Handoff Patents (Class 455/436)
  • Patent number: 10912005
    Abstract: The mobile communication device supports a plurality of RATs and includes a first wireless transceiver, a second wireless transceiver, and a controller. The first wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception to and from a first cellular network utilizing a first RAT. The second wireless transceiver obtains a non-cellular signal indicator. The controller determines whether the first RAT is a predetermined one of the plurality of RATs when the mobile communication device camps on the first cellular network, and if not, predicts whether there is a second cellular network available, which utilizes the predetermined RAT, based on the non-cellular signal indicator. In response to predicting that the second cellular network is available based on the non-cellular signal indicator, the controller further enables the mobile communication device to camp on the second cellular network via the first wireless transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chiu-Jen Lin, Ching-Liang Chang, Wei-Lun Liu
  • Patent number: 10904803
    Abstract: A method of selecting primary and secondary cellular networks for a vehicle comprises measuring cellular connectivity parameters for cellular communication between a first subscriber identity module (SIM) and a first cellular network and for cellular communication between a second SIM and a second cellular network, comparing measured cellular connectivity parameters for the first SIM to measured cellular connectivity parameters for the second SIM, designating one of the first SIM and the first cellular network and the second SIM and the second cellular network as a primary network, and designating the other one of the first SIM and the first cellular network and the second SIM and the second cellular network as a secondary network, measuring cellular connectivity parameters for the primary and secondary networks, comparing the measured cellular connectivity parameters for the primary and secondary networks, switching designation of the primary and secondary network based on measured cellular connectivity para
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Alex J. Veloso, Dipankar Pal, Woongjin Lim, George Knish, Scott T. Droste
  • Patent number: 10904895
    Abstract: Channel state information is reported in periodic and aperiodic reports for multiple component carriers or serving cells. Channel state information may be reported for a subset of aggregated downlink carriers or serving cells. For an aperiodic report, the carrier(s)/serving cell(s) for which channel state information is reported are determined based on the request for the aperiodic report. When a CQI/PMI/RI report and a HARQ ACK/NACK report coincide in a subframe, the HARQ ACK/NACK report is transmitted on PUCCH, and the CQI/PMI/RI report is transmitted on PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar, Robert L Olesen, Paul Marinier, Ghyslain Pelletier, Kyle Jung-Lin Pan, Marian Rudolf, Muhammad U Fazili, Lakshmi R Iyer
  • Patent number: 10904804
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method in a wireless communication system. In the wireless communication system, a master device provides a data forwarding service for one or plural slave devices, a master device side apparatus including: a monitoring unit, configured to monitor a predetermined trigger event relating to a change in state of the master device; a handover pre-measurement control unit, configured to respond to the predetermined trigger event by controlling the handover pre-measurement of the one or plural slave devices; and a handover measurement control unit, configured to control, based on the handover premeasurement results, the handover measurement of the one or plural slave devices. The apparatus and method can accelerate start time of effective link handover in a dynamic network, reduce unnecessary link handover, and reduce delays and data loss caused by link failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xin Guo, Yuxin Wei, Jinhui Chen, Chen Sun
  • Patent number: 10897736
    Abstract: Provided is a sector discovery apparatus and method, the method including setting, by an AP in a WLAN system, an omni-beacon interval for transmitting an omnidirectional beacon and sector beacon intervals for transmitting a sector beacon with respect to one of a plurality of sectors which are spatially divided, transmitting the sector beacon to a current sector among the plurality of sectors, transmitting, to the current sector, a transmission frame indicating sectorized transmission or a transmission frame indicating omnidirectional transmission, in a sector interval between the sector beacon intervals, and receiving, from a terminal located in the current sector, a response frame indicating an association performed by receiving the transmission frame indicating the sectorized transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jae Seung Lee, Min ho Cheong, Hyoung Jin Kwon, Jae Woo Park, Sok Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 10897781
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an method and an apparatus for upward access, and the method for upward access according to one embodiment of the present invention can comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a synchronization QO channel, a broadcasting control channel and a secondary reference signal; selecting a transmission beam which transmits an upward access signal by using received results from at least one of the synchronization channel, the broadcasting control channel and the QO secondary reference signal; transmitting the upward access signal by using the selected transmission beam; and receiving, from the base station, an access response and initial set-up information of the control channel as a response for the upward access signal. According to the one embodiment of the present invention, the upward access steps can efficiently perform a beam selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungsoo Jung, Jonghyung Kwun, Taeyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 10892811
