Handoff Patents (Class 455/436)
  • Patent number: 11968568
    Abstract: Technology for a service producer of a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) operable to generate performance measurements in a Next Generation radio access network (NG-RAN) is disclosed. The service producer can decode raw performance measurements 5 received from a plurality of gNBs. The service producer can generate performance measurements related to at least one of an inter-gNB handover or a protocol data unit (PDU) session resource setup for the plurality of gNBs based on the raw performance measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yizhi Yao, Joey Chou
  • Patent number: 11968665
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a resource configuration method and an apparatus. The method is applied to a base station, including: setting radio resource configuration information used for sidelink communication for a terminal; when determining that it is required to transmit a connection release message to the terminal, adding the radio resource configuration information to the connection release message; and transmitting the connection release message to the terminal, so that the terminal acquires the radio resource configuration information from the connection release message and performs sidelink communication according to the radio resource configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xing Yang
  • Patent number: 11968563
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless communications system may utilize an inter-system information report message (e.g., a self-organizing network (SON) information report message) to support inter-system mobility load balancing (MLB). For example, a first node, operating in accordance with a first radio access technology (RAT), may receive an information report message from a second node operating in accordance with a second RAT. The information report message may include a periodic load reporting request information element (IE) or an event-triggered load reporting request IE. In response, the first node may determine a traffic load based on the load reporting request and transmit, to the second node, an information report message which includes one or more IEs for reporting the determined traffic load. The exchange of the load information via the IEs may enable for MLB between nodes of different RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shankar Krishnan, Xipeng Zhu, Rajeev Kumar, Gavin Bernard Horn
  • Patent number: 11963045
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An access and mobility management function (AMF) associated with a first radio access network (RAN) may identify a user equipment (UE) connected to a source base station of the first RAN. The AMF may receive a handover message including a voice call continuity handover trigger message indicating a handover of the UE to a target base station associated with a second RAN. In some examples, the AMF may transmit a bypass handover message to a second network device based a on the received handover message. In some cases, the bypass handover message may include the voice call continuity handover trigger message. In some examples, the second network device is a mobility management entity (MME) associated with an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Juan Zhang, Xipeng Zhu, Haris Zisimopoulos, Xiangkai Guan
  • Patent number: 11963060
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to handover of WLAN voice calls to one or more cellular networks. In some embodiments, a device is configured to perform voice communications over one or more wireless local area networks, communicate with a first network using a first cellular radio access technology (RAT), and communicate with a second network using a second cellular RAT. The device may store, based on communications via the first network, information indicating that the first network does not support voice communications for the apparatus. The device may handover a voice call from a wireless local network directly to the second cellular RAT, based on the stored information and without handover of the voice call to the first cellular RAT, based on call conditions on the wireless local area network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yifan Zhu, Vijay Venkataraman, Viswanath Nagarajan, Sang Ho Baek, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Utkarsh Kumar, Krisztian Kiss, Shivani Suresh Babu, Srinivasan Nimmala
  • Patent number: 11963000
    Abstract: A key management is provided that enables security activation before handing over a user equipment from a source 5G wireless communication system, i.e., a Next Generation System (NGS), to a target 4G wireless communication system, i.e., a Evolved Packet System (EPS)/Long Term Evolution (LTE). The key management achieves backward security, i.e., prevents the target 4G wireless communication system from getting knowledge of 5G security information used in the source 5G wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Monica Wifvesson, Noamen Ben Henda, Christine Jost, Vesa Lehtovirta
  • Patent number: 11963047
    Abstract: Decision-making equipment (22) is configured for link change decision-making using reinforcement learning. The decision-making equipment (22) is configured to track rewards (30-1, . . . 30-M) earned for, and outcomes (28-1, . . . 28-M) of, respective link change decisions (26-1, . . . 26-M). In some embodiments, possible outcomes of a link change decision to change a serving link of a wireless device to a target link include at least: a change of the serving link of the wireless device from the target link to another link; and a network-initiated disconnect of the wireless device from the target link. Regardless, the decision-making equipment (22) is also configured to make a link change decision (28-(M+1)) based on the tracked rewards (30-1, . . . 30-M) and outcomes (28-1, . . . 28-M).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Athanasios Karapantelakis, Elena Fersman, Rafia Inam, Markus Andersson, David Lindero
