Patents Examined by Hardikkumar D Patel
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Patent number: 11382083Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information including resource allocation information for a sidelink and an uplink (UL) channel, wherein the sidelink is established between the UE and another UE; receiving, from the BS, downlink control information (DCI) including sidelink resource allocation information; identifying resources for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) response of the sidelink based on the configuration information and the sidelink resource allocation information; and transmitting, to the BS, the HARQ response of the sidelink via physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Li Guo
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Patent number: 11375453Abstract: An interface circuit in an electronic device (such as an access point) may receive a setup request associated with the recipient electronic device. The setup request may specify a group address for which the recipient electronic device wants to receive associated frames and a proposed transmission interval. Based at least in part on the proposed transmission interval, the electronic device may determine a transmission schedule and/or may assign, based at least in part on the group address, the recipient electronic device to an aggregated group having a flexible multicast service identifier (FMSID). Then, the electronic device may provide a wake-up frame for the recipient electronic device, where the wake-up frame includes an identifier of the aggregated group for which a group-addressed frame will subsequently be transmitted by the electronic device. Moreover, the wake-up frame may be provided at a transmission time based at least in part on the transmission schedule.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christiaan A. Hartman, Guoqing Li, Yong Liu, Su Khiong Yong, Jarkko L. Kneckt
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Patent number: 11362957Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by a transport layer executed by a processor circuit in an apparatus, an identifiable grouping of data; storing, by the transport layer, the data as transport layer packets in a buffer circuit in the apparatus, the storing including inserting into each transport layer packet a grouping identifier that identifies the transport layer packets as belonging to the identifiable grouping; and causing, by the transport layer, a plurality of transmitting deterministic network interface circuits to deterministically retrieve the transport layer packets from the buffer circuit for deterministic transmission across respective deterministic links, the grouping identifier enabling receiving deterministic network interface circuits to group the received transport layer packets, regardless of deterministic link, into a single processing group for a next receiving transport layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Pascal Thubert, Patrick Wetterwald, Eric Michel Levy-Abegnoli, Jean-Philippe Vasseur
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Patent number: 11362867Abstract: A system, method and apparatus that includes two or more sensor nodes that obtain sensed data from a structure. A controller receives the sensed data from the sensor nodes, via a network formed by the sensor nodes and the controller. The controller controls functionality of each of the sensor nodes, controls time synchronization among the sensor nodes, detects information collected by the sensor nodes, and communicates, utilizing an M-ary time-reversal based protocol, the detected information using a planar surface of the structure as the transmission medium for elastic waves.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: University of Maryland Eastern ShoreInventors: Yuanwei Jin, Tonmo Vanessa Carine Fepeussi
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Patent number: 11336751Abstract: A method operates a field bus system, wherein the field bus system has: a gateway, which has a network connection for a network of a specified type and a fieldbus connection for a fieldbus, and a number of fieldbus nodes, wherein the fieldbus nodes are coupled to each other and to the gateway via the fieldbus for the purpose of data exchange. Addressing takes place in the network of the specified type by network addresses, wherein the network addresses have a first part which designates a destination address, and a second part which designates a port of the destination address. The method comprises the steps of: creating a bus configuration, wherein the bus configuration assigns a destination address to a port, and performing a network address translation using the gateway based on the bus configuration created.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Lenze Automation GmbHInventors: Andre Lange, Sebastian Luelsdorf
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Patent number: 11329927Abstract: An apparatus includes a message receiver circuit that receives, at a port of a network node, a message from a neighboring network node. The message includes a maximum transmission unit (“MTU”) of the neighboring network node. The network nodes communicate using a layer-2 protocol. The apparatus includes a comparison circuit that determines if the received MTU is larger than an MTU for the port, and an approval circuit that, after determining that the received MTU is larger than the port's MTU, determines if the received MTU is supported by the network node. The method includes an increase circuit that, after determining that the received MTU is supported, changes the MTU of the network node's ports to match the received MTU, and a message circuit that, after determining that the received MTU is supported, sends a message with the MTU to network nodes connected to ports of the network node.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Corneliu-Ilie Calciu, George-Andrei Stanescu, Radu M. Iorga, Bogdan Chifor
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Patent number: 11329790Abstract: Various designs for implementing bandwidth part (BWP) full-duplex (FD) are discussed. A base station serving a plurality of user equipments (UEs) over a component carrier bandwidth (CC BW) receives a reference signal from a UE while transmitting downlink traffic to another UE over a part of the CC BW. The base station determines, based on the reference signal, a level of interference on transmissions over the part of the CC BW, and, based at least in part on interference cancelation capabilities of the base station and the level of interference, at least one portion of the CC BW for full-duplex operations. The base station activates full-duplex operations for the at least one portion of the CC BW, which includes receiving from the UE while transmitting to another UE over the same portion of the CC BW. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Naga Bhushan, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tingfang Ji, Joseph Patrick Burke
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Patent number: 11329786Abstract: A communication apparatus transmits a first packet to each of a plurality of other communication apparatuses, and transmits a Multi-User Block Acknowledgement Request (MU-BAR) for causing the other communication apparatus among the plurality of other communication apparatuses, from which an Acknowledgement (ACK) to the first packet is not received at a predetermined timing after the transmission of the first packet, to transmit the ACK.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Fumihide Goto
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Patent number: 11323907Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for addressing relation round trip time (RTT) positioning and timing advance (TA) command with user equipment (UE) receive-transmit (Rx-Tx) measurement reporting in wireless network such as in new radio (NR).Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Sven Fischer, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tingfang Ji
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Patent number: 11316625Abstract: There is disclosed a user equipment, UE, for a Radio Access Network, the UE being adapted for sidelink communication on a sidelink, the UE further being adapted for transmitting acknowledgement signaling pertaining to sidelink data. The sidelink data includes one or more data elements and the acknowledgement signaling has a signaling format comprising one or more acknowledgement substructures. Each of the substructures carries acknowledgement information pertaining to one of the data elements. Further, each of the acknowledgment substructures is mapped to a different one of the data elements based on at least one acknowledgement position indication provided in control signaling received by the UE. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Erik Dahlman, Sorour Falahati, Stefan Parkvall
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Patent number: 11317443Abstract: Subband based uplink access for new radio (NR) shared spectrum (NR-SS) is disclosed. A base station performs a listen before talk (LBT) procedure on system allocated subbands of a shared communication channel. The base station determines a first set of candidate subbands that are signaled to a user equipment (UE). The UE performs an LBT procedure on the first set to identify a second set of candidate subbands including the successful LBT subbands of the first set. Aspects of the disclosure provide for managing and refining the subbands for transmissions. A first aspect provides the UE to determine a transmission behavior based on mismatch between the first and second sets. A second aspect provides the first and second sets in handshaking between the base station and UE for refining the eventual transmission set of subbands. A third aspect provides cross-band LBT reporting for further refining subband selection in later slots.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jing Lei, Jing Sun, Tamer Kadous
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Patent number: 11310805Abstract: An interleaved mapping method includes: interleaving a virtual sequence of first physical resource element bundles according to an interleaving function, wherein the first physical resource element bundles include actual physical resource element bundles and one or more virtual physical resource element bundles; marking a physical resource element bundle in the interleaved first physical resource element bundles without any corresponding actual physical resource element bundle as an invalid physical resource element bundle; determining a first correspondence of the valid physical resource element bundles in the interleaved first physical resource element bundles with respect to an actual sequence of the actual physical resource element bundles; and determining, based on the first correspondence and a second correspondence of logical resource elements with respect to the actual sequence, a mapping relationship between the logical resource elements and the actual physical resource element bundles.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuanyuan Li, Ming Zhang
