Patents by Inventor Francis Ming-Meng Ngai
Francis Ming-Meng Ngai 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: 20240098814Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive link capability information from a second UE that has a cellular wireless connection with a network entity of a cellular wireless network. The link capability information may be associated with a subscription of the second UE to the cellular wireless network. The first UE may establish a local wireless connection with the second UE based on the link capability information associated with the subscription of the second UE to the cellular wireless network. The first UE may communicate one or more messages with the network entity of the cellular wireless network via the second UE using first subscriber identity module (SIM) credentials of the first UE or second SIM credentials of the second UE based on establishing the local wireless connection with the second UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Karthika Paladugu, Hong Cheng, Soumya Das, Deviprasad Putchala, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Shailesh Patil
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Patent number: 11930482Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a multi-subscriber identity module (SIM) user equipment (UE) may communicate, using a first SIM, on a plurality of component carriers. The multi-SIM UE may select a first subset of component carriers from the plurality of component carriers based at least in part on a component carrier prioritization. The multi-SIM UE may identify an amount of memory available to a second SIM. The multi-SIM UE may tune away, based at least in part on the amount of memory available to the second SIM, from a second subset of component carriers The first subset of component carriers may be different from the second subset of component carriers. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Arnaud Meylan, Suli Zhao, Liangchi Hsu, Cheol Hee Park, Qingxin Chen, Jun Hu, Leena Zacharias, Pulkit Hanswal, Reza Shahidi, Thawatt Gopal, Raghu Narayan Challa, Heechoon Lee
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Publication number: 20230345452Abstract: Aspects relate to wireless communication at a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may include a transmitter configured to communicate using a first communication protocol, a receiver configured to communicate using a second communication protocol, different from the first communication protocol, a first antenna coupled to the transmitter, a second antenna coupled to the receiver and physically separated from the first antenna by a variable distance. The wireless communication device transmits, via the first antenna, a first transmission within a first frequency range, and receives via the second antenna, a second transmission within a second frequency range that overlaps the first frequency range.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Francis Ming-Meng NGAI, Eric TSOU, Michael KOHLMANN, Olaf Josef HIRSCH, Shriram GURUMOORTHY, Steve Andre BEAUDIN, Vikram PHOGAT
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Patent number: 11736172Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may perform, to a first base station and via a first radio frequency (RF) chain associated with a first subscription, a first uplink transmission based at least in part on one or more of an uