Patents Examined by Eric Nowlin
  • Patent number: 11968683
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for receiving, at a user equipment, a scheduling grant for a first number, M, of transport blocks, wherein the scheduling grant comprises an indication of a second number, N, of transport blocks to be transmitted or received before a time delay, wherein M is greater than 1 and N is less than or equal to M, causing transmission or reception of a first group of N transport blocks and, if N is less than M, after the time delay, causing transmission or reception of a further group of up to N transport blocks followed by the time delay, until M transport blocks are caused to be transmitted or received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Rapeepat Ratasuk, Srinivasan Selvaganapathy, Haitao Li, Nitin Mangalvedhe
  • Patent number: 11968690
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided in a wireless communication system. Mini slot length information indicating mini slot length in a number of symbols is received from a base station via higher layer signaling. Downlink control information (DCI) including a number of mini slots for a hybrid automatic repeat and request (HARQ) feedback transmission is received from the base station. A mini slot for the HARQ feedback transmission is identified based on the mini slot length information and the number of mini slots for the HARQ feedback transmission. The HARQ feedback information is transmitted to the base station on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) based on the identified mini slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Taehyoung Kim, Jeongho Yeo, Youngbum Kim, Seunghoon Choi, Heedon Gha, Taehan Bae
  • Patent number: 11962521
    Abstract: In order to enable control related to radio communication to be performed more appropriately when radio transmission schemes coexist, a radio communication apparatus according to an example aspect of the present invention includes a radio communication processing unit configured to perform communication using a first radio transmission scheme within a frequency band, wherein the radio communication processing unit is configured to perform communication using a second radio transmission scheme within a bandwidth part of the frequency band, radio resources within the bandwidth part being allocable for communication using the second radio transmission scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Patent number: 11949617
    Abstract: A method, network node and wireless device in a wireless communication system for one of transmitting and receiving a phase-tracking reference signal, PT-RS. The method includes obtaining information about a position in a time domain of a scheduled first demodulation reference signal, DM-RS, in a slot, and one of transmitting and receiving the PT-RS within the slot, the position of the PT-RS depending on the position in the time domain of the scheduled first DM-RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Zhao Wang, Lars Lindbom, Vicent Molés Cases, Karl Werner
  • Patent number: 11937253
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure provide a method for determining a scheduling parameter, a method for configuring a scheduling parameter, a terminal, and a network-side device. The method for determining a scheduling parameter is applied to a terminal and includes: determining a scheduling offset threshold for current use according to a preset rule when a carrier or BWP on which a PDCCH is located and a carrier or BWP on which a PDSCH scheduled by the PDCCH is located have different numerologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Yang, Peng Sun
  • Patent number: 11937242
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication method and device. Frequency-domain resource allocation and/or bandwidth part configuration is flexibly performed on a terminal device in conjunction with a synchronous signal block, and the performance of a communication system can be raised. The method comprises: a network device receiving a first message sent by a terminal device, the first message being used for indicating a first synchronous signal block detected by the terminal device; and according to the first synchronous signal block, the network device performing frequency-domain resource allocation and/or bandwidth part configuration on the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11937327
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a method performed by the UE are provided. The method includes transitioning from a radio resource control (RRC) inactive (RRC_INACTIVE) state to an RRC idle (RRC_IDLE) state upon determining that the UE has failed to find a suitable cell and camped on an acceptable cell; and discarding a radio access network (RAN) notification area (RNA) configuration that comprises at least one of a list of tracking area identities (IDs) or a list of RAN area IDs in response to the transitioning from the RRC_INACTIVE state to the RRC_IDLE state. The acceptable cell fulfills a minimum set of requirements to initiate an emergency call and to receive one or more Earthquake & Tsunami Warning System (ETWS) and Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) notifications. The suitable cell provides normal services. The acceptable cell provides limited services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Mei-Ju Shih, Yung-Lan Tseng, Hung-Chen Chen, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Patent number: 11930531
    Abstract: A base station may transmit, to a wireless device, configuration parameters of a first bandwidth part (BWP) and a second BWP of an unlicensed cell. The base station may determine, for the wireless device and with the first BWP being an active BWP, a first number of consecutive listen before talk (LBT) procedures, for a first channel of the active BWP, performed based on a contention window being a maximum contention window of a plurality of contention windows corresponding to the first channel. Based on switching from the first BWP to the second BWP as the active BWP, the base station may determine, for the wireless device, a second number of consecutive LBT procedures, for a second channel of the active BWP, performed based on the contention window being the maximum contention window of a plurality of contention windows corresponding to the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Hua Zhou, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11929831
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive information indicating whether hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback is disabled for one or more HARQ processes. The UE may receive a downlink communication. The downlink communication may include a HARQ process identifier that indicates a HARQ process to be used for the downlink communication. The UE may selectively provide HARQ feedback for the downlink communication based at least in part on the HARQ identifier and information indicating whether HARQ feedback is disabled for the HARQ process. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bharat Shrestha, Umesh Phuyal, Xiao Feng Wang, Alberto Rico Alvarino
  • Patent number: 11929857
