Patents Examined by Shuwang Liu
  • Patent number: 11368175
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) control circuit is provided. The RF control circuit includes power amplifier (PA) circuitry for amplifying an RF signal and control circuitry configured to improve linearity of the PA circuitry based on a PA signature(s) already available and utilized to perform digital pre-distortion (DPD) in the RF control circuit. In examples discussed herein, the control circuitry determines a performance deviation of the PA circuitry based on the PA signature and continuously adjusts a bias voltage(s) supplied to the PA circuitry until the performance deviation is reduced to a predetermined performance deviation threshold. By continuously monitoring the performance deviation based on the PA signature(s) and adjusting the bias voltage(s), the control circuitry can detect and correct an operation abnormality of the PA circuitry in a timely manner. As a result, it is possible to maintain linearity in the PA circuitry for enhanced PA performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: QORVO US, INC.
    Inventors: Jose Jimenez, Bror Peterson, Jeffrey Gengler
  • Patent number: 11349539
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer readable medium for special thermal density reduction by antenna thinning. A system comprises N transmit/receive (TX/RX) chains, where each TX/RX chain comprises an RFFE and each RFFE comprises one or more thermal sensors configured to measure heat in the RFFE. An antenna array coupled to the plurality of TX/RX chains. A codebook that comprises a plurality of code words configured to respond to real-time heat measurements from the thermal sensors in each TX/RX chain is configured to switch off selected TX/RX chains to reduce thermal density at the antenna array while maintaining M RFFEs switched on, where M<N and the desired beamforming gain is 10 log 10(M).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Brent Elliott, Hosein Nikopour, Eren Sasoglu, Shilpa Talwar
  • Patent number: 11310800
    Abstract: A method and system/circuit for multi-beamforming signal processing are provided. The circuit includes a plurality of basic modules associated with a plurality of transducers. Each basic module includes a first and second processing stages operative for introducing time delays of higher and lower temporal resolutions to the signals processed thereby respectively, and a path selector multiplexer module managing the signal coupling between the first and second stages. The first processing stage is connectable to one of the transducers via a first port and includes a network of first type time delay channels defining L signal paths operative at a relatively high sampling rate and adapted for providing L respectively different time delays of high temporal resolution. The second processing stage includes an array of N second type time delay channels operable for shifting signals processed thereby by any number up-to K samples of a lower sampling rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SATIXFY UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Divaydeep Sikri, Moche Cohen, Doron Rainish
  • Patent number: 11277181
    Abstract: This application provides a beam training method and apparatus. The method includes: generating and sending a set up frame, where the set up frame includes M pieces of time information, each piece of time information corresponds to one receiving device in the M receiving devices, each piece of time information is used to indicate a feedback information sending moment of the corresponding receiving device, each piece of time information is further used to indicate an acknowledgment information receiving moment of the corresponding receiving device; receiving a sector sweep SSW frame, generating feedback information based on the SSW frame; sending the feedback information at a feedback information sending moment indicated by corresponding time information; receiving, at an acknowledgment information receiving moment indicated by the corresponding time information, acknowledgment information. Therefore, a training time can be shortened and signaling overheads can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao Han, Ying Zhang, Zhiwei Chen, Junhao Jiang, Yan Long, Rong He
  • Patent number: 11277254
    Abstract: A receiver device implements enhanced data reception with edge-based clock and data recovery such as with a flash analog-to-digital converter architecture. In an example embodiment, the device implements a first phase adjustment control loop, with for example, a bang-bang phase detector, that detects data transitions for adjusting sampling at an optimal edge time with an edge sampler by adjusting a phase of an edge clock of the sampler. This loop may further adjust sampling in received data intervals for optimal data reception by adjusting the phase of a data clock of a data sampler such a flash ADC. The device may also implement a second phase adjustment control loop with, for example, a baud-rate phase detector, that detects data intervals for further adjusting sampling at an optimal data time with the data sampler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Hae-Chang Lee, Brian Leibowitz, Jaeha Kim, Jafar Savoj
  • Patent number: 11271713
    Abstract: A method includes, at a first node: transmitting a first synchronization signal at a first time according to a first clock of the first node; back-coupling the first synchronization signal to generate a first self-receive signal; calculating a time-of-arrival of the first self-receive signal according to the first clock; and calculating a time-of-arrival of the second synchronization signal according to the first clock. The method also includes, at the second node: transmitting the second synchronization signal at a second time according to a second clock of the second node; back-coupling the second synchronization signal to generate a second self-receive signal; calculating a time-of-arrival of the second self-receive signal according to the second clock; and calculating a time-of-arrival of the first synchronization signal according to the second clock. The method S100 further includes calculating a time bias and a propagation delay between the pair of nodes based on the time-of-arrivals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ZaiNar, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip A. Kratz, Mainak Chowdhury, Alexander Hooshmand, Daniel M. Jacker
  • Patent number: 11252007
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for facilitating the use of a plurality of antenna beams for communications purposes are described. In at least some embodiments beam priority information is periodically exchanged. Multiple timers are used to ensure beam information is exchanged at intervals intended to facilitate reliable beam synchronization and to control switching to one or more alternative beams in a predictable manner in the event beam change information or beam synchronization information is lost. In some but not all embodiments a wideband beam is used to communicate beam synchronization information when synchronization using narrower beams used for normal data communication is lost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Diwelawatte Jayawardene, Pratik Das
  • Patent number: 11245460
    Abstract: A wireless device switches from a first downlink bandwidth part (BWP) to a second downlink BWP identified with a downlink BWP index. Based on the second downlink BWP being configured with beam failure recovery (BFR), a first uplink BWP is switched to a second uplink BWP identified with a uplink BWP index that is the same as the downlink BWP index. The second downlink BWP is switched to a third downlink BWP. Based on the third downlink BWP not being configured with BFR, the second uplink BWP is kept as an active uplink BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Esmael Dinan, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11245453
    Abstract: A base station receives, from a wireless device, at least one first measurement report of at least one synchronization signal of a cell. One or more channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) of the cell are selected based on: the at least one first measurement report; and a first antenna port of the one or more CSI-RSs being quasi-collocated with a second port of the at least one synchronization signal. At least one second measurement report of the one or more CSI-RSs is received. At least one first CSI-RS of the one or more CSI-RSs is selected based on the at least one second measurement report. A downlink control information initiating a random access procedure of the cell is transmitted. The random access procedure is based on the at least one first CSI-RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11239890
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication apparatus including an antenna array including a plurality of sub-arrays includes sweeping a receiving beam formed in each of the sub-arrays such that the receiving beam has a plurality of receiving beam patterns at a respective plurality of sweeping positions, and receiving a signal through the antenna array at each of the sweeping positions, generating base channel matrix information including channel matrices corresponding to the receiving beam patterns for each of the sub-arrays, based on the signal, performing a digital sweeping operation on at least one group combination, which is determined using the base channel matrix information, and generating supplemental channel matrix information, and selecting a receiving beam pattern of the antenna array using the base channel matrix information and the supplemental channel matrix information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joontae Kim, Junho Lee
  • Patent number: 11239891
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a report indicating that a cooperative reception group including the UE and one or more other UEs connected to the UE over an out-of-band link supports one or more downlink transmit beamforming techniques. The UE may determine, based at least in part on the one or more downlink transmit beamforming techniques supported by the cooperative reception group, a downlink transmit precoder associated with relaxed beamforming nulling. The UE may decode a downlink transmission received from the base station based at least in part on the downlink transmit precoder and one or more decoded bits received from the one or more other UEs in the cooperative reception group. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Xiaoxia Zhang, Weiliang Zeng, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 11223398
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus, a wireless communication method, and a computer-readable medium. According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus used at a base station side comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to carry out control so as to carry out multiple-input multiple-output transmission by means of two or more transmitting and receiving points, and to send indication information to a user equipment, wherein the indication information is related to a scheme of mapping between a spatial multiplexing layer and a code word for transmission by means of two or more transmitting and receiving points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jianfei Cao
  • Patent number: 11212009
    Abstract: A method and structure for equalization in coherent optical receivers. Block-based LMS (BLMS) algorithm is one of the many efficient adaptive equalization algorithms used to (i) increase convergence speed and (ii) reduce implementation complexity. Since the computation of the equalizer output and the gradient of the error are obtained using a linear convolution, BLMS can be efficiently implemented in the frequency domain with the constrained frequency-domain BLMS (FBLMS) adaptive algorithm. The present invention introduces a novel reduced complexity constrained FBLMS algorithm. This new approach replaces the two discrete Fourier transform (DFT) stages required to evaluate the DFT of the gradient error, by a simple frequency domain filtering. Implementation complexity can be drastically reduced in comparison to the standard constrained FBLMS. Furthermore, the new approach achieves better performance than that obtained with the unconstrained FBLMS in ultra-high speed coherent optical receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mario Rafael Hueda, Nestor D. Campos
  • Patent number: 11206073
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may synchronize a beam switch of the base station with transmission of a reference signal for channel state feedback, and schedule a channel state feedback report to be transmitted after the transmission of the reference signal for channel state feedback. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Igor Gutman, Michael Levitsky, Ran Berliner, Shay Landis, Gideon Shlomo Kutz
  • Patent number: 11201646
    Abstract: Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of an autocorrelation calculator. An electronic device including an autocorrelation calculator may be configured to calculate an autocorrelation matrix including an autocorrelation of symbols indicative of a first radio frequency (“RF”) signal and a second RF signal. The electronic device may calculate the autocorrelation matrix based on a stored autocorrelation matrix and the autocorrelation of symbols indicative of the first RF signal and symbols indicative of the second RF signal. The stored autocorrelation matrix may represent another received signal at a different time period than a time period of the first and second RF signals. Examples of the systems and methods may facilitate the processing of data for wireless and may utilize less memory space than a device than a scheme that stores and calculates autocorrelation from a large dataset computed from various time points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Tamara Schmitz, Jeremy Chritz, Jaime Cummins
  • Patent number: 11202211
    Abstract: In an OAM multiplexing communication system that subjects a plurality of signal sequences to multiplex transmission by using an OAM mode, a transmitting station includes a transmitting antenna using an M-UCA formed of a plurality of UCAs, and a unit performing basis transformation in each of the rotational direction dimension and a diameter direction dimension in a polar coordinate system having a center of UCAs as an origin, and subjecting the plurality of signal sequences to multiplex transmission for each complex mode formed by a combination of different bases in each dimension. A receiving station includes a receiving antenna using an M-UCA, and a unit receiving a signal subjected to multiplex transmission from the transmitting station, performing basis transformation in each of the rotational direction dimension and the diameter direction dimension by using the received signal, and demultiplexing the plurality of signal sequences subjected to the multiplex transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Sasaki, Doohwan Lee, Hiroyuki Fukumoto, Hiroyuki Shiba
  • Patent number: 11201969
    Abstract: A system for transmitting data to a first and a second user device within a user's premises, the system including a distribution point having an aggregation device comprising a plurality of access network modems and having a plurality of lines connected thereto, a splitter device connected to the aggregation point 10 via one of the lines connected thereto and being located within the user's premises, a first connection between the splitter device and a first customer premises equipment modem, the first customer premises equipment modem being connected to the first user device, and a second connection between the splitter device and a second customer premises equipment modem, the second customer premises equipment modem being connected to the second user device, wherein the aggregation device is operable to transmit data for the first device via a first one of the plurality of modems in the aggregation device, the splitter device and the first customer premises equipment modem using a Digital Subscriber Line p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Ian Horsley, Trevor Linney, Leslie Humphrey
  • Patent number: 11201753
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, providing, by a power supply of a communication device, energy to the communication device, wherein the power supply directly obtains the energy from a transmission medium via a capacitive divider and a DC converter, and wherein the communication device includes an insulator that electrically insulates the transmission medium from a utility structure supporting the communication device; adjusting a target ratio of the capacitive divider according to a load signal received from a load sensor coupled to the communication device, where the adjusting the target ratio comprises changing a state of a switch connected with at least a portion of a group of first capacitors of the capacitive divider according to the load signal; generating, by the communication device, a signal; and inducing according to the signal, by a coupler of the communication device, an electromagnetic wave that propagates along the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg
  • Patent number: 11190380
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and a method of receiving signals, and corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of obtaining a field for indicating a time de-interleaving depth from a layer 1 (L1) header of preamble symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Patent number: 11177733
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling a voltage conversion mode in an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a power management module, a communication processor, and at least one processor operably connected to the communication processor, wherein the at least one processor identifies a modulation order used for communication with an external device, in a case that communication with the external device is performed using a wireless resource, and configures, based on the modulation order, a voltage conversion mode of the power management module that supplies power to the communication processor to a pulse frequency modulation (PFM) mode or a pulse width modulation (PWM) mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungchul Park, Dongil Son, Suha Yoon, Euichang Jung