Patents Examined by Ayanah S George
  • Patent number: 11979898
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of sets of base station devices and terminal station devices configured to perform communications in an equal frame length using a time division duplex scheme, the communications of the plurality of sets being simultaneously operated in adjacent areas, in which each of the base station devices includes a control unit configured to control a transmission timing of a downlink signal transmitted from the base station device itself based on a communication distance between the base station device and the terminal station device of each of the sets or a reception timing of a downlink signal in the terminal station device such that reception timings of downlink signals transmitted from the base station device itself and other base station devices in the terminal station devices of the sets fall within a predetermined range determined in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Hiroyuki Furuya, Hayato Fukuzono, Yu Ono, Tsutomu Tatsuta, Tomohiro Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11973620
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a downlink control channel detection method, a terminal, and a Base Station (BS). The method includes: obtaining first and second auxiliary information from a BS, in which the first auxiliary information indicates a time-domain duration of a Control Resource Set (CORESET) of a downlink control channel, which is allocated by the BS, the second auxiliary information indicates a resource mapping mode from a Resource Element Group (REG) of CORESET to Control Channel Elements (CCE); performing a blind detection on the downlink control channel, based on the first and second auxiliary information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Shen, Zichao Ji, Yu Ding
  • Patent number: 11973683
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a communication node for handling packets in a communication network, which communication network is an ICN network. The communication node adds a time stamp to a packet, which packet is requesting content of a service or comprises at least a part of the content of the service and is of a format associated with the ICN network, and which time stamp is added into an ICN header of the packet. Furthermore, the communication node transmits the packet with the added time stamp towards another communication node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Rafia Inam, Lian Araujo, Hongxin Liang, Neiva Linder, Leonid Mokrushin, Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan, Keven Wang
  • Patent number: 11968619
    Abstract: Various schemes pertaining to minimization of target wakeup time (TWT)-based contention in mesh networks are described. An apparatus functioning as an agent collates TWT durations requested by a plurality of stations (STAs) to generate a total TWT duration. The apparatus transmits information of the total TWT duration to a controller. In response to the transmitting, the apparatus receives receiving an allocation of a slot from the controller. The apparatus then causes the plurality of STAs to contend for access to a medium during the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Prakhar Vig, Amit Shakya
  • Patent number: 11962380
    Abstract: The invention provides a communication system and components thereof for controlling coordinated transmissions using a plurality of carriers operated by a plurality of transmission points. A transmission point configures a number of signal quality and interference measurements for a mobile telephone communicating over the plurality of carriers, each measurement being associated with multiple carriers and multiple measurement configurations. The mobile telephone performs the configured measurements with respect to each of the multiple carriers and reports the results of the relevant measurements to the transmission point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Caroline Liang
  • Patent number: 11963175
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for phase noise reference signal (PNRS) transmission, comprising receiving, at a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU), scheduling information for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission, wherein the scheduling information includes an indication of a set of physical resource blocks (PRBs) and a modulation coding scheme (MCS) level, determining a density for the PNRS transmission based on at least one of: the MCS level, a frequency band for the PUSCH transmission, or a subcarrier spacing of the PUSCH transmission, and transmitting the PUSCH in the scheduled set of PRBs using the determined density of PNRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Moon-il Lee, Erdem Bala, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Mihaela C. Beluri, Alphan Sahin, Rui Yang
  • Patent number: 11949505
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for facilitating scheduling of uplink data using demodulation reference signal and scheduled resources. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise configuring a network device with a periodic rate of specified sounding reference signals with a periodicity using radio resource control signaling. The system can further facilitate estimating channel state information associated with a channel via which the network device communicates. The system can further facilitate transmitting an uplink grant with uplink transmission parameters to set up a physical uplink shared channel, wherein the uplink transmission parameters are determined based on the channel state information. The system can further facilitate estimating scheduling parameters based on a first estimation information associated with the physical uplink shared channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11949631
    Abstract: When a downlink bandwidth part (BWP) is switched from a first BWP to a second BWP without a change of a cell defining synchronization signal block (SSB), if a reference signal type for Radio Link Monitoring (RLM) is set to an SSB type, a radio terminal (12) continues to use for RLM measurements a first SSB associated with the first BWP after switching of the downlink BWP to the second BWP. This for example enables the radio terminal to monitor a suitable Reference Signal (RS) for RLM measurements after switching of the DL active BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisashi Futaki
  • Patent number: 11937109
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method for use in a wireless device comprise determining a coverage level with respect to a serving cell, selecting one of a plurality of configurations for sharing gaps between intra- and inter-frequency measurements, and performing one or more measurements according to the selected configuration for sharing gaps. The configuration for sharing gaps is selected based at least in part on the determined coverage level. For example, certain embodiments use the determined coverage level to select one of a plurality of tables, wherein each table comprises one or more schemes that indicate how to share gaps between intra- and inter-frequency measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Santhan Thangarasa, Muhammad Kazmi
  • Patent number: 11937288
    Abstract: A base station of a telecommunication network can determine whether a user equipment (UE) should use a two-layer uplink configuration or an uplink carrier aggregation (CA) configuration for uplink transmissions to the base station, based on radio condition metrics reported by the UE to the base station. If radio condition metrics reported by the UE satisfy two-layer uplink criteria, the base station can instruct the UE to switch to using the two-layer uplink configuration. If radio condition metrics reported by the UE do not satisfy the two-layer uplink criteria, the base station can instruct the UE to switch to using the uplink CA configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Nishant Patel
  • Patent number: 11937197
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to support using one of multiple types of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) to perform one or more management procedures. A base station may configure and transmit one or more SSBs of second type that are smaller than SSBs of a first type. For instance, SSBs of a second type may include a first subset of signals and may exclude a second subset of the signals that are included in an SSB of the first type. An SSB of the second type may be transmitted in an active bandwidth region used for communications between a user equipment (UE) and the base station. The UE may receive an SSB of the second type in an active bandwidth region, may perform one or more measurements using the SSB of the second type, and may perform one or more management procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo, Qiang Wu, Wanshi Chen, Wooseok Nam, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo, Hwan Joon Kwon, Jelena Damnjanovic, Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni
  • Patent number: 11937334
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for Sidelink Discontinuous Reception (SL DRX) in a wireless communication system to avoid ambiguity on slot offset calculations on SL DRX. A method for a UE comprises performing a SL communication associated with a destination Identity (ID), having a SL DRX configuration associated with the SL communication, wherein the SL DRX configuration comprises at least an on-duration timer and a DRX cycle, deriving a first offset associated with the SL communication based on the destination ID and the DRX cycle, deriving a second offset associated with the SL communication based on the destination ID and a number of slots per subframe, starting the on-duration timer after a time period determined based on the second offset from the beginning of a subframe, wherein the subframe is determined based on at least the first offset, and monitoring Sidelink Control Information (SCI) when the on-duration timer is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Hsuan Kung, Li-Chih Tseng, Chun-Wei Huang, Ming-Che Li
  • Patent number: 11937269
    Abstract: Provided are a method by which a first device performs wireless communication, and a device supporting same. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving sidelink control information (SCI) including scheduling information for a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) from a second device through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), wherein the SCI includes information related to frequency resource allocation, information related to time resource allocation, information related to a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern, and information related to a modulation and coding scheme (MCS); receiving first auxiliary information from the second device through the PSSCH; selecting at least one sidelink (SL) resource on the basis of at least one of at least one SCI or the first auxiliary information; performing resource reselection for the at least one SL resource; and transmitting an auxiliary information request to the second device on the basis of the resource reselection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongwoo Hong, Youngdae Lee, Seoyoung Back, Giwon Park, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 11929808
