Patents Examined by Deepa Belur
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Patent number: 11622090Abstract: A method and system for communication between devices includes connecting a plurality of communication devices through a communication system. At least one communication device acts as a source entity sending a plurality of data packets to an access point. A plurality of communication devices act as destination entities receiving the data packets. The data packets are distributed, by the access point, to the destination entities in such a way that the data packets are queued for receipt by each destination entity in a separate non-interdependent queue.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: David Clark Company IncorporatedInventors: Brad Deschenes, Sanjay Gupta, Nicholas Cannata
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Patent number: 11616559Abstract: A non-personal basic service set control point/access point (non-PCP/AP) communication apparatus includes a reception circuit, an estimation circuit, and a transmission circuit. The reception circuit receives a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) Beacon frame including a sector sweep (SSW) field, the SSW field including a Parameter subfield indicating a value obtained by using a transmission Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of a PCP/AP communication partner apparatus and a reception antenna gain of the PCP/AP communication partner apparatus. The estimation circuit estimates an expected reception power at the PCP/AP communication partner apparatus by using the value of the Parameter subfield, and checks inequality between the estimated expected reception power and a receiver sensitivity value. The transmission circuit transmits a frame for Association Beamforming Training (A-BFT) if the estimated expected reception power is larger than the receive sensitivity value.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Yao Huang Gaius Wee, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Lei Huang, Tomoya Urushihara, Masataka Irie
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Patent number: 11606762Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a synchronization signal block (SSB)-level sleep mode. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining, from a synchronization signal burst set, a first set of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) to forgo performing measurements on using one or more receive beams based, at least in part, on one or more previous measurements associated with the determined first set of SSBs and performing measurements on only one or more remaining SSBs in the synchronization signal burst set using the one or more receive beams.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jun Zhu, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa, Yong Li
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Patent number: 11606155Abstract: A method for exchanging a clock synchronization packet performed by a network apparatus, including: exchanging a clock synchronization packet with a first clock source, where the network apparatus includes a boundary clock; determining a first time deviation of the boundary clock relative to the first clock source according to the clock synchronization packet exchanged with the first clock source, where the boundary clock avoids performing an operation of calibrating a time of a local clock of the boundary clock according to the first time deviation; and sending a clock synchronization packet to a first slave clock of the boundary clock, where the clock synchronization packet includes a first timestamp, a value of the first timestamp is equal to a first corrected value, and the first corrected value is a value obtained by the boundary clock by correcting the time of the local clock by using the first time deviation.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Jinhui Wang, Chuan Xu
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Patent number: 11601177Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for wireless communications in narrowband frequency bands using frequency hopping. In some implementations, a base station (BS) groups a plurality of hopping channels of a frequency hopping pattern into a number of groups based on a bandwidth part (BWP) hopping frequency of each hopping channel of the frequency hopping pattern. The BS transmits indications of the frequency hopping pattern and the grouping of hopping channels to user equipments (UEs). The BS transmits a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) on a first hopping channel, and receives channel state information (CSI) of the first hopping channel from one or more of the UEs. In some other implementations, a UE receives indications of the frequency hopping pattern and hopping channel groups, and determines CSI of the first hopping channel based on the received CSI-RS. The UE may transmit the CSI to the BS.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Chih-Hao Liu, Yisheng Xue, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
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Patent number: 11601314Abstract: Facilitating selection of demodulation reference signal port combinations in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise evaluating a capability of a mobile device. The operations can also comprise assigning a first group of port combinations for the mobile device based on the capability of the mobile device being a first capability and a second group of port combinations for the mobile device based on the capability of the mobile device being a second capability, resulting in a port combination assignment. The port combination assignment can mitigate a peak-to-average power ratio value.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: SaiRamesh Nammi
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Patent number: 11589371Abstract: An apparatus configured to be employed in a gNodeB associated with a new radio (NR) system is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more processors configured to configure one or more sidelink sounding reference signals (SRS), for one or more user equipments (UEs) associated with the gNodeB, to be utilized by the one or more UEs for transmission or reception, or both, over sidelink. The one or more processors is further configured to generate one or more sidelink SRS configuration signals to be provided, respectively, to the one or more UEs, wherein each sidelink SRS configuration signal comprises sidelink SRS configuration information on the one or more sidelink SRS configured for a respective UE. The apparatus further comprises a radio frequency (RF) interface, configured to provide, to a radio frequency (RF) circuitry, the one or more sidelink SRS configuration signals, for subsequent transmission to the one or more UEs, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Honglei Miao
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Patent number: 11582770Abstract: The present invention includes a receiver configured to receive first information, the first information including information for configuring whether transform precoding for a physical uplink shared channel is enabled, and a transmitter configured to transmit information indicating a first power headroom level for the physical uplink shared channel with the transform precoding enabled and information indicating a second power headroom level for the physical uplink shared channel with the transform precoding not enabled.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi, Hiroki Takahashi
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Patent number: 11576052Abstract: To schedule panel specific uplink transmissions, the UE may assist in the scheduling of the panel specific uplink transmission by improving the manner in which the specific panel is indicated for uplink transmission. The apparatus receives, from a base station, an indication of a UE panel for an uplink transmission. The apparatus determines a Tx panel at the UE based on the indication of the UE panel. The apparatus transmits, to the base station, the uplink transmission using the Tx beam associated with the Tx panel.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Jung Ho Ryu, Kiran Venugopal, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11576128Abstract: The embodiments of the present application provide a wakeup region update method and device for updating a wakeup region of a terminal. The method includes a terminal receiving a wakeup signal, the wakeup signal carrying a wakeup region indicator; and the terminal updating the wakeup region indicator of the terminal according to the wakeup region indicator carried by the wakeup signal received. The present application is adopted to achieve updating and maintenance of the wakeup region of the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Meiying Yang, Deshan Miao, Fang-Chen Cheng
