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U.S. Calls Broadcom’s Bid for Qualcomm a National Security Risk
By ALAN RAPPEPORT and CECILIA KANG MARCH 6, 2018
The United States government said Broadcom’s proposed acquisition of rival chipmaker Qualcomm could pose a national security risk and called for a full investigation into the hostile bid.
The move complicates an already contentious deal and increases the likelihood that Broadcom, which is based in Singapore, will end its pursuit of Qualcomm. Such an investigation is often a death knell for a corporate acquisition.
A government panel, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or Cfius, noted, in part, that the potential risk was related to Broadcom’s relationships with foreign entities, according to a letter from a United States Treasury official. It also said that the deal could weaken “Qualcomm’s technological leadership,” giving an edge to Chinese companies like Huawei.
“China would likely compete robustly to fill any void left by Qualcomm as a result of this hostile takeover,” the official said in the letter.
The letter and the public call for an investigation reflects a newly aggressive stance by Cfius. In most cases, the panel operates in secret and weighs in after a deal is announced. In this instance, Cfius, which is made up of representatives from multiple federal agencies, is taking a proactive role and investigating before an acquisition agreement has even been signed.
The move reflects increased worries about overseas deals and about Chinese influence in central industries like technology. Cfius has recently blocked several deals by Chinese buyers, including Ant Financial’s proposed takeover of MoneyGram, a money-transfer company.
The panel began to scrutinize tech-related foreign investments more closely during the Obama administration, as Chinese companies and investors began rapidly funneling money into American firms. Several lawmakers have also pushed to expand the scope of Cfius’s authority.
“The Trump administration turbocharged it,” said Tony Balloon, the leader of the corporate China law practice at the law firm Alston & Bird. “There is now a recognition in government that foreign investors, particularly from China, are getting more and more sophisticated on how they get access to technology in the U.S.”
Broadcom tried early on to quell concerns about the deal, announcing last year that it would move its headquarters to the United States. As a result, the company argued, it should not be subject to a Cfius review.
But Qualcomm, which is based in San Diego, pushed the government to intervene. On Sunday, Cfius ordered Qualcomm to delay its annual shareholder meeting, which was scheduled for Tuesday and where investors were set to vote on the Broadcom bid.
Now, the government panel is going a step further by calling for a full investigation — and a major root of the consternation is China.
In the letter from the Treasury official, the government said it was important to have a well-known and trusted company “hold the dominant role that Qualcomm does in the U.S. telecommunications infrastructure.” Any loss of that competitiveness, the letter said, “would significantly impact U.S. national security.”
China, the letter said, could take advantage of any weakness. The government specifically cited Huawei, the Chinese telecom-equipment giant, as a potential competitor that would move into the breach. The company has spent heavily on the next-generation telecommunications technology known as 5G, and the government said it owns 10 percent of the essential patents.
“A shift to Chinese dominance in 5G would have substantial negative national security consequences for the United States,” the government said in the letter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/business/qualcomm-broadcom-cfius.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
olddog967 - Although I am probably wrong, I am currently under the impression that the new holding company is to partition the convertible bondholders from benefiting from the Technicolor transaction. This will result in the restating of the conversion rate on April 3, 2018. JMO (and probably wrong)
United States Patent 9,913,271
Nelson , et al. March 6, 2018
Qualifying available reverse link coding rates from access channel power setting
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed regarding a wireless field unit, which may receive a plurality of forward link assignment messages for the wireless field unit over at least one first code channel. Each of the forward link assignment messages may indicate a modulation type, a data rate and assigned channel codes for a respective assigned forward link transmission. Also, forward link transmissions may be time multiplexed between wireless field units. The wireless field unit may receive a plurality of assigned forward link transmissions. In addition, the wireless field unit my process each of the received assigned forward link transmissions in response to the respective received forward link assignment messages. Further, the wireless field unit may receive power control information in assigned time intervals on a time division multiplexed second code channel, wherein the time division multiplexed second code channel is time multiplexed between a plurality of wireless field units.
Inventors:
Nelson; George R. (Merritt Island, FL), Hoffmann; John E. (Indialantic, FL), Proctor; James A. (Indialantic, FL), Rouphael; Antoine J. (Escondido, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
IPR LICENSING, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
IPR LICENSING, INC. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003159959
Appl. No.:
15/350,990
Filed:
November 14, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20170064682 A1 Mar 2, 2017
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Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
14935677 Nov 9, 2015 9497761
14462124 Nov 10, 2015 9185604
11295270 Aug 19, 2014 8811367
09792637 Feb 28, 2006 7006483
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 72/042 (20130101); H04J 13/0003 (20130101); H04L 5/22 (20130101); H04W 28/22 (20130101); H04W 52/24 (20130101); H04W 52/26 (20130101); H04W 52/365 (20130101); H04W 72/0406 (20130101); H04W 72/048 (20130101); H04W 72/0446 (20130101); H04W 72/0466 (20130101); H04W 72/0473 (20130101); H04W 72/1289 (20130101); H04J 13/00 (20130101); Y02D 70/00 (20180101); H04W 24/00 (20130101); H04W 48/08 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04W 52/26 (20090101); H04W 52/24 (20090101); H04W 28/22 (20090101); H04J 13/00 (20110101); H04W 72/12 (20090101); H04L 5/22 (20060101); H04W 52/36 (20090101); H04W 24/00 (20090101); H04W 48/08 (20090101
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United States Patent RE46,750
Sugar , et al. March 6, 2018
System and method for antenna diversity using equal power joint maximal ratio combining
Abstract
.[.An equal gain composite beamforming technique which includes the constraint that the power of the signal output by each antenna is the same, and is equal to the total power of the transmit signal divided by the number N of transmit antennas from which the signal is to be transmitted. By reducing output power requirements for each power amplifier, the silicon area of the power amplifiers are reduced by as much as N times (where N is equal to the number of transmit antennas) relative to a non-equal gain composite beamforming technique..]. .Iadd.A method and apparatus are disclosed for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmission technique by a wireless communications device which includes providing that the power applied to each transmit antenna may be equal to the total power of the transmit signal divided by the number N of transmit antennas from which the signal is to be transmitted. The device may produce a weight for each of the N transmit antennas used in MIMO transmission. Also, the device may determine a total transmit power and produce a multi-carrier signal for transmission. The device may weight the multi-carrier signal for each antenna per the produced weight. Further, the device may apply a power to each of the N transmit antennas, for the weighted multicarrier signal, which is equal to the total transmit power divided by N. Each transmit antenna signal may be amplified by an amplifier coupled to that antenna..Iaddend.
Inventors:
Sugar; Gary L. (San Francisco, CA), Vaidyanathan; Chandra (Rockville, MD)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
IPR LICENSING, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
IPR Licensing, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Appl. No.:
14/563,231
Filed:
December 8, 2014
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Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
13755945 Jan 31, 2013
10800610 Jul 17, 2007 7245881
10174689 Aug 31, 2004 6785520
60380139 May 6, 2002
60365797 Mar 21, 2002
60361055 Mar 1, 2002
Reissue of: 11879156 Jul 16, 2007 7881674 Feb 1, 2011
Reissue of: 11879156 Jul 16, 2007 7881674 Feb 1, 2011
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current International Class: H04B 1/00 (20060101); H01Q 3/28 (20060101)
Field of Search: ;455/69
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United States Patent 9,912,925
Ye , et al. March 6, 2018
Providing 3D look-up table (LUT) estimation for color gamut scalability
Abstract
Systems and/or methods for estimating color conversion components. A video coding device may receive a picture associated with a first color space. The picture may comprise a first component at a first sampling location, a second component at a second sampling location and the second component at a third sampling location. The video coding device may apply a first interpolation filter to the second component at the second sampling location and the second component at the third sampling location to determine the second component at the first sampling location. The second component at the first sampling location may be associated with the first color space. The video coding device may apply a color conversion model to the first component at the first sampling location and to the second component at the first sampling location to translate the first component at the first sampling location to a second color space.
