Patents Examined by Kiet Tang
  • Patent number: 11546074
    Abstract: A method establishes an improved clock topology for a computation system, where the computation system is a network of nodes, and where multiple nodes are capable of being a grandmaster clock source. The method includes sequentially selecting each selectable node as an acting grandmaster node, the acting grandmaster node sending announce messages, each node with a determinative communication requirement extracting topology information from the announce messages. The above steps are repeated with another node until each selectable node has been an acting grandmaster. The method then includes selecting the clock source based on the best clock topology for the set of nodes with determinative communication requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: Helge Zinner
  • Patent number: 11539415
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, which may be otherwise known as a user equipment (UE), may determine a capability relating to an antenna configuration associated with channel state information reporting. The UE may transmit a message including an indication of the capability, and receive a channel state information reference signal using the antenna configuration. The UE may transmit, based on the channel state information reference signal, a channel state information report in accordance with the antenna configuration associated with the channel state information reporting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Alexandros Manolakos, Weimin Duan, Peter Pui Lok Ang
  • Patent number: 11533728
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method is applied to a terminal, and the method comprises: determining a non-fixed position for signalling detection on an unlicensed frequency band; detecting control signalling detection at the non-fixed position; and when control signalling is detected, carrying out corresponding data transmission according to an indication of the control signalling. Therefore, in the present disclosure, the detection of control signalling on an unlicensed frequency band can be achieved by means of a terminal, the control signaling can also be accurately detected, and the success rate of corresponding data transmission can also be ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yajun Zhu
  • Patent number: 11516652
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for enabling downlink control information (DCI) based beam and path loss (PL) reference signal (RS) activation. An example method generally includes reporting, to a network entity, a capability of the UE to support at least one of downlink control information (DCI) based activation of at least one of beam switching, beam activation, or path loss (PL) reference signal (RS) activation; receiving, from the network entity, DCI activating at least one of the beam switching, beam activation, or PL RS; and performing the beam switching, beam activation, or PL RS measurement in response to the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Qian Zhang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11510234
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for receiving a PDSCH and a terminal thereof. The method for receiving a PDSCH includes: after occurrence of a beam failure event is determined, monitoring a PDCCH on a CORESET-BFR and a PDCCH on another CORESET, determining a QCL parameter of the PDSCH based on a QCL parameter of the PDCCH on the CORESET-BFR, a QCL parameter of the PDCCH on the another CORESET, a QCL parameter of a PDCCH on a CORESET that contains DCI scheduling the PDSCH, or a QCL parameter indicated by TCI state information in the DCI scheduling the PDSCH, and receiving the PDSCH based on the determined QCL parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Yang, Peng Sun
  • Patent number: 11510211
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a sidelink operation method and a terminal. The method includes: acquiring sidelink configuration information, wherein the sidelink configuration information includes at least one of feedback configuration information and measurement configuration information; performing at least one of a measurement operation and a feedback operation on sidelink according to the sidelink configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zichao Ji
  • Patent number: 11503123
    Abstract: The invention relates, inter alia, to a network device (10) which can be connected via electrical lines (15, 16) to other subscribers (18a, 18b, 12, 13) of a network (42), in particular a real-time intercom network (42), for transmitting audio and/or image information, wherein the network device (10) comprises at least one input-side terminal (22a) for connection to a power supply source (11) and at least one output-side terminal (22b) for connection to at least one second network device (12), wherein signals and operating voltage (PoE) can be transmitted via the terminals, using at least the following four layers (32, 33, 34, 35): a) PTP layer (precision time protocol), b) ethernet layer, c) data and/or information layer, d) PoE (power over ethernet) layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: RIEDEL COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Roberto Barbieri Carrera, Silvio Gehri, Thomas Riedel
  • Patent number: 11490393
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) transmits capability information indicating a maximum number of downlink resources for both positioning reference signal (PRS) resources and downlink resources for one or more second downlink channels or signals that the UE is capable of processing per unit of time, receives, from a serving transmission-reception point (TRP), a configuration of one or more downlink resources for the one or more second downlink channels or signals, wherein a number of the one or more downlink resources is less than the maximum number, and receives, from a location server, a configuration of one or more PRS resources for the serving TRP, one or more neighboring TRPs, or both, wherein a number of the one or more PRS resources is less than the maximum number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Arash Mirbagheri, Aamod Khandekar
  • Patent number: 11483045
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a reference signal is provided. The method is applied to a network device and includes: transmitting a first indication on a second downlink frequency domain transmission resource, wherein the first indication is used to activate a first downlink frequency domain transmission resource; transmitting a CSI-RS on the first downlink frequency domain transmission resource according to a first CSI resource configuration corresponding to the first downlink frequency domain transmission resource when it is determined that there is the first CSI resource configuration, wherein the first CSI resource configuration includes a periodicity characteristic of the CSI-RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Song, Peng Sun
  • Patent number: 11477792
    Abstract: Wireless communications may be used to support data processing. Data processing may be performed based on a priority indication (or lack thereof) in a message for processing data. At least one parameter may be used to determine a priority associated with data processing if a message does not comprise a priority indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Dinan, Alireza Babaei, Ali Cirik, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Yunjung Yi, Youngwoo Kwak, Kai Xu, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11477838
    Abstract: A communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes determining an available downlink beam in response to detecting a beam failure, determining a first uplink beam according to the downlink beam, sending a beam failure recovery request to a network device using the first uplink beam, receiving a beam failure recovery response sent by the network device, and sending, using the first uplink beam, after receiving the beam failure recovery response, before receiving beam configuration information sent by the network device, at least one of a physical uplink control channel or a physical uplink shared channel, where the beam configuration information indicates a second uplink beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Chen, Peng Guan
  • Patent number: 11470573
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a device for positioning in wireless communication. A first node transmits Q1 first-type radio signal(s) and transmits first information; wherein the Q1 first-type radio signal(s) is(are) transmitted by Q1 spatial parameter group(s) respectively; the first information includes a first Identifier (ID) and Q1 piece(s) of channel information, and the first information is used for indicating Q1 geographic position(s); the Q1 piece(s) of channel information is(are) based on a channel measurement(s) performed by a target node for the Q1 spatial parameter group(s) respectively, and the target node is identified by the first ID; and the Q1 spatial parameter group(s) cover(s) the Q1 geographic position(s) respectively. The disclosure can improve the precision of positioning and meanwhile keep a good compatibility with existing systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaobo Zhang, Lin Yang
  • Patent number: 11470618
    Abstract: Wireless communications may be used to support data processing. A plurality of resources may be indicated for a wireless device to use to communicate and/or process data. Data may be received and processed based on groups of the plurality of resources to be used. For example, the plurality of resources to be used may be associated with different resource groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Dinan, Alireza Babaei, Ali Cirik, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Yunjung Yi, Youngwoo Kwak, Kai Xu, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11457449
    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device for transmitting a first amount of data, the method comprising receiving an indication of an allocation of communications resources, the allocated communications resources sufficient for transmitting a second amount of data, the second amount of data greater than or equal to the first amount of the data, selecting from a plurality of permitted TBS values a transport block size, TBS, for the transmission of the first amount of data, based on the first amount, determining communications resources for transmitting the first amount of the data based on the selected TBS and the allocated communications resources, and transmitting the first amount of the data using the determined communications resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale
  • Patent number: 11444736
    Abstract: The application relates to a communication device comprising: a communication interface configured to transmit a pilot signal via a communication channel to a second communication device and to receive a plurality of data elements representing channel state information (CSI) from the second communication device, wherein the plurality of data elements are a subset of a set of data elements representing the full channel state information (CSI) being available at the second communication device; and a processing unit configured to generate the full channel state information (CSI) on the basis of the plurality of data elements by applying a fitting scheme to the plurality of data elements received from the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Van Minh Nguyen, Marco Maso, Merouane Debbah
  • Patent number: 11445499
    Abstract: A base station may make more efficient use of resources by transmitting data in a control region of a slot in addition to a data region. In order to avoid performance loss, the base station may adjust the data transmission in the control region in comparison to a data transmission in a data region and may signal an indication to a UE to assist the UE in receiving the data transmission in the control region. An apparatus for wireless communication at the UE receives the indication from the base station regarding the data transmission in the control region and uses the indication to perform rate matching or demodulation of the data transmission in the control region. The indication may indicate any of a different MCS/rank/TPR, a reduced MCS/rank/TPR, an MCS/rank/TPR delta, a control span for a group of UEs, and a starting symbol for the data transmission. The indication may also indicate that there is no data transmitted on resources in the control region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Sumeeth Nagaraja, Shengbo Chen, Xiao Feng Wang, Kaushik Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 11438106
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting an HARQ-ACK signal by a UE in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the method is characterized by receiving control information for distinguishing first information and second information, receiving the first information and second information by means of at least one transmission block (TB), respectively decoding the first information and second information on the basis of the control information, and transmitting an HARQ-ACK signal on the basis of a decoding result with respect to the first information and a decoding result with respect to the second information. The reliability requirement of the first information is higher than the reliability requirement of the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Daesung Hwang, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11424890
    Abstract: A communication method for wireless communication uses a TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) super-frame structure for scheduling uplink and downlink transmissions between a first node and a second node, the second node receives receiving a downlink transmission from the first node and transmits an uplink response to the first node. The transmission of the uplink response is performed in an uplink frame of the super-frame structure. The uplink frame includes a field for uplink payload data and a field for time indicating data. The transmission of the uplink response includes transmitting time stamps in the time indicating data field, the time stamps indicating a time instance of the receiving of the downlink transmission, and the time instance of the transmitting of the uplink response. The time instances are determined using the clock of the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ENERGY SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Zhibo Pang, Michele Luvisotto, Roger Jansson
  • Patent number: 11412568
    Abstract: A wireless device receives: a value for a discontinuous reception (DRX) inactivity timer; and a semi-persistent channel state information (SP-CSI) radio network temporary identifier (RNTI). receive a first downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to the SP-CSI RNTI is received. The SP-CSI RNTI indicates: activation of SP-CSI reporting; and no uplink grant for uplink packet transmission. The DRX inactivity timer is started based on the first DCI indicating the activation of the SP-CSI reporting. The DRX inactivity timer controls monitoring for DCIs of the SP-CSI RNTI. a transport block is transmitted based on receiving, while the DRX inactivity timer is running, a second DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Dinan, Ali Cirik, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon
  • Patent number: 11411774
    Abstract: A first network device includes a processor and a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the first network device to obtain a Flow Specification (FlowSpec) rule with redirect indication information. The redirect indication information includes identification information identifying a first virtual private network (VPN) instance configured on a second network device. The indication information also includes instructions for the second network device to redirect data stream matching the FlowSpec rule to the first VPN instance. The first network device is also caused to advertise the FlowSpec rule with the redirect indication information to the second network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunwan Zhuang, Haijun Xu, Haibo Wang, Zhenbin Li, Jia Che, Shuanglong Chen