Zoned Or Cellular Telephone System Patents (Class 455/422.1)
  • Patent number: 12160295
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) indication that indicates a set of resources corresponding to a CSI-RS that is scheduled to be transmitted to the UE. The UE may transmit, after receiving the CSI-RS indication, a UE identification message corresponding to a random access channel operation, wherein the UE identification message includes CSI feedback corresponding to the CSI-RS. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12156053
    Abstract: A wireless performance evaluation method for performing wireless performance evaluation of a wireless network including wireless base stations and wireless terminal stations includes: before performing wireless performance evaluation operation based on wireless performance evaluation information generated from wireless performance evaluation conditions, determining whether an existing wireless performance evaluation result of wireless performance evaluation operation that has been performed is substitutable or not; and if the existing wireless performance evaluation result is substitutable, skipping arithmetic processing corresponding to the wireless performance evaluation information and substituting the existing wireless performance evaluation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Shoko Shinohara, Hirantha Abeysekera, Yasuhiko Inoue, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 12156233
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for downlink resource allocation associated with a shared frequency band. A WTRU may receive resource allocation information associated with a component carrier and at least one carrier segment. The component carrier and the least one carrier segment may each comprise a plurality of resource block groups (RBG). At least two bitmaps may be associated with the resource allocation information. A size of a resource block group (RBG) of the component carrier and the at least one carrier segment may be based on a combined number of resource blocks (RB) of the component carrier and the one or more carrier segments divided by a 3GPP Rel-8/Rel-10 RBG size of the component carrier. The WTRU may determine at least one RBG allocated to the WTRU using the resource allocation information and may receive and decode the at least one RBG allocated to the WTRU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Sung-Hyuk Shin, Chang-Soo Koo, Ghyslain Pelletier, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Marian Rudolf, Nobuyuki Tamaki, Allan Y. Tsai, Pouriya Sadeghi
  • Patent number: 12150044
    Abstract: A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for operating an access and mobility management function (AMF) node for selecting a session management function (SMF) node. The method may comprise the steps of receiving a first message including application function (AF) request information from an AF node; selecting or reselecting an SMF on the basis of the AF request information; and transmitting a second message including the AF request information to the selected or reselected SMF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Hyunsook Kim
  • Patent number: 12150088
    Abstract: Proposed is a method of operating a first terminal in a wireless communication system. The method may comprise: a step for transmitting a first PRS to a second terminal; a step for receiving a second PRS from the second terminal; a step for receiving a first time difference from the second terminal; and a step for determining a location of the first terminal on the basis of the first time difference and a second time difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woosuk Ko, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 12143962
    Abstract: A method of performing a paging reception and a UE using the same are provided. The method includes: receiving a paging message, wherein the paging message comprises a first list; determining whether a UE identity of the UE included in the first list; determining whether a paging cause corresponding to the UE identity indicated by a second list of the paging message after determining that the UE identity included in the first list; and forwarding the paging cause to an upper layer of the UE in response to the paging cause being indicated by the second list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hung-Chen Chen, Mei-Ju Shih, Yung-Lan Tseng
  • Patent number: 12126425
    Abstract: A system includes control circuitry that obtains data from a repeater device of a network of repeater devices. One or more passive reflectors present in a geographical area are detected based on the obtained data. A plurality of signal propagation indicators is determined using the one or more passive reflectors, where the plurality of signal propagation indicators indicate areas and directions with no signal propagation issues, and where the plurality of signal propagation indicators is marked in a three-dimensional representation of the geographical area. The location and movement of a plurality of user devices is tracked and a beamforming scheme is selected for one or more repeater devices based on the movement. An out-of-band control of operations of the network of repeater devices is executed based on the marked signal propagation indicators, the selected beamforming scheme, and the tracked location and movement of the plurality of user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: AR &NS Investment, LLC
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Arman Rofougaran, Alireza Tarighat Mehrabani
  • Patent number: 12127118
    Abstract: Various aspects provide a radiohead circuit and a communication device including the radiohead circuit. In an example, the radiohead circuit includes an antenna interface, a radio frequency front end configured to receive a channel scan information including an information related to a target communication channel to be scanned from a communication device processor, perform an energy scan for detecting an activity of the target communication channel based on the channel scan information, generate an activity information including an information as to whether there is the activity on the target communication channel, and provide the activity information to a communication interface; the communication interface configured to couple the processor to a radiohead circuit-external processor external to the radiohead circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ofir Klein, Leor Rom, Eran Segev, Eran Amir, Nevo Idan, Chen Kojokaro
  • Patent number: 12106756
    Abstract: An interaction apparatus 10 includes an acquiring unit 13 for acquiring a system message, a setting unit 14 for setting a wait time for receiving an answer from a user based on the system message, a measuring unit 16 for measuring an elapsed time after the system message is output to the user, a user utterance acquiring unit 15 for acquiring a user utterance, and a controller 17 for controlling an interaction with the user so that an additional action corresponding to the system message is output to the user. The measuring unit 16 determines whether or not to subtract the elapsed time, based on the system message and the user utterance, when the user utterance not corresponding to the answer to the system message is acquired by the user utterance acquiring unit 15 after the system message is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Go Tanaka, Yutaro Shiramizu
  • Patent number: 12099133
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present disclosure, a method is provided for managing an AP position for an access point. In the method, a magnetic distribution map is obtained for an indoor area, the magnetic distribution map representing a plurality of reference magnetic values that are collected at a plurality of reference positions in the indoor area. A plurality of magnetic measurements are received, here the plurality of magnetic measurements are respectively collected at a plurality of access point (AP) positions at which a plurality of APs are deployed within the indoor area, and the plurality of AP positions are unknown. The plurality of AP positions are mapped to a portion of the plurality of reference positions based on the plurality of magnetic measurements and the plurality of reference magnetic values. The plurality of AP positions are determined based on the portion of the plurality of reference positions. Therefore, AP positions may be determined accurately and effectively in an indoor environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Jianpo Han, Jiguang Zheng, Kuanyue Li
  • Patent number: 12096245
    Abstract: A mobile wireless communication user equipment device (mobile device) transmits, to a base station, a log size of an available Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) log. In at least one example, the log size is included as part of a log availability indicator indicating the availability of the MDT log. The base station determines whether to retrieve the MDT log based at least partially on the log size. In addition, the mobile device can send MDT data type indicator indicative of at least one type of data logged during the MDT where the base station can further base the decision on whether to retrieve the MDT log on the MDT data type indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Henry Chang, Masato Fujishiro
  • Patent number: 12096325
    Abstract: This Application sets forth techniques for managing subscriber identity module (SIM) toolkit (STK) scheduling for multiple enabled electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) profiles on an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) of a wireless device, including managing multiple STK sessions at a baseband processor external to the eUICC of the wireless device. To forestall STK communication for different eSIMs from interfering with execution of processes associated with the eSIMs, a baseband processor can schedule STK sessions to avoid overlap and reduce opportunities for errors in handling eSIM processes. The baseband processor can prioritize whether to queue commands for a second STK session for a second eSIM until a first STK session for a first eSIM ends or to terminate the first STK session to handle the second STK session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Li Li, Rajeev Verma, Dennis D. Conway
  • Patent number: 12096292
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure discloses a system, a data transmission method and a network equipment supporting a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) duplication function. The data transmission method supporting a PDCP duplication function comprises the steps of: transmitting, by a first network equipment, a configuration instruction message of a radio bearer supporting a PDCP duplication function to a second network equipment; and, performing, by the first network equipment and the second network equipment, transmission of a data packet of the radio bearer configured with the PDCP duplication function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weiwei Wang, Lixiang Xu, Xiaowan Ke, Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 12082078
    Abstract: A method, by a control node, for MBMS bearer handling comprises activating and announcing a first MBMS bearer for supporting floor control in a group call to client nodes of the group call. The method additionally includes activating and announcing at least one second MBMS bearer for supporting media transmission in the group call. The floor control and the media transmission are supported on separate MBMS bearers for the group call. A method, by a client node for MBMS bearer handling comprises obtaining a broadcast service announcement of a first MBMS bearer for supporting floor control in a group call from a control node of the group call. The method additionally includes obtaining a broadcast service announcement of at least one second MBMS bearer for supporting media transmission in the group call from the control node. The floor control and the media transmission are supported on separate MBMS bearers for the group call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Joakim Åkesson, Magnus Tränk
  • Patent number: 12081697
    Abstract: An example method of operation may include one or more of identifying an inbound call intended for a mobile device subscribed to a protected carrier network, determining the inbound call is assigned an origination telephone number that is subscribed to the protected carrier network, determining whether an inbound call origination source location indicates the protected carrier network or an out-of-network carrier network based on one or more call parameters received with the inbound call, and determining whether to transmit an indication to the mobile device that the inbound call has an elevated likelihood of being a scam call based on the inbound call origination source location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.
    Inventors: Robert Francis Piscopo, Jr., Jefferson D. Stalnaker
  • Patent number: 12081461
    Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, user equipment (UE) comprising circuitry to connect to a network via a serving cell; and indicate to the network a measurement gap capability of the UE. The measurement gap capability includes information if the UE supports a carrier aggregation (CA) specific measurement gap and if the UE has two or more radio-frequency (RF) chains. The UE then receives a CA specific measurement gap configuration from the network for the two or more RF chains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Candy Yiu, Hong He, Yang Tang, Youn Hyoung Heo
  • Patent number: 12082129
    Abstract: Maintaining time alignment with multiple carriers is contemplated. A group of uplink carriers (UL CC sets) that operate with a single Timing Advance (TA) may be determined, and a TA value may be applied to a specific UL CC set. A wireless transmit/receive unit's (WTRU) capability of using multiple TAs may define a group index of a few bits for each UL CC set. A TA Command received in a Random Access Response message may be used to apply the TA value to each UL carrier of the UL CC set. The WTRU may determine which UL CC set the TA value applies to based on which DL carrier the command was transmitted from. The WTRU may determine which UL CC set the TA value applies to based on the Group Index being explicitly provided in the command. The WTRU may release multi-CC configurations upon Time Alignment Timer (TAT) expiry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Marinier, Bhaskar M. Anepu, Ghyslain Pelletier, Robert L. Olesen
  • Patent number: 12081390
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may transmit, to a wireless device, one or more radio resource control messages comprising parameters for a discontinuous reception operation and one or more beam procedures. The wireless device may monitor, based on one or more of the parameters, a downlink control channel for downlink control information (DCI). After detecting the DCI, the wireless device may communicate one or more packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 12075452
    Abstract: A framework for dynamic network resource allocation and energy saving based on the real-time environment, radio network information, and machine learning (ML) can be utilized via a radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (RIC). Real-time and predicted network utilization can facilitate resource and energy savings by leveraging the RIC platform. For example, a network information base (NIB) in the RIC platform can collects RAN and user equipment (UE) resource related information in real time and provides the abstraction of the access network in the real time. ML can predict real-time information about the UEs at time t based on data analytics and real time radio resource needs. The RIC can then instruct the network to reduce or increase resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Sangar Dowlatkhah, Paul Smith, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12075265
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for an incentive and measurement coordination function in a mobile communications network cooperating with a gaming server, advertisement server or similar node or function to attract smartphone users, or users of other devices, to geographical areas where there is a need for coverage measurements. In particular, user equipments may be directed or steered towards areas where network related measurements are necessary (e.g. RSRP) and which are relevant e.g. for network planning. In this manner, an operator may reduce the amount of, or completely eliminate, drive tests (minimization of drive tests, MDT). Users may get incentives (e.g. vouchers, prizes, etc.) in order to move to areas where such measurements are necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Joakim Axmon, Esther Sienkiewicz
  • Patent number: 12069699
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit an encoded transmission via a broadcast to multiple user equipment (UE). Subsequently, the multiple UEs may transmit assistance information to the base station based on attempting to decode the broadcasted encoded transmission. If the decoding is unsuccessful for at least one UE, the base station may then transmit an additional encoded transmission via a unicast or multicast message to the UEs that were unsuccessful. Additionally, the base station may transmit configuration information for the multiple UEs to receive the encoded transmissions and to transmit the assistance information. For example, the configuration information may include portion information for how long the encoded transmission is transmitted via the broadcast, via the unicast, when to transmit the assistance information, etc. In some cases, the configuration information may be based on UE metrics of the multiple UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Liangming Wu, Kangqi Liu, Changlong Xu, Jian Li, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 12069718
    Abstract: A network node (206) and a method for transmitting uplink grants to a communications device (208), wherein the communications device operates in a service area (206a) served by the network node. The network node determines, based on a load measure on a Physical Random Access Channel, PRACH, between the network node and the communications device in relation to a load threshold, a number of uplink grants that are to be associated with a Random Access Preamble Identity, RAPID, of a PRACH preamble transmission received from the communications device. Further, the network node indicates the determined number to the communications device; and transmits the determined number of uplink grants to the communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jan Christoffersson, Min Wang, Mats Folke
  • Patent number: 12063092
    Abstract: This application discloses an interface parameter update method, comprising: a multi-link (ML) device, based on a status change of each of a plurality of network interfaces comprised in the ML device, updates parameters of enabled network interfaces in the plurality of network interfaces, wherein the parameters comprise at least one of capability information or an operation parameter, the plurality of network interfaces work on different frequency bands, and the plurality of network interfaces share antennas configured in the ML device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guogang Huang, Yuchen Guo, Ming Gan, Yunbo Li
  • Patent number: 12063530
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method in a wireless device for measurement reporting comprises: receiving an instruction to perform measurement reporting for a neighbor cell: determining, based at least on a radio access technology (RAT) of the neighbor cell and a frequency range of the neighbor cell, a measurement reporting timer value for performing the measurement reporting; and measuring a radio signal of the neighbor cell during the time specified by the determined measurement reporting timer value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Reza Moosavi, Icaro L. J. Da Silva, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Pradeepa Ramachandra
  • Patent number: 12047820
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling whether a user equipment device (UE) that is not connected with an access node will connect with the access node. An example method includes making a determination of whether the access node has experienced a threshold high extent of secondary-node-addition failures, each secondary-node addition failure being an instance where the access node attempted secondary-node-addition for dual-connectivity service and the attempted secondary-node-addition failed. And the example method includes using the determination as a basis to control whether the UE that is not connected with the access node will connect with the access node. Without limitation, this example method could be carried out by the UE when the UE is seeking to acquire initial wireless connectivity or considering handover to the access node, or the method could be carried out by a source access node considering handover of the UE to the access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 12038474
    Abstract: An electronic instrument is described. The electronic instrument includes a transmitter circuit, wherein the transmitter circuit is configured to transmit a test signal to a device under test. The electronic instrument further includes a receiver circuit, wherein the receiver circuit is configured to receive an output signal from the device under test. The electronic instrument further includes a processing circuit, wherein the processing circuit is configured to determine at least one signal quality indicator based on the output signal received from the device under test. The at least one signal quality indicator is indicative of a signal quality of the output signal. Further, a signal analysis method of analyzing a signal received from a device under test is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sebastian Petzsch, Michael Boehme
  • Patent number: 12041565
    Abstract: A device for transmitting synchronization information, where the device is configured to determine whether the device should operate as a synchronization reference, and, in response to determining that the device shall operate as a synchronization reference, transmit synchronization information using a spatial filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mario Castaneda, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Zhongfeng Li
  • Patent number: 12041540
