Zoned Or Cellular Telephone System Patents (Class 455/422.1)
  • Patent number: 11382111
    Abstract: The present specification provides a method for reporting aperiodic channel state information (ACSI) in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method, which is performed by a terminal, comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) including a reporting trigger for each of first ACSI and second ACSI and a reporting timing for each of the first ACSI and the second ACSI; and transmitting low-priority ACSI, which is determined among the first ACSI and the second ACSI on the basis of a predetermined rule, to the base station at a reporting time point determined on the basis of a delayed reporting timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Haewook Park, Jiwon Kang, Kijun Kim, Kunil Yum, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11379762
    Abstract: An automated travel vehicle assistance system includes: plural first vehicles, each of which is used for movement of a user; one or more types of second vehicles, each of which has a different function from the first vehicle; and a server that manages operation of the first vehicles and the second vehicles. A first information processing section of the first vehicle generates a service request on the basis of a specified condition, and, when receiving the service request from the first vehicle, the server determines at least one of the first vehicle, which differs from the above first vehicle, and the second vehicle as a service-providing vehicle and generates a service provision instruction to dispatch the determined service-providing vehicle to the first vehicle transmitting the service request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shin Sakurada
  • Patent number: 11375392
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication is provided. The method includes a User Equipment (UE) receiving a Conditional Handover (CHO) command from a source base station (BS). The CHO command includes a CHO command identity (ID) and a measurement ID associated with the CHO command ID. The method further includes the UE executing the CHO command to handover the UE to a target BS when a trigger condition associated with the measurement ID is fulfilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Hung-Chen Chen, Yung-Lan Tseng, Mei-Ju Shih, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Patent number: 11374818
    Abstract: A server of a distributed computing system that is at least partially hosted on a particular access network receives a plurality of messages from a plurality of devices over a network, each of the messages associated with a corresponding source address. For each of the plurality of devices, a current access network is determined for the device. For each of the devices with a current access network being the particular access network, a first network policy is applied to the device. For each of the devices with a current access network being other than the particular access network, a second network policy is applied to the device, the second network policy defining a second encryption requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: iboss, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Michael Martini, Peter Anthony Martini
  • Patent number: 11368853
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for provision of resources from one or more devices within a wireless communication network to one or more devices that are outside of the wireless communication network. In one embodiment, the methods and apparatus utilize so-called “quasi-licensed” CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) wireless spectrum in conjunction with a cellular wireless communication network (e.g. 4G, 5G, or LTE-based) for the delivery of services to a number of installed fixed wireless apparatus (CPE/FWA) at user or subscriber premises. The CPE/FWAs may act as relays and/or supplementation devices to provide service to the CPEs that are out of the network coverage, effectively enabling addition of new customers to the network. As such, additional CAPEX (capital expenditure) on infrastructure is largely avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Saran Khalid, MohammedYusuf Shaikh
  • Patent number: 11356815
    Abstract: Provided are a method by which a terminal receives an MBMS service in a wireless communication system and a device for supporting the same. The terminal receives an MBMS frequency type indicator for indicating a type of an MBMS frequency relating to an MBMS service to be received from a network, and can receive the MBMS service through the MBMS frequency indicated by the MBMS frequency type indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Sangwon Kim
  • Patent number: 11356544
    Abstract: A configurable, multi-function IP-based communication product has a touch screen display and common hardware set form factor that can be configured for use in any of a plurality of operational modes and can be ruggedized for use in harsh environments. The common hardware set form factor enables the IP-based communication product to be optimized for commercial use, that is, easily adapted for different applications and environments using a minimal number of housing configurations or features (e.g., tactile buttons or dials). The operational modes can include, but are not limited to, VoIP telephone, video streaming for video calls, intercom, alarm activation for a central public address/general alarm (PA/GA) system, a “serverless” page-party (SP2) system, voice product with FLASH, product with conference function, transit on-board communications device, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Jeff T. Reid
  • Patent number: 11356487
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method, system and apparatus for causing a communication client to join a media-over-packet communication session. The method comprises receiving from a communication client an indication indicative of a desire of the communication client to establish a communication session, the communication client being registered in association with a user account. The method further comprises determining if there exists at least one active communication session established with at least one other communication client registered in association with the user account. Responsive to determining that there does exist at least one active communication session, the method further comprises causing the communication client to join at least one of the at least one active communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: BCE Inc.
