Patents Examined by Deepa Belur
  • Patent number: 11968641
    Abstract: A method by which a transmission user equipment (UE) transmits a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system, according to the present disclosure, can comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, first configuration information including a timing advance and/or a timing advance offset; receiving, from the base station, second configuration information including SRS configuration; and transmitting an SRS to a reception UE on the basis of the first configuration information and the second configuration information. The timing advance is the same as the downlink reception timing of the reception UE, and the timing advance offset can be set to transmit the SRS. The timing advance can have a value corresponding to the downlink reception timing of the reception UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongkyu Kim, Sukhyon Yoon, Hyunsoo Ko
  • Patent number: 11963015
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for reporting angle of departure (AoD) information by a base station in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method is characterized by: transmitting multiple reference signals to a terminal; receiving, from the terminal, AoD information comprising information related to at least one reference signal obtained on the basis of the reception signal strength of the terminal, among the multiple reference signals; and transmitting the AoD information to a location server, wherein the multiple reference signals can be multiple synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks or multiple channel state information-reference signals (CSI-RSs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngsub Kim, Hyunsu Cha, Hyunsoo Ko, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11956850
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses for a user-equipment-coordination set for disengaged mode. In aspects, a base station forms a disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set including multiple user equipment operating in a disengaged mode. The disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set uses joint transmission and reception to communicate with the base station. The base station communicates control-plane information to an individual user equipment or multiple user equipment in the disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Patent number: 11956809
    Abstract: Provided is a resource determining method. The method includes: determining a first bandwidth part (BWP) from at least one activated and idle BWP according to pre-set configuration information, wherein the first BWP belongs to a first serving cell for user equipment; and sending, on the first BWP, first indication information and second indication information to the user equipment, wherein the first indication information indicates a target serving cell in which a time-frequency resource for the user equipment processing data is located, and the second indication information indicates a target BWP in which the time-frequency resource for the user equipment processing data is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingju Li
  • Patent number: 11956049
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for signaling mechanisms associated with reporting information associated with multiple beam failure indicator (BFI) types via a beam failure detection (BFD) report. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may measure a periodic reference signal as part of a BFD procedure and may report a BFI if the UE measures that the reference signal fails to satisfy a threshold signal strength or quality. The UE may further detect or classify each reported BFI as one of multiple BFI types and may store information associated with respective numbers of the multiple BFI types in accordance with the detection or classification. In scenarios in which the UE declares beam failure, the UE may transmit a BFD report including the information associated with the respective numbers of the multipole BFI types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shanyu Zhou, Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11956831
    Abstract: In the transmission of message A corresponding to a 2-step random access process or message 1 corresponding to a 4-step random access process, a method and a device for transmitting/receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, use an option in which an RO for a PRACH transmission for each message is set differently, or an option in which an RO for a PRACH transmission for each message is shared and PI is set differently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim, Changhwan Park
  • Patent number: 11943650
    Abstract: A station device including: a reception unit configured to receive a signal transmitted from another network other than a BSS to which the own device belongs; an acquisition unit configured to acquire parameter information regarding the signal; and a reporting unit configured to report the parameter information to an access point device that performs interference control in the BSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Yuichi Morioka, Tomoya Yamaura
  • Patent number: 11930375
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may measure a signal, transmitted by a base station, using a set of candidate beams. The UE may communicate, with the base station based at least in part on the measurement of the signal, using a first beam from the set of candidate beams. The UE may determine to switch the first beam based on a first value for a beam parameter associated with a second beam, from the set of candidate beams, satisfying a condition. The UE may measure, based at least in part on the determination to switch the first beam, the second beam to obtain a second value of the beam parameter. The UE may switch the first beam to the second beam if the second value satisfies a condition. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Yongle Wu, Raghu Narayan Challa, Brian Clarke Banister
  • Patent number: 11924666
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may measure a first energy level of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS). The UE may measure a second energy level of at least one of a tracking reference signal (TRS) or a synchronization signal block (SSB). The UE may determine, based at least in part on the first energy level and the second energy level, a DMRS signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The UE may perform, based at least in part on the DMRS SNR, channel estimation for a physical channel associated with a communication to determine an estimated channel. The UE may perform, based at least in part on the estimated channel, demodulation processing for the communication. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jae Won Yoo, Hari Sankar, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Ashok Mantravadi, Weng Chon Ao, Paolo Minero, Abhinav Sridhar, Shriram Swaminathan, Gi Hong Song
  • Patent number: 11917450
    Abstract: This application provides a transmission method and a data transmission apparatus, so as to avoid out-of-order of data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lifeng Han, Rui Wang, Mingzeng Dai, Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 11917601
