Patents Examined by Deepa Belur
  • Patent number: 11751121
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a radio access control method. The method includes that a terminal device receives access control information sent by an access network device, wherein the access control information indicates a barred service type and a barred data transmission attribute to the terminal device; and the terminal device determines whether to send a radio resource control (RRC) connection request to the access network device based on the barred service type and the barred data transmission attribute; wherein the data transmission attribute comprises a transmission scheme type, the transmission scheme type is used to indicate a transmission scheme used by the terminal device for transmitting service data used by the terminal device. Thereby improving network resource utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Yan Wang, Yinghui Yu
  • Patent number: 11750442
    Abstract: A fault determining method, includes: a first terminal device monitors a parameter of a sidelink between the first terminal device and a second terminal device, to determine whether a unicast connection on the sidelink satisfies a first condition; and when the unicast connection satisfies the first condition, the first terminal device determines that the unicast connection is faulty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenjie Peng, Mingzeng Dai, Jun Wang, Dongdong Wei
  • Patent number: 11742927
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to communicating a configuration indicating resources for measuring new candidate beam pairs for full-duplex operation to facilitate measuring one or more new candidate beam pairs over the resources to determine measurement results for the one or more new candidate beam pairs, and reporting, based on a measurement result for at least one new candidate beam pair of the one or more new candidate beam pairs, the measurement result or an indication of the at least one new candidate beam pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Navid Abedini, Qian Zhang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11743847
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method includes receiving control signaling indicating for the UE to monitor a set of multiple synchronization signal blocks during a first transmission time interval, determining a priority order of the set of multiple synchronization signal blocks based on a number of beam switch events that occur during the first transmission time interval exceeding a beam switch capability limit of the UE, performing a set of multiple beam measurements of at least a subset of the set of multiple synchronization signal blocks that occur during the first transmission time interval according to the priority order of the set of multiple synchronization signal blocks, and transmitting a beam report to a base station based on the set of multiple beam measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Nagaraju Gajula, Uzma Khan Qazi, Yong Li, Andrew Walter Janiszewski, Kang Gao
  • Patent number: 11728864
    Abstract: A channel state information transmission method, where a responder receives a channel measurement signal sent by an initiator by using one or more transmit antennas, and the responder sends a feedback frame to the initiator based on the channel measurement signal. The feedback frame includes information used to indicate a transmit antenna subset of the initiator and one or more channel state information blocks of a channel between the corresponding transmit antenna subset of the initiator and the responder, where the transmit antenna subset is determined from one or more transmit antennas by using which a channel measurement signal is sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanchun Li
  • Patent number: 11723107
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods in a wireless device. Such methods include, while the wireless device is in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) inactive state with respect to a wireless communication network, determining that a Radio Access Network Notification Area Update (RNAU) is needed. Such methods include evaluating whether there is any cause, other than the determined need for the RNAU, for resuming an RRC connected state with the wireless communication network and transmitting, to the wireless communication network, an RRC Resume Request message comprising a cause indicator indicating a cause for resuming the RRC connected state. The cause indicator indicates an RNAU when there is no cause for resuming the RRC connected state other than the determined need for the RNAU and otherwise indicates a cause other than an RNAU. Other embodiments include wireless devices configured to perform such methods and computer-readable media that store instructions embodying such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Christofer Lindheimer, Icaro L. J. Da Silva, Gunnar Mildh, Paul Schliwa-Bertling
  • Patent number: 11716130
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for determining whether a user device is experiencing interference; attempting to identify a source of the interference based on determining that the user device is experiencing interference; initiating a timer in response to determining that the user device is experiencing interference; determining whether the source of the interference was identified before the timer expires; and dynamically mitigating the interference based on identifying the source of the interference before the timer expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Susan Wu Sanders, Nischal Patel
  • Patent number: 11700196
    Abstract: A system comprising nodes coupled to a network including virtual links in an overlay network provisioned over an underlay network. The system includes a virtual machine (VM) provisioned at a node and coupled to the network. The VM is configured to receive feedback data of link conditions, and use the feedback data to dynamically determine and adapt an optimal route through the network. The VM is configured to control routing of traffic flows using the optimal route. The routing includes split routing of a traffic flow from the node via two or more of the virtual links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Nithin Michael, Ao Tang, Victor de Souza Lima e Silva, Thiago Sousa Santos, Ning Wu, Archit Baweja, Ki Suh Lee, Yao Wang, Andrey Gushchin, Sakethnath Are
  • Patent number: 11683711
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive one or more reference signals from multiple cells and may perform measurements of the reference signals. The UE may transmit, based on the measurements, a measurement report associated with a first cell and a second cell of the multiple cells, where the measurement report includes at least a first field that indicates a first identifier corresponding to the first cell and a second field that indicates a second identifier corresponding to the second cell. The measurement report may further include a resource indicator for a first reference signal of the one or more reference signals and a second resource indicator for a second reference signal of the one or more reference signals, where the first resource indicator is associated with the first identifier and the second resource indicator is associated with the second identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11683713
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a reference signal (RS) configuration from a first base station. The RS configuration indicates an RS identifier (ID) of an RS associated with a second base station. The method also includes receiving the RS from the second base station based on receiving the RS configuration. The method further includes transmitting, to the first base station, an interference measurement report associated with receiving the RS from the second base station. The interference measurement report indicates the RS ID associated with the RS from the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Danlu Zhang, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11677455