    Inventors: David William Clark, Eric John Wolf, Jeffrey William Dawson, Jonathan Allan Arsenault
  • Patent number: 11350324
    Abstract: A communication apparatus and a communication method are provided by which an upper network including a plurality of network groups is formed. A base station transmits a first frame requesting communication for estimating a structure of an upper network to another base station and returns a reply of a second frame to a first frame from the other base station. Then, the base station estimates a structure of the upper network and decides a structure attribute of the base station itself in the upper network on the basis of information acquired through the communications. Then, the base station notifies the other base station or a subordinate terminal of a result of the decision of the structure attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Kosuke Aio
  • Patent number: 11343694
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to providing an indication that a user equipment (UE) is within coverage by a particular network are provided. An example method of wireless communications obtaining, by a first wireless communication device from a second device associated with a second network, information regarding whether the first wireless communication device is within coverage by a first network. The first wireless communication device supports dual connectivity with the first network and the second network. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on the information, whether to display an icon indicating that the first wireless communication device is connected to the first network. The method further includes in response to a determination to display the icon, displaying, by the first wireless communication device, the icon on a display coupled to the first wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun Lee, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Reza Shahidi, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Aziz Gholmieh, Oronzo Flore, Haris Zisimopoulos, Gerardo Giaretta, Suli Zhao
  • Patent number: 11330448
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus for dynamically adapting category-specific radio coverage area of a mobile network using information received from corresponding common-category user equipment (UE) active within the mobile network indicative of UE capability, UE location, and UE quality of service (QoS) such that category-specific service edge locations and corresponding category-specific coverage gaps therebetween may be determined and automatically mitigated by optimizing or augmenting deployed network equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, INC.
    Inventor: Saran Khalid
  • Patent number: 11323871
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method for operating a user equipment, UE (10) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, from a base station, BS (20), connection setup message requesting information on capabilities of the UE (10); transmitting, to the BS (20), the information on capabilities of the UE (10) is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Himke Vandervelde, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11317462
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform methods to communicate an RRC message (such as an RRC configuration message) having a size that exceeds PDCP SDU size constraints. According to some embodiments, a base station may generate a large RRC message, e.g., by encoding an RRC configuration as a single large RRC message. The base station may then segment the RRC message, e.g., at the RRC layer or the PDCP layer, into a series of PDUs that comply with the size constraints. According to some embodiments, the base station may encode an RRC configuration as a series of RRC messages, each complying with the size constraints. The base station may further provide an indication of when a receiving user equipment should apply the RRC configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Xu Ou, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 11315201
    Abstract: A method and system for intelligently generating Bill of Materials (BoM) and tracking components of a build site. The method and system include querying a knowledge graph for a collection of historical bill of materials (BoMs), automatically generating a digital twin of a built site based on a selected group of completed build site, and intelligently generating the BoM for the digital twin based on BoMs of the selected group of completed built site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Nitin Bajaj, Teresa Sheausan Tung, Sonali Parthasarathy, Reymonrod Geli Vasquez, Steven Robert Roberts, Colin Anil Puri, Elizabeth Ann Shay, Unnati Amin, Michael Nai-An Chen, Analiz Cabrera Hernandez, Trinidy Ray Combs
  • Patent number: 11317448
    Abstract: Provided are an initial access method and apparatus of a wireless communication system. The initial access method of a terminal in a wireless communication system includes: detecting at least one synchronization signal included in a plurality of synchronization signal blocks; selecting at least one synchronization signal among the detected at least one synchronization signal; and performing an initial access procedure based on the selected at least one synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Inventors: Jinyoung Oh, Sungjin Park, Jeongho Yeo, Juho Lee
  • Patent number: 11310657
