Patents Examined by Intekhaab A Siddiquee
  • Patent number: 11984972
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: generating, by an access point (AP), a first frame including P station information fields, each of which corresponds to one resource unit (RU) allocated to a first station (STA), wherein P is a positive integer greater than 1, each station information field further includes end indication information, which indicates whether the station information field is the last station information field in the P station information fields. The AP may allocate P RUs to the first STA, and indicate the P RUs to the first STA through the P station information fields in the first frame. According to the application, a resource allocation manner of the AP can be more flexible, a frequency selective gain of an OFDMA system can be effectively improved, and a system capacity can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Gan, Jia Jia, Xun Yang
  • Patent number: 11985596
    Abstract: A wireless device may receive receive one or more messages indicating a first sidelink operation mode, for a sidelink carrier, in which a base station schedules sidelink resources for a sidelink carrier, and a scheduling cell for the sidelink carrier. The wireless device may transition the scheduling cell from a normal power state to a power saving state. In response to the transitioning, the wireless device may switch from the first sidelink operation mode to a second sidelink operation mode in which the wireless device determines sidelink resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Hyukjin Chae, Taehun Kim
  • Patent number: 11985595
    Abstract: A wakeup circuit operable in a low-power wireless device is provided. The wakeup circuit includes at least one radio frequency rectifier configured to output a rising transient voltage in response to existence of a RF signal received at an antenna of the wireless device; and a detector configured to output a wakeup signal when an input voltage level of the detector is higher than a reference voltage signal, wherein a signal output by the detector upon detection of a wakeup signal causes resetting each of the at least one rectifier upon detection of the wakeup signal; and wherein the wakeup circuit is coupled to an antenna interface of the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Wiliot, Ltd.
    Inventors: Alon Yehezkely, Sagi Kupferman, Ido Yogev
  • Patent number: 11979833
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system, a terminal transmits capability information about power saving of the terminal to a base station, determines whether to apply a power saving interval based on resource allocation information received from the base station, determines a channel estimation method and a channel state information generation method based on the determining to apply the power saving interval, and provides, to the base station, channel state information obtained based on the determined channel estimation method and channel state information generation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hoondong Noh, Taehyoung Kim, Heecheol Yang, Jinhyun Park, Youngrok Jang, Hyoungju Ji
  • Patent number: 11973638
    Abstract: A base station determines that a first reference signal configured for a beam failure detection overlaps in at least one symbol with a second reference signal. Based on the first reference signal and the second reference signal not being quasi co-located, the base station transmits one of the first reference signal and the second reference signal, and drops transmission of one of the first reference signal and the second reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11968635
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may determine a terrestrial characteristic of a cell associated with the base station. A UE may perform a synchronization procedure with the cell and may receive, as part of the synchronization procedure, broadcast signaling associated with the cell. The broadcast signaling may identify the terrestrial characteristic of the cell. The base station may initiate communications with the UE based on the broadcast signaling including the indication of the terrestrial characteristic of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ayan Sengupta, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Xiao Feng Wang, Liangping Ma, Bharat Shrestha
  • Patent number: 11963220
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for selecting channel access mechanisms in wireless communications, and particularly in 3GPP NR-U. For example, an appropriate listen-before talk (LBT) channel access category (Cat) may be defined for certain messages, such as certain DL and/or UL control messages and certain RACH messages. For other messages, an appropriate Cat may be signaled by the base station, e.g., in a DCI message or SIB. Mechanisms are provided for the base station to signal to the UE certain channel access profile parameters, such as an appropriate LBT Cat, CAPC, and/or CP extension. Mechanisms are also provided for adjustment of contention window duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Chunhai Yao, Haitong Sun, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Yang Tang, Weidong Yang, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye, Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11956106
    Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to the selection and use of modulation and coding scheme (MCS) values. For example, a first MCS table may be used for a first condition and a second MCS table used for a second condition. The disclosure relates in some aspects to inter-device signaling that indicates which MCS table is to be used for communication between the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Gulati, Tien Viet Nguyen, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Libin Jiang, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 11943048
    Abstract: An Ethernet frame transmission method and a communications device are provided. The method includes: removing a specified field from an Ethernet frame; and transmitting the Ethernet frame with the specified field removed to a second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanxia Zhang, Yumin Wu
  • Patent number: 11924823
    Abstract: One example discloses a first-device: wherein the first-device is configured to be coupled to a second-device over an IEEE 802.11 communications link; and wherein the first-device is configured to, store a current setup between the first-device and the second-device; identify a unique identifier of the second-device; transmit a request frame to a third-device; wherein at least one of the second-device and third-device is a multi-link-device (MLD); wherein the request frame is configured to request an association with the third-device and includes the unique identifier of the second-device; receive a response frame from the third-device; and wherein the response frame includes an indication that request was successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Young Hoon Kwon, Liwen Chu, Hongyuan Zhang, Huiling Lou
  • Patent number: 11917614
    Abstract: An uplink control information transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a preamble that needs to be sent; determining, by the terminal device based on the preamble, a first resource set that is in a physical uplink shared channel resource and that is used to send uplink control information, where the PUSCH resource includes a plurality of resource sets; and sending, by the terminal device, the uplink control information and uplink data on the PUSCH resource, where the uplink control information is mapped to the first resource set, the uplink data is mapped to a resource that is other than the plurality of resource sets and that is in the PUSCH resource, and no information or uplink data is mapped to a resource set that is other than the first resource set and that is in the plurality of resource sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaomeng Chai, Yiqun Wu, Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 11917541
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a wakeup signal (WUS) monitoring configuration that identifies one or more first WUS monitoring parameters associated with short discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle operation of the UE and one or more second WUS monitoring parameters associated with long DRX cycle operation of the UE. The UE may monitor for a WUS based at least in part on the WUS monitoring configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Tao Luo, Peter Pui Lok Ang
  • Patent number: 11910380
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication using a user equipment (UE) capability indication to support complementary bandwidth part (BWP) operations. In one aspect, a UE can transmit UE capability information to indicate the ability of the UE to support complementary BWP operations, and the network can configure complementary BWP operations based on the UE capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim, Wanshi Chen, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 11910469
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for connected discontinuous reception (CDRX), the configuration indicating a first condition associated with a first CDRX parameter and a second condition associated with a second CDRX parameter. The UE may transition to a CDRX cycle when the first condition and the second condition are satisfied prior to an expiration of a CDRX inactivity timer. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Marcelo Schiocchet, Amrit Kharel, Kausik Ray Chaudhuri, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 11902030
    Abstract: Disclosed by the present application are a configuration for duplication transmission and a duplication transmission method and device, comprising: determining each radio bearer of a terminal; and carrying out duplication transmission configuration for each radio bearer. The terminal receives the configuration for duplication transmission carried out at a network side and carries out duplication transmission according to the configuration. By employing the present application, duplication transmission may be applied flexibly for different bearer characteristics, high reliability provided by duplication transmission may be obtained, the utilization efficiency of radio resources may be increased, and resource waste is avoided. Meanwhile, air interface control signaling overhead is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Li Chen
  • Patent number: 11895583
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a network connection processing method, an apparatus, and a wireless transceiver unit. The method is applied to a user equipment UE side and relates to the 5G NR and the field of artificial intelligence communications. The method includes: connecting UE to both a 4G base station and a 5G base station by using an LTE-NR dual connectivity technology; and when the UE is in a screen-off state and a data transmission rate of the UE is less than or equal to a preset rate, releasing a connection between the UE and the 5G base station. The embodiments of the present invention can solve problems such as high device power consumption and network resource waste caused by the LTE-NR dual connectivity technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Honor Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Yuan, Yanzhao He, Chaofeng Lian
  • Patent number: 11876741
    Abstract: The present application can provide an uplink transmission method and apparatus. The method comprises: a base station instructs a UE to send SRSs corresponding to N groups of SRS resources, each of the N groups of SRS resources comprising one or more SRS resources; N being a positive integer; the base station receives the SRSs sent by the UE to determine X groups of uplink scheduling information, each of the X groups of uplink scheduling information corresponding to one group of SRS resources in the N groups of SRS resources; uplink scheduling information in different groups corresponding to SRS resources in different groups; X being a positive integer greater than one and not greater than N; the base station sends the determined X groups of uplink scheduling information to the UE so that the UE transmits an uplink signal according to the X groups of uplink scheduling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiuping Huang, Runhua Chen, Qiubin Gao, Xin Su, Deshan Miao
  • Patent number: 11877240
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for sidelink (SL) power saving using SL wake up signals (WUSs). A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining resources for SL WUS transmissions from a second UE, based on a WUS resource configuration, monitoring the resources for an SL WUS from the second UE, and participating in SL communications with the second UE if an SL WUS is detected during the monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11864112
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus including circuitry for operating in a first discontinuous reception mode including at least one awake period and at least one sleep period, receiving, during operation in the at least one awake period, a first indication from a network to perform at least one of pausing operation of the first discontinuous reception mode such that the apparatus continues operation in the at least one awake period and disabling operation of the first discontinuous reception mode such that the apparatus continues operation in a second discontinuous reception mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jianhua Liu, Jing He, Chunli Wu, Benoist Sebire
  • Patent number: 11862836
    Abstract: A radio unit for unsynchronized Time Division Duplex (TDD) multi-band operation in a wireless communication system. The radio unit comprises a first resonator arrangement comprising one or more resonators tuned for operating at a first frequency band. A first terminal of the first resonator arrangement is coupled to an antenna element. The radio unit further comprises a second resonator arrangement comprising one or more resonators tuned for operating at a second frequency band. A first terminal of the second resonator arrangement is coupled to the antenna element. The radio unit further comprises a tunable resonator arrangement comprising at least four tunable resonators. The at least four tunable resonators in the tunable resonator arrangement are tuned according to different operating modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Youping Su, Jichang Liao