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving channel state information in a wireless communication system. The method for transmitting channel state information (CSI) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, configuration information related to the CSI, wherein the configuration information includes information about a CSI-RS resource set; receiving a CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) from the base station; and transmitting the CSI, to the base station, on the basis of the configuration information and the CSI-RS. The CSI-RS resource set may include M CSI-RS resource groups (M is a natural number), and the CSI may include N first CSI sets generated on the basis of a single CSI-RS resource in N mutually different CSI-RS resource groups (N?M, N is a natural number) from among the M CSI-RS resource groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyuseok Kim, Hyungtae Kim, Jiwon Kang, Haewook Park
  • Patent number: 11924746
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication system and method, in a system providing mobile communication services to terminals, in which the system supports a plurality of network slices, and if the use of some of the network slices is only authorized in a specific application group, the use of resources of the network slices by applications for which the use of the network slices is not authorized is effectively prevented, thus satisfying user experience and needs of the specific network slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS, INC
    Inventor: Sungduck Chun
  • Patent number: 11917585
    Abstract: A base station may select a plurality of node parameters of a node including at least one of: a number of UEs that have accessed a network while the node is operational, an amount of information that has been communicated through the network while the node is operational, one or more QoS measurements while the node is operational, or one or more resources utilized for operation of the node. The base station may configure, upon selecting the plurality of node parameters, an access threshold for the node based on the plurality of node parameters. The base station may transmit, to the node, an indication of the access threshold for the node based on the plurality of node parameters. The node may configure, upon receiving the indication of the access threshold, access to the node for each of the number of UEs based on the access threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mehmet Izzet Gurelli, Qiang Wu, Junyi Li, Raju Hormis, Tao Luo, Navid Abedini, Ozge Koymen, Farideddin Fayazbakhsh
  • Patent number: 11917712
    Abstract: A base station may include a processor configured to configure a default time period for periodic service requests for discontinuous reception (DRX) for user equipment (UE) devices serviced by the base station. The processor may be further configured to obtain a signal quality value for a UE device serviced by the base station; determine that the obtained signal quality value is less than a low signal quality threshold; and configure a longer time period for the periodic service requests for DRX for the UE device, in response to determining that the obtained signal quality value is less than the low signal quality threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Susan Wu Sanders, Jin Yang, Xin Wang, Nischal Patel
  • Patent number: 11902034
    Abstract: Various example embodiments may relate to link adaptation. An apparatus may determine a first signal quality estimate for a signal. The apparatus may further determine a BLER estimate based on acknowledgements or decoding results for data blocks of the signal. The apparatus may further determine a second signal quality estimate for the signal based on the BLER estimate. The apparatus may further determine a signal quality offset based on a difference between the first signal quality estimate and the second signal quality estimate. The apparatus may further determine transmission parameter(s) for at least one subsequent data block based on the first signal quality estimate and the signal quality offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Suresh Kalyanasundaram, Shalini Gulati
  • Patent number: 11888566
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving channel state information in a wireless communication system. A method for transmitting channel state information (CSI) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise the steps of: receiving configuration information related to the CSI from a base station, wherein the configuration information includes information on a CSI-RS resource set; receiving a CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) from the base station; and transmitting the CSI to the base station on the basis of the configuration information and the CSI-RS. The CSI may include a first CSI set based on a single CSI resource in the CSI-RS resource set and/or a second CSI set based on a CSI-RS resource combination in the CSI-RS resource set, and the number of CSI processing units (CPUs) required for calculation of the second CSI set and the number of CPUs required for calculation of the first CSI set may be individually determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyuseok Kim, Hyungtae Kim, Jiwon Kang, Haewook Park
  • Patent number: 11889562
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: performing a random access procedure; monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for an ON duration on the basis of a configured discontinuous reception (DRX) operation after performing the random access procedure; and operating an inactivity timer on the basis of the successfully received PDCCH for the ON duration. During the random access procedure, a random access preamble is transmitted in one or two physical random access channel (PRACH) slots. The one or two PRACH slots are determined from among N slots corresponding to a reference slot. A subcarrier spacing (SCS) setting value for the reference slot may be 2 on the basis of the SCS setting value applied to the N slots being 5 or 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seokmin Shin, Seonwook Kim, Suckchel Yang