Patents Examined by Sun Jong Kim
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Patent number: 11838767Abstract: Inter-band CA beam training may include performing inter-band CA beam training for a first frequency band and inter-band CA beam training for a second frequency band between one or more base stations and a user equipment simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Yan Zhou, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11838748Abstract: A C-RAN includes a plurality of remote units; and a central unit communicatively coupled to the remote units via a fronthaul network. The central unit is configured to determine sets of data to be sent to respective subsets of remote units across the fronthaul network. The central unit is also configured to determine a mapping of each of the sets of data to a respective one of the subsets of remote units. The central unit is also configured to, for each of the sets of data, if at least one of the multicast groups wholly contains the respective subset of remote units mapped to that set of data, transmit that set of data to the respective subset of remote units over the fronthaul network by multicasting that set of data to the multicast group that best matches the respective subset of remote units mapped to that set of data.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Balaji B Raghothaman, Irfaan Ahamed Salahuddeen, Arthur J. Barabell, Calogero Armao
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Patent number: 11832330Abstract: A beam failure in a full-duplex communication scenario may be detected based on a reference signal measurement. For example, a user equipment (UE) may measure a downlink reference signal transmitted by a base station and/or an uplink reference signal transmitted by the UE and derive a quality parameter based on one or both of these measurements. If the quality parameter indicates a beam failure, the UE may generate an indication that one or more of the beams monitored by the UE have failed.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11818741Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage medium are provided. The methods include receiving, from a UE, an indication of a capability of the UE associated with one or more operating modes. The methods further include transmitting, to the UE, a request for a TR report corresponding to an amount of TR locations, the amount of TR locations being associated with at least one of a PAPR gain or a UE performance gain. The methods further include receiving, from the UE, a TR report comprising an indication of the amount of TR locations based on one or more parameters, the one or more parameters including at least one of a UE speed, a Doppler spread, a delay spread, a SINR, a MCS, a rank indicating an amount of data layers, or a channel response, the amount of TR locations being associated with the one or more operating modes.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Idan Michael Horn, Shay Landis, Gideon Shlomo Kutz
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Patent number: 11805528Abstract: A base station allocates uplink and/or downlink resources (e.g., in the time domain, frequency domain, spatial domain) to user equipment (UEs), or groups of UEs, that are subsequently reallocated. A base station determines a reallocation of uplink resources and/or downlink resources, and issues a cancellation indication or preemption indicator that corresponds to at least a portion of the previously allocated resources. UEs is configured to monitor for cancellation or preemption indicators, and based on received cancellation or preemption indicators, UEs determines whether or not to proceed with an uplink transmission or downlink reception using their previously allocated resources. Rules for application of cancellation or preemption indicators are identified by a UE and/or base station based on traffic prioritization and cancelation indication prioritization, based on types of scheduled reference signals to be transmitted by the UE, etc.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Xiaoxia Zhang, Wanshi Chen, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Wei Yang
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Patent number: 11800390Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a user equipment, a configuration for determining one or more antenna panel-wise cross-link interference measurements from a network entity configured to receive one or more downlink spatial directions. The method also includes calculating, by the user equipment, one or more interference estimates of UL interfering signals and related cross-link interference powers from the network entity. The method further includes transmitting, by the used equipment, one or more interference measurements based upon the configured flexible UL-to-DL cross-link specific resource configuration to the network entity.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Juha Karjalainen, Esa Tiirola, Ilkka Keskitalo, Juha Korhonen
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Patent number: 11800514Abstract: Methods and devices for the configuration of uplink signals over fronthaul interfaces are provided. For example, a method can include receiving, in one or more fronthaul management plane messages instead of receiving in control plane messages, configuration information for scheduled uplink reception of periodic signals. The method can also include starting to use the received configuration information in the scheduled uplink reception in response to receiving a fronthaul management plane message activating a cell. The use of the received configuration information can be as if the configuration information for the uplink reception had been received in a control plane message. Receiving one or more of the periodic signals can be performed according to the corresponding scheduled uplink reception.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OYInventors: Sebastian Kuczynski, Frederic Bonneau
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Patent number: 11792779Abstract: The described techniques provide a first device configured to transmit, to a second device, an indication of a beam switching capability. In response, the second device schedules resources for a set of shared channel transmissions based on a first beam switching configuration. If the first beam switching configuration exceeds the beam switching capability of the first device, the first device applies a set of selection rules to the first beam switching configuration to obtain a second beam switching configuration and communicates with the second device according to the second beam switching configuration.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Sony Akkarakaran
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Patent number: 11784768Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving an uplink signal in a wireless communication system. A method of transmitting an uplink signal includes receiving configuration information related to a sounding reference signal (SRS) from a base station; and transmitting the SRS to the base station in one or more SRS resources in a SRS resource set configured by the configuration information. Based on time domain bundling between the SRS and an uplink demodulation reference signal (DMRS) being indicated, the SRS and the uplink DMRS are transmitted on the same antenna port and/or with the same spatial domain transmission filter.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Seongwon Go, Hyungtae Kim, Jiwon Kang