    Abstract: Various aspects provide a radiohead circuit and a communication device including the radiohead circuit. In an example, the radiohead circuit includes an antenna interface, a radio frequency front end configured to receive a wireless communication signal via the antenna interface, and a processor configured to perform an initial signal detection to detect if a wireless communication signal has been received based on whether a signal the processor received from the radio frequency front end fulfill a predefined radiohead circuit detection criterion, generate an initial signal detection information comprising an information as to whether the wireless communication signal has been received based on the initial signal detection; and provide the initial signal detection information to a communication interface for a final signal detection; the communication interface configured to couple the processor to a radiohead circuit-external processor external to the radiohead circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Avishay Friedman, Hagay Barel, Ehud Reshef, Eytan Mann, Ofir Klein
  • Patent number: 12039096
    Abstract: A glasses-type wearable device providing an augmented reality guide and a method for controlling the same is provided. The glasses-type wearable device includes a communication circuit, a camera, and a processor configured to receive a second surrounding-image of an external electronic device connected with the glasses-type wearable device from the external electronic device through the communication module while obtaining a first surrounding-image of the glasses-type wearable device using the camera, identify a first task being performed by a user of the glasses-type wearable device using the first surrounding-image and a second task being performed by a user of the external electronic device using the second surrounding-image, identify a difference between a current progress status of the first task and second task, and control the communication circuit to provide an AR guide corresponding to the second task to the external electronic device, based on the identified difference in progress status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Boosun Shin, Sungman Kim, Leebin Kim, Jieun Kim, Hyunjung Kim, Boram Lee, Jaemin Jung, Ahreum Han
  • Patent number: 12035410
    Abstract: A communication system is presented in which a base station operates a first cell using a first component carrier and a second cell using a second component carrier. A control channel and reference signals of a first type are provided using the first component carrier. The control channel and the reference signals of the first type are not provided, and reference signals of a second type are provided, using the second component carrier. The base station determines from results of measurements performed on reference signals of the second type whether or not the mobile communication device is within an area covered by said second cell and, if it is, transmits cell configuration information to the mobile communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Yassin Aden Awad
  • Patent number: 12010716
    Abstract: A user equipment for a mobile telecommunications network has a circuitry which is configured to: receive a signal from an entity of a mobile telecommunications network, thereby determining identity information about the determined entity; and transmit the identity information to the mobile telecommunications network for interferences analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Brian Alexander Martin, Yuxin Wei, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 12010607
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus for creating coverage zones (CZs) at a Citizens Broadband Radio Service Device (CBSD) nodes where each CZ is defined by a respective Physical layer Cell Identity (PCI), and each CZ is allocated a respective time slot having a duration selected in accordance with a type of wireless device (WD) to be supported by the CZ, and each CZ communicates during its respective time slot via some or all of the antennas or antenna sections (e.g., coverage areas or sections S1-S3) of the node such that the node communicates with different types of WD in a time-interleaved manner via some or all of the coverage areas associated with the node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: Volkan Sevindik, Haider Syed
  • Patent number: 12004241
    Abstract: A private network is flexibly built while ensuring physical or logical separation from a public network. A base station device notifies system information including a first identifier corresponding to a communication network (for example, PLMN) in an identifier list. In that state, a second identifier used locally is added to the identifier list of the system information according to control information from a control device. Thereafter, notification of the system information including the first and second identifiers in the identifier list is started. Therefore, the private network is built.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 12001600
    Abstract: Service for a machine such as a laboratory instrument can be facilitated by capture of images showing the field of view of a user of the machine, and modification of those images to remove confidential information. Modified images can then be provided to service technicians so that the service technicians can have visual information that would allow them to more effectively communicate and interact with the machines' users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Beckman Coulter, Inc.
    Inventors: Darshan Harish Baldev, Rebecca Jean Busacker, Jon Pallage Lindquist, Jr., Takayuki Mizutani, Benjamin Robert Nelson, Cody Joseph Precord
  • Patent number: 11997743
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of mobile communications, and discloses a state transition method, apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The state transition method is applied to a relay terminal, the relay terminal is connected to an access network device, the relay terminal is connected to at least one communication terminal, and the communication terminal is connected to the access network device through the relay terminal, the method includes: receiving a first control message sent by the access network device, where the first control message is sent by the access network device in a case of determining that all communication terminals connected to the access network device through the relay terminal have left a connection state with the access network device; based on the first control message, leaving a connection state with the access network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Yali Guo, Qianxi Lu, Haorui Yang
  • Patent number: 11993280
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. A method for controlling an autonomous vehicle including a baseband modem and a plurality of distributed antennas includes applying an initial clock of the baseband modem to clocks of the plurality of distributed antennas, receiving base station data from an external base station via the plurality of distributed antennas to which the initial clock is applied, and synchronizing a clock of the baseband modem with a clock of the base station based on the base station data, and thus can achieve low cost design using a data clock recovery. The autonomous vehicle, a user terminal, and a server can be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, devices related to 3G, 4G, 5G and/6G services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jeongin Kim, Dongsun Lee, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 11997040
    Abstract: A network device such as an evolved NodeB (eNB) or next generation NodeB (gNB) can configure a set of user equipment (UE) for cell reference signal (CRS) muting in order to provide better channel quality and power efficiency in communications. Where an eNB mutes CRS transmissions that are not needed by any UE, an improvement in downlink throughput and reduce connection drop rate can be generated. A CRS muting capability can be determined based on a user equipment (UE) capability information. According to the CRS muting capability of a UE, the CRS can be transmitted at frequency locations based on CRS muting configuration parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiaoyang Ye, Debdeep Chatterjee, Salvatore Talarico
  • Patent number: 11991542
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit configured to determine a resource, which is expected to be used for interference beam measurement and which is used for sending a reference signal, of a neighbor cell, wherein the interference beam measurement is used for measuring the degree of interference of a transmitted beam of the neighbor cell in a serving cell; report a resource indicator of the determined resource to a base station of the serving cell; and execute interference beam measurement on the basis of configuration information from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jianfei Cao
  • Patent number: 11985546
    Abstract: A method performed by a wireless communications device for accessing an unlicensed radio frequency band. The wireless communications device is configured to operate in the unlicensed radio frequency band. The unlicensed radio frequency band comprises a plurality of radio frequency bandwidth parts and is used by a wireless communications network comprising a network node. The wireless communications device receives, from the network node, an indication enabling the wireless communications device to make a prioritization among the plurality of radio frequency bandwidth parts. The wireless communications device accesses the unlicensed radio frequency band in accordance with the prioritization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Rickard Ljung
  • Patent number: 11984010
    Abstract: A wearable medical device (e.g., wearable drug delivery pump) sends a request to another device for generation of an audible or vibratory notification at the other device, which is helpful when the wearable medical device is obscured by a user's clothing or the user is vision or hearing impaired. The other device receiving the request to generate a notification can be a remote controller or smartphone paired with the wearable medical device, or a smart watch or a Bluetooth (BT)-enabled headset or other device paired with the remote controller. The wearable medical device is configured with a BT stack that allows the device to pair with its controller in a secure bonded relationship, but to send signals requiring less security (e.g., requests for generation of notifications) to other devices (e.g., a BT-enabled headset or smart watch) using a more ubiquitous wireless protocol such as a standard BT protocol with broadcast mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Revathy Arumugam, Ganesh Thirugnana Sambanthamoorthy
  • Patent number: 11985623
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for positioning in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for positioning includes receiving by a terminal from a base station a SIB1 comprising a first scheduling information and a second scheduling information, acquiring a SI based at least in part on the first scheduling information and the second scheduling information, transmitting to a LMF a RequestAssistanceData including an identifier related to the PRS data, receiving from the LMF a ProvideAssistanceData the ProvideAssistanceData includes a first PRS data and transmitting to the LMF a ProvideLocationInformation the ProvideLocationInformation comprises a first identifier related to the first PRS data and a time difference between one or more Transmission Reception Points (TRPs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: BLACKPIN INC.
