Patents Examined by Deepa Belur
  • Patent number: 11490279
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that one or more measurement reference resources, of a plurality of measurement reference resources, are preempted; and, based at least in part on the determination, selectively: cancel transmission of a measurement report, or transmit the measurement report based at least in part on at least a portion of the plurality of measurement reference resources. In some aspects, the UE may determine that one or more uplink reference signal resources, of a plurality of uplink reference signal resources, are to be preempted; and, based at least in part on the determination, selectively: cancel transmission of an uplink reference signal, or transmit the uplink reference signal based at least in part on at least a portion of the plurality of uplink reference signal resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chenxi Hao, Yu Zhang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo, Alexandros Manolakos, Joseph Binamira Soriaga
  • Patent number: 11477664
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method, systems, and devices may include techniques for establishing a first connection with a first cell operating in accordance with a first radio access technology (RAT), and performing a beam sweep procedure for one or more candidate beams for adding or handover to a second cell operating in accordance with millimeter wave (mmW) RAT. The beam sweep procedure may be performed based on previous beam measurements stored in a measurement database. The techniques may further include selecting a beam from the one or more candidate beams for adding or handover to the second cell based on the beam sweep procedure, and adding or handing over to the second cell by establishing a second connection with the second cell using the selected beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yongle Wu, Ting Kong, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Yong Li, Jun Zhu, Raghu Narayan Challa, Viswanath Sankaran, Nagaraju Gajula
  • Patent number: 11469948
    Abstract: Provided is process of operating a wireless device configured to act as a node in an ad hoc multi-hop mobile network, the process including: snooping, with a wireless device, a packet transmitted from a sending node to a receiving node in a multi-hop wireless connection, the sending node and the receiving node being in a different location; extracting from the snooped packet an identifier of the sending node and an identifier of the receiving node; determining based on the identifier of the sending node, the identifier of the receiving node, and a record in memory of the wireless device that the wireless device is part of a multi-hop wireless connection including the sending node and the receiving node; determining that a signal strength of a signal conveying the snooped packet exceeds a threshold; and transmitting a kill packet to the sending node and the receiving node that reconfigures the multi-hop wireless connection to bypass the receiving node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SitePro, Inc.
    Inventor: Aaron Phillips
  • Patent number: 11469926
    Abstract: Provided are a method for transmitting signals and corresponding terminals, and base stations, where the method for transmitting signals is performed by a terminal in a communication system. The method includes determining, whether to transmit an additional reference signal to a base station in the communication system according to information on channel conditions of the terminal; transmitting a main reference signal to the base station, where the main reference signal is used for channel estimation between the terminal and the base station; and when determining to transmit an additional reference signal to the base station, transmitting an additional reference signal to the base station according to configuration information of the additional reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Dongbo Feng, Xiangming Li, Neng Ye, Wenjia Liu, Xiaolin Hou, Runxin Wang, Liu Liu
  • Patent number: 11469807
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for triggering measurement and reporting. The method includes: configuring K1 channel state information (CSI) measurement and reporting parameter sets for a receiving end, where the CSI measurement and reporting parameter sets comprise at least one set of aperiodic measurement reference resources; configuring spatial characteristic parameters for the aperiodic measurement reference resources in the K1 CSI measurement and reporting parameter sets, where K1 is greater than or equal to 1; and indicating the K1 CSI measurement and reporting parameter sets to the receiving end; where the CSI measurement and reporting parameter sets include a measurement reference resource set, the measurement reference resource set includes at least one aperiodic measurement reference resource set; and the aperiodic measurement reference resource set includes at least one set of the aperiodic measurement reference resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yijian Chen, Yu Ngok Li, Hao Wu, Zhaohua Lu, Huahua Xiao, Jianxing Cai
  • Patent number: 11451994
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) comprises a receiver that receives a plurality of reference signals. Processing circuitry of the UE performs power-related measurements on the plurality of reference signals. The processing circuitry determines the availability of reference signals among the plurality of reference signals for the power-related measurements. The processing circuitry generates measurement results based on the performed power-related measurements and depending on the determined availability of the reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ming-Hung Tao, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Rikin Shah, Quan Kuang
