Patents Examined by Mewale A Ambaye
  • Patent number: 11728935
    Abstract: Provided are a control method and device for a data packet duplication function, and a communication device. The control method for the data packet duplication function includes determining, by a communication device, to deactivate or activate a data packet duplication function; and performing, by the communication device, an operation of deactivating or activating the data packet duplication function correspondingly. Further provided is a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei Zou, He Huang
  • Patent number: 11729632
    Abstract: A base station may transmit a beam refinement reference signal prior to a paging physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasion to improve reception of a paging downlink control information (DCI). A user equipment (UE) may receive at least one transmission indicating the beam refinement reference signal transmitted prior to the PDCCH monitoring occasion. The UE may receive the beam refinement reference signal prior to the paging PDCCH monitoring occasion based on the at least one transmission. The UE may receive a downlink control information on the paging PDCCH monitoring occasion based on the beam refinement reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Jelena Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 11722205
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a beam indication processing method, a user equipment and a network device. The beam indication processing method includes: determining beam indication information to be used currently; determining a beam for reception according to the determined beam indication information; and performing receiving according to the determined beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Sun, Xueming Pan, Yang Song, Yu Yang, Xiaodong Sun
  • Patent number: 11722425
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a data packet deleting method, a device and a storage medium, the method includes: when a protocol layer entity of a sender receives an SDU from a higher layer, determining a QoS flow to which the SDU belongs; when the QoS flow to which the SDU belongs is a first QoS flow, the protocol layer entity starts a first discard timer, or the protocol layer entity selects a reference timer from the first discard timer and a second discard timer (a discard timer with DRB granularity), and starts the reference timer; when the first discard timer expires, or, when the reference timer expires, the protocol layer entity deletes the SDU and a PDU corresponding to the SDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhe Fu
  • Patent number: 11716189
    Abstract: A signal is transmitted at a high speed in a direction opposite to a transmitting direction of a main large-capacity channel. A first transmitting unit transmits a first signal including a clock component to an external device through a transmission path as a differential signal. A second transmitting unit superimposes a second signal including a clock component on the transmission path as an in-phase signal to transmit to the external device. A state notifying unit communicates with the external device through a pair of differential transmission paths included in the transmission path and notifies the external device of a connection state of its own device by a DC bias potential of at least one of the pair of differential transmission paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Toba, Gen Ichimura
  • Patent number: 11711797
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and method related to remotely executable instructions are described. A device may be wirelessly coupled to (e.g., physically separated) another device, which may be in a physically separate device. The another device may remotely execute instructions associated with performing various operations, which would have been entirely executed at the device absent the another device. The outputs obtained as a result of the execution may be transmitted, via the transceiver, back to the device via a wireless communication link (e.g., using resources of an ultra high frequency (UHF), super high frequency (SHF), extremely high frequency (EHF), and/or tremendously high frequency (THF) bands). The another device at which the instructions are remotely executable may include memory resources, processing resources, and transceiver resources; they may be configured to use one or several communication protocols over licensed or shared frequency spectrum bands, directly (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Glen E. Hush, Aaron P. Boehm
  • Patent number: 11706673
    Abstract: A method performed by a wireless communication device for reducing handover delay, wherein the wireless communication device is arranged to operate in a cellular communication system and to operate in a cell using unlicensed spectrum. The method includes receiving a downlink, DL, signal from network node operating a neighbouring cell operating in the unlicensed spectrum, wherein the DL signal includes a discovery reference signal, DRS, subframe, storing data associated with the DRS subframe, receiving a handover command from a network node operating a serving cell where the neighbouring cell is a target cell, and performing a random access procedure for handover to the target cell. A device performing the method and a computer program for implementing the method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonsktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Dubl)
    Inventors: Chunhui Zhang, Peter Alriksson, Yusheng Liu, Mai-Anh Phan, David Sugirtharaj, Emma Wittenmark
  • Patent number: 11696165
    Abstract: A method of transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), power measurement information related to beam reporting in a wireless communication system includes: receiving downlink control information (DCI) triggering reporting of the power measurement information; receiving a downlink reference signal for reporting of the power measurement information; and transmitting, to a base station, power measurement information determined based on the received downlink reference signal. A minimum required time for reporting of the power measurement information is (i) calculated as the sum of a first minimum required time from the last timing of the downlink reference signal to a transmission timing of the power measurement information and a second minimum required time between DCI triggering the downlink reference signal and reception of the downlink reference signal or (ii) calculated based on a pre-configured threshold value related to reporting of the power measurement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyungtae Kim, Jiwon Kang
  • Patent number: 11690049
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for determining a resource of a communication by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, from a base station, information on a minimum number of subframes for monitoring; determining a number of a plurality of subframes to be monitored based on the minimum number of subframes; identifying the plurality of subframes to be monitored for a sidelink transmission; and transmitting, to the base station, information indicating a set of subframes for the sidelink transmission selected based on the plurality of subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shichang Zhang, Yi Wang, Yingyang Li
  • Patent number: 11683128
    Abstract: A receiver is described which receives data from a transmitter. The data is included in a data block which includes at least one code block, and the code block has a plurality of parts. A first part of the code block is used for estimating a decodability of the code block at the receiver. The first part of the code block is arranged in the data block ahead of the remaining one or more parts of the code block. The receiver estimates, prior to receiving the entire data block, the decodability of the code block using the first part of the code block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Thomas Wirth, Marco Breiling
