Between Macro And Micro Cells Patents (Class 455/444)
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Patent number: 12231976Abstract: A method comprising, at a user device, comprising obtaining a target parameter representative of a handover rate from a base station, comparing said target parameter representative of a handover rate with a measured parameter representative of a handover rate, adjusting at least one measurement trigger event parameter as a result of said comparison in a direction tending to reduce the difference between said two rates, sending a measurement report to said base station if a trigger condition using said at least one adjusted trigger event parameter is met.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Jeroen Wigard, Enric Martinez, Istvan Zsolt Kovacs
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Patent number: 12126577Abstract: An apparatus includes a processor, a memory; and communication circuitry, the apparatus being connected to a communications network via the communication circuitry, the apparatus further including computer-executable instructions stored in the memory which, when executed by the processor, causes the apparatus to identify an apparatus capability that is an indication of an ability of the apparatus to perform beam failure detection (BFD) for a plurality of cells, transmit the apparatus capability to an other apparatus, receive from the other apparatus at least one message including a change in network configuration; and substitute a second set of cells for the first set of cells on which the apparatus performs BFD based on the change in network configuration so the apparatus capability is not exceeded by the network configuration.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Svedman, Qing Li, Pascal M. Adjakple, Lakshmi R. Iyer, Guodong Zhang, Joseph M. Murray, Stephen E. Terry, Mohamed Awadin, Allan Y. Tsai, Yifan Li
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Patent number: 12101837Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for implementing recovery from a communication failure. A method includes receiving, by a first user equipment, an indication that a second user equipment has experienced a failure, where the first user equipment and the second user equipment are part of a same device, and where the first user equipment is configured with a first primary reliability group and where the second user equipment is configured with a second primary reliability group; based upon the indication, the first user equipment transmitting to a network equipment a first signal to activate a secondary reliability group for the first user equipment; and receiving, by the first user equipment, a second signal to use the secondary reliability group, where the second signal is at least partially based upon the first signal transmitted from the first user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Jani Moilanen, David Navrátil, Ling Yu, Vinh Van Phan, Devaki Chandramouli
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Patent number: 11882526Abstract: An adaptive network operation (ANO) server configured to reduce unnecessary radio operation during lower and/or non-traffic times is described herein. The ANO server may receive raw data associated with one or more nodes within a telecommunications network. Responsive to receiving the raw data, the ANO server may determine, based at least in part on the raw data, a traffic level associated with the one or more nodes and/or a traffic capacity associated with the one or more nodes. The ANO server may determine one or more frequency bands and/or channels to activate and/or deactivate and may generate configuration settings to send to the one or more nodes.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Robert Frangooles, Dennis Jarret Guill, Jr.
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Patent number: 11871248Abstract: A communication network includes nodes communicating over a current generation network, such as 5G and some, or all of the nodes are also capable of communicating over a previous generation network, such as 4G for instance. A third node receives a first signal from a first node over the current generation network, a second signal that is a retransmission of the first signal from a second node over the current generation network, and network dimensional parameters from the first node and/or the second node over the previous generation network. The network dimensional parameters enable the third node to determine precise locations of the first node and the second node. Using a function of the network dimensional parameters, the third node correlates the first signal and the second signal to generate a simplified signal therefrom. A secondary wireless mesh acts as an overlay control plane via a non-shared non-virtualized external controller.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: Huei Meng Chang
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Patent number: 11711826Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for on-demand multicast control channel (MCCH) messages are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, system information indicating an MCCH message configuration. Based on receiving the MCCH message configuration, the UE may transmit a request for an MCCH message. For example, the UE may transmit the request for the MCCH message by a random access preamble or a radio resource control (RRC) message. After transmitting the request, the UE may receive the MCCH message in accordance with the MCCH message configuration. That is, the base station may receive the request and transmit the MCCH message in response to the request. The MCCH message may indicate a multicast service radio bearer (MRB) configuration for receiving multicast traffic. Thus, the UE may receive multicast traffic from the base station in accordance with the MRB configuration.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Xipeng Zhu, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Xiaoxia Zhang