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Patent number: 11564054Abstract: An improved manner of transmitting and receiving messages in sidelink communication is presented in which a wireless device receives sidelink control information (SCI) that indicates a zone ID associated with a sidelink message. The wireless device determines a location of the wireless device and determines whether to send feedback for the sidelink message based, at least in part, on the zone ID associated with the sidelink message and the location of the wireless device. The feedback may include hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback, and the sidelink message may include a groupcast message. The wireless device may further receive an indication of an intended range in the SCI and may determine whether to send the feedback based on a combination of the zone ID and the intended range for the sidelink message.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Zhibin Wu, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati, Arjun Bharadwaj, Hong Cheng, Shailesh Patil, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11552689Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Beam pair link (BPLs) may be associated with a state of a wireless device. For example, a first wireless device may communicate with a second wireless device using a set of BPLs, and the second wireless device may operate using a predetermined movement sequence, where different movements may correspond to the second wireless device using respective states. In some examples, a BPL may be selected for each state of the second wireless device and used to communicate with the first wireless device, where the BPL that corresponds to a particular state may be determined through beam training procedures. In some cases, BPLs associated with respective states may experience decreased link quality and the first wireless device may transmit a configuration that modifies the communications between the first and second wireless devices based on the affected BPLs.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 11546110Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and device for multi-antenna transmission in UE and base station. The user equipment receives a first radio signal at first, then receives a first signaling. The first radio signal is transmitted by K antenna port groups, and the first signaling is used to determine a first time resource pool; a second antenna virtualization vector is associated with the first antenna port group; the second antenna virtualization vector is an antenna virtualization vector available to the user equipment in the first time resource pool. The invention effectively reduces signaling overhead of wireless resource dynamic scheduling of a massive MIMO system.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: APEX BEAM TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventor: XiaoBo Zhang
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Patent number: 11546871Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a processor that scales a delay requirement of an intra-frequency measurement based on a synchronization signal block by a scaling factor corresponding to each of a plurality of carriers; and a receiver that receives the synchronization signal block in each of the plurality of carriers, wherein a specified carrier out of the plurality of carriers satisfies a condition, wherein a first scaling factor for an unspecified carrier out of the plurality of carriers is based on a number of the plurality of carriers, and wherein a second scaling factor for the specified carrier is not based on the number of the plurality of carriers. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura, Takuma Takada
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Patent number: 11522733Abstract: A gateway device for a vehicle network system installed in a vehicle is provided. The vehicle network system includes a network, an electronic control unit connected to the network, and the gateway device connected to the first network and configured to communicate outside the vehicle. The gateway device receives a first frame from outside the vehicle; determines whether or not the first frame is appropriate; generates a second frame when the first frame is not determined to be appropriate; and transmits the second frame to the network. The second frame includes control information and additional information based on content of the first frame. The control information restricts processing of the additional information included in the second frame by the electronic control unit, after the second frame is received by the electronic control unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Hideki Matsushima, Toshihisa Nakano, Tohru Wakabayashi, Hiroshi Amano, Tomoyuki Haga, Takeshi Kishikawa
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Patent number: 11523442Abstract: A random access resource selection method and a terminal device are provided. The random access resource selection method includes: determining a first moment at which a terminal device determines that the reception of a random access response signal is unsuccessful; selecting a delay time according to a received backoff indicator BI value; and selecting a random access resource according to the first moment and the delay time.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventor: Yumin Wu
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Patent number: 11510087Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a first transmission and transmitting, by the UE, a first measurement report that is based on the first transmission and includes at least a first measurement result. The method further includes receiving, by the UE, a second transmission that includes a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) and further includes transmitting, by the UE, a second measurement report that is based on the DMRS. The second measurement report includes at least a first value that is based on a difference between the first measurement result and a second measurement result that is based on the DMRS.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hemant Saggar, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 11496193Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) feedback scheduling for cross-carriers. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes receiving on a first component carrier (CC) signaling indicating an aperiodic channel state information (CSI) report request for a plurality of CCs; determining schedules for at least CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) transmissions on the CCs based on the received signaling; monitoring CSI-RS transmissions on the CCs according to the determined schedules; and reporting CSI feedback based on CSI-RS measurements of the CSI-RS transmissions.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Liangming Wu, Yu Zhang, Chenxi Hao, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu
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Patent number: 11496919Abstract: Provided is a measurement reporting method, measurement configuration method, terminal and network side device, wherein the measurement reporting method comprises: the terminal reports the measurement result of the reference signal of the first predetermined bandwidth portion BWP.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventor: Li Chen
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Patent number: 11490270Abstract: Some aspects described herein relate to performing a serving beam switch from a first serving beam to a second serving beam, and switching, for an inter-frequency procedure and based on one or more spatial correlation parameters associated with the first serving beam and second serving beam, from a first inter-frequency beam to a second inter-frequency beam to use in the inter-frequency procedure.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yue Hong, Yuanbo Wang, Viswanath Sankaran