Patents Examined by Kenneth T Lam
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Patent number: 11917505Abstract: A computer-implemented method for provisioning a feature associated with a brand of a wireless communication network may include loading a trigger condition in a catalog for triggering the feature, wherein an in-memory cache of the catalog is accessible by a network provisioning engine of the wireless communication network. At the network provisioning engine, the method may further include receiving, from a billing system computer, a transaction request for a subscriber having a rate plan associated with the brand, using a brand indication in the transaction request to locate the in-memory cache of the catalog, and determining whether the transaction request meets the trigger condition. If the transaction request meets the trigger condition, the method may further include determining a network node for provisioning the feature, and sending instructions to the network node to provision the feature in the subscriber's rate plan.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Murugappan Palaniappan, Henry P. Cyril
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Patent number: 11909497Abstract: A method (20) performed by a wireless terminal (10) in a wireless communication network (10, 30) is provided. In the method (20), based on a (fundamental) polarization tracking capability of the wireless terminal (10), at least one downlink polarization of at least one downlink communication between the wireless terminal (10) and an access node (30) of the wireless communication network (10, 30) is determined (204). A reference polarization from the at least one downlink polarization is selected (207). Based on the reference polarization and a (momentary) polarization tracking ability of the wireless terminal (10), at least one uplink polarization of at least one uplink communication between the wireless terminal (10) and the access node (30) is configured (210). A corresponding method (40) performed by the access node (30) is also provided, as well as the mentioned wireless terminal (10) and the access node (30).Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Erik Bengtsson, Olof Zander, Fredrik Rusek
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Patent number: 11899120Abstract: A navigation processing system includes at least one processor configured to execute operational instructions that cause the at least one processor to perform operations that include generating navigation data. A data stream is generated based on the navigation data and a data channel spreading sequence. A pilot stream is generated based on a pilot channel spreading sequence. A navigation signal is generated based on applying a bandwidth-efficient modulation scheme to the data stream and the pilot stream. The navigation is signal is broadcast via a navigation signal transmitter for receipt by at least one client device.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Xona Space Systems Inc.Inventors: Robert Martin Grayson, Andrew Michael Neish, Joshua Earl McGhee
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Patent number: 11902212Abstract: A method and an apparatus for feeding back channel state information (CSI) of user equipment (UE) in a communication system are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, configuration information related to a plurality of CSI reports; identifying the setting of the plurality of CSI reports corresponding to a plurality of measurement resources, on the basis of the configuration information; generating a first CSI report corresponding to a first measurement resource and a second CSI report corresponding to a second measurement resource when the plurality of CSI reports are set; and transmitting the first CSI report and the second. CSI report to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yinan Qi
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Patent number: 11895637Abstract: A cell performs beam management operations for a user equipment (UE). The cell transmits a first group of multiple reference signals via a first transmission reception point (TRP) to a user equipment (UE), transmits a second group of multiple reference signals via a second different TRP to the UE, receives an indication that the UE has selected a first beam associated with one of the multiple reference signals of the first group and a second beam associated with one of the multiple reference signals of the second group and transmits downlink data to the UE using the first beam and the second beam.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 11881921Abstract: Examples described herein provide multi-band directional scanning. Examples may include receiving, by a first radio of a first network device operating at a first frequency band below the millimeter-wave (mmWave), a probe request from a second network device indicating a protocol and a particular sector receiving direction of the second network device, and in response to the protocol indicated by the probe request, transmitting, by a second radio of the first network device operating at a second frequency band within the mmWave, a probe response in each of one or more sector transmitting directions, wherein the second network device receives one or more probe responses in the particular sector receiving direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Xuefu Wang, Jianpo Han, Kuanyue Li
