Multiple Access (e.g., Tdma) Patents (Class 370/337)
  • Patent number: 10405318
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for transmitting and receiving a beamformed data transmission transmitted from a radio base station to a user equipment over an unlicensed band. The data transmission is transmitted by the radio base station within one or more resource blocks of a subframe, each resource block being composed of a plurality of resource elements. The beamformed data transmission is generated by the radio base station by 1) applying a first precoding for generating a beam directionality towards the user equipment to a subset of all the resource elements used for transmitting the data transmission in the subframe, and 2) applying a second precoding, different from the first precoding, to the remaining resource elements used for transmitting the data transmission in the subframe so as to achieve a radiation pattern different from the beam directionality towards the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Michael Einhaus, Jan Ohlhorst, Masayuki Hoshino, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 10397872
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing communications with an improved network frame structure within wireless sensor networks are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system includes a hub having one or more processing units and RF circuitry for transmitting and receiving communications in a wireless network architecture. The system also includes a plurality of sensor nodes each having a wireless device with a transmitter and a receiver to enable bi-directional communications with the hub in the wireless network architecture. The one or more processing units of the hub are configured to execute instructions to cause a change from a first power mode of a receiver of a sensor node to a second power mode upon transmitting notifications to the sensor node during a repeated hub broadcasting time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Locix, Inc.
    Inventors: Soon Hyeok Choi, Tommi Ylamurto
  • Patent number: 10397938
    Abstract: In the present disclosure, a method for transmitting and receiving uplink (UL) data performed by a base station in a wireless communication system includes transmitting a UL grant to a first user equipment (UE); transmitting a fast UL grant in relation to an urgent message transmission to at least one of the first UE or a second UE; and receiving the urgent message from the second UE through a UL resource allocated by the fast UL grant, and the UL resource allocated by the fast UL grant is a resource withdrawn from a resource allocated to the first UE by the UL grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunjong Lee, Joonkui Ahn, Heejeong Cho, Genebeck Hahn, Suckchel Yang, Ilmu Byun
  • Patent number: 10392036
    Abstract: A train control system enabling a train to smoothly travel while performing handover. The system includes an on-vehicle wireless station mounted on a train following a preceding train and connected to an on-vehicle control device of the train, ground wireless base stations capable of wirelessly communicating with the on-vehicle wireless station, and a base station control device to control the base stations. The ground wireless base station is located between the ground wireless base station with which the on-vehicle wireless station is communicating and the ground wireless base station forming a communication area including a travelling permission point determined by a position of the train. The base station control device reserves radio resources of the ground wireless base stations while communicating with the ground wireless base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Aoyama, Seiya Nagashima
  • Patent number: 10382901
    Abstract: A processing method and apparatus for multiple eMBMS service sources is presented. The method includes that receiving at least one service list sent by at least one network device; merging the at least one service list to generate an integrated service list, where the integrated service list records a first correspondence between the at least one service list and the at least one network device, where each of the service list includes at least one service; and providing the integrated service list to user equipment, so that a user selects a target service according to the integrated service list. Service lists of multiple network devices are merged to form an integrated service list, and the integrated service list is provided to user equipment, so that a user selects a target service according to the integrated service list, which effectively increases service types, and enriches service functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiangyang Wang
  • Patent number: 10368351
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for estimating a Citizens Broadband Radio Service Device's (CBSD's) coverage area using user equipment (UE) timing advance and/or power headroom information and allocating resources based on the estimate. In an exemplary method embodiment a Spectrum Access System: (i) receives, from a CBSD, user equipment (UE) information including at least one of timing advance or power headroom information for one or more UEs in communication with the CBSD; (ii) estimates, based on the received first UE information, a first CBSD coverage area; and (iii) makes a first resource allocation to the CBSD based on the estimated CBSD coverage area, the first resource allocation including an allocation of at least one of a frequency bandwidth allocation or transmission power allocation to the CBSD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Haider Syed, Muhib T Oduwaiye, Volkan Sevindik
  • Patent number: 10368343
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for improving Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) allocation for improved downlink scheduling. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a network node in a cellular communications network comprises transmitting a downlink assignment to a wireless device, the downlink assignment comprising an indication of whether the downlink assignment applies to a single Transmit Time Interval (TTI) or multiple consecutive TTIs, and transmitting a downlink data transmission to the wireless device during a single TTI or multiple downlink data transmissions to the wireless device during multiple consecutive TTIs according to the downlink assignment. In this manner, the network node does not need to transmit, and the wireless device does not need to receive/decode, a separate downlink assignment in each TTI. This may be beneficial to, e.g., mitigate PDCCH congestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Debasish Sarkar, Ayan Sen, Jaspal Singh, Narendra Kumar Singh
  • Patent number: 10356823
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may transmit a random access message to a wireless node using multiple symbols. The random access message may include repetitions of a random access sequence weighted by a spreading code. For example, a random access sequence may be weighted using different elements of the spreading code, where a first repetition may be weighted with a first element and a second repetition may be weighted using a second element. The weighted random access signals may be spread over multiple symbols and transmitted to the wireless node as the random access message. In some cases, a spreading code may include values of one and negative one, may be based on rows of a Hadamard matrix, or may correspond to a number of symbols used to transmit the random access message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Juergen Cezanne, Sundar Subramanian, Bilal Sadiq, Junyi Li, Ashwin Sampath
  • Patent number: 10355900
    Abstract: A method for signaling preamble structure parameters. The method includes generating a bootstrap symbol that signals a single 8-bit preamble structure value. The single 8-bit preamble structure value identifies four different preamble structure parameters of a preamble that follows the bootstrap symbol. The method further includes generating a transmission frame including the bootstrap symbol, the preamble, and a data payload, and outputting the transmission frame for transmission via a terrestrial broadcast. The single 8-bit preamble structure value is limited to signaling a subset of different combinations of the four different preamble structure parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lachlan Michael, Yuken Goto, Tatsuki Amimoto
  • Patent number: 10348613
    Abstract: A radio communication system comprises a communication channel for the transmission of data packets from a primary station having a plurality of antennas to a secondary station having at least one antenna. The channel comprises a plurality of paths, and the primary station transmits a plurality of packets substantially simultaneously. Each of the plurality of packets is transmitted via a different subset of the plurality of paths. The secondary station receives the plurality of data packets, determines whether each packet is received correctly and signals this determination as an acknowledgement or a negative acknowledgement to the primary station for each of the plurality of packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Moulsley, Matthew Peter John Baker, Bernard Hunt
  • Patent number: 10313086
    Abstract: Multiple full channel quality indication (CQI) reports indicative of received signal quality for multiple carriers in wireless communication are transmitted in multiple time intervals of a CQI channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Joseph Paul Odenwalder, Stein Arne Lundby, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 10306655
    Abstract: A method for determining an uplink (UL) channel quality by a base station (BS) includes obtaining a coverage class (CC) value of a user equipment (UE), receiving a random access (RA) signal from the UE, determining an UL channel quality of a band in which the RA signal is transmitted, based on the CC value and the RA signal, and generating UL resource allocation information based on the UL channel quality and transmitting the UL resource allocation information to the UE. The BS includes a transceiver configured to obtain a CC value of a UE and to receive a RA signal from the UE, and a controller configured to determine an UL channel quality of a band in which the RA signal is transmitted, based on the CC value and the RA signal. A UE includes determines a CC value of the UE based on a DL signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Sagong, Yong-Ho Cho, Ji-Yun Seol, Yeo-Hun Yun
  • Patent number: 10305534
    Abstract: A method for performing communication by a user equipment (UE) in a UE-flexible Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode in a network configured to support the UE-flexible TDD mode in which a base station (BS) operates in a full duplex mode and the UE operates in a half duplex mode includes receiving information associated with a UE-flexible TDD mode support cell configured to support the UE-flexible TDD mode through a primary cell (PCell) from the base station (BS); and receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) from the base station (BS) through the UE-flexible TDD mode support cell based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinmin Kim, Jaehoon Chung, Genebeck Hahn, Eunjong Lee, Kukheon Choi, Kwangseok Noh
  • Patent number: 10291367
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes: a frame generator configured to generate a frame including a plurality of OFDM symbols; and a signal processor configured to signal-process the generated frame, wherein the plurality of OFDM symbols are included in a bootstrap, a preamble including an L1 basic and an L1 detail, and a payload, and wherein the bootstrap includes information on an FFT size of the OFDM symbols included in the preamble, a length of a guard interval (GI) inserted in the preamble, and a pattern of a preamble pilot inserted in the preamble, and information on an L1 basic mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-ho Oh, Se-ho Myung, Hak-ju Lee