  • Patent number: 11451361
    Abstract: A wireless user equipment (UE) may employ any of various mechanisms for reporting signal quality measurements to a wireless network. The UE may impose a time delay between measurement and reporting, based on a delay parameter K. The UE may average measurements obtained at different measurement instances. The UE may employ any of various schemes for prioritizing transmission of one type of report over another, when temporal collisions occur between different types of report. The UE may employ a differential report that includes a state for indicating that a beam is not workable. The UE may employ a beam index that includes a state for indicating an invalid beam. A base station may receive a signal quality report and determine workability of a beam, e.g., by triggering a report of channel state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Yakun Sun, Fangli Xu, Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Chunhai Yao, Yuchul Kim, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun
  • Patent number: 11451348
    Abstract: A method for performing downlink transmissions from a transmitting device to multiple user devices using transmission resources from a multi-dimensional grid of resources is described. The method includes logically partitioning the transmission resources into multiple segments, assigning, to a given user device of the multiple user devices, transmission resources of one or more of the multiple segments, and performing, using at least some of the assigned transmission resources for the given user device, a downlink transmission using an orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) transformation on data or signals to be transmitted to the given user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shachar Kons, Ronny Hadani, Yoav Hebron
  • Patent number: 11444674
    Abstract: A radio network node (12) is configured for use in a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) wireless communication system (10). The radio network node (12) in this regard is configured to precode a downlink reference signal (22) to suppress the downlink reference signal (22) in a certain direction (D1) that is subject to interference between MU-MIMO uplink transmissions received in the certain direction from different wireless devices (14A, 14B). The radio network node (12) is further configured to transmit the precoded downlink reference signal (22) to at least a first one (14A) of the wireless devices. The radio network node (12) in some embodiments is also configured to transmit signaling (30) indicating that the precoded downlink reference signal (22) is usable by the first wireless device (14A) to derive a non-codebook based precoding of an uplink signal transmitted by the first wireless device (14A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, Sebastian Faxér
  • Patent number: 11445457
    Abstract: A wireless communication system is provided including a first media device, a second media device, and a third media device, each media device configured to output media content. The first media device is designated as an access point media device that is configured to transmit media content to the second media device and the third media device. The first media device is configured to transmit the media content to the second media device using simplex communication instead of duplex communication based on a first confidence level indicator received from the second media device indicating a high level of confidence. The first media device is configured to transmit the media content to the third media device using duplex communication based on a second confidence level indicator received from the third media device a high level of confidence, and each media device is configured to output the media content in a synchronized manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Andre Tissot-Dupont, Vasanth Prabhakar Murari, Edison Liwanag David
  • Patent number: 11438778
    Abstract: [Object] To enable the access point device to grasp interference information without using a management device. [Solution] Provided is 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 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Yuichi Morioka, Tomoya Yamaura
  • Patent number: 11425734
    Abstract: A user equipment in a wireless communication system includes a configuration information management unit configured to retain configuration information for transmitting a reference signal used for measuring interference in other user equipments, and a signal transmitter configured to transmit the reference signal based on the configuration information. When transmission of the reference signal contends with transmission or reception of another signal, the signal transmitter determines whether the reference signal is to be transmitted or not based on a predetermined priority level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Shaozhen Guo, Xin Wang, Chongning Na, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11425681
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communications device, to change SI (system information). The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device in a radio resource control (RRC)-connected state, a paging message, where the paging message is used to indicate that broadcast information changes, the broadcast information includes at least one of system information (SI), a master information block (MIB), a system information block (SIB 1), and at least one specific SIB in other system information (OSI), the SI includes the MIB, the SIB 1, and the OSI, and the at least one specific SIB in the OSI is a SIB associated with the terminal device; and re-receiving, by the terminal device, broadcast information based on the paging message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Chen, Bingzhao Li, Zhenzhen Cao, Xuelong Wang