  • Patent number: 11963054
    Abstract: A method and user equipment (UE) for performing a cell reselection procedure is provided. The method includes receiving priority information about frequencies, performing cell measurement, based on the priority information, and performing a cell reselection procedure, based on a result of the cell measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sangyeob Jung
  • Patent number: 11963053
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, via a first subscription of the UE, a trigger event for a conditional handover of the UE from a source network entity to a target network entity. The UE may determine, based at least in part on the trigger event, that a target band associated with the target network entity is not compatible with a serving band associated with a second subscription of the UE. The UE may store the trigger event for the conditional handover in a buffer of the UE. The UE may perform an action related to the conditional handover based at least in part on a condition being satisfied. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun Lee, Qingxin Chen, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Reza Shahidi, Mouaffac Ambriss, Liangchi Hsu, Tom Chin
  • Patent number: 11956692
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for relaxation of mobility condition based on serving cell quality is provided. A wireless device, which has been configured with conditional mobility, performs a conditional mobility to a target cell by using a mobility condition related to the target cell upon detecting a radio link problem on a serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Youngdae Lee, Sunghoon Jung, Hongsuk Kim
  • Patent number: 11950148
    Abstract: In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a handover management method performed by a session management function (SMF). The method comprises, receiving handover information related to a user equipment (UE) receiving a predetermined service by accessing a source radio access network (S-RAN), obtaining, after receiving the handover information, resource information on a resource used when the predetermined service is provided to the UE at the S-RAN, and transmitting, to a user plane function (UPF), a request that a resource corresponding to the obtained resource information is to be secured in a target radio access network (T-RAN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 11950159
    Abstract: Proposed is a method for a first device to perform wireless communication. The method may comprise the steps of: establishing a connection with a second device; and reselecting a cell on the basis that the first device is in a radio resource control (RRC) IDLE state or an RRC INACTIVE state. For example, a priority related to cell reselection can be set such that a cell related to a new radio (NR) has a high priority. For example, cell reselection can be performed first on the cell related to the NR on the basis of the priority related to cell reselection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongwoo Hong, Seoyoung Back, Giwon Park
  • Patent number: 11950313
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a method and system for performing a bearer type change of a plurality of radio bearers configured for a User Equipment (UE). The proposed method includes changing the bearer type of specific bearer by the network. Further, the proposed method includes checking any changes in keys or PDCP termination point or PDCP version change. Furthermore, the proposed method includes notifying the UE to change the bearer type either through reconfiguration procedure without handover or SN change procedure or reconfiguration procedure with handover or SN change procedure. The network indicates one or more operations to the UE for performing the bearer type change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mangesh Abhimanyu Ingale, Neha Sharma, Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 11950158
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for distributing idle UE by a carrier in eNB of a multi-carrier based mobile communication system. The method of distributing idle UE in a multi-carrier based mobile communication system according to the present invention includes a process of determining a search rate by a carrier on the basis of information representing load on the carrier, a step of determining a cell reselection priority on the idle UE on the basis of the determined search rate, and a process of transmitting the determined cell reselection priority to the idle UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-Jae Won, Dae-Joong Kim, Han-Seok Kim, Abhishek Roy, Hwa-Jin Cha, Jung-Min Choi
  • Patent number: 11943838
    Abstract: Apparatus with I/O modules such as a networked security camera with a plurality of wireless connections to continue to use at least one network connection is presented. The apparatus, comprising a plurality of RF units, a plurality of SIM card interfaces, at least one processing unit, at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium and at least on input/output module, is able to continue sending and receiving data through one or more wireless networks using a plurality of RF units. Further, when more bandwidth and/or higher reliability is required, the apparatus aggregates data connections established with different wireless networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Pismo Labs Technology Limited
    Inventors: Ming Pui Chong, Wan Chun Leung, Chan Neng Leong, Uzair Ahmed Chughtai
  • Patent number: 11943176
