Synchronization Patents (Class 370/350)
  • Patent number: 10721340
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, a device and a computer program for configuring a guard period in Half Duplex Frequency Division Duplex, HD-FDD, operation. According to some aspects, the disclosure relates to a method, performed in a wireless device, of configuring a guard period in HD-FDD operation. The method comprises obtaining a timing advance between the wireless device and an access point; and determining a guard period in the wireless device based on the obtained timing advance and a radio access capability of the wireless device. The disclosure also relates to a wireless device and to a computer program for executing the methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Yufei Blankenship, Johan Bergman, Erik Eriksson
  • Patent number: 10716163
    Abstract: Provided are D2D wireless communication methods and UEs therefor. In one embodiment, the D2D wireless communication method performed by a UE includes continuing D2D transmission by using a resource from a resource pool allocated for mode 2 operation when switching from mode 1 operation to mode 2 operation. In another embodiment, the D2D wireless communication method performed by a UE includes performing D2D transmission by using a resource from a resource pool allocated for mode 2 operation, wherein the resource pool is indicated by a dedicated RRC signaling transmitted by an eNB, a SIB transmitted by an eNB, a PD2DSCH transmitted by other UE(s), and/or pre-configuration, and the dedicated RRC signaling, the SIB, the PD2DSCH and the pre-configuration are in descending order in priority when determining the resource pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Prateek Basu Mallick, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Joachim Loehr, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 10716078
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate a method performed by a first radio-network node (12) for managing signaling in a wireless communication network, the first radio-network node provides radio coverage over a first service area in the wireless communication network. The first radio-network node transmits a first beam reference signal, BRS, in the first service area, which first BRS comprises a number of repetitive sequences of samples, of equal length, over an original time-domain representation of the first BRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Håkan Andersson, Johan Kåredal, Niclas Wiberg, Qiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10708873
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transmitting terminal for transmitting data to a receiving terminal over a direct link connection. The transmitting terminal comprises a receiving unit that receives from the base station a timing command for adjusting an uplink transmission timing value for data transmissions to the base station. A generating unit generates direct link timing information, based on the uplink transmission timing value, the direct link timing information being usable for generating a direct link transmission timing value for determining the timing of the data transmission over the direct link. A transmitting unit transmits to the receiving terminal the generated direct link timing information, the direct link timing information being usable at the receiving terminal for generating a direct link reception timing value for determining the reception timing of data to be received on the direct link from the transmitting terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Joachim Löhr, Prateek Basu Mallick, Michael Einhaus, Sujuan Feng, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 10701714
    Abstract: The present specification relates to a method for efficiently managing a D2D sidelink process using D2D data priority. The method, which is performed by a D2D receiving device, comprising: from a D2D transmitting device, receiving, through a sidelink physical channel, scheduling assignment (SA) including information regarding transmission of D2D data; receiving, from the D2D transmitting device, the D2D data on the basis of the received scheduling assignment (SA); and performing a sidelink process with respect to the received D2D data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seokmin Shin, Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 10694483
    Abstract: A method for performing synchronization by a device in a device to device (D2D) communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a first synchronization signal, and transmitting offset information indicating a time difference between a synchronization reference time of the first synchronization signal and a transmission time of the first synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Hoon Park, Peng Xue, Hyun-Seok Ryu, Cheol Jeong, Hyun-Kyu Yu, Sang-Won Choi
  • Patent number: 10690750
    Abstract: A method of synchronizing a plurality of spatially distributed multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radar systems includes designating one of the plurality of MIMO radar systems that includes a linear frequency modulator as a master MIMO radar system, and designating each of the other plurality of MIMO radar systems as slave MIMO radar systems. Each of the slave MIMO radar systems receives an output of the linear frequency modulator. A synchronization signal is sent from the linear frequency modulator through the modulator splitter to each of the slave MIMO radar systems over respective cables, and a return signal is sent from each of the slave MIMO radar systems to the master MIMO radar system over the respective cables. A time delay is determined between the master MIMO radar system and each of the slave MIMO radar systems based on a frequency difference between the synchronization signal and the respective return signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Igal Bilik, Alexander Pokrass, Shahar Villeval
  • Patent number: 10694395
