Patents Examined by Christopher R Crompton
  • Patent number: 11985531
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a configuration message indicating a first reporting quantity type and a second reporting quantity type for generating a measurement report. The UE may determine a measurement payload size to use for generating a measurement payload for the first reporting quantity type and the second reporting quantity type. The UE may measure a first set of resources in accordance with the first reporting quantity type and a second set of resources in accordance with the second reporting quantity type. The UE may transmit, to the base station, the measurement report including a first measurement payload having the measurement payload size for the first reporting quantity type and a second measurement payload having the measurement payload size for the second reporting quantity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Venugopal, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11973599
    Abstract: A method for transmitting feedback information in direct communication and a first terminal are disclosed. The method includes: in response to a second terminal sending direct data to a first terminal with a first blind retransmission mechanism for a last time, transmitting by the first terminal, hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information to the second terminal, in which the HARQ feedback information is configured to indicate a receiving state of the first terminal for the direct data; and retransmitting by the first terminal, the HARQ feedback information to the second terminal with a second blind retransmission mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11968636
    Abstract: A communication method implemented by a base station having at least one cell and forming part of a mobile access network including neighbouring cells of the cell. The method includes broadcasting blocks referred to as SSB blocks at a first periodicity value for synchronising a terminal and for allowing said terminal to receive SIBs of which at least one of said SIBs includes an identifier of at least one neighbouring cell, a second periodicity value of SSB blocks broadcast by said neighbouring cell and a frequency position of an SSB block of said neighbouring cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Raphaël Visoz, Benoït Graves
  • Patent number: 11968625
    Abstract: There are provided measures for enabling/realizing stationarity-based UE power saving, specifically network-assisted power saving at a terminal entity based on local stationarity monitoring and autonomous power saving mode switching. Such measures exemplarily include that a terminal entity operates in a normal power mode, including performing normal radio environment related measurements (such as regular radio resource management measurements and/or cell search measurements) and monitoring a stationarity condition with a local procedure and/or equipment, switches from the normal power mode to a power saving mode, if the locally monitored stationarity condition is satisfied, and operates in the power saving mode, including performing relaxed radio environment related measurements (such as relaxed radio resource management measurements and/or cell search measurements).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Daniela Laselva, Frank Frederiksen, Mads Lauridsen
  • Patent number: 11962419
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for supporting network transmissions using unicast sidelink communications. A base station (BS) may transmit a set of encoded packets to a number of user equipment (UEs) and receive feedback messages from the UEs that indicate sets of decoded packets. Based on the feedback messages, the BS may transmit an updated set of encoded packets based on a difference between the set of encoded packets and the union of decoded packets. The BS may transmit an instruction to a first UE to transmit a broadcast sidelink communication that includes a set of missed packets that includes one or more decoded packets that were decoded by the first UE but were not decoded by the second UE. The first UE may transmit the broadcast sidelink communication to the second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shanyu Zhou, Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11963030
    Abstract: A method performed by a terminal includes identifying a first status for a secondary cell (SCell) of the terminal, identifying whether a first medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) or a second MAC CE is received from a base station, wherein the first MAC CE indicates that the SCell is transitioned into an activated state or a deactivated state, and the second MAC CE indicates that the SCell is transitioned into the activated state or a dormant state, and determining a second status for the SCell based on the first status and the first MAC CE, in case that the first MAC CE is received from the base station and the second MAC CE is not received from the base station, wherein, in case that the first status for the SCell is the dormant state and the first MAC CE indicates that the SCell is transitioned into the activated state, the second status for the SCell is determined to be maintained as the dormant state, and wherein, in case that the first status for the SCell is the dormant state and the first
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11956837
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for wireless communication are described. A computing device may send data to a plurality of network devices. A coordinator device may receive, or monitor, the data received by the plurality of network devices from the computing device. The coordinator device may determine that one or more of the plurality of network devices are to process additional data received from the computing device. The coordinator device may cause the remaining network devices of the plurality of network devices to discard or disregard, for an amount of time, additional data received from the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Gladish, Anil Katragadda, Giridhar Nelapati
  • Patent number: 11943059
    Abstract: A base station may transmit one or more configuration parameters for a cell. The one or more configuration parameters may indicate a periodic resource configuration. The periodic resource configuration may be activatable by predetermined values of: a hybrid automatic repeat request process identifier (HARQ ID) field of a first downlink control information (DCI) format; and a redundancy version (RV) field of the first DCI format. The base station may transmit a DCI based on a second DCI format without at least one of the HARQ ID field or the RV field. The base station may activate the periodic resource configuration based on: a size of the HARQ ID field of the DCI and/or the RV field of the DCI being zero; and the periodic resource configuration being in an inactive state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Hua Zhou
  • Patent number: 11930492
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than that of a beyond-4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, and the like) based on 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. In addition, the disclosure provides a method and apparatus for power control of an IAB node in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jinyoung Oh, Min Jang, Younsun Kim, Hyoungju Ji
  • Patent number: 11924653
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to high throughput (HT) control information. A device may determine a frame comprising HT control information. The device may determine to extend a size of the HT control information. The device may cause to generate a management or data frame for sending to a first station device of one or more station devices, the management or data frame comprising extended high throughput (HT) control information, define a new control identification (ID) associated with the extended HT control information, and cause to send the management or data frame to the first station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Daniel F. Bravo, Danny Alexander, Arik Klein, Danny Ben-Ari, Laurent Cariou, Robert Stacey
