in lower-priority VLs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas D. Lovett, Albert Cheng, Mark S. Birrittella, James Kunz, Todd Rimmer
  • Patent number: 10230432
    Abstract: Diversity modules for processing radio frequency (RF) signals are provided herein. In certain implementations a diversity module includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a low band processing circuit that generates a low band signal based on one or more diversity signals, a mid band processing circuit that generates a mid band signal based on the one or more diversity signals and that provides the mid band signal to the second terminal, a high band processing circuit that generates a high band signal based on the one or more diversity signals, and a multi-throw switch that provides the low band signal to the first terminal in a first state and that provides the high band signal to the first terminal in a second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephane Richard Marie Wloczysiak
  • Patent number: 10219173
    Abstract: Operations of a UE and eNB are provided when there is a cell which can perform cell on/off. In this case, the UE may performs receiving signal on downlink channel and processing with the signal on the downlink channel. In addition, the signal on the downlink channel may includes a discovery signal when the cell is off-state, and the discovery signal is a signal used for cell identification and/or measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 10219223
    Abstract: A system includes a device and a wireless network. The device uses multiple wireless communication protocols. The wireless network is coupled to the device by the multiple wireless communication protocols. The device simultaneously uses two of more of the multiple wireless communication protocols. The wireless communication protocols and the wireless communication export protocols include WiFi, ZigBee and Bluetooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: GainSpan Corporation
    Inventors: Lewis E. Adams, III, Pankaj Vyas, Alan J. Herring, Gregory Winner
  • Patent number: 10218539
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a distributed system. The distributed system includes a plurality of radio heads and a plurality of controllers disposed in one or more chassis external to the plurality of radio heads. Each of the plurality of controllers includes a baseband unit (BBU), an uplink time-division multiplexing (TDM) switch and a downlink TDM switch. The uplink TDM switch and the downlink TDM switch forward data bits between a radio head and a BBU by using TDM cells which may reduce latency relative to using Ethernet frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David S. Kloper, Brian D. Hart, Dipankar B. Acharya
  • Patent number: 10219278
    Abstract: A data transmission method and a related device are disclosed. The data transmission method includes: obtaining to-be-transmitted K bits; mapping the K bits to F resource units according to a codebook and a value of the K bits, so as to obtain a codeword CK that is to be transmitted by using the F resource units, where the codebook includes S codewords in a one-to-one mapping relationship with S different values of the K bits; and sending the codeword CK by using the F resource units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Shunqing Zhang, Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 10211946
    Abstract: A method for suppressing a spurious signal in a payload signal supplied by a receiving antenna of a payload of a satellite. The satellite also includes an array of measurement antennas supplying measurement signals. The measurement signals are combined with the payload signal. Reference weighting coefficients for weighting the measurement signals are determined as a function of the combined signals. A reference beam is formed by combining the measurement signals weighted based on the reference weighting coefficients. Anti jamming weighting coefficients for weighting the payload signal and the reference beam are determined. An anti jammed beam is formed by combining the payload signal and the reference beam weighed based on the corresponding anti jamming weighting coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Nicolas Jacquey, Bernard Pezet, Xavier Deplancq
  • Patent number: 10211956
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes distributed units communicating with a terminal device and a central unit connected to the distributed units and receiving and processing signals from the distributed units. The central unit includes a host function unit to pre-notify the distributed units if a received signal from the terminal device is a target of coordination between distributed units, hard/soft determination units configured to separate received signals from the distributed units into a hard decision value and a soft decision value based on presence or absence of coordination between the distributed units, transmit the hard decision value to the host function unit as is, and transmit the soft decision value to a signal combining unit, the signal combining unit combines soft decision values output from the hard/soft determination units and outputs a combined soft decision value, and a decoding unit performs decoding using the soft decision value output from the signal combining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Shigeru Kuwano, Jun Terada
  • Patent number: 10212639
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, querying a domain name server for status information associated with a set of service capability exposure function (SCEF) nodes associated with providing data capability for a wireless communication device in a mobile communication network, receiving, from the domain name server, status information associated with a set of SCEF nodes that are selected, selecting a first SCEF node from the set of SCEF nodes according to the status information for the set of SCEF nodes, initiating a first non-IP packet data network connection with the first SCEF node, initiating a user plane packet data network connection with a serving gateway node of the mobile communication network, wherein the serving gateway node includes a serving gateway and a packet data network gateway, and selecting the first non-IP packet data network connection or the user plane packet data network connection as a delivery path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Rajendra Prasad Kodaypak
