Patents Examined by Diane L Lo
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Patent number: 11973706Abstract: A transmitting method includes: configuring a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating time resources and frequency resources to a plurality of transmission data; and transmitting the frame, wherein the frame includes a first period in which a preamble which includes information on a frame configuration of the frame is transmitted, and a second period in which the plurality of transmission data are transmitted by at least one of time division and frequency division, and among the plurality of OFDM symbols, OFDM symbols included in the second period include pilot symbols arranged along a time axis with a predetermined spacing therebetween, and a predetermined number of data symbols.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yutaka Murakami, Yoshio Urabe, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
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Patent number: 11974270Abstract: In order to suppress deterioration of communication quality even when communication is performed using a plurality of transmission/reception points, an aspect of user terminal of the present disclosure includes: a reception section that receives given downlink control information including information regarding TCI states corresponding to the plurality of transmission/reception points; and a control section that controls reception of physical shared channels transmitted from the plurality of transmission/reception points based on the given downlink control information.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Xiaolin Hou
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Patent number: 11968000Abstract: A network node of a communications network configured to provide Citizen Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) to at least one end user device (EUD) in a coverage area of the network node. The network node comprises: at least one processor; and a memory storing software instructions configured to control at least one processor to perform steps of: detecting interference from at least one aggressor device in the network; and reporting the detected interference to at least one of a Spectrum Access System (SAS) and a co-existence manager (CxM) of the communications network.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Kumar Balachandran, Sailesh Bharati, Gary Boudreau, Virgil Cimpu, Chris Williams
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Patent number: 11968026Abstract: A network for providing high speed data communications may include multiple terrestrial transmission stations that are located within overlapping communications range and a mobile receiver station. The terrestrial transmission stations provide a continuous and uninterrupted high speed data communications link with the mobile receiver station employing a wireless radio access network protocol.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLCInventor: Donald Alcorn
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Patent number: 11963035Abstract: Provided are a method for performing sidelink communication by means of a first device (100), and an apparatus supporting same. The method comprises the steps of: performing channel occupancy ratio (CR) measurement on the basis of the number of transmission layers; and performing sidelink communication on the basis of the measurement.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Hyukjin Chae
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Patent number: 11956824Abstract: A method for access control includes: determining a result of listen-before-talk (LBT) detection on a to-be-detected channel, wherein the to-be-detected channel is an unlicensed channel for sending a random access preamble; increasing a preamble transmission counter by one in response to that the result of the LBT detection indicates a failure, and determining a count value of the preamble counter; and performing radio link failure processing in response to that the count value of the preamble transmission counter reaches a maximum number of times for transmitting the preamble, wherein maximum number of times for transmitting the preamble and traffic type of a to-be-transmitted traffic have a correspondence, or service class identifier of a to-be-transmitted traffic have a correspondence.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Wei Hong
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Patent number: 11949628Abstract: Technologies to improve wireless communications by on-body products are described. One device includes millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency front-end circuitry and a baseband processor with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) physical (PHY) layer. The baseband processor determines received signal strength indicator (RSSI) value and phase value associated with a wireless channel in a mmWave frequency range. The baseband processor determines a state of motion of the device using the RSSI value and the phase value. The baseband processor sends data to the second device using a first subcarrier structure of the OFDM PHY layer, in response to the state of motion being a first state of motion. The baseband processor sends data to the second device using a second subcarrier structure of the OFDM physical layer, in response to the state motion being a second state of motion having more motion than the first state of motion.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Cyril Arokiaraj Arool Emmanuel, Balamurugan Shanmugam
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Patent number: 11943769Abstract: Aspects relate to mechanisms for wireless communication devices to update transmission configuration indicator states (TCI-states), spatial relation (SR) indicators (SRIs), or pathloss reference signals (PL-RSs) for a group of two or more component carriers (CCs) for multi-component carrier communication. A radio access network (RAN) node may generate a message indicating one or more TCI-states, one or more SRs, or one or more PL-RSs to utilize for multi-CC communication. The message may include an index identifying a group of two or more CCs of a plurality of access CCs or a plurality of sidelink CCs associated with the one or more TCI-states, the one or more SRs, or the one or more PL-RSs. A user equipment (UE) may receive the message and update the one or more TCI-states, the one or more SRs, or the one or more PL-RSs for the group of two or more CC for the multi-CC communication based on the message.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Jung Ho Ryu, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo
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Patent number: 11943159Abstract: Certain aspects are directed to a user equipment (UE) configured to receive reference signals from a network node via multiple resource element groups (REGs) including at least one REG carrying a downlink transmission. In some examples, the UE may be configured to receive, from the network node, communication parameters for a downlink transmission, the communication parameters indicative of a first resource element group (REG) bundle and a second REG bundle. In some examples, the UE may receive the downlink transmission via the first REG bundle. In some examples, the UE may be configured to perform channel estimation of the downlink transmission based on reference signals transmitted via the first REG bundle and the second REG bundle.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kazuki Takeda, Peter Gaal, Mostafa Khoshnevisan