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may use the techniques described herein to efficiently detect beam failure. In one aspect, the UE may autonomously select one or more criteria for detecting beam failure. The UE may then perform measurements on beam failure detection reference signals received from the base station and use the selected one or more criteria to detect beam failure. Because the UE may select the one or more criteria without signaling from the base station, control overhead between the UE and the base station may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shanyu Zhou, Jelena Damnjanovic, Peter Gaal, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11678211
    Abstract: In an aspect, a wireless node (e.g., UE, gNB) performs a partial measurement of a measurement type (e.g., RSTD, Rx-Tx, etc.) of a reference signal for positioning (RS-P) resource (e.g., PRS, SRS) that includes multiple symbols, the partial measurement being measured across a subset of the multiple symbols. The wireless node transmits a measurement report that includes an indication of the first partial measurement. The communications device receives the measurement report, and determines whether a spoofing attack is associated with the RS-P based at least in part upon the measurement report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Alexandros Manolakos, Jing Lei
  • Patent number: 11671992
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that acquires transmission configuration indicator (TCI) information for secondary cell (SCell) activation. In some embodiments, the TCI information is acquired for SCell activation by determining, during secondary cell (SCell) activation, that beam information to enable a user equipment (UE) to make a reliable layer 1 (L1)-Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurement report is unavailable, perform the L1-RSRP measurement using information of one or more Synchronization Signal Blocks (SSBs) during the SCell activation, wherein the one or more processors perform the L1-RSRP measurement using information of one or more SSBs during the SCell activation by identifying, by the UE, one or more detectable SSBs during the SCell activation and using information of the one or more detectable SSBs for the L1-RSRP measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE, INC
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Hong He, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11664869
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to reported channel state information (CSI) reference signal (RS) resource indicator (CRI)/synchronization signal block resource indicator (SSBRI) and maximum resource number for Layer 1 signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR). In one aspect, a user equipment (UE) may receive a CSI report configuration that includes a report quantity parameter set to indicate use of a SINR, obtain an SINR measurement, and transmit a CSI report including the SINR measurement to the network entity. In another aspect, a network entity may transmit a CSI report configuration that includes a report quality parameter set to indicate use of a SINR, the report quantity parameter is configured to trigger the UE to measure the SINR of at least one communication channel associated with the network entity, and receive a CSI report including an SINR measurement from the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11658729
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, in a full duplex transmission mode, a measurement trigger indicating a set of candidate base station beam pairs, wherein a candidate base station beam pair comprises a base station uplink (UL) beam and a base station downlink (DL) beam, wherein the corresponding identified UE beam pair comprises a UE UL beam and a UE DL beam, wherein the set of candidate base station beam pairs are identified based at least in part on a base station self-interference measurement; and transmit, to the base station, a beam measurement report based at least in part on a plurality of beam measurements obtained based at least in part on the measurement trigger. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Navid Abedini
  • Patent number: 11653246
    Abstract: Provided is a method in which a secondary node (SN) transmits a measurement configuration by multi radio access technology (RAT) dual connectivity. The SN receives, from a master node (MN), measurement configuration information related to a measurement configuration of the SN, transmits, to user equipment (UE), the measurement configuration on the basis of the measurement configuration information, and receives a measurement report on the basis of the measurement configuration from the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jian Xu, Sangwon Kim, Daewook Byun, Seokjung Kim
  • Patent number: 11646777
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine, based at least in part on two or more measurements on a channel taken at different points in time, that the channel is classified as static. The wireless communication device may perform at least one optimization based at least in part on determining that the channel is classified as static. For example, the at least one optimization may include modifying a channel state feedback procedure, reducing a periodicity associated with a measurement gap, modifying a filtering associated with measurements of the channel, reducing a threshold associated with beam switching, and/or refraining from performing at least one filtering at a radio frequency receiver of the wireless communication device. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhinav Sridhar, Paolo Minero, Yongle Wu, Ashok Mantravadi, Hari Sankar, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 11641642
    Abstract: In embodiments, a base station may send to a user equipment (UE) a P3 beam management (BM) channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) having two ports, and may receive from the UE a P3 BM report in response. The P3 BM report may include a proactive UE beam switch indication and a CSF report corresponding to the best UE beam determined by a UE based on the P3 BM CSI-RS. The base station may determine whether the P3 BM report includes an indication that the UE will perform a beam switch from a first UE beam to a second UE beam, and may determine a UE beam switch slot during which the UE will perform the beam switch. Starting at the beam switch slot, the base station may send a physical downlink shared data channel (PDSCH) transmission to the UE using the adjusted downlink transmission parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Levitsky, Raghu Narayan Challa, Ruhua He, Assaf Touboul
  • Patent number: 11637557
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device includes frequency generation circuitry configured to generate a clock signal, a phase-locked loop (PLL) configured to generate a local clock based on the clock signal, a receiver configured to receive a data stream from a remote clock source and recover a remote clock from the data stream, and a controller configured to find a clock differential between the local clock and the remote clock identified as a master dock, and provide a control signal to the frequency generation circuitry responsively to the clock differential, which causes the frequency generation circuitry to adjust the clock signal so as to iteratively reduce an absolute value of the clock differential between the local clock and the remote clock identified as the master clock so that the local clock generated by the PLL is synchronized with the master clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ran Ravid, Aviv Berg, Lavi Koch, Chen Gaist, Dotan David Levi
  • Patent number: 11638263
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may measure a per-beam channel busy ratio (CBR) for each of one or more beams configured on the sidelink receiver for transmitting or receiving sidelink transmissions including a first CBR for a first beam that is to be used for receiving a sidelink transmission transmitted by a first sidelink transmitter; and may transmit an indication of the per-beam CBR. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive information associated with a per-beam CBR including a first CBR for a first beam to be used by a sidelink receiver for receiving a sidelink transmission transmitted by the sidelink transmitter, and may selectively transmit the sidelink transmission for reception by the sidelink transmitter using the first beam based at least in part on the indication of the per-beam CBR. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo