Patents Examined by Louis Samara
  • Patent number: 11985610
    Abstract: An information indicating method, an information determining method, a terminal and a base station are provided. The information indicating method includes: indicating, by using a predetermined parameter of a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) in a first system synchronization block (SSB), whether the first SSB includes associated remaining minimum system information (RMSI); or indicating, by using a predetermined parameter of a PBCH in a first SSB, that the first SSB does not include associated RMSI, and indicating frequency offset information of a synchronization raster where a second SSB is located, where the second SSB is an SSB with the associated RMSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren Da, Zheng Zhao, Bin Ren, FangChen Cheng
  • Patent number: 11985600
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) receiving a configuration for a plurality of dormancy modes for a secondary cell group (SCG) dormancy state. The UE may receive the configuration and determine to transition to a SCG dormancy mode based on the configuration. The UE may enter the dormancy mode and communicate with a master cell group (MCG), the SCG, or both based on the configuration for the dormancy mode. The UE may perform radio resource management, radio link management, and beam failure detection procedures while in SCG dormancy mode. The UE may also perform layer 1 measurements and reporting, timing configuration procedures, power control procedures, and the like depending on the dormancy mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo, Punyaslok Purkayastha, Ozcan Ozturk
  • Patent number: 11979756
    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprising: triggering, by medium access control (MAC) layer, a beam failure recovery for at least one serving cell, identifying, by MAC layer, whether evaluation of candidate beams is completed for the at least one serving cell for which the failure recovery is triggered and not cancelled, and generating, by MAC layer, a MAC control element (CE) for beam failure recovery based on a identified result, wherein detection information in the MAC CE is set to 1 for the at least one serving cell for which a beam failure is detected and evaluation of candidate beams is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Jaehyuk Jang, Seungri Jin
  • Patent number: 11979780
    Abstract: A method for requesting a target system information block (SIB) associated with a target service is provided. The method initiates a dedicated SIB request procedure to send, to a serving cell, a request for the target SIB. The method initiates the dedicated SIB request procedure while the UE has stored at least one SIB segment of a plurality of SIB segments associated with the target SIB, and before the target SIB is successfully assembled based on the plurality of SIB segments. The method transmits, to the serving cell, the request for the target SIB to the serving cell and upon the transmission of the request starts a timer, where a second dedicated SIB request procedure is not allowed to be initiated while the timer is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yung-Lan Tseng, Hung-Chen Chen, Mei-Ju Shih
  • Patent number: 11974335
    Abstract: A first user equipment includes: an interface configured to send and receive signals wirelessly; and a processor configured to: establish a sidelink connection with a second user equipment; exchange, using the sidelink connection, sidelink information with the second user equipment to at least one of: transmit, via the interface to the second user equipment, first SL PRS-related data (sidelink positioning reference signal related data) including at least one of first SL PRS assistance data or first SL PRS configuration data; or receive, via the interface from the second user equipment, second SL PRS-related data including at least one of second SL PRS assistance data or second SL PRS configuration data; and exchange, via the interface with the second user equipment using the sidelink connection, one or more sidelink positioning reference signals in accordance with at least one of the first SL PRS-related data or the second SL PRS-related data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11956833
    Abstract: A communication apparatus in the present disclosure comprises an AID generator, a Trigger frame generator, and a wireless transmitter/receiver. When a Trigger Type in a trigger frame is an RA trigger, the AID generator (103) generates, as information for an AID12 subfield, information that is different from an AID. The Trigger frame generator (104) generates a RA variant Trigger frame when the Trigger Type in the trigger frame is an RA trigger, and sets, in the AID12 subfield included in the RA variant Trigger frame, the information output from the AID generator (103). The wireless transmitter/receiver (106) transmits the Trigger frame, generated by the Trigger frame generator (104), to a terminal (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Tomohumi Takata, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11956818
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for accessing a wireless medium for a NR-U deployed at 60 GHz. A directional CCA sensing is performed on a set of multiple beams in the medium in which each beam is oriented in a different direction. It is determined whether at least one beam of is busy and, if so, a back-off timer is initialized. The back-off timer is decreased by a predetermined amount based on a determination that all beams of the set of multiple beams are idle. The back-off timer is repeatedly decreased the predetermined amount based on a determination that all beams of the set of multiple beams are idle until the back-off timer equals a predetermined amount. Data is transmitted at least one beam of the set of multiple beams based on the back-off timer equaling the predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Hu, Jung Hyun Bae
  • Patent number: 11943825
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A network node may transmit, to a plurality of user equipment (UE), a set of network encoded packets generated using a set of packets. A UE of the plurality of UEs may receive a subset of the set of encoded packets and may decode the subset to determine a first set of decoded packets. The UE may receive a second set of decoded packets from the plurality of UEs. The UE may transmit feedback to the network node that indicates the successfully decoded packets of the first and second sets. The network node may receive the feedback and may determine a subset of the set of packets that was successfully decoded for each UE providing the feedback. The network node may transmit an updated set of network encoded packets to the plurality of UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shanyu Zhou, Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11943821
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to cancel establishment of communication between an external device and the information processing apparatus in accordance with an instruction to cancel the establishment of the communication. The instruction is sent to the information processing apparatus from another device that is different from the external device and the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 11937238
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may encode, for a first set of resource elements (REs), a first layer for sidelink control information. The UE may encode, for a second set of REs, a second layer for sidelink data, wherein the first set of REs and the second set of REs are associated with a same one or more symbols. The UE may transmit, to another UE and based at least in part on applying superposition coded modulation (SCM) to the first layer and the second layer, the sidelink control information using the first set of REs and the sidelink data using the second set of REs. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Xiaoxia Zhang, Chih-Hao Liu, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 11930511
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication apparatus serving as an access point of a wireless LAN. The wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless communication unit (110) and a controller (130). The wireless communication unit (110) receives a signal including information regarding a channel used in an OBSS (Overlap Basic Service Set). The controller (130) determines a frequency band of a channel used in a BSS (Basic Service Set) on the basis of the information regarding the channel used in the OBSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Yuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 11924010
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a User Equipment (UE) supporting transmission power adjustment. The UE receiving a first signaling; and transmitting a first radio signal; wherein, a first modulation symbol sequence is used to generate the first radio signal, the first modulation symbol sequence employs a target waveform, a first bit block is used to generate the first modulation symbol sequence, the first signaling is used to determine the target waveform out of X waveforms, the X is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, a transmitting power of the first radio signal is a first power, the target waveform is used to determine an upper bound of the first power. The method can adjust the UE transmitting power according to the waveform of the uplink transmission, thus reducing the power loss of the UE or improving the coverage performance of the uplink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11917686
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system, and specifically provides a method and a device therefor, the method comprising: receiving first configuration information for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS); performing a channel access procedure (CAP) on the basis of the first configuration information; acquiring a time period for the SRS transmission from an Nth symbol on the basis of a successful CAP in the Nth symbol; performing the SRS transmission within the time period; transmitting, within the time period, second configuration information for triggering positioning reference signal (PRS) transmission in at least one base station included in a cell group; and receiving a PRS from the at least one base station within the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seonwook Kim, Sukhyon Yoon, Hyunsoo Ko, Byounghoon Kim, Suckchel Yang, Hanbyul Seo, Changhwan Park, Sangrim Lee, Hyunsu Cha
  • Patent number: 11909526
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a solution for multi-TRP transmissions. In a method for communication, a terminal device receives from a network device coupled with a plurality of TRPs, control information associated with a transmission of data from the network device to the terminal device. The terminal device determines, from the control information, a repetition scheme to be used by the network device to transmit the data to the terminal device via the plurality of TRPs. The terminal device receives the data from the network device based on the repetition scheme. With the embodiments of the present disclosure, only one DCI can schedule repeated data for multi-TRP transmission without increasing the DCI payload relative to a Rel.15 DCI. Also, the repetition scheme for transmitting data can be indicated by a same DCI more dynamically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fang Yuan, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11902191
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for configuring tones for a distributed resource unit (RU) across a channel bandwidth to improve frequency diversity and available transmit power. A distributed RU may include a set of tones that may be allocated across a bandwidth that is greater than a bandwidth of the aggregate quantity of tones. The set of tones may include a set of data tones grouped into contiguous groups of one or more data tones and a set of non-contiguous pilot tones. The data tones may be mapped to useful tones over a center portion of a half-bandwidth of the channel. The pilot tones may be mapped near edge tones at edges of the channel bandwidth or near direct current tones at a center of the channel bandwidth. A system bandwidth may include one or more channel bandwidths associated with distributed RUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lin Yang, Bin Tian
  • Patent number: 11900273
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for determining combinations of system parameters that indicate a root cause of a system level experience deterioration (SLED). Some of the disclosed embodiments generate a decision tree from a first class of operational parameter datasets. Rules are derived from the decision tree. Filtered rule sets for feature parameters included in the system parameters are then determined. Pairs of features within a particular dataset that each satisfy their respective filtered rule sets are indicative of a root cause of the degradation, at least in some embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Ravindra Guntur
  • Patent number: 11894963
    Abstract: This application discloses a sequence generating method and apparatus, and relates to the field of communications technologies, to resolve a problem that a PAPR of a DMRS symbol is higher than that of a data symbol. An initialization factor of a first sequence is obtained, where the initialization factor is associated with a first parameter; and the first sequence is generated based on the initialization factor. In addition, the first parameter is a port number, or the first parameter is a code division multiplexing CDM group identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunpeng Liu, Mingxin Gong, Leiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11888770
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for wireless communication. An example apparatus selects a first resource unit (RU) of a plurality of RUs for transmitting a physical (PHY) layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) over a wireless medium. The first RU may include a set of contiguous tones occupying a first frequency bandwidth. The plurality of RUs may collectively span a second frequency bandwidth greater than the first frequency bandwidth. The apparatus maps the set of contiguous tones of the first RU to a set of non-contiguous tones distributed across the second frequency bandwidth using a tone mapping vector and a tone mapping offset associated with the first RU. The apparatus transmits the PPDU over the set of non-contiguous tones distributed across the second frequency bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lin Yang, Bin Tian
  • Patent number: 11877144
    Abstract: Various examples and schemes pertaining to enhancements for sidelink (SL) resource allocation in New Radio (NR) vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications are described. A user equipment (UE) transmits to a peer UE assistance information with respect to a result of sensing of one or more resources reserved for a SL communication. The UE then receives a transmission from the peer UE on a resource selected by the peer UE based on the assistance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Chen, Lung-Sheng Tsai
  • Patent number: 11871405
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive one or more messages scheduling resources allocated for one or more uplink transmissions that at least partially overlap in time with scheduled resources allocated for one or more downlink transmissions. In such cases, the UE may use different communication parameters for overlapping and non-overlapping resources. For example, the UE may receive a configuration of a first set of communication parameters that are configured for an overlapping portion of the resources and a second set of communication parameters that are configured for a non-overlapping portion of the resources. The UE may apply the first set of communication parameters and the second set of communication parameters to the uplink and downlink resources for transmitting or receiving the one or more uplink and downlink communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo