Patents Examined by Afshawn M Towfighi
  • Patent number: 11678401
    Abstract: A transmission timing information sending method, a transmission timing information receiving method, and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: configuring, by a base station, higher layer signaling, where the higher layer signaling includes at least one transmission timing set used to indicate a transmission timing value, and each of the at least one transmission timing set includes at least one transmission timing value; sending, by the base station, the higher layer signaling to a terminal; determining, by the base station, downlink control information (DCI), where the DCI is used to instruct the terminal to determine a transmission timing value in the at least one transmission timing set, and the determined transmission timing value is a slot that the terminal is instructed to use when sending feedback information; and sending, by the base station, the DCI to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xu Zhang, Lixia Xue, Zukang Shen
  • Patent number: 11678203
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For example, a method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), may include receiving a configuration for reporting feedback associated with beam blocking. The UE may perform a decoding process on one or more downlink transmissions via a set of multiple beams. The UE may determine whether a failure of the decoding process is a result of one or more of the plurality of beams being at least partially blocked during the one or more downlink transmissions according to the configuration. The UE may also transmit a negative acknowledgement (NACK) and link adaptation information, where the NACK acknowledgement is based on the failure of the decoding process and the link adaptation information is based on determining whether the one or more of the set of multiple beams are at least partially blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Konstantinos Dimou, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11671986
    Abstract: A control information transmission method, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. An example method includes: determining configuration information of a control channel, wherein the configuration information comprises at least one of frequency domain information or time domain information, the at least one of frequency domain information or time domain information indicates a time-frequency resource occupied by the control channel, and the configuration information further comprises indication information indicating a quantity of at least one resource element set, wherein the time-frequency resource occupied by the control channel comprises the at least one resource element set; mapping control information to one or more of the at least one resource element set based on the configuration information; sending the configuration information to a terminal device; and sending the control information to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xu Zhang, Jianguo Wang, Lixia Xue, Zheng Chen
  • Patent number: 11671820
    Abstract: A wireless access node control Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) layers for a User Equipment (UE). A radio wirelessly exchanges network signaling with the User Equipment (UE) and exchanges the network signaling with baseband circuitry. The baseband circuitry exchanges the network signaling with the radio. The baseband circuitry determines a UE capability and identifies radio band status for the UE. The baseband circuitry selects a number of the MIMO layers for the UE based on the UE capability and the radio band status. The baseband circuitry precodes user data into precoded data for the selected number of MIMO layers and transfers the precoded data to the radio. The radio receives the precoded data from the baseband circuitry and wirelessly transmits the precoded data to the UE over the selected number of MIMO layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11672046
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a data receiving status reporting method and apparatus. The method includes: determining, by first user equipment, a status of receiving at least one packet data convergence protocol layer protocol data unit PDCP PDU by second user equipment, where the at least one PDCP PDU is forwarded by the first user equipment to the second user equipment after being received by the first user equipment through a communications link between the first user equipment and a network device; and sending, by the first user equipment, a first status report to the network device, where the first status report is used to indicate the status of receiving the at least one PDCP PDU by the second user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haibo Xu, Nathan Edward Tenny, Jian Wang, Yiru Kuang
  • Patent number: 11665637
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method that decodes a broadcast channel to obtain first system information periodically broadcasted from a base station; applies at least one cell selection parameter indicated in the first system information to camp on a cell served by the base station and storing the first system information; accesses the camped cell based on at least one random access parameter indicated in the first system information; and determines whether at least one of a system information block of second system information available in the camped cell is provided based on at least one of the periodic broadcast and an on-demand basis. The on-demand basis to deliver the corresponding system information block of the second system information available in the camped cell is decided based on at least one of an indication and a flag included in the first system information for the system information block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventors: Mangesh Abhimanyu Ingale, Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 11664871
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transmitting and receiving a beam report at a UE and a base station. The base station can configure a cDRX cycle with the UE. Also, the UE can wake up during an off period of the cDRX cycle. The UE can also compare a first metric of at least one of a plurality of candidate beams and a second metric of a current beam for communication with the base station. Additionally, the UE can transmit a beam report to the base station, during the off period, based on the comparison of the first metric of the at least one of the plurality of candidate beams and the second metric of the current beam. The UE can also select, during the off period of the cDRX cycle, the at least one of the plurality of candidate beams for communication with the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ruhua He, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Raghu Narayan Challa, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 11665024
    Abstract: A method for verifying an alarm condition in an environmental sensing system includes monitoring data received from environmental sensors; detecting anomalous data received from one of the plurality of environmental sensors; determining the context in which the anomalous data was acquired is consistent with typical usage activities; and providing an alarm condition alert when the determined context is not consistent with typical activities. A system for intelligently monitoring environmental conditions includes environmental sensors configured to monitor first and second environmental conditions and to communicate with an intelligent analysis module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Elemental Machines, Inc.