    Abstract: An overlay of millimeter wave (mmWave)-capable cells are added to a citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) network to provide coverage in a next generation fixed wireless (NGFW) network. The availability of mmWave spectrum, with limited reach, can be utilized as a wireless backhaul for subsequent hops. In one aspect, integrated access front-haul nodes (IAFHNs) that are utilized for mmWave transmissions at a second (and/or subsequent) hop can be deployed with self aligning receivers. Further, the IAFHNs can facilitate adaptive resource allocation scheduling in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) chain. In addition, an interface between macro access points can be enhanced to enable the adaptive resource allocation on the IAB chain. In one aspect, a fixed user equipment (UE) can be configured with dual connectivity (DC) and a network operator can offer different tiers of services based on a location of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Tony Wah-Tung Wong, Spyridon Kapoulas, Rajeev Jayaram
  • Patent number: 10681658
    Abstract: Communication apparatus is disclosed which is suitable for communicating with a mobile communication device in a communication system which uses a plurality of radio frames wherein each radio frame is subdivided in the time domain into a plurality of subframes, each subframe is subdivided in the time domain into a plurality of slots, and each slot is subdivided in the time domain into a plurality of symbols. The communication apparatus operates a communication cell, generates discovery signals, for use in a cell search procedure, each discovery signal comprising a pair of synchronisation signals and a further signal, and transmits each synchronisation signal and the further signal in a respective symbol of a radio frame. The symbol in which the further signal is transmitted separated, in the time domain, by no more than half a radio frame from at least one of said pair of synchronisation signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yassin Aden Awad, Kay Seo
  • Patent number: 10681580
    Abstract: A communication scheme and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) system with an internet of things (IoT) technology, and a method and apparatus therefor are provided. The applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety-related services) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaewon Kim, Seunghoon Park, Jeongho Park, Peng Xue, Hyunkyu Yu, Namjeong Lee
  • Patent number: 10680779
    Abstract: Method for allocating CORESET, method for acquiring CORESET, base station, UE and readable mediums are provided. The method for allocating CORESET includes: configuring time position information of a CORESET, the time position information including: the number of symbols occupied by the CORESET, or the number of symbols occupied by the CORESET and a start position of the CORESET, the symbols including symbols in a numerology used by the CORESET; configuring position information of the CORESET in SFN; transmitting the time position information and the position information to the UE, so that the UE selects the start position of the CORESET based on the time position information and the position information, and a preset table of relation between the number of symbols occupied by the CORESET and the start position of the CORESET. The base station doesn't need to directly indicate the CORESET, which reduces overhead of signaling indicating CORESET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huayu Zhou, Yanan Jia, Shaofei Wang
  • Patent number: 10680700
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques that may enhance radio link failure (RLF) procedures. In some cases, a UE may perform radio link monitoring (RLM) based on reference signals (RS) transmitted using a first set of beams, perform beam failure recovery (BFR) monitoring based on transmissions using a second set of beams, and adjust one or more radio link failure (RLF) parameters based on both the RLM monitoring and the BFR monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kaushik Chakraborty, Tao Luo, Wooseok Nam, Sumeeth Nagaraja, Sony Akkarakaran, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Xiao Feng Wang, Shengbo Chen, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 10674463
    Abstract: A method of receiving a downlink (DL) signal by a user equipment (UE) operating on a frequency band above 6 GHz in a wireless communication system is discussed. The method includes receiving system information including first information related to one or more synchronization signal (SS) and PBCH (SS/PBCH) block groups and second information related to one or more SS/PBCH blocks within each of the one or more of SS/PBCH block groups; and receiving the DL signal in resources other than resources used for the one or more SS/PBCH blocks within each of the one or more of SS/PBCH block groups indicated by the first and second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Ko, Kijun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon, Youngsub Kim, Eunsun Kim
  • Patent number: 10673677
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a single carrier-based data transmission method and apparatus. The method may include generating a frame and sending the frame. A data part of the frame includes 2N data blocks, the 2N data blocks are arranged in a sequence from the first data block to the 2Nth data block. Furthermore, the data block includes a payload part and a guard interval (GI), payload parts of different data blocks are separated by GIs, and a payload part of the 2Nth data block is obtained by multiplying a payload part of the (2n?1)th data block by a phase-shift sequence, where n=1, 2, . . . , N, and N is an integer greater than 0. By using the foregoing manner, data transmission robustness can be improved and data transmission for a longer distance can be supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Wu
  • Patent number: 10673653
    Abstract: A receiver baseband processor and method for performing preamble detection and Time-of-Arrival, ToA, estimation for a single-tone frequency hopping random access preamble. The processor FFT processes a received signal and identifies logical tones. For each logical tone, the processor reads received symbols; determines a ToA estimate; forms a statistic based on the ToA estimate; compares the statistic to a preamble threshold; and when the statistic is greater than or equal to the threshold, determines a preamble is present and utilizes the ToA estimate for a timing advance command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Xingqin Lin, Yi-Pin Eric Wang, Ansuman Adhikary
  • Patent number: 10674377
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an assisting communication device and method, a wireless access node and a method for a wireless access node. The assisting communication device includes: an adjacent access nodes information acquiring unit, configured to detect, based on configuration information from a wireless access node assisted by the assisting communication device, at least one adjacent access node, to acquire working parameters of the adjacent access nodes, the configuration information including an indication about at least one of a detecting type, a detecting object and a detecting result report; and a notification unit, configured to report the acquired working parameters of the adjacent access nodes to the wireless access node assisted by the assisting communication device, to be served as a configuration reference of the wireless access node so as to avoid conflict with the adjacent access nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jinhui Chen, Chen Sun, Xin Guo, Yuxin Wei
  • Patent number: 10673551
    Abstract: A time synchronization method includes, a boundary device of a third-party network side receives a synchronization packet carrying a time synchronization offset and is delivered by a boundary device of an upstream network side on the basis that boundary devices in an entire network are all boundary clock (BC) devices, where the time synchronization offset is a time offset between a time domain of the upstream network and a time domain of the third-party network, and the boundary device of the third-party network side transparently transmits the synchronization packet carrying the time synchronization offset to a boundary device of a downstream network side such that the boundary device of the downstream network side performs time synchronization with the boundary device of the upstream network side according to the time synchronization offset. Thus time synchronization among multiple time domains in a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lizhong Qiao, Yawei Zhang, Huanle Wang, Dejian Xu
  • Patent number: 10665100
    Abstract: An exemplary parking facilitation system includes a plurality of parking space devices disposed at different parking spaces within a parking area and a parking management system configured to control operation of, and to exchange data with, the parking space devices. Each of the parking space devices respectively includes a processor, a vehicle presence detector configured to determine whether any vehicle is parked in a parking space at which the parking space device is disposed, and a parking availability indicator configured to visually indicate an availability status of the parking space. The parking availability indicator is positioned at a height greater than that of any vehicle that the parking space is configured to accommodate so as to be concurrently visible, with parking availability indicators of other parking space devices, from various locations within the parking area at which drivers attempting to locate available parking spaces are to be located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Umesh Saraki Munireddy, Anil Kumar, Alin D'Silva, Alan T. Hopper, Gunjan Desai, Radoslaw Wilk, John R. Canada, Heedoo Moon, Chethan Makam
  • Patent number: 10659273
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a synchronization signal transmission and detection method, transmission end, and receiving end. The synchronization signal transmission method includes: transmitting on M consecutive transmission symbols, a synchronization signal or a part of the synchronization signal, wherein M is an integer not less than 2, the transmission symbols include a cyclic prefix and a useful symbol portion, and the content carried in the cyclic prefix is the content in the last part of the useful symbol. The embodiments of the present invention also provide a computer storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xianghui Han, Shuqiang Xia, Wen Zhang, Bo Dai, Qian Dai, Jing Shi
  • Patent number: 10651913
    Abstract: A base station transmits to a wireless device, a first request to measure synchronization signal(s) of a first cell. The base station receives from the wireless device, measurement report(s) of at least one synchronization signal of the synchronization signal(s). The base station transmits to the wireless device, a second request to measure CSI-RS(s) of the first cell. The base station receives from the wireless device, second measurement report(s) of the CSI-RS(s). The second measurement report(s) are generated in response to the second request. The base station selects first CSI-RS(s) of the CSI-RS(s) based on the second measurement report(s). The base station transmits a downlink control information to the wireless device via one or more control channels. The downlink control information initiates a random access procedure of the first cell. The downlink control information comprises an indication of the first CSI-RS(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 10652070
    Abstract: This application provides a synchronization signal sending method and receiving method, and an apparatus. In the method, a base station determines a frequency domain position of a target frequency resource based on a frequency interval of synchronization channels, wherein the frequency interval of synchronization channels is 2m times a predefined frequency resource of a physical resource block, and m is a preset nonnegative integer. The base station sends a synchronization signal by using the target frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Sun, Zheng Chen, Yan Cheng, Lixia Xue
  • Patent number: 10652846