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for performing a beam recovery procedure using a second CC are disclosed. A UE may perform a beam recovery procedure using two component carriers (CCs): for example, CC1 may be a beam formed millimeter wave (MMW) carrier having a beam recovery procedure and CC2 may be an assisting carrier such as a sub-6 GHz carrier. In a first example, a UE may trigger beam recovery for CC1 (on CC2), generate a beam measurement report, and transmit the beam report on resources allocated for uplink transmission on CC2. In a second example, a new scheduling request (SR) may be defined on CC1 for CC2 beam recovery. In a third example, RACH resources or procedures on CC2 may be used to perform the beam recovery for CC1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bilal Sadiq, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Sundar Subramanian, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Rahul Malik, Heechoon Lee, Yang Yang
  • Patent number: 10887752
    Abstract: Wireless mesh networking protocols for directional transmissions in the PHY layer over multiple hops between a mix of mesh and non-mesh stations (STAs). Joint beamforming (BF) training and mesh network discovery is described including adaptive signaling with the mesh network. The mesh networking protocol can be utilized in a mix of wireless nodes including portals, access points (APs), personal control points (PCPs), and mesh stations (STAs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ramy Medhat Abdallah, Mohamed Abouelseoud
  • Patent number: 10887940
    Abstract: A policy determination system (500) according to an aspect of the present invention is arranged in a core network (10) and capable of communicating with a control apparatus (100) arranged in a radio access network (20). The control apparatus (100) is configured to perform control related to a state transition between a CONNECTED state and an IDLE state of a mobile terminal (300) based on a state control policy supplied from the policy determination system. The policy determination system (500) includes a policy determination unit (502) that determines a state control policy according to a situation of the mobile terminal (300), and a notification unit (503 or 205) that notifies the control apparatus (100) of the state control policy. This enables, for example, to reduce the number of signalings which are caused due to repetition of state transition (CONNECTED-IDLE transition) of the mobile terminal and are to be processed by the core network, based on the determination by the core network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takanori Iwai
  • Patent number: 10887731
    Abstract: There is a problem that when a closed subscriber group (CSG) cell available to subscribers is installed in a macro cell area, communication cannot be performed due to the interference between a macro cell and the CSG cell in an area thereof. The CSG cell that is provided in the CSG cell area and transmits a downlink synchronization signal using a radio frame assigns control signals to a first subframe and a second subframe among a plurality of subframes constituting the radio frame, and the macro cell that is provided in the macro cell area and transmits a downlink synchronization signal using the radio frame assigns control signals to a third subframe and a fourth subframe, which are shifted from the first subframe and the second subframe by a predetermined number of subframes, respectively, among the plurality of subframes constituting the radio wave, the CSG cell and the macro cell being configured to perform transmission in synchronization with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Miho Maeda, Mitsuru Mochizuki, Taiga Saegusa, Yasushi Iwane
  • Patent number: 10887919
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT), and may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method according to disclosed aspects includes receiving a first control message including a first random access response window for a first cell group, receiving a second control message for adding a second cell group, including information on a second random access response window size for the second cell group, transmitting, on a cell of the second cell group, a random access preamble, and monitoring, on the cell of the second cell group, a random access response based on the second random access response window size for the second cell group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soeng Hun Kim, Gert Jan Van Lieshout, Sang Bum Kim, Kyeong In Jeong
  • Patent number: 10887831
    Abstract: A network device identifies, prior to a user device establishing a connection with a network advanced network features associated with network areas. The network device selects a network indication that indicates one or more of the advanced network features associated with one of the network areas, and provides the network indication to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lily Zhu, Christopher M. Schmidt, Balaji L. Raghavachari, Andrew E. Youtz, Xin Wang, Samirkumar Patel
  • Patent number: 10887761
    Abstract: A first base station for handling a temporary UE capability comprises at least one storage device for storing instructions and at least one processing circuit coupled to the storage device. The at least one processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions stored in the at least one storage device. The instructions comprise receiving a UE capability from a communication device, a second BS or a core network; receiving a first message indicating a temporary UE capability from the communication device; transmitting a first configuration to the communication device according to the temporary UE capability; transmitting a Handover Request message to the second BS to initiate a handover to the second BS; and receiving a Handover Request Acknowledge message from the second BS, in response to the Handover Request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 10880801