    Inventor: Sridhar Iyengar
  • Patent number: 11665584
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a multicast message or a broadcast message that uses a radio link control (RLC) format associated with an RLC acknowledged mode (RLC-AM). The UE may decode the multicast message or the broadcast message to identify information associated with an RLC unacknowledged mode (RLC-UM) based at least in part on a capability of the UE. The UE may operate in accordance with the RLC-UM based at least in part on decoding the multicast message or the broadcast message. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Umesh Phuyal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Le Liu, Kazuki Takeda
  • Patent number: 11653333
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for activation and/or deactivation for a pool of resources is provided. A first device operating in a wireless communication system receives, from a network, a configuration of one or more resource pools for autonomous resource selection, selects a resource pool for a logical channel from among the one or more resource pools based on data being available in the logical channel, and transmits, to a second device, information on the selected resource pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Giwon Park, Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 11646837
    Abstract: In an aspect, a UE measures interference from one or more neighbor base stations on a set of resources over a period of time, and determines an interference burst dynamic associated with the set of resources based on the measured interference over the period of time. The UE transmits an interference measurement report comprising an indication of the interference burst dynamic to a serving base station of the UE. The serving base station performs at least one action based in part upon the prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Yi Huang, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Ahmed Elshafie
  • Patent number: 11647416
    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE)-to-network relay in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes, in case that PC5 quality of service (QoS) flows setup is initiated by a remote UE, identifying whether QoS requirements associated with the remote UE and the UE-to-network relay are supported, in case that the QoS requirements are not supported, identifying one or more QoS parameters that satisfy the QoS requirements, and based on the one or more QoS parameters, updating a PC5 QoS flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mehrdad Shariat
  • Patent number: 11641661
    Abstract: A method and a User Equipment (UE) for beam operations are provided. The method includes monitoring at least one of a plurality of Control Resource Sets (CORESETs) configured for the UE within an active Bandwidth Part (BWP) of a serving cell in a time slot; and applying a first Quasi Co-Location (QCL) assumption of a first CORESET of a set of one or more of the monitored at least one of the plurality of CORESETs to receive a Downlink (DL) Reference Signal (RS), wherein the first CORESET is associated with a monitored search space configured with a lowest CORESET Identity (ID) among the set of one or more of the monitored at least one of the plurality of CORESETs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Hannibal IP LLC
    Inventors: Chien-Chun Cheng, Tsung-Hua Tsai, Yu-Hsin Cheng, Wan-Chen Lin
  • Patent number: 11638281
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to vary a number of chains in uplink or downlink communications with a base station (BS). The UE includes a processor coupled to a transceiver. The processor is configured to: identify a full-chain beam for a downlink reception based on a beam sweeping; determine a number of activated chains for an uplink transmission; and determine a sub-chain uplink transmission beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianhua Mo, Boon Loong Ng, Anum Ali, Vutha Va, Daehee Park
  • Patent number: 11627096
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to establish a path for a data stream from the first network apparatus to a second network apparatus, where the request is associated with a requested bandwidth for the data stream, and where the first network apparatus and the second network apparatus are connected by a link aggregation group including a number of physical links, accessing bandwidth information representing a number of remaining bandwidths of the respective multiple of physical links, determining that the requested bandwidth is not satisfied by any of the number of remaining bandwidths of the number of physical links, and sending a response rejecting the request to establish the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Roshan Lal, Rishi Chhibber, Padmanab Pathikonda, Lakshmi Priya Sarma, Francesco Meo
  • Patent number: 11622336
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a source UE, a sidelink communication. The UE may generate a transmit power control command based at least in part on a measurement of the sidelink communication. The UE may transmit, via a sidelink feedback channel, the transmit power control command to control a transmit power, for another sidelink communication, of the source UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo, Jung Ho Ryu, Kapil Gulati, Hong Cheng
  • Patent number: 11622302
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for maintaining simultaneous connection with a network in dual-active protocol stack (DAPS) handover (HO), such as, for example, in packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) duplication applications that require a user equipment (UE) to maintain up to four simultaneous connections with the network, such as in an multi-radio access transfer (RAT) dual connectivity (MR-DC) to MR-DC HO. In some embodiments, the UE is configured during various phases of a DAPS HO. In some other embodiments, the UE may be configured for multi-TRP operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ozcan Ozturk, Punyaslok Purkayastha, Karthika Paladugu
  • Patent number: 11617186
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for data traffic steering based on quality of service. According to some embodiments, a system can comprise receiving data packets associated with a quality of service value, wherein the data packets are stored in a buffer and transmitted utilizing a first link, determining whether a condition that indicates a modification to a data routing schedule is satisfied and whether a second link is available, and in response to the determining indicating that the condition is satisfied and that the second link is available, performing the modification of the data routing schedule comprising utilizing the second link and the first link to transmit the data packets associated with the quality of service value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Wenge Chen
  • Patent number: 11589215
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for counting a number of uplink and/or downlink channels per slot for a UE capability in order to determine a maximum number of channels a UE is capable of processing per slot. A UE counts all PDSCHs or PUSCHs that the UE is scheduled or configured to receive or transmit, respectively, except for exception 1, exception 2, or exception 3, wherein a beginning of the symbol j is at least N_2 symbols after an end of the symbol i, the SPS PDSCH is not counted, and generates UE capability information based on the counted number of the PDSCH or PUSCH per slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventors: Hamid Saber, Jungmin Park, Jung Hyun Bae
  • Patent number: 11588547
    Abstract: A method for routing data in a network includes receiving, by a first network node, data to be routed using a first layer protocol to a second network node where the first network node is intermittently connected to the second network node over a link spanning a portion of the network. The first network node determines that the link fails to meet a communications criteria and encapsulates the data using a second layer protocol to produce encapsulated data. The second layer protocol is transparent to the first layer protocol and the encapsulated data includes connectivity instructions to route the encapsulated data to the second network node via a third network node. The second network node and the third network node are in communication across the portion of the network and the first network node is able to transmit the encapsulated data to the third network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Michael Mayer