    Abstract: Cellular (e.g., LTE or UMTS) and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) based technologies can provide ubiquitous and seamless synchronization solution for LTE-based vehicle to everything (V2X) or Proximity Services synchronization (ProSe) services. For example, by using joint GNSS timing references and LTE cellular network timing references for V2X or ProSe system synchronization benefits of using GNSS technologies to improve synchronization procedure for LTE based V2X or ProSe services can be enabled, including: (1) accurate and stable timing, (2) availability of a global and stable timing reference and (3) ability to propagate GNSS timing by user equipment having sufficient GNSS signal quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Inventors: Alexey Khoryaev, Andrey Chervyakov, Sergey Panteleev, Dmitry Belov, Sergey Sosnin
  • Patent number: 10650025
    Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a method and an apparatus for checking and updating data on a client terminal are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: obtaining a presentation time interval between two adjacent presenting actions of target data on the client terminal, and obtaining an update time interval between two adjacent updating actions of the target data on a server; calculating a weighted mean value of the target data based on the presentation time interval and the update time interval, as well as a preset presentation weight and a preset update weight; and determining an update check period of the client terminal for periodically performing an update operation to the target data based on the weighted mean value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU UCWEB COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingqing Guo, Hui Gu
  • Patent number: 10645661
    Abstract: A method in a first network node is disclosed. The method comprises determining a time synchronization level for at least a pair of network nodes, the time synchronization level comprising information about a difference in start time of the radio frames in a downlink or radio subframes in a downlink between the at least a pair of network nodes. The method further comprises adapting one or more discovery reference signal parameters based at least in part on the determined time synchronization level for the at least a pair of network nodes, and transmitting a discovery reference signal using the adapted one or more discovery reference signal parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ali Behravan, Muhammad Kazmi
  • Patent number: 10644867
    Abstract: A wireless communication clock synchronized with a peer electronic device in the network is established at the first electronic device. Interruption signals are generated by the first electronic device synchronously with the peer accordingly. A clock value of a processor of the first electronic device at generating a last interruption signal is recorded by the first electronic device. A synchronization request including the clock value recorded is sent to the peer, to trigger adjusting, by the peer according to a difference between the clock value recorded by the first electronic device and a clock value recorded by the peer, a clock of a processor of the peer electronic device to be synchronized with a clock of the processor of the first electronic device. The clock value recorded by the peer electronic device is the clock value of the processor of the peer electronic device at generating a last interruption signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAONIAO TINGTING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Yan, Penghui Chen, Chongle Wang
  • Patent number: 10638344
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing measurements in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving an indication on measurements based on a discovery signal from a network, and performing measurements only in discovery signal occasions. In another aspect, a user equipment (UE) includes a memory, a transceiver, and a processor coupled to the memory and the transceiver, and configured to control the transceiver to receive an indication on measurements based on the discovery signal from the network, and perform measurements only in discovery signal occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 10638515
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method used in a terminal device, and the associated terminal device. The method comprises: obtaining a pattern for UL transmission to a network device, the pattern being specific to the terminal device and specifying a plurality of time points for transmitting a UL signal to the network device; and transmitting the UL signal to the network device based on the pattern. The present disclosure further relates to a method used in a network device, and the associated network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Zhan Zhang, Gen Li
  • Patent number: 10638438
    Abstract: A synchronization information sending method, a synchronization information receiving method, a base station, and a communications node are provided. The sending method includes: obtaining, by a communications node, a pulse per second PPS; obtaining, by the communications node, a first time T1 based on the PPS; obtaining, by the communications node, a second time T2 based on the subframe; determining, by the communications node, a first time difference TD 1 based on the first time T1 and the second time T2; obtaining, by the communications node, a second time difference TD 2 based on the first time difference TD 1 and the TA. Different base stations use a same pulse per second PPS as a reference to adjust a sending time, a radio frame number, and a subframe number of a subframe, so that the different base stations are synchronized with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Zhang, Mingchao Li, Jiezuo Zhu
  • Patent number: 10638439