Inventors:
Ye; Yan (San Diego, CA), Dong; Jie (San Diego, CA), He; Yuwen (San Diego, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
Vid Scale, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
VID SCALE, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003157264
Appl. No.:
14/568,807
Filed:
December 12, 2014
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20150172616 A1 Jun 18, 2015
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
61915892 Dec 13, 2013
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04N 9/67 (20130101); H04N 1/64 (20130101); H04N 9/64 (20130101); H04N 11/002 (20130101); H04N 13/0029 (20130101); H04N 13/0037 (20130101); H04N 19/85 (20141101); H04N 19/186 (20141101); H04N 19/30 (20141101); H04N 19/59 (20141101); H04N 19/597 (20141101); H04N 19/80 (20141101); H04N 13/0048 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04N 19/132 (20140101); H04N 11/24 (20060101); H04N 13/00 (20180101); H04N 1/64 (20060101); H04N 19/597 (20140101); H04N 19/30 (20140101); H04N 19/186 (20140101); H04N 19/80 (20140101); H04N 19/85 (20140101); H04N 19/59 (20140101); H04N 9/67 (20060101); H04N 9/64 (20060101)
Field of Search: ;375/240.02
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United States Patent 9,913,108
Zeira , et al. March 6, 2018
Method and apparatus for managing group communications
Abstract
A method and apparatus for managing group communications are disclosed. A base station may provide multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) data for transmission to groups of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs). The WTRUs may be divided into groups based on a respective MBMS service to be received by each respective group. The base station may assign a respective logical channel for the respective MBMS service of each respective group. The base station may then transmit, to one of the groups, a group assignment message indicating physical resources for a transmission of MBMS data for the group's MBMS service. Also, the base station may further transmit MBMS data of the group's MBMS service using the respective logical channel of the group using the indicated physical resources. The physical resources may include subcarriers. Each respective group may have a respective assigned group identification. The base station may be an eNode-B.
Inventors:
Zeira; Eldad M. (Huntington, NY), Wang; Lei (San Diego, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003157394
Appl. No.:
15/250,371
Filed:
August 29, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160373903 A1 Dec 22, 2016
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
14673301 Mar 30, 2015 9432098
13392052 Mar 31, 2015 8995365
PCT/US2010/046648 Aug 25, 2010
61236645 Aug 25, 2009
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 4/08 (20130101); H04B 7/0417 (20130101); H04B 7/0632 (20130101); H04L 1/1657 (20130101); H04W 4/06 (20130101); H04W 56/002 (20130101); H04W 72/0453 (20130101); H04W 72/005 (20130101); H04W 52/50 (20130101); H04L 1/1692 (20130101); H04W 52/246 (20130101); H04W 52/325 (20130101); H04W 52/48 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 4/00 (20090101); H04W 4/08 (20090101); H04W 4/06 (20090101); H04W 72/00 (20090101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04W 56/00 (20090101); H04B 7/06 (20060101); H04B 7/0417 (20170101); H04L 1/16 (20060101); H04W 52/24 (20090101); H04W 52/48 (20090101); H04W 52/32 (20090101); H04W 52/50 (20090101)
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United States Patent 9,913,185
Shaheen March 6, 2018
Method and apparatus for supporting handoff from GPRS/GERAN to LTE EUTRAN
Abstract
A method and apparatus for supporting a handoff (HO) from a general packet radio service (GPRS), global system for mobile communication radio access network (GERAN), and long term evolution (LTE) evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (EUTRAN) includes receiving an LTE measurement report. A HO is initiated to the LTE network and a relocation request signal is transmitted. A relocation command signal that includes an evolved Node-B (eNB) identifier (ID) is received.
Inventors:
Shaheen; Kamel M. (King of Prussia, PA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003157445
Appl. No.:
14/014,818
Filed:
August 30, 2013
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20140003393 A1 Jan 2, 2014
US 20170208519 A9 Jul 20, 2017
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
12029505 Sep 3, 2013 8526952
60889353 Feb 12, 2007
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 36/14 (20130101); H04W 36/0061 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 36/14 (20090101); H04W 36/00 (20090101)
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United States Patent 9,913,206
Somasundaram , et al. March 6, 2018
Method and apparatus for searching for closed subscriber group cells
Abstract
A method and apparatus for searching for closed subscriber group (CSG) cells are described. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) transmits, to a network of CSG cells, a measurement/cell-search gap request message including a cause value having at least one bit that indicates whether the request message was transmitted due to a manual cell search command or a WTRU autonomous determination. The WTRU receives a measurement/cell-search gap allocation message from the network in response to the measurement/cell-search request message. The WTRU also may determine whether it has a discontinuous reception (DRX) gap that is long enough to read a master information block (MIB) and a system information block (SIB) of a neighboring CSG cell. If the DRX gap is not long enough, the WTRU may transmit a measurement/cell-search gap request message to the network, or autonomously tune away from a cell currently serving the WTRU to read the MIB and SIB.
Inventors:
Somasundaram; Shankar (Deer Park, NY), Mukherjee; Rajat P. (Stanford, CA), Sammour; Mohammed (Alrabieh, JO), Gauvreau; Jean-Louis (La Prairie, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
Somasundaram; Shankar
Mukherjee; Rajat P.
Sammour; Mohammed
Gauvreau; Jean-Louis
Deer Park
Stanford
Alrabieh
La Prairie
NY
CA
N/A
N/A
US
US
JO
CA
Assignee:
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003157460
Appl. No.:
12/406,562
Filed:
March 18, 2009
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20090239533 A1 Sep 24, 2009
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
61038598 Mar 21, 2008
61057544 May 30, 2008
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 48/16 (20130101); H04J 11/0093 (20130101); H04W 84/045 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 4/00 (20090101); H04W 48/16 (20090101); H04J 11/00 (20060101); H04W 84/04 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;370/328
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United States Patent 9,913,270
Pelletier , et al. March 6, 2018
Method and apparatus for fast assistive transmission operation
Abstract
A method for use in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for receiving data over physical downlink shared channels from different cells, monitoring physical downlink control channels of a first cell for downlink control information associated with the WTRU, and recovering data from the physical downlink control channel in response to the downlink control information.
Inventors:
Pelletier; Benoit (Montreal, CA), Cai; Lujing (Morganville, NJ), Pani; Diana (Montreal, CA), Cave; Christopher R. (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003159963
Appl. No.:
15/166,364
Filed:
May 27, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160278057 A1 Sep 22, 2016
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Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
14518573 Oct 20, 2014 9356750
13248343 Oct 21, 2014 8867442
61389102 Oct 1, 2010
61480996 Apr 29, 2011
61523007 Aug 12, 2011
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 76/28 (20180201); H04W 72/042 (20130101); H04B 7/024 (20130101); H04W 72/1289 (20130101); H04L 5/0035 (20130101); H04W 36/28 (20130101); H04L 5/0005 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04L 5/00 (20060101); H04W 36/28 (20090101); H04W 72/12 (20090101); H04B 7/024 (20170101)
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United States Patent 9,913,275
Reznik , et al. March 6, 2018
Method and apparatus for sending feedback for a downlink shared service transmitted to a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units
Abstract
A wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) receives a downlink transmission from a Node-B and decodes the downlink transmission. If the decoding is not successful, the WTRU sends a pre-defined burst signifying a negative acknowledgement (NACK) to the Node-B via a contention-based shared feedback channel. The pre-defined burst may be sent only once without requiring an acknowledgement. The Node-B calibrates a downlink transmit power so that the downlink transmission is transmitted to the WTRUs with a high likelihood. The Node-B may send a downlink transmission including multiple data streams processed using different modulation and coding schemes so that a WTRU having a high signal quality decodes all data streams while a WTRU having a low signal quality decodes less than all data streams. The Node-B sends a channel quality indicator (CQI) threshold so that each WTRU determines a data stream to report feedback based on the CQI threshold and a measured CQI.
Inventors:
Reznik; Alexander (Pennington, NJ), Zeira; Eldad M. (Huntington, NY), Cave; Christopher R. (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, CA), Marinier; Paul (Brossard, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003157498
Appl. No.:
15/227,667
Filed:
August 3, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160345328 A1 Nov 24, 2016
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
13956777 Aug 1, 2013 9439192
11869923 Aug 13, 2013 8509076
60883594 Jan 5, 2007
60828881 Oct 10, 2006
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 72/0453 (20130101); H04L 1/0025 (20130101); H04L 1/0073 (20130101); H04L 1/1671 (20130101); H04W 52/146 (20130101); H04W 52/228 (20130101); H04W 52/247 (20130101); H04W 52/325 (20130101); H04L 1/1887 (20130101); H04W 4/06 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 80/04 (20090101); H04W 52/32 (20090101); H04W 52/22 (20090101); H04W 52/24 (20090101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04L 1/00 (20060101); H04L 1/16 (20060101); H04L 1/18 (20060101); H04W 52/14 (20090101); H04W 4/06 (20090101)
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United States Patent 9,913,286
Sammour , et al. March 6, 2018
Method and apparatus for prioritizing logical channels
Abstract
A method and apparatus are disclosed for prioritizing logical channels when a new transmission is performed. Logical channel resources are allocated for available data to a plurality of logical channels. A maximum bit rate (MBR) credit (i.e., token) is decremented in a buffer (i.e., bucket) associated with a particular one of the logical channels by the size of a medium access control (MAC) service data unit (SDU). The MBR credit may have a negative value. If any of the allocated channel resources remain, the logical channels are served n a decreasing priority order until the data is exhausted. A radio link control (RLC) SDU is not segmented if the whole RLC SDU fits into the remaining resources. The MAC SDU excludes a MAC PDU header and MAC padding.