    Abstract: Various communication techniques and related systems for a fusion between a 5th generation (5G) communication system and Internet of Things (IoT) technology are provided. A user equipment (UE) is required to select a dedicated core network so as to receive a suitable service. In a method for transmitting and receiving a signal, an enhanced Node B (eNB) of a mobile communication system transmits a first request message to a first mobile management entity (MME), receives a reroute command message based on the first request message from the first MME, and transmits a second message to a second MME based on the reroute command message. Herein, the reroute command message contains the first request message, at least one MME identifier, and a UE identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangsoo Jeong, Sung Hwan Won, Hyojin Lee, Seunghoon Choi, Jinyoung Oh, Hyoungju Ji, Younsun Kim, Cheolkyu Shin, Donghan Kim, Hoondong Noh
  • Patent number: 10880824
    Abstract: An electronic device in a neighbor awareness networking (NAN) cluster is provided. The electronic device includes a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) transceiver; and a processor, coupled with the Wi-Fi transceiver, configured to perform a synchronization with at least one device in the NAN cluster, wherein the at least one device comprises an external electronic device, after performing the synchronization, receive, from the external electronic device through the Wi-Fi transceiver, a frame including first data within at least one discovery window (DW) among a plurality of DWs, wherein the first data comprises channel information for second data, and time information for the second data, and based on the channel information and the time information, control the Wi-Fi transceiver to receive the second data at a channel corresponding to the channel information of the received first data during a time duration corresponding to the time information of the received first data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventors: Bu-Seop Jung, Young-Kwan Chung, Dong-Il Son, Yong-Hae Choi, Ju-Ho Kim, Christopher Kang, Hyuk Kang
  • Patent number: 10880776
    Abstract: A terminal management device 40-1 includes: a setting unit 41-1 which generates group information by setting, based on a standard, a group to which a mobile terminal device to be managed belongs, wherein, when a process for managing the communication state of mobile terminal devices belonging to the same group is taken over by another device 40-2, the setting unit 41-1 notifies a correspondent device 50 of the group information so that the correspondent device 50, as for the mobile terminal devices belonging to the same group, can modify the object of control from the device 40-1 to the other terminal management device 40-2; a storage unit 42-1 in which the group information is stored; and a control unit 43-1 which implements control such that the process of managing the communication state of the mobile terminal devices is taken over by the other device 40-2 comprehensively on a group unit basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Sunagawa, Satoshi Kuroda
  • Patent number: 10880768
    Abstract: To enable more efficient collection of information for optimal area design of a downlink only cell. An apparatus of the present invention includes: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire target cell information indicating a target cell of minimization of drive tests (MDT) measurements in an idle mode of a terminal apparatus; and a communication processing unit configured to transmit the target cell information to the terminal apparatus. The target cell includes a downlink only cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 10880947
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for setting a processing time for a wireless device, WD, to respond to a radio resource control, RRC, connection resume message are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method in a base station includes determining when short processing time conditions exist in relation to the establishment or reconfiguration of the RRC connection for the WD; when short processing time conditions exist, sending to the WD a message indicating a short processing time; and when short processing time conditions do not exist, sending to the WD a message indicating a legacy processing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Gustav Wikström, Magnus Stattin
  • Patent number: 10880788
    Abstract: A system comprises an integrated small cell and WiFi (ISW) gateway (GW). The ISW GW is integrated with a mobility management entity (MME) and serving gateway (SGW) and has interfaces with both a 3GPP access network and a TWAN. The ISW GW operates as a common control gateway and a common user gateway for both LTE networks and TWANs. User equipment (UE) by means of the ISW GW is able to access the capabilities of a packet data network (PDN) through either the LTE network or TWAN. Further, the ISW GW provides for an existing communication connection between a UE and a PDN to be handed over from one of the LTE network or TWAN to the other. Still further, the ISW GW supports simultaneously maintaining two communication paths, one via the LTE network and one via the TWAN, between a UE and a packet network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: John L. Tomici, Ahmed Mohamed, Michael F. Starsinic, Qing Li
  • Patent number: 10880891
    Abstract: Introduced here are techniques to provide automated mesh point survey and guided installation for assisting the installation and configuration of a wireless mesh network. Additional implementation techniques are also introduced including, for example, link rate estimation, roaming, and dedicated backhaul link implementation in such wireless mesh network, are also discussed. Among other benefits, this disclosure provides an integral solution where multiple wireless local area network (WLAN) mesh point devices are deployed in a relatively large environment with potential dead spots, such as a home or an office.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: NETGEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Peiman Amini, Joseph Amalan Arul Emmanuel
  • Patent number: 10880866