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Patent number: 11611888Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for using multiple antennas located in Citizens Broadcast Radio Service Devices (CBSDs) to communicate with a user equipment device. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of: (i) receiving by a macro base station a first set of data to be transmitted to a user equipment device (UE), (iii) dividing by the macro base station said first set of data into a plurality of N data blocks, and (iv) communicating by the macro base station to each of a plurality of different Citizens Broadband Radio Service Devices (CBSDs) one or more different ones of said plurality of N data blocks; and (v) operating the plurality of CBSDs to transmit the one or more data blocks which they receive from the macro base station to the UE. In various embodiments, the macro base station also transmits one or more of the N data blocks to the UE.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventors: Volkan Sevindik, Haider Syed
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Patent number: 11528068Abstract: Methods disclosed herein may include configuring a plurality of transceiver modules in an antenna array with assigned receive signal weighting factors, the transceiver modules interconnected with high-speed data communication buses, and each transceiver module positioned adjacent to a respective antenna element in the antenna array; configuring the plurality of transceiver modules into inter-communicating module groups by enabling the associated high-speed data communication buses; receiving a plurality of wireless data signals with the plurality of transceiver modules and responsively generating a corresponding plurality of receive baseband data signals; generating a plurality of received beamformed signals by combining subsets of the receive baseband signals within each module group using the assigned receive signal weighting factors by transmitting the receive baseband signals between the transceiver modules within the module group; and demodulating the received beamformed signals.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignees: Innophase, Inc., Parallel Wireless, Inc.Inventors: Yang Xu, Steven Paul Papa
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Patent number: 11510122Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) includes identifying, while the UE is in a connected mode with a network, a radio resource configuration of the UE, selecting a dedicated set of resources for the UE or a common set of resources for a plurality of UEs based at least in part on the identified radio resource configuration, and transmitting a pilot signal to the network using the selected set of resources. Methods for wireless communication at a network access device and a network access device controller are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Keiichi Kubota, Gavin Bernard Horn, Tingfang Ji, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Kambiz Azarian Yazdi, Saurabha Rangrao Tavildar
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Patent number: 11483721Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a method comprising estimating a velocity vector that is experienced by an apparatus; reporting to a network element, NE, the velocity vector; receiving from the NE at least one primary reference signal, RS, which will be experienced during a predicted trajectory, and at least one secondary RS that will potentially be experienced during the predicted trajectory; sending to the NE feedback based on the at least one primary RS and the at least one secondary RS; and sending an update of the velocity vector to the NE.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Mihai Enescu, Sami-Jukka Hakola, Juha Pekka Karjalainen, Timo Koskela
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Patent number: 11477709Abstract: This application provides a failure processing method, a handover method, a terminal device, and a network device, to provide a manner in which a terminal receives an RRC configuration of a secondary network device and feeds back an RRC configuration failure. The method includes: directly receiving, by a terminal device, a first RRC configuration of a secondary network device from the secondary network device; and when the first RRC configuration fails, sending, by the terminal device, first indication information to a primary network device to indicate that the first RRC configuration fails. In addition, when the first RRC configuration fails, the terminal reports one piece of first indication information to the primary network device to indicate that the first RRC configuration fails.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wenjie Peng, Yi Guo, Mingzeng Dai
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Patent number: 11419085Abstract: A user apparatus for communicating with a first base station apparatus using a first RAT (Radio Access Technology) and a second base station apparatus using a second RAT includes a reception unit configured to receive, from the first base station apparatus, a configuration for measuring a timing difference between a cell of the first base station apparatus and a cell of the second base station apparatus; a control unit configured to perform measurement with respect to a cell of the second RAT based on the configuration for measuring the timing difference; and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the first base station apparatus, a result of the performed measurement, wherein the configuration for measuring the timing difference includes information indicating an upper limit of a number of cells of the second RAT.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura, Takuma Takada
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Patent number: 11395234Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for uplink power control, a network node and a system, which relates to the field of communication technologies, and the method includes: a first network node transmits a first indication message to a second network node, wherein the first indication message includes a time pattern and/or a maximum transmission power for an uplink transmission performed by a user equipment (UE) on the second network node, and the time pattern is used for controlling a transmission time of the uplink transmission performed by the UE. The present invention is applicable to uplink power control for the user equipment UE in a carrier aggregation scenario.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2014Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Qinghai Zeng, Qufang Huang