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Patent number: 11936586Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine an asymmetric sequence of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for repeating a message or an asymmetric sequence of spatial relations for repeating the message. The UE may repeat the message according to the asymmetric sequence of TCI states or spatial relations. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo, Yan Zhou
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Patent number: 11929954Abstract: There is provided a communication system in which a base station apparatus communicates with a terminal apparatus and a communication apparatus flexibly designed to address diverse use cases so as to significantly enhance the transmission efficiency of the system as a whole. The communication apparatus includes an acquisition section that acquires information from an apparatus in wireless communication, and a control section that selects either orthogonal multiple access communication or non-orthogonal multiple access communication for communication with the apparatus on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition section.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima
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Patent number: 11930504Abstract: A data transmission method and a terminal device are disclosed, which may solve the data transmission problems of a sidelink when the size of a time unit of a downlink and the size of a time unit of the sidelink are not the same. The method includes that a terminal device receives first control information sent by a network device, and determines a sending time for sidelink data according to the first control information.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventors: Qianxi Lu, Huei-Ming Lin
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Patent number: 11924741Abstract: The present application relates to an auxiliary routing method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device sending first indication information to a network device, so that the network device selects a first network function entity according to the first indication information, wherein the first network function entity is related to one or more specified functions. By means of the embodiments of the present application, a routing mechanism for a network function entity can be optimized.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Jiangsheng Fan
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Patent number: 11924130Abstract: For determining reference signal locations, a method determines a number of Transmission Time Intervals (TTI) in a scheduled transmission of a plurality of TTI. The method further determines one or more reference signal locations based on the number of TTI and one or more of a parameter received from a higher layer wherein the higher layer is higher than a physical layer, a subframe index, a subband size, and a Time Division Duplex (TDD) configuration for the scheduled transmission.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Hossein Bagheri, Ravikiran Nory, Vijay Nangia
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Patent number: 11924145Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to estimate a signal-to-noise ratio for each antenna port associated with a reception of one or more tracking reference signals. The UE may receive one or more of multiple single-port tracking reference signals, a single multi-port tracking reference signal, or a tracking reference signal associated with multiple power ratios. The UE may be able to estimate a channel upon receiving a demodulation reference signal. The channel estimation may be based on the reception of one or more of multiple single-port tracking reference signals, the single multi-port tracking reference signal, or the tracking reference signal associated with multiple power ratios. The UE may communicate with the base station based on estimating the channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Weimin Duan, Alexandros Manolakos, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Joseph Binamira Soriaga
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Patent number: 11916837Abstract: A distributed station includes receiver circuitry which, in operation, receives information regarding wireless device switching from a terminal via a first wireless device, and controller circuitry which, in operation, determines, based on the information, switching from the first wireless device to a second wireless device and bandwidth part (BWP) aggregation in the second wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori Matsuo, Yuta Seki
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Patent number: 11917429Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may transmit, to an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) donor central unit (CU), information indicating a cell served by the network node and associated with another CU. The network node may receive, from the IAB donor CU, a distributed unit (DU) cell resource configuration for the cell. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 11916839Abstract: There are provided a user equipment, a base station, and a communication thereof. The UE operative for sidelink transmission based on base station scheduling, comprising: a receiver, operative to receive first control information from a base station; determination circuitry, operative to determine whether a shortened time interval is used for a signaling interaction of the user equipment and the base station for sidelink transmission according to the received first control information; and a transmitter, operative to transmit second control information to the base station during the signaling interaction using the shortened time interval after the determination circuitry determines that the shortened time interval is used for the signaling interaction for sidelink transmission; wherein a length of the shortened time interval is less than a length of a standard time interval.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11902203Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE). The UE obtains, from a network device, a first configuration information. The first configuration information indicates a first resource set for an aperiodic Sounding Reference Signal (AP-SRS). The first resource set for the AP-SRS includes a first list of slot offsets. The UE decodes a second configuration information from the network device. The second configuration information indicates a reference slot and a first slot offset of the first list of slot offsets. The UE generates the AP-SRS for transmission to the network device based on the reference slot and the first slot offset.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 11902875Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the terminal device comprising: a transmitter; a receiver; and a controller operable to: select a first relay node from a plurality of relay nodes and control the transmitter and receiver to exchange signals with a base station via the first relay node; measure a signal characteristic associated with the first relay node and compare the measured signal characteristic with a predetermined threshold value; if the measured signal characteristic is greater than the predetermined threshold value, control the transmitter and receiver to continue to exchange signals with the base station via the first relay node; and if the measured signal characteristic is less than the predetermined threshold value, perform a procedure for allowing selection of a second relay node from the plurality of relay nodes via which the transmitter and receiver may exchange signals with the base station.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Brian Alexander Martin