Inventors:
Sammour; Mohammed (Alrabieh-Amman, JO), Terry; Stephen E. (Northport, NY), Wang; Jin (Princeton, NJ), Olvera-Hernandez; Ulises (Montreal, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003159952
Appl. No.:
15/297,407
Filed:
October 19, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20170041933 A1 Feb 9, 2017
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Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
14296224 Jun 4, 2014 9603161
13401998 Jul 8, 2014 8774114
12360343 Apr 24, 2012 8165152
61025383 Feb 1, 2008
61025361 Feb 1, 2008
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 72/1263 (20130101); H04L 47/10 (20130101); H04L 47/14 (20130101); H04L 47/215 (20130101); H04L 47/39 (20130101); H04W 76/27 (20180201); H04W 72/0453 (20130101); H04W 72/1242 (20130101); H04W 72/14 (20130101); H04W 28/14 (20130101); H04W 28/065 (20130101); H04W 72/04 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 72/12 (20090101); H04L 12/801 (20130101); H04L 12/819 (20130101); H04W 28/14 (20090101); H04W 72/14 (20090101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04W 28/06 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;370/329,235,336
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United States Patent 9,913,289
Terry , et al. March 6, 2018
Method and apparatus for uplink hybrid automatic repeat request transmission
Abstract
A method and wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for uplink transmission are disclosed. A WTRU receives configuration information. The configuration information includes logical channel priority information and a maximum number of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmissions. The WTRU receives an uplink grant for a transmission time interval (TTI). The WTRU identifies a HARQ process to use for uplink transmission for the TTI. The WTRU selects data for uplink transmission for the TTI. For a new uplink transmission, data associated with a highest priority is selected. The WTRU initializes a transmission counter. The transmission counter indicates a number of transmissions associated with the selected data. The WTRU transmits the selected data over an uplink channel based on the received uplink grant using the identified HARQ process.
Inventors:
Terry; Stephen E. (Northport, NY), Zhang; Guodong (Syosset, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Technology Corporation
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003157505
Appl. No.:
14/952,235
Filed:
November 25, 2015
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160088650 A1 Mar 24, 2016
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
14090872 Nov 26, 2013 9209944
12685466 Dec 31, 2013 8621310
11122350 Jan 12, 2010 7647541
60568931 May 7, 2004
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 72/1284 (20130101); H04L 1/08 (20130101); H04L 1/1812 (20130101); H04L 1/1877 (20130101); H04L 1/1816 (20130101); H04W 72/14 (20130101); H04L 1/1887 (20130101); H03M 13/6306 (20130101); H04L 1/1819 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04L 1/18 (20060101); H04W 72/12 (20090101); H04L 1/08 (20060101); H04W 72/14 (20090101); H03M 13/00 (20060101
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US Congress readies bill to advance 5G networks
The House of Representatives will vote on Tuesday on a bill that works on identifying more spectrum for private sector use, as well as reducing the red tape associated with building wireless networks.
Stephanie Condon
By Stephanie Condon for Between the Lines | March 2, 2018 -- 19:59 GMT (11:59 PST) |
Democrats and Republicans in both chambers of Congress are ready to pass a bill that should facilitate the development of 5G networks in the US.
The US House will vote on the bill on Tuesday, a group of lawmakers said in a joint statement.
The leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee -- Republican Chairman Greg Walden of Oregon and Democrat Frank Pallone of New Jersey -- as well as leaders of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee -- Republican Chairman John Thune of South Dakota and Democrat Bill Nelson of Florida -- said they're all ready to support the bill, called RAY BAUM'S Act (H.R. 4986).
"This bipartisan, bicameral product puts consumers first and solidifies the nation's critical telecommunications infrastructure, giving the U.S. a global edge in the race to 5G and improving internet services across the country," the congressmen said in a statement.
The bill reauthorizes the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and it fixes a technicality that had kept the FCC from depositing upfront payments from spectrum bidders directly with the US Treasury. It also includes provisions on identifying more licensed and unlicensed spectrum for private sector use, as well as for reducing the red tape associated with building wireless networks.
Several wireless carriers at Mobile World Congress (MWC) this week discussed their investments in 5G: AT&T is providing 12 cities with 5G by the end of the year, and Sprint has said it will provide six cities with 5G next year. T-Mobile announced it will build out 5G across 30 cities this year.
Speaking with ZDNet during MWC 2018 in Barcelona, T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray said there is a "huge ongoing dialogue" between 5G Americas and the federal government, with the latter having "an enormous role" to play in freeing up spectrum.
"I think as an industry, we all realize a lot more spectrum is needed for 5G to ultimately succeed in the US market, and that's across all bands," Ray told ZDNet.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-congress-readies-bill-to-advance-5g-networks/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
For Microsoft, 2018 could be a big year in mobile — but not phones
While Windows phones are dead for Microsoft, the company has planned an ambitious push into mobile for PCs in 2018.
Daniel Rubino 2 Mar 2018
With the demise of Windows on phones, a spotlight has been cast on Microsoft regarding its place in the mobile world. Microsoft has rightly been criticized for flubbing its phone endeavor, putting at risk one of the pillars of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) for its app strategy.
Putting that aside, it is interesting to note that Microsoft has a lot on its plate for 2018 with Windows and 4G LTE. While this is not entirely a plan for phones, it does suggest Microsoft has a new strategy to succeed in the increasingly mobile tech world.
A tale of three PCs with LTE
Surface Pro (2017) is getting an LTE variant that goes on sale soon according to Microsoft.
Microsoft has no plans for devices in the smartphone category, but that doesn't mean cellular LTE and 4G are not on the plate.
There are three categories Microsoft is playing up this year that involve 4G LTE:
1.Pro: Surface Pro 4G LTE (and other traditional Windows Pro laptops).
2.ARM (New): Windows 10 on ARM, a.k.a., Always Connected PCs.
3.Foldable (New): Microsoft's rumored "Andromeda" dual-screen tablet.
Microsoft is expected to begin pushing Surface Pro 4G LTE in the consumer space very soon. Previously, the Surface Pro 4G LTE was only available in the business arena, but Microsoft will be offering the device to retail for anyone who wants one.
This isn't the first time Microsoft has had an LTE-enabled Surface (see Surface 3), but it is the first Surface Pro with LTE, and that makes a big difference due to the OS and processing power.
?The 'cellular PC' revolution begins: Full Windows 10 coming to mobile ARM chips
Microsoft's Always-Connected PC initiative is also a big deal. For the first time, Windows 10 – the full OS – will run on the same processors found in your smartphone. Early reports highlight the instant-on ability (like the iPad) and battery life that lasts weeks instead of a day.
The HP Envy x2 with Windows 10 on ARM tablets launches in March, 2018.
HP should be the first out the gate with its Envy x2 tablet in early March. Marrying the flexibility of Windows 10 with the efficiency of ARM processors, it is a very intriguing option for those who want a PC with an iPad-like experience.
Interestingly, Always-Connected PCs fit nicely in the middle between a full Intel Core "pro" device and what's rumored to be Microsoft's biggest play in mobile: Andromeda.
Andromeda is a rumored folding tablet – small enough to fit in your pocket, but large enough to get more serious work done – and it's expected to also feature Windows Core OS (WCOS). WCOS is full Windows 10 minus all the "bloat" and legacy support from older Win32 systems, which have no place in the truly mobile world. (We do expect Win32 app support via streaming and eventually local virtualization, plus Centennial apps, however).
While Microsoft is expected to be the first with such a form factor, it's not meant to be a one-off creation. Other companies like Dell, HP, Lenovo and more are expected to follow in 2019 with their own twists on this new category of digital journaling. This strategy mirrors the original Surface initiative to jumpstart the 2-in-1 PC category, which is now one of the most popular in the market
4G LTE – why now?
Perhaps the most interesting question is why this sudden push? Laptops with 3G and 4G modems have been around for years, though they've been mostly reserved for the enterprise space.
A lot of this has to do with converging technologies and shifting job strategies, including:
?4G LTE being nearly ubiquitous in significant markets.
?The rise of embedded-SIM (eSIM) technology.
