Patents Examined by Aristocratis Fotakis
  • Patent number: 11205857
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, a transceiver is configured to generate a first signal in response to receiving a first guided electromagnetic wave from a remote system via a launcher. A controller is configured to generate a channel quality indicator in response to the first signal. The transceiver is further configured to generate a second signal that conveys the channel quality indicator. The launcher, responsive to the second signal, is further configured to launch a second guided electromagnetic wave that conveys the channel quality indicator to the remote system, wherein the second guided electromagnetic wave is guided by the transmission medium and propagates along the transmission medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Harold Lee Rappaport, Giovanni Vannucci, Paul Shala Henry
  • Patent number: 11196594
    Abstract: A communication system in which multiple shaping codes are selectively and iteratively used to encode a data frame such that possible energy inefficiencies associated with the use of constant-probability codes and/or transmission of dummy constellation symbols can be relatively small. In an example embodiment, the used shaping codes have different respective code rates, and a code selector of the shaping encoder operates to select one of the shaping codes by adaptively matching the rate of the code to the effective rate needed to efficiently encode the unprocessed portion of the data frame. The encoding is carried out in a manner that enables the shaping decoder to unequivocally determine the shaping codes that have been used for encoding each particular data frame based on the same rate-matching criteria as those used by the shaping encoder. At least some embodiments advantageously lend themselves to being implemented using circuits of relatively low complexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OY
    Inventor: Joon Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 11196468
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a calculation unit configured to calculate, for each of radio apparatuses, a combination of a pre-coding weight and a post-coding weight using a first channel information matrix based on estimated values of channel responses between each of the radio apparatuses and each of terminals, a selection unit configured to select one combination from the combinations calculated using the first channel information matrices as a first combination, and an orthogonalization unit configured to generate a second channel information matrix for each of the radio apparatuses by projecting each first channel information matrix onto the subspace that is orthogonal to the post-coding weight included in the first combination. The calculation unit calculates a combination for each of the radio apparatuses using a second channel information matrix, and the selection unit selects one combination from the combinations calculated using the second channel information matrix as a second combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Shikida, Naoto Ishii
  • Patent number: 11190290
    Abstract: Provided is a sequence allocation method capable of reducing inter-cell interference of a reference signal when a ZC sequence is used as the reference signal in a mobile communication system. In the sequence allocation method, R×M sequences specified by a ZC sequence number r (r=1 to R) and a cyclic shift sequence number m (m=1 to M) are divided into a plurality of sequence groups X (X=1 to R) in accordance with the transmission band width of the reference signal, so that the ZC sequence is allocated to each cell in each sequence group unit. When it is assumed that R=9 and M=6, the number of sequences is 54. Each of the sequence groups is formed by two sequences. Accordingly, the number of sequence groups is 27. The 27 types of sequence groups are allocated to each cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Tomofumi Takata
  • Patent number: 11190396
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provides a system for detecting data received in a low power low rate (LPLR) data frame format. A mixed mode LPLR frame may be falsely detected by an 802.11n device as an 802.11n packet. When the false detection occurs, the PHY-CAA indication may be erroneously set, which leads to a communication error. To prevent the false detection by an 802.11n device, embodiments described herein describes adding a redundant “dummy” 4 ?s orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol with binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) modulation before the LPLR preamble in the LPLR frame, to differentiate from data symbols in an 802.11n packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Cao, Hongyuan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 11184072