  • Patent number: 11418968
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Discontinuous reception (DRX) operation may be configured differently on enhanced component carriers (eCCs) than on other component carriers, including a primary cell (PCell). In some cases, a user equipment (UE) may be configured with several different eCC DRX modes. An eCC DRX configuration may, for example, be coordinated with downlink (DL) transmission time interval (TTI) scheduling so each DRX ON duration may correspond to a DL burst duration of the corresponding eCC. The eCC DRX ON durations may also be scheduled according to hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process scheduling. In some examples, eCC DRX ON durations may be based on listen-before-talk (LBT) procedures. In some cases, eCC DRX ON durations may be configured to contain an uplink (UL) burst to enable channel state information (CSI) reporting. The eCC DRX may also be configured to minimize interruption of the PCell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Madhavan Srinivasan Vajapeyam, Jelena Damnjanovic, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Tao Luo, Jing Sun, Taesang Yoo, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 11405891
    Abstract: Provided are a data transmission method and apparatus, a terminal and a base station. The data transmission method includes selecting, by a terminal, reference information from a reference information set corresponding to a preset reference information type; obtaining a first target data packet according to the selected reference information and a data packet to be transmitted; and sending the first target data packet to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventors: Bo Dai, Zhifeng Yuan, Kun Liu, Zhongda Du, Yifei Yuan
  • Patent number: 11405814
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for informing relaxed measurement upon early measurement reporting in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device evaluates the at least one of the relaxed measurement conditions based on measurement results of the serving frequency. A wireless device performs relaxed measurement on the serving frequency and/or the at least one of neighbor frequencies based on the evaluation. A wireless device transmits, to the network, a message including 1) measurement results on each frequency of the frequency set, and 2) information on the relaxed measurement on the each frequency of the frequency set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Oanyong Lee
  • Patent number: 11398890
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein that may be used for NOMA resource selection. Different types of NOMA resources may be configured by a network and selected by a WTRU based on rules, priorities, fairness, overloading factors, multiple access signature sizes, measurement results, payload sizes, and/or the like. Single-NOMA operations may be performed using DFT-invariant codewords. Multiple NOMA schemes may coexist with different codeword types and/or codeword sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: IDAC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Jung-Lin Pan, Fengjun Xi, Erdem Bala, Chunxuan Ye
  • Patent number: 11395155
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE) are described. Aspects of the described techniques may include the user equipment measuring signal aspects for a plurality of respective receive beams for receiving communications associated with a synchronization signal block transmitted by a base station on a transmit beam. From the measured signal aspects, the UE may determine that a receive beam from the plurality of receive beams is a preferred beam for receipt of communications from the base station transmitted on the transmit beam. With the determined preferred beam, the UE may initiate a beam-sweeping procedure to re-measure the plurality of UE receive beams, where the UE measures the first UE receive beam before measuring others of the plurality of UE receive beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Yong Li, Hongbo Yan, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 11381292
    Abstract: A method for sidelink (SL) control information (CSI) acquisition performed by a UE is provided. The method includes receiving a first SCI format from another UE, the first SCI format including resource allocation information of a second SCI format; receiving the second SCI format from the another UE based on the first SCI format, the second SCI format including a CSI request field and a source identifier (ID) field corresponding to the another UE; and generating a CSI report triggered by the second SCI format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yu-Hsin Cheng, Chia-Hao Yu, Yung-Lan Tseng
  • Patent number: 11362951
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a routing method and apparatus. A controller receives a path measurement message, determines a path score of each of at least two paths based on a preset rule and the path measurement message. Then the controller determines a routing policy of a first customer-premises equipment based on the path score of each of the at least two paths, and sends the routing policy to the first customer-premises equipment. According to the present invention, path quality of each path can be scored based on the preset rule and the path measurement message obtained after measurement by the first customer-premises equipment; and the routing policy is generated based on path scores and delivered to the first customer-premises equipment, to ensure that customer-premises equipments in an entire network can transmit a data packet sent by a service application more quickly, stably, and securely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ge Zhao