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A repeater extends coverage of wireless communications services between two wireless nodes (a base station and a user equipment (UE)). A network control node (e.g., a base station) receives a first indication of a capability of a repeater to detect a time division duplexing (TDD) pattern of a channel between the base station and the UE. The base station transmits, to the UE and via the repeater, one or more parameters associated with the UE performing one or more channel measurements and reference signals for the channel measurements. The base station transmits, to the repeater, a second indication of a TDD pattern of the channel based on the capability of the repeater. Based on the indication of the TDD pattern, the repeater adjusts one or more radio frequency components of the repeater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11943830
    Abstract: A link re-establishment method, an apparatus, and a system are provided. The method includes: obtaining, by user equipment (UE), a MAC of the UE based on a NAS integrity key and a first MAC generation parameter, where the first MAC generation parameter includes an identifier of the UE; sending, by the UE, a re-establishment request message to a target RAN, where the re-establishment request message includes the MAC and the first MAC generation parameter; and receiving, by the UE, a re-establishment response message of the target RAN. The UE triggers, by sending the re-establishment request message, a CP functional entity to perform authentication on the UE. This resolves a prior-art problem that an excessively long time is consumed to re-establish a connection to a target RAN by using an RAU procedure, increases a speed of re-establishing a connection between UE and a network, and improves user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Hu, Jing Chen, Yinghui Yu
  • Patent number: 11943827
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus of establishing dual-connectivity to transmit data are disclosed. A PCell of the UE carries out a mapping function and realizes a PDCP layer, a RLC layer, a MAC layer and a physical layer, and a SCell of the UE carries out quality packet data to data radio bearer mapping and realizes a PDCP layer, a MAC layer and a physical layer, in which a core network transmits data of the UE to the PCell, the PCell maps a QoS Flow of the data of the UE which is quality packet data to a data radio bearer on a mapping layer, performs path split, transmits data of respective paths to the UE through the PCell and SCell of the UE, and the UE regroups the data of the respective paths on the PDCP layer, and transmits the regrouped data to an application layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong Wang, Xiaowan Ke, Lixiang Xu, Qi Li
  • Patent number: 11943673
    Abstract: Techniques for determining a registration area are provided. A network entity may receive one or more indications of topology information from one or more radio access network nodes. Each indication of topology information is related to one or more tracking areas and each tracking area is associated with one or more cells in a radio access network served by each of the one or more radio access network nodes. The network entity may determine a registration area based at least in part on the received one or more indications of topology information related to the one or more tracking areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Alessio Casati, Laurent Thiebaut, Philippe Godin, Georgios Gkellas
  • Patent number: 11937143
    Abstract: A method of managing handovers between a plurality of relay access nodes, the method includes monitoring a latency of a donor access node communicating with the plurality of relay access nodes; determining that a quality of service corresponding to a wireless device communicating with a relay access node of the plurality of relay access nodes meets a quality of service criteria; and in response to the latency meeting a threshold, instructing the relay access node to handover the wireless device to a target access node, or instructing the donor access node to handover the relay access node to the target access node, where the target access node is the donor access node, a neighboring access node, or a second relay access node served by the neighboring access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Krishna Sitaram, Hemanth Pawar, Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas
  • Patent number: 11936614
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a network device, an apparatus, and a network system. The network device receives a reply packet sent by a DHCP service device, and determines a first next-hop address from a plurality of next-hop addresses corresponding to a destination IP address of the reply packet, where the first next-hop address is a first tunnel endpoint IP address of the relay device and is different from a tunnel endpoint IP address of another relay device in a target anycast group to which the relay device belongs, and a communication connection is established between each relay device in the target anycast group and the client. The network device may forward the reply packet to the relay device based on the first next-hop address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianping Gao, Wenhui Zhu
  • Patent number: 11932185
    Abstract: Control methods and systems including a smart vehicle, a smart mobile device including a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and machine readable instructions stored in the memory that may cause a system to perform at least the following when executed by the processor: use the smart mobile device to automatically control functionality of smart features of the smart vehicle based on an applied control logic and environmental inputs and/or use the smart mobile device to automatically control a wireless routing selection between a local area network associated with the smart vehicle and a remote wide area network based on an application tool switch logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Thor Tech, Inc.