  • Patent number: 10271327
    Abstract: A wireless communication device according to an embodiment is one of a plurality of wireless communication devices in a multihop wireless communication system to transmit and receive information with each other. The wireless communication device has: a transmitter configured to transmit information in an m-th slot (m is an integer equal to or more than 1 and equal to or less than M, M is an integer equal to or more than 2) in a first slot group in N slot groups (N is an integer equal to or more than 2) in a frame, respective one of the slot groups including M slots, and a controller configured to control the transmitter to receive a connection request in an m-th slot in a second slot group in the N slot groups from a wireless communication device not included in the plurality of wireless communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ren Sakata, Hiroki Kudo, Fumiaki Kanayama, Yuji Tohzaka, Sakie Nagakubo, Suhwuk Kim
  • Patent number: 10250638
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer-readable storage mediums including computer-readable instructions and/or circuitry for control of transmission to a target device with a cloud-based architecture may implement operations including, but not limited to: detecting, at least in part via a cloud-based architecture, an elapsed time since a prior authorization of a transmission to a target device; comparing, at least in part via a cloud-based architecture, the elapsed time since a prior authorization of a transmission to a target device against a threshold transmission interval associated with a target device; and authorizing, at least in part via a cloud-based architecture, at least one transmission to a target device in response to the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: ELWHA LLC
    Inventors: Richard T. Lord, Robert W. Lord, Craig J. Mundie, Clarence T. Tegreene
  • Patent number: 10250565
    Abstract: A machine to machine (M2M) service layer can facilitate acquiring and providing location information for use by M2M devices. The service layer can also ensure that privacy controls are maintained and enforced for location information. A device can report its location and its privacy preferences to a service layer device. Other devices can receive this location information subject to qualifying to receive it based on the privacy preferences. Devices in an area may advertise services with the service layer acting as a filter and relay point ensuring that such advertisements satisfy the privacy policies of the devices involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Lijun Dong, Guang Lu, Dale N. Seed, Chonggang Wang
  • Patent number: 10251177
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for allocating a wireless resource in order to prevent interference in a wireless LAN. A method for allocating a wireless resource in a wireless LAN may comprise the steps of: allocating, by an AP, a plurality of wireless resources for a plurality of STAs included in a BSS, in the entire bandwidth, respectively; and transmitting, by the AP, a PPDU to the plurality of STAs through the plurality of wireless resources, respectively, wherein each of the plurality of wireless resources is a combination of a plurality of wireless units defined in different sizes on a frequency axis, and each of the plurality of wireless resources can be determined in consideration of the size of the bandwidth of at least one STA supporting a bandwidth smaller than the size of the entire bandwidth from among the plurality of STAs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinsoo Choi, Hangyu Cho, Wookbong Lee
  • Patent number: 10248679
    Abstract: Implementations of a system, method and apparatus described herein receive, for a configuration item in a configuration management database, status indicating an operational state and an automation state associated with the configuration item, and determine whether a conflict will occur with at least one of the operational state or the automation state of the configuration item as a result of a process affecting the configuration item. When the conflict will not occur, a change is made to at least one of the operational state or the automation state of the configuration item in accordance with the process. Upon a conclusion of the process, the change is removed. If the conflict will occur, the process not allowed to continue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Sridhar Chandrashekar, Manish Gupta, Magesh Narayanan
  • Patent number: 10244490
    Abstract: A UE may receive a directional synchronization subframe from a base station and transmit a scheduling request to the base station during a time period based on the directional synchronization subframe. The scheduling request may enable a base station to grant the UE resources to send a buffer status report (BSR). The time period may be associated with a random access channel (RACH) time period. The UE may also transmit a scheduling request within a frequency region of the RACH time period. The scheduling request may be transmitted based on a received indication of a set of subcarrier, a cyclic shift, or a sequence index. In some examples, the resources used by the UE to send the BSR may include physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Sundar Subramanian, Juergen Cezanne, Junyi Li, Ashwin Sampath, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 10237889