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes receiving a first beam using a first antenna device during an occasion of a reference signal. The method further includes receiving a second beam using a second antenna device that is distinct from the first antenna device during the occasion of the reference signal. Receiving the first beam and the second beam includes inputting, to a modem, a representation of a combination of the first beam and the second beam. Receiving the first beam and the second beam further includes generating, by the modem based on the representation, a first signal associated with the first beam using a first parameter associated with the first antenna device and a second signal associated with the second beam using a second parameter associated with the second antenna device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mihir Vijay Laghate, Revathi Sundara Raghavan, Bhushan Shanti Asuri
  • Patent number: 11910219
    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 configuration of a set of resource elements for Long Term Evolution (LTE) cell-specific reference signal (LTE-CRS) interference measurements associated with one or more neighboring LTE cells. The UE may perform the LTE-CRS interference measurements on the set of resource elements. The UE may transmit, to the base station, an interference measurement indication based at least in part on the LTE-CRS interference measurements. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Yosuke Sano
  • Patent number: 11902002
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some networks, a user equipment (UE) may switch between serving beams of a transmitting device that are associated with different bandwidth parts of a radio frequency spectrum. To improve aspects of beam measurement and selection, a UE may be configured to support various techniques for beam measurement according to the different bandwidth parts. For example, a UE may receive a beam measurement configuration associated with one or more beams, and may monitor for reference signals associated with the beams using the different bandwidth parts. The UE may determine a channel quality of one or more of the beams based on the monitoring, and transmit a beam measurement report to the network in accordance with the beam measurement configuration. In some examples, such a report may be transmitted based on the UE determining that an event condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Liangping Ma, Bharat Shrestha, Xiao Feng Wang, Ayan Sengupta, Peter Gaal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Umesh Phuyal, Jun Ma, Dan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11895718
    Abstract: A method of performing device-to-device (D2D) communication by a first device includes obtaining at least one measurement value corresponding to a relative velocity between the first device and a second device; adjusting at least one transmission parameter based on the at least one measurement value; providing the adjusted at least one transmission parameter to the second device; and transmitting data to the second device based on the adjusted at least one transmission parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunil Yum, Yangsoo Kwon, Jungmin Park, Junho Lee
  • Patent number: 11882472
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first device may transmit an indication of a first set of signal strength metrics for signal strengths of transmit beams of a second device using receive beams of the first device and a second set of signal strength metrics for signal strengths of transmit beams of the first device using the receive beams of the first device. The first device may determine, for one or more signal strength metrics in the first set of signal strength metrics, the second set of signal strength metrics, or both, a change in the corresponding signal strength. The first device may transmit, based at least in part on the determining, an indication of the change in the corresponding signal strength for each of the one or more signal strength metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Idan Michael Horn, Ran Berliner, Shay Landis, Assaf Touboul, Yehonatan Dallal
  • Patent number: 11870525
    Abstract: This application provides a channel measurement configuration method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a measurement configuration, where the measurement configuration includes a plurality of resource settings, and the plurality of resource settings include a plurality of resource settings for channel measurement and a plurality of resource settings for interference measurement; receiving, by the terminal device, channel state information reference signals CSI-RSs on resources configured in the plurality of resource settings; and generating, by the terminal device, a CSI group based on the CSI-RSs, where the CSI group includes one or more pieces of CSI. In embodiments of this application, a plurality of resource settings for channel measurement and a plurality of resource settings for interference measurement are associated in one report setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haicun Hang, Shibin Ge, Hongzhe Shi, Xiaohan Wang, Liuliu Ji, Xiaoyan Bi
  • Patent number: 11843558
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for transmitting multiplexed sounding reference signal (SRS) ports in communications systems operating according to new radio (NR) technologies. An exemplary method includes obtaining an indication of a technique to use in transmitting sounding reference signals (SRS) via five or more antenna ports in one slot and transmitting the SRS via the five or more antenna ports according to the indicated technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Chao Wei, Wanshi Chen, Pavan Kumar Vitthaladevuni
  • Patent number: 11843441
    Abstract: An information transmission method includes: A terminal device sends first information to a network device, where the first information includes information indicating that a radio link failure occurs between the terminal device and a first cell, or the first information includes information indicating that beam failure recovery occurs between the terminal device and the first cell; and the first information further includes information about a resource; and the network device performs mobility robustness optimization based on the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoli Shi, Mingzeng Dai, Hongzhuo Zhang, Wenjie Peng
  • Patent number: 11843449
    Abstract: Disclosed are a measurement synchronization method, a network device and a terminal device. The method includes: determining delay-related parameters, wherein the delay-related parameters are used to represent a delay between a satellite service link corresponding to a serving cell and a satellite service link corresponding to a neighboring cell; adjusting a measurement window according to the delay-related parameters, wherein the measurement window is acquired from measurement interval parameters configured for a network device; and measuring a synchronization signal block corresponding to the neighboring cell according to the adjusted measurement window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiangsheng Fan, Deshan Miao
  • Patent number: 11838883
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transmission configuration method and device. The method is applied to a terminal, and comprises: determining a specified message used to trigger a base station to configure a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state set for the terminal; and transmitting the specified message to the base station in a random access process, such that the base station configures the TCI state set according to the specified message. Accordingly, the present disclosure can improve transmission configuration efficiency and reduce time delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingju Li