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Patent number: 11317239Abstract: Systems and methods for passive dynamic geofencing on a mobile device are discussed. For example, a method for passive dynamic geofencing can include operations such as monitoring a first parent geofence and a first plurality of child geofences; detecting crossing a boundary of the first parent geofence into a second parent geofence; loading the second parent geofence and a second plurality of child geofences encompassed by the second parent geofence; and monitoring the second parent geofence and the second plurality of child geofences.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Nate L. Lyman, Frank Russo
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Patent number: 11307841Abstract: A method, system and non-transitory computer readable instructions for application patching comprising, concatenating uncompressed data into a continuous data set and dividing the continuous data set into variable sized data chunks. Compressing each of the variable sized data chunks and dividing each of the variable sized data chunks into fixed size data blocks. Encrypting the fixed size data blocks to generate encrypted fixed size data blocks and sending the encrypted fixed size data blocks over a network.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLCInventors: Mark Evan Cerny, Simon Whittaker, Akiyuki Hatakeyama, Jeffrey Litz, Varun Bhadauria
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Patent number: 11234153Abstract: A method for frequency measurement and a network device are provided. The method includes generating, by a first network device, indication information, where the indication information is used for indicating the terminal device to measure a first frequency at which a second network device is located, the first network device being a network device in a long term evolution (LTE) system, and the second network device being a network device in a new radio (NR) system; and transmitting, by the first network device, the indication information to the terminal device. In the implementations of the present disclosure, when needing the terminal device to measure the first frequency at which the second network device is located, the first network device transmits, to the terminal device, the indication information, which is used for indicating the terminal device to measure the first frequency.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Ning Yang
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Patent number: 11212717Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method by a first network node operating as a secondary node for a wireless device having dual connectivity to the first network node and a second network node operating as a source master node is performed during a handover of the wireless device from the second network node operating as the master node to a third network node operating as a target master node. The method includes receiving, from the second network node operating as the source master node, an indication that the first network node is to release one or more resources for serving user plane data to the wireless device. In response to the indication, control plane data is transmitted to the wireless device while ceasing to provide user plane data to the wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Riikka Susitaival, Oumer Teyeb, Gunnar Mildh, Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz, Stefan Wager
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Patent number: 11206563Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) including a wireless transceiver and a controller is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception to and from a first service network and a second service network. The controller receives a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message comprising a measurement configuration for SFN (System Frame Number) and Frame Timing Difference (SFTD) from the first service network via the wireless transceiver, performs first SFTD measurements between a Primary Cell (PCell) of the first service network and neighbor cells of the second service network via the wireless transceiver in response to the measurement configuration for SFTD indicating the neighbor cells, and sends a result of the first SFTD measurements to the first service network via the wireless transceiver.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Chun-Fan Tsai, Li-Chuan Tseng, Tsang-Wei Yu, Yuanyuan Zhang
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Patent number: 11206548Abstract: Systems and methods provide reliable voice connections and highest possible data rates in New Radio dual-connectivity environments, given limitations of available spectrum. A system includes a first wireless station and a second wireless station. The first wireless station provides a shared spectrum of a first frequency band, the shared spectrum including a first spectrum for a first cellular wireless standard and a second spectrum for a second cellular wireless standard. The second wireless station is at least partially within a coverage area of the first wireless station and provides a third spectrum for the second cellular wireless standard. The third spectrum is a millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. The first wireless station broadcasts cell parameters barring an end device in an idle mode from camping on the second spectrum. The first wireless station or the second wireless station triggers the end device to swap to the second spectrum when a paging request for a voice call is received.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Lily Zhu, Ratul Kumar Guha, Jignesh S. Panchal, Balaji L. Raghavachari, Niranjan B. Avula, Timothy M. Dwight, Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Imtiyaz Shaikh, Kalyani Bogineni, Andrew E. Youtz, Xin Wang, Sagiv Draznin