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Patent number: 11310784Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of operating a wireless device. The method comprises receiving (10), from a network node, control information indicating a timing of a scheduled transmission or reception. The method further comprises determining (20) at least one slot or symbol for the scheduled transmission or reception based on the control information indicating the timing, wherein the determining is dependent on whether the wireless device is configured with a semi-static time division duplex, TDD, uplink-downlink allocation or not. The method also comprises performing (30) the scheduled transmission or reception in the determined at least one slot or symbol.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Stefan Parkvall, Robert Baldemair, Erik Dahlman
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Patent number: 11303416Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for efficient cross-carrier scheduling of multiple slots. One apparatus includes a receiver that receives, from a base unit, a first control signal that indicates a maximum number of hybrid automatic repeat request (“HARQ”) processes. The receiver also receives a second control signal on a first carrier from the base unit that schedules a first number of slots on a second carrier. The apparatus includes a processor that aggregates every two or more of the scheduled first number of slots into a single HARQ process in response to the first number being larger than the maximum number of HARQ processes.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventors: Haipeng Lei, Xiaodong Yu, Zhi Yan, Lianhai Wu, Robert Tristan Love, Ravi Kuchibhotla
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Patent number: 11290946Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for obtaining supplementary system information, and a corresponding user equipment (UE), and base station. A method used in the UE according to the present invention comprises: sending a system information request message to a base station to request required supplementary system information, and starting a timer simultaneously; and receiving the requested supplementary system information within a time window defined by the timer.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignees: FG Innovation Company Limited, Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fangying Xiao, Shohei Yamada, Renmao Liu
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Patent number: 11283560Abstract: A method of receiving data at a communications device from an infrastructure equipment forming part of a radio network part of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving at the communications device one or more downlink transport blocks, estimating the data carried by each of the one or more downlink transport blocks by performing an error correction decoding in accordance with the error correction encoding applied by the infrastructure equipment.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong, Basuki Priyanto
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Patent number: 11283583Abstract: Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication methods related to resource determination for UCI in case of BWP switching in NR. A user equipment comprises: a receiver operative to receive, from a base station in a slot, a Downlink Control Information (DCI) for Bandwidth Part (BWP) switching from a first BWP to a second BWP; circuitry operative to drop a Uplink Control Information (UCI) to be transmitted in a BWP switching period of the first BWP, and to determine the earliest available slot of the second BWP or a third BWP, the BWP switching period being from the slot where the DCI for BWP switching is received until starting the second BWP to which the first BWP is switched according to the DCI; and a transmitter operative to transmit the dropped UCI in the determined earliest available slot of the second BWP or the third BWP to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Tetsuya Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11283571Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a sounding reference signal (SRS) on a plurality of antenna ports. The UE may transmit the SRS on one or more virtual antenna ports, the one or more virtual antenna ports being based at least in part on the plurality of antenna ports. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Gokul Sridharan, Alexandros Manolakos, Yi Huang, Wanshi Chen, Wei Yang, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
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Patent number: 11272507Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A UE may monitor a first bandwidth part for communications from one or more transceiver nodes. The UE may receive a control message on the first bandwidth part from a first transceiver node that includes an indication of a second bandwidth part different from the first bandwidth part. The UE may determine whether the second bandwidth part is associated with each of the transceiver nodes. The UE may communicate with a second transceiver node on the second bandwidth part based on the control message and on a determination that the second bandwidth part is associated with the second transceiver node.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Huilin Xu, Wanshi Chen, Alexandros Manolakos, Heechoon Lee
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Patent number: 11265187Abstract: For a multi-tenant environment, some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for (1) embedding a specific path for a tenant's data message flow through a network in tunnel headers encapsulating the data message flow, and then (2) using the embedded path information to direct the data message flow through the network. In some embodiments, the method selects the specific path from two or more viable such paths through the network for the data message flow.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: NICIRA, INC.Inventors: Sami Boutros, Ankur Dubey, Mike Parsa, Israel Cidon, Prashanth Venugopal