    Inventor: Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11985530
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for performing body proximity sensing operations based on uplink or measurement gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11968064
    Abstract: Introduced here is at least one technique to better estimate interference at a receiver. The technique includes receiving a plurality of reference signals, which each have information indicative of noise. Thus, the technique further includes, for each reference signal, determining a noise estimation and determining a distance metric and log-likelihood ratio (LLR) of the noise estimation. Once the distance metric and LLR of each reference signal is determined, the receiver can determine a final LLR based on the distance metric and LLR of each reference signal. In this manner, a final LLR is determined. This technique can be applied by any device operating on MIMO technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ZEKU TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Gu, Chengzhi Li, Hang Zhou, Bin Liu
  • Patent number: 11968148
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a terminal configured to receive information about one or more periodic uplink resources for transmission of HARQ-ACK information for multicast data, monitor a PDCCH in a search space for multicast configured on a specific downlink frequency resource, and detect DCI having a CRC scrambled with a G-RNTI. On a basis that the DCI indicates a specific index, and at least one of the one or more periodic uplink resources is associated with the specific index indicated by the DCI, the terminal may transmit an activation confirmation message to activate the at least one periodic uplink resource associated with the specific index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim, Joonkui Ahn
  • Patent number: 11963096
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a communication apparatus and a communication system allowing distribution of loads on a communication apparatus that manages Internet connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeru Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11963095
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Methods and systems for handling network slice admission control for User Equipment (UE) are provided. The disclosure relates to network slicing and more particularly, to a system and method of ensuring that a communication system is able to accurately enforce quota on the maximum number of UEs concurrently registering for a network slice defined by a Single Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (S-NSSAI). The disclosure describes how the limits of “Number of Terminals” configured for an S-NSSAI may be accurately maintained in a Network Slice Admission Control Function (NSACF), and thus the enforcement may be performed when the limit is really exhausted. The disclosure also describes that a deregistration notification from a Unified Data Management (UDM) may act as a trigger for an old Mobility Management Function (AMF) to decrement counts in the NSACF as the old AMF is no longer serving the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Varini Gupta, Ashok Kumar Nayak, Danish Ehsan Hashmi, Hoyeon Lee, Lalith Kumar
  • Patent number: 11948392
    Abstract: An activity recording system is provided. The activity recording system includes a three-dimensional camera, a sensor arrangement that is fitted to a subject being recorded, and an activity recording device. The activity recording device receives image information from the three-dimensional camera and sensor arrangement information from the sensor arrangement. Both the image information and the sensor arrangement information include location measurements. The sensor arrangement information is generated by location sensors that are positioned at target features of the subject to be tracked. The sensor arrangement information is a key to the image information that specifies where, in any given image, the target features of the subject lie. Activity data having these characteristics may be applied to solve a variety of system development problems. Such activity data can be used to training machine learning components or test computer vision components for a fraction of the cost of using conventional techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Amit Bleiweiss
  • Patent number: 11949741
    Abstract: A device control method, a server, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include, determining, in response to a receiving of a control instruction for controlling a target device, a target protocol model corresponding to the target device according to a device identifier of the target device and the control instruction, in which, the target protocol model is a model pre-established according to a communication protocol supported by the target device; and sending a first control parameter corresponding to the control instruction in the target protocol model to the target device, to instruct the target device to perform an operation corresponding to the control instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Xiaoke Zhou
  • Patent number: 11943640
    Abstract: A technique for generating synthetic data as input for a machine learning process that recommends radio access network, RAN, configurations is presented. An apparatus implementation is configured to generate synthetic data from a noise input, using a trained generative machine learning model, wherein the generative machine learning model has been trained together with a discriminative machine learning model as adversaries based on non-synthetic data. The non-synthetic data comprises non-synthetic configuration management, CM, parameter values, non-synthetic RAN characteristic parameter values and non-synthetic performance indicator values. The synthetic data is in the same form as the non-synthetic data and comprises synthetic configuration management, CM, parameter values, synthetic RAN characteristic parameter values and synthetic performance indicator values. The apparatus is also configured to output the synthetic data for the machine learning process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Wenfeng Hu
  • Patent number: 11937113
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein that provide reporting of early measurements in a cellular communications system. Embodiments of a method performed by a wireless device are disclosed. Early measurements are also referred to herein as dormant mode measurements. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device includes performing one or more dormant mode measurements, where the one or more dormant mode measurements are one or more measurements performed by the wireless device while the wireless device is in a dormant mode. The method further includes storing the one or more dormant mode measurements, identifying a reporting scheme to be used by the wireless device to report dormant mode measurements, and reporting at least one of the stored dormant mode measurements in accordance with the identified reporting scheme. Corresponding embodiments of a wireless device are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Oumer Teyeb, Icaro Leonardo Da Silva, Jens Bergqvist, Patrik Rugeland, Antonino Orsino