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Patent number: 11197186Abstract: A method for frequency measurement and a network device are provided. The method includes generating, by a first network device, indication information, where the indication information is used for indicating the terminal device to measure a first frequency at which a second network device is located, the first network device being a network device in a long term evolution (LTE) system, and the second network device being a network device in a new radio (NR) system; and transmitting, by the first network device, the indication information to the terminal device. In the implementations of the present disclosure, when needing the terminal device to measure the first frequency at which the second network device is located, the first network device transmits, to the terminal device, the indication information, which is used for indicating the terminal device to measure the first frequency.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Ning Yang
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Patent number: 11194320Abstract: TA communication system is provided that can be added to a legacy alarm system to provide a plurality of communication modes to a remote server system from the legacy alarm system and provide remote control and monitoring to a user of the system via two-way communication links. The communication system can be configured to communicate with an alarm processor of the legacy alarm system through use of a keypad bus typically used by the legacy alarm system for communication between the alarm processor and one or more keypads. Communication modes that can be provided by embodiments of the present invention can include, for example, communication over a public switched telephone network, cellular transmission, broadband transmission, and the like. The communication system can monitor all configured communication modes and determine which communication mode is the best for providing communication between the alarm system and the remote server.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: iControl Networks, Inc.Inventors: Alan Wade Cohn, Ronald E. Battles, David Proft, Scott William Shumate
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Patent number: 11172372Abstract: An information transmission method and apparatus, the method including determining, by a first communications apparatus, an area in which a terminal device is located, where the area includes overlapping coverage area between the first communications apparatus and at least one second communications apparatus, and, non-overlapping coverage area between the first communications apparatus and the at least one second communications apparatus, and the first communications apparatus is adjacent to the at least one second communications apparatus, and sending, by the first communications apparatus, information to the terminal device through a first channel if the terminal device is located in the overlapping coverage area, and sending, by the first communications apparatus, information to the terminal device through a second channel if the terminal device is located in the non-overlapping coverage areas.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Tao Wu, Teyan Chen
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Patent number: 11166229Abstract: A method for selecting a cell by a wireless device in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving a signal from a cell associated with a network node; determining whether the signal from the cell satisfies a cell selection criterion, wherein the cell selection criterion is based at least in part on a parameter that controls a compensation to the cell selection criterion, the compensation being associated with a power class of the wireless device; and selecting the cell in response to a determination that the signal from the cell satisfies the cell selection criterion. A wireless device for carrying out this method is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Mårten Sundberg, Olof Liberg, Martin Van Der Zee
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Patent number: 11140591Abstract: Methods are provided for communicating in a mobile network, the mobile network comprising a plurality of infrastructure equipment, each providing wireless connectivity within at least one cell, and a device configured to communicate wirelessly with at least a first of the infrastructure equipment in control of a first cell. In some embodiments, the method comprises determining, at the device, whether a second cell under control of a second of the infrastructure equipment is connected to a first core network operating in accordance with a first protocol or both of the first core network and a second core network operating in accordance with a second protocol, and transmitting, by the device, an automatic neighbor relation report to the first infrastructure equipment, a report comprising an indication of whether the second cell is connected to the first core network or both of the first core network and the second core network.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Vivek Sharma, Brian Alexander Martin, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 11115869Abstract: A bandwidth sharing method and device based on SDN control of terminal cell are disclosed. The bandwidth sharing method includes: determining, by a SDN controller, whether a trigger request for bandwidth sharing is received; upon receipt of the trigger request, selecting at least one second terminal cell for providing bandwidth sharing to the first terminal cell; controlling the first terminal cell and the at least one second terminal cell to jointly process the target service. The trigger request indicates a need of bandwidth sharing of a first terminal cell from other terminal cells when processing a target service on a backhaul link, and a bandwidth requirement of the target service equals to or exceeds a first predetermined threshold. The SDN controlled bandwidth-sharing scheme may ensure the application of a wireless backhaul sharing mechanism between T-SCs, thereby achieving flexible configuration of bandwidth resources on the backhaul link.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: YULONG COMPUTER TELECOMMUNICATION SCIENTIFIC (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Yun-Fei Zhang, Qian Zheng, Yi-Xue Lei
