Patents Examined by Khai Tran
  • Patent number: 11804911
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus comprising a first terminal to receive an input signal of a circuit under test; a second terminal to receive an output signal of the circuit under test. A first and second phase splitter configured to generate a first and second phase signal, I1 and I2, and a first and second quadrature signal, Q1 and Q2. A first and second multiplexer, each coupled to the first terminal and the second terminal and configured to alternately pass the input and output signals of the circuit under test to the inputs of the first and second phase splitters. A double-quadrature mixer having four inputs configured to receive I1, Q1, I2, and Q2, and an output. A calculation unit to determine one or both of a phase shift of the circuit under test and/or a gain of the circuit under test based on the output of the double-quadrature mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Frank Op 't Eynde, Olivier Crand, Milad Piri
  • Patent number: 11799523
    Abstract: In a method for simultaneously communicating with multiple communication devices in a wireless local area network a first communication device receives a plurality of uplink data units simultaneously transmitted by multiple second communication devices. The first communication device generates an acknowledgement data unit to acknowledge receipt of the multiple data units simultaneously transmitted by multiple second communication devices. The acknowledgement data unit includes (i) an indication that indicates that the acknowledgement data unit is intended for multiple second communication devices and (ii) respective acknowledgement information for the multiple second communication devices. The acknowledgement data unit is transmitted from the first communication device to the multiple second communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventors: Liwen Chu, Lei Wang, Jinjing Jiang, Hongyuan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 11799504
    Abstract: A band-switching network includes a dual-band balun and a switch network. The dual-band balun includes a first output and a second output. The switch network includes a first switch and a second switch in which an input to the first switch is coupled to the first output and an input to the second switch is coupled to the second balanced output. The dual-band balun further includes a primary coil, a first secondary coil and a second secondary coil in which the first secondary coil is coupled to the first balanced output and the second secondary coil is coupled to the second balanced output. In one embodiment, the primary coil and the first secondary coil are coupled by a first coupling factor k1, and the primary coil and the second secondary coil are coupled by a second coupling factor k2 that is different from the first coupling factor k1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventors: Amitoj Singh, Ajaypat Jain, Xiaohua Yu, Tienyu Chang, Siu-Chuang Ivan Lu, Sang Won Son
  • Patent number: 11799693
    Abstract: A wireless communication method and a wireless communication device. An electronic device for a user equipment in a wireless communication system, including a processing circuit configured to receive, from a base station, channel state information reference signal with a set of reception filters, perform channel estimation on a downlink channel from the base station to the user equipment, select, from the set of reception filters, one or more particular reception filters corresponding to respective channel estimation results that satisfy a first predetermined condition, and signal, from the user equipment to the base station, sounding reference signal with one or more particular transmission filters, wherein the one or more particular transmission filters and one or more particular reception filters are reciprocal respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peiyao Zhao, Zhaocheng Wang, Jinhui Chen
  • Patent number: 11784777
    Abstract: A methods and apparatuses for providing and configuring channel state information (CSI) reports. A method of operating a user equipment includes receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) and generating, based on the CSI-RS reception, a first CSI report and a second CSI report. The first CSI report includes a first channel quality indicator (CQI) index from a first set of CQI indexes and the second CSI report includes a second CQI index from a second set of CQI indexes. The method further includes transmitting the first CSI report in a first channel and the second CSI report in a second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 11784695
    Abstract: Channel state information (CSI) operations are disclosed with regard to elevation beamforming (EB)/full dimension (FD) multiple input, multiple output (ED/FD-MIMO) operations. With CSI processing associated with multiple CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) resources, ambiguities may arise in determining the CSI reporting type and rank. CSI reporting type may be determined using a last reported beam selection indicator (BI) or, in the absence of a BI, may be determined according to a predefined rule. When rank and BI are reported separately and rank is absent, user equipment may determine a default reference rank for CSI reporting based on either or both of previously reported rank or BI. When rank and BI are jointly reported, encoding schemes with fixed bitwidths determined based on either CSI-RS processes or resources may be used to enhance decoding. CSI-RS antenna ports, processes, or resources may also be used in determining application of CSI processing relaxation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chao Wei, Yu Zhang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11777562
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically modifying beamforming weights based on MU-MIMO user device pairings. A quantity of MU-MIMO user device pairings served by a node is determined. Based on a maximum quantity of potential MU-MIMO user device pairings for the node, it is determined that a quantity of the MU-MIMO user device pairings for the node is below a threshold. Because the quantity of the MU-MIMO user device pairings is below the threshold, beamforming weights are modified to widen a vertical main lobe to increase the quantity of MU-MIMO user device pairings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Vanil Parihar, Sreekar Marupaduga, Rashmi Kumar
  • Patent number: 11778432
    Abstract: Vehicular systems/methods are disclosed that perform operations comprising: specifying a geographic area responsive to a weather condition, a time-of-day and/or an event; detecting at least one motor vehicle that is within the specified geographic area; and communicating with the at least one motor vehicle that is detected; wherein said communicating comprises: wirelessly transmitting information to the at least one motor vehicle and/or wirelessly receiving information from the at least one motor vehicle; and wherein said detecting comprises: identifying a motor vehicle by wirelessly detecting a unique code associated therewith; and/or identifying a plurality of motor vehicles by wirelessly detecting, for each motor vehicle of the plurality of motor vehicles, a respective unique code associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: Peter D. Karabinis
  • Patent number: 11777570
    Abstract: Systems and methods for wireless communications comprising a plurality of agents, which together as the group, are configured to: (i) wirelessly broadcast an interference signal by forming a radiation pattern having null vectored substantially toward a client; (ii) wirelessly transmit a communication signal to the client by forming a radiation beam carrying the communication signal vectored substantially toward the client; and (iii) wirelessly broadcast a combined communication signal and interference signal to the client using phases of processes (i) and (ii). In some embodiments, the agents together as a group may be further configured to: allocate and adjust power for performing processes (i) and (ii) at substantially the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Justin S. Kong, Fikadu T. Dagefu, Brian M. Sadler
  • Patent number: 11764836
    Abstract: The application relates to link adaptation for extremely high throughput (EHT) systems. Various approaches are provided to enable transmission of link adaptation parameters for single-user multiple input multiple output (SU-MIMO), and multi-user multiple input multiple output MU-MIMO. In some embodiments, two control IDs in the A-control subfield are used, one for SU-MIMO and one for MU-MIMO. These can both be reserved control IDs, or a combination of a reserved control ID and control ID 2 normally used for HE link adaptation. In some embodiments, a single control ID in the A-control subfield is used. This can be a reserved control ID or control ID 2 normally used for HE link adaptation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan Xin, Jung Hoon Suh, Osama Aboul-Magd, Kwok Shum Au
  • Patent number: 11765763
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for scheduling data transmission in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system. The MIMO system may comprise at least one MIMO transmitter and at least one MIMO receiver. Feedback from one or more receivers may be used by a transmitter to improve quality, capacity, and scheduling in MIMO communication systems. The method may include generating or receiving information pertaining to a MIMO channel metric and information pertaining to a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) in respect of a transmitted signal; and sending a next transmission to a receiver using a MIMO mode selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the MIMO channel metric, and an adaptive coding and modulation selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the CQI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Ming Jia, Jianming Wu, Dong-Sheng Yu, Peiying Zhu, Wen Tong
  • Patent number: 11757600
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for measurement without gaps for narrow bandwidth part (BWP) hopping. A user equipment (UE) may measure one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) while performing BWP hopping according to a hopping pattern. The UE may receive data and measure an SSB in a same frequency hop during a same measurement window without a gap. A base station (BS) may transmit a control message to the UE to configure an active BWP for the UE, a set of measurement windows, a hopping pattern, and a set of SSBs that occur within a set of frequency hops to support the measurement without gaps. The active BWP may be defined for measurement purposes to reduce ambiguity. The control message may support alignment of a measurement window with an active frequency hop to support measurement without gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Prashant Sharma, Changhwan Park, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11758461
    Abstract: A communication system includes multiple distributed antenna circuits and an access point (AP). The distributed antenna circuits include at least first and second antenna circuits. The AP is coupled to the distributed antenna circuits and includes multiple transmit chains, multiple receive chains, and an antenna control circuit communicatively coupled to the transmit chains and the receive chains. The first antenna circuit is co-located with the AP and the second antenna circuit is remote from the AP. The antenna control circuit is configured to determine a subset of the distributed antenna circuits to communicatively couple to at least some of the transmit chains to transmit data to a wireless station (STA) that is in range of the subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Kumar Agrawal, Huizhao Wang, Peiman Amini, Sigurd Schelstraete, Debashis Dash