    Abstract: A communication control device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a storage unit configured to store conditions for setting a profile used by a communication device for communication; a profile setting unit configured to start to set the profile for the communication device in a case in which a signal received from the communication device satisfies the conditions stored in the storage unit; and a condition setting unit configured to invalidate the conditions stored in the storage unit in a case in which the profile setting unit starts to set the profile and configured to validate conditions for setting a profile used by the communication device for communication in a case in which the profile setting unit has failed in setting the profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Okita, Shingo Maruyama, Junichi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11304182
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Various autonomous uplink control channel configurations may be used for unscheduled uplink transmissions. For example, a user equipment (UE) may initiate an unscheduled uplink transmission and may identify an autonomous uplink control channel configuration for the uplink transmission. The UE may transmit control information and data during an initial transmission time interval of a transmission opportunity according to the control channel configuration, where the control channel configuration control may include a number of different waveforms and payload configurations. For example, an autonomous uplink control channel configuration may include control information frequency division multiplexed or time division multiplexed with data and transmitted in one or more frequency interlaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peng Cheng, Chirag Patel, Vinay Chande, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 11296411
    Abstract: A feed network for a multi-beam antenna is provided, including a first beam port, a second beam port, a beam-forming network coupled to the beam ports, and a cancellation circuit. The cancellation circuit is coupled to the first beam port and the second beam port before the beam-forming network. The cancellation circuit extracts a portion of a RF signal on the first beam port, adds phase delay, and injects the extracted, delayed signal from the first beam port onto the second beam port, and extracts a portion of a RF signal on the second beam port, adds phase shift, and injects the extracted, delayed signal from the second beam port onto the first beam port. In one example of the invention, the cancellation circuit comprises a first directional coupler on a first beam input path, a transmission line, a second directional coupler on the second beam input path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Dushmantha N. P. Thalakotuna, Zhonghao Hu, Bevan Beresford Jones
  • Patent number: 11297620
    Abstract: A method for jointly optimizing beam selection and partitioning of transmission resources for a downlink between a base station (BS) and a user equipment (UE) in a mm-wave cellular network such as the small cell layer of a 5G network. A UE position estimate is used for accurate BS beam selection and alignment between the BS and UE beams and/or provide position-based services or functionalities. An optimal partitioning factor is obtained either by maximizing a communication performance indicator while meeting a constraint upon a localization performance indicator or by maximizing a localization performance indicator while meeting a constraint upon a communication performance indicator. A communication performance indicator can be an effective rate coverage probability or an effective throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Benoît Denis, Antonio De Domenico, Gourab Ghatak, Remun Koirala
  • Patent number: 11297553
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and processing nodes for ensuring uplink service for wireless devices capable of uplink split mode in EN-DC using both 4G LTE and 5G NR RATs, by selecting serving access nodes that are also capable of uplink split mode and/or coupled to large quantities of antenna elements relative to other potential serving access nodes. In particular, such serving access nodes are selected for wireless devices that exhibit one or more of a low power headroom, a high uplink buffer, or a high mobility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11290755
    Abstract: A media device pre-fetches media data that is likely to be retrieved. An example media device includes a memory for storing media data, and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to receive information indicating at least one data structure of a plurality of data structures that is likely to be retrieved by a plurality of user devices operated by a respective plurality of users, the data structure including media data, and retrieve the media data of the data structure before receiving requests for the media data from the user devices. The information may be included in, e.g., a manifest file, a special Parameters Enhancing Delivery (PED) message, and/or a separate track of a video file multiplexed with other tracks of the video file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Ye-Kui Wang, Thomas Stockhammer
  • Patent number: 11284369
    Abstract: A wireless communications apparatus and a wireless communication method are provided. The method includes: deactivating a first wireless communication capability of a first communications module, so that the first communications module does not support the first wireless communication capability; activating a first wireless communication capability of a second communications module, so that the second communications module supports the first wireless communication capability; sending a first uplink message, where the first uplink message is used to indicate that a first user identity does not support the first wireless communication capability; and sending a second uplink message, where the second uplink message is used to indicate that a second user identity supports the first wireless communication capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jifeng Li
  • Patent number: 11283889
    Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting information are disclosed. One aspect comprises receiving a request for information. First data can be provided in response to the request if a parameter is equal to or exceeds a comparator element, wherein the parameter relates to one or more of abandoned data transmissions and completed data transmissions. Second data can be provided in response to the request if the comparator element exceeds the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: John Riviello, Daniel Freiman
  • Patent number: 11284347
    Abstract: The present invention provides an activation system information transmission method, apparatus, and device. The method includes: receiving, by UE, a first system message sent by a base station, where the first system message includes activation indication information and a change indication tag, the activation indication information is used to indicate whether a function indicated in an activation system message is activated, and the change indication tag is used to indicate whether scheduling information of the activation system message changes; obtaining, by the UE, first scheduling information of the activation system message according to the activation indication information and the change indication tag; and reading the activation system message according to the first scheduling information, and selecting, according to the activation indication information and the change indication tag, different manners to obtain the first scheduling information of the activation system message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yinghui Yu, Lei Liu, Nathan Edward Tenny
  • Patent number: 11277164
    Abstract: An amplifier module is disposed between a wireless communication antenna and a body unit of a wireless communication apparatus and connected to the antenna and the body unit through a wiring member. The amplifier module includes an antenna-side terminal connected to the antenna, a body-side terminal connected to the body unit, an amplification circuit disposed between the antenna-side terminal and the body-side terminal, an antenna detection circuit configured to detect electric characteristics of the antenna-side terminal, and a characteristic variable circuit configured to change electric characteristics of the body-side terminal based on the electric characteristics of the antenna-side terminal detected by the antenna detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eita Nakayama, Kazushi Kofune, Mutsumi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11272427
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods of communication between an access point (AP) and a plurality of stations (STAs) operating in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The method includes: transmitting, by the AP, a signal for a receiving STA in the plurality of STAs to initiate a channel sounding process for a communication channel between the AP and the receiving STA; receiving, by the AP, a feedback signal from the receiving STA, the feedback signal carrying a frame including a capability indicator for indicating a capability of the receiving STA; and processing, by the AP, the frame carried by the feedback signal to determine at least one of the following: a Modulation and Coding Set (MCS) processable by the receiving STA, a MIMO detection algorithm processable by the receiving STA, and a maximum computational complexity of the receiving STA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Hoon Suh, Osama Aboul-Magd, Yan Xin
  • Patent number: 11272434
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided which may be implemented in a base station, user equipment, and/or the like, to share information supportive of narrow beam transmissions. For example, a base station may be configured to access a neighbor cell list corresponding to a coverage area, determine a subset of the neighbor cell list corresponding to a first narrow beam to be transmitted, and transmit a message indicative of the subset of the neighbor cell list. In another example, a user equipment may be configured to receive a message indicative of a subset of a neighbor cell list for a portion of a coverage area of a base station corresponding to a first narrow beam, and search for one or more wireless signals based, at least in part, on the subset of the neighbor cell list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Sumeeth Nagaraja, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11272422
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, a system, apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for user equipment of a mobile communication system. The method for a first user equipment (user equipment) of a mobile communication system includes determining a lack of coverage of the mobile communication system; determining two or more relay candidates, a relay candidate being a user equipment capable of providing network access for the first user equipment via direct communication; and selecting a second user equipment for network access from the two or more relay candidates based on a common route section of the first and second user equipments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Reimann, Guillaume Jornod, Steffen Schmitz
  • Patent number: 11270287
    Abstract: Computing systems and methods for facilitating mobile transactions are disclosed. An example method includes: detecting, via a hardware communication interface, a user check-in request based at least on a communication exchange between a user device and a signaling device at a location. The communication exchange corresponds to a proximity of the user device to the signaling device. The method further includes: determining a user identifier associated with the user device based at least on the user check-in request; and transmitting one or more promotional items to the user device based at least on the user identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Satish Narayan Govindarajan, John Hastings Granbery
  • Patent number: 11272428
    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: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: Volkan Sevindik, Haider Syed
  • Patent number: 11256572
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing data using parallelism, stateless queries, data slicing, and/or asynchronous pull are provided. Some methods can include each of a plurality of data pull devices of a central server retrieving data from a respective one of a plurality of regional server databases, wherein a number of the plurality of data pull devices equals a number of the plurality of regional server databases, and wherein the plurality of data pull devices function asynchronously. Additionally or alternatively, some methods can include each of a plurality of threads of a central server retrieving a predetermined size of data from a plurality of regional server databases, wherein the plurality of threads are stateless so that any of the plurality of threads can retrieve the data from any of the plurality of regional server databases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Girish Krishnaraj Pillai
  • Patent number: 11252685
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives configuration information indicating a gap offset in subframe units related to a measurement gap (MG), and a shift time shorter than one subframe and related to the MG. The terminal further includes a processor that determines a timing of the MG based on the gap offset and the shift time. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal and a base station are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 11252771
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving, a target serial number transmitted by a second access network device, where the target serial number is obtained based on a first serial number, the first serial number is a serial number of a first RLC SDU successfully received by the second access network device, the first access network device, the second access network device, and a terminal device each include an RLC entity of a split bearer, a transmission mode of the split bearer is duplicate transmission, and the RLC entities of the split bearer are in an acknowledged mode AM; obtaining a second serial number based on the target serial number, where the second serial number is a serial number of a second RLC SDU, and the first RLC SDU is the same as the second RLC SDU; and marking the second serial number as a successfully received state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng Yu, Xin Xiong, Bo Lin, Haifeng Yu
  • Patent number: 11246185
    Abstract: A radio terminal according to one embodiment comprises: a controller configured to detect a radio problem in communication with a base station in an RRC connected state and attempt a recovery from the radio problem; and a transmitter configured to transmit, to the base station, a polling signal for confirming whether or not the base station considers an RRC state of the radio terminal as the RRC connected state in response to the successful recovery. The controller maintains the RRC connected state in response to reception, from the base station, of a response signal to the polling signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Kugo Morita, Mayumi Komura, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 11240870
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods for improving the DRX operation of a UE by introducing an additional DRX wake-up cycle, which runs in parallel to the short and/or long DRX cycle. The DRX wake-up cycle defines time intervals after which the UE starts monitoring the PDCCH for a wake-up duration of time; the UE does not perform any other operation during the wake-up duration apart from monitoring the PDCCH. The time intervals of the wake-up cycle between the wake-up durations are preferably shorter than the one of the DRX long cycle, and may have the same or a shorter length than the ones of the DRX short cycle. The wake-up duration may be as long as the on-duration of the DRX short/long cycle, or may be preferably much shorter, such as only one or a few subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Feuersaenger, Christian Wengerter, Joachim Loehr, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 11228861
    Abstract: Aspects discussed herein relate to providing alerts to a community of devices located in or near a geographic area such as a building or property. The alerts override any alert-inhibiting state of the mobile device to deliver audio, visual, and/or haptic alerts in emergency situations. The communication and emergency alert system may be used to communicate with many different communities of people. Moreover, certain individuals may be members of more than one community at the same time, and the communities themselves may change over time based both on the user's preferences and on their physical locations. Users may set their own preferences for how alerts are provided, such as customizing the visual and/or audible notifications provided for an alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: In-telligent Properties LLC
    Inventor: Allan C. Sutherland
  • Patent number: 11224039
