Patents Examined by Rahel Guarino
  • Patent number: 11632164
    Abstract: To switch a TCI state, QCL assumption, or a beam of a channel at high speed, a user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives information regarding a plurality of reference signals associated with one or more Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI) states; and a control section that controls reception of a downlink physical channel assuming quasi-co-location with at least one of the plurality of reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11632163
    Abstract: A communication device, computer program product, and method provide improved communication performance by a wearable communication device. The communication device receives multipaths of a millimeter wave (mmWave) signal created by a wearable radio frequency (RF) reflecting surface being worn by a person. Controller of the communication device identifies a first direction from which a direct path downlink signal is received and a second direction from which a corresponding a multipath downlink signal is received. The controller determines that the multipath downlink signal is being reflected from the wearable RF reflecting surface. In response to determining that the multipath downlink signal is being reflected from the wearable RF reflecting surface, the controller synchronizes and aggregates the direct path downlink signal and the multipath downlink signal to produce a processed downlink signal that is a better signal than the direct path downlink signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Daniel C Chisu, Si Chen
  • Patent number: 11621732
    Abstract: A high-frequency front end module includes a primary antenna terminal and a secondary antenna terminal, a first multiplexer and a second multiplexer, a switch circuit, and a first amplifier and a second amplifier. The first multiplexer has a first transmission filter and a first reception filter. The second multiplexer has a second transmission filter and a second reception filter. The switch circuit exclusively switches connection between the primary antenna terminal and the first multiplexer and connection between the primary antenna terminal and the second multiplexer, and exclusively switches connection between the secondary antenna terminal and the first multiplexer and connection between the secondary antenna terminal and the second multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoji Tsuda, Takayuki Nakamura, Daerok Oh
  • Patent number: 11606240
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a radio frequency (RF) front end circuit to receive and downconvert a RF signal to a second frequency signal, the RF signal comprising an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission; a digitizer coupled to the RF front end circuit to digitize the second frequency signal to a digital signal; and a baseband processor coupled to the digitizer to process the digital signal. The baseband circuit comprises a first circuit having a first plurality of correlators having an irregular comb structure, each of the first plurality of correlators associated with a carrier frequency offset and to calculate a first correlation on a first portion of a preamble of the OFDM transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventor: Frederic Pirot
  • Patent number: 11601185
    Abstract: A method for optimizing user equipment wireless localization using K reconfigurable intelligent surfaces reflecting signal(s) transmitted between a base station and the user equipment, the method including, whatever an a priori position of the user equipment selecting at least one reconfigurable intelligent surface to activate among the K reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, determining phases of elements of the at least one reconfigurable intelligent surface, by minimizing a predetermined cost function, depending on the a priori position, and accounting for a predetermined position error bound of the user equipment, while ensuring that at most K reconfigurable intelligent surfaces are selected, ensuring that the minimum Euclidian distance between two consecutive selected reconfigurable intelligent surfaces of a predetermined configuration, is strictly higher than a predetermined value limiting interference between additional multipath components generated by the at least one reconfigurable intelligent surfac
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventors: Benoît Denis, Henk Wymeersch
  • Patent number: 11595091
    Abstract: A transmission of a sounding reference signal by an electronic device is provided. A method of an electronic device includes transmitting a signal via a first antenna subset including at least one of a plurality of antennas, measuring an emission environment of the plurality of antennas, using the signal, determining at least one antenna to be used for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS), based on the emission environment, and transmitting the SRS via the at least one determined antenna. The emission environment includes a strength of a reflected signal that corresponds to the signal and is reflected by the first antenna subset, or a strength of a reception signal that corresponds to the signal and is received by a second antenna subset including at least one remaining antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woojin Kim, Kihyug Seong, Dongil Yang
  • Patent number: 11588575
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for processing interference, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes: generating a first reference signal, and sending the first reference signal according to a first parameter set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mengzhu Chen, Hao Wu, Saijin Xie, Jun Xu, Yu Ngok Li, Yajun Zhao, Hanqing Xu
  • Patent number: 11575430
    Abstract: A communication system transmits data signals between communication nodes. A first data signal is transmitted as an electromagnetic wave along a first data transmission path to a receiver using skywave propagation. A second data signal, identical to the first data signal, is transmitted to the receiver along a second data transmission path. The two data signals are compared at the receiver to determine any distortion caused by the skywave propagation. Data regarding the distortion is sent back to the transmitter so that subsequent transmitted data signals may be preconditioned when sent by skywave propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Skywave Networks LLC
    Inventor: Kevin J. Babich
  • Patent number: 11569871
    Abstract: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system that addresses three major challenges in airborne MIMO communications, namely, antenna blockage due largely to the movement and orientation of the airborne platforms, the presence of unknown interference inherent to the intended application, and the lack of channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter. The system is implemented on a Diagonal Bell-Labs Layered Space-Time (D-BLAST) MIMO architecture and includes spatial spreading to counter antenna blockage, temporal spreading to mitigate signal to interference and noise ratio degradation due to intended or unintended interference, and a simple low rate feedback scheme to enable real time adaptation in the absence of full transmitter CSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Biao Chen, Yang Liu, Janek Mroczek
  • Patent number: 11569872
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally pertains a system and method for wireless inter-networking between a wireless wide area network (WWAN) and a local area network (WLAN) employing one or more extended range wireless inter-networking devices. Aspects of the present disclosure more specifically are directed toward a high powered wireless interconnect device that includes high efficiency circuitry to make it possible to implement in a portable or in-vehicle form factor, which may provide reasonable battery life, size, weight, and thermal dissipation. an extended range wireless inter-networking device, according to another embodiment of the disclosure. Aspects of the present disclosure further include a portable wireless access point configured for extended range communications, which may include a high power user equipment (“HPUE”) as disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventors: Edward C. Lin, Thomas R. Bilotta, Sheikh A. Hafiz, John Arnett Goocher, Robert E. LaRose, Steven A. Morley
  • Patent number: 11569873
    Abstract: A MIMO symbol detection and search method, a decoding circuit and a receiving antenna system are provided. The signal detection and search method includes the following steps. A symbol search tree is obtained, and a plurality of candidate symbols at each layer of the symbol search tree are sorted. The candidate symbols are traversed in sequence at each layer of the symbol search tree. At each layer of the symbol search tree, if a cumulative partial Euclidean distance is greater than or equal to a threshold, un-scanned candidate symbols are excluded. If the cumulative partial Euclidean distance is less than the threshold, the threshold is updated by the cumulative partial Euclidean distance. When all of the candidate symbols have been calculated, an estimated symbol combination is outputted, and the scan of the symbol search tree is terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kai-Jiun Yang, Chi-Tien Sun, Shang-Ho Tsai
  • Patent number: 11570759
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of one or more reception parameters, of the UE, for sidelink communication and downlink communication. The UE may receive, based at least in part on the one or more reception parameters, at least one of one or more sidelink streams or one or more downlink streams. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Jung Ho Ryu, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11569950
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a first radio node configured for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), comprising a receiver, a transmitter, a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor for causing the transmitter in a first mode of operation with a first subcarrier spacing f1: to transmit a sequence of prefixed OFDM symbols, and in a second mode of operation with a second subcarrier spacing f2: to transmit a sequence of prefixed OFDM symbols, wherein the sequence of transmitted OFDM symbols is aligned with a predefined repeating radio frame, which is common to both the first and second modes of operation, or with an integer multiple of the predefined repeating radio frame; and the first and second subcarrier spacings are related by an integer factor, f1/f2=p or f1/f2=1/p, with p?1 integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Stefan Parkvall, Erik Dahlman, Asbjörn Grövlen
  • Patent number: 11563466
    Abstract: Methods, media, and systems are provided for restricting an uplink Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) assignment based on fading, battery data, or location data associated with a user device in an mmWave system. Fading data, location data, or battery data is received from one or more user devices. Based on the received data, a determination is made using the data received (e.g., determining the battery data of the user device is below a threshold or determining the location of the user device). In response, the assignment of the user device to an uplink MIMO layer of available MIMO layers is restricted. The restricted uplink MIMO layer is a higher MIMO layer than another MIMO layer of the available MIMO layers. In response to restricting the assignment, the user device may be assigned to an available MIMO layer that is a lower MIMO layer than the restricted MIMO layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Atul Kulkarni, Sreekar Marupaduga, Anurag Thantharate
  • Patent number: 11558092
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements configured for MIMO communication across a network. One or more sensors detect a triggering event altering a radiation correlation pattern between at least two antenna elements of the plurality of antenna elements. One or more processors then select, in response to the one or more sensors detecting the triggering event, a quantity of antenna elements from the plurality of antenna elements available for engagement in the MIMO communication across the network as a function of the radiation correlation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Daniel C Chisu, Armin W Klomsdorf, Si Chen
  • Patent number: 11558102
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may identify an intelligent reflecting surface device for communications with a user equipment. The base station may determine a reference signal configuration based on the identified intelligent reflecting surface device. The reference signal configuration may include a first set of parameters associated with the intelligent reflecting surface device. The base station may transmit, to the UE, the intelligent reflecting surface device, or both, one or more reference signals in accordance with the first set of parameters. The base station may identify a second set of parameters associated with one or more reflecting elements of the intelligent reflecting surface device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Junyi Li, Qiang Wu, Ozge Koymen, Raju Hormis, Farideddin Fayazbakhsh, Mehmet Izzet Gurelli
  • Patent number: 11546202
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided that includes circuitry for decomposing an input signal to multiple substantially constant-envelope components and an outphasing path for each substantially constant-envelope component. The apparatus also includes a modulator for discrete phase control in each outphasing path, an amplifier in each outphasing path and a combiner for combining output signals from the outphasing paths. A system and method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Karthik Upadhya, Stefan Wesemann
  • Patent number: 11546042
    Abstract: Monitoring a MIMO pairing efficiency of a sector to determine whether or not to enable/disable inter-band carrier aggregation. If the pairing efficiency (whether predicted or actual) is high, inter-band carrier aggregation is disabled, and if the pairing efficiency is low, then inter-band carrier aggregation is enabled. The inter-band carrier aggregation utilizes a low-frequency carrier as a primary component carrier and a high-frequency carrier as a secondary component carrier. The MIMO mode of operation utilizes the high-frequency carrier for control transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Hemanth Pawar, Krishna Sitaram, Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas
  • Patent number: 11546022
    Abstract: In some example embodiments, there may be provided an apparatus. The apparatus may include a surface including at least one electro-magnetic reflective element programmed to provide a plurality of reflected signals, such that the plurality of reflected signals constructively adds at a location of a receiver of the plurality of reflected signals. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventors: Manideep Dunna, Chi Zhang, Dinesh Bharadia, Daniel Sievenpiper
  • Patent number: 11540285
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a base station that includes a phased array antenna system and a MIMO antenna system. The MIMO antenna system may receive sounding signals sent by user equipment (UE) and determine angular location information for each UE. The angular location information may be used by the phased array antenna system to create antenna beams. The angular location information may also be used to schedule communications with multiple UEs in common beams. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Aditya Chopra, Andrew Thornburg, Saeed Ghassemzadeh