Patents Examined by Louis Samara
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11870735
    Abstract: Various schemes pertaining to design simplification for distributed-tone resource units (RUs) in 6 GHz low-power indoor (LPI) systems are described. A communication entity performs tone distribution with a logical RU size over a bandwidth to generate a distributed-tone RU. The communication entity then communicates wirelessly using the distributed-tone RU in a 6 GHz low-power indoor (LPI) system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shengquan Hu, Jianhan Liu, Thomas Edward Pare, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11849403
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for transmitting uplink reference signals. A method is performed by a terminal device. The method comprises obtaining, from a network node, a configuration of transmission of the uplink reference signals. The configuration comprises an indication of a first frequency interval in which the uplink reference signals are to be transmitted. The method comprises distributing transmission power available for transmitting the uplink reference signals over the first frequency interval based on channel information for the first frequency interval. The method comprises transmitting the uplink reference signals in accordance with the distributed transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, Sebastian Faxér, Niklas Wernersson
  • Patent number: 11844106
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for managing data traffic in restricted target wake time (TWT) service periods (SPs). In some aspects, an access point (AP) receives a request frame from a wireless station (STA) associated with a client device via a peer-to-peer (P2P) link, the request frame indicating that the STA intends to exchange P2P communications with the client device during a r-TWT SP scheduled on a wireless medium. The AP obtains a transmission opportunity (TXOP) on the wireless medium during the r-TWT SP, the request frame identifying the client device. The AP transmits a trigger frame on the wireless medium responsive to obtaining the TXOP, the trigger frame allocating a portion of the obtained TXOP for P2P communications between the STA and the client device, wherein at least one of the response frame or the trigger frame indicates a Network Allocation Vector (NAV) exception for the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abdel Karim Ajami, Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Yanjun Sun, Gaurang Naik
  • Patent number: 11838227
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for increasing the transmit power of wireless communication devices operating on power spectral density (PSD)-limited wireless channels. Some implementations more specifically relate to pilot tone designs that support distributed transmission. A transmitting device may modulate a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) on a number (M) of tones representing a logical RU associated with the legacy tone plan and may further map the M tones to M noncontiguous subcarrier indices associated with a wireless channel. The transmitting device may transmit the PPDU, over the wireless channel, with a number (N) of pilot tones each having a respective location relative to the M tones as mapped to the M noncontiguous subcarrier indices. In some implementations, the relative locations of the N pilot tones may be different than relative locations of a number (K) of pilot tones associated with the logical RU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lin Yang, Bin Tian, Youhan Kim, Qifan Chen
  • Patent number: 11832253
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, for measurement and reporting procedures associated with a sidelink positioning reference signal (SL-PRS). In one aspect, a first user equipment (UE), which may function as a sidelink anchor node, may transmit an SL-PRS to a second UE in accordance with a slot format or structure that is dedicated for SL-PRS transmissions. The first UE may select resources for the transmission of the SL-PRS via sensing and exclusion or using a set of resources that are dedicated for SL-PRS transmissions. The second UE may receive the SL-PRS and use the SL-PRS to acquire positioning information, in accordance with an observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA)-based positioning method, or may transmit a second SL-PRS to the first UE to facilitate acquisition of positioning information at the first UE, in accordance with a round-trip-time (RTT)-based positioning method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Yucheng Dai, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11812455
    Abstract: Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example communication method includes receiving first indication information by a first communications device from a network device, where the first indication information indicates a first resource for sidelink communication. The first communications device sends the first data to a second communications device. The first communications device receives second indication information from the network device, where the second indication information is used to determine a second resource for transmitting feedback information. The first communications device receives feedback information of the first data from the second communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhengzheng Xiang, Hongjia Su, Jinfang Zhang, Lei Lu, Jun Luo
  • Patent number: 11792853
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a base station of an uncoordinated wireless communication system, wherein the communication system is configured to communicate in a radio band used by a plurality of communication systems, wherein the base station is configured to receive an uplink transmission from an end point of the wireless communication system, wherein the base station is configured to transmit, in response to the reception of the uplink transmission, a downlink transmission to the end point in a downlink transmission window, wherein the downlink transmission window is synchronized in time to the uplink transmission, wherein the base station is configured, in case of an expected collision of the downlink transmission with another transmission, to reposition the downlink transmission in time and/or frequency within the downlink transmission window, in order to avoid a collision of the downlink transmission with the other transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneissl, Stefan Ereth, Dominik Soller
  • Patent number: 11792616
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include technologies for managing co-existence among multiple Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Radio Access Technologies (RATs) through the setting of a Network Allocation Vector (NAV). MAC layer frame headers contain a duration field that specifies a transmission interval during which a shared channel will be occupied by a particular V2X RAT. The NAV indicates the time period intended to be held for the particular V2X RAT, and acts as an indication for how long stations implementing different V2X RATs must abstain from accessing the shared medium. Stations listen on the shared medium to obtain the MAC layer frame, read the duration field, and set their NAV indicators accordingly. Other embodiments are described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Markus Dominik Mueck, Leonardo Gomes Baltar
  • Patent number: 11791961