    Abstract: Systems and methods of sharing channel information between co-located radio nodes are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method performed by a second radio node (111, 200, 300a, b, 1111) of sharing channel information between a first radio node (101, 500, 600a, b, 1101) and the second radio node that are co-located (107) may include obtaining (403), by the second radio node, first channel information characterizing a communication channel (105a-c) between a third radio node (121, 1121) and the first radio node in a first frequency band. Further, the method may include using (405), by the second radio node, the first channel information for communication with the third radio node or a fourth radio node (123) in a second frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Henrik Asplund, Jonas Medbo, Peter Ökvist, Mathias Riback, Arne Simonsson, Paul Mihkel Teder, Magnus Thurfjell
  • Patent number: 11223395
    Abstract: Embodiments herein disclose systems, methods, and computer-readable media for automatically adjusting settings of antenna elements to reduce radio link failures. In embodiments, a base station monitors radio link failures occurring at the base station that are associated with a first technology, such as 5G protocol. When the radio link failures meet or exceed a predefined or predetermined threshold, the base station may adjust a portion of antenna elements in an antenna array controlled by the base station, in some embodiments. For example, the base station may only adjust those antenna elements in the antenna array that are associated with the first technology, while other antenna elements in the same antenna array that are associated with a second technology, such as 4G protocol, are not adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Rajveen Narendran
  • Patent number: 11218941
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including determining according to first information associated with a first wireless access network and second information associated with a second wireless access network, whether to facilitate communication in a geographic area between a first wireless communication device and a communication network via the second wireless access network, and, in turn, directing a second wireless access device of the second wireless access network to facilitate the communication between the first wireless communication device and the communication network, and directing a first wireless access device of the first wireless access network to stop facilitating second communication between the first wireless communication device and the communication network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Venson Shaw, Sangar Dowlatkhah
  • Patent number: 11218863
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle may include a flight system, a wireless communication system, a processor, and a power system having a battery and a battery charging port. The power system may be operable to power the flight system, the wireless communication system, and the processor. The processor may be configured to operate the flight system to fly the unmanned aerial vehicle from a ground position to an in-air position while the battery charging port is attached to an air-to-ground tether, trigger a release of the air-to-ground tether from the battery charging port after determining the unmanned aerial vehicle has reached the in-air position and the battery is charged, and operate the flight system to execute a flight pattern while operating the wireless communication system to search for a wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
    Inventor: Steve Fischer
  • Patent number: 11212321
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for securing user plane (e.g., MB2-U) interface between a group communication service application server (GCS AS) and Broadcast Multicast Service Center (BM-SC) are provided. One method may include transmitting a message via a control plane, to an application server, indicating whether to establish a security association on a user plane in an interface between the GCS AS and the BM-SC. The method may also include providing, to the GCS AS, a target internet protocol (IP) address and possible port as a target for the security association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORK OY
    Inventors: Anja Jerichow, Thomas Belling, Guenther Horn
  • Patent number: 11190230
    Abstract: Wide bandwidth digital pre-distortion (DPD) in a remote unit(s) for a wireless communications system (WCS) is disclosed. In embodiments disclosed herein, a remote unit(s) includes at least two transceiver circuits, each configured to process (e.g., perform DPD) a respective downlink digital communications signal corresponding to a portion of the carrier bandwidth. Each of the transceiver circuits is further configured to convert the respective downlink digital communications signal into a respective downlink RF communications signal. The respective downlink RF communications signals generated by the transceiver circuits are subsequently combined to form a downlink RF communications signal(s) associated with the carrier bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: Yury Abramov, Roi Yosy Ziv
  • Patent number: 11191043
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives a synchronization signal block including a synchronization signal and a broadcast channel, and a processor that, if specified information is notified to the terminal, derives, based on a timing of a serving cell, a synchronization signal block index for another cell. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Daiki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang
  • Patent number: 11191088
    Abstract: An apparatus for user plane function, UPF, allocation is described. The UPF is configured to provide a Protocol Data Unit, PDU, connectivity service between a terminal device and a data network on a user plane, and the allocation is based on control information associated with an individual logical PDU entity. The control information defines priority information indicative of a priority of the PDU entity relative to other PDU entities and pre-emption information indicative of at least one of whether the PDU entity is capable of being pre-emptively allocated to a UPF over other PDU entities served by that UPF, and whether the PDU entity when served by a UPF is vulnerable to being re-allocated for pre-emptively allocating other PDU entities to that UPF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Fuencisla Garcia Azorero, Susana Fernandez Alonso, Victor Ferraro Esparza, Angel Navas Cornejo, Ignacio Rivas Molina
  • Patent number: 11190954
    Abstract: A base station controller optimally controls activation/deactivation of small base stations in a heterogeneous network environment in which a number of base stations forming cells of different sizes coexist in the same area, taking into account traffic volume as well as signal interference. A method for operating the base station controller is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignees: SK TELECOM CO., LTD., INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tak Ki Yu, Young Lak Kim, Min Soo Na, Sung Ho Moon, Tae Guen Kim, Dae Sik Hong, Yo Seop Park, Kwon Jong Lee, Hyun Soo Kim, Han Ho Wang
  • Patent number: 11188339
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a system and method for an external processor to access internal register. The internal register may be a register of a core networking device. The method includes: sending, by an external processor, a read request to a core networking device; responding, by the core networking device, to the read request; sending, by the external processor, a write request to the core networking device; and preparing, by the core networking device, a register status notification of a register embedded in the core networking device and sends the register status notification to the external processor in response to the write request. The read and write requests and the responses are in a layer 2 protocol (L2 protocol).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Inventors: Chuan-Wei Liu, Wei-Pin Chen
  • Patent number: 11184789
    Abstract: A method for measuring and reporting a beam by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: measuring a plurality of transmission beams for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) via at least one reception beam; determining at least one transmission beam to be reported to a base station, according to a result of measuring the plurality of transmission beams; and transmitting, to the base station, a measurement report including information relating to the determined at least one transmission beam, wherein the terminal identifies a reception beam applied to each of the determined at least one transmission beam, and reports an index of a synchronization signal block available through the identified reception beam, to the base station via the measurement report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Kijun Kim, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11177866
    Abstract: To efficiently transmit channel state information. A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive information for configuring a first mode and information for configuring a second mode and receive an UL grant to be used for scheduling of a PUSCH and an UL grant to be used for scheduling of a sPUSCH; and transmits CSI on the PUSCH by using the first mode, based on the UL grant to be used for scheduling of the PUSCH, and transmits CSI on the sPUSCH by using the second mode, based on the UL grant to be used for scheduling of the sPUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Takashi Hayashi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu
  • Patent number: 11176112
    Abstract: An apparatus of adaptive index structures is provided. Four common data attributes, including time, space, keyword, and value, are used. The present invention is a structure adaptively selecting the most efficient combined index by estimating index performance and selectivity rate. The main concept is to set indexes with high selectivity rates at positions having higher priorities for processing query. The intermediate result of query is minimized and the performance is further improved. The present invention uses multiple indexes, where all possible combined-index orders are considered and the best combined index is selected according to different query adaptabilities. As a result, the structure has a high chance of saving query time at a rate of more than 25 times as compared to a structure with indexes of a single attribute sequence. Furthermore, as compared to the traditional relational database PostGIS, the reaction time is also twice faster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: National Central University
    Inventors: Chih-Yuan Huang, Yu-Jui Chang
  • Patent number: 11159954
    Abstract: Architectures and techniques are presented that improve or enhance a network planning procedure such as interactively planning suitable locations for transceiver sites that communicate with one another. Map data indicative of a 3D depiction of a physical space can be presented to a user interface device. Input indicative of a first transceiver site and a second transceiver site can be received. A Fresnel zone between the first transceiver site and the second transceiver site can be determined based on the map data. An interactive representation of the Fresnel zone can be presented to the user interface device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Velin Kounev, Yaron Kanza, Arun Jotshi, Krystian Czapiga