Patents by Inventor Abdulrauf Hafeez
Abdulrauf Hafeez has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240057053Abstract: A new radio base station establishes a first and a second component. The first and second component carrier overlap each other. The base station transmits first synchronization signal blocks on the first component carrier. The base station transmits second synchronization signal blocks on the second component carrier interleaved in time with the first synchronization signal blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Antti Immonen, Mehdi Alasti, Siddhartha Chenumolu, Abdulrauf Hafeez
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Patent number: 11838901Abstract: A new radio base station establishes a first and a second component. The first and second component carrier overlap each other. The base station transmits first synchronization signal blocks on the first component carrier. The base station transmits second synchronization signal blocks on the second component carrier interleaved in time with the first synchronization signal blocks.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.Inventors: Antti Immonen, Mehdi Alasti, Siddhartha Chenumolu, Abdulrauf Hafeez
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Publication number: 20230388095Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus for automatically coordinating time domain duplex (TDD) configurations and transmission parameters among wireless network providers operating on adjacent TDD channels and/or bands in proximity of each other to avoid cross link interference (CLI).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Abdulrauf Hafeez, Maulik Vaidya
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Publication number: 20230337324Abstract: According to one configuration, multiple users in a tiered hierarchy share use of a wireless spectrum. For example, a spectrum access system receives a notification indicating that a first-priority tier 1 user in the hierarchy temporarily needs access to a first wireless spectrum assigned to a second-priority tier 2 user in the hierarchy. In response to the notification, the spectrum access system temporarily allocates the second-priority tier 2 user use of a second wireless spectrum. The spectrum access system protects use of the second wireless spectrum by the second-priority tier 2 user from a third-priority tier 3 user in the hierarchy. In certain instances, the one or more spectrum access systems receive the same notification of use of the first wireless spectrum by the first-priority tier 1 user. The multiple spectrum access systems not serving the second-priority tier 2 user protect the Tier 2 User from any Tier 3 Users in the hierarchy.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Abdulrauf Hafeez, Maulik V. Vaidya
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Publication number: 20230328534Abstract: A wireless system is shared amongst a hierarchal tier of entities. A communication management resource receives notification that a second-tier priority entity has been allocated use of a second wireless spectrum as a replacement to first wireless spectrum. In one embodiment, the first wireless spectrum is revoked from the second-tier priority entity based on use of the first wireless spectrum by a first-tier priority entity (such as incumbent entity). The communication management resource controls a wireless transmit power level of a third-tier priority entity in the hierarchy to provide protected use of the second wireless spectrum by the second-tier priority entity. According to one configuration, the communication management resource controls a power level of wireless communications transmitted by a wireless base station operated by the third-tier priority entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Abdulrauf Hafeez, Maulik V. Vaidya
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Publication number: 20230328533Abstract: Methods and apparatus for implementing a spectrum access controller (SAC) which protects a protected entity from excessive interference are described. A spectrum access controller (SAC) divides the coverage contour of the entity to be protected into geospatial zones called protection zones. Each protection zone is protected against interference from a neighboring area called an interference neighborhood. Each interference neighborhood is divided into interference zones based on their interference potential or distance from the protection zone. Potential interferers are grouped based on their location in the interference zones or interference potential. The interference quota for the protection zone is divided among the potential interferers in each group/zone. The quota may be divided unequally among groups/zones, e.g., based on their overall interference potential or proximity to the protection zone, or number of interferers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventor: Abdulrauf Hafeez
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Publication number: 20230319582Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus configured to enable wireless stations to use their shared spectrum grants proximate a priority/incumbent user of the shared spectrum by generating a propagation model of the priority/incumbent user, determining a potential interference therewith by each of at least one group of similarly located wireless stations proximate the priority user, determining a modification to a spectrum grant for each wireless station group that would avoid interference with the priority/incumbent user by the respective wireless stations of the group, and updating the spectrum grants of each wireless station in a wireless station group using the determined spectrum grant modification associated with the wireless station group.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLCInventors: Abdulrauf Hafeez, Amitav Mukherjee, Maulik Vaidya
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Patent number: 11751280Abstract: According to one configuration, multiple users in a tiered hierarchy share use of a wireless spectrum. For example, a spectrum access system receives a notification indicating that a first-priority tier 1 user in the hierarchy temporarily needs access to a first wireless spectrum assigned to a second-priority tier 2 user in the hierarchy. In response to the notification, the spectrum access system temporarily allocates the second-priority tier 2 user use of a second wireless spectrum. The spectrum access system protects use of the second wireless spectrum by the second-priority tier 2 user from a third-priority tier 3 user in the hierarchy. In certain instances, the one or more spectrum access systems receive the same notification of use of the first wireless spectrum by the first-priority tier 1 user. The multiple spectrum access systems not serving the second-priority tier 2 user protect the Tier 2 User from any Tier 3 Users in the hierarchy.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventors: Abdulrauf Hafeez, Maulik V. Vaidya
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Publication number: 20230276417Abstract: A communication management resource receives input indicating presence of a pair of wireless stations including a first wireless station and a second wireless station in a network environment. Based on a determined amount of adjacent channel interference between the first wireless station and the second wireless station, the communication management resource generates an adjacent channel interference value. The communication management resource assigns the adjacent channel interference value to the pair of wireless stations. The adjacent channel interference value indicates an estimate of adjacent channel interference between the first wireless station and the second wireless station. In a network of wireless stations, the adjacent channel interference value is used as a basis to identify pairs of wireless stations that are susceptible to adjacent channel interference.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventor: Abdulrauf Hafeez
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Patent number: 11728958Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus for automatically coordinating time domain duplex (TDD) configurations and transmission parameters among wireless network providers operating on adjacent TDD channels and/or bands in proximity of each other to avoid cross link interference (CLI).Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLCInventors: Abdulrauf Hafeez, Maulik Vaidya
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Patent number: 11722908Abstract: A wireless system is shared amongst a hierarchal tier of entities. A communication management resource receives notification that a second-tier priority entity has been allocated use of a second wireless spectrum as a replacement to first wireless spectrum. In one embodiment, the first wireless spectrum is revoked from the second-tier priority entity based on use of the first wireless spectrum by a first-tier priority entity (such as incumbent entity). The communication management resource controls a wireless transmit power level of a third-tier priority entity in the hierarchy to provide protected use of the second wireless spectrum by the second-tier priority entity. According to one configuration, the communication management resource controls a power level of wireless communications transmitted by a wireless base station operated by the third-tier priority entity.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Charter Communications Operating. LLCInventors: Abdulrauf Hafeez, Maulik V. Vaidya
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Publication number: 20230247667Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a closed loop Listen Before Talk (LBT) which is a coexistence mechanism used by wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, to access unlicensed shared spectrum, such as the ISM UNII bands (5 GHz). The embodiments disclosed herein enable a base station to coordinate the LBT process at both the base station and a receiver in order to avoid hidden node interference where the interfering nodes are outside the sensing range of the transmitting node. The base station device can send an LBT trigger to the receiver to synchronize the clear channel assessments that are performed at each device to determine if there is any activity on the channel. The receiving device can send back a report to the base station device, and if no activity on the channel is detected, the base station device can schedule a transmission on the channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh, Abdulrauf Hafeez
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Patent number: 11665528Abstract: In certain embodiments, a (CBSD) base station for a (CBRS) radio system transmits new information elements in an existing capability exchange message to a spectrum access system (SAS) informing the SAS as to whether the SAS should transmit a channel-change message to the base station either (i) directly (and despite of domain proxy being present in the communication path) or (ii) via a domain proxy. If and when the SAS subsequently receives notification of incumbent activity from an Environmental Sensing Capability system, the SAS transmits either a new channel-change message or includes new information elements in an existing heartbeat message to the base station either (i) directly or (ii) via the domain proxy per the capability exchange message.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventors: Maulik Vaidya, Abdulrauf Hafeez, Panayiotis Papadimitriou, Dumitru Ionescu