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a processor-readable storage medium for wireless communication are provided. In an aspect, the apparatus is a subordinate entity that receives an indication of a resource allocated for an uplink transmission. The subordinate entity also receives a condition associated with the resource. The subordinate entity evaluates whether the condition is satisfied and determines whether to transmit a packet using the resource based on the condition being satisfied. In another aspect, the apparatus is a scheduling entity that generates an indication of a resource allocated for an uplink transmission. The resource is associated with a condition that limits access to the resource. The scheduling entity transmits the indication and the condition to a subordinate entity and receives a packet from the subordinate entity via the resource based on the condition being satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Jing Jiang, Tingfang Ji, Chih Ping Li, Gavin Bernard Horn, Keiichi Kubota
  • Patent number: 10231224
    Abstract: A wireless communications system includes a base station, a plurality of intermediate devices, and a terminal device. Downlink communications may be provided directly from the base station to the terminal device, including control signals which instruct the terminal device where to send uplink data. This enables the base station to directly control scheduling of uplink communications, and in particular to define an uplink route from the terminal device to the base station via one or more intermediate devices. Power is conserved at the terminal device on the uplink because a lower power transmission can be used which although insufficient to reach the base station can reach the intermediate device. The terminal device is not required to determine the uplink path itself and therefore does not require complex, expensive, and power consuming control logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC
    Inventor: Yuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 10225834
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for receiving system information by a user equipment (UE). System information including first partial bits of a system frame number (SFN) and bandwidth information are received at a first subframe of a radio frame. The system information is identical during a broadcast channel transmission period. Second partial bits of the SFN are acquired having a different value in each of radio frames within the broadcast channel transmission period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyeong-In Jeong, Himke Van Der Velde, Soeng-Hun Kim, Joon-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 10212718
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus that includes a communication unit configured to receive frames including first information from a plurality of other communication apparatuses and transmit first frames including information indicating a first transmission time period to the plurality of other communication apparatuses. The communication appratus further includes a control unit configured to determine the first transmission time period on the basis of the plurality of pieces of first information and a processing unit configured to generate the first frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Itagaki, Tomoya Yamaura, Yuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 10212694
    Abstract: This document describes multicast communication between wireless devices. A scheduling frame may be wirelessly transmitted by a wireless device. The scheduling frame may include a multicast address indicating a group of intended receiving devices for a payload frame. The scheduling frame may further include scheduling information indicating an order for the group of intended receiving devices to transmit acknowledgement information for the payload frame. A payload frame may also be wirelessly transmitted by the wireless device. The payload frame may include payload information intended for the group of intended receiving devices. Additionally, acknowledgement frames may be wirelessly received by the wireless device from at least a subset of the group of intended receiving devices. The acknowledgement frames may be received according to the order indicated in the scheduling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Harish Ramamurthy, Kapil Chhabra, Matthew L. Semersky, Daniel R. Borges, Charles F. Dominguez
  • Patent number: 10211929
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a device capable of implementing an extended association procedure that enables compatibility with the existing association procedures. [Solution] Provided is a device including: a determination unit configured to determine whether transmission timing of a first frame received from a communication terminal is a first timing in an intra-body communication system; and a timing decision unit configured to decide timing to transmit a second frame to the communication terminal on the basis of a determination result by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Sato, Kentaro Nakahara
  • Patent number: 10182452
    Abstract: Various aspects described herein are related to communicating feedback communications received over multiple component carriers (CCs) in wireless communications. The communications can be received from a serving node over the multiple CCs configured in carrier aggregation or multiple connectivity. One or more of the multiple CCs can be determined for transmitting feedback regarding the communications received over at least one CC of the multiple CCs, wherein the one or more of the multiple CCs are selected for transmitting the feedback based at least in part on a transmission time interval (TTI) duration for the at least one CC. Feedback related to receiving the communications from the serving node over the at least one CC can be transmitted over the one or more of the multiple CCs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Gaal, Shimman Arvind Patel, Jing Sun, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 10178636
