Patents Examined by Sophia Vlahos
  • Patent number: 11128361
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transmitting and receiving a channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (RS) in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method performed by a base station may include: configuring control information indicating that an antenna port for all CSI-RS resources included in a CSI-RS resource set is same, wherein the CSI-RS resource set is used for tracking at least one of a time or a frequency; transmitting the configured control information to a user equipment (UE); and transmitting the CSI-RS to the UE through all the CSI-RS resources. In doing so, the UE is capable of performing time/frequency tracking more precisely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jiwon Kang, Jonghyun Park, Kilbom Lee, Kijun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11121810
    Abstract: A synchronous communication interface includes at least one data channel configured to carry a data signal comprising a plurality of data units; a control channel parallel to the at least one data channel, the control channel configured to carry a control signal for the at least one data channel; and a circuit configured to generate the control signal that includes control information that defines each of the plurality of data units in each data signal and further includes additional information. The circuit is configured to vary a duty cycle of the control signal according to a mapping of the additional information to a plurality of discrete duty cycle states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Inventors: Ljudmil Anastasov, Markus Bichl
  • Patent number: 11121755
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for reporting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system. Specifically, a method for reporting, by a user equipment (UE), channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system includes: receiving, from a base station, control information related to a configuration of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource, wherein the control information includes CDM type information representing a type of code division multiplexing (CDM) applied to the CSI-RS resource; receiving, from the base station, an X-port CSI-RS on one or more component CSI-RS resource element (RE) patterns; and reporting, to the base station, the CSI based on the received X-port CSI-RS. Accordingly, the present disclosure can flexibly provide CSI-RS resource locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunsu Cha, Jiwon Kang, Kijun Kim, Jonghyun Park, Haewook Park
  • Patent number: 11108607
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for processing symbols for transmission. A set of 2K outputs is produced that includes K real components and K imaginary components from K complex symbols. A Fourier transform operation on the 2K outputs produces 2K Fourier transform outputs. Transmit pulse shaping is applied to the 2K Fourier transform outputs. The transmit pulse shape may be Nyquist or non-Nyquist. An inverse Fourier transform operation on the J pulse shaped outputs produces an inverse Fourier transform output. In the receiver, equalization is performed to remove the effect of both the channel and the transmit pulse shape. Nyquist pulse shaping is performed by applying a Nyquist pulse shape prior to converting back to time domain. The approach avoids self-interference, even in situations where the transmit pulse shape is non-Nyquist. The transmitter is free to select a pulse shape to optimize PAPR without being concerned with interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nuwan Suresh Ferdinand, Ming Jia, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 11108498
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes: a first decoder configured to decode a signal transmitted through a first layer from a layered division multiplexing (LDM) signal using a parity check matrix to generate low density parity check (LDPC) information word bits and parity bits; an encoder configured to encode the LDPC information word bits, generated by decoding the signal transmitted through the first layer, using the parity check matrix to generate parity bits corresponding only to preset columns in the parity check matrix; and a second decoder configured to decode a signal obtained by removing, from the LDM signal, a signal corresponding to the LDPC information word bits generated by decoding the signal transmitted through the first layer, the parity bits generated by the encoder, and the parity bits generated by the first decoder except the parity bits generated by the encoder, thereby to generate information word bits transmitted through a second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-hyun Park, Jung-pil Yu, Sung-kyu Jung, Chang-hoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11101859
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Balgeum Choe, Keunchul Hwang, Hyoyol Park
  • Patent number: 11101863
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transmitting and receiving a channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (RS) in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method performed by a base station may include: configuring control information indicating that an antenna port for all CSI-RS resources included in a CSI-RS resource set is same, wherein the CSI-RS resource set is used for tracking at least one of a time or a frequency; transmitting the configured control information to a user equipment (UE); and transmitting the CSI-RS to the UE through all the CSI-RS resources. In doing so, the UE is capable of performing time/frequency tracking more precisely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jiwon Kang, Jonghyun Park, Kilbom Lee, Kijun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11070262
    Abstract: A range extension method and apparatus for highly directional beams are disclosed. In one aspect, a first network node that is suitable for supporting mmWave transmissions to a wireless device such as a UE may extend the range of at least one transmit beam to a UE by selecting a suitable repetition configuration that transmits repetition versions of an original signal. The first network node sends information about the repetition configuration to a second network node which can transmit a portion of the repetition configuration information to the UE using sub-6 GHz transmissions. The UE can configure a receive beam to receive mmWave communications from the first network node by using the portion of the repetition configuration information received from the second network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11070415
    Abstract: An FBMC equalization and demodulation unit and corresponding method to process an FBMC signal includes FBMC symbols, each FBMC symbol comprising data mapped over M subcarriers, oversampled by a factor K, filtered by a prototype filter and transposed in the time-domain, comprising: a frequency domain transposition unit, configured to transpose a block of P*KM samples comprising at least one FBMC symbol into frequency domain samples, where P is an integer greater than one, an equalizer unit configured to multiply the frequency domain samples by one or more coefficients computed from a propagation channel estimate, at least one circular convolution unit, configured to perform P circular convolutions between subsets of the equalized samples and a frequency domain response of a frequency shifted version of the prototype filter, and adders, to sum corresponding outputs of each of the P circular convolutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: INSTITUT MINES TELECOM-IMT ATLANTIQUE-BRETAGNE-PAYS DE LA LOIRE
    Inventors: Jérémy Nadal, Charbel Abdel Nour, Amer Baghdadi
  • Patent number: 11070265
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Balgeum Choe, Keunchul Hwang, Hyoyol Park
  • Patent number: 11057154
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for rate matching interleaving for polar codes are provided. The method includes: obtaining a first codeword bit sequence; dividing the first codeword bit sequence to obtain one or more segments; performing intra-segment and/or inter-segment interleaving on the one or more segments to generate an interleaved bit sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Runxin Wang, Chongning Na, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11050513
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, encoding, by an encoder, PLP (Physical Layer Pipe) data; time interleaving, by a time interleaver, the encoded PLP data; frame mapping, by a framer, the time interleaved PLP data onto at least one signal frames; frequency interleaving, by a frequency interleaver, data in the at least one signal frames; and waveform modulating, by a waveform module, the frequency interleaved data in the at least one signal frame and transmitting, by the waveform module, broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the frequency interleaving is conducted according to an interleaving mode, wherein the interleaving mode is determined based on a FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongseob Baek, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 11050469
    Abstract: This disclosure pertains to a network node for a wireless communication network, the network node being adapted for transmitting reference signaling utilising an antenna array, the network node further being adapted for transmitting the reference signaling in a pattern, the pattern being determined based on a beamforming state for transmitting the reference signaling and/or based on a beam reception state. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Shaohua Li, Qingyu Miao, Jianfeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11050466
    Abstract: A method for alignment of an antenna in a microwave radio link system in Non-Line-Of Sight (NLOS) conditions. The method includes having a pointer indicating a first position on a surface to define a first candidate reflection/diffraction point on the surface, aligning a first antenna at a first node and a second antenna at a second node towards the first candidate reflection/diffraction point, and recording a relevant property concerning the channel quality between the first node and the second node via the first candidate reflection/diffraction point. The pointer may be a drone. Related devices and systems are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mikael Coldrey, Mona Hashemi, Lars Manholm, Jonas Fridén
  • Patent number: 11043985
    Abstract: Technologies directed to cable-loss compensation are described. An apparatus includes a triplexer, a front-end module (FEM) circuit, and a control circuit. The triplexer is coupled to a radio frequency (RF) cable. The triplexer receives a first RF signal and a DC power signal from a device via the RF cable and sends a detection signal being indicative of a transmit power level of the first RF signal to the device via the RF cable. The transmit power level includes an insertion loss of the RF cable. The FEM circuit is coupled to the triplexer and includes a power amplifier (PA). The control circuit is coupled to the triplexer and measures the transmit power level of the first RF signal and converts the first RF signal into the detection signal. The control circuit sends the detection signal back to the device via the RF cable and enables the PA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Labadie, Cheol Su Kim, Ravi Ichapurapu, Kalyan Teja Posani, Omar Fawazhashim Zakaria, In Chul Hyun
  • Patent number: 11025306
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the inventive concept, there is provided a signal processing method performed in a distributed antenna system, includes extracting at least a part of sample data corresponding to an occupied frequency band from a digitized analog RF signal; and combining the extracted sample data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Doyoon Kim, Kwangnam Seo
  • Patent number: 11025316
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a method used for data transmission. This method is applicable to coordinated transmission/reception in NR, and is relatively flexible. This method includes: determining, by a network device, a plurality of groups of antenna ports, where each group of antenna ports includes at least two antenna ports, and any two antenna ports in a same group of antenna ports meet quasi-co-location QCL; and sending, by the network device, at least one piece of first indication information to a terminal device, where the first indication information is used to determine QCL configuration information corresponding to a target antenna port used for sending first data, the QCL configuration information is used to indicate an antenna port that is QCLed with the corresponding target antenna port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shengyue Dou, Yuanjie Li, Haibao Ren
  • Patent number: 11019632
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a UE may transmit an indication to a base station that the UE supports a beam update procedure that updates one or more beamforming parameters of one or more transmission beams. The UE may establish a connection with the base station via the one or more transmission beams. The UE may receive a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) communication to initiate the beam update procedure, the received MAC-CE communication indicating one or more aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) resources to be used in the beam update procedure. The UE may perform the beam update procedure, based on the MAC-CE communication, to update one or more beamforming parameters of the one or more transmission beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11012114
    Abstract: Methods and devices are discussed where a common bit loading table is constructed from minimum gain from a plurality of bit loading tables for different combinations of lines being in a transmit or quiet mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Lantiq Beteiligungs-GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Lilia Smaoui, Vladimir Oksman
  • Patent number: 11012272
    Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. A first method includes inserting channel or interference estimation modulation symbols into a sequence of data modulation symbols; performing a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on a group of modulation symbols in the sequence of data modulation symbols, the group of modulation symbols including at least one of the channel or interference estimation modulation symbols; and generating a single-carrier frequency domain modulated (SC-FDM) symbol stream based at least in part on an output of the DFT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu, Tao Luo, Shimman Arvind Patel