    Abstract: A method for measuring and reporting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system and a device therefor. Specifically, a method for reporting, by a user equipment, channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system includes: receiving CSI reporting setting information related with CSI reporting; receiving one or more channel state information (CSI)-reference signals (CSI-RSs); performing the CSI reporting by using a measurement value estimated by at least one specific CSI-RS among the one or more CSI-RSs, in which the at least one specific CSI-RS may be determined based on gap information for configuring a measurement interval for estimating the measurement value and a performing timing of the CSI reporting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jiwon Kang, Jonghyun Park, Kijun Kim, Hyungtae Kim
  • Patent number: 11177992
    Abstract: Implementations of this disclosure provide sequence-based signal processing methods and apparatuses. In one implementation, a method comprising: determining, by a terminal device, a sequence {xn} comprising N elements, wherein Nis an integer greater than 1, n=0, N?1, and the N elements of the sequence {xn} satisfies xn=A×bn=jn, where A is a non-zero complex number, j=?{square root over (?1)}, bn is a sequence of unmodulated bits; generating, by the terminal device, a signal based on the sequence {xn}; and sending, by the terminal device, the signal to a network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingyu Qu, Mingxin Gong, Jianqin Liu
  • Patent number: 11165455
    Abstract: A method is disclosed of a wireless receiver configured for spatial selective reception. The method is for mitigation of an interfering signal leaked into a frequency range of a desired signal due to non-linearity of hardware components of the receiver. The method comprises receiving a composite signal comprising the desired signal and the interfering signal, filtering the composite signal using a spatial filter for a channel response of the desired signal to provide a first intermediate signal component, and filtering the composite signal using a spatial filter for a channel response of the interfering signal to provide a second intermediate signal component. The method also comprises estimating a squared amplitude of the interfering signal based on the second intermediate signal component and a model of the non-linearity, and estimating the desired signal based on the first intermediate signal component, the estimated squared amplitude of the interfering signal, and the model of the non-linearity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ulf Gustavsson, Erik G. Larsson, Christopher Mollén
  • Patent number: 11165539
    Abstract: A word boundary detection method includes receiving a data stream from a data channel of a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI), and performing pattern matching upon the data stream to identify a word boundary between two consecutive codewords transmitted via the data stream. Known codewords of scrambled control vectors are involved in the pattern matching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: You-Tsai Jeng, Szu-Hsiang Lai, Tai-Lai Tung, Keng-Lon Lei, Kai-Wen Cheng
  • Patent number: 11152979
    Abstract: To employ codebook design and signaling for multiple transmit antennas, a user equipment (UE) apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver operably connected to the processor. The transceiver is configured to receive configuration information for a channel state information (CSI) process, receive configuration information for a CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; receive configuration information for a MIMO type; and receive a plurality of codebook parameters when the MIMO type is non-precoded. A base station (BS) apparatus for codebook design and signaling includes a transceiver and a processor operably connected to the transceiver. The processor is configured to configure a UE with a CSI process and a CSI-RS resource, configure the UE with a MIMO type, and cause the transceiver to transmit configuration information for the CSI process, the CSI-RS resource, and the MIMO type to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eko Onggosanusi, Md. Saifur Rahman, Boon Loong Ng, Young-Han Nam, Hyoungju Ji, Hoondong Noh
  • Patent number: 11146425
    Abstract: An IO-link device (20) configured as slave for transmitting/receiving signal data with a master module (19), the IO-link device comprising: a sensor or actuator (11) configured to produce output measurement signals; a first microcontroller (21) operatively coupled to the sensor or actuator and configured to receive the measurement signals and generate data based on the measurement signals, and a transceiving module (22) which comprises a physical layer transceiver (24) configured to receive/transmit signal data from/to the master module (19), and a second microcontroller (23) operatively coupled and in bi-directional communication with the transceiver, wherein the transceiver (24) is configured to receive signal data associated with a request from the master module (19) and transmit signal data associated with the request to the second microcontroller (23) and the second microcontroller (23) is configured to receive the signal data from the transceiver and to execute a device IO-Link protocol stack, the secon
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: DATALOGIC IP TECH S.R.L.