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a method. The method includes determining, by a first node device in a network, a first master clock according to a first clock data set of the first node device and a first clock data set of another node device in the network, and synchronizing to the first master clock, where the first clock data set includes a first clock domain selection parameter of a node device. The method also includes determining, by the first node device, a second master clock according to a second clock data set of the first node device and a second clock data set of another node device that belongs to a same first node clock domain as the first node device does, and synchronizing to the second master clock, where the second clock data set includes a second clock domain selection parameter of a node device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jinfang Zhang, Bojie Li
  • Patent number: 10169682
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device for sorting frames included in one moving image into different channels, the frames included in the moving image being a mixture of frames belonging to the different channels. The image processing device includes an automatic sorting unit and a re-sorting unit. The automatic sorting unit calculates a similarity degree of the plurality of frames included in the moving image by performing image processing on the frames, and sorts the plurality of frames into the plurality of channels based on the similarity degree. The re-sorting unit accepts, from a user, an association operation of individually associating at least one non-sorted frame, which is not automatically sorted by the automatic sorting unit, with any of the plurality of channels, and individually sorts the non-sorted frame to any of the plurality of channels based on content of the association operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: NK WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yumiko Nakagawa, Tomoo Nakano, Yukiko Murata
  • Patent number: 10171224
    Abstract: Underlay network node and macro base station and methods therein for enabling avoidance of interference in a cell extension area associated with an uplink/downlink imbalance. The underlay network node is assumed to be associated with a cell area A, and a cell extension area B, where the cell extension area B has an uplink/downlink imbalance in relation to a neighboring base station and the network node. The method in the underlay network node involves serving a UE in both uplink and downlink when the UE is located in cell area A. The method further involves serving a UE only in the uplink when the UE is located in cell extension area B, thus enabling avoidance of interference related to communication of a UE located in said cell extension area B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Fredrik Gunnarsson, Gunnar Mildh, Stefan Parkvall, Stefan Wager
  • Patent number: 10171678
    Abstract: A method of establishing a communications session for communication of data with respect to a telephony user device and at least one other user device in a data communications network. Communications are conducted with a server system. The communications comprise a client-server connection. Call party details of a telephone call are transmitted to the server system in the communications. The telephone call involves at least the telephony user device, as a first telephony user device involved in the call, and a second telephony user device involved in the call. The call party details including a first identity associated with the first telephony user device and a second identity associated with the second telephony user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: METASWITCH NETWORKS LTD
    Inventors: Chris Mairs, Liz Rice, Philip Pearl, Felix Palmer, David Drysdale, Shaun Crampton
  • Patent number: 10159009
    Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosed approach attempts to provide suitable contention access by an Access Point (AP) to a communications medium shared with a plurality of stations (STAs) by adapting Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) parameters for the AP. Generally, the disclosed approach includes determining a metric value by measuring an amount of access of a medium by a device over a first period of time; and changing, based on the metric value, a contention parameter of the device if a target metric value associated with access of the medium for the device is not achieved while a limit of the contention parameter has not been reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Gwendolyn Denise Barriac, George Cherian
  • Patent number: 10153866
    Abstract: Processing and transmitting transmission frames. A method for processing a transmission frame, includes receiving a transmission frame including a bootstrap portion, a preamble portion, and a payload portion. The boot strap portion of the received transmission frame is processed, by processing circuitry of a reception apparatus, to extract preamble structure information from one of four bootstrap symbols included in the bootstrap portion. The preamble portion of the transmission frame is decoded, by the processing circuitry, based on the extracted preamble structure information. A first one of the four bootstrap symbols is used for synchronization and a last one of the four bootstrap symbols in the bootstrap portion includes the preamble structure information. Further, the preamble structure information indicates a structure of one or more preamble symbols in the preamble portion that follows the last symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Luke Fay, Lachlan Michael, Daniel Schneider, Lothar Stadelmeier, Samuel Atungsiri
  • Patent number: 10149208
    Abstract: A mobile station executed method, wherein upon changing from a current cell to a new cell in a wireless packet data network the mobile station enters the new cell; generates a cell change packet data unit (PDU) message for informing the network of the location of the mobile station in the new cell; buffers the cell change PDU message into a PDU transmit queue before any buffered PDUs that were present before the mobile station entered the new cell; and transmits the buffered cell change PDU before any of the buffered PDUs that were present before the mobile station entered the new cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Conversant Wireless Licensing S.a r.l.