?"Pay as you go" carrier data plans.
?Merging of cellular abilities into Windows 10 (instead of Windows 10 Mobile).
?Demand from consumers and workers for always-connected PCs.
A decade ago, it was common for workers to have a business laptop and a personal one for home. This sharp dividing-line between home and work has mostly eroded for many people.
So-called Millennials and Generation X people are some of the first to enter a highly flexible, almost nomadic work environment. For them, their jobs are wherever they are now. The companies they work for change every few years. A computing solution that reflects that world is increasingly needed.
Smartphones often supplant this requirement for mobile computing, but those devices grew out of a different world with different desires. While they can do a lot, ultimately many must fall back to a "real" PC or Mac at some point. And while those laptops are getting improved battery life the consistent need for Wi-Fi (or using a cellular hotspot) keep them at a distance from smartphones.
A patent from Microsoft that may resemble 'Andromeda'.
The rise of eSIM tech changes the game. Microsoft is expected to let users purchase data plans right through the Microsoft Store later in 2018. The ability to buy chunks of data like one or four gigabytes at a time, versus subscribing to a monthly data plan, will change how people view and consume data on mobile PCs. You'd just buy what you need, when you need it, with no immediate expiration.
?Why Microsoft could very well revive the Courier in 2018
Finally, Microsoft's rumored Andromeda device is expected to blur the worlds of smartphones, PCs, and tablets. The new form factor allegedly can act as a phone, but it is not designed around that modality. Instead, it's a foldable, journal-like PC reminiscent of the original Microsoft Courier concept from 2010 but made for a 4G LTE world (and soon 5G).
A mobile world is here
None of this implies that smartphones are going to become unnecessary. But the need to have a more powerful computing option that is also easily mobile, flexible, and gets good battery life is a problem every major tech company is addressing.
Apple has the iPad Pro, which it increasingly positions as a mobile PC and laptop. Google has Chromebooks, as its attempt at a mobile PC, in addition to its Android phones. Microsoft has a three-pronged approach, as outlined here.
None of these strategies (or companies) need to be the winner, but Microsoft certainly seems to have the most comprehensive approach that is slowly coming online. Of course, whether consumers and first-line workers (retail stores, hospitals or manufacturing plant employees) respond to this push remains to be seen, but amidst the chaos of the Windows phone debacle, there is a significant mobile strategy brewing at Microsoft.
For 2018, it should be interesting to see very portable devices that run full Windows 10 hit the consumer market. With three major categories and a concerted push from its hardware partners Microsoft could be in an exciting position. The big question is, as always: Can the company execute properly on a concept that many people currently doubt?
https://www.windowscentral.com/2018-maybe-year-mobile-microsoft
United States Patent 9,900,066
Koo , et al. February 20, 2018
Quality control scheme for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems
Abstract
A method and apparatus for optimizing the system capacity of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system that uses with Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas. In a receiver, a target quality of service (QoS) metric and reference data rate are set. The target QoS metric may be set to a predetermined value and/or may be adjusted dynamically with respect to packet error rate (PER) by a slow outer-loop control processor. The QoS of received signals are compared to the target QoS. Depending on the comparison, the receiver generates a channel quality indicator (CQI) which is sent to the transmitter. The CQI is a one or two bit indicator which indicates to the transmitter to disable, adjust or maintain data transmission rates of particular sub-carriers, groups of sub-carriers per transmit antenna, or groups of sub-carriers across all transmit antennas. At the transmitter, the transmitted data rate is disabled, adjusted or maintained.
Inventors:
Koo; Changsoo (Melville, NY), Olesen; Robert Lind (Huntington, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Technology Corporation
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003135812
Appl. No.:
15/357,600
Filed:
November 21, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20170070268 A1 Mar 9, 2017
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Patent Number
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14224195 Mar 25, 2014 9509378
12983491 Apr 22, 2014 8705389
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60598183 Aug 2, 2004
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04B 7/0417 (20130101); H04B 17/336 (20150115); H04L 1/0002 (20130101); H04L 1/0026 (20130101); H04L 5/0046 (20130101); H04L 5/0064 (20130101); H04L 5/006 (20130101); Y02D 50/10 (20180101); H04L 5/0023 (20130101); H04L 27/2601 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04B 7/04 (20170101); H04L 1/00 (20060101); H04L 5/00 (20060101); H04B 7/0417 (20170101); H04B 17/336 (20150101); H04L 27/26 (20060101)
Field of Search: ;375/224,225,227,260-262,265,267 ;370/208,210,277,278,282,295,335,342 ;455/500,501,503,67.11,67.13,69,70,88,552.1
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United States Patent 9,900,593
Xiu , et al. February 20, 2018
Method and apparatus of motion vector prediction for scalable video coding
Abstract
Inter-layer motion mapping information may be used to enable temporal motion vector prediction (TMVP) of an enhancement layer of a bitstream. For example, a reference picture and a motion vector (MV) of an inter-layer video block may be determined. The reference picture may be determined based on a collocated base layer video block. For example, the reference picture may be a collocated inter-layer reference picture of the reference picture of the collocated base layer video block. The MV may be determined based on a MV of the collocated base layer video block. For example, the MV may be determined by determining the MV of the collocated base layer video block and scaling the MV of the collocated base layer video block according to a spatial ratio between the base layer and the enhancement layer. TMVP may be performed on the enhancement layer picture using the MV of the inter-layer video block.
Inventors:
Xiu; Xiaoyu (San Diego, CA), Ye; Yan (San Diego, CA), He; Yong (San Diego, CA), He; Yuwen (San Diego, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
VID SCALE, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
VID SCALE, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003135740
Appl. No.:
14/013,688
Filed:
August 29, 2013
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20140064374 A1 Mar 6, 2014
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Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
61694555 Aug 29, 2012
61734650 Dec 7, 2012
61866822 Aug 16, 2013
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04N 19/33 (20141101); H04N 19/51 (20141101); H04N 19/52 (20141101); H04N 19/31 (20141101); H04N 19/70 (20141101); H04N 19/46 (20141101); H04N 19/587 (20141101); H04N 19/59 (20141101)
Current International Class: H04N 19/31 (20140101); H04N 19/52 (20140101); H04N 19/51 (20140101); H04N 19/70 (20140101); H04N 19/33 (20140101); H04N 19/587 (20140101); H04N 19/46 (20140101); H04N 19/59 (20140101)
Field of Search: ;375/240
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United States Patent 9,900,857
Wang , et al. February 20, 2018
Method and apparatus for maintaining uplink synchronization and reducing battery power consumption
Abstract
A Node-B sends a polling message to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The WTRU sends an uplink synchronization burst in response to the polling message without contention. The Node-B estimates an uplink timing shift based on the synchronization burst and sends an uplink timing adjustment command to the WTRU. The WTRU then adjusts uplink timing based on the uplink timing adjustment command. Alternatively, the Node-B may send a scheduling message for uplink synchronization to the WTRU. The WTRU may send a synchronization burst based on the scheduling message. Alternatively, the WTRU may perform contention-based uplink synchronization after receiving a synchronization request from the Node-B. The WTRU may enter an idle state instead of performing a handover to a new cell when the WTRU moves to the new cell. A discontinuous reception (DRX) interval for the WTRU may be set based on activity of the WTRU.
Inventors:
Wang; Jin (Princeton, NJ), Chen; John S. (Ann Arbor Township, MI), Sammour; Mohammed (Alrabieh-Amman, JO), Terry; Stephen E. (Northport, NY), Chandra; Arty (Manhasset Hills, NY), Zhang; Guodong (Syosset, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003134498
Appl. No.:
14/848,507
Filed:
September 9, 2015
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20150382317 A1 Dec 31, 2015
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
11689771 Mar 22, 2007 9167546
60785491 Mar 24, 2006
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 56/0045 (20130101); H04J 11/0069 (20130101); H04W 52/0216 (20130101); H04W 72/0413 (20130101); H04W 92/10 (20130101); Y02D 70/24 (20180101); Y02D 70/1244 (20180101); Y02D 70/1262 (20180101); Y02D 70/142 (20180101); Y02D 70/144 (20180101); Y02D 70/00 (20180101)
Current International Class: H04W 56/00 (20090101); H04J 11/00 (20060101); H04W 52/02 (20090101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04W 92/10 (20090101)
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United States Patent 9,906,949
Lynch , et al. February 27, 2018
Addressing wireless nodes
Abstract
A user may point a control device at a controllable device for which control is desired, and the control device may detect the targeted controllable device. Additionally, the control device may detect a plurality of wireless nodes and list the available wireless nodes. For example, the control device may identify wireless nodes associated with a room in the house, or the control device may detect the wireless nodes within a certain range. The list may be a selectable list and a user may select the desired device to control from the list. Upon detection or user selection, the control device may establish control of the wireless node and initiate actions associated with the selected device.
