Soft Handoff Patents (Class 455/442)
  • Patent number: 11496868
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus can be used to provide handover of on-hold sessions in converged networks. In various example implementations, an on-hold session between a mobile communication device and a fixed packet network-connected peer CPE can be handed over from a fixed packet domain to a cellular domain, and vice versa. In various example implementations, an on-hold session between a mobile communication device and a PSTN-connected peer CPE can be handed over from a fixed packet domain to a cellular domain, and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventor: Shi Jin Chen
  • Patent number: 11463933
    Abstract: A communication controller includes a position-information acquiring unit, a movement-information acquiring unit, a selector, and a determination unit. The position-information acquiring unit acquires position information of each of a plurality of base-station devices. The movement-information acquiring unit acquires movement information of a terminal device. The selector selects, as a handover candidate, at least one base-station device from among the plurality of base-station devices in accordance with the position information and the movement information. The determination unit determines a base-station device that is a handover destination, in accordance with a result of a cell search performed on the at least one base-station device selected by the selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Yamamoto, Shuichi Takehana, Shigeto Suzuki, Kennichi Iijima
  • Patent number: 11451985
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a backhaul path switching method, a wireless relay, a network-side node and a terminal. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, a second backhaul path is pre-established, a backhaul path is switched in the case that a radio link fails or signal quality of a related wireless relay does not meet requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Boubacar Kimba Dit Adamou
  • Patent number: 11412356
    Abstract: A communications system, a core network device and a non-transitory machine-readable medium are provided. In the communications system, a master base station gather traffic statistics information on a service of a user terminal which is transmitted between the user terminal and the master base station through a secondary base station, and sends a message to a core network device. The message includes the traffic statistic information for calculating a charge on the service by the core network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoli Shi, Hongzhuo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11399319
    Abstract: A mechanism for controlling configuration of dual connectivity for a user equipment device (UE), where the dual connectivity includes the UE being served cooperatively by (i) a first access node over a first air-interface connection between the UE and the first access node and (ii) a second access node over a second air-interface connection between the UE and the second access node. An example method includes (a) predicting whether both (i) in the dual connectivity, a data split will put a threshold greater portion of data flow of the UE on the second air-interface connection than on the first air-interface connection and (ii) coverage strength of the UE from the second access node will be threshold lower than coverage strength of the UE from the first access node and (b) using the prediction as a basis to control whether or not to establish the dual connectivity for the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11394615
    Abstract: A method for balancing sensors within a sensor system, the method including receiving, at a gateway, data from a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors being connected to one of a plurality of sensor modules or the gateway; determining, at the gateway, that a signal strength from a first sensor falls below a threshold, the first sensor being one of the plurality of sensors; and based on the determining, allocating the first sensor to connect to a different one of the plurality of sensor modules, or to the gateway if connected to one of the plurality of sensor modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Patent number: 11368372
    Abstract: Systems for cluster computing. A method for detection and remediation of degraded nodes in a cluster commences upon measuring operational aspects of the nodes in the cluster, then determining, based on the measurements and other factors, a suspect set of nodes comprising one or more suspect nodes from the nodes in the cluster that have measurements that are determined to be outliers with respect to remaining nodes that are determined not to be the outliers. A density-based spatial clustering analysis is performed over the suspect set and remediation actions are initiated when results of the density-based spatial clustering analysis identifies a suspect node as being a degraded node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.