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a first frame including first information required for uplink multi-user transmission without receiving a transmission request for the first information; and a receiver configured to receive a second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: International Semiconductor Group
    Inventor: Tomoko Adachi
  • Patent number: 11924679
    Abstract: A RAN node includes means for receiving a N2 message containing a list of S-NSSAI of the congested network slice from an AMF and means for sending the list of S-NSSAI and a wait timer for each S-NSSAI in the list in first AN signaling message to an UE when receiving, from the UE, second signaling message containing the list of S-NSSAI to establish an AN signaling connection, the S-NSSAI being indicated in the N2 message as congested by the AMF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kundan Tiwari, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Patent number: 11916850
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method receives a downstream signal and an upstream signal in a same frequency band. The downstream signal and the upstream signal are separated into a first path and a second path. The downstream signal using the first path and the upstream signal using the second path are amplified in an analog domain. The method isolates the downstream signal and the upstream signal from one another and sends the downstream signal downstream to a subscriber device and sends the upstream signal towards a full duplex node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: David B. Bowler, Clarke V. Greene, Ayham Al-Banna
  • Patent number: 11910207
    Abstract: A method and User Equipment (UE) for estimating locations of obstacles to signal transmission in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The method involves at the UE in communication with the network, in response to receiving a reference signal from a neighboring node via a non-line-of-sight (NLoS) transmission, transmitting an identification of the neighboring node to network equipment implementing the wireless communications network to facilitate estimating locations of the obstacles to signal transmission based on estimates of the location of the UE and the neighboring node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Navid Tadayon, Alireza Bayesteh
  • Patent number: 11910408
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support sidelink cancellation for out of coverage user equipment. Described techniques provide for signaling of cancellation indications to a user equipment (UE) or a group of UEs to refrain from performing sidelink communications on a set of resources. A base station may transmit a cancellation indication to one or more sidelink UEs via an access link that indicates that an allocation of one or more resources for sidelink communications has been canceled. A first UE may receive the cancellation indication from the base station via the access link and transmit a sidelink communication to one or more other UEs that indicates the canceled resource allocation. Based on the sidelink communication of the cancellation indication from the first UE, the one or more other UEs may refrain from transmitting using the canceled resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaojie Wang, Piyush Gupta, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11909417
    Abstract: A data processing method and apparatus. The data process method includes: determining, by a transmitting node, a code block length N0 for encoding an information bit sequence to be transmitted according to a data characteristic for representing the information bit sequence to be transmitted and a preset parameter corresponding to the data characteristic; performing, by the transmitting node, polar encoding on the information bit sequence to be transmitted according to the code block length N0; and transmitting, by the transmitting node, a code block obtained through the polar encoding to a receiving node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Saijin Xie, Jun Xu, Jin Xu, Mengzhu Chen
  • Patent number: 11902201
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method, performed by a user equipment (UE), of transmitting or receiving signals in a wireless communication system, and in an embodiment, the UE transmits, to a base station (BS), UE capability information regarding sequence initialization of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), receives, from the BS, DMRS configuration information determined based on the UE capability information, and receives the DMRS from the BS based on the DMRS configuration information, wherein the DMRS is generated based on a sequence initialization parameter determined based on a code division multiplexing (CDM) group identifier included in the DMRS configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoondong Noh, Youngwoo Kwak
  • Patent number: 11889515
    Abstract: A service device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), a new radio NR (gNB), or other network component) as a service provider/consumer can process or generate sidelink communications based on a downlink control information (DCI) for one or more sidelink configured grants that enables resource allocation for the sidelink communication. The device can determine whether to activate, release/deactivate, or request a retransmission for the one or more sidelink configured grants based on one or more fields of a DCI format 3_0 configuration of the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Haitong Sun, Yuchul Kim, Hong He, Jie Cui, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11876750
    Abstract: A communication technique for convergence between a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system and a technology for Internet of Things (IoT), and a system thereof, are provided. The communication technique and system may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, etc.) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. A method and apparatus for determining a channel access procedure in a wireless communication system are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinyoung Oh, Jonghyun Bang, Jeongho Yeo, Hyunseok Ryu, Sungjin Park, Cheolkyu Shin
  • Patent number: 11877185
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) packet duplication may be configured for a bearer of a wireless device. The bearer may use various cells to send packets. A base station central unit and/or a base station distributed unit may configure the cells for the bearer based on various types of information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11876616
    Abstract: Various examples relate to a wired local area network (WLAN) including a shared transmission medium. An apparatus includes a beacon counter and an operational mode controller. The beacon counter is operably coupled to a line of a shared transmission medium of a wired local area network. The beacon counter is to count beacon signals on the line and determine a beacon count over a predetermined time period, or a beacon rate of the beacon signals. The operational mode controller is to control the apparatus to take over operation as a master node of the wired local area network based, at least in part, on a maximum bus cycle length of bus cycles on the line and responsive to the beacon count or the beacon rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Rentschler, Martin Miller, Thorben Link, Venkat Iyer