    Abstract: A method of receiving a downlink (DL) signal by a user equipment (UE) operating on a frequency band above 6 GHz in a wireless communication system is discussed. The method includes receiving system information including first information related to one or more synchronization signal (SS) and PBCH (SS/PBCH) block groups and second information related to one or more SS/PBCH blocks within each of the one or more of SS/PBCH block groups; and receiving the DL signal in resources other than resources used for the one or more SS/PBCH blocks within each of the one or more of SS/PBCH block groups indicated by the first and second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Ko, Kijun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon, Youngsub Kim, Eunsun Kim
  • Patent number: 10638417
    Abstract: A system in which a device may automatically provision another device with credentials, at the behest of a cloud-based service, based in part on the physical proximity of the device to be provisioned. The provisioning device and the device to be provisioned may use a radio access technology (RAT) with a limited radio range. Account information associated with the device to be provisioned is known to the cloud-based service, which authenticates the device to be provisioned via the device with credentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Omar Abdul Baki, Jin Guo, Thomas Werner Kuehnel, King Shaw
  • Patent number: 10623113
    Abstract: A start of packet detector comprises an input which receives start of packet information. The detector has a first stage which determines if there is a match between a respective subset of received start of packet information with a respective subset of reference start of packet information. The first stage repeats the determining for each of the subsets of received start of packet information and said respective subset of reference start of packet information. An output will provide a start of packet detected output which is dependent on the determining of the first stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Jagruth Prasanna Kumar, Anteneh Alemu Abbo, Gerardus Johannus Jacobus Maria Arnoldussen, Sotir Filipov Ouzounov
  • Patent number: 10623291
    Abstract: An operation method of a first communication node in an Ethernet-based vehicle network includes identifying a link status between the first communication node and each of a plurality of communication nodes included in the vehicle network; receiving a first frame from a second communication node whose link status is normal among the plurality of communication nodes; identifying a first time difference between a local time of the first communication node and a time stamp of the first frame; and determining a synchronization error between the first communication node and the second communication node based on the first time difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kang Woon Seo, Dong Ok Kim, Jin Hwa Yun
  • Patent number: 10623227
    Abstract: The present document relates to a method for transmitting a signal using a long sequence in a wireless communication system. According to the method, a transmission side device transmits a signal using the long sequence comprising a combination of a plurality of sub-subsequences, wherein each of the plurality of sub-subsequences comprises a combination of a plurality of short base sequences, each having a length equal to or shorter than a predetermined length, and sequences obtained by multiplying each of the base sequences by a cover sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Ko, Bonghoe Kim, Byounghoon Kim, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 10608857
    Abstract: This application discloses a reference signal configuration method and apparatus. Before a network device sends reference signals aperiodically, the network device sends configuration information to a terminal device, where the configuration information is used to indicate a timeslot offset of one or more reference signal resource sets. Therefore, the network device can flexibly send reference signals in different timeslots, thereby reducing a quantity of times of reference signal triggering and measurement result reporting, and improving efficiency of a communications system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongzhe Shi, Wei Han, Yi Qin, Jianqin Liu, Peng Jiang
  • Patent number: 10609599
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and computer programs for allocating transmission resources and for a mobile transceiver. An apparatus for a mobile transceiver of a mobile communication system includes a transceiver module to receive control information from a base station transceiver of the mobile communication system and to communicate with another mobile transceiver of the mobile communication system. The apparatus also includes a control module to control the transceiver module. The control module receives information related to a first resource pool and information related to a second resource pool using the transceiver module. The control module also communicates with the other mobile transceiver using the transceiver module using a rateless code to encode data for transmission on resources of the second resource pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Bernd Lehmann, Thorsten Hehn, Jose Pablo Villacis Cobos
  • Patent number: 10609573
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing nodes in mesh networks are provided. A parent node may switch PANs and coordinate the switch with its child nodes. The parent node and its child nodes may maintain timing synchronization information for a current PAN and a new PAN. The parent node and its child nodes may switch to the new PAN using the same switching time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Landis+Gyr Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Scott Hett, Lawrence Harris, Darrell Jefferson, James Patrick Hanley
  • Patent number: 10609663
