Patents Examined by Eva Y Puente
  • Patent number: 11329687
    Abstract: A system includes: a host processor; a transceiver coupled to the host processor; and a power amplifier coupled to an output of the transceiver. The transceiver includes a transmit chain with digital pre-distortion (DPD) logic configured to: perform DPD correction operations on transmit data received by the transmit chain; and output corrected transmit data based on the performed DPD correction operations, wherein the output corrected transmit data is provided to the power amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Francesco Dantoni, Jawaharlal Tangudu, Sarma Sundareswara Gunturi, Robert Clair Keller
  • Patent number: 11329668
    Abstract: A method performed by an encoder of a base station system, for handling a data stream for transmission over a transmission connection between a remote unit and a base unit of the base station system, the remote unit being arranged to transmit wireless signals to, and receive from, mobile stations. The method comprises quantizing a plurality of IQ samples, converting the quantized plurality of IQ samples to IQ predictions, calculating per sample a difference between the quantized plurality of IQ samples and the IQ predictions in order to create IQ prediction errors. The method further comprises quantizing the IQ predictions or the IQ prediction errors, entropy encoding the IQ prediction errors and sending the entropy encoded IQ prediction errors over the transmission connection to a decoder of the base station system. The method can be performed by a decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Miguel Berg, Chenguang Lu, Per Ola Börjesson, Daniel Cederholm, Elmar Trojer
  • Patent number: 11323221
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a method for receiving reference signal and a method for sending a reference signal. In those embodiments, a terminal device can determine a location of a resource element to which a reference signal is mapped. The terminal device can determine a reference signal sequence corresponding to the resource element. The index of each element in the reference signal sequence is determined based on a resource block index of a resource block corresponding to the resource element, a quantity of resource elements that carry the reference signal in the resource block, a resource block offset, or an inter-symbol offset. The terminal device can receive the reference signal by using the resource element, and performing channel estimation or channel sounding based on the received reference signal and the reference signal sequence. Therefore, the terminal device can complete channel estimation without learning of a system bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zheng Chen, Jianguo Wang, Xu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11323222
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and an apparatus. The communication method includes: receiving, by user equipment, first indication information from a network device, where the first indication information indicates a first resource; determining, by the user equipment, a second resource, where the second resource and the first resource belong to a same resource set configured by the network device, and the first resource and the second resource are used to transmit a first downlink reference signal; and receiving, by the user equipment on a third resource, a second signal and/or channel transmitted by using a third antenna port, where the third antenna port has a quasi co-location QCL relationship with a second antenna port used when the first downlink reference signal is transmitted on the second resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Qin, Shengyue Dou, Peng Guan
  • Patent number: 11316597
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes: receiving, by an adjustable frequency doubling circuit, a first clock signal having a first clock frequency; using the adjustable frequency doubling circuit, generating a second clock signal having a second clock frequency that is twice the first clock frequency; measuring a duty cycle parameter of the second clock signal, where the duty cycle parameter is dependent on a duty cycle of the first clock signal or a duty cycle of the second clock signal; and using the adjustable frequency doubling circuit, adjusting the duty cycle of the first clock signal or the second clock signal based on the measuring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Albel, Michael Aichner, Reinhard-Wolfgang Jungmaier, Dennis Noppeney, Christoph Rumpler, Saverio Trotta
  • Patent number: 11310083
    Abstract: A method and a system for selecting important delay taps of channel impulse response are provided, which belong to the field of adaptive transmission technology of wireless communication. The method performs local predictability estimation on all delay taps in the channel impulse response in wireless communication, thereby selecting the important delay taps in the channel impulse response. The disclosure uses recurrence rates of the delay taps to estimate local predictability of the delay taps. Noise delay taps are distinguished from the important delay taps through the local predictability of the delay taps, which improves the identification rate of the important delay taps of the channel impulse response in wireless communication. The disclosure may implement the selection of the important delay taps of the channel impulse response, which provides guarantee for implementing adaptive transmission and adaptive coding of wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventors: Yigang He, Yongbo Sui, Liulu He, Chaolong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11303410
    Abstract: A data transmission method includes: generating a scrambling sequence in accordance with one or more first parameters, the one or more first parameters being determined in accordance with a predefined applied scenario and/or high-layer indication information; scrambling DCI using the generated scrambling sequence; and transmitting the scrambled DCI to a UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qianyao Ren, Zichao Ji, Xiaodong Shen, Na Li
  • Patent number: 11303408
    Abstract: A reference signal transmission and reception method is presented. The transmission method includes: transmitting a plurality of first reference signals; and transmitting a plurality of groups of second reference signals, where each first reference signal corresponds to one of the plurality of groups of second reference signal, and the group of second reference signals includes a plurality of second reference signals, where a part of reference signals in the group of second reference signals include quasi co-located information, and the quasi co-located information indicates a correlation between resources for the group of second reference signals including the quasi co-located information and resources for the first reference signal corresponding to the group of second reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Min Liu, Chongning Na, Xin Wang, Jing Wang, Yuichi Kakishima, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11290160
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting, by a user equipment, feedback information to a base station in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving, from the base station, information about reference signal port group sets composed of one or more reference signal port groups; selecting at least one reference signal port group set among the reference signal port group sets; under assuming that a specific precoder has applied to the selected at least one reference signal port group set, calculating channel state information (CSI) corresponding to the selected at least one reference signal port group set; and transmitting, to the base station, the feedback information including an indicator indicating the selected at least one reference signal port group set and the channel state information; wherein the one or more reference signal port groups are composed of reference signal ports to which the same precoder is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jiwon Kang, Hyungtae Kim, Kijun Kim, Jonghyun Park
  • Patent number: 11290235
    Abstract: A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system includes: receiving, from a base station, configuration information associated with a channel state information (CSI) report including at least one information associated with a CSI resource setting; receiving, from the base station, information associated with channel occupancy duration; determining whether at least one symbol for receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) is within channel occupancy duration, based on the at least one information associated with the CSI resource setting and the received information associated with the channel occupancy duration; receiving, from the base station, at least one CSI-RS on the at least one symbol, based on a result of the determining; and when the CSI report is determined to be transmitted, transmitting, to the base station, the CSI report based on the configuration information associated with the CSI report and the received at least one CSI-RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoondong Noh, Jinyoung Oh, Hyoungju Ji
  • Patent number: 11290170
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein may enable a receiving device to receive high frequency signals with a simpler receiver to reduce the overall complexity and cost associated with the receiver. In one aspect, an apparatus receives a reference signal from a second wireless device. The apparatus measures amplitude and phase of the reference signal relative to a set point. The apparatus transmits channel flattening information in a precoding feedback to the second wireless device, the precoding feedback including at least a difference between the amplitude of the reference signal and the set point for a sub-band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ran Berliner, Shay Landis, Yehonatan Dallal, Assaf Touboul
  • Patent number: 11283565
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: a higher layer processing unit configured to configure multiple channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources and assistance information; a transmitter configured to transmit CSI-RSs by using the multiple CSI-RS resources; and a receiver configured to receive, from the terminal apparatus, information (CRI) indicating one CSI-RS resource of the multiple CSI-RS resources. The assistance information is information for assisting the terminal apparatus in cancelling or suppressing neighbor cell interference, and one or more of the assistance information is configured for the CRI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignees: FG Innovation Company Limited, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryota Yamada, Hiromichi Tomeba
  • Patent number: 11277236
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for mutually transmitting or receiving a downlink signal by a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system and a device for supporting the same. More particularly, disclosed are a method for transmitting or receiving a signal and a device for supporting the same, in which when a subcarrier interval rapidly changes in a continuous time area, such as a multi-media broadcast multicast service single frequency network (MBSFN), a receiver can more reliably receive a signal (for example: a data signal) transmitted in a resource area where the subcarrier interval has rapidly changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jaehyung Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Hyunsoo Ko, Byounghoon Kim, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11277240
    Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from an improved transmission of a sounding reference signal. For example, certain communication systems may benefit from an enhanced sounding reference signal transmission via antenna switching or repetition. A method, in certain embodiments, may include receiving a signaling indication at a user equipment from a network entity. The signaling indication may indicate a configuration for sounding reference signal transmission via at least one of antenna switching or repetition using a resource group. The resource group may comprise a plurality of resources that are either adjacent or have a limited time interval between at least two of the plurality of resources within the resource group. The method may also include transmitting the sounding reference signal from the user equipment to the network entity via at least one of the antenna switching or the repetition using the resource group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Yuantao Zhang, Mihai Enescu
  • Patent number: 11271698
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a device for sending a reference signal, and a method and device for configuring a reference signal. The method for sending the reference signal includes: determining that a conflict occurs between at least two reference signals, and selecting a processing manner for solving the conflict between the at least two reference signals from multiple conflict processing manners; and sending at least one reference signal in the at least two reference signals to a terminal according to the selected processing manner to instruct the terminal to measure the at least one reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yijian Chen, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Ngok Li, Hao Wu, Nan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11271601
    Abstract: Systems and methods for pre-distortion pattern recognition are provided. In certain embodiments, the system includes an electronic device that provides an output signal, wherein the electronic device applies distortion to the output signal. The system also includes a pre-distorter that provides an input signal to the electronic device, wherein the pre-distorter applies a pre-distortion to the input signal before the electronic device receives the input signal. Further, the system includes a pre-distorter design block that identifies the distortion from an association between the output signal and a finite set of symbols and updates the pre-distortion based on the association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Pachner, Vladimir Havlena
  • Patent number: 11265197
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for synchronization signal block (SSB) design are described to enable a base station to configure and transmit an SSB with a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) below a threshold. A low-PAPR SSB configuration may include a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS). A user equipment (UE) may use the low-PAPR SSB configuration to monitor for and decode the SSB and begin communications with the base station. A low-PAPR SSB configuration may indicate available PSS sequences and lengths. A low-PAPR SSB configuration may also indicate multiplexing and symbol arrangements for a PBCH, DMRS, and SSS, and low-PAPR communications methods. A configuration may further indicate reference signal configurations, information for different communication types, subcarrier spacing, a number of symbols of an SSB, or a number of available SSBs and associated groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Sinnivas Yerramalli, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11265124
    Abstract: A method, wireless device (100) and network node (200) for performing sounding reference signal, SRS, transmission According to one aspect a method includes receiving a definition of one or more SRS resource sets to be configured, comprising at least one SRS transmission setting. The method further includes receiving an indication of a selected SRS resource set to use for a SRS transmission, from the one or more configured SRS resource sets and determining a precoding configuration for the SRS transmission based on the selected SRS resource set and the at least one SRS transmission setting. The method also includes transmitting a SRS according to the determined precoding configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Andreas Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11258506
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for receiving and processing multiple carriers with multiple antennas. The device includes a plurality of antennas for receiving signals over a plurality of carriers, and a plurality of receive chains connected to each antenna for processing a signal received on each antenna. The signal received on each antenna is split into multiple receive chains for receive processing. The antennas are grouped into a plurality of sub-groups and a signal on a first carrier is received on a first sub-group of antennas and a signal on a second carrier is received on a second sub-group of antennas. A signal on a third carrier may be received on all antennas. Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) on the first and second carriers may be implemented using the first and second sub-group of antennas, respectively, and MIMO on the third carrier may be implemented using all antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Harald Pretl, Werner Schelmbauer, Josef Holzleitner
  • Patent number: 11245448
    Abstract: An antenna connection detection method and apparatus are provided, to detect whether a connection sequence between communications interfaces of a network side device and antenna elements is incorrect. The method includes that a network side device receives, by using antenna elements connected to a plurality of communications interfaces, reference signals sent by N terminal devices, where N is an integer greater than 0. Then, the network side device determines N channel correlation matrices based on the reference signals sent by the N terminal devices, and then determines, based on the N channel correlation matrices and a preset channel correlation matrix, whether a connection sequence between the plurality of communications interfaces and the antenna elements is incorrect, where one channel correlation matrix is used to represent correlation between transmission channels between the network side device and one terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pengcheng Zhang