  • Patent number: 11677457
    Abstract: A user equipment may be configured to perform beam failure detection enhancement. In some aspects, the user equipment may receive a beam failure detection reference signal (BFD-RS) from a base station, detect an occurrence of an interference event based on a first measurement of the BFD-RS or a channel event based on a second measurement of the BFD-RS, and update count information based on a detection function and the occurrence. Further, the user equipment may determine that at least one of a first timer for interference events or a second timer for channel events is active, and determine whether to perform a beam failure recovery process based on comparing a total count of the count information to a predefined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shanyu Zhou, Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11671993
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for determining quasi co-location (QCL) and/or transmission configuration information (TCI) state assumption information for a dynamic control resource set (CORESET). An example method by a user equipment (UE) generally includes receiving a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a control channel monitoring occasion, the first PDCCH indicating at least one dynamic CORESET; and receiving a second PDCCH within the dynamic CORESET, wherein the second PDCCH is received in accordance with at least one QCL assumption for the at least one dynamic CORESET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo, Qiang Wu, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jun Ma, Jing Sun, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal, Mehmet Izzet Gurelli, Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail
  • Patent number: 11672031
    Abstract: A first control node may communicate with a user equipment (UE) using an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network, and a second control node may manage a configuration of the IAB network. The second control node may not have the information needed to configure the IAB network, such as quality of service (QoS) information associated with a data radio bearer (DRB) used for communications between the first control node and the UE, and thus may not be able to configure a user plane interface tunnel and/or a radio link control (RLC) channel to assist with satisfying the QoS level. Some techniques and apparatuses described herein enable the second control node to receive QoS information associated with setting up a user plane interface tunnel between the first control node and an IAB node that serves a UE for which the user plane interface tunnel is being set up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Ozcan Ozturk, Luis Fernando Brisson Lopes, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11671164
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a receiving (Rx) user equipment (UE) may receive, from a transmitting (Tx) UE, sidelink control information (SCI). The Rx UE may determine an Rx-side block error rate (BLER) based at least in part on the SCI. The Rx UE may perform a beam failure recovery based at least in part on the Rx-side BLER satisfying a threshold. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sourjya Dutta, Kapil Gulati, Gabi Sarkis, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11665264
    Abstract: An ML entity senses a first PPDU on a first fink; and if the first PPDU is an intra-BSS PPDU, and a value of a duration field of the first PPDU is greater than a value of a target NAV of a second link, the ML entity updates the value of the target NAV of the second link to the value of the duration field of the first PPDU, where the second link is any one of a plurality of links supported by the ML entity other than the first link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunbo Li, Ming Gan, Mao Yang, Zhongjiang Yan
  • Patent number: 11665555
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a control message indicating a capability of the UE to identify and report a reciprocity parameter between downlink communications and uplink communications of a channel between the UE and the base station. In some examples, the base station may request a reciprocity report from the UE. The UE may identify a reciprocity parameter based on one or more parameters associated with an array of antennas at the UE. The reciprocity parameter may indicate a reciprocity between an uplink beam and a downlink beam, such as a degree of overlap between the uplink beam and the downlink beam. The UE may report the reciprocity parameter via a reciprocity report to the base station. In some examples, the base station may identify one or more parameters based on the reciprocity report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Idan Michael Horn, Shay Landis, Assaf Touboul
  • Patent number: 11659458
    Abstract: A radio network node, such as a gNodeB (gNB), a User Equipment (UE) and a method, for configuring the UE for camping on a cell in a radio network for Synchronization Signal (SS) Blocks based cell re-selection measurements for RRC_IDLE and RRC_INACTIVE states. The method comprises providing information to the UE, including configuration parameters for a measurement window, the configuration parameters defining a window periodicity, offset and duration, for configuring the UE for the SS Blocks based cell re-selection measurements for RRC_IDLE and RRC_INACTIVE states. Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling is used to convey the information to the UE prior to or in conjunction with switching the UE from RRC_CONNECTED state to RRC_INACTIVE or RRC_IDLE state, a RRCConnectionRelease message is used to convey the information to the UE and the information is also provided to the UE in system information (SI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON
    Inventors: Pradeepa Ramachandra, Wei Shen, Johan Rune, Henrik Sahlin
  • Patent number: 11658730
    Abstract: A method, device, and computer-readable medium provide for establishing, by a repeater device, a communication channel with a fixed wireless access (FWA) device; receiving, by the repeater device, reference signals from a wireless station; forwarding, by the repeater device, the reference signals to the FWA device; transmitting, by the repeater device, a first uplink signal from the FWA device using a first transmission power level to the wireless station, wherein the first transmission power level is a predetermined value; receiving, in response to the first uplink signal, transmit power control (TPC) command parameters from the FWA device via the communication channel; adjusting, by the repeater device and based on the first TPC command parameters, the first transmission power level from the predetermined value to an adjusted value; and transmitting, at the adjusted transmission power level, a second uplink signal from the FWA device to the wireless station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Samirkumar Patel, Andrew E. Youtz, Paul R. Mcdonough, Shen-De Lin
  • Patent number: 11659508
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for synchronization signal block reception and synchronization signal block transmission. One apparatus for synchronization signal block reception includes a receiver that receives multiple synchronization signal blocks. The multiple synchronization signal blocks have different power levels corresponding to at least two synchronization signal blocks of the multiple synchronization signal blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Chenxi Zhu, Zhennian Sun, Hongmei Liu, Lianhai Wu
  • Patent number: 11647555
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for establishing a secondary connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang