Patents Examined by Pankaj Kumar
  • Patent number: 11399368
    Abstract: A method in a radio device of radio resource allocation for transmitting data on a plurality of communication carriers is provided. The method includes sensing on a first carrier and obtaining a first set of candidate radio resources for a first transmission on the first carrier, performing a first selection of one or a plurality of the candidate radio resources from the first set to be used for the first transmission, sensing on a second carrier and obtaining a second set of candidate radio resources for a second transmission on the second carrier, performing a second selection of one or a plurality of the candidate radio resources from the second set to be used for the second transmission, and performing the first selection and the second selection in dependency to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ricardo Blasco Serrano, Shehzad Ali Ashraf, Marco Belleschi
  • Patent number: 11381369
    Abstract: A base station of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The base station of the wireless communication includes a communication module, and a processor. The processor generates a preemption indicator indicating a preempted resource. In this case, the resource indicated by the preemption indicator does not include an orthogonal frequency divisional multiplexing (OFDM) symbol configured as an uplink (UL) symbol by a radio resource control (RRC) signal. The processor is configured to transmit the preemption indicator to a user equipment of the wireless system based on a predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Kyungjun Choi, Minseok Noh, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 11381355
    Abstract: An information determination method, an information determination apparatus, and a device are provided. The information determination method includes: for multiple configurations of uplink grant-free transmission, detecting uplink transmission on a resource corresponding to at least one of the multiple configurations; and in a case that a first configuration corresponding to a resource where the uplink transmission is detected is not a predetermined configuration, determining an HARQ ID of the detected uplink transmission according to association information between the first configuration and the predetermined configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Bai, Xuejuan Gao, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11356322
    Abstract: Disclosed are a radio resource configuration method and apparatus, a user equipment and a network element. The radio resource configuration method includes that: a user equipment (UE) receives a message of a radio resource configuration from a first signaling radio bearer (SRB) of a first radio access technology (RAT), where the message carries information of a first configuration, and the first configuration is a configuration of a radio resource of the first RAT; and when the UE fails to configure the radio resource of the first RAT according to the information of the first configuration, the UE sends a response message of the radio resource configuration to indicate that the radio resource configuration of the first RAT fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xin Wang, He Huang
  • Patent number: 11343734
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for V2X communication over multiple radio access types. One method includes transmitting, from a remote unit, information indicating a vehicle-to-everything capability of the remote unit. The method includes receiving a response to the information indicating the vehicle-to-everything capability of the remote unit. The response indicates whether the remote unit is authorized to use the vehicle-to-everything capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Dimitrios Karampatsis, Prateek Basu Mallick, Genadi Velev
  • Patent number: 11337182
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting and/or receiving an indication of a portion of a time interval. One apparatus (200) includes a receiver (212) that: receives (902) a signal in a first transmission time interval indicating associated information of a second transmission time interval, wherein the second transmission time interval is a portion of the first transmission time interval; and receives (904) first data in the first transmission time interval and second data in the second transmission time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Chenxi Zhu
  • Patent number: 11336355
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel quality indicator (CQI)-based downlink buffer management as well as mitigating throughput loss in dual connectivity with multi-SIM. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes communicating with a first network on a first channel using a first technology, determining whether a tune-away associated with the first technology will occur, and outputting, for transmission to the first network on a second channel using a second technology, a channel quality indicator (CQI) report corresponding to the second channel if the tune-away will occur, wherein the CQI report indicates a lower CQI for the second channel than a current CQI for the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ravi Balasubramanian, Praveen Adusumilli, Ammar Kitabi, Arnaud Meylan
  • Patent number: 11330457
    Abstract: A beam indication (BI) mechanism is proposed to provide user equipment (UE) information of network (NW) beam(s) for later transmission. UE can then select its UE beam(s) for the later transmission based on the BI. In one embodiment, NW provides beam management configuration to UE via Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, and then provides beam indication index signaling to UE via MAC-CE or DCI. The beam management configuration comprises a mapping table between network beams and configured reference signal (RS) resources. The beam indication index signaling indicates one or more preferred beam pair links (BPLs). Upon triggering a beam management procedure by the network, UE is able to identify the beam management procedure and selects corresponding UE beam(s) based on the beam management configuration and the beam indication index signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: MediaTek INC.
    Inventors: Chia-Hao Yu, Ming-Po Chang, Jiann-Ching Guey
  • Patent number: 11329871
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing multi-link aggregation and conditional inheritance in a first basic service set (BSS). In one aspect, an apparatus may establish a first communication link with a first station (STA) of the first BSS using a first frequency band. The apparatus may determine a first link profile for a second communication link by customizing one or more management elements of management information associated with the first communication link. The apparatus may configure a first non-inheritance element of the first link profile associated with the second communication link to indicate usage of at least one management element of the management information by the second communication link is disabled. The apparatus may generate a management frame that comprises at least the first link profile, and may output the management frame for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yongchun Xiao, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Sandip HomChaudhuri, Ravi Gidvani, Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian
  • Patent number: 11323196
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include systems, methods, and media for receiving and transmitting digital data over a plurality of channels. Disclosed embodiments may include receiving data from a plurality of sources through one or more networks. Disclosed embodiments may also include assigning a geographic area to the data from the plurality of sources, the geographic area corresponding to one or more locations associated with the data. Additionally, disclosed embodiments may include determining health effects for a predetermined location based on the data and its associated geographic locations. Further, disclosed embodiments may include generating, by querying a predetermined response database, instructions that address the determined health affects for the predetermined location, the instructions including an action and an associated device. And, disclosed embodiments may include transmitting, to the associated device, the action associated with the instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: TeleTracking Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Newton, Jason Spector
  • Patent number: 11323992
    Abstract: A method for detecting downlink control information includes receiving, by a terminal device from a network device, detection related information for detecting downlink control information (DCIs) of all bandwidth parts (BWPs), where the detection related information is determined by the network device based on resource load of control resource sets of all the BWPs, and detecting, by the terminal device, each of the DCIs based on the detection related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongcheng Zhuang, Yunbo Han
  • Patent number: 11310782
    Abstract: A first apparatus may receive, on a first control channel, information indicating a first set of resources allocated on a second control channel; send, to a second UE based on the first set of resources allocated on the second control channel, information associated with communication on a data channel; and send data to the second UE on the data channel based on the information associated with the communication on the data channel. A second apparatus may receive, on a first control channel, information indicating a first set of resources allocated on a second control channel; receive, from a second UE based on the first set of resources allocated on the second control channel, information associated with communication on a data channel; and receive data from the second UE on the data channel based on the information associated with the communication on the data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Junyi Li, Tao Luo, Jung Ho Ryu, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11310826
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. After receiving a transmission, a user equipment (UE) may store status information for the transmission and send an acknowledgment message that includes a signature. When a base station receives an acknowledgment message with a signature, it may transmit a subsequent downlink grant that includes the same signature. The signature included in a downlink grant may enable the UE to retrieve a stored status and decode the next data transmission based on the retrieved status. That is, the base station may use the signature in the grant to indicate which acknowledgment the grant is based on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Taesang Yoo, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11283509
    Abstract: A method of transmitting and receiving a signal, by a base station (BS), in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes determining whether each of at least one terminal connected to the BS supports nonlinear precoding (NLP) or a modulo operation, determining a plurality of signals that are overlapping-transmitted in a time-frequency resource region from among a control signal, a reference signal (RS), and a data signal transmitted from the BS, based on whether the at least one terminal supports the NLP or the modulo operation, and transmitting, to each of the at least one terminal, information about whether the NLP or the modulo operation is performed in a resource where the plurality of signals are transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoondong Noh, Youngwoo Kwak, Younsun Kim, Taehyoung Kim, Cheolkyu Shin
  • Patent number: 11258885
    Abstract: One embodiment includes a network device, including hardware parsers to receive data of a header section of a packet, the header section including respective headers, parser configuration registers to store a default parsing configuration data set, wherein at least one of the hardware parsers is configured to parse at least one of the headers responsively to the default parsing configuration data set, yielding first parsed data, a packet processing engine to select a selected parsing configuration data set from a selection of parsing configuration data sets responsively to the first parsed data, cause loading of the selected parsing configuration data set into the parser configuration registers, and wherein ones of the hardware parsers are configured to parse respective ones of the headers responsively to the selected parsing configuration data set, yielding second parsed data, and process the packet responsively to the second parsed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Avi Urman, Lior Narkis, Noam Bloch
  • Patent number: 11234272
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a downlink traffic query to a base station based at least in part on an expectation of downlink traffic from the base station over an unlicensed frequency spectrum band and an absence of downlink traffic from the base station over the unlicensed frequency spectrum band for a threshold duration of time. The UE may receive a downlink traffic indication response from the base station based at least in part on the downlink traffic query. The UE may monitor the unlicensed frequency spectrum band based at least in part on the downlink traffic indication response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Srinivas Yerramalli, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Makesh Pravin John Wilson
  • Patent number: 11202304
    Abstract: A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) includes intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. A method by a terminal for transmitting uplink data in a wireless communication system comprises receiving downlink control information for scheduling of uplink transmission in a cell from a base station and transmitting the uplink data to the base station on the supplementary uplink if the indicator indicates the scheduling of the uplink transmission is associated with the supplementary uplink in the cell. The downlink control information includes an indicator indicating whether the scheduling of the uplink transmission is associated with a supplementary uplink in the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeohun Yun, Yongok Kim, Chanhong Kim, Jongbu Lim, Sungnam Hong, Taeyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11190323
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes: receiving first information and second information transmitted by a network device, where the first information is configured to trigger the terminal device to feed back aperiodic N CSIs, and to indicate a PUSCH resource to be used when the CSIs are fed back, and the second information is configured to indicate channel measurement and interference measurement resources corresponding to the N CSIs; determining M CSIs that need to be fed back from the N CSIs according to the first information, the second information and M CSI processing units currently in an idle state; calculating payloads of the M CSIs that need to be fed back, respectively, and feeding back the M CSIs that need to be fed back on the PUSCH resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenhong Chen
  • Patent number: 11172367
    Abstract: A method for utilizing a block chain infrastructure to define a trusted circle including at least two nodes of a plurality of nodes, the method includes receiving, by a first node, notification information identifying a trusted user circle including the first node and a second node, wherein the first node and the second node are configured to define a private block chain; and maintaining private block chain data within the trusted user circle according to pre-defined settings, wherein the private block chain data is divided between nodes of the trusted user circle based on the pre-defined settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Troels F. Roennow, Mark M. Clougherty, Mu Rong Lin
  • Patent number: 11115343
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by a transport layer executed by a processor circuit in an apparatus, a flow of application data having been originated by an executable application; storing, by the transport layer, the application data as transport layer packets in a buffer circuit in the apparatus, each transport layer packet having a corresponding transport sequence identifier identifying a corresponding position of the transport layer packet relative to a transmit order of the transport layer packets; and causing, by the transport layer, a plurality of deterministic network interface circuits to deterministically retrieve the transport layer packets, in the transmit order, from the buffer circuit for deterministic transmission across respective deterministic links, the transport sequence identifiers enabling a destination transport layer to recover the transmit order of the transport layer following the deterministic transmission across the deterministic links, regardless of order of rece
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Pascal Thubert, Patrick Wetterwald, Eric Michel Levy-Abegnoli