Patents Examined by Christine Ng
  • Patent number: 11963114
    Abstract: Provided is a method of, by a first device 100, performing sidelink communication. The method includes configuring a carrier for New RAT (NR) sidelink communication, obtaining first synchronization associated with the NR sidelink communication from second synchronization associated with Long Term Evolution (LTE) sidelink communication, and determining whether to transmit synchronization information associated with the NR sidelink communication over the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Hyukjin Chae
  • Patent number: 11962393
    Abstract: A system for network agnostic satellite communications includes an antenna configured to receive at least one antenna receive beam including multiple receive carriers multiplexed in at least one of frequency or time. The system further includes a signal processor configured to receive the multiple receive carriers and to extract data from at least one receive carrier of the multiple receive carriers. The system further includes an input device configured to receive at least one desirable communication parameter. The system further includes a control processor designed to determine actual parameters corresponding to the multiple receive carriers of the at least one antenna receive beam. The control processor is further designed to select an optimal receive carrier by comparing the at least one desirable communication parameter to the actual parameters. The control processor is further designed to establish a current communication link with the optimal receive carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SMITHS INTERCONNECT, INC.
    Inventors: David Popelka, James Wilkerson, Shawn O'Brien
  • Patent number: 11962381
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a communication method and a device. Configuration information indicating one or more spatial domain beam basis vector groups and Q thresholds is received from a network device, where the Q thresholds correspond one-to-one to spatial domain beam basis vectors in the one or more spatial domain beam basis vector groups. L spatial domain beam basis vectors are selected from a spatial domain beam basis vector group set. K frequency domain basis vectors are selected from a frequency domain basis vector set for each of the L spatial domain beam basis vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Gao, Kunpeng Liu, Ruiqi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11936584
    Abstract: A method for operating an access node includes sending a configuration of one or more first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources and a configuration of one or more sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, generating first control information including an identifier of a SRS resource set that includes the one or more SRS resources precoded by one or more precoders, generating second control information including an identifier of the one or more first CSI-RS resources, wherein the one or more first CSI-RS resources are associated with the identified SRS resource set, wherein the one or more first CSI-RS resources convey a downlink reference signal (RS) used for making measurements, and wherein the one or more precoders are determined in accordance with measurements of the downlink RS, sending the first control information and the second control information, and sending the downlink RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Liu, Xianda Liu, Kunpeng Liu, Young Hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11936588
    Abstract: Performing UCI multiplexing includes generating PUCCH resources Z at an L1 HP procedure and an L1 LP procedure. The L1 HP procedure and the L1 LP procedure results in a plurality of HP PUCCHs and LP PUCCHs, respectively. A modified procedure for Set Q to resources Z is performed with the plurality of HP PUCCHs and LP PUCCHs as inputs. The plurality of HP PUCCHs according to starting symbols is scanned to identify an earliest starting HP PUCCH. A PUCCH from the plurality of LP PUCCHs or HP PUCCHS that overlaps with the earliest starting HP PUCCH is collected. Inter-L1 priority multiplexing is performed on the earliest starting HP PUCCH and the collected PUCCH, which may result in a new HP PUCCH. The new HP PUCCH is inserted into the Set Q. The modified procedure is repeated until there is no overlap among the HP PUCCHs and the LP PUCCHs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Chao Jin, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Ruoheng Liu, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Wenshu Zhang, Yinghui Li, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11926993
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for sharing resources of a wireless medium. Various implementations relate generally to coordinated transmit power control for sharing time and frequency resources of a wireless medium. Particular implementations relate more specifically to coordinated access point spatial-reuse-multiple-access techniques for sharing the time and frequency resources of a transmission opportunity. According to such techniques, an access point that wins contention and gains access to the wireless medium for the duration of a transmission opportunity may limit the transmit powers of the access points selected to share the time and frequency resources such that interference from the selected access points does not prevent stations associated with the winning access point from successfully decoding packets transmitted by it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lochan Verma, George Cherian, Maarten Menzo Wentink
  • Patent number: 11929809
    Abstract: A method for avoiding false alarms of Channel State Information (CSI) due to the activation of a Closed Loop Power Control (CLPC) function is provided. The method is executed by a transmitting device and includes: determining whether the CLPC function of the transmitting device is enabled; adding at least one CLPC tag to a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) when the CLPC function is enabled; and transmitting the PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORP.