    Inventor: Mika Forssell
  • Patent number: 10135562
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for a scheme of link adaptation (LA) in uplink grant-less random access (RA) communications. The scheme includes changing a modulation and coding (MCS) of a user, instead of using a fixed MCS over time, as the user link, channel, or non-link conditions vary during the RA communications. In an embodiment, a transmission point (TP) receives from a UE a packet encoded using a MCS, and detects a condition associated with uplink measurements or other non-link based condition of the UE. The TP then initiates an upgrade or a downgrade of the MCS in accordance with the condition, and signals the UE indicating a second MCS as a result. The UE thus sends a second packet encoded using the second MCS. In another embodiment, the UE initiates the MCS change in accordance to detecting a link or non-link based condition, such as change of mobility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liqing Zhang, Kelvin Kar Kin Au, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 10136385
    Abstract: Modes on power consumption are suitably set. There is provided an information processing device including a control section. When the information processing device in a first mode transitions to a second mode in which the information processing device consumes power differently than in the first mode, the control section performs control to transmit at least one frame. Upon transmitting the frame, the control section inserts into the frame information for notifying a first device compatible with the second mode that the information processing device will transition to the second mode, and information for causing a second device incompatible with the second mode to suppress transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eisuke Sakai, Yusuke Tanaka, Yuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 10129913
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a method for direct communication between mobile terminals by using GSM carrier frequencies, wherein each carrier frequency transmits TDMA frames with a TDMA frame duration of 4.615 ms and each TDMA frame comprises 8 time slots with a duration of 577 microseconds, with the invention being characterized in that a multiframe is agreed upon by combining multiple TDMA frames, preferably 26 TDMA frames, wherein the involved terminals operate in the simplex mode and always transmit and receive in separate time slots within an agreed TDMA frame of the multiframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventors: Hanan Armoni, Saar Shlapobersky
  • Patent number: 10111256
    Abstract: A communications device to transmit data to a mobile communications network includes one or more network elements providing a wireless access interface for communication. The communications device includes a controller controlling a transmitter to transmit a random access message to a first network element via a random access channel of the wireless access interface common to one or more other communications devices, to receive in response an acknowledgement indicating an allocation of communications resources of a shared up-link channel for the communications device to transmit signals to the mobile communications network, or a negative acknowledgment indicating the communications device has not been allocated communications resources of the shared up-link channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Alexander Martin
  • Patent number: 10102696
    Abstract: An in-vehicle control device includes a recording unit that sequentially records first data transferred through an in-vehicle local network; a data acquisition unit that acquires second data relating to an event from a portion of the first data generated within a first time before occurrence of the event and from another portion of the first data recorded within a second time after occurrence of the event; a generation unit that generates third data when a specified operation or change in state of an occupant occurs by elapse of a third time after occurrence of the event; a first holding unit that holds the second data; a second holding unit that holds the third data; a nonvolatile memory having a first and a second recording regions; and a data control unit that records the second data on the first recording region and the third data on the second recording region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shintaro Iwaasa
  • Patent number: 10095812
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing CAx data may include (1) storing a model of an engineering object as a group of nodes including one or more feature nodes, (2) associating a corresponding transaction history with each feature node, the transaction history indicating one or more states for a feature over time, and (3) determining a state of a selected feature node at a selected point in time by accessing the corresponding transaction history of the selected feature node. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Brigham Young University
    Inventors: Robert Freeman, Kelly Eric Bowman, Charles Greg Jensen, Daniel Staves, Joshua Q. Coburn
  • Patent number: 10098110
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for allocating wireless resources based on a single resource unit in a WLAN. The method for allocating the wireless resources based on a single resource unit in a WLAN may comprise the steps of: an AP scheduling, on a bandwidth, a plurality of wireless resources for communication with a plurality of STAs; and the AP transmitting a plurality of items of downlink data to each of the plurality of STAs through each of the plurality of wireless resources, wherein when resource allocation based on a virtual allocation resource unit is not supported, each of the plurality of wireless resources can include at least one first resource unit only or at least one second resource unit only, wherein the size of the first resource unit can be larger than the size of the second resource unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinsoo Choi, Hangyu Cho, Wookbong Lee
  • Patent number: 10085160
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for receiving neighbor BS information by a mobile station in a wireless communication system. The mobile station receives a neighbor BS information message. It is determined whether operator ID information identifying a network operator of a neighbor BS is not included in the neighbor BS information message. Operator information of the neighbor BS is determined as operator information of a serving BS, if it is determined that the operator ID information is not included in the neighbor BS information message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-Hyung Kim, Hong-Sung Chang, Yong Chang, Geun-Hwi Lim, Jung-Won Kim
  • Patent number: 10075932
    Abstract: A method for matching time synchronization between UEs during Device-to-Device (hereinafter referred to as “D2D”) communication in a radio communication system without involving an Evolved Node B (ENB) is proposed. Using the proposed method, all the UEs can operate to match the time synchronization without malfunction in accordance with a synchronization signal of the ENB even if the UE inside an ENB area and the UE outside the ENB area coexist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd..