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Patent number: 11778680Abstract: User equipment (UE) based beam selection for beam failure recovery operations are disclosed. A method of wireless communication includes: identifying a beam failure event associated with a first beam and a secondary cell and transmitting a beam failure recovery request for the secondary cell. The method further includes selecting a second beam for secondary cell communications prior to receiving a response to the beam failure event, and transmitting or receiving a communication to or from the secondary cell using the selected second beam.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Tao Luo, Kiran Venugopal, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11765753Abstract: An apparatus, a method and a computer program for determining a duplex resource scheme for a localized communication in a mobile communication system. The method for determining a duplex resource scheme for a localized communication in a mobile communication system comprises obtaining information related to a plurality of planned maneuvers of a plurality of road users, wherein the plurality of planned maneuvers are related to an intersection. The method comprises predicting a plurality of radio resources required for a communication of the plurality of road users at the intersection based on the obtained information related to the plurality of planned maneuvers. The method further comprises determining the duplex resource scheme based on the predicted plurality of radio resources required for the communication of the plurality of road users at the intersection.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ahmad El Assaad, Ernst Zielinski, Joakim Cervall
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Patent number: 11765709Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for training a beam for multiple component carriers (CCs) for concurrent communications in a wireless communications system associated with limited user equipment (UE) capabilities. The UE receives, via a first receive beam, a first reference signal on a group of CCs over a first symbol. The UE also receives, via a second receive beam, a second reference signal on the group of CCs over a second symbol. The UE selects a receive beam for a subsequent communication based on determining a value of a parameter for each of the first and the second receive beam.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Kiran Venugopal, Jung Ho Ryu, Qian Zhang, Ling Ding, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11765657Abstract: A wireless communication terminal communicating wirelessly is provided. The wireless communication terminal includes: a first wireless transceiver for transmitting and receiving a signal transmitted through a first modulation method; a second wireless receiver for receiving a signal transmitted through a second modulation method different from the first modulation method; and a processor. The processor receives a wake-up packet from a base wireless communication terminal through the second wireless receiver, and wakes-up the first wireless transceiver based on the wake-up packet, and maintains the second wireless receiver in a state capable of receiving at least from a time point at which the wake-up packet is received until a time point an exchange of frames with the base wireless communication terminal for the first time through the first wireless transceiver.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Woojin Ahn, Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak
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Patent number: 11763685Abstract: A system and method for compiling and converting Aeronautical Radio Incorporated (ARINC) 424 or Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) files into a binary database. The system and method include a controller module for receiving, extracting, converting, performing a set of quality checks, and directing the output or communication of the binary database to a remote server. The remote server can include a controller module that can verify validity of the communicated binary database and create aircraft loadable media for a flight management system navigational database.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Jeffrey M. Plantinga, Ralph Demmon Boozer, Benjamin Ivan Coutts
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Patent number: 11751184Abstract: Aspects provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable media for a user equipment (UE) to provide an indication when the quality of a group of previously-reported simultaneously receivable transmit beams has degraded to the point they are no longer simultaneously receivable.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kiran Venugopal, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11742924Abstract: Described is an apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB). The apparatus comprises a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry is operable to associate a first Beam Reference Signal (BRS) for a first Transmit (Tx) beam having a first beamwidth with one or more second BRSes for one or more respectively corresponding second Tx beams having a second beamwidth. The second circuitry is operable to generate a first BRS transmission carrying the first BRS, and to generate one or more second BRS transmissions carrying the one or more respectively corresponding second BRSes. The third circuitry is operable to provide information regarding the first BRS and the second BRSes to the second circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Wenting Chang, Gang Xiong, Yuan Zhu, Huaning Niu, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 11743005Abstract: A method and apparatus for indication of resource ports in a communication system, the method including: receiving at least one measurement resource from a second wireless communication node in a communication system; determining at least one overlapping resource between the at least one measurement resource and a first plurality of resource sets; and determining at least one muting resource set in the first plurality of resource sets, wherein the at least one muting resource set comprises the at least one overlapping resource.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Xing Liu, Feng Bi, Weimen Xing
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Patent number: 11711133Abstract: An electronic device that includes a processing circuit configured to: receive information about a number N of candidate transmit beams from a user device, where N is an integer greater than 1; select from the N candidate transmit beams a transmit beam for sending downlink information to the user device; and determine, on the basis of the selected transmit beam, a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state, and send the TCI state to the user device. The electronic device, the wireless communication method and the computer readable storage medium enable a network-side device to notify the user device of the information about transmit beams.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Jin Xu, Dongru Li, Wenjing Ren, Hang Yang, Xiaofeng Tao, Jianfei Cao
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Patent number: 11695524Abstract: Disclosed are techniques related to wireless communication system in which a network node is allowed to puncture a reference signal (RS) to deliver high priority data (e.g., URLLC data) to a user equipment (UE) that is not currently being served by the network node. In an aspect, the RS comprises a puncturable subset and an unpuncturable subset. In an aspect, the puncturable subset comprises resources of the RS that are allowed to be punctured, and the unpuncturable subset comprises resources of the RS that are prohibited from being punctured. In an aspect, the network node transmits the RS such that unpuncturable subset indicates whether or not the puncturable subset of the RS has or has not been punctured.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Peter Gaal
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Patent number: 11696239Abstract: A primary wireless access node wirelessly transmits reference signals at an initial reference signal power level. The primary wireless access node exchanges data with User Equipment (UEs) and exchanges the data with other network elements. The primary wireless access node exchanges signaling with secondary wireless access nodes. The secondary wireless access nodes exchange data between the UEs and the network elements responsive to the signaling. The primary wireless access node determines the amount of the secondary nodes and determines a new reference signal power level based on the amount of the secondary nodes. The primary wireless access node wirelessly transmits subsequent reference signals at the new reference power level.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLCInventor: Sreekar Marupaduga