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Patent number: 11102050Abstract: Within a radio, a broadband digitizer is configured for channel assessment. In an example, a radio band is digitized to form a data stream. The data stream is channelized to form first and second in-phase in-quadrature (I/Q) sample streams. The first and second I/Q sample streams are provided to first and second channel assessors, respectively. Additionally, the first and second I/Q sample streams are bifurcated, to thereby provide the same first and second I/Q streams to first and second channel decoders, respectively. Accordingly, same portions of the first and second I/Q sample streams are presented to the first and second channel assessors and the first and second decoders, respectively, at the same time. Based at least in part on the channel assessments made by the channel assessors, a channel plan with less radio frequency noise may be selected.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Itron, Inc.Inventor: Danny Ray Seely
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Patent number: 11089527Abstract: An access network can allocate a bearer for a network service associated with a quality-of-service (QoS) value (QV) and a retention-priority value (RPV), and determine a bearer ID for the service based on the QV, the RPV, and a supplemental priority value (SPV) different from the QV and from the RPV. Upon handover of a terminal, session(s) carried by a bearer allocated by the terminal can be terminated. That bearer can be selected using IDs of the bearers and a comparison function that, given two bearer IDs, determines which respective bearer should be terminated before the other. Upon handover of a terminal to an access network supporting fewer bearers per terminal than the terminal has allocated, a network node can select a bearer based on respective QVs and RPVs of a set of allocated bearers. The network node can deallocate the selected bearer.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Kun Lu, Boris Antsev, Terri Brooks, Egil Gronstad, John Humbert, Alan Denis MacDonald, Salvador Mendoza, Scott Francis Migaldi, Gary Jones, Christopher H. Joul, Jun Liu, Ming Shan Kwok, Karunakalage Viraj Rakitha Silva, Neng-Tsann Ueng
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Patent number: 11089525Abstract: A first base station receives a handover trigger change from a second base station. The handover trigger change is for a handover between: at least one first beam of a first cell of the first base station; and at least one second beam of a second cell of the second base station. The handover trigger change indicates a request for a change of a handover threshold for the first base station initiating a handover from the at least one first beam to the at least one second beam. The first base station makes, based on the change of the handover threshold, a handover decision for a wireless device from the at least one first beam to the at least one second beam. The first base station transmits to the second base station, a handover request for the wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: OFFINO, LLCInventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon
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Patent number: 11071113Abstract: A system, apparatus and method is disclosed for multiband wireless communication. Frequency bands and/or transmission formats are identified as available within a range for wireless communication. The system evaluates signal quality metrics for each frequency band and selects a communication method based on the evaluation. Multiple frequency bands and communication methods can be utilized by the system such that a combination of licensed, unlicensed, semilicensed, and overlapped frequency bands can be simultaneously used for communication. The system monitors communications and can report link performance for adaptive control of the selected communication methods.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Mark McDiarmid
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Patent number: 10973084Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for wireless communication, and more particularly, to design principles for extending Internet of Things (IoT) (e.g., narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), machine type communication(s) (MTC), etc.) into an unlicensed radio frequency (RF) band spectrum. In certain aspects, the method generally includes determining an interlace structure of tones, within an unlicensed radio frequency (RF) spectrum, available to a wireless node for communication, and communicating based on the interlace structure. In some aspects, the communicating involves hopping between tones within the interlace structure during different communication intervals.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hao Xu, Srinivas Yerramalli, Juan Montojo, Yongbin Wei, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Alberto Rico Alvarino
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Patent number: 10924969Abstract: A user equipment (UE) registers on a first Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) and, while in an idle mode, receives a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) service. The UE determines whether to perform a periodic network reselection search for a higher priority PLMN while in the idle mode, wherein the UE determines whether to perform the periodic network reselection search based on reception of the MBMS service. The UE may postpone the periodic network reselection search for a period of time while the UE receives the MBMS service in the idle mode. The UE may postpone the periodic network reselection search for a period of time while the UE receives the MBMS service in the idle mode. The UE may interleave the periodic network reselection search with the reception of transmission bursts of the MBMS service, the search being performed on frequencies other than that of the MBMS transmission.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Ashish Bhardwaj, Edward Robert Hall