  • Patent number: 10205671
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for adding tokens in traffic shaping are provided. According to the method, a weight of each data stream is configured, and each data stream is added to corresponding token schedulers based on the weight of the each data stream. Based on a weight of each token scheduler, each token scheduler is sequentially added to corresponding token scheduler groups, and all the token scheduler groups are aggregated into a token scheduler of a total data stream. The token scheduler of the total data stream is added to a top token scheduler. Based on a preset cycle, a token is assigned to the token scheduler of the total data stream in the top token scheduler, and the assigned token is delivered to each token scheduler group or to a respective data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xuequan Cai, Min Zeng, Gang Xia, Kaixin Yuan
  • Patent number: 10201017
    Abstract: A first communication device generates a trigger frame to trigger a contention-based uplink orthogonal frequency multiple access (OFDMA) transmission by multiple second communication devices. The trigger frame may be configured to indicate a predetermined length of the contention-based uplink OFDMA transmission, where the predetermined length corresponds to contention-based uplink OFDMA transmissions. The first communication device transmits the trigger frame to the multiple second communication devices, receives the contention-based uplink OFDMA transmission. The contention-based uplink OFDMA transmission may be of the predetermined length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Hongyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10200509
    Abstract: A device may generate a frame including data to be provided to a client device. The data may be associated with a rate corresponding to the client device. The device may determine rate information, associated with a set of client devices, that identifies the rate and one or more other rates. The device may determine a relative frame transmission time (RFTT) associated with the frame. The device may determine a frame scheduling number (FSN), associated with the frame, based on the RFTT. The device may schedule the frame for provision to the client device based on the FSN. The device may provide the frame to the client device based on scheduling the FSN. The frame may be provided to cause relative airtime fairness between a first group of frames, corresponding to the rate, and a second group of frames, corresponding to the one or more other rates, to be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Rashmi Maharia, Rajeev K. Koripalli
  • Patent number: 10200988
    Abstract: Embodiments include a physical resource block scheduling method, network device, and system, which may be used to perform scheduling request indicator SRI scheduling. The method includes: receiving a scheduling request indicator SRI sent by user equipment UE; allocating M PRBs to the UE according to a reference quantity of bits for scheduling; receiving, on a physical uplink shared channel, an uplink transmission block TB that is sent, in response to current-time SRI scheduling, by the UE; and determining, according to the uplink TB, a reference quantity of bits for scheduling for next-time SRI scheduling of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Lingyun Lei
  • Patent number: 10194311
    Abstract: A method for performing tracking area (TA) update by a UE in a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) includes: receiving at least one of neighbor radio remote unit (RRU) information and neighbor baseband unit (BBU) information from a primary BBU; setting a TA based on the received information and characteristics of the UE; and transmitting information on the set TA to the primary BBU during a radio resource control (RRC) connection release procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunjong Lee, Jaehoon Chung, Hyeyoung Choi, Heejeong Cho, Genebeck Hahn
  • Patent number: 10193678
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication is provided which includes establishing a time-frequency muting pattern including at least one data resource element (RE) and transmitting information indicating the time-frequency muting pattern to a user equipment. In some designs, the muting pattern is established by grouping a plurality of resource elements into muting groups such that the time-frequency muting pattern includes the muting groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Bhattad, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 10187109
    Abstract: A filter circuit includes: a variable filter that is connected between a common terminal and a node and configured to change a passband thereof; a receive switch connected between a receive terminal, from which a reception signal in a first band is output, and the node; and a transmit switch connected between a transmit terminal, to which a transmission signal in a second band different from the first band is input, and the node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Saji
  • Patent number: 10187640
    Abstract: A method and system for encoding a group of coding blocks and packetizing the compressed data into slices/packets with hard-limited packet size are disclosed. According to the present invention, a packetization map for at least a portion of a current picture is determined. The packetization map associates coding blocks in at least a portion of the current picture with one or more packets by identifying a corresponding group of coding blocks for each packet of said one or more packets. The corresponding group of coding blocks for each packet is then encoded according to the packetization map and the size of each packet is determined. The packet size is checked. If any packet size exceeds a constrained size, a new packetization map is generated and the corresponding group of coding blocks for each packet is encoded according to the new packetization map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chao-Chih Huang, Ting-An Lin, Shen-Kai Chang, Han-Liang Chou