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Patent number: 11659533Abstract: A communication management resource receives input indicating presence of a pair of wireless stations including a first wireless station and a second wireless station in a network environment. Based on a determined amount of adjacent channel interference between the first wireless station and the second wireless station, the communication management resource generates an adjacent channel interference value. The communication management resource assigns the adjacent channel interference value to the pair of wireless stations. The adjacent channel interference value indicates an estimate of adjacent channel interference between the first wireless station and the second wireless station. In a network of wireless stations, the adjacent channel interference value is used as a basis to identify pairs of wireless stations that are susceptible to adjacent channel interference.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventor: Abdulrauf Hafeez
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Patent number: 11653385Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a closed loop Listen Before Talk (LBT) which is a coexistence mechanism used by wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, to access unlicensed shared spectrum, such as the ISM UNII bands (5 GHz). The embodiments disclosed herein enable a base station to coordinate the LBT process at both the base station and a receiver in order to avoid hidden node interference where the interfering nodes are outside the sensing range of the transmitting node. The base station device can send a LBT trigger to the receiver to synchronize the clear channel assessments that are performed at each device to determine if there is any activity on the channel. The receiving device can send back a report to the base station device, and if no activity on the channel is detected, the base station device can schedule a transmission on the channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh, Abdulrauf Hafeez
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Patent number: 11653373Abstract: Facilitating fast multi-beam listen before talk in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a device can comprise determining a first inactivity in a first beam based on a first performance of a first listen before talk procedure in the first beam and, based on determining the first inactivity, analyzing a presence of an activity in a second beam based on a second performance of a second listen before talk procedure in the second beam. Further, the operations can comprise, based on determining a lack of the presence of the activity in the second beam, transmitting a signal via the second beam. In an example, analyzing the presence of the activity in the second beam can be performed prior to completion of the determining the first inactivity in the first beam.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Abdulrauf Hafeez, Thomas Novlan
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Patent number: 11627519Abstract: Discontinuous access to unlicensed spectrum is facilitated in a new radio access environment. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise performing a scanning procedure that determines whether a first subband and a second subband is available for transmission. The system can further facilitate determining whether the first subband and the second subband are adjacent, wherein a first channel formed at the first subband comprising a first guard band and a second channel formed at the second subband comprising a second guard band that is adjacent to the first guard band. The system can further facilitate in response to determining that the first subband and the second subband are adjacent and available for transmission, eliminating the first guard band and the second guard band.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Aditya Chopra, Arunabha Ghosh, Abdulrauf Hafeez
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Publication number: 20230098387Abstract: A wireless system is shared amongst a hierarchal tier of entities. A communication management resource receives notification that a second-tier priority entity has been allocated use of a second wireless spectrum as a replacement to first wireless spectrum. In one embodiment, the first wireless spectrum is revoked from the second-tier priority entity based on use of the first wireless spectrum by a first-tier priority entity (such as incumbent entity). The communication management resource controls a wireless transmit power level of a third-tier priority entity in the hierarchy to provide protected use of the second wireless spectrum by the second-tier priority entity. According to one configuration, the communication management resource controls a power level of wireless communications transmitted by a wireless base station operated by the third-tier priority entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventors: Abdulrauf Hafeez, Maulik V. Vaidya
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Publication number: 20230093833Abstract: A wireless station is allocated use of a time slot in a given direction, uplink or downlink, on a given channel. The wireless station monitors for presence of wireless energy during a portion of the time slot. Based on a detected level of the wireless energy in the time slot, the wireless station controls transmission of wireless communications in a direction opposite to the configured direction in a remaining part of the time slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Abdulrauf Hafeez, Amitav Mukherjee, Ahmad Reza Hedayat
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Publication number: 20230102375Abstract: A communication management resource receives first input indicating a first time-division communication configuration associated with first wireless stations operated by a first wireless network service provider. The communication management resource receives second input indicating a second time-division communication configuration associated with second wireless stations such as operated by a second wireless network service provider. Based on spectral analysis of implementing the first time-division communication configuration and the second time-division communication configuration, the communication management resource controls implementation of time-division communication configurations by the first wireless stations and the second wireless stations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Abdulrauf Hafeez, Maulik V. Vaidya