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Patent number: 10904929Abstract: A communication system for communicating messages in communication network including first communication device, second communication device and multiple radios. A first radio of the multiple radios receives first message from first communication device via a wireline. The artificial intelligence module determines a coverage area of the first radio. Further, the artificial intelligence module determines at least one radio link for connecting to a second radio outside the coverage area of first radio. The second radio receives the first message wirelessly from the first radio. The artificial intelligence module further determines a first set of radio links for connecting a first set of radios to establish first wireless communication channel between first radio and second radio. The first set of radios communicates first message to the second radio via the first wireless communication channel. Finally, the second communication device receives the first message from the second radio via the wireline.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: UNIRAJA OUInventor: Johannes Väänänen
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Patent number: 10848500Abstract: A method includes sending, from a mobile device management (MDM) server, a group list to a mobile device, the group list indicating a plurality of MDM groups that are available to the mobile device for enrollment. The method also includes receiving, at the MDM server, a join group request from the mobile device. The join group request indicates a group of the plurality of MDM groups. The method also includes, in response to receiving the join group request, updating, at the MDM server, group membership data to indicate that the mobile device is added to the group. The method further includes identifying, based on the group membership data at the MDM server, an action associated with the group. The method also includes sending a command from the MDM server to the mobile device to perform the action.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: JAMF Software, LLCInventors: Aryik Bhattacharya, John Dassow, Michael Devins, Aaron Maxim, Jamison Schmidt
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Patent number: 10841964Abstract: A computer device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to generate a Radio Access Network (RAN) slice in a Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) base station designated for a particular type of service; determine requirements associated with the generated RAN slice; and reserve resources of the 5G NR base station for the generated RAN slice, wherein reserving the resources includes specifying one or more antenna beams generated by the 5G NR base station. The processor may be further configured to obtain criteria for categorizing user equipment (UE) device sessions as belonging to the generated RAN slice; identify UE device sessions as belonging to the RAN slice based on the obtained criteria; and apply the determined requirements to the identified UE device session using the reserved resources.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Jin Yang, Arda Aksu, Sagiv Draznin, Lalit R. Kotecha, Maria G. Lam
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Patent number: 10813084Abstract: The present invention discloses a wireless communications method and system, a base station, and user equipment. The base station includes: a signaling transmission module, configured to transmit downlink control signaling to user equipment on a first frequency band; and a data transmission module, connected to the signaling transmission module and configured to transmit downlink user data to the user equipment by using a beamforming technology on a second frequency band, where the first frequency band and the second frequency band belong to a same cell and are synchronous, a frequency of the first frequency band is lower than a frequency of the second frequency band, and a bandwidth of the first frequency band is less than a bandwidth of the second frequency band. According to the foregoing disclosed content, the present invention can improve system performance.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng, Jian Zhang
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Systems and methods for identifying two or more charges into reservoir using downhole fluid analysis
Patent number: 10746018Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying a likelihood that a reservoir of a geological formation received a secondary charge of hydrocarbons of relatively very different thermal maturity of composition are provided. One method includes positioning a downhole acquisition tool in a wellbore in a geological formation and testing one or more fluid properties of the formation fluid. Data processing circuitry may identify whether a relationship of the one or more fluid properties exceeds a first threshold that indicates likely asphaltene instability. When this is the case, data processing circuitry may be used to model the geological formation using a realization scenario in which multiple charges of hydrocarbons of substantially different thermal maturity or substantially different composition, or both, filled a reservoir of the geological formation over geologic time.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Hadrien Dumont, Vinay K. Mishra, German Garcia, Li Chen, Thomas Pfeiffer, Soraya S. Betancourt Pocaterra, Jerimiah Forsythe, Andrew Emil Pomerantz, Youxiang Zuo, Oliver C. Mullins -
Patent number: 10728009Abstract: Techniques for detecting and/or mitigating interference in a wireless network are discussed herein. An environment may include a base station in communication with one or more user equipment (UE) and one or more microwave backhaul transceivers. In some examples, the base station may and transceivers may communicate using frequencies in the same band (e.g., a millimeter frequency band). A geometry of devices in an environment can be determined. Further, interference can be detected based on a flexible portion of a transmission or a source identifier that can be included in a transmission. In some examples, the microwave backhaul transceivers may communicate via a same or similar millimeter frequency resources. Wireless resource(s) can be selected or otherwise determined for one or more components of the network to mitigate interference in the network.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Gaviphat Lekutai, Brian Allan Olsen, Alan Denis MacDonald
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Patent number: 10716042Abstract: Disclosed is a method performed by a network equipment (16) for controlling handover of a User Equipment, UE, (2) from a source network node (1) to a target network node (3a), the method comprises providing (S1), for the UE (2) and for the target network node (3a), information comprising a representation of a UE specific sequence, wherein the UE specific sequence is to be incorporated in a signal, said signal to be transmitted by the target network node (3a) to enable the UE to initiate a radio link establishment procedure with the target network node (3a) based on a reception of a signal comprising said UE specific sequence. Also disclosed are corresponding devices and computer programs. Further disclosed are cooperating methods, and corresponding devices and computer programs, performed by a UE (2) and a network node (3a) during handover of the UE (2) from the source network node (1) to the target network node.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Rui Fan, Andres Reial, Johan Rune, Claes Tidestav
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Patent number: 10715235Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses configured to direct wireless communication. In some embodiments, a network apparatus is configured to: receive a first signal transmission from a remote station via a first antenna element of an antenna and a second signal transmission from the remote station via a second antenna element of the antenna simultaneously; determine first signal information for the first transmission; determine second signal information for the second transmission, wherein the second signal information is different than the first signal information; determine a set of weighting values based on the first signal information and the second signal information, wherein the set of weighting values is configured to construct one or more beam-formed transmission signals; and generate the one or more beam-formed transmission signals based on the set of weighting values for transmission to the remote station.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Inventors: Marcus Da Silva, Vahid Tarokh, Praveen Mehrotra, William J. Crilly, Jr., James Brennan, Robert J. Conley, Siavash Alamouti, Eduardo Casas, Hujun Yin, Bobby Jose, Yang-Seok Choi
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Patent number: 10652747Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, at a base station, communicating with a mobile phone where the base station comprises a premises wireless access point, at the base station, communicating with a mobile communication system by way of a broadband connection, and instructing a landline phone communicatively coupled to the base station to communicate with a remote end user device via the mobile communication system utilizing identification information of the mobile phone and responsive to communications between the base station and the mobile phone. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: William Stanley Robbins, Larry B. Pearson, R. Tyler Wallis, Mark Ryan
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Patent number: 10638339Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by user equipment from a base station, first information and second information that are sent by the base station and about a micro base station, wherein the first information is used to indicate the micro base station, and the second information is used to indicate a random access resource allocated by the base station to the micro base station. The method also includes accessing, by the user equipment by using the random access resource indicated by the second information, the micro base station indicated by the first information, and obtaining measurement subframe information of a micro cell of the micro base station from the micro base station during a process of accessing the micro base station. The method also includes performing neighboring cell radio resource management measurement of the micro cell on a measurement subframe indicated by the measurement subframe information of the micro cell.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Lili Zhang
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Patent number: 10638406Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for providing selective network access, wherein a cell type indication is provided based on at least one of a preamble and a header portion of a broadcast signal. At the receiving end, it is checked based on at least one of the preamble and the header portion, whether broadcast signals are received from different first and second cell types. The first cell type is selected for network access, if both broadcast signals from the first and second cell types are received with sufficient strength.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: HMD Global OyInventors: Hai Jiang, Jian Feng Kang, Xiaoyi Wang, Chao Wei, Yi Wu, Dong Mei Zhang