    Inventors: Jaehyuk Jang, Kyeongin Jeong
  • Patent number: 10070332
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for measurement reporting and event-triggered periodic measurement reporting in an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) monitors cell-specific reference signals from a serving cell and neighbor cells to detect a reporting event defined for the E-UTRAN. Once a reporting event is detected, the WTRU sends a measurement report to the network. The measurement quantity may be a reference signal received quality (RSRQ). After detection of the reporting event, the WTRU may send event-triggered measurement reports periodically. The WTRU may send a scheduling request to the network for the event-triggered periodic measurement reports. The WTRU may send a termination indication if the event-triggered periodic measurement reports are terminated before a configured number of times. The WTRU may send an extension request if a specified number of periodic reporting has been sent but more reports still need to be sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Wang, Peter S. Wang
  • Patent number: 10056938
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for managing communication between each of the plurality of wireless RF nodes and a base station using frequency hopping over M non-overlapping frequency channels in a wireless network is provided. The communication is carried out according to a time slot schedule comprising M time slot assemblies, each time slot assembly comprising at least one time slot for the base station to transmit, preferably by broadcast, data on a different channel of the M channels, and R time slots, R being an integer equal to or greater than 1, for one or more of the plurality of nodes to transmit data to the base station. The methods described herein enable a point-to-multipoint wireless communication system in an ISM frequency band that can provide a reliable RF data link even in an area that already comprises one or more WLAN networks that operate in the same ISM frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: MAYLAPS B.V.
    Inventors: Mark Six, Bas Jan Emile Van Rens, Henk Jan Ober, Marcel Schaap, Adriaan Klaas Verwoerd
  • Patent number: 10057906
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for generating a signal for low latency in a wireless communication system. The method, according to one embodiment of the present invention, for a communication device generating a situation-reporting signal for low latency and transmitting the signal to a base station in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: generating the situation-reporting signal on the basis of a pre-set, specific situation recognized by the communication device; and transmitting the generated situation-reporting signal to the base station, wherein the situation-reporting signal may be generated so as to have a subcarrier spacing which is a pre-set number of times larger than a subcarrier spacing of a legacy communication system, the pre-set number being an integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Ko, Heejeong Cho, Hyeyoung Choi, Ilmu Byun, Kungmin Park
  • Patent number: 10051505
    Abstract: An electronic messaging device includes a receiver configured to receive a message at one of a first operational frequency and second operational frequency. The messaging device can added to a message distribution group comprising a plurality of existing messaging devices. A test communication can be sent through a coupling to test an operation of the messaging device and confirming the addition of the messaging device to the message distribution group without communicating with the existing messaging devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: American Messaging Services, LLC
    Inventors: John F. Nagel, J. Roy Pottle, Peter C. Barnett, David Andersen, Jamie Gordon Nichol, Sangsoo Kim
  • Patent number: 10044601
    Abstract: A multi-cast multi-poll scheme for BLUETOOTH low energy (BLE) technology to be used by one or more mobile devices within a communication environment is disclosed. A broadcaster communication device comprises a transceiver that is configured to communicate with a plurality of recipient communication devices. The broadcaster communication device further comprises a controller that is configured to transmit a packet to the plurality of recipient communication devices and to receive, at predefined time intervals, responses from the plurality of recipient communication devices according to a pre-negotiated order without transmitting any additional packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Guoxin Xie, Chikan Kwan, Shawn Ding, Jun Guo, Yuan Zhuang
  • Patent number: 10038470
    Abstract: The invention relates to network communication safety, and provides an intelligent socket and an intelligent system. The intelligent socket includes a first control module, and a second control module connected with the first control module. The first control module is configured to receive a data signal, transcode the received data signal, and transmit the transcoded data signal. The second control module is configured to receive a data signal, modulate the data signal, and transmit the modulated data signal. The intelligent socket is configured to achieve communication between a control terminal and a controlled terminal and achieve data transmission, demodulation, transcoding and other functions, thereby reducing the burden on the control terminal, improving the intelligence level of the intelligent socket to a certain extent, and bringing more convenience to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Minwa Auto-Protection (Smart Plug) Technology Co. Limited
    Inventor: Hak Wah Lau
  • Patent number: 10028332
    Abstract: A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes forming a first set of wireless components into a master cluster that provides upper level service functionality to a subset of user devices. The method includes forming a second set of wireless components into a nested cluster that is associated with the master cluster, where the nested cluster provides data transfer to and from the subset of user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Siddhartha Mallik, Jilei Hou, Amir Farajidana, Tingfang Ji