Patents Examined by Fred Casca
  • Patent number: 11974144
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication regarding one or more signals associated with beam management, the indication indicating one or more future time periods for which the UE may not receive one or more transmissions of the one or more signals. The UE may configure a beam management configuration of the UE based at least in part on the indication. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11973547
    Abstract: Proposed are a method and device for receiving a feedback frame in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a first STA transmits an NDPA frame to a second STA. The first STA transmits an NDP frame to the second STA. The first STA receives, from the second STA, a feedback frame transmitted on the basis of the NDP frame. The feedback frame includes information about a beamforming feedback matrix. The information about the beamforming feedback matrix includes a first bit for the index difference between quantized phi of adjacent subcarriers, and a second bit for the index difference between quantized psi of the adjacent subcarriers. The adjacent subcarriers are two adjacent subcarriers starting with the first subcarrier among all of the subcarriers. The first subcarrier is either the left edge subcarrier or the right edge subcarrier. The quantized phi and psi are information about beamforming angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunwoong Yun, Jinmin Kim, Eunsung Park, Dongguk Lim, Jinsoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11968647
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for facilitating downlink control information (DCI) repetition on linked physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates of different search space sets. For example, certain embodiments may provide a procedure for a network node or a user equipment (UE) to determine a set of PDCCH candidates for determining starting time and ending time instances for the PDCCH transmission utilizing the repetition of the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Sami-Jukka Hakola, Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu, Matha Deghel
  • Patent number: 11963026
    Abstract: A graphical user interface for use with one or more radios in a network can include any number of interfaces for providing access to features associated with one or more radios or the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SILVUS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Neema Daneshvar, Ajit Warrier, Chris Nersesyan, Jimi Henderson, Weijun Zhu
  • Patent number: 11956038
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, performed by a network node in a wireless network, for positioning a user equipment (UE) based on beams transmitted by the wireless network. Such methods include receiving, from the UE, first positioning measurements of first reference signals (RS) transmitted by the wireless network on a first plurality of beams. Such methods include, based on the first positioning measurements and transmission directions of the first plurality of beams, determining a second plurality of beams that differs from the first plurality of beams by at least one beam (e.g., subset, superset, partially overlapping, etc.). Various ways of obtaining the second plurality of beams are disclosed. Such methods also include obtaining second positioning measurements made by the UE on the second plurality of beams. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a UE, as well as network nodes and UEs configured to perform such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ritesh Shreevastav, Deep Shrestha, Iana Siomina, Giuseppe Destino
  • Patent number: 11949493
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and its methods of use are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a mobile terminal for enabling radio communications includes a common reference device, frequency conversion circuitry, and pilot tracking circuitry and/or signal tracking circuitry. The common reference device provides a common reference signal for frequency conversions. The frequency conversion circuitry uses the common reference signal from the common reference device to perform a frequency conversion of incoming or outgoing communications. The pilot tracking circuitry determines a frequency error based on a frequency of a received pilot signal and causes an adjustment to the frequency conversion performed by the frequency conversion circuitry based on the frequency error. The signal tracking circuitry determines a frequency error signal based on the frequency of an incoming communication signal and causes an adjustment to the frequency conversion performed by the frequency conversion circuitry based on the frequency error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Sattar Atashbahar, Raymond Gamboa, Mani Jodat, Juerg Widmer, Bill Whitmarsh
  • Patent number: 11943642
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system, such as long term evolution (LTE). A method for operating a terminal in wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, system information including at least one parameter associated a paging operation, and monitoring a paging occasion (PO) that is determined based on the at least one parameter, during a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byounghoon Jung, Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 11930450
    Abstract: A wireless device transmits assistance information including first configuration parameters indicating that each cell group of cell groups is associated with a maximum number of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers for a power saving operation of the wireless device with each of the cell groups operating in a different frequency range. Second configuration parameters, for the power saving operation, are received including: a first maximum number of MIMO layers for a first bandwidth part (BWP) of a first cell group of the cell groups, and a second maximum number of MIMO layers for a second BWP of the first cell. Based on the first cell belonging to the first cell group, the first maximum number and the second maximum number are each less than or equal to the maximum number corresponding to the first cell group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Yunjung Yi, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Youngwoo Kwak, Hyukjin Chae
  • Patent number: 11924310
    Abstract: A method for Xx/Xn interface communication is disclosed, comprising: at an Xx/Xn gateway for communicating with, and coupled to, a first and a second radio access network (RAN), receiving messages from the first RAN according to a first Xx/Xn protocol and mapping the received messages to a second Xx/Xn protocol for transmission to the second RAN; maintaining state of one of the first RAN or the second RAN at the Xx/Xn gateway; executing executable code received at an interpreter at the Xx/Xn gateway as part of the received messages; altering the maintained state based on the executed executable code; and receiving and decoding an initial Xx/Xn message from the first RAN; identifying specific strings in the initial Xx/Xn message; matching the identified specific strings in a database of stored scripts; and performing a transformation on the initial Xx/Xn message, the transformation being retrieved from the database for stored scripts, the stored scripts being transformations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Kumar Mishra, Steven Paul Papa, Kaitki Agarwal, Zeev Lubenski, Jitender Arora
  • Patent number: 11914063
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for automated detection of border conflicts in physical radiofrequency (RF) communication network infrastructures. For example, proposed sector antennas in a greenfield physical network deployment may be licensed to radiate in certain spectrum blocks in the mapped licensed geographic regions (mLGR) where they are located, but the licenses may not permit radiated power in those spectrum blocks to cross into adjacent mLGRs. Embodiments compute radiation contours for the sector antennas indicating estimated local power levels computed based on antenna characteristics of the sector antennas and propagation model data that defines geographic morphologies for the mLGRs. The radiation contours are analyzed to detect any border conflict conditions where the estimated local power levels exceed defined threshold radiation levels in unlicensed regions. A culprit set of the sector antennas can be output to indicate those responsible for detected border conflict conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.
    Inventors: Aravind Anchala, Dilip Tandekar, Gurpreet Sohi, Sourabh Gupta, Neil Nocete
  • Patent number: 11916650
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a satellite communications system comprising a satellite with a spatial digital modulator for transmitting an incoming bit stream in multiple beams, wherein the spatial digital modulator is configured to generate transmit symbols by dividing the incoming bit stream into symbols of a symbol alphabet and to allocate each transmit symbol to a specific beam. The invention further relates to a method for transmitting a bit stream by such a satellite communications system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NEOSAT GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Knopp, Christian Hofmann, Robert Schwarz, Stephan Winter, Matthias Schraml
  • Patent number: 11902799
    Abstract: Point cloud data between a base station device and a terminal station device is acquired as a point cloud data group. A radius of a first Fresnel zone defined by the base station device and the terminal station device at each position where the point cloud data group is acquired is calculated. A region specified by the radius at each position where the point cloud data group is acquired is scanned to detect the point cloud data, and a non-line-of-sight region is extracted. A ratio of a total area of all the extracted non-line-of-sight regions to an area of a region constructed by the first Fresnel zone is calculated. A received power is estimated based on the calculated ratio between the areas. Whether or not there is a line of sight between the base station device and the terminal station device is determined based on the received power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuto Goto, Hideki Toshinaga, Hideyuki Tsuboi, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
  • Patent number: 11902862
    Abstract: A service type symbol may be presented on a display of a communication device to indicate a type of service supported or unsupported on the communication device over a network to which the communication device is presently connected. The communication device may determine a value of a parameter, may determine, based at least in part on the value of the parameter, a service type symbol from a set of multiple different service type symbols to present on a display of the communication device, and may present the symbol on the display. Service type symbols might include, among others, a video symbol corresponding to a video streaming service, a voice symbol corresponding to a voice calling service, a basic data symbol corresponding to a basic data service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: John Humbert, Scott Francis Migaldi, Hsin Fu Henry Chiang
  • Patent number: 11894890
    Abstract: According to a communication method of the present disclosure, a responder, after the end of transmission sector sweep (TXSS), receives from an initiator a first feedback frame including a BF training type FIELD indicating whether or not to implement a beam forming training (BFT) of a single user multi-input multi-output (SU-MIMO). If the BF training type FIELD indicates that a BFT of the SU-MIMO is to be implemented, the responder transmits to the initiator a second feedback frame based on the result of the TXSS and including a signal to noise ratio (SNR) and a sector identifier (ID) order. The initiator implements the BFT of the SU-MIMO between the initiator and the responder on the basis of the SNR and the sector ID order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Takenori Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11888576
    Abstract: A method for suppressing interference signals generated between satellite access stations of a multi-spot communication system is implemented by a distributed on-board and ground subsystem which comprises, on board a multi-spot communication payload, one or more opposition matrices, switches of an input switch assembly connected to the output of the reception sources of the reception antenna, and switches of an output selection ring connected upstream of the transmission sources of the transmission antenna, and, on the ground, a satellite access station GWt having a communication spectrum monitoring system CSM and a computer. The suppression method comprises a set of steps for testing the satellite accesses of the different stations GW, enabling each opposition matrix to be set selectively. The multi-spot space communication system incorporating the subsystem for suppressing the interference signals is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventor: Walid Karoui
  • Patent number: 11882243
    Abstract: Incoming calls are received from audio capable devices. A call processing server receives an incoming call from an audio-capable device to a destination number, and detects availability for an ancillary source device linked to the audio-capable device. A set of data is provided to the ancillary source device. The set of data specifies graphical menu options for functions supported by the call processing server. The ancillary source device provides an indication of a selection of one of the graphical menu options. In response to the indication, a call transfer for the incoming call is implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Slade
  • Patent number: 11879987
    Abstract: A method for modifying a repeat interval of a locator beacon is described. The method includes transmitting repeatedly, by a beacon transmitter, a first advertising beacon signal through a first number of transmission repetitions spaced at a first repeat interval. The method further includes transmitting repeatedly, by the beacon transmitter, a second advertising beacon signal through a second number of transmission repetitions at a second repeat interval, wherein the second advertising beacon signal includes an identifier that provides identification of the beacon transmitter and user information. The method further includes receiving a modification instruction from a user device. The modification instruction is configured to modify the first repeat interval into a third repeat interval. The method also includes transmitting repeatedly, by a beacon transmitter, the first beacon signal through the first number of transmission repetitions spaced at the third repeat interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Davis, Erik W. Jefferson, David R. Perreault, Mark A. Gellings, Christopher J. Burkhardt
  • Patent number: 11876603
    Abstract: A system and method for beam switching by a User Terminal (UT). The method includes initiating a beam switch between an old beam and a new beam when the UT is disposed in an overlap area of the old beam and the new beam; duplicating over the new beam, at a Network Access Point (NAP), user traffic to the UT; and assigning a Time Division Multiplex Access (TDMA) allocation for the UT on the new beam, prior to an arrival of the UT on the new beam, where the user traffic traversing a satellite network remains uninterrupted during the beam switch and the NAP redirects user traffic for the UT via the old beam to the new beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Humphrey, Suresh Korada, Guy Montgomery
  • Patent number: 11870481
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a full-body protection phone case for a fully protected foldable screen, comprising: a lower backboard, an upper cover plate and hinge protector assembly; the hinge protector assembly is installed on one side of the lower backboard and the upper cover plate; the hinge protector assembly comprises a hinge protection frame, fixed supports, movably threading needle pieces, connecting plates and threaded holes; the fixed supports are fixed on both sides of the hinge protection frame close to the lower backpboard and the upper cover plate; the movably threading needle pieces run through the interior of the fixed supports; the two ends of the movably threading needle pieces are rotatably connected with the connecting plates, and the side of the connecting plate is equipped with the threaded holes, the inner side of the upper cover plate is equipped with a front screen protection frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Qi Huang
  • Patent number: 11870526
    Abstract: The present application provides a wireless communication method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. One example method includes: performing, by a base station, user grouping management on all terminals in a target cell; periodically updating user groups for all terminals in the target cell; and initiating, based on the user groups, paging of different groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ling Lyu, Zhongzhi Yang, Penghe Qian