Patents Examined by Abusayeed M Haque
  • Patent number: 11765741
    Abstract: A radio communication method, and apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining, in a second scheduling period based on a first candidate downlink control channel, a second candidate downlink control channel from a control resource set corresponding to the second scheduling period, the first candidate downlink control channel and the second candidate downlink control channel comprise the same downlink control information, a correspondence exists between a first aggregation level of the first candidate downlink control channel and a second aggregation level of the second candidate downlink control channel, and an offset exists between a sequence number of the second candidate downlink control channel and a sequence number of the first candidate downlink control channel; and combining and decoding the first candidate downlink control channel and the second candidate downlink control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Gao, Shurong Jiao, Xiaolei Tie
  • Patent number: 11765594
    Abstract: This document discusses, among other things, a wireless personal-area network (PAN) underlying a cellular wide-area network (WAN). The PAN includes a wearable user equipment (UE-W) and a user equipment aggregation node (UE-AN). The UE-W includes processing circuitry to process data for communication with a network of the WAN through the UE-AN, and radio interface circuitry to communicate with the UE-AN through a first air interface. The UE-AN includes processing to process data for communication between the network of the WAN and the UE-W, and radio interface circuitry to communicate with the network of the WAN through the first air interface and with the UE-W through a second air interface. The UE-W and the UE-AN can share a network credential, appearing as a single device to the WAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qian Li, Geng Wu, Lili Wei, Apostolos Papathanassiou
  • Patent number: 11743839
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. In addition, a method of a terminal in a wireless communication system, includes: receiving system information including first uplink waveform information for an initial access; transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) connection request message based on the first uplink waveform information; receiving an RRC connection response message including second uplink waveform information for uplink data transmission; and transmitting data based on the second uplink waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunheui Ryoo, Jungsoo Jung, Hyunjeong Kang, Hyunseok Ryu, Seunghoon Park
  • Patent number: 11743817
    Abstract: A communication system includes a base station configuring an energy saving cell (ES cell) and a base station configuring a compensation cell (Comp cell). The ES cell is switchable between a switch-on state and a switch-off state. The Comp cell compensates for the coverage of the ES cell when the ES cell is in the switch-off state. Before the Comp cell starts compensating for the coverage, for example, before the ES cell decides to switch itself off in Step ST2101, in Step ST2201 for example, the base station configuring the ES cell notifies the UE being connected with the ES cell of the information about a Comp cell, for example, a Comp cell list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Onaka, Miho Maeda, Mitsuru Mochizuki, Taisei Suemitsu, Noriyuki Fukui
  • Patent number: 11736258
    Abstract: This application provides a system information redundancy version determining method and apparatus. A communications device determines at least one time-domain resource unit Ux, and determines a redundancy version RVx for system information on the time-domain resource unit Ux according to the time-domain resource unit Ux, where x is an identifier of the time-domain resource unit, the redundancy version RVx satisfies RVx=(Int1(X1/X2*(Int2(x/M) mod K))) mod L, x is a non-negative integer, X1 and X2 are non-zero real numbers, M is a positive real number, K and L are positive integers, mod indicates a modulo operation, Int1 indicates rounding up or rounding down, and Int2 indicates rounding up or rounding down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuandong Gao, Huang Huang, Mao Yan, Hua Shao
  • Patent number: 11729237
    Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for inserting custom content. An example method can comprise receiving, at a first computing device, an insertion instruction over a first non-packet-switching protocol information stream. The method can also comprise querying, by the first computing device, a second computing device in response to receiving the insertion instruction. The method can further comprise receiving, at the first computing device, content over a packet-switching protocol information stream in response to querying the second computing device. The content can be customized for an end-user associated with the first computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Allen Broome, Jason Burgess, Richard Fliam
  • Patent number: 11728939
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems applicable to transport block communication as part of multiple access wireless communications. The methods and systems include a base station (120) that determines a first order for a first plurality of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) layers (705). The base station (120) receives, from a user equipment (110), the first plurality of NOMA layers that carry the transport block (710). The base station (120) combines the first plurality of NOMA layers following the determined first order (715) and determines that decoding the transport block from the first plurality of NOMA layers has failed (720). The base station (120) then determines a second order for a second plurality of NOMA layers (725) and receives, from the user equipment (110), the second plurality of NOMA layers that carry the transport block (730).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Chien-Hsin Tang
  • Patent number: 11729783
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) may monitor a search space of a control channel for at least one downlink transmission. The UE may perform a plurality of decoding operations on a plurality of decoding candidates associated with the downlink control information format transmitted in a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs). In some cases, the plurality of decoding operations may comprise performing a first decoding on a first decoding candidate received in a current TTI, the first decoding operation applying a first descrambling code to the first decoding candidate, and performing a second decoding operation on a combined decoding candidate that comprises soft combined information from the first and second decoding candidate, the second decoding candidate received in a prior TTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Changlong Xu, Liangming Wu, Kai Chen, Hao Xu, Jing Jiang, Jing Sun, Joseph Binamira Soriaga
  • Patent number: 11729657
    Abstract: A control apparatus (40) is configured to acquire a required end-to-end performance required for an end-to-end path from a first end node to a second end node, and determine each required segment performance required for a respective one of the path segments based on the required end-to-end performance. The control apparatus (40) is further configured to communicate with a node included in each path segment or communicate with an entity controlling the path segment to enforce a corresponding one of the required segment performances in the path segment. The control apparatus (40) is further configured to update a required segment performance currently enforced in at least one path segment based on an achievement status of each of the required segment performances in the respective path segments. It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to guaranteeing the required end-to-end performance even when quality of each path segment changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takanori Iwai
