Patents Examined by Sam K. Ahn
  • Patent number: 11728905
    Abstract: A method for providing digital communication over an acoustic channel is disclosed. The method includes dividing an operating frequency band of the acoustic channel into multiple adjacent non-overlapping subbands of an equal bandwidth, selecting subbands based on a symbol to be transmitted, generating a signal with linear frequency modulation in each of the selected subbands, combining the signals with linear frequency modulation, and transmitting the combined signals to the acoustic channel through an acoustic system, wherein slopes of linear frequency modulation for the signals with linear frequency modulation are equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Cue Audio, LLC
    Inventors: Timur Kelin, Jameson Rader
  • Patent number: 11722171
    Abstract: UWB ranging methods and apparatus are disclosed. The method comprises a ranging communication with a plurality of responder devices, the ranging communication comprising: transmitting, by an initiator device, a polling signal in a time slot; receiving a respective response from each of the plurality of responder devices, overlapping and in a next time slot, each response comprising: synchronization bits, and a frame comprising Start of Frame Delimiter, and a Scrambled Timestamp Sequence; wherein the STS comprises a sequence of segments each preceded by a respective guard interval, wherein a specific one of the segments comprises data derived from a ranging key and a responder-identifier each unique to the respective responder among the plurality of responders, wherein a sequence-number of the specific segment is unique to the respective response, and wherein a remainder of the segments each comprise the same data derived from a predetermined common key and predetermined common data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Diwakar Subraveti, Abdul Wahid Abdul Kareem, Shengyang Xu, Atmaram Kota Rajaram, Ajay A Jampale
  • Patent number: 11700034
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for extracting broadband error calibration parameters, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: performing frequency band splitting on link broadband signals of an ultra-wide band system according to a received frequency band index table to generate sub-bands; extracting an amplitude error and a phase error of each sub-band; and iteratively weighting and accumulating, according to the frequency band index table and a preset broadband weight table, the amplitude error and the phase error of each sub-band one by one to an initial amplitude error compensation parameter and an initial phase error compensation parameter respectively, to synthesize and extract broadband error calibration parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hongxing Zhou
  • Patent number: 11694068
    Abstract: A convolutional engine is configured to process input data that is organized into horizontal stripes. The number of accumulators present in each convolver unit of the convolutional engine may equal a total number of rows of data in each of the horizontal stripes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Recogni Inc.
    Inventor: Eugene M. Feinberg
  • Patent number: 11694069
    Abstract: Contiguous columns of a convolutional engine are partitioned into two or more groups. Each group of columns may be used to process input data. Filter weights assigned to one group may be distinct from filter weights assigned to another group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Recogni Inc.
    Inventor: Eugene M. Feinberg
  • Patent number: 11683075
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for multi-antenna transmission in UE and base station. The user equipment receives a first wireless signal at first; then transmits a second wireless signal, and monitors a first signaling in a first sub-time resource pool. Wherein the first wireless signal is transmitted by K antenna port group(s) and the second wireless signal is used to determine the first antenna port group. The first antenna port group is one of the K antenna port group(s). The first sub-time resource pool is reserved to the first antenna port group, or the index of the first antenna port group is used to determine the first sub-time resource pool. One antenna port group includes positive integer number of antenna ports, and the K is a positive integer greater than 1. The disclosure reduces the complexity of blind detection of downlink signaling by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11658798
    Abstract: A method includes: scheduling transmission of a first synchronization signal by a first node; and scheduling transmission of a second synchronization signal by a second node. The method also includes, after transmission of the first synchronization signal: receiving, from the first node, a first phase reference associated with the first synchronization signal; and receiving, from the second node, a first phase-of-arrival of the first synchronization signal at the second node. The method additionally includes, after transmission of the second synchronization signal: receiving, from the second node, a second phase reference associated with the second synchronization signal; and receiving, from the first node, a second phase-of-arrival of the second synchronization signal at the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: ZaiNar, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip A. Kratz, Mainak M. Chowdhury, Jonathan Lu, Siamak Yousefi
  • Patent number: 11646839
    Abstract: A receiver for detecting and recovering payload data from a received signal comprises a radio frequency demodulation circuit, a detector circuit and a demodulator circuit. The radio frequency demodulation circuit detects the received signal. The received signal carries the payload data as OFDM symbols in one or more of a plurality of time divided frames, each frame including a bootstrap signal, a preamble signal and a plurality of sub-frames. The demodulator circuit detects bootstrap OFDM symbols to identify communications parameters for detecting the fixed length signalling data, detects the fixed length signalling data to identify the communications parameters for detecting the variable length signalling data, detects the variable length signalling data, and uses the fixed and variable length signalling data to detect the payload data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
  • Patent number: 11646784
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques allow a channel engineering device (CED) to identify a suitable configuration for deflecting uplink transmissions from a user equipment (UE) to a base station. The base station may transmit control signaling to the CED indicating multiple configurations for deflecting uplink reference signals. The UE may then transmit the uplink reference signals to the CED, and the CED may deflect the uplink reference signals using the indicated configurations. The base station may receive the uplink reference signals from the UE via the CED, and the base station may perform measurements on the uplink reference signals. The base station may then identify a configuration for the CED to use to deflect subsequent transmissions from the UE to the base station based on the measurements, and the base station may transmit an indication of the configuration to the CED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ran Berliner, Shay Landis, Yehonatan Dallal
  • Patent number: 11645504
    Abstract: A convolutional engine is configured to process input data that is organized into vertical stripes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Recogni Inc.
    Inventor: Eugene M. Feinberg
  • Patent number: 11646762
    Abstract: A master-slave system for communication over an ultra-wideband radio connection is proposed. The master-slave system comprises at least one slave device and one master device, wherein the slave device and the master device are configured to communicate over the ultra-wideband radio connection. The master device is configured to generate and transmit a request message to the slave device over a first channel of the ultra-wideband radio connection. The slave device is configured to receive the request message over the first channel of the ultra-wideband radio connection, generate at least one response message based on the request message, and transmit the at least one response message to the master device over the first channel of the ultra-wideband radio connection, and the master device is configured to receive the at least one response message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Alexander Krebs
  • Patent number: 11646778
    Abstract: A method for controlling a beam in a cell, includes obtaining traffic distribution data of a plurality of beam areas included in the cell, obtaining a total number of a plurality of beams for a beam area among the plurality of the beam areas, based on the obtained traffic distribution data, and obtaining a beam width of one among the plurality of beams for the beam area, based on the obtained total number of the plurality of beams. The method further includes obtaining, from a candidate beam set, candidate beams for the beam area, based on the obtained total number of the plurality of beams and the obtained beam width of the one among the plurality of beams, and obtaining, from the obtained candidate beams, multiple beams for the beam area, based on a distance between the obtained candidate beams and the beam area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Ni, Meifang Jing, Shoufeng Wang, Seho Kim, Junyi Yu, Jiajia Wang, Xiaohui Yang, Yi Zhao
  • Patent number: 11638255
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine a first transmission on a first set of beams is unsuccessful and determine a second transmission on a second set of beams is successful. The UE may identify a beam from the second set of beams based on the determination that the second transmission on the second set of beams is successful. The UE may transmit, to a base station, an indication of the identified beam from the second set of beams and communicate with the base station via the identified beam from the second set of beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11632192
    Abstract: A transmission device that performs multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission of transmit data using a plurality of fundamental bands. The transmission device includes an error correction coding unit, a mapping unit, and a MIMO coding unit. The error correction coding unit, for each data block of predefined length, performs error correction coding and thereby generates an error correction coded frame. The mapping unit maps each predefined number of bits in the error correction coded frame to a corresponding symbol and thereby generates an error correction coded block. The MIMO coding unit performs MIMO coding with respect to the error correction coded block. Components of data included in the error correction coded block are allocated to at least two of the fundamental bands and transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Mikihiro Ouchi, Noritaka Iguchi, Tomohiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 11621761
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a method, performed by a requirements-using network entity having an array of antenna elements, comprises determining a plurality of antenna subarray configurations, each antenna subarray configuration comprising a different subset of the antenna elements in the array of antenna elements. The method further comprises receiving, from a requirements-providing network entity, a set of one or more accuracy requirements, each accuracy requirement comprising a positioning accuracy requirement or a measurement accuracy requirement for azimuth, elevation, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji
  • Patent number: 11621740
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a communication device. The methods comprise: receiving a carrier signal modulated with a modulation signal comprising a symbol conveyed in a symbol timing window; determining an energy value for each timeslot in the symbol timing window; combining the energy values to determine a combined energy value for each bit of the symbol in a manner in which the combined energy value is penalized if more than one timeslot of the symbol timing window comprises energy contained in the carrier signal; and generating a soft value for each bit of the sequence of bits by combining the combined energy value with a weight value, where the weight value is selected from a plurality of weight values based on a number of timeslots in the symbol timing window which comprises energy contained in the carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: L. Carl Christensen, Ihab Francis
  • Patent number: 11616667
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques related to wireless communication system in which multi-level encoded modulation (MLCM) is applied to non-coherent communication. In the proposed techniques, a small fraction of differential phase rotations or bits participating in differential symbol coding are protected with strong codes while other complementary differential phase rotations or bits are protected with weaker codes. Compared to conventional non-coherent communication techniques in which a uniform protection is applied to any fraction of differential phase rotation or any bit of a differential symbol, the proposed MLCM approach enables more spectrally efficient scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Levitsky, Assaf Touboul, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger, Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Shay Landis
  • Patent number: 11610034
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing a simulation of a simulation model on a computer with a real-time system, the simulation and the real-time system each having a computing clock having a matching macro increment. The method includes the following features: awaiting a message from the real-time system, measuring a receiving instant of the message by the simulation, awaiting at least one further message of the real-time system, measuring the receiving instant of the further message by the simulation; calculating an averaged receiving instant based on the receiving instants of the message and the at least one further message; determining a starting instant of the simulation based on the averaged receiving instant such that the results of a macro increment of the real-time system are available to the simulation at the start of a macro increment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Lars Mikelsons, Michael Baumann, Oliver Kotte, Peter Baumann
  • Patent number: 11611376
    Abstract: In NR, a gNB utilizes multiple antennas and beam forming techniques for downlink transmissions to UEs. Described herein are methods and apparatus by which a UE measures the quality of multiple directional beams received from a gNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hua Li, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang, Manasa Raghavan
  • Patent number: 11606427
    Abstract: A synchronized communication system includes a plurality of network communication devices, one of which is designated as a root device and the others designated as slave devices. Each network communication device includes one or more ports and communications circuitry, which processes the communication signals received by the one or more ports so as to recover a respective remote clock from each of the signals. A synchronization circuit is integrated in the root device and provides a root clock signal, which is conveyed by clock links to the slave devices. A host processor selects one of the ports of one of the network communication devices to serve as a master port, finds a clock differential between the root clock signal and the respective remote clock recovered from the master port, and outputs, responsively to the clock differential, a control signal causing the synchronization circuit to adjust the root clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Dotan David Levi, Avraham Ganor, Arnon Sattinger, Natan Manevich, Reuven Kogan, Artiom Tsur, Ariel Almog, Bar Shapira