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to media access control (MAC) control element (CE) spatial relation information update for sounding reference signal (SRS). Specifically, a user equipment (UE) may receive a MAC CE from a network entity indicating a synchronization signal block (SSB) set and a SSB index within the SSB set as a reference signal (RS) for configuring spatial relation information of a SRS resource, wherein the UE is configured with a plurality of SSB sets corresponding to a plurality of physical cell identifications (PCIs) in a serving cell; and updating spatial relation information for one or more SRS resources within a SRS resource set based on the MAC CE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11791957
    Abstract: A first communication device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) determines one or more frequency division, full duplex (FDFD) parameters for an FDFD operation that includes FDFD communications via a first frequency segment and a second frequency segment. The first frequency segment and the second frequency segment are separated by a gap in frequency. The one or more FDFD parameters include a parameter indicating a duration of the FDFD operation. The first communication device generates a communication frame that includes one or more indications of the one or more FDFD parameters. The one or more indications in the communication frame include an indication of the duration of the FDFD operation. The first communication device transmits the communication frame to prompt a plurality of second communication devices to participate in the FDFD operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Jinjing Jiang, Liwen Chu, Hongyuan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 11784733
    Abstract: Provided are an information sending and receiving method and device, a storage medium and a processor. The information sending method includes: generating first signaling in a case where K elements in a beam-related parameter set exceed a first threshold corresponding to the K elements, wherein the K is an integer greater than or equal to 1; and sending the first signaling to a second communication node, wherein the first signaling carries information related to a reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Gao, YuNgok Li, Shujuan Zhang, Yijian Chen, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 11770293
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of a network entity in a wireless communication system is provided. The apparatus and method comprises: identifying a non-terrestrial network (NTN) type associated with an NTN; configuring a set of operational parameters for performing wireless communication based on the NTN type; identifying, based on a network configuration associated with the NTN, one or more interfaces to transmit information indicating the NTN type; and transmitting, to a user equipment (UE) or a network function (NF), the information indicating the NTN type via the identified one or more interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nishith D. Tripathi, Hongbo Si, Kyeongin Jeong
  • Patent number: 11765612
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication receives multiple beams from a base station. The method also simultaneously reports a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) for multiple beams with a single channel measurement resource (CMR) and a single interference measurement resource (IMR). The single IMR is configured for multiple interference sources. A method of wireless communication by a base station configures a UE with a group of interference sources. The base station also configures the UE with an interference measurement resource associated with the group of interference sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Venugopal, Wooseok Nam, Yan Zhou, Junyi Li, Qian Zhang, Tianyang Bai, Jung Ho Ryu, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11765769
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may be configured to transmit positioning reference signals (PRSs) to a second UE in an unshared radio frequency spectrum and transmit supplemental PRSs to the second UE in a shared spectrum. The second UE may then use the supplemental PRSs in addition to the PRSs in the unshared spectrum to compute a position of the first UE. In some cases, the first UE may signal a configuration for the supplemental PRSs to the second UE, and, in other cases, a base station may signal the configuration for the supplemental PRSs to the second UE. In any case, because the second UE may use both the PRSs in the unshared spectrum and the supplemental PRSs to compute the position of the first UE, the accuracy of the computed position of the first UE may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shuanshuan Wu, Arthur Gubeskys, Kapil Gulati
  • Patent number: 11765737
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for signaling enhancements. In one aspect, a User Equipment (UE) can receive a configuration to transmit one or more sounding reference signals (SRSs) based on a downlink control information (DCI). The UE can also receive an indication of a plurality of non-contiguous resource blocks (RBs) based on the DCI. The UE can transmit a first SRS on a first set of one or more RBs of the plurality of non-contiguous RBs. Additionally, the UE can transmit a second SRS on a second set of one or more RBs of the plurality of non-contiguous RBs. The first set of one or more RBs and the second set of one or more RBs may be separated by a distance of at least one RB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vinay Joseph, Junyi Li, Mostafa Khoshnevisan
  • Patent number: 11758368
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for supporting mobile originated data multicasting in a communications network are disclosed. One method includes receiving, from a consumer network function (NF) in a communications network, a deliver request message containing mobile originated (MO) data corresponding to a protocol data unit (PDU) session, wherein NIDD context information stored at NEF and referred by a context identifier in the deliver request message includes a subscriber identifier and a data network identifier associated with a user device requesting the PDU session and determining that a rule entry belonging to a plurality of rule entries contained in a multicasting ruleset matches at least one of the subscriber identifier and the data network identifier included in the NIDD context information that is stored at the NEF and referred by the context identifier in the deliver request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Rajiv Krishan
  • Patent number: 11751189
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to achieve data scrambling and transmission identification in the SL for UE cooperation (UC), in which one or more cooperating UEs help with a transmission to a target UE. Corresponding configuration schemes are also provided. In addition, systems and methods are provided to achieve data DMRS sequence generation and transmission identification in SL for UC, in which one or more cooperating UEs help with a transmission to a target UE. Corresponding configuration schemes are also provided. Furthermore, systems and methods of SL control channel scrambling and identification for UE cooperation are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liqing Zhang, Jianglei Ma, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 11743941
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from an initiator UE, a group formation communication indicating a group that the UE is associated with for a group positioning reference signal (PRS) Listen Before Talk (LBT) procedure. The UE may transmit, to the initiator UE, an indication that the UE should not be associated with the group based at least in part on performing the group PRS LBT procedure. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Chang-Sik Choi, Kapil Gulati, Gene Wesley Marsh