    Inventors: Biswa Ranjan Panda, Karan Gupta, Abhinay Nagpal, Deepthi Srinivasan, Roger Sean Liao, Vinayak Hindurao Khot
  • Patent number: 11310750
    Abstract: Techniques for determining power levels of radios, including a time domain duplexing (TDD) system, in shared frequency spectrum is provided. A TDD radio, of the TDD system, in a neighborhood having a largest interference contribution in the frequency spectrum at the point. Transmit power levels are determined for (a) the selected TDD radio, (b) other radios in the neighborhood that are not part of the TDD system, and (c) at least one radio in the TDD system that is not the TDD radio having the largest interference contribution in the frequency spectrum. Thus, interference margin may be fairly allocated to radios in neighborhood(s) about protection points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ariful Hannan, Raina Rahman, Navin Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 11303403
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a signaling arrangement for a wireless system are provided. One method includes transmitting a short control signaling (SCS) message to one or more user equipment (UE). The SCS message may comprise at least a reference signal part and an optional control signal part. The reference signal part may comprise reference signals that allow the UE to perform at least one of: cell search, synchronization, fine time/frequency tracking, radio resource management (RRM) measurements, radio link monitoring, or channel state information (CSI) reporting. In an embodiment, the control signal part may indicate at least one of: whether the cell is ON or OFF, whether each subframe in a current or upcoming set of subframes are ON or OFF, TDD uplink-downlink configuration for a current or upcoming radio frame, PLMN ID to identify to which operator's network the cell belongs to, and/or system information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Timo Lunttila, Klaus Hugl, Esa Tiirola, Kari Hooli
  • Patent number: 11277805
    Abstract: Techniques for determining power levels of radios, including a time domain duplexing (TDD) system, in shared frequency spectrum is provided. A TDD radio, of the TDD system, in a neighborhood having a largest interference contribution in the frequency spectrum at the point. Transmit power levels are determined for (a) the selected TDD radio, (b) other radios in the neighborhood that are not part of the TDD system, and (c) at least one radio in the TDD system that is not the TDD radio having the largest interference contribution in the frequency spectrum. Thus, interference margin may be fairly allocated to radios in neighborhood(s) about protection points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ariful Hannan, Raina Rahman, Navin Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 11272454
    Abstract: One illustrative example includes wireless device having a first wake-up receiver and a second wake-up receiver. The first wake-up receiver can detect a first wake-up signal within a first group of wireless signals and responsively activate the second wake-up receiver. The second wake-up receiver can then detect a second wake-up signal within a second group of wireless signals and responsively activate a transceiver, where the transceiver is usable to engage in bidirectional communication with a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Grant Anderson, Grant Smith, Robert Wiser
  • Patent number: 11259225
    Abstract: A method of a network node for changing a first frequency of a first original cell, wherein one or more wireless communication devices are served by the original cell, and wherein the network node controls a plurality of other cells. The method comprises selecting one or more second frequency of an unlicensed spectrum that the network node should switch the original cell to, determining a second cell on the selected one or more second frequency as target cell and causing the target cell to maintain the same neighbor cell relations as the original cell. The method also comprises moving the one or more wireless communication devices from the original cell to the target cell, turning off the original cell when the one or more wireless communication devices have been moved from the original cell to the target cell and informing one or more neighboring network nodes of the frequency change to the one or more second frequency. Also disclosed is a computer program product, an arrangement and a network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Mikael Ziren, Peter Alriksson, Yusheng Liu, David Sugirtharaj
  • Patent number: 11246101
    Abstract: A power control method includes: obtaining, by a first terminal, parameter information required for power control, where the parameter information includes at least one of a first parameter, a second parameter, and a third parameter; and determining, by the first terminal based on the parameter information, uplink transmit power used when uplink transmission is performed on a target beam or a target beam pair; where the first parameter includes a beam reception gain of a network device and/or a beam sending gain of the first terminal; the second parameter is used to indicate interference caused by a second terminal to the first terminal on the target beam; and the third parameter includes beam-specific target power and/or terminal-specific target power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lili Zhang, Guorong Li, Hongcheng Zhuang, Richard Stirling-Gallacher
  • Patent number: 11233620
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices can be utilized to schedule at least one Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) transmission and at least one HARQ feedback message in the same Physical Resource Block (PRB). A HARQ transmission can be scheduled in a mini-slot of the PRB. Accordingly, latencies associated with transmitting and receiving the PRB can be reduced, while the high reliability of HARQ can be retained. Implementations can be applied to 5G technologies such as Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLCs) and enhanced Mobile BroadBand (eMBB), as well as other low-latency communications. A method can include determining a location of a device; selecting, based at least in part on the location of the device, a mini-slot size; scheduling, in one or more mini-slots having the mini-slot size in a PRB, a HARQ transmission; and transmitting, to the device, the HARQ transmission in the one or more mini-slots of the PRB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuqing Xing, Wafik Abdel Shahid, Scott Francis Migaldi