    Inventors: Ciprian R. Sandu, Jason T. Kriesel, Raymond McKay Featherstone, Edward Brady, Steven Hileman
  • Patent number: 11937208
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured with comprising a set of monitoring occasions for a reference signal. While the UE is in an inactive mode or an idle mode, a configuration for the set of monitoring occasions may be updated. The UE may be transmitted an indication of the updated set of monitoring occasions while the UE is in the inactive mode or the idle mode. The indication for the updated set of monitoring occasions may be sent via paging or system information messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly, Peter Pui Lok Ang
  • Patent number: 11930383
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to methods and apparatus for determining whether each of a plurality of wireless devices are drones or non-drones. The method includes determining based on binary classification of the first information which of the wireless devices meet all of at least one primary criterion; transmitting a request for second information to the wireless devices that meet all of the at least one primary criterion; receiving second information from each of the wireless device that meet all of the at least one primary criterion; determining based on binary classification of the second information which of the wireless devices that meet all of the at least one primary criterion also meet all of at least one secondary criterion; and classifying the wireless devices that meet both all of the at least one primary criterion and all of the at least one secondary criterion into the first category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mirsad Cirkic, Joel Berglund, Pradeepa Ramachandra, Sakib Bin Redhwan
  • Patent number: 11930416
    Abstract: A method includes determining, by a source base station, based on at least one of a measurement report received from a terminal device and a mobility trajectory of the terminal device, a prepared cell list that includes a set of cells where the terminal device is capable of handover. The method includes sending at least one required context for the handover to the set of cells in the prepared cell list. The method also includes receiving acknowledgement from the set of cells. The method further includes sending a handover complete message, which contains the prepared cell list, to the terminal device. The prepared cell list provides a capability for the terminal device to make a number of handovers when the terminal device is within a coverage area of the set of cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OY
    Inventors: Mikko Säily, Tommi Jokela, Sofonias Hailu
  • Patent number: 11929876
    Abstract: Disclosed methods include sending, from a resource manager, network configuration information to each of one or more managed resources. The network configuration information may include an IP address for the resource manager, an IP address for each of the managed resources, and a predetermined timeout value. Network configurations for the resource manager and the one or more managed resources may then be set after which each managed resource may start a timer with the predetermined timeout value. If the resource manager detects successful completion of each of the network configuration operations, the resource manager may send a stop timer command to each of the managed resources. If a timeout occurs, the timeout will inform each of the managed resources that the change in network configuration was not entirely successful. The resource manager and each of the managed resources will then restore their network configurations to their previous configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Weiyi Xie, Yuan Li, Guiping Zhang, Howe Xu
  • Patent number: 11930415
    Abstract: A movable relay apparatus for relay communication, the relay apparatus transmits handover destination information to a communication terminal. The handover destination information indicates a handover destination, which allows the communication terminal to carry out a handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaru Otaka
  • Patent number: 11930405
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for prioritized random access during handover are provided. One method may include transmitting, by a source network node, a handover request to a target network node. The handover request may include an indication of a recognition of prioritized random access for a user equipment. The method may also include receiving an acknowledgement from the target network node, building a reconfiguration message, for the user equipment, comprising a prioritized set of random access parameters, and transmitting, to the user equipment, the reconfiguration message comprising the prioritized set of random access parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Malgorzata Tomala, Benoist Sebire, Chunli Wu, Samuli Turtinen
  • Patent number: 11930467