  • Patent number: 10182384
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention relate to a method for operating a mobile station (MS) in a radio communication system (RAN). The method contains receiving first radio resource information for a transmission of first reference signals via a first radiation beam (BM1-BS1) being directed towards a first direction by at least one neighboring base station (BS1) of a serving base station (BS2) of the mobile station (MS) and at least second radio resource information for a transmission of at least second reference signals via at least one second radiation beam (BM2-BS1, . . . BM5-BS1) being directed towards at least one second direction by the at least one neighboring base station (BS1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Andreas Weber, Hajo-Erich Bakker, Siegfried Klein
  • Patent number: 10181891
    Abstract: A UE may receive a beam modification command that indicates a set of transmit beam indexes corresponding to a set of transmit beams of a base station, and each transmit beam index of the set of transmit beam indexes may indicate at least a transmit direction for transmitting a transmit beam by the base station. The UE may determine a set of receive beam indexes corresponding to receive beams of the UE based on the set of transmit beam indexes, and each receive beam index of the set of receive beam indexes may indicate at least a receive direction for receiving a receive beam by the UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, a signal through at least one receive beam corresponding to at least one receive beam index included in the set of receive beam indexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Bilal Sadiq, Tao Luo, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 10181965
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5G or a pre-5G communication system to be provided in order to support a higher data transmission rate than a beyond 4G communication system such as LTE. A method for estimating a channel, by a terminal, in a wireless communication system supporting beamforming using a plurality of antenna elements, which embodiments of the present disclosure provide, comprises: a step of receiving, from a base station, a set of reference beams including a plurality of reference beams; a step of selecting at least one effective beam from the plurality of reference beams included in the set of reference beams; a step of estimating a channel between the base station and the terminal on the basis of the selected effective beam; a step of generating channel information regarding the estimated channel; and a step of transmitting the generated channel information to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyuk-Min Son, Hyun-Kyu Yu, Jae-Won Kim, Jeong-Ho Park, Nam-Jeong Lee, Cheol Jeong
  • Patent number: 10181933
    Abstract: The amount of control information is reduced for specifying the transmission method for simultaneously transmitting the uplink data and the reception quality information as well as the uplink data and the ACK/NACK. In a mobile communication system where the base station apparatus allocates, to the mobile station apparatus, resources wherein the base station apparatus transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, control information for specifying a transmission format for the mobile station apparatus to transmit information using the uplink, while the mobile station apparatus simultaneously transmits, to the base station apparatus, the uplink data and the reception quality information based on the specified transmission format in case of having received the control information from the base station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 10176800
    Abstract: Procedure dialogs are improved through knowledge mining within a reinforcement learning framework. Taking an existing procedure dialog as input, a machine learning model is generated. User interactions with the machine learning model are monitored and used to update the machine learning model. The updates to the machine learning model are applied to the existing procedure dialog for review and revision by subject matter experts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Qi Cheng Li, Shao Chun Li, Jie Ma, Li Jun Mei
  • Patent number: 10177813
    Abstract: A method and a device are disclosed including a PLC node having a synchronizer, a modem with a transceiver, and a computing device coupled with a power line for power line data communications. In various embodiments, a coordinator or Data Concentrator Unit (DCU) coordinates the communication of PLC nodes. The PLC nodes are configured to detect a zero crossing of the power line wave form and transmit or receive data within time slots defined with respect to the detected zero crossing. In other embodiments, the time slots may be synchronized using a frame sync signal, an external signal, or polling. In various embodiments, the time slots may be random access or assigned. In some embodiments, the modem and/or node may be placed in a sleep mode when not communicating to reduce power consumption and be awaken when an allocated time slot is approaching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SEMTECH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Farrokh Farrokhi
  • Patent number: 10172176
    Abstract: A method at a first device for enabling a device-to-device wireless link, the method detecting whether a presence signal of a second device is received over a first time period, the presence signal of the second device having a time-slot boundary; and if the presence signal of the second device is not detected, initiating a time-slot boundary by the first device including: transmitting a first presence signal of the first device in a selected time-slot; and checking for an acknowledgment to the first presence signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Nam Nguyen, Yufei Wu Blankenship, Sagar Dhakal
