Sony Corporation

Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC

Intellectual Ventures Ii LLC

Sca Ipla Holdings Inc.

Ipwireless, Inc.

General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.

Veea Systems Limited

Nvidia Corporation

Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd.

Veea Inc.

Lucent Technologies Inc.

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Convida Wireless, LLC

Wireless Technology Solutions LLC

Golden Valley Holdings Limited

Timothy James Speight

Paul William Piggin

Nicholas Jelbert

Timothy Wilkinson

Stephen Robert Calvert

Peter Jonathon Legg

Andrew Gordon Williams

Allen Salmasi

Peter Jonathan Legg

Peter Bruce Darwood

Nicholas Jelberg

A base station (BS), transmitting a plurality of resource allocations for a group of user equipments (UEs) for communication of UEs in proximity to each other, wherein one or more of the UEs select at least one resource from the plurality of resources allocations to communicate that is utilized to communicate with at least one other UE in the group of UEs.

Scheduling communication in a wireless communication system

A wireless communication unit to facilitate determining a plurality of communication link cost metrics at a receiving wireless communication unit using a multiple modulation and coding scheme, MCS, in a wireless mesh network, is described. A transmitter transmits sounding transmissions to at least two neighboring wireless communication units. A processor generates a sounding burst comprising: a plurality of multicast sounding transmissions that employ a different MCS; and a plurality of parameters contained at an application layer protocol level. The plurality of parameters comprises: an intra-burst sequence number for each MCS transmitted within each multicast sounding transmission; an indication of a number of sounding transmissions in the sounding burst; and an index value that references a particular table within a set of tables which is then used to determine a transmission bit rate, B, at the receiving unit for each multicast sounding transmission within the sounding burst.

Method and arrangement for processing a signal

A base station (BS) is configured to transmit information including a plurality of first values, wherein each of the plurality of first values is associated with at least one radio bearer to a user equipment (UE). The BS is configured to receive a plurality of buffer occupancy indicators from the UE, wherein each buffer occupancy indicator is associated with a at least one queue, wherein each queue is associated with at least one radio bearer. The BS is further configured, in response to the received plurality of buffer occupancy indicators, to transmit an uplink resource allocation to the UE via a control channel and to receive data provided by selected queues in resources based on the transmitted uplink resource allocation from the UE.

Scheduling transmissions on channels in a wireless network

A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive information including a plurality of first values and queue limit information including a plurality of first values and queue limit information from a base station (BS), wherein each of the plurality of first values is associated with at least one radio bearer. Further, the UE is configured to transmit a plurality of buffer occupancy indicators, wherein each buffer occupancy indicator is associated with at least one queue, wherein each queue is associated with the at least one radio bearer. In response to the plurality of buffer occupancy indicators transmitted, receive, using the communication interface, allocated uplink resources including data provided by a limited number of queues in allocated uplink resources, wherein an amount of data received from each of the limited number of queues is limited based on the first values.

A base station (BS) is configured to transmit information including a plurality of first values and queue limit information to a user equipment (UE), wherein each of the plurality of first values is associated with at least one radio bearer. Further, the BS is configured to receive a plurality of buffer occupancy indicators, wherein each buffer occupancy indicator is associated with at least one queue, wherein each queue is associated with the at least one radio bearer. In response to the plurality of buffer occupancy indicators received, the BS allocates uplink resources to the UE, including data provided by a limited number of queues in the allocated uplink resources, wherein an amount of data received from each of the limited number of queues is limited based on the first values.

A user equipment (UE) receives, from a base station, a plurality of resource allocations for a group of UEs, wherein the plurality of resource allocations are for communication of UEs in proximity to each other. The UE selects one of the plurality of resources allocations for transmission, and transmits using the selected resource allocation, wherein the UE is in proximity to at least one other UE.

A beacon device for communicating with at least one discovering device is described. The beacon device comprises: a transceiver that is configured to obtain content from a remote server using a first wireless technology or a wireline technology; a second transmitter configured to transmit at least a beacon indicator on a second wireless technology; a second receiver configured to receive a first message from the discovering device in response to the beacon indicator on the second wireless technology requesting information relating to the beacon indicator; a controller operably coupled to the second receiver and configured to process the received first message; a transceiver that supports a second wireless or wireline technology configured to obtain the content from a remote server that stores the requested information using the second wireless or wireline technology; and in response thereto the second transmitter transmits a second message to the at least one discovering device comprising details of how the content can be downloaded by the at least one discovering device.

Wireless communication units and wireless communication system and methods to support beacon technology

A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive, from a wireless network, information including a plurality of first values and queue limit information, wherein each of the plurality of first values is associated with at least one radio bearer. Further, the UE is configured to transmit a plurality of buffer occupancy indicators, wherein each buffer occupancy indicator is associated with at least one queue. The UE is further configured, in response to the transmitted plurality of buffer occupancy indicators, to receive, from the wireless network, an uplink resource allocation. The UE is determined, based on the received queue limit information, select a limited number of queues for providing data for transmission and to transmit the data based on the first value associated with the select queue of the selected limited number of queues in resources determined from the received uplink resource allocation.

A network device transmits a communication indicating a location of the first UE, wherein the first UE is in proximity to a second UE. Further, the network device transmits data in a subframe or time slot, wherein the first UE transmits the data in the subframe or time slot and a second UE receives in the same subframe or time slot, based on the first UE and the second UE being in proximity.

An edge computing system comprises: a cloud computing system; an edge processing function; a connection between the edge processing function and the cloud computing system; a backend server within the cloud computing system. An assessment module is configured to receive information about processing goals, and processing capabilities of the backend server and the edge processing function. The assessment module derives a set of possible interfaces and corresponding functionality splits defining a division of processing activity between the backend server and the edge processing function. Based on a received measurement of bandwidth and/or of latency on the connection, the assessment module selects an interface and corresponding functionality split, and downloads them to the edge processing function and the backend server.

Edge computing system

A network device, based on received location from a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE may determine that the first UE and the second UE are in proximity to each other. Based on the proximity determination, the network device may provide at least one of the first and second UE uplink LTE resources for transmission, wherein the transmission is associated with a group of UEs.

A wireless communication system and method employing channel transport format allocation in a shared uplink channel between a UE and a Node B, and wherein the UE can determine a transport format combination which it can support, by: detecting in the UE a change in transport format combination that the UE can support; and sending to the Node B an indication of transport format combination that the UE can support, whereby efficiency of channel transport format allocation in the system may be improved. A conditional delay mechanism may be employed to reduce signalling overhead. This allows uplink shared channels to be efficiently used by providing a means by which UTRAN (UMTS terrestrial radio access network) is informed of the TFCs within the TFCS which can be used in the uplink by the UE.

System and method for channel transport format allocation in a wireless communication system

Allocation of resources in a wireless network are described where resources are allocated for each channel having a second parameter above zero prior to another channel for transmission having a third parameter less than or equal to zero. The second parameter may be derived from a first channel's first parameter and the third parameter is derived from a second channel's first parameter.

Growing community of inventors

Bristol, United Kingdom

Timothy James Speight