  • Patent number: 11233613
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a pilot signal transmission method and a communication device, by which the problem of inflexibility caused by pre-allocated transmission resources can be avoided, and the waste of resources can be avoided. The method comprises: a first device receives a first message sent by a second device, the first message being used for instructing the first device to receive to send a pilot signal, and the first message comprising resource allocation information of the pilot signal; and the first device sends the pilot signal to the second device or receives the pilot signal sent by the second device according to the resource allocation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11218940
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cell reselection method and device, and a storage medium in the field of communication technology. The cell reselection method includes: a terminal acquires cell reselection parameters carried in a system message of a target cell. Since the cell reselection parameters of the target cell are set according to terminal speeds, the terminal takes its own speed into account when determining the signal quality of the target cell according to the cell reselection parameters. That is, the terminal selects one cell from a serving cell and at least one neighbor cell for residence after considering its own speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 11219080
    Abstract: User equipment (UE) can select a connection type for a retry of a failed call based on system information blocks (SIBs) received from a serving base station of a first radio access layer of a telecommunication network. When the UE experiences a call setup failure of a call attempted through the serving base station of the first radio access layer, the UE can determine whether neighbor information within the SIBs includes information about a neighboring base station of a second radio access layer. If it does, the UE can select a retry connection type as a connection to the neighboring base station of the second radio access layer. If it does not, the UE can select the retry connection type as a connection to an alternate network. The UE can then retry the call through the selected retry connection type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Liu, Hsin-Fu Henry Chiang
  • Patent number: 11219073
    Abstract: Embodiments of the application disclose a session connection establishment method and a control plane network element, to select a proper user plane network element from a plurality of distributed user plane network elements for a terminal device that requests a service. In one embodiment, the control plane network element may determine a first user plane network element set from a plurality of distributed user plane network elements based on a service, to select, from the first user plane network element set, a first target user plane network element that supports the service, and establish a session connection of a terminal device. According to the embodiment, a proper user plane network element can be selected from a plurality of distributed user plane network elements for a terminal device that requests a service, thereby improving working efficiency when the control plane network element establishes a session connection of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qi Yao, Yong Hu
  • Patent number: 11206682
    Abstract: Group transmission of data from a group of User Equipment devices to a network node of a cellular communication system where communication between devices is effected by device-to-device technology can provide significant improvements in uplink coverage and user bit rate. However, the benefits of group transmission means that not all devices of a group have sufficient network coverage to reliably receive a grant signal scheduling uplink resources from a network node. Methods, devices and a network node are proposed that enable the dynamic selection of either a direct grant mode, in which each device receives the uplink grant directly from the network, or a relayed grant mode, in which a device acting as group coordinator relays the grant to all members of the group, to ensure optimal performance for group transmissions. The selection is dependent on at least one determined condition relating to the group of devices and/or the group transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jan Christoffersson, Màrten Ericson, Min Wang
  • Patent number: 11190597
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: establishing, by a computer device, a threshold for tethering between devices; collecting, by the computer device, network bandwidth usage data and polling data from the devices; training, by the computer device, a machine learning model in view of the collected network bandwidth usage data for predicting a zone of network interruption; determining, by the computer device, locations of the devices; determining, by the computer device, the devices are traveling towards the zone of network interruption; proactively polling, by the computer device, at least one device of the devices for providing pass-through network bandwidth sharing to a first device of the devices; and tethering, by the computer device, the first device to a second device of the devices such that the first device receives the pass-through network bandwidth sharing from the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tiberiu Suto, Shikhar Kwatra, Nadiya Kochura, Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy
  • Patent number: 11184856
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method for reducing power consumption of a first device for use in a wireless communication system. The first device receives a signal within a first reference sub-frame of a radio channel. The device determines whether to use the signal for obtaining channel state information to be reported to a second device within a reporting sub-frame, or whether to receive and use a second signal within a second reference sub-frame of the radio channel for obtaining channel state information to be reported to the second device within said predetermined later sub-frame. Based on this determination, the first device reports channel state information obtained based on the signal received within said first reference sub-frame or said second signal within said second reference sub-frame to the second device within said reporting sub-frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sven Dortmund, Mathias Kurth, Matthias Hofmann, Sabine Roessel
  • Patent number: 11178685
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may transmit a UE-generated uplink message to a base station to request resources for an uplink transmission. The UE may be configured to send the message (e.g., a scheduling request (SR)) using different transmission modes. For example, the UE may transmit the SR using a scheduled mode where the UE conveys the SR along with another uplink message (e.g., a control message). In some examples, the UE may transmit the SR using an autonomous mode where the UE transmits the SR in resources reserved for SR transmissions. The UE may determine which transmission mode to use based on certain characteristics of the SR or the data associated with the SR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Luo, Ajay Gupta, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11165488
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for receiving data and one or more redundant equivalent versions of the data from a remote user equipment (UE), buffering the data and the one or more redundant equivalent versions of the data, transmitting the data to a base station, receiving at least one negative acknowledgement, relating to the data, from the base station indicating an unsuccessful reception of the data; and transmitting, in response to receiving the at least one negative acknowledgement, at least one of the one or more redundant equivalent versions of the data to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Prashanth Mohan, Naveen Kumar Pasunooru, Raevanth Venkat Annam, Pankaj Gupta, KrishnaKumar Vasanthasenan, Ashish Shankar Iyer, Srinivasan Rajagopalan
  • Patent number: 11153005
    Abstract: A system, method, and device to enable communication between a first and second satellite station and a controller of a mobile platform. The controller includes a processor, a first modem facilitating communication with the first satellite station via a first frequency over a first communication link, and a map of the one or more networks of satellite stations including the second satellite station. The controller utilizes the map of the one or more networks of satellite stations to determine the second satellite station for communicating with the controller. A second modem is coupled to the controller and facilitates communication with the second satellite station via a second frequency over a second communication link, wherein the controller is configured to calculate a time to handoff communication with the mobile communicator from the first communication link to the second communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: GOGO BUSINESS AVIATION LLC
    Inventor: Bryan Adrian Lauer
  • Patent number: 11140620
    Abstract: A method of operating a network gateway in a cellular network to control access of at least one mobile device to a voice service accessible via the cellular network, the mobile device being connected to the network gateway via a wireless access router and wide area network, WAN, the method including receiving a request from the mobile device to access the voice service; measuring performance metrics for a non-cellular wireless network link to the mobile device; requesting observed network information from the mobile device; and comparing the quality of the non-cellular wireless network link to the mobile device against the respective quality of at least one observed network; if the quality of the non-cellular wireless network link is greater than the quality of an available observed network, allowing the request to proceed to the cellular network; and if the quality of at least one of the observed networks is higher than the current non-cellular wireless network link, rejecting the voice service request of th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventor: Maria Cuevas Ramirez
  • Patent number: 11140605
    Abstract: A cell access method and apparatus, and a device. The method includes: obtaining a movement speed of a terminal; determining a signal strength offset value based on the movement speed; obtaining signal strength of a serving cell and signal strength of at least one neighboring cell, where the serving cell is a cell on which the terminal currently camps, and the neighboring cell is a cell in which the terminal can receive a signal; determining whether a sum of signal strength of a first neighboring cell in the at least one neighboring cell and the offset value is greater than or equal to a preset threshold; and if the sum of the signal strength of the first neighboring cell and the offset value is greater than or equal to the preset threshold, accessing, by the terminal, the first neighboring cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Honor Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Shen, Huiping Qi, Yuanfeng Chen, Pengfei Feng, Nengfu Tang, Zixiang Xu
  • Patent number: 11119182
    Abstract: A first communication node and method therein for activation of a positioning procedure for a target device in a wireless communication network are disclosed. The first communication node determines whether the target device has moved and activates a positioning procedure for the target device when the movement is larger than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Bengt Lindoff, Gabor Fodor, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Jonas Kronander, Anders Wallen
  • Patent number: 11102061
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a first application executed by a user equipment, computing a first metric associated with an uplink between the user equipment and a base station over a first network, comparing the first metric with a second metric associated with the execution of the first application by the user equipment, and responsive to the comparing, causing the user equipment to connect to the base station via a second network that is different from the first network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Wen Yang, Ye Chen, Arthur Brisebois, Hongyan Lei
  • Patent number: 11082907
    Abstract: An unmanned traveling vehicle includes a block information acquirer that acquires position information on blocks each of which is a range of positions in an area within which the unmanned traveling vehicle is allowed to travel and channel information indicating a wireless channel available inside each of the blocks, a position acquirer that acquires a current position of the unmanned traveling vehicle, a determiner that identifies a block including the current position acquired by the position acquirer from among the blocks with reference to the position information, and determines, with reference to the channel information, a wireless channel to be used for wireless communication inside the block identified, and a communicator that performs the wireless communication by the wireless channel determined by the determiner and indicated by the channel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kuwahara, Yoshinori Nakai, Yasuhisa Ito, Wataru Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11051081
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to receive a request for a virtual reality render project that includes information specifying virtual reality video data to be used to create a virtual reality render; determine a plurality of virtual reality jobs required to create the virtual reality render from the virtual reality video data; determine the availability of a plurality of virtual reality nodes across the network; create a virtual reality render map that specifies a processing sequence of the plurality of virtual reality jobs across the one or more virtual reality nodes to create the virtual reality render, the virtual reality render map being created based on at least the availability of the plurality of virtual reality nodes; and process the plurality of virtual reality jobs at the plurality of virtual reality nodes to create the virtual reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Anatoly D. Adamov, Arthur Van Hoff, Christopher P. Redmann, Aleksandr O. Ryzhov
  • Patent number: 11044069
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a systems and method for using frequency tones to schedule full-duplex communications between at least two full-duplex communication nodes. Communication nodes having data to transmit send, as part of two contention rounds, two separate and randomly selected frequency tones. In the first contention round, all nodes having data to transmit simultaneously transmit a frequency tone. Based on these first frequency tones, groups of nodes are formed. Each group of nodes in turn transmits a second set of frequency tones, and a schedule of full-duplex communications is created based on the second frequency tones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Vaneet Aggarwal, Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan
  • Patent number: 11032804
    Abstract: A first method for wireless communications may comprise determining sizes of payloads of user equipments (UEs), determining whether to multiplex the payloads of the UEs based on the sizes of the payloads, and allocating codes or cyclic shifts to the UEs to transmit the payloads on a single interlace of resources. A second method for wireless communications may comprise determining a first code or a first cyclic shift used for a first transmission using an interlace of resources, and allocating second codes or second cyclic shifts to UEs for a second transmission, where the second transmission may be multiplexed with the first transmission on the interlace of resources. A third method for wireless communications may comprise allocating a first interlace of resources for a first transmission for occupying an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, and allocating a second interlace of resources, occupied by a base station, for a second transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Durga Prasad Malladi, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 11026129
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein bring a 5G standalone-capable end device back into 5G service to leverage the 5G network's data capacity as soon as a VoLTE call is over. A network device receives a fallback connection, for a 5G New Radio (NR) standalone-capable end device, from a second network to the first network to support a voice call on the end device, wherein the fallback connection supports a voice-over-LTE call. The network device detects an end of the VoLTE call and initiates, in response to the detecting, a handover of the end device back to the second network, wherein the initiating occurs while the end device is in a radio resource control (RRC) connected mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lily Zhu, Xin Wang, Andrew E. Youtz, Hui Zhao, Deepa Jagannatha
  • Patent number: 11006337
    Abstract: According to one configuration, a system includes user equipment in communication with a wireless base station. The user equipment receives a notification from a first wireless access point of multiple wireless access points. The notification indicates a set of candidate wireless access points in the wireless network environment in which to selectively perform a handoff from a first wireless access point. The user equipment monitors for occurrence of a trigger condition. In response to detecting a trigger condition, the user equipment identifies (such as selects) a second wireless access point (from the set of candidate wireless access points) in which to perform the handoff. Via communications from the user equipment to the second wireless access point, the user equipment initiates the handoff. The user equipment notifies the first wireless access point of the attempted and/or failed attempt of the handoff to the second wireless access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Maulik V. Vaidya, Amitav Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 10999891