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to reporting difference in timing between cells using multiple connectivity in a wireless network. A first connection served by at least a first cell and a second connection served by at least a second cell to facilitate communicating with at least the first cell and at least the second cell are established. A reporting configuration specifying one or more parameters related to reporting a timing difference between cells is received. A timing difference between at least the first cell and at least the second cell is determined, and the timing difference is reported to at least the first cell over the first connection or to at least the second cell over the second connection. This can facilitate scheduling time aligned operations over the first and second cells, or related cell groups, in multiple connectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Madhavan Srinivasan Vajapeyam, Masato Kitazoe, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari
  • Patent number: 10609662
    Abstract: This specification relates to an apparatus and method for performing random access in a wireless communication system. This specification discloses a mobile station, including a reception unit for receiving TAG configuration information on which at least one serving cell configured in the mobile station is classified as a Timing Alignment Group (TAG) from a base station and a transmission unit for transmitting a random access preamble to the base station on one representative serving cell within the TAG. In accordance with this specification, a procedure of obtaining a TAV for a serving cell in order to secure and maintain uplink timing synchronization becomes clear, the time taken to obtain uplink synchronization for a serving cell may be reduced, and overhead due to excessive random access attempts may be reduced by obtaining a TAV for a plurality of serving cells through one random access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ki Bum Kwon, Myung Cheul Jung, Jae Hyun Ahn
  • Patent number: 10601253
    Abstract: A communication method of a wireless power receiver performing communication with a wireless power transmitter through a plurality of slots, the method includes receiving allocation of any one of the plurality of slots from the wireless power transmitter, receiving provision of at least one of the plurality of slots from the wireless power transmitter as locked slots subsequent to the allocation, and transmitting information associated with a configuration phase and information associated with a negotiation phase to the wireless power transmitter within the locked slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yongcheol Park, Hyunbeom Lee
  • Patent number: 10594423
    Abstract: Techniques are described to provide for re-timing a packetized radio flow to clean noise induced by packet delay variation of a packet network. In one example, a method includes receiving, at a first node of a fronthaul network, a Radio over Ethernet (RoE) frame transmitted by a second node in which the RoE frame comprises a Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) bit stream associated with a first radio device, a sequence number, and a first time stamp. The method may further include generating a second time stamp by the first node upon obtaining the RoE frame; calculating an induced delay value based, at least in part, on the first time stamp and the second time stamp; calculating a re-timing value based on a re-timing interval and the induced delay value; and transmitting the CPRI bit stream to a second radio device based on the re-timing value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Prashant Anand, Sudhir Kayamkulangara, Dinuraj K, Manigandan Boopalan, Manoj Kumar
  • Patent number: 10592133
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes for managing raw device mapping during disaster recovery. A raw device mapping (RDM) file operation is assigned to a virtual device associated with a virtual machine that is replicated from a premise site. A determination is made that a RDM file associated with the virtual device is invalid or is not replicated after the virtual machine is replicated to a target site. Based on the determination that the RDM file is invalid or is not replicated, the virtual device is removed from the virtual machine and the assigned RDM file operation is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: VERITAS TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Sujay Bothe, Aditya Deshpande
  • Patent number: 10588156
    Abstract: Enhanced random access procedures for link-budget-limited user equipment (UE) devices are disclosed. A user equipment device may transmit a first message containing a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH). The PRACH contains instances of a Zadoff-Chu sequence, and may be transmitted repeatedly as part of a single random attempt, to facilitate correlation data combining at the base station. The available Zadoff-Chu sequences may be partitioned among a plurality of sets, each set being associated with a respective Doppler shift range (or frequency hop pattern or time repetition pattern). A UE device may signal Doppler shift (or other information) to the base station by selection of one of the sets. The first PRACH transmission and the following PRACH transmission may occur in consecutive subframes. A UE device may select from a special set of Zadoff-Chu sequences (different from a conventional set of sequences), to signal its status as a link-budget-limited device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Youngjae Kim, Syed Aon Mujtaba
  • Patent number: 10582543
    Abstract: This application provides a random access method, a terminal, and a network device. The random access method includes: determining, by a terminal, whether a resource used for random access conflicts with a resource used for receiving a downlink signal; and if the resource used for the random access conflicts with the resource used for the downlink signal, preferentially using the conflicting random access resource for receiving the downlink signal but not for the random access. This avoids a conflict between receiving of the downlink signal and sending of an uplink random access preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huang Huang, Mao Yan, Kuandong Gao
  • Patent number: 10581731