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Patent number: 10555357Abstract: Systems, methods, and processing nodes for communicating with a wireless device via at least two access nodes include communicating with a wireless device via at least two access nodes includes receiving, at a relay access node coupled to a donor access node, downlink data intended to be transmitted to an end-user wireless device attached to the relay access node; determining that a signal condition at the relay access node meets a criteria; and in response to determining that the signal condition meets the criteria, forwarding the downlink data to the donor access node. The donor access node transmits the downlink data to the end-user wireless device, and the relay access node maintains a control channel with the end-user wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Ankur Sharma, Noman Alam, Yu Zhou
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Patent number: 10455576Abstract: A radio base station apparatus allocates a white space frequency to a wireless communication apparatus, and includes a radio resource allocating unit that allocates to the wireless communication apparatus a first white space frequency that the radio station apparatus allocates to another wireless communication apparatus, among a plurality of white space frequencies, according to an allocation request for a communication frequency from the wireless communication apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventor: Osamu Kato
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Patent number: 10448293Abstract: Facilitation of an idle mode reselection utilizing a virtual neighbor object is presented herein. A virtual neighbor component can create at least one virtual neighbor object and associate the at least one virtual neighbor object with wireless access points. Further, a reselection component can facilitate idle mode reselection between a base station and a wireless access point of the wireless access points based on the at least one virtual neighbor object.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Melissa Ness, Thomas Wallace Henderson, Spyridon Kapoulas
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Patent number: 10439785Abstract: In a particular aspect, an apparatus includes first communication circuitry configured to perform first fine timing measurement (FTM) operations with respect to a device to generate first measurement data. The first FTM operation correspond to a first frequency band. The apparatus includes second communication circuitry configured to perform second FTM operations with respect to the device to generate second measurement data. The second FTM operations correspond to a second frequency band that is different than the first frequency band. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to compare the first measurement data and the second measurement data.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Javier Frydman, Bernal Arroyo, Xiaoxin Zhang
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Patent number: 10440652Abstract: A user interface for power management of a mobile communications device is described. In an implementation, power consumption used in performance of a plurality of tasks is monitored by a mobile communications device. A determination is made as to an amount of power that remains in a battery of the mobile communications device. A user interface is displayed on a display device of the mobile communications device that describes an amount of time each of the plurality of tasks may be performed based on the determined amount of power that remains in the battery.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Charbel Khawand, Scott A. Fudally
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Patent number: 10420037Abstract: A management server in a network including a first transmitting device that communicates with a first receiving device and a second transmitting device that communicates with a second receiving device. The management server includes a network interface that receives a parameter corresponding to a level of improvement of communication quality at the second receiving device, and a processor that calculates an allowable interference amount at the first receiving device based on the parameter.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Sawai, Ryota Kimura
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Patent number: 10390300Abstract: The invention relates to a method of waking up a base station of a cellular network, the method comprising the following steps: putting said base station partially on standby; and an access point of a local wireless network detecting the presence of a terminal in its coverage zone, and identifying said terminal. Said method further comprising the following steps: said access point transmitting a message indicating the presence of the terminal, said message containing an identifier of the terminal; the base station receiving said message; the base station transmitting to said cellular network information that said terminal is situated in its coverage zone; and the base station waking up when it receives a communication for the terminal from the cellular network. Application to heterogeneous mobile networks.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: ORANGEInventor: Salah Eddine El Ayoubi
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Patent number: 10383104Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for controlling a multimode radio communications system, a control server, and a terminal. The method includes: establishing, by the control server, a basic link between the terminal and any one communications system in the multimode radio communications system according to first settings; selecting, by the control server according to second settings, a communications system from the multimode radio communications system as a service communications system for transmission of each service of the terminal; and sending, by the control server, control information to the terminal on the basic link, where the control information is used to indicate the service communications system for transmission of each service of the terminal. The embodiments of the present invention improve a utilization rate of radio resources and user experience in a multimode radio communications environment.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hantao Li, Min Huang