  • Patent number: 11923957
    Abstract: Maintaining network connectivity of aerial devices during unmanned flight is facilitated. An example method may include providing, to an access point of a radio access network (RAN) during flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a flight route, channel allocation instructions for connecting the UAV to the radio access network via communication channels. The method may further include detecting an interference event associated with a portion of the flight route of the UAV during the flight. The method may further include adjusting, during the flight, the channel allocation instructions in response to detecting the interference event. The method may further include providing the adjusted channel allocation instructions to an access point of the radio access network during the flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Giuseppe De Rosa, Mario Kosseifi, Ronald Kiefer
  • Patent number: 11917441
    Abstract: Disclosed are various techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may identify at least one communication resource from a plurality of communication resources for transmitting a positioning report, wherein the plurality of communication resources for transmitting the positioning report have different priorities. The UE may transmit the positioning report via the at least one communication resource, wherein the at least one communication resource comprises at least one of a medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC-CE) logical channel ID or a signaling radio bearer (SRB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Weimin Duan, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Linhai He, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Wanshi Chen, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Naga Bhushan
  • Patent number: 11916843
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for triggering generation and transmission of a channel state information (CSI) report by the user equipment (UE) on physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in response to issuance of at least one downlink grant by the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Wanshi Chen, Yi Huang, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11916844
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a downlink message via multiple receive antennas including a first group of receive antennas associated with a first antenna panel and a second group of receive antennas associated with a second antenna panel. The UE may generate two or more CSI reports based on receiving the downlink message, where each CSI report is associated with at least one of the first antenna panel or the second antenna panel. The UE may select at least one of the two or more CSI reports to transmit to the base station. In some examples, the UE may receive (e.g., via control signaling) a CSI report configuration and may select the at least one CSI report for transmission based on the CSI report configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar
  • Patent number: 11909677
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing physical uplink shared channel transmissions with improved reliability in a wireless communication system. The wireless device may establish a wireless link with a cellular base station. The wireless device may receive uplink data transmission configuration information from the cellular base station. The uplink data transmission configuration information may configure an uplink data transmission to multiple transmission-reception-points. The wireless device may perform the uplink data transmission to the multiple transmission-reception-points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Jie Cui, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11902801
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to intra-slot transmit beam selection and receive beam selection for sidelink are provided. A first user equipment (UE) transmits, to a second UE over a sidelink, a plurality of beam measurement signals in a plurality of beam directions during a first slot, wherein each beam measurement signal of the plurality of beam measurement signals includes at least one of sidelink control information (SCI) or a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS), and wherein the plurality of beam directions includes at least two different beam directions. The first UE receives, from the second UE, an indication of a preferred beam direction of the plurality of beam directions. The first UE transmits, to the second UE over the sidelink, data in the preferred beam direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Liu, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Yisheng Xue, Ozcan Ozturk, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11889335
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for downlink channel quality report for narrowband Internet of things user equipment. The method may include determining one or more of a physical random access channel repetition level or a reference signal received power. The method may also include selecting a channel quality table to use based on one or more of the physical random access channel repetition level or the reference signal received power. The method may further include determining a downlink channel quality report by using the selected channel quality table. In addition, the method may include transmitting the downlink channel quality report to the network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Rapeepat Ratasuk, Nitin Mangalvedhe, David Bhatoolaul
  • Patent number: 11882601
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for dynamically controlling data bursts are described. In an example, an access point (AP) monitors a link quality between the AP and a client device associated with the AP. The AP determines a channel occupancy of a channel in which the AP is configured to operate. In response to determining that the channel occupancy is less than a channel busy threshold, the AP modifies a burst duration for traffic flow between the AP and the client device based on the link quality. The AP communicates with the client device using the channel for the modified burst duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Amogh Guruprasad Deshmukh, Abhiruchi Dakshinkar, Eldad Perahia
  • Patent number: 11876636
    Abstract: [Object] To improve the reliability by using an acknowledgement response while using radio resources efficiently in multicast transmission over wireless transmission. [Solution] A plurality of wireless communication devices included in a multicast group, when receiving a data frame, transmit simultaneously an acknowledgement response of multicast using spatial multiplexing in response to an acknowledgement request from a transmission source. On the other hand, a wireless communication device of the transmission source decomposes the acknowledgement responses simultaneously received into the original individual acknowledgement responses and restores them using signal processing based on information on a channel with each wireless communication device of a transmission destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Itagaki, Tomoya Yamaura, Masanori Sato
  • Patent number: 11871259
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for sounding reference signal (SRS) guided downlink channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) scan. One example method for wireless communication generally includes determining whether to perform channel measurement and reporting operations for a user-equipment (UE) using a reciprocity-based scheme or a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) based scheme based on a criteria of a cell, and performing the channel measurement and reporting operations based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bo Chen, Pavan Kumar Vitthaladevuni, Yu Zhang, Ruifeng Ma, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Yeliz Tokgoz, Tingfang Ji, Alexandros Manolakos