    Abstract: A method for transmitting control commands in a system (100) of units (L1-L18) in a distributed arrangement, for example in a lighting system having luminaires in a distributed arrangement, involves at least some of the units (L1-L18) sending a received control command again in order to ensure that the control command is forwarded to all units (L1-L18). The control command contains a piece of information regarding an already past command transmission time, wherein each unit (L1-L18) takes the command transmission time that a received command contains as a basis for determining an individual waiting time (TTLind), after the expiry of which the command is executed by the unit (L1-L18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: ZUMTOBEL LIGHTING GMBH
    Inventors: Gerd Zeidler, Nuno Lourenco
  • Patent number: 10567197
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a first wireless bridge device, a first packet and determining whether the first packet is a first type or a second type. If the first packet is the first type, the first packet is duplicated to generate two duplicated packets. A first one of the duplicated packets is forwarded to a second wireless bridge device via a tunnel between the first wireless bridge device and the second wireless bridge device. A second one of the duplicated packets is forwarded to one or more access points via a first wireless link between the first wireless bridge device and the one or more access points. If the first packet is the second type, the first packet is forwarded to the second wireless bridge device via the tunnel or forwarding the first packet to the one or more access points via the first wireless link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Yu, Xiang Fang
  • Patent number: 10568102
    Abstract: A base station may determine an SS block index associated with an SS block for transmission, and may scramble information based on at least a portion of the determined SS block index. The information may include at least one of a reference signal, data, paging information, control information, broadcast information, or a CRC associated with control information. The base station may transmit the SS block and scrambled information to a UE. A UE may receive an SS block and information scrambled based on at least a portion of an SS block index associated with the SS block. The information may include at least one of a reference signal, data, paging information, control information, broadcast information, or a CRC associated with control information. The UE may descramble the scrambled information based on the at least the portion of the SS block index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 10567286
    Abstract: Improvements may be made for the congestion control considering different technologies, types of radio resources, and priorities of different packets. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE determines an energy-based channel busy ratio (CBR) based on a number of probes on a set of radio resources having respective energy levels greater than an energy threshold. The UE performs congestion control based on the energy-based CBR by adjusting at least one transmission parameter of one or more transmission parameters or transmission power of the UE based on the energy-based CBR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Gulati, Gaurav Gupta, Shailesh Patil, Marco Papaleo
  • Patent number: 10567214
    Abstract: Communication circuitry, comprising: N communication nodes being clock-candidate nodes, where N?2; N communication units for communication using respective communication protocols, and connected or connectable to receive respective clock signals for communication under their respective communication protocols via respective said clock-candidate nodes; and a control unit configured, in a decision operation, to monitor the clock-candidate nodes and decide which of the communication protocols is in use dependent on at which of the clock-candidate nodes a received clock signal is detected, wherein at least one said communication unit is connected or connectable to receive and/or transmit data under its respective communication protocol via at least one said clock-candidate node other than the clock-candidate node via which that communication unit is to receive its respective clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Alastair Mark Boomer, Erich Paul Zwyssig, Gavin Alexander Waite, Willem Zwart
  • Patent number: 10567035
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for distribution of time synchronization information to ultra-wide-band (UWB) devices are disclosed. A system includes anchors and tags having synchronized timing systems. The system includes a site master configured for transmitting a first time-synchronization message to at least a first anchor. The first anchor is configured for distributing time synchronization information to at least a second anchor by transmitting a first UWB message during an assigned time slot for the first anchor. The first UWB message includes timing information based on the first time-synchronization message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Clairvoyant Networks, LLC
    Inventor: Tadd Christian Torborg
  • Patent number: 10558400
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus setting device, including: a display; a communicator that communicates with a first electronic apparatus and a second electronic apparatus; a controller that receives an operation for the Web panel of the first electronic apparatus, and that receives an instruction for selecting the second electronic apparatus as an apparatus to be set; and a hardware processor that: sets the first electronic apparatus in accordance with a content of the operation; and prepares setting information for carrying out a setting of the second electronic apparatus with a content which is same as the content of the operation, in accordance with the content of the operation when the controller receives the instruction for selecting the second electronic apparatus as the apparatus to be set, wherein the hardware processor carries out the setting of the second electronic apparatus in accordance with the prepared setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masao Akimoto