  • Patent number: 11726122
    Abstract: A testing device for testing an antenna is provided. The testing device includes a housing, an antenna module, and a receiving module. The antenna module is used for holding the antenna and disposed on the housing, wherein the antenna is coupled to an antenna testing apparatus. The receiving module is disposed on the housing and includes a coupling radiation element physically separated from the antenna, wherein the receiving module is configured to receive an excited signal emitted from the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi-Chang Lai, Kai-Yi Tang, Mill-Jer Wang
  • Patent number: 11723078
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal, a terminal device, and a network device are provided, which can reduce a signal transmission delay. The method includes determining, by a terminal device, first indication information, where the first indication information is used for indicating an association relationship between a first uplink transmission opportunity used for uplink transmission and a first downlink transmission opportunity used for downlink transmission. The method also includes sending, by the terminal device, the first indication information to a network device in a time unit corresponding to the first uplink transmission opportunity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11722280
    Abstract: A method for performing wireless communication by a first device, and an apparatus supporting same. The method includes: determining a first PSSCH resource, a second PSSCH resource, and a third PSSCH resource; and transmitting, to a second device, Sidelink Control Information (SCI) including information related to frequency domains of the second PSSCH resource and the third PSSCH resource on a first PSCCH resource related to the first PSSCH resource. Here, the information related to the frequency domains is obtained on the basis of the number of subchannels included in a resource pool, an index of a starting subchannel of the second PSSCH resource, an index of a starting subchannel of the third PSSCH resource, the number of subchannels included in the second PSSCH resource, and the number of subchannels included in the third PSSCH resource, and the information related to the frequency domains may be a zero or positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Daesung Hwang, Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 11723028
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) communicates with a base station operating in a sub-band frequency division duplexing (FDD) mode. The UE receives a downlink transmission in a usable bandwidth (BW) of an active downlink bandwidth part (BWP) in a sub-band full duplex (SBFD) slot, where the usable BW does not include frequency resources used for guard band and uplink transmission. The UE monitors for one or more control resource set (CORESET) configured by the base station within the active downlink BWP during monitoring occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Ahmed Attia Abotabl
  • Patent number: 11715975
    Abstract: A method of remotely monitoring a status of a surge arrester disconnector includes providing a long-range wireless mesh communication system including a plurality of disconnectors organized in a plurality of clusters. Each cluster includes a plurality of disconnectors that are physically located within a same cluster area. At least one of the disconnectors in each cluster is coupled to a communication device of a predetermined communication range. The method includes transmitting, from a first cluster, a status signal indicative of a status of a first disconnector in the first cluster to a second cluster located within the predetermined communication range, and consecutively transmitting the status signal from the second cluster to a third cluster within the predetermined communication range, until reaching an end cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics Raychem GmbH, Tyco Electronics UK Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonathan Roberts, Bengt A. Johnnerfelt, Ladislaus Kehl
  • Patent number: 11716716
    Abstract: In embodiments of systems and methods for protecting wireless communications a base station and the wireless device, a base station receive from a wireless device channel feedback from a wireless device regarding a communication beam between the base station and the wireless device, generate a barrage signal precoder based on the received channel feedback regarding the communication beam, and transmit a barrage signal using the barrage signal precoder on a second beam that is different from the communication beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Guy Wolf, Assaf Touboul, Ory Eger, Sharon Levy, Noam Zach
  • Patent number: 11711823
    Abstract: The present application provides a wireless communication method, a network device, and a terminal device. The network device may configure, in a time slot, a time-domain position of a first resource transmitting a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), so that the terminal device may accurately receive the PDCCH over the first resource, thereby meeting different PDCCH transmission delay requirements. The method comprises: sending first configuration information to a terminal device, the first configuration information indicating a time domain position of a first resource in each of at least one time slot, wherein the first resource is used for transmitting a PDCCH; and sending the PDCCH to the terminal device over the first resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11710898
    Abstract: An electronically scanned antenna comprising a travelling wave guiding structure having a bottom conductor and a top conductor developing each along a first direction, the top conductor comprising a plurality of first conductive patches arranged periodically along said first direction and connected in series by tuning circuits; the electronically scanned antenna further comprising a plurality of amplifiers arranged for compensating resistive and radiation losses along the length of the travelling wave guiding structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: HRL LABORATORIES, LLC
    Inventor: Ryan G. Quarfoth
  • Patent number: 11711191
    Abstract: A method of transmitting configuration information and a related device are provided. The method includes sending DC assistance information to a network-side device, wherein the network-side device includes at least one of an MN and an SN; receiving assistance configuration information of DC interference cancellation sent by the network-side device, wherein the assistance configuration information of DC interference cancellation corresponds to the IDC assistance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yumin Wu, Yanxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11700609
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives, via higher layer signaling, configuration information regarding a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource set containing one or more PUCCH resources; and a processor that determines a PUCCH resource associated with a value of a field in downlink control information. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Kazuki Takeda, Hideaki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11695530
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for DMRS design for DFT-s-OFDM with increased subcarrier spacing. A UE may receive an assignment to transmit on a set of RBs. The set of RBs may be contiguous within a carrier that includes greater than 110 RBs. The UE may transmit DMRS on each RE of one or more adjacent symbols of the set of RBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail, Zhifei Fan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Tao Luo, Wooseok Nam, Qingjiang Tian