  • Patent number: 10171154
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application is a method by which a terminal reports a beam index to a base station in a wireless access system. The beam index reporting method comprises the steps of: receiving a plurality of reference signals from the base station; measuring a plurality of beams by using the plurality of reference signals; reporting an index of a first preferential beam among the plurality of beams to the base station; and reporting, to the base station, information on at least one second preferential beam determined on the basis of the first preferential beam, wherein the information on at least one second preferential beam is information on an index difference between the first preferential beam and the at least one second preferential beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyungtae Kim, Kijun Kim
  • Patent number: 10172048
    Abstract: A method and system for the UE and RNC to reduce transmission latency and potentially prevent loss of PDUs upon a MAC-hs layer reset. The RNC generates a radio resource control (RRC) message with a MAC-hs reset indication. The MAC reset indication requires the UE to flush buffers for configured HARQ processes, disassemble MAC protocol data units (PDUs) in the reordering buffers, deliver MAC-d PDUs to a MAC-d layer, and configure the MAC-hs to receive new data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen E. Terry, Yi-Ju Chao
  • Patent number: 10172159
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a data transmission method and device. The method includes sensing, by a station, whether a channel allocated by an access point associated with the station is occupied, before obtaining a downlink scheduling phase. If the channel is not occupied, sending, by the station, channel clear signaling to the access point, where the channel clear signaling includes a first identifier used for identifying the station and a second identifier used for identifying the access point. The method also includes receiving, by the station in the downlink scheduling phase, data transmitted by the access point. The present disclosure ensures normal data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chixiang Ma, Tianyu Wu, Jiayin Zhang
  • Patent number: 10165591
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for enhanced multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) wireless communications. The proposed method may reduce and/or eliminate stringent frequency and time synchronization requirements for stations (STAs) to participate in a downlink MU-MIMO transaction by utilizing deterministic scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hemanth Sampath, Vincent Knowles Jones, IV, Maarten Menzo Wentink, Santosh P. Abraham
  • Patent number: 10158408
    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). A channel information feedback in a wireless communication system and a method of a receiving node of a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting an indication representing an indexing rule for channel values and block-wise quantized channel information, and receiving beamformed signals mapped to an antenna based on the indexing rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jun-Il Choi, David J. Love, Tae-Young Kim, Keon-Kook Lee
  • Patent number: 10158458
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for encoding and transmitting data in a wireless communications system and, in particular, for unscheduled data transmissions including low data rate transmissions. The method for transmitting data in a wireless network includes mapping data according to a predefined sequence pattern from a group of sequence patterns to provide a spreading sequence that includes multiple non-zero elements and that is enabled to partially collide in the wireless network with other spreading sequences that have been mapped according to other sequence patterns from the group; and transmitting the spreading sequence. Multiple sequences may be received by a network node and decoded using successive interference cancellation (SIC) techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Jia, Jianglei Ma, Javad Abdoli
  • Patent number: 10159077
    Abstract: A sending node sends information to a receiving node. Said nodes are comprised in a wireless communication network. Communication between said nodes is associated with a first cell. The sending node obtains predefined scrambling for scrambling the information and which predefined scrambling is specific for the first cell. The receiving node correspondingly obtains de-scrambling. The sending node sends, to the receiving node, the information repeatedly a certain number of times, wherein each time the information is sent it is scrambled differently based on the obtained scrambling. Each time the information is received by the receiving node it is de-scrambled differently based on the obtained de-scrambling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Stefan Eriksson Löwenmark, Gustav Almquist, Olof Liberg, Mårten Sundberg
  • Patent number: RE47344
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for a Node B to transmit Reference Signals (RS) from multiple antennas to enable User Equipments (UEs) to perform demodulation of received information signals and to estimate Channel Quality Indication (CQI) metrics. To minimize overhead and enable backward compatible operation with legacy systems, RS from a first set of Node B antennas are transmitted in every transmission time interval and substantially over the whole operating BandWidth (BW). RS from a second set of Node B antennas serving for CQI estimation are periodically transmitted, substantially over the whole operating BW, with transmission period informed to UEs through broadcast signaling by the Node B and starting transmission sub-frame determined from the identity of the cell served by the Node B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Joon-Young Cho, Ju-Ho Lee, Jin-Kyu Han