  • Patent number: 11757553
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for successive interference cancellation (SIC). In an embodiment, a method includes receiving symbols from a plurality of user equipment (UE), identify a target UE and non-target UEs, decoding code blocks from the symbols received from the non-target UEs to generate decoded bits for each code block. The method also includes performing a CRC check on each code block to generate a tag (0) when the CRC check passes and a tag (1) when the CRC check fails, and re-encoding the decoded bits to generate re-encoded code blocks having the associated tags attached. The method also includes reconstructing symbols from the re-encoded code blocks where symbols reconstructed from re-encoded code blocks having tag (0) are reconstructed with data and symbols reconstructed from re-encoded code blocks having tag (1) are reconstructed as zero value symbols, and utilizing the reconstructed symbols to cancel interference on symbols from the target UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Jik Kim, Timothy Shee Yao, Nagabhushana Rao Kurapati
  • Patent number: 11750236
    Abstract: A system includes a network of nodes. A controller of the system is operable to communicate with the network of nodes through one or more electromagnetic signals. A plurality of waveguides is configured to guide transmission of the one or more electromagnetic signals. A radio frequency transceiver is configured to establish communication between the controller and a first waveguide of the plurality of waveguides. A membrane is configured to support communication between the first waveguide and at least one node of the plurality of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Gilson, Joseph V. Mantese, Goran Djuknic, Gurkan Gok, Brenda J. Lisitano, Coy Bruce Wood, Sanjay Bajekal
  • Patent number: 11742904
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for multi-user multi-antenna transmission. The method which may be performed by a network node comprises calculating parameters for multi-user multi-antenna transmission, according to measurement information reported by a first set of terminal devices. The method further comprises selecting, from the first set of terminal devices, a second set of terminal devices to which the multi-user multi-antenna transmission is to be applied, based at least in part on performance gain estimated according to the parameters for multi-user multi-antenna transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Chunhui Liu, Zhenguo Ma, Huaisong Zhu, Yipeng Zhang, Yiliang Chen, Chen Liu
  • Patent number: 11742902
    Abstract: A communications network system is disclosed. The system may include a central processing unit (CPU) in data communication with a first access point (AP) configured to enable a data communication between the CPU and a first user equipment (UE). The CPU may include a processor configured to select a first group of APs including the first AP, establish a first data communications link over a first frequency band between the CPU and the first AP, cause the first AP to establish a second data communications link over a second frequency band between the first AP and the first UE, and transmit a portion of data to the first AP over the first data communications link. The first data communications link may be a wireless data communications link. The first frequency band may include higher frequency levels than those of the second frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ahmed Alkhateeb, Umut Demirhan
  • Patent number: 11722169
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for enhancing error correction decoding for communications using chirp spread spectrum are disclosed. A chirp signal having a plurality of chirps is received, a codeword is identified based on at least one of the plurality of chirps, a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) associated with at least a portion of the codeword is identified, at least one decoding threshold is adjusted based on the identified RSSI, and the codeword is decoded using the adjusted at least one decoding threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Sure-Fi, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Hall, David R. Hall, Warren Willes, John Robinson
  • Patent number: 11723014
    Abstract: A MIMO transmission point utilizes respective pluralities of beam weights to transmit corresponding pluralities of beams to each group of wireless devices, with respective numbers of resources being allocated for transmissions to each group of wireless devices. One method comprises: determining an average output power of the transmission point over a period of time in a first direction; comparing the average output power to an output power reference value; determining a fraction of a pool of available resources for the allocation of data to be transmitted by the transmission point as a function of the comparison; for each group of wireless devices, and determining beam gains in the first direction for each of the plurality of beams and weighting the number of resources allocated to the group of wireless devices according to the determined beam gains to obtain an effective number of resource blocks in the resources in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Yali Pei, Torbjörn Wigren
  • Patent number: 11711252
    Abstract: Utilizing a fast Fourier transform (FFT) to cancel a non-liner phase response of a digital infinite impulse response (IIR) lowpass filter is presented herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Tommy Ivarsson