    Inventor: Chia-Hsin Wu
  • Patent number: 11924724
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless vehicle communication system. The method, performed by a UE, includes obtaining vehicle communication configuration information, determining, for vehicle communication, at least one of whether data is to be relayed, allocated resources, or a waveform, based on the obtained vehicle communication configuration information, and transmitting or receiving signals to or from at least one other UE based on the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sungjin Park, Jeongho Yeo, Jinyoung Oh, Taehan Bae
  • Patent number: 11916670
    Abstract: Preamble puncturing configuration information is encoded in a pad field, and alternatively or additionally, in a Service Field, depending on a transmission bandwidth of a Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU). Some implementations also encode one or more parity bits in the pad field or Service field. The PPDU including the preamble puncturing configuration information encodes, in various embodiments, a request to send frame, a clear to send frame, a power save poll frame, or a contention free end frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Hart, Zhigang Gao
  • Patent number: 11910401
    Abstract: A base station for a mobile telecommunications system has circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to: transmit, to the at least one user equipment, a multi-level pre-emption indicator for indicating, as first level information, first information about resources used for at least one short-data transmission within a transmission region which may contain at least one long-data transmission of the at least one user equipment, and, as second level information, second information about the resources used for the short-data transmission, wherein the second information more accurately indicates the resources used than the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shin Horng Wong
  • Patent number: 11910421
    Abstract: A base station that controls carrier aggregation for a user equipment (UE) includes a memory configured to store weight factors for serving cells that are aggregated to provide wireless connectivity to the UE. The weight factors are determined based on characteristics of the serving cells. In some cases, the weight factors are determined based on frequencies of carriers used by the serving cells to provide the wireless connectivity to the UE. The base station also includes a processor configured to determine, based on the weight factors and a total weight assigned to the UE, weights for transmitting data to the UE via the serving cells. The base station further includes a transceiver configured to transmit data to the UE via the serving cells at priorities that are determined based on the weights for the serving cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Jonathan Gross, Richard Vetter
  • Patent number: 11894921
    Abstract: Techniques for signaling varied modulation and coding schemes for wireless communication are discussed. A method of wireless communication may comprise receiving, by a user equipment (UE), an indication to apply a modulation order cap to determine a first modulation and coding scheme for transmission of uplink control information different from a second modulation and coding scheme for transmission of data. The method may further comprise transmitting the uplink control information using the first modulation and coding scheme, wherein the first modulation and coding scheme is determined based, at least in part, on the received indication to apply the modulation order cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11889464
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and base station may be configured to implement interleaving enhancement during an aggregated monitoring occasion. In some aspects, the UE may receive paging occasion configuration indicating repetition of a first paging physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasion by identifying a second paging PDCCH monitoring occasion. Further, the UE may decode, based on the paging occasion configuration, signals received on at least one of resources for the first paging PDCCH monitoring occasion or resources for the second paging PDCCH monitoring occasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni
  • Patent number: 11889446
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method performed by user equipment, comprising: receiving a timing advance command in a slot n; and determining, according to the slot n in which the timing advance command is received and/or other information related to an uplink transmission timing adjustment, time to apply the uplink transmission timing adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chao Luo, Renmao Liu, Shoichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11888763
    Abstract: A spine switch for a network switch comprises a support board that supports at least one first switch. The spine switch further includes a first set of connectors at a first edge of the support board that detachably connect to one or more first leaf switches to communicatively couple and decouple the at least one first switch from the one or more first leaf switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Alex Kremenetsky, Adi Berman, Shy Zimmerman, Igor Loiferman, Avi Gibbs, Samer Khoury
  • Patent number: 11888671
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes a first signal generating unit that generates, on the basis of data a first signal transmitted by single carrier block transmission; a second signal generating unit that generates, on the basis of an RS, a second signal transmitted by orthogonal frequency division multiplex transmission; a switching operator that selects and outputs the second signal in a first transmission period and selects and outputs the first signal in a second transmission period; an antenna that transmits the signal output from the switching operator; and a control-signal generating unit that controls the second signal generating unit such that, in the first transmission period, the RS is arranged in a frequency band allocated for transmission of the RS from the transmitting apparatus among frequency bands usable in OFDM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Fumihiro Hasegawa, Akinori Taira
  • Patent number: 11882059
    Abstract: A port selection method applied to a first network device and a second network device includes determining that a port status of a first port that is in the first network device and that is used for dual-homing access can switch from a first state to an UP state; receiving a port status of a second port that is in the second network device and that is used for dual-homing access; and selecting, based on the port status of the first port and the port status of the second port, a port to be switched to the UP state from the first port and the second port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yaokun Zhang, Boran Fan
  • Patent number: 11882064
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for multiplexing downlink control information (DCI) signals for multiple user equipments (UEs) at an aggregation level (AL) by coding the DCI signals together in a control channel and transmitting the control channel. In an exemplary method, a BS multiplexes a first plurality of downlink control information (DCI) signals for a first plurality of user equipments (UEs) at a first aggregation level (AL) coded together in a first control channel and transmits the control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Saurabha Rangrao Tavildar, Junyi Li, Thomas Joseph Richardson, Peter Pui Lok Ang
  • Patent number: 11864075
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for communication between user equipment (UEs) is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving a data packet from a first UE, the data packet including data and an IP address of a second UE; obtaining a context record for the second UE, the context record including the IP address of the second UE and an identifier of a second user plane; sending the data packet to the second user plane according to the identifier of the second user plane in order to enable the second user plane to send the data packet to the second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Yuan Xia, Qi Yao
  • Patent number: 11856567
    Abstract: A communication system includes plural management control units each managing a state of a battery; and plural terminal devices each acquiring battery information about at least one battery and communicating the acquired battery information with at least one of the plural management control units. At least one of the plural management control units includes an abnormality determination unit that is configured to determine whether an abnormality has occurred in an other management control unit based on communication with the other management control unit via an inter-management communication device for performing communication with the other management control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Matsumoto