    Inventors: Fabio Bagalá, Marco Mestieri
  • Patent number: 11139848
    Abstract: A communication system including a transmission device and a reception device which wirelessly communicate with each other. The transmission device includes a transmission circuit that performs: cyclical transmission of a wake-up signal including a specific pattern; and transmission of data. The reception device includes: a standby circuit that receives a signal, and outputs a detection signal indicating reception of the wake up signal when detecting that the specific pattern is cyclically included in the signal received; and a reception circuit that receives the data from the transmission device after the detection signal is output from the standby circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN
    Inventors: Kenichi Hoshi, Ryoichi Suzuki, Akifumi Nagao, Kentaro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11128387
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device, method and computer readable storage medium for wireless data transmission. In example embodiments, the device includes a first NCO configured to shift a frequency of a pre-distorted downlink baseband signal by a first offset to generate a first signal. The baseband signal is associated with a plurality of allocated carriers. The device also includes an RF processing unit including an LO configured to generate an LO signal at an LO frequency. The LO frequency is within a protection area of one of the plurality of allocated carriers or equal to a center frequency of the one of the plurality of allocated carriers. The device also includes a power amplifier configured to generate, based on a modulated baseband signal, an amplified signal for transmission. The device also includes a second NCO configured to shift a frequency of the amplified signal by a second offset to generate a second signal for generation of a pre-distortion coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Shen Song, Long Chen, Jianjiang Yang
  • Patent number: 11109335
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a number of example embodiments where wireless nodes are arranged in a wirelessly connected environment to support a variety of remote management operations, including location tracking, status monitoring, and remote control. In an example embodiment, the wireless nodes can be deployed in a retail store and provide remote management and control over any combination of product display assemblies, locks, power strips, display shelves, display hooks, and other node types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Mobile Tech, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Logan Blaser, Hunter Wylie, Jacob Michael Collier
  • Patent number: 11095487
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireline receiver. The receiver may include a front-end comparator and a feedback controller. The method may include providing, by the front-end comparator, a symbol signal by processing a received electrical input signal according to a tunable timing characteristic of the front-end comparator. The method may further include adapting, by the feedback controller, the processing of the input signal to match a predetermined processing criterion by tuning the timing characteristic based on the symbol signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Abdullah Serdar Yonar, Pier Andrea Francese, Marcel A. Kossel
  • Patent number: 11095351
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for generating a CSI report. One apparatus includes a transceiver that receives a set of reference signals transmitted from a base station and a processor that transforms the set of reference signals to obtain per-layer vectors of amplitude and phase coefficients of a DFT-compressed codebook. Here, the first element of the amplitude coefficient vector corresponding to one particular beam is unity and the first element of the phase coefficient vector corresponding to the particular beam is zero. The apparatus transmits CSI feedback that includes an indication of one or more elements of the vectors of amplitude coefficient vectors and phase coefficient vectors corresponding to at least one identified beam, and does not include the first element of the amplitude coefficient vector and the first element of the phase coefficient vector corresponding to the particular beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Udar Mittal, Tyler Brown, Ahmed Hindy
  • Patent number: 11096174
    Abstract: A transmitter of the present disclosure includes: an output terminal; a driver that performs transition of a voltage of the output terminal among a plurality of voltages; and a controller that controls the driver to cause transition start timing in one voltage transition in voltage transition among the plurality of voltages to be later than transition start timing in another voltage transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takanori Saeki
  • Patent number: 11088719
    Abstract: A transceiver includes a first common T-coil circuit coupled to a first input-output pin of the transceiver, a termination impedance coupled to the first common T-coil circuit and configured to match an impedance of a transmission line coupled to the first common T-coil circuit, an amplifier configured to receive an input signal from the first input-output pin through the first common T-coil circuit based on a receive enable signal, and a first transmission buffer configured to transmit an output signal to the first input-output pin through the first common T-coil circuit based on a transmit enable signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiong Liu, Hiep Pham
  • Patent number: 11088816
    Abstract: A line card receives a SYNC input signal and a first system clock signal. The line card generates a second system clock signal in a PLL and generates a SYNC output signal by dividing the second system clock signal in a divider circuit. The SYNC output signal is fed back as a SYNC feedback signal. The line card determines determining a closest edge of the first system clock signal to a transition of the SYNC input signal and determines a time difference between the closest edge of the first system clock signal and a transition of the SYNC feedback. The SYNC output signal is adjusted based on the time difference using a coarse adjustment by adjusting a divide ratio of the divider circuit and using a fine adjustment in the PLL based on a residue of a remainder of the time difference not accounted for by the coarse time adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventor: Vivek Sarda
  • Patent number: 11088741
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for increasing throughput in wireless systems and networks. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods provide enhanced performance to 5G millimeter-wave user devices via expanded use of spatial multiplexing layers in various uplink (UL) operating modes, including transform precode and non-transform precode modes. In one implementation, the methods and apparatus described herein can be utilized with respect to a 3GPP 5G NR UE scheduled dynamically in UL transmission. In another implementation, the methods and apparatus described herein can be utilized with respect to the UE scheduled with a Configured Grant (CG) UL transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventor: Amitav Mukherjee