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Patent number: 11882072Abstract: A system, method, and device for ensuring a number of Phase Tracking Reference Signal(s) (PT-RSs) are the same for multiple slots. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive control information including a number of scheduled resource blocks (RBs) then determine a PT-RS density based on the number of scheduled RBs. The WTRU may determine a RB offset value for the WTRU based on a WTRU-ID modulo the maximum RB offset value, where the maximum value for the RB offset value may be based on at least one of the number of the scheduled RBs and the PT-RS density. The WTRU may then transmit or receive a signal with PT-RS based on the RB offset value.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Moon-il Lee, Alphan Sahin, Erdem Bala, Afshin Haghighat, Frank La Sita, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz
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Patent number: 11881929Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which RF-domain wireless routers may repeat, extend, or redirect beamformed wireless signals received from one or more transmitters to one or more receivers. The router may receive transmissions at a mmW frequency using a first array of antenna elements, and provide the transmissions to a beamforming network, such as a Butler matrix, that outputs one or more a signals to a switching network. The switching network may perform switching to provide the one or more signals to desired inputs of an output beamforming network that outputs beamformed transmission beams via a second array of antenna elements.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Raju Hormis, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Juergen Cezanne, Ozge Koymen
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Patent number: 11871395Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may measure a beam, according to a measurement configuration, to determine a channel condition value of the beam, modify the channel condition value based at least in part on at least one of one or more beam characterizations, a derivation of a beamforming gain value, or an estimation of the beamforming gain value, and transmit, to a base station, a measurement report indicating the modified channel condition value. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yongle Wu, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Farhad Meshkati, Raghu Narayan Challa, Jyothi Kiran Vattikonda
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Patent number: 11867822Abstract: Antenna assembly comprising the combination of a steerable phased array antenna with omnidirectional sector and a GNSS antenna, and antenna system comprising the antenna assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Kongsberg Discovery ASInventor: David Møller Hagen
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Patent number: 11870531Abstract: A communications device for use in a wireless communications network providing a wireless access interface within a system bandwidth, the system bandwidth comprising a plurality of bandwidth parts, the communications device comprising a transmitter configured to transmit signals using a plurality of activated bandwidth parts, a receiver configured to receive signals using the plurality of activated bandwidth parts, the received signals being signals transmitted using a plurality of activated beams, and a controller configured to control the transmitter and the receiver so that the communications device is operable: to determine that an activated beam associated with a first bandwidth part satisfies beam failure criteria; to select from the plurality of activated bandwidth parts a second bandwidth part; and to transmit using communications resources associated with the selected second bandwidth part a beam failure indication indicating that the activated beam associated with the first bandwidth part satisfiesType: GrantFiled: August 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yassin Aden Awad, Shin Horng Wong, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Vivek Sharma, Martin Warwick Beale
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Patent number: 11863283Abstract: A communication device (200) includes an acquisition unit (242) and a reception unit (243). The acquisition unit (242) acquires similarity information indicating the similarity of the beam characteristics of the transmitting antenna panel in a plurality of signal groups transmitted from a base station (100). The reception unit (243) selects and receives a signal group to be received, from among the plurality of signal groups, based on the similarity information acquired by the acquisition unit (242).Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroaki Takano
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Patent number: 11863256Abstract: The present invention discloses a channel equalization-free single-carrier broadband transmission method, including the following steps: obtaining a number of temporal-resolvable multi-paths, and delays and channel gain vectors corresponding to the multi-paths based on a channel impulse response; deliberately introducing, by a transmitter, a corresponding delay for a symbol sequence, so as to perform delay compensation, so that all multi-path signal components arrive at a receiver simultaneously and constructively after propagating over a time-dispersive channel, thereby avoiding inter-symbol interference in broadband transmission; and utilizing, by the transmitter, multiple antennas to perform path-based beamforming design. A time-dispersive channel can be transformed into a frequency-flat channel by means of the path-based ZF beamforming and delay alignment modulation. The present invention further proposes a channel equalization-free single-carrier broadband transmission system.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Yong Zeng, Haiquan Lu
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Patent number: 11863277Abstract: A first CSI-RS signal is received by user equipment through a first cell, and a second CSI-RS signal is received through a second cell. Respective QCL information can be available to determine a first Rx beam to measure the first CSI-RS signal and a second Rx beam to measure the second CSI-RS signal. In such a case, if the first CSI-RS signal and the second CSI-RS signal are fully overlapped, then the user equipment can i) alternate between measuring the first CSI-RS signal with the first Rx beam and measuring the second CSI-RS signal with the second Rx beam, or ii) measure only the first CSI-RS signal or the second CSI-RS signal. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 11856416Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically modifying an antenna profile to increase network performance. Initially, at a first node communicating using a first wireless communication protocol, such as 4G, locations of a plurality of second nodes communicating using at least second wireless communication protocol, such as 5G, are determined. Performance criteria is analyzed of one of more of the plurality of second nodes. Based on the determined locations and the analyzed performance criteria, the antenna profile is dynamically adjusted to increase a width of a beam associated with the first node.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLCInventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
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Patent number: 11848809Abstract: A profile optimizing method is provided for a transmission of active subcarriers over a channel to user devices. The method includes steps of (i) obtaining a symbol mapping architecture for the set of profiles, (ii) calculating, from the symbol mapping architecture, a plurality of mapping orders for the set of profiles different from the logical order, (iii) determining, from the calculated plurality of mapping orders, a particular mapping order having a higher spectral efficiency than the logical order, (iv) reordering the respective codewords of the set of profiles to correspond to the particular mapping order, (v) re-mapping the symbol mapping architecture to a number of symbols corresponding to the reordered codewords, and (vi) transmitting the symbols to the population of user devices. The symbol mapping architecture includes a codeword for each profile of the set of profiles, and maps the codewords to a different number by logical order.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Lin Cheng, Jingjie Zhu
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Patent number: 11849469Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein for orbital angular moment capability in millimeter wave and higher frequency bands. An example method for wireless communication at a first communication device includes transmitting, to a second communication device, OAM capability information indicating a capability to receive an OAM waveform. Additionally, the example method includes receiving one or more OAM transmissions from the second communication device, the one or more OAM transmissions based on the OAM capability information.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Idan Michael Horn, Danlu Zhang, Shay Landis, Yehonatan Dallal, Ran Berliner
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Patent number: 11843439Abstract: This application provides a communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: using, by a terminal device, a first receive parameter to receive control information sent by a network device, where the control information is used to indicate a second receive parameter used by the terminal device to receive a to-be-transmitted signal; determining, by the terminal device based on a first antenna panel to which the first receive parameter belongs and a second antenna panel to which the second receive parameter belongs, a beam switching time required for switching from the first receive parameter to the second receive parameter; and receiving, by the terminal device, the to-be-transmitted signal based on the beam switching time.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Peng Guan, Xi Zhang, Min Zhang
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Patent number: 11838089Abstract: Systems and methods for control signaling for beam searching latency reduction are disclosed herein. A g Node B (gNB) may determine that a first Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) and a second SSB are to be spatially correlated and may select a first transmit (Tx) beam to transmit the first SSB and a second Tx beam to transmit the second SSB accordingly. The gNB may also transmit a correlation message including spatial correlation information to help a UE determine the spatial correlation. The UE may measure the first SSB on a first subset of a plurality of receive (Rx) beams and measure the second SSB on a second subset of the plurality of Rx beams, and select an Rx beam for one or both. In some embodiments, channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) that are quasi co-located (QCLed) with a given SSB may be measured in place of the SSB.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen
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Patent number: 11831385Abstract: Disclosed in various embodiments are: a method by which user equipment (UE) performs beam sweeping by using a plurality of transmission beams in a wireless communication system for supporting a sidelink; and a device therefor. Particularly, disclosed in various embodiments are a method and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving configuration information related to the beam sweeping; grouping the plurality of transmission beams into a plurality of groups on the basis of the number of reference beams included in the configuration information; and performing beam sweeping according to a transmission order determined for the plurality of groups, wherein the transmission order is determined on the basis of a group index for the plurality of groups and the number of repetitions in which the beam sweeping is repeatedly performed.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yeongjun Kim, Youngdae Kim