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining timing advance (TA) validity are disclosed. In some embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed herein in which a wireless device implicitly considers a TA to be valid in a full cell when no TA validation mechanisms are explicitly configured. In other embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed herein in which a timer serves a dual purpose. If the timer is set to infinity, a wireless device will always consider a TA to be valid within a given cell, and at the same time will disable other TA validation mechanisms. Otherwise, the wireless device will interpret the timer as indicating for how long the TA value that the wireless device possesses is considered to be valid. Benefits of the solutions described herein include reducing signaling bits in the configuration and avoiding the possibility of conflicting configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Andreas Höglund, Gerardo Agni Medina Acosta, Sandeep Narayanan Kadan Veedu, Emre Yavuz
  • Patent number: 11923937
    Abstract: Spurious beamforming in high density environments can be reduced via transmitting a first signal from a first Access Point (AP) to a first endpoint associated with the first AP via a first beamforming arrangement; in response to identifying that the first beamforming arrangement is pollutive to a second endpoint associated with a second AP: deprecating the first beamforming arrangement; and transmitting a second signal from the first AP to the first endpoint via a second beamforming arrangement, different from the first beamforming arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Henry, Robert E. Barton, Matthew A. Silverman, Pooya Monajemi
  • Patent number: 11924698
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) for cell selection while the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) Inactive state is provided. The method receives, via control signaling, a configuration indicating a target frequency carrier and a corresponding target core network (CN) type. The method then causes the UE to transition from an RRC Connected state to the RRC Inactive state based on the received configuration. While the UE is in the RRC Inactive state, the method selects a suitable cell among a plurality of suitable cells that are associated with the target frequency carrier. The method selects the suitable cell irrespective of the received target CN type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yung-Lan Tseng, Mei-Ju Shih, Hung-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 11917650
    Abstract: A system and method for allocating network resources are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to perform: transmitting a message to a wireless communication device for the wireless communication device to select either a first cell where the wireless communication device currently stays, or a second cell to stay. In some embodiments, the message indicates information about the first cell in which a first radio access technology (RAT) is used and the second cell in which a second RAT, different from the first RAT, is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiubin Sha, Bo Dai, Ting Lu, Xu Liu
  • Patent number: 11916801
    Abstract: A method for integrating interface devices into a network, the network including at least one central software-based controller, which logically separates a data plane from a control plane using multiple interface devices. The method includes: a receiving of a first recognition message of the central controller at a terminal of an interface device; a checking of whether a previous recognition message has been received at another terminal of the interface device within a predefined time period prior to the receipt of the first recognition message; and a forwarding of the first recognition message to all network users connected to the interface device, if no previous recognition message has been received at another terminal within the predefined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Jens Bierschenk
  • Patent number: 11915039
    Abstract: A method for identifying a second device by a first device for establishing a communication between the first device and the second device is described here. The method includes receiving, by a processor of a first device, a voice command from a worker in a workplace. In an example, the method comprises pausing, by the processor, a workflow operation executing on the first device. The method further comprises performing, by the processor, a voice recognition to analyze the voice command of the worker. The method includes activating, by the processor, a communication module of the first device based on the voice recognition, to identify a second device in proximity to the first device. The method includes terminating, by the processor, a connection between the first device and the wearable electronic device. Thus, terminating, by the processor, a second connection of the first device with the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: VOCOLLECT, INC.
    Inventors: Gary W. Miller, Graham P. Byrne
  • Patent number: 11917463
    Abstract: Some of the present implementations provide a method for a user equipment (UE) for performing a handover procedure with minimum mobility interruption. The method receives, at the UE, a reconfiguration message that has an indicator for performing a dual-connectivity based (DC-based) handover procedure. The method then performs the DC-based handover procedure without reestablishing a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity of the UE during the DC-based handover procedure. The PDCP entity maintains a plurality of security keys to decipher PDCP packets received from at least one of a source base station and a target base station during the handover procedure and while the UE is transitioning from the source base station to the target base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOGAIL TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hung-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 11910469
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for connected discontinuous reception (CDRX), the configuration indicating a first condition associated with a first CDRX parameter and a second condition associated with a second CDRX parameter. The UE may transition to a CDRX cycle when the first condition and the second condition are satisfied prior to an expiration of a CDRX inactivity timer. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Marcelo Schiocchet, Amrit Kharel, Kausik Ray Chaudhuri, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 11910354
    Abstract: According to various examples, a method for operating a wireless communication device (200) connectable to a cellular network (50) comprising a plurality of cells (300-340) is provided. The method comprises receiving (701), from the cellular network (50), configuration information for delaying a transmission of a paging area update request that triggers a paging area update of a paging area of a paging operation of the wireless communication device (200). Furthermore the method comprises, when operating in a disconnected mode associated with the paging operation, determining (703) that the paging area update is required, and upon determining (703) that the paging area update is required, delaying (708) the transmission of the paging area update request in accordance with the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Torgny Palenius, Johan Hill
  • Patent number: 11910346
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first value for a first timing advance (TA) parameter associated with a first device, obtaining a second value for a second TA parameter associated with a second device, wherein an identification of the second device is included in a list of equipment that is related to the first device, obtaining a third value for a third TA parameter associated with a third device, wherein an identification of the third device is not included in the list, comparing the first value, the second value, and the third value to one another to determine that the identification of the third device should be added to the list, and adding, based on the comparing, the identification of the third device to the list, resulting in a modified list. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: David Ross Beppler, Daniel Vivanco, Slawomir Mikolaj Stawiarski
  • Patent number: 11910483
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may identify one or more parameters indicating a mobility of a served node relative to a serving node. The wireless node may classify the served node within a category, among a plurality of categories, based at least in part on the one or more parameters. In some aspects, the plurality of categories may include at least a first category for served nodes that have a low mobility relative to the serving node and a second category for served nodes that have a high mobility relative to the serving node. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Wanshi Chen, Karl Georg Hampel, Luca Blessent, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11910263
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for network assisted side-link resource configuration for unicast and/or multi-cast/groupcast communications in V2X networks. A UE may, after establishing an RRC connection with a base station, transmit, to the base station, V2X connection information. The V2X connection information may include a V2X identifier associated with the UE and a V2X identifier associated with a target UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, a side-link configuration for data transmission with the target UE. The side-link configuration may include a resource allocation defined in time and frequency (e.g., a transmit/receive pool). The UE may communicate with the target UE using the resource allocation included in the side-link configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 11902841
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive system information associated with a set of neighboring cells included in a non-terrestrial network (NTN). The UE may be connected to or camped in a current cell included in the NTN. The current cell may be associated with a current platform. The UE may monitor a neighboring cell, of the set of neighboring cells, based at least in part on the system information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Liangping Ma, Huilin Xu, Jun Ma, Qiang Wu, Xiao Feng Wang, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Dan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11902915
    Abstract: This present disclosure discloses example communication methods and communications apparatuses. One example communication method includes a terminal device determining a first offset of a first power class and a second offset of the first power class when a power class of the terminal device is the first power class. A compensation amount of the first power class is determined based on the first offset and the second offset. A determination as to whether to camp on a first cell is made based on the second offset and the compensation amount of the first power class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haifeng Yu, Yiling Wu, Yuchen Wang, Zhenyu Li, Chenwan Li
  • Patent number: 11902012
    Abstract: A method for performing a handover operation includes using one or more processors of a non-terrestrial node to initiate communication with a first terrestrial node of a network, the terrestrial node having a first unique node identifier and a cell identifier and store a mapping that associates the first unique node identifier with the cell identifier. The method also includes using the one or more processors to receive an indicator that the mapping is subject to change and update the mapping to associate a second unique node identifier of a second terrestrial node of the network with the cell identifier based on the received indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Aalyria Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sharath Ananth, Brian Barritt, Pavan Nuggehalli
  • Patent number: 11902134
    Abstract: Communications services are provided to a device. For instance, where a communications resource is being used by a device via a first communications service provider (CSP) component associated with a first CSP, based on a probabilistic analysis of loading parameters received from a device at the first CSP component. A likelihood that the device will move can be predicted, comprising determining the likelihood is not less than a threshold likelihood. If likely to move, and based on the loading parameters, a loading profile associated with a user of the device is updated resulting in updated likelihoods of usages of the communication resource by the device via respective other CSP components other than the first CSP component. Further, based on the updated likelihoods of usages of the communication resource, at least part of the communications resource can be allocated to the respective other CSP components to facilitate communications with the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Sangar Dowlatkhah, Nigel Bradley, Ari Craine, Robert Koch
  • Patent number: 11902370
    Abstract: A shared data management system configured to receive frames comprising data from one or more producer devices and to transmit reconstructed frames to one or more consumer devices, a producer device and a consumer device being connected to the shared data management system by way of a communication network using a communication protocol. The shared data management system comprises a memory system having one or more memories. The shared data management system advantageously comprises a central controller configured to store at least some of the data encapsulated in a frame received from a producer device in a target memory area of the memory system, the central controller being configured to compute, for each datum to be stored, the address of the target memory based on an index associated with the datum in the received frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Hana Krichene, Paul Dubrulle
  • Patent number: 11895638
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, such as a user equipment may identify a size capability for a buffer associated with a protocol layer of the UE. The buffer may be a layer two buffer and the protocol layer may be a layer two protocol layer. The UE may transmit, to a base station serving the UE, an indication of the identified size capability for the buffer. In some cases, the UE may transmit the indication of the identified size capability in a UE capability report in radio resource control signaling. The UE may then communicate, with the base station 105, data that is scheduled based on the transmitted indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Arnaud Meylan, Akshay Kumar, Pulkit Hanswal, Shailesh Maheshwari, Arun Prasanth Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 11895617
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a message identification method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by user equipment UE, a paging message sent by an access network device; determining, by the UE, a core network entity to which the paging message belongs in a plurality of core network entities serving the UE; and establishing, by the UE, a data connection to the core network entity to which the paging message belongs. According to the message identification method and apparatus provided in the embodiments of this application, the UE can connect to different core network entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingzeng Dai, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 11895719
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media herein modify the utilized communication protocol of one or more wireless base stations and/or UE devices based on signal quality information or data rate information associated with one or more UE devices. The signal quality information or data rate information of the UE devices can be analyzed by a base station and the base station can respond to changes in signal quality or data rate of the UE devices by modifying the configuration of one or more base stations and/or UE devices from a first communication protocol to a second communication protocol quality of transmissions between the UE devices and a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Roopesh Kumar Polaganga, Deepak Nadh Tammana
  • Patent number: 11895540
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a network handover method, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: when a ping-pong handover is detected, recording the number of ping-pong handovers; when the number of ping-pong handovers reaches a pre-set number of times, acquiring an optimized reporting parameter; measuring the signal strength of the current camping cell and a neighbor cell to obtain measurement results; and based on the measurement results and the optimized reporting parameter, determining whether an A3 event is reported. By the method, when the number of ping-pong handovers of a terminal reaches the pre-set number of times, whether the A3 event is reported is determined according to the optimized reporting parameter and the measurement results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ONEPLUS TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zeke Min
  • Patent number: 11889364
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may detect that a timer has expired prior to completing a handover of the UE from a source base station (BS) to a target BS. In some aspects, the UE may selectively declare, based at least in part on detecting that the timer has expired, a radio link failure. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Amer Catovic, Umesh Phuyal, Karthika Paladugu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Masato Kitazoe