    Abstract: A communication method and an IoT device in a multi-MAC (Media Access Control)-operating environment. The communication method in the multi-MAC-operating environment, including synchronous MAC and asynchronous MAC, includes periodically transmitting, by the IoT device included in the multi-MAC-operating environment, a first message to a first device; determining, by the IoT device, whether to transmit a second message; transmitting, by the IoT device, a preamble packet to a second device, to which the second message is to be transmitted, when the second message is determined to be transmitted; and transmitting, by the IoT device, the second message to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kyeong-Tae Kim, Jeong-Nyeo Kim, Seon-Gyoung Sohn, Yun-Kyung Lee, Jae-Deok Lim
  • Patent number: 10992522
    Abstract: Disclosed are a network configuration method and a network device for dynamically selecting a mobility state machine and a tunnel type matching a terminal and increasing resource utilization efficiency. The method comprises: when a terminal accesses a network, determining an attribute of the terminal; determining, on the basis of the attribute of the terminal, a configuration parameter corresponding to the terminal; and directing or configuring, on the basis of the configuration parameter, the terminal and/or directing or configuring a related network function entity or node at a network side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventor: Hucheng Wang
  • Patent number: 10993278
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications technologies, and disclose a method and an apparatus for recovering from a radio downlink failure. The method includes: monitoring a first radio link to determine whether a radio downlink failure occurs on the first radio link, where the first radio link is a currently connected radio link; if it is detected that the radio downlink failure occurs on the first radio link, starting a physical-layer-monitored automatic-recovery process for the first radio link and starting a Radio Link Control RRC connection re-setup process to set up a second radio link; and recovering from the radio downlink failure through either of the physical-layer-monitored automatic-recovery process and the RRC connection re-setup process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haifeng Yu, Xin Xiong, Feng Yu
  • Patent number: 10972032
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting a failure of a current sensor measuring the magnitude of a current, by which a motor is driven. A required current calculator calculates a phase and a magnitude of a current required for a motor, in accordance with a torque required for the motor. An estimated current calculator calculates an estimated current, in accordance with the phase and the magnitude of the required current. A failure detector detects a failure of a current sensor by comparing the estimated current with a current measured by the current sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jong Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10965621
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to application-based multiple radio access technologies (“RAT”) and platform control using software-defined networking (“SDN”). According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, an SDN controller can configure a radio access network (“RAN”) for connectionless services and for connection-oriented services. The RAN can support multiple RATs each capable of providing radio access to a device, such as a UE or an IoT device. The SDN controller can determine a user plane path configuration for an application flow through at least part of the RAN. The SDN controller can provide the user plane configuration to an SDN agent that is stored on and is executable by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Jiansong Wang, Thomas A. Anschutz
  • Patent number: 10958368
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunication system includes base stations for communicating with terminal devices. One or more base stations support a power boost operating mode in which a base station's available transmission power is concentrated in a subset of its available transmission resources to provide enhanced transmission powers as compared to transmission powers on these transmission resources when the base station is not operating in the power boost mode. A base station establishes an extent to which one or more base stations in the wireless telecommunications system support the power boost operating mode conveys an indication of this to a terminal device. The terminal device receives the indication and uses the corresponding information to control its acquisition of a base station of the wireless telecommunication system, for example by taking account of which base stations support power boosting and/or when power boosting is supported during a cell attach procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew William Webb, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 10945194
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a cell access method and a device, to provide a network slice service area identifier and network slice configuration information for a terminal device, so that the terminal device accesses a target cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chong Lou, Rui Wang, Mingzeng Dai, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 10945162
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device is scheduled to transmit an uplink data transmission to its serving base station. The uplink data transmission includes a special subframe that has a different subframe structure than a subframe structure used by at least one other UE device being served by the serving base station. For example, the special subframe includes a blanked portion of the first symbol of the special subframe and a higher Reference Signal symbol density when compared to the subframe structure used by other UE devices. A target base station receives and decodes the uplink data transmission, utilizing the features of the special subframe to acquire and estimate the uplink channel between the UE device and the target base station. After decoding the uplink data transmission, the UE device is handed over from the serving base station to the target base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Amit Kalhan
  • Patent number: 10939341
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and processing nodes for selecting a donor access node for a relay node comprising a plurality of directional antennae include instructing the relay node to attach to a first preferred donor access node using a first antenna of the plurality of directional antennae. While maintaining the connection with the first preferred donor access node using the first antenna, the relay node can scan for potential donor access nodes using one or more remaining antennae of the plurality of directional antennae and, upon identifying a second preferred donor access node from the potential donor access nodes, to perform a handover from the first preferred donor access node to the second preferred donor access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Charles Manganiello, Amrit Kumar Chandra, Jay R Chernoff, Kristian Kai Johns, Vanil Parihar
  • Patent number: 10887187
    Abstract: Techniques for integrating a device platform in a core network or MEC environment, and managing data communications associated with devices are presented. The device platform, integrated with the core network or MEC environment, can comprise a communication management component (CMC) that can manage communication of data associated with devices connected to the core network. CMC can receive data and metadata from a device, analyze the data and metadata, and, based on the analyzing and data management criteria, determine whether any, all, or a portion of the data is to be communicated to a second device associated with the core network or associated communication network. CMC can be trained, using machine learning, to learn to identify device types, communication protocols, and data payload formats of devices. Based on the analyzing and the training, CMC can determine the device type, communication protocol, and data payload format associated with the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Basavaraj Patil, Mobeen Khan
  • Patent number: 10880683
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a variety of devices, methods, and systems for combined proximity services and Internet of Things (IoT) services registration or de-registration. An exemplary method includes one or more of receiving a device initiated IoT service registration request, wherein proximity information relating to the device is contained within the received IoT service registration request; receiving a device initiated proximity service registration request, wherein IoT service information relating to the device is contained within the received IoT service registration request; sending, from an IoT server, a proximity service registration message; and sending, from a proximity manager, an IoT service registration request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Chonggang Wang, Qing Li, Hongkun Li, Paul L. Russell, Jr., Zhuo Chen
  • Patent number: 10819452
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication is provided. In some implementations, the method includes receiving, by a first device, a first packet from a second device in a network. The method further includes comparing, by the first device, a first received signal strength of the first packet to a second received signal strength of a second packet associated with a third device, the third device associated with the first device in the network. The method further includes transmitting, by the first device and based on to the comparing, a third packet to the second device, the third packet indicating a disassociation of the first device with the third device and an association of the first device with the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: C LAN WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventor: Paul Kolen
  • Patent number: 10779202
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for controlling whether a user equipment attached in idle mode to a first radio access technology should be served by a second radio access technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Tomas Nylander, Tomas Hedberg, Jari Vikberg
  • Patent number: 10735949
    Abstract: A system for updating a preferred nodes list for a wireless device in a wireless network includes a server in communication with a plurality of nodes each configured to deploy a radio air interface to provide wireless services to wireless devices. The server includes a processor configured to instruct, in response to a trigger, a first node to send a message to a wireless device connected to the first node. The message instructs the wireless device to contact the server for an updated preferred nodes list. The processor receives a request for the updated preferred nodes list from the wireless device, and provides the updated preferred nodes list to the wireless device. The updated preferred nodes list enables the wireless device to change from connecting to the first node included in the preferred nodes list to connecting to a second node included in the updated preferred nodes list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Raymond Emilio Reeves, Dwight Inman
  • Patent number: 10736007
    Abstract: To enable avoidance of termination of wireless connection between a base station and a terminal apparatus. A first base station (a base station 100A) comprises: an acquisition unit 141 configured to acquire mobility information on a terminal apparatus 200, the mobility information corresponding to information related to a beam formed for wireless communication with the terminal apparatus 200; and a control unit 143 configured to control processing related to handover for the terminal apparatus 200, based on the mobility information on the terminal apparatus 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Izui, Kanada Nakayasu
  • Patent number: 10716040
    Abstract: A wireless device 230 and a method therein for triggering a cell reselection procedure. The wireless device is served by a first Radio Network Node (RNN) 210, and the wireless device and the first RNN are operating in a wireless communications system 200. The wireless device determines a difference between a second signal parameter of a second signal and a first signal parameter of a first signal, wherein the first and second signal parameters are received from the first RNN. Further, the wireless device triggers a cell reselection procedure when the determined difference is larger than a first predetermined threshold value for the cell reselection procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mårten Sundberg, John Walter Diachina, Olof Liberg