Inventors:
Lynch; Kenneth F (Wayne, PA), DiFazio; Robert A. (Greenlawn, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003146696
Appl. No.:
15/655,399
Filed:
July 20, 2017
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20170318455 A1 Nov 2, 2017
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
14096842 Dec 4, 2013 9736682
13099857 Feb 18, 2014 8655344
61330771 May 3, 2010
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 4/30 (20180201); H04W 8/26 (20130101); H04W 4/026 (20130101); H04L 67/16 (20130101); H04L 67/125 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04M 3/00 (20060101); H04W 8/26 (20090101); H04L 29/08 (20060101); H04W 4/02 (20180101)
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United States Patent 9,906,995
Roy , et al. February 27, 2018
Neighbor scanning in wireless local area networks
Abstract
An access point includes a transmitter configured to transmit signals, a receiver configured to receive signals, and a timing information device. The timing information device is configured to receive a timing information request from a station associated to the access point, receive timing information for a beacon signal sent by a second access point, and report the timing information to the station. The timing information includes a time difference relative to a known reference time for transmission of the beacon signal and the time difference is an offset in timing units.
Inventors:
Roy; Vincent (Longueuil, CA), Marinier; Paul (Brossard, CA), Rudolf; Marian (Montreal, CA), La Sita; Frank (Setauket, NY), Cave; Christopher (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, CA), Touag; Athmane (Chomedey Laval, CA), Cuffaro; Angelo (Laval, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Technology Corporation
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003146283
Appl. No.:
14/927,758
Filed:
October 30, 2015
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160050595 A1 Feb 18, 2016
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
14223069 Mar 24, 2014 9191837
13335375 Mar 25, 2014 8682368
11168707 Jan 17, 2012 8099094
60587159 Jul 12, 2004
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 36/0061 (20130101); H04W 8/005 (20130101); H04W 24/00 (20130101); H04W 24/02 (20130101); H04W 36/0055 (20130101); H04W 56/0015 (20130101); Y02D 70/142 (20180101); H04W 48/12 (20130101); H04W 52/0216 (20130101); H04W 56/00 (20130101); H04W 84/12 (20130101); H04W 92/20 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 36/00 (20090101); H04W 56/00 (20090101); H04W 8/00 (20090101); H04W 24/02 (20090101); H04W 24/00 (20090101); H04W 92/20 (20090101); H04W 84/12 (20090101); H04W 48/12 (20090101); H04W 52/02 (20090101)
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United States Patent 9,907,012
Adjakple , et al. February 27, 2018
Inhibition of allowed closed subscriber group list
Abstract
Disclosed herein are techniques for inhibition of allowed closed subscriber group list. According to an aspect, a method may be implemented at a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The method may include identifying a public land mobile network (PLMN) in which the WTRU is operating. Further, the method may include controlling closed group subscriber (CSG) selection based on the identified PLMN. For example, on a per PLMN basis, the WTRU may display to the user all CSGs or only CSGs in an operator CSG list.
Inventors:
Adjakple; Pascal M. (Great Neck, NY), Watfa; Mahmoud (Saint Leonard, CA), Comsa; Virgil (Montreal, CA), Olvera-Hernandez; Ulises (Kirkland, CA), Tooher; J. Patrick (Montreal, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003144699
Appl. No.:
14/524,926
Filed:
October 27, 2014
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20150056956 A1 Feb 26, 2015
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
13078484 Apr 1, 2011 8874083
61320354 Apr 2, 2010
61373478 Aug 13, 2010
61408802 Nov 1, 2010
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 48/04 (20130101); H04M 1/72577 (20130101); H04W 4/08 (20130101); H04W 48/02 (20130101); H04W 88/02 (20130101); H04W 48/20 (20130101); H04W 84/042 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 48/04 (20090101); H04M 1/725 (20060101); H04W 4/08 (20090101); H04W 48/02 (20090101); H04W 48/20 (20090101); H04W 84/04 (20090101); H04W 88/02 (20090101)
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United States Patent 9,907,051
Wang , et al. February 27, 2018
Determining paging frames in a wireless network
Abstract
A paging frame may be determined based on a first value divided by a second value and a WTRU identifier modulo the second value. The second value may be based on a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle value.
Inventors:
Wang; Peter S. (E. Setauket, NY), Terry; Stephen E. (Northport, NY), Wang; Jin (Princeton, NJ)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Technology Corporation
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003145860
Appl. No.:
15/238,337
Filed:
August 16, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160360504 A1 Dec 8, 2016
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
14835281 Aug 25, 2015 9426779
13316718 Dec 12, 2011
12022893 Dec 13, 2011 8077677
60887440 Jan 31, 2007
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 76/28 (20180201); H04W 68/02 (20130101); H04B 7/2678 (20130101); H04L 61/6054 (20130101); H04W 8/186 (20130101); H04W 52/0216 (20130101); H04W 52/545 (20130101); H04W 68/025 (20130101); H04W 52/0219 (20130101); Y02D 70/124 (20180101); H04B 1/707 (20130101); H04L 1/0007 (20130101); H04W 72/0446 (20130101); H04W 84/18 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 4/00 (20090101); H04W 68/02 (20090101); H04W 52/54 (20090101); H04L 29/12 (20060101); H04W 8/18 (20090101); H04W 52/02 (20090101); H04B 7/26 (20060101); H04W 84/18 (20090101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04L 1/00 (20060101); H04B 1/707 (20110101)
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Eropean H2020 RIFE Project Deploys Affordable 5G Network Trial in Small Community in Catalonia
GlobeNewswireFebruary 27, 2018
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2018 — The race to 5G is generally focused on breathtaking speeds and new, exciting services, but one very important aspect of 5G gets less attention: the effort to develop affordable next-gen services that improve connectivity and capabilities for all. Today, InterDigital, Inc. (IDCC), a mobile technology research and development company, announced that the RIFE (aRchitecture for an Internet For Everybody) project has deployed a live consumer-facing trial of a 5G network architecture in the small community of Tarragona, Spain, geared towards affordability and access. RIFE is part of the European H2020 funding framework.
The trial features InterDigital’s software-based Flexible IP-based Services (FLIPS) platform and community-supported hardware through Guifi.net in Catalonia, Spain, the world’s largest community network with 40,000+ nodes. The deployment is a fully software-based switching and routing solution, based on information-centric networking (ICN) principles, in a real-life setting. The deployment team expects the solution to drive cost reduction, increases in bandwidth utilization in the fronthaul network and towards the peering links – typically the expensive part in a community network – and the ability to easily host community services. The Tarragona deployment is a pure software installation, seeking to radically optimize existing infrastructure.
“This trial highlights another facet of 5G. It is not just all about bandwidth improvement or new AR/VR services, but also a focus on the societal challenge of bringing affordable internet to more people,” stated Dirk Trossen, Senior Principal Engineer, InterDigital. “We have a tremendous opportunity to demonstrate our fully software-based solution, based on information-centric networking principles, in a real-life setting while making strides towards the ultimate goal of making the internet affordable to everyone.”
The RIFE project aims to address the major societal challenge of providing affordable internet access to those who cannot afford it by solving the technological challenge to increase the efficiency of the underlying transport networks and the involved architectures and protocols. The trial will initially be conducted for a month, with plans to extend the trial to a full 12 months. RIFE is a consortium of eight partners from six different countries including Martel Innovate, Aalto University, University of Cambridge, InterDigital Europe, Thales Alenia Space, Avanti, guifi.net, and Technical University of Munich. For more information, please visit https://rife-project.eu/
About InterDigital®
InterDigital develops mobile technologies that are at the core of devices, networks, and services worldwide. We solve many of the industry's most critical and complex technical challenges, inventing solutions for more efficient broadband networks and a richer multimedia experience years ahead of market deployment. InterDigital has licenses and strategic relationships with many of the world's leading wireless companies. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on NASDAQ and is included in the S&P MidCap 400® index.
InterDigital is a registered trademark of InterDigital, Inc.
For more information, visit: www.interdigital.com.
InterDigital Contact:
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Email: patrick.vandewille@interdigital.com
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Paullee - Regarding Huawei license expiring at the end of 2018
Consider the following:
* When the Huawei license was signed, it is my opinion that no license with IDCC contained a provision for 5G
* I anticipate that Huawei refused to execute a license with IDCC going into 2019 without a provision for 5G
* In my opinion, it is to IDCC's advantage to have a power player that does not have the "China baggage" establish the very first royalty rate for 5G technology
I anticipate a patent sale from IDCC to someone in order that the new owner can establish the 5G royalty rate for this patent portfolio as it applies to cellular technology. IDCC will than pursue IOT and smart cities 5G technologies with a basket full of cash from the patent sale. JMHO
Or Broadcom could buy NXP plus IDCC and then compete against QCOM for customers.
United States Patent 9,893,844
Terry , et al. February 13, 2018
Method and system for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request processes per transmission time interval
Abstract
A method and apparatus may be used for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes per transmission time interval (TTI). A transmitter and a receiver may include a plurality of H-ARQ processes. Each H-ARQ process may transmit and receive one TB per TTI. The transmitter may generate a plurality of TBs and assign each TB to a H-ARQ process. The transmitter may send control information for each TB, which may include H-ARQ information associated TBs with the TBs. The transmitter may send the TBs using the associated H-ARQ processes simultaneously per TTI. After receiving the TBs, the receiver may send feedback for each of the H-ARQ processes and associated TBs indicating successful or unsuccessful receipt of each of the TBs to the transmitter. The feedback for multiple TBs may be combined for the simultaneously transmitted H-ARQ processes, (i.e., TBs).
Inventors:
Terry; Stephen E. (Northport, NY), Olesen; Robert L. (Huntington, NY), Wang; Jin (Princeton, NJ), Chandra; Arty (Manhasset Hills, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003117706
Appl. No.:
15/018,227
Filed:
February 8, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160156436 A1 Jun 2, 2016
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Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
14467880 Aug 25, 2014 9258096
14082986 Aug 26, 2014 8819514
13735515 Nov 19, 2013 8589753
13309713 Jan 8, 2013 8352824
11670202 Dec 6, 2011 8074137
60839462 Aug 23, 2006
60765076 Feb 3, 2006
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04L 1/1861 (20130101); H04B 7/0413 (20130101); H04B 7/0632 (20130101); H04L 1/1607 (20130101); H04L 1/1812 (20130101); H04W 72/0446 (20130101); H04L 5/0053 (20130101); H04L 5/0055 (20130101); H04W 72/042 (20130101); H04W 72/0406 (20130101); H04L 1/1887 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04L 1/18 (20060101); H04B 7/06 (20060101); H04B 7/04 (20060101); H04L 5/00 (20060101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04L 1/16 (20060101); G08C 25/02 (20060101)
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United States Patent 9,894,457
Dong , et al. February 13, 2018
Method and apparatus to support M2M content and context based services
Abstract
Devices, computer readable media, and methods for supporting services at an application service layer (ASL) are disclosed. The ASL may be a machine-to-machine (M2M) services capability layer (SCL). Content functions may interpret the data to generate a semantic description of the data. Semantic information associated with data may be stored. Context aware functions may process the semantic description of the data to generate lower level contextual cues. Context aware reasoning functions may process the lower level contextual cues to deduce higher level context. An application or a second ASL may use the contextual cues and the situational context to trigger an action. The ASL may create a trigger condition based on a received message. The ASL may invoke a function based on detecting a trigger condition. The ASL may perform a command based on a received command. The ASL may use a objective function and feedback to control a device.
Inventors:
Dong; Lijun (Bridgeport, PA), Seed; Dale N. (Allentown, PA), Russell, Jr.; Paul L. (Pennington, NJ), Wang; Chonggang (Princeton, NJ), Ding; Zongrui (San Diego, CA), Lu; Guang (Montreal, CA), Akbari; Mohsen (Montreal, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003120780
Appl. No.:
13/757,331
Filed:
February 1, 2013
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Publication Date
US 20130203394 A1 Aug 8, 2013
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Patent Number
Issue Date
61594629 Feb 3, 2012
61653772 May 31, 2012
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 4/00 (20130101); H04W 4/70 (20180201)
Current International Class: H04W 4/00 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;455/414.1,514,550.1,561,418-420
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United States Patent 9,894,556
Tomici , et al. February 13, 2018
Methods, systems and apparatus for managing and/or enforcing policies for managing internet protocol ("IP") traffic among multiple accesses of a network
Abstract
Methods, systems and apparatus for managing and/or enforcing one or more policies for managing internet protocol ("IP") traffic among multiple accesses of a network in accordance with a policy for managing bandwidth among the multiple accesses are disclosed. Among the methods, systems and apparatus is a method that may include obtaining performance metrics associated with the multiple accesses. The method may also include adapting one or more rules of one or more the policies for managing IP traffic among the plurality of accesses based, at least in part, on the performance metrics and the policy for managing bandwidth among the plurality of accesses. The method may further include managing IP traffic associated with at least one wireless transmit and/or receive unit ("WTRU") among the plurality of accesses responsive to the adapted rules.
Inventors:
Tomici; John L. (Southold, NY), Chitrapu; Prabhakar R. (Blue Bell, PA), Reznik; Alexander (Pennington, NJ), Lopez-Torres; Oscar (Naucalpan, MX), Ye; Chunxuan (San Diego, CA), Patel; Milan (Harrow, GB), Livet; Catherine M. (Montreal, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003120752
Appl. No.:
15/239,059
Filed:
August 17, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160381594 A1 Dec 29, 2016
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Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
13446685 Apr 13, 2012 9473986
61475023 Apr 13, 2011
61546543 Oct 12, 2011
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 28/0268 (20130101); H04L 45/123 (20130101); H04L 45/308 (20130101); H04M 15/66 (20130101); H04W 28/0289 (20130101); H04W 28/16 (20130101); H04L 45/38 (20130101); H04W 76/12 (20180201); H04W 88/02 (20130101)
Current International Class: G06F 15/16 (20060101); H04W 28/02 (20090101); H04L 12/721 (20130101); H04L 12/725 (20130101); H04W 28/16 (20090101); H04M 15/00 (20060101); H04W 88/02 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;709/224
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United States Patent 9,894,573
Pani , et al. February 13, 2018
Multi-cell WTRUS configured to perform mobility procedures and methods
Abstract
Dual-cell or multi-cell Wireless Transmit Receive Units (WTRUs) configured to implement mobility procedures are described. The WTRU configurations implement methods to optimize and allow mobility for the procedures of cell search and cell reselection, measurement reporting and inter-frequency handovers, compressed mode measurements, and soft handovers.
Inventors:
Pani; Diana (Montreal, CA), Marinier; Paul (Brossard, CA), Pelletier; Benoit (Roxboro, CA), Cave; Christopher R. (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, CA), Di Girolamo; Rocco (Laval, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilimington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003118263
Appl. No.:
14/951,273
Filed:
November 24, 2015
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160080993 A1 Mar 17, 2016
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Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
12429466 Apr 24, 2009 9226205
61048128 Apr 25, 2008
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 36/04 (20130101); H04W 36/0016 (20130101); H04W 74/006 (20130101); H04W 36/0083 (20130101); H04W 88/02 (20130101); H04W 36/18 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 36/04 (20090101); H04W 36/00 (20090101); H04W 74/00 (20090101); H04W 36/18 (20090101); H04W 88/02 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;455/436-452 ;370/332
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United States Patent 9,894,618
Shin , et al. February 13, 2018
Wireless device for controlling transmission power
Abstract
A wireless device and a method of operating the wireless device is disclosed for controlling a transmission power of a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU). A total transmission power employed by the WTRU when transmitting via a single antenna may be offset by a total transmission power offset value from a total transmission power employed by the WTRU when transmitting via a plurality of antennas.