    Abstract: A user apparatus performing communications with a base station in a mobile communication system which supports carrier aggregation is provided. The user apparatus includes a processing unit configured to receive from the base station an instruction for adding one or more sub cells associated with a specific secondary cell group; a management unit configured to, upon receiving the instruction, store information in which the specific secondary cell group is associated with the one or more sub cells; and a control unit configured to, in the case where a command for performing an operation for the specific secondary cell group is received from the base station, perform the operation for any one of the one or more sub cells based on the association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Kazuki Takeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10873889
    Abstract: A handover apparatus and method, where the handover method includes receiving, by a target primary base station, a handover request from a source primary base station, where the handover request includes first configuration information of a source secondary base station, and the source primary base station and the source secondary base station jointly provide services for user equipment, sending, by the target primary base station, a first indication to the source secondary base station, where the first indication instructs the source secondary base station to remain unchanged, and sending, by the target primary base station, a handover acknowledgement to the source primary base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingzeng Dai, Jing Liu, Yi Guo, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 10873937
    Abstract: A method for a User Equipment (UE) operating in a wireless communication system, the method includes receiving an Radio Resource Control (RRC) message for reconfiguring a new value of a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) reordering timer, while the PDCP reordering timer is running; and setting a value of reordering_PDCP_RX_COUNT to a COUNT value associated to RX_HFN and Next_PDCP_RX_SN when the RRC message is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungjune Yi, Sunyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 10869238
    Abstract: A communication system including a first base station, a second base station and user equipment (UE). The first base station including: a transmitter to transmit to the second base station a first signal comprising information about device-to-device (D2D) communication of the UE, a receiver to receive from the second base station a second signal including a configuration information, that includes information on a resource pool configured in a second mode by the second base station, or a resource location of a resource allocated in the first mode by the second base station; and a transmitter to transmit to the UE a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Message including the configuration information after receiving the second signal; the second base station to receive from the first base station the first signal to transmit the second signal; and a receiver configured to receive from the UE a third signal for wireless connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Haibo Xu, Ningjuan Chang, Yanling Lu
  • Patent number: 10867602
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for waking up via a speech. The method includes: obtaining a speech signal; decoding the speech signal according to a pre-generated searching space to obtain a speech recognition result, in which the searching space includes a path where an inversion model is located, the inversion model includes a first inversion model generated by training based on one or more word segmentation results of each of one or more wake-up phrases; when the first preset number of words of the speech recognition result is obtained, determining whether the preset number of words contains at least part of words in one of the one or more wake-up phrases; and determining cancellation of a wake-up operation directly if does not contain at least part of words in one of the one or more wake-up phrases, and ending the decoding of the speech signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bin Yuan
  • Patent number: 10869259
    Abstract: A wireless terminal communicates over a radio interface with a radio access node of a radio access network (RAN). The wireless terminal comprises receiver circuitry, transmitter circuitry, and processor circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive first type system information (SI) from the radio access node. The first type SI comprises: availability of second type SI messages, a second type SI message comprising at least one system information block (SIB) and an indication of a delivery mode for each of the second type SI messages, the delivery mode being either broadcast or on-demand basis. The transmitter circuitry is configured to transmit an SI request message to request at least one second type SI message indicated as on-demand delivery in a case where the delivery mode of the second type SI message is on-demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishii
  • Patent number: 10869240
    Abstract: A method and a device for adjusting a mobility parameter and a computer storage medium are provided. The method includes: selecting, according to a load condition of a current cell, a target neighboring cell for load balance; comparing a mobility parameter of the target neighboring cell with a load balance threshold of the current cell to obtain a comparison result; and adjusting, according to the comparison result, the mobility parameter of the target neighboring cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Shanghai ZTE Software CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming Liu
  • Patent number: 10863429
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to manage and use access information in a transitional and/or multigenerational network environment. In some example implementations, an indication associated with the availability of services associated with a second network is received during the performance of procedures associated with a layer of a first network. Based at least in part on the indication associated with the availability of second network services in the location associated with a mobile device, a control signal is generated causing a reconfiguration of a mobile device. Some example embodiments arise in the context of the fifth generation (5G) networks deployed alongside Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, such that the mobile device can be reconfigured based at least in part on the availability or unavailability of 5G service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Hannu Hietalahti, Samuli Turtinen, Antti Toskala
  • Patent number: 10863366
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to receiver beamforming for serving and neighbor cell measurements. An exemplary method generally includes communicating with one or more base stations using a first beam type, initiating a transition to communicating with at least one of the one or more base stations using a second beam type in response to an indication of a trigger event, and communicating with the at least one of the one or more base stations using the second beam type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sumeeth Nagaraja, Raghu Narayan Challa, Ruhua He, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Yong Li, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Bilal Sadiq
  • Patent number: 10856207
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless mesh network management method for monitoring service traffic between a service device and a user terminal device having recognized a beacon device in its vicinity, detecting an abnormal beacon device or an abnormal wireless AP device that does not operate normally according to a change in the service traffic, and changing a state of the abnormal beacon device or the abnormal wireless AP device, a device for implementing the method, and a computer-readable storage medium on which a computer program for implementing the method is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kichon Kang
  • Patent number: 10856196
    Abstract: A method performed by a source master node (MN) in an inter-MN handover procedure is discussed. The method includes transmitting a handover request message to a target MN, wherein the handover request message includes an identifier (ID) of a secondary node (SN), receiving a handover request acknowledge message from the target MN in a response to the handover request message, wherein the handover request acknowledge message includes first information indicating that the SN is kept in the inter-MN handover procedure, and transmitting a SN release request message to the SN, wherein the SN release request message includes second information indicating that the SN is kept in the inter-MN handover procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jian Xu, Daewook Byun
  • Patent number: 10856250
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to sending of a one time identifier of a UE during the NAS procedure. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to determining whether to use same one time identifier or different one time identifier during registration retry procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kundan Tiwari, Toshiyuki Tamura, Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran
  • Patent number: 10856249
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to sending of a one time identifier of a UE during the NAS procedure. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to determining whether to use same one time identifier or different one time identifier during registration retry procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kundan Tiwari, Toshiyuki Tamura, Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran
  • Patent number: 10856313
    Abstract: A first network node (110; 111; 112; 130), a wireless device (120) and methods thereof, for managing one or more uplink resources between the wireless device (120) and a wireless communication network (100) are provided. The first network node (110; 11; 112; 130) compiles (204; 401) resource information about uplink resources available for the wireless device (120) to select and request for uplink scheduling. Said resource information associates each one of multiple such uplink resources with one or more downlink reference signals. The first network node (110; 111; 112; 130) sends (205; 402) the compiled resource information to the wireless device (120). The wireless device (120) 10 is thereby enabled to select, based on the resource information and said one or more downlink reference signals, at least one of said uplink resources to request for uplink scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Reza Moosavi, Andreas Bergström, Erik Eriksson, Pradeepa Ramachandra
  • Patent number: 10856295
    Abstract: A communication method includes: determining, by a first base station, a first time adjustment parameter, where the first time adjustment parameter is determined based on a time sequence of a first subframe, and the first subframe is a transmission subframe between the first base station and a second base station; and sending, by the first base station, the first time adjustment parameter to a terminal, where the first time adjustment parameter is used by the terminal to determine a timing of a second subframe, and the second subframe is a transmission subframe between the terminal and the first base station. A micro base station sends a time adjustment parameter to a terminal, and the terminal determines a timing of a micro access link subframe, to implement space division multiplexing of a backhaul link and a micro access link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xinqian Xie, Zhiheng Guo, Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 10856255
    Abstract: A paging procedure of a mobile telecommunications system is modified to page a terminal using all the transceiver node cells in the coverage area allocated to the terminal that operate in the frequency bands indicated by frequency band capability data for the terminal, but not using the transceiver node cells in the coverage area allocated to the terminal that operate only in other ones of the frequency bands. In one embodiment a control entity is operable to initiate an initial paging procedure by paging based on the characteristic of the terminal obtained by the control entity, and to initiate a subsequent paging procedure if no paging response is received from the terminal. In another embodiment, coverage area allocation means allocates each of the transceiver node cells to one or more of the coverage areas in dependence upon on which of the frequency bands the cell is capable of communicating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: VODAFONE IP LICENSING LIMITED
    Inventors: Christopher David Pudney, Eric Albert Bouton, Alexej Kulakov
  • Patent number: 10848374
    Abstract: According to some aspects, disclosed methods and systems may include receiving a message indicating a loss of connectivity to a network of a distressed device associated with a location. The method may include connecting, via one or more network devices, to the distressed device associated with the location. The method may also include transmitting information between the distressed device and the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. O'Reirdan, Phillip A. Sanderson
  • Patent number: 10849026
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus and techniques that may be applied in systems that may help enable efficient communication between a base station (BS) and certain devices, such as wearable devices and/or machine type communication (MTC) user equipments (UEs), having a single receiver (RX) for long term evolution (LTE). An exemplary method, performed by a BS, generally includes receiving, from a UE, an indication of a category of the UE, wherein the category of the UE indicates at least one of: a maximum throughput supported by the UE or a number of layers supported by the UE; assuming a number of receivers at the UE based on the category of the UE; determining one or more transmit parameters based on the number of receivers of the UE; and communicating with the UE according to the one or more transmit parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Keiichi Kubota, Gavin Bernard Horn, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 10848414
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a network node configured to be included in a set of network nodes operatively coupled to a core network node. The network node is configured to receive a first packet and a second packet from a host device operatively coupled to the network node. The network node is configured to send the first packet to the core network node via a first path of a tunnel between the network node and the core network node. The first path of the tunnel has a first cost. The network node is configured to send the second packet to the core network node via a second path of the tunnel. The second path has a second cost different than the first cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: James Murphy, Nischal Sheth, Abhijit Choudhury, Raghavendra Mallya, Pranay Pogde, Phalguni Nanda, Jayabharat Boddu, Pradeep Sindhu
  • Patent number: 10849058
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for providing a specific service through a wireless networks by a terminal. The method performed by a terminal comprises receiving broadcasting information from a primary network or a secondary network, determining a first wireless network among at least one available wireless network mapped to the specific service according to the priority information, and providing the specific service through the determined first wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ki-Dong Lee, Sanggook Kim
  • Patent number: 10849185
    Abstract: The disclosed techniques provide a method and device for reporting information and for discontinuous transmission. In the disclosed techniques, at least one of the following information is to be added to the random access procedure or the RRC connection related procedure, that is the information about data amount available for transmission, Power headroom, data amount available for transmission and the power headroom, whether SingleTone or MultiTone is supported, whether CP transmission mode or UP transmission mode is configured, where the RRC connection related procedure includes, but is not limited to, any of the following, that is the procedure of RRC connection, RRC connection reestablishment, RRC connection resume. Reporting the uplink message solves the problem of reporting the information about the data available for transmission and/or power headroom in the random access procedure or RRC connection related procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Qian Dai
  • Patent number: 10848614
    Abstract: A dynamically created and automatically updated personalized cloud of mobile tasks may be displayed on an interactive visual display via a personalized cloud generator application. The personalized cloud generator application may receive and/or capture information representing a mobile task performed by a mobile computing device user. The personalized cloud generator application may then store the information and determine a relevance of a given performed mobile task. If the relevance of the performed mobile task meets a prescribed threshold, the personal cloud generator application may display a selectable visual representation (e.g., selectable icon) of the performed mobile task. Given a user's activity, the visual representation may be automatically updated (displayed, removed, moved, resized, etc.) based on the information received and/or captured. Subsequent selection of the displayed visual representation allows quick and easy access or performance of the associated mobile task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Lisa Stifelman
  • Patent number: 10841847
    Abstract: Provided are a data transmission method performed by a base station in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus using the method. The base station transmits a message requesting information for data transmission to a second base station and receives, from the second base station, a response message to the message requesting the information for data transmission, wherein the information for data transmission is to transmit data on a terminal in a light connection state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seokjung Kim, Jian Xu, Daewook Byun
  • Patent number: 10841942
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for scheduling and time-domain configuration in an integrated access and backhaul network. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes receiving downlink control signaling indicating a time domain resource allocation for a wireless resource to communicate with a donor base station, determining a scheduling offset to use for the wireless resource within a set of available time domain resources not designated for communicating with one or more child nodes and not designated to a communication of one or more other nodes based on the indicated time domain resource allocation, and communicating with the donor base station using the wireless resource at the determined scheduling offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Wanshi Chen, Junyi Li, Juergen Cezanne, Karl Georg Hampel, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 10841834
    Abstract: Facilitating flexible maximum transmission unit packet core design in a communications network is provided herein. A system can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise receiving a transmission unit setting determined for a network device based on a geographic location of the network device. The transmission unit setting can indicate a size criterion of a network layer protocol data unit that is able to be communicated in a single network transaction by the network device. The operations can also comprise sending communication packets to the network device using the transmission unit setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Marc Gottwerth, Mario Manuel Jardon, Ling Sun
  • Patent number: 10841025
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for testing a central unit using a distributed unit emulation are disclosed. One exemplary method includes receiving, by a distributed unit emulation component of a mobile network device, an ingress signal from a central unit device over an evolved common public radio interface (eCPRI) link and communicating, by the distributed unit emulation component, a time domain based ingress signal containing data originally included in the received ingress signal to a plurality of user equipment (UE) emulations. The method also includes utilizing, by at least one of the plurality of UE emulations, the time domain based ingress signal to generate test traffic data for stress testing the central unit device. The method further includes communicating a time domain based egress signal including the test traffic data to the central unit device via the distributed unit emulation component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: David Hammond
  • Patent number: 10841868
    Abstract: An electronic device in a neighbor awareness networking (NAN) cluster is provided. The electronic device includes a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) transceiver; and a processor, coupled with the Wi-Fi transceiver, configured to perform a synchronization with at least one device in the NAN cluster, wherein the at least one device comprises an external electronic device, after performing the synchronization, receive, from the external electronic device through the Wi-Fi transceiver, a frame including first data within at least one discovery window (DW) among a plurality of DWs, wherein the first data comprises channel information for second data, and time information for the second data, and based on the channel information and the time information, control the Wi-Fi transceiver to receive the second data at a channel corresponding to the channel information of the received first data during a time duration corresponding to the time information of the received first data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Bu-Seop Jung, Young-Kwan Chung, Dong-Il Son, Yong-Hae Choi, Ju-Ho Kim, Christopher Kang, Hyuk Kang
  • Patent number: 10841858
    Abstract: A data processing method when the handover or change appears between systems includes: a Mobility Management network element sends a data forwarding tunnel identifier of a target side processing network element to a user plane anchor network element, obtains a data forwarding tunnel identifier of the user plane anchor network element, and sends the data forwarding tunnel identifier of the user plane anchor network element to a source data forwarding network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenfu Wu, Weihua Hu
  • Patent number: 10841905
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprises a processor configured to buffer data for uplink transmission. The processor is configured to trigger a first scheduling request. The processor is configured to start a timer based on the buffered data. A transmitter is configured to transmit the first scheduling request to a network. The processor is configured, in response to receipt of an uplink grant sufficient to transmit the buffered data, to stop the timer. The processor is configured while the timer is running, to not have the transmitter transmit another scheduling request The processor is configured, after the timer expires, to have the transmitter transmit a second scheduling request to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen E. Terry, Guodong Zhang, Stephen G. Dick
  • Patent number: 10833714
    Abstract: A multi-card user equipment and a method for processing its service are provided. The method includes, when receiving service request corresponding to a first subscriber identity card, implementing data transmission channel between user equipments and a network which is corresponding to the first subscriber identity card to process the service request; the data transmission channel corresponding to at least two of the subscriber identity cards shares a common wireless connection. With the method, providing services for multiple cards at the same time can be available, meanwhile hardware cost and complexity is decreased, and wireless transmission resources is saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi He, Xianliang Chen, Xichun Gao, Jinjin Ni, Yiguo Zhao, Yutai Hao, Jin Xu, Chen Tang