Inventors:
Shin; Sung-Hyuk (Northvale, NJ), Pietraski; Philip J. (Jericho, NY), Roy; Vincent (Longueuil, CA), Zhang; Guodong (Syosset, NY), Pan; Kyle Jung-Lin (St. James, NY), Grieco; Donald M. (Manhasset, NY), Stern-Berkowitz; Janet A. (Little Neck, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003120734
Appl. No.:
15/361,852
Filed:
November 28, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20170078972 A1 Mar 16, 2017
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
14628737 Feb 23, 2015 9510294
12725713 Feb 24, 2015 8964868
61160958 Mar 17, 2009
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 76/27 (20180201); H04W 52/10 (20130101); H04W 52/146 (20130101); H04W 52/42 (20130101); H04W 72/0446 (20130101); H04W 72/0473 (20130101); H04W 52/40 (20130101); H04B 7/024 (20130101); H04B 7/0413 (20130101); H04B 7/0689 (20130101); H04L 1/0003 (20130101); H04W 52/242 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 52/10 (20090101); H04W 52/42 (20090101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04W 52/14 (20090101); H04W 52/40 (20090101); H04L 1/00 (20060101); H04B 7/024 (20170101); H04B 7/06 (20060101); H04B 7/0413 (20170101); H04W 52/24 (20090101)
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United States Patent 9,894,655
Pan , et al. February 13, 2018
Adaptive uplink/downlink timeslot assignment in a hybrid wireless time division multiple access/code division multiple access communication system
Abstract
A wireless network device may receive a first list indicating a first assignment for uplink and downlink time intervals in a time division duplex (TDD) frame and determine at least first downlink time intervals based on the first list. The device may receive a second list indicating a second assignment for uplink and downlink time intervals in a TDD frame and determine at least first uplink time intervals based on the second list. The device may determine at least second downlink time intervals and second uplink time intervals based on a third list, wherein the third list indicates a third assignment for uplink and downlink time intervals in a TDD frame, and wherein the second downlink time intervals include downlink time intervals of at least the first downlink time intervals and the second uplink time intervals include uplink time intervals of at least the first uplink time intervals.
Inventors:
Pan; Kyle Jung-Lin (Saint James, NY), Zeira; Ariela (Huntington, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Technology Corporation
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003118306
Appl. No.:
15/470,292
Filed:
March 27, 2017
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20170201991 A1 Jul 13, 2017
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Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
15161990 May 23, 2016 9609650
14746402 May 24, 2016 9350521
14337868 Jun 23, 2015 9066341
12348637 Sep 23, 2014 8842644
11347340 Jan 6, 2009 7474644
09910329 Feb 7, 2006 6996078
60221009 Jul 27, 2000
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 72/0446 (20130101); H04B 7/2618 (20130101); H04W 72/1273 (20130101); H04L 5/14 (20130101); H04W 72/1268 (20130101); H04L 5/0073 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04L 12/28 (20060101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04B 7/26 (20060101); H04L 5/00 (20060101); H04L 5/14 (20060101); H04W 72/12 (20090101)
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United States Patent 9,894,686
Di Girolamo , et al. February 13, 2018
Random access in dynamic and shared spectrums
Abstract
Systems and methods for using a communication system in a spectrum are provided. For example, a random access or RACH procedure may be performed where the random access or RACH procedure may be configured to reduce secondary interference and/or to be used in a pixel-based environment. The random access or RACH procedure may include selecting a RACH preamble; sending a RACH preamble and/or format information; determining a transmission power of the RACH preamble and/or the format information; determining a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) and preamble ID associated with the RACH preamble; and/or selecting a physical RACH (PRACH).
Inventors:
Di Girolamo; Rocco (Laval, CA), Freda; Martino M. (Laval, CA), Gauvreau; Jean-Louis (La Prarie, CA), Laughlin; Scott (Montreal, CA), Purkayastha; Debashish (Collegeville, PA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003118327
Appl. No.:
15/147,274
Filed:
May 5, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160249384 A1 Aug 25, 2016
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Patent Number
Issue Date
14380489 9363829
PCT/US2013/027540 Feb 24, 2013
61746797 Dec 28, 2012
61603002 Feb 24, 2012
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 74/0808 (20130101); H04W 72/0446 (20130101); H04W 16/14 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 72/00 (20090101); H04W 74/08 (20090101); H04W 16/14 (20090101); H04W 72/04 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;455/454
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No Happy Ending for Broadcom, Qualcomm
Rick Merritt, SiliconValley Bureau Chief 2/12/2018 02:01 AM EST
Broadcom has a better-than-even chance of acquiring Qualcomm, but it's not the best remedy for problems that the cellular giant largely brought on itself.
Financial and market analysts that I talked to agree that the $121 billion deal is in the best interests of stockholders for the short-term. But long-term, they say that it’s bad for the industry and that Broadcom’s growth-by-acquisition model will not be sustainable.
“I think the deal will be good for Broadcom’s stock price, but as a former engineer, I will weep about it,” said one stock analyst who asked not to be named.
“The Broadcom model is good for stockholders and bad for the industry,” said an industry watcher who also asked not to be named.
They refer to the former Avago’s history of carving up its acquisitions, keeping the best bits, managing their costs tightly, and selling off the rest. It happened with LSI, Broadcom, and Brocade. Qualcomm is the next and largest target of what some former Broadcom executives call Hock Tan’s “financial engineering.”
Tan would sell off Qualcomm’s RF360 joint venture with TDK, its Centriq ARM server group and perhaps a big chunk of its patent portfolio — perhaps even throwing in some patents from the former LSI and classic Broadcom. There’s some debate about whether he would sell off the former CSR Bluetooth and former Atheros Wi-Fi groups.
The crown jewel, of course, is Qualcomm’s cellular baseband franchise and, to a lesser extent, its mobile application processor business, which Tan would tightly manage. Hock Tan once told one analyst, “I sit on the mountaintop, watching farmers plant their fields, and when it’s time for the harvest, I come down and pick it.”
This is a harsh model, but business is harsh. The problem with Tan’s model is that he requires others to plant and water seeds for fruits that he eventually harvests.
Two or three years after what would be by far the biggest merger in the semiconductor industry, his investors would be hungry for growth again. It’s a kind of addiction. Eventually, the king of the mountain looks like the fool on the hill.
Qualcomm is the victim of its own hubris. For decades, it has reportedly charged some of the steepest patent royalties in the cellular industry to recoup its R&D investment. Since the CDMA era, its demands have drawn lawsuits and regulatory actions, culminating in the falling out with Apple and another top customer, said by some to be Huawei.
Qualcomm deserves a premium for leadership engineering in cellular. But how much? I’d love to see a detailed analysis of its research spending relative to its royalty charges, but numbers on the latter remain confidential in today’s opaque patent market.
Clearly, the company makes big investments, but Apple claims that Qualcomm charges five times the royalties of all other cellular patent holders combined. I note that Samsung — another frenemy of Apple — plunked down a staggering $26 billion on capital equipment for its fabs — a whopping 40% of its semiconductor sales in 2017.
The value of a patent is whatever people are willing to pay for it, and Qualcomm has consistently pushed the envelope to the breaking point. It could at any point — even now — recalibrate its IP business model, but I doubt that it will.
My gut tells me that Paul Jacobs would rather let Hock Tan pull out his fingernails than let him buy the company that his father co-founded — even if he got the 13th seat on a merged company’s board. Similarly, I can’t imagine him reforming the business model behind the storied patent wall in its headquarters.
So I suspect that shareholders will decide the company’s fate — more specifically, the few dozen executives who control proxy votes for big institutional investors such as Blackrock, Vanguard, and Fidelity. Experts tell me that they take input from their in-house stock analysts, but in the end, these proxy execs make their own calls.
I called Qualcomm’s top 10 institutional investors. Not a single one would speak with me. So I suspect that there may be no resolution for this matter until the proxy vote on competing slates of directors is announced on or about March 6.
Even then, analysts say that Qualcomm’s deal to buy NXP could throw a monkey wrench into the works. Qualcomm could increase its bid for NXP, and China could approve the deal any day, scaring Broadcom off.
Hock Tan wants a few big leading product franchises to manage and a few juicy pieces to sell off. NXP is not seen as a prize in his eyes, say analysts.
There are many shoes yet to drop in this semiconductor soap opera. None of them look very pretty to me.
— Rick Merritt, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, EE Times
https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1332956
I have read several news items today concerning Qualcomm's most recent rejection of an offer by Broadcom each of which include this refrain about a resolution to the Apple litigation, an example paragraph as follows:
MW Apple loses in Qualcomm-Samsung license agreement
Feb 06, 2018 13:32:00 (ET) By Ryan Shrout
Samsung and Qualcomm amend and extend their cross-licensing deal, possibly laying to rest a legal dispute between Qualcomm and Apple
Lost in the shuffle of earnings releases last week was an important announcement (https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2018/01/31/qualcomm-and-samsung-amend-long-term-cross-license-agreement) between Samsung and Qualcomm.
Qualcomm thinks it will be a help in its legal battle with Apple and other vendors over licensing disputes. Qualcomm believes the extension of its licensing agreement with Samsung will enable it to lay to rest the combative legal dispute with the iPhone maker and bring along with it a boost in revenue through back-pay and future royalties.
With news leaking over the weekend of an upgraded buyout offer (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qualcomm-m-a-broadcom-exclusive/exclusive-broadcom-to-raise-qualcomm-bid-in-push-for-talks-sources-say-idUSKBN1FO0SG) from Broadcom (AVGO), Qualcomm (QCOM) continues to look for ways to show its value and potential for growth to shareholders. The battle with Apple (AAPL), along with the pending legal concerns in various regions, is one angle the market is watching to measure Qualcomm's long-term value.
In the announcement last week, Samsung and Qualcomm agreed to amend and extend their cross-licensing agreement that allows the companies to use each other's technologies in product development. Most importantly, the Samsung agreement is part of a device-level license, meaning Qualcomm will earn a fixed amount for every smartphone Samsung ships. As Samsung is the world's largest provider of phones in the world, this is a significant win for Qualcomm.
But the underlying implication of this agreement should have an impact on the ongoing legal battles between Qualcomm and Apple surrounding these very same licensing methods. The crux of Apple's dispute is that per-device licensing fees are fundamentally disadvantageous to everyone in the market, except for Qualcomm. Apple is fighting to tear up the current agreements that Qualcomm has with its vendors (which Apple is using to build its phones and avoid a direct agreement with Qualcomm) and force a per-segment or per-family licensing fee that it believes is fairer and, obviously, much less expensive.
The renewed agreement with Samsung is a sign that the largest mobile-technology providers in the marketplace do not view the business practices of Qualcomm as overly aggressive or unreasonable. If Samsung finds it fair and necessary to engage with Qualcomm to license the company's patent portfolio, all while maintaining record revenue growth, there is little reason that Apple cannot, and will not, have to do the same. This marks another data point, and a big one, for Qualcomm in the ongoing legal fight.
Also important is that Samsung has agreed to step away from its involvement in the Korean Fair Trade Commission investigation (and current appeal) into Qualcomm's licensing practices and business models. Considering Samsung was the instigator of the inquiry by the KFTC, this provides a higher likelihood of the appeal from the San Diego-based company being approved. In a year that has seen several legal setbacks fall upon Qualcomm, the removal of the KFTC complaint would be welcome news.
Though details were sparse in the agreement announcement, the easy assumption is that Qualcomm offered Samsung an advantageous agreement in order to help clear the battle with the KFTC and use in the battle with Apple. Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) regulations do specify that licensors must offer equal terms for all partners, regardless of size and situation. But nothing precludes Qualcomm from providing additional resources (engineering help), access to additional intellectual property (IP) that would otherwise not be available, etc.
A second announcement between Qualcomm and Samsung (https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2018/01/31/qualcomm-and-samsung-announce-expanded-strategic-relationship) on the same day, also overlooked amid the mass discussion over financials, mentions an expansion of the "strategic relationship" between the Korean technology company and Qualcomm's product division. Details are again limited, but it includes wording that can give us clues. Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon says the new agreement will be "driving core mobile technology into many different segments." This might include the use of Snapdragon processors in more of Samsung's smartphones, a new family of Samsung Windows 10 PCs using Snapdragon hardware, or even something surrounding process technology and foundry agreements.
Ryan Shrout is the founder and lead analyst at Shrout Research (https://www.shroutresearch.com/), and the owner of PC Perspective (http://pcper.com/). Follow him on Twitter @ryanshrout (https://twitter.com/ryanshrout).
-Ryan Shrout; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com
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United States Patent 9,887,752
Xi , et al. February 6, 2018
Managing control signaling overhead for multi-carrier HSDPA
Abstract
Systems and methods for managing control signaling overhead for a multi-carrier HSDPA (MC-HSDPA) may be disclosed. In particular, a plurality of downlink carriers may be received and bundled or paired. Configuration information indicative of the bundling may then be generated and transmitted. Additionally, one or more components such as antennas, user equipment (UE), and the like may receive an indication of a configuration or state via a high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) order where the indication includes order bits and order types and the configuration may be applied to activate and/or deactivate the components or operations such as uplink closed-loop transmit diversity (CLTD), uplink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). The order bits and/or order types may also be extended to support the activation/deactivation of additional carriers of MC-HSDPA.
Inventors:
Xi; Fengjun (San Diego, CA), Cai; Lujing (Morganville, NJ), Levy; Joseph S. (Merrick, NY), Pelletier; Benoit (Roxboro, CA), Zhang; Hong O. (Manalapan, NJ)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003104449
Appl. No.:
15/177,857
Filed:
June 9, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160294459 A1 Oct 6, 2016
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Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
13371320 Feb 10, 2012 9407404
61441949 Feb 11, 2011
61480804 Apr 29, 2011
61522972 Aug 12, 2011
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04B 7/06 (20130101); H04L 5/001 (20130101); H04L 5/0098 (20130101); H04W 72/0406 (20130101); H04L 5/003 (20130101); H04L 5/0058 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04B 7/06 (20060101); H04L 5/00 (20060101); H04W 72/04 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;370/328,329,338,401,465
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United States Patent 9,887,808
Kwak , et al. February 6, 2018
Method and apparatus for implementing space frequency block coding in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless communication system
Abstract
The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for implementing space frequency block coding (SFBC) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication system. The present invention is applicable to both a closed loop mode and an open loop mode. In the closed loop mode, power loading and eigen-beamforming are performed based on channel state information (CSI). A channel coded data stream is multiplexed into two or more data streams. Power loading is performed based on the CSI on each of the multiplexed data streams. SFBC encoding is performed on the data streams for each of the paired subcarriers. Then, eigen-beamforming is performed based on the CSI to distribute eigenbeams to multiple transmit antennas. The power loading may be performed on two or more SFBC encoding blocks or on each eigenmodes. Additionally, the power loading may be performed across subcarriers or subcarrier groups for weak eigenmodes.
Inventors:
Kwak; Jaeyoung (Morganville, NJ), Olesen; Robert L. (Huntington, NY), Bultan; Aykut (Santa Clara, CA), Zeira; Eldad M. (Huntington, NY), Koo; Changsoo (Melville, NY), Ozluturk; Fatih M. (Sands Point, NY), Huang; Yuejin (Coram, NY), Pasad; Kalpendu R. (Cupertino, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003106110
Appl. No.:
15/433,011
Filed:
February 15, 2017
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20170163382 A1 Jun 8, 2017
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Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
15061703 Mar 4, 2016 9608772
14695989 Apr 5, 2016 9306702
14021783 Jun 9, 2015 9054924
12360351 Sep 10, 2013 8532210
11201695 Mar 17, 2009 7505529
60601338 Aug 12, 2004
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04B 7/0417 (20130101); H04B 7/066 (20130101); H04B 7/0626 (20130101); H04B 7/0632 (20130101); H04L 1/0003 (20130101); H04L 1/0009 (20130101); H04L 1/0026 (20130101); H04L 5/006 (20130101); H04L 5/0007 (20130101); H04L 27/156 (20130101); H04L 27/2626 (20130101); H04L 1/0606 (20130101); Y02B 70/30 (20130101); H04L 2027/0046 (20130101); H04L 5/0023 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04L 27/26 (20060101); H04L 1/00 (20060101); H04L 1/06 (20060101); H04B 7/0417 (20170101); H04L 27/156 (20060101); H04B 7/06 (20060101); H04L 27/00 (20060101); H04L 5/00 (20060101)
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United States Patent 9,887,828
Pelletier , et al. February 6, 2018
Component carrier activation/deactivation in multi carrier systems
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for addressing wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) behavior in response to configuration, configuration parameters and access issues related to the activation/deactivation process when the WTRU may be configured with multiple serving cells or carrier aggregation.
Inventors:
Pelletier; Ghyslain (Montreal, CA), Marinier; Paul (Brossard, CA), Rudolf; Marian (Montreal, CA), Terry; Stephen E. (Northport, NY), Olesen; Robert L. (Huntington, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003104516
Appl. No.:
15/254,332
Filed:
September 1, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160373233 A1 Dec 22, 2016
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Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
14522801 Oct 24, 2014 9491793
12950622 Dec 23, 2014 8917605
61262810 Nov 19, 2009
61293520 Jan 8, 2010
61304149 Feb 12, 2010
61307803 Feb 24, 2010
61314446 Mar 16, 2010
61330150 Apr 30, 2010
61355756 Jun 17, 2010
61373678 Aug 13, 2010
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04L 5/0098 (20130101); H04L 5/001 (20130101); H04W 24/10 (20130101); H04W 52/365 (20130101); H04W 72/0406 (20130101); H04W 76/025 (20130101); H04W 72/042 (20130101); H04W 76/068 (20130101); H04W 52/34 (20130101); H04W 76/028 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 4/00 (20090101); H04W 72/04 (20090101); H04L 5/00 (20060101); H04W 52/36 (20090101); H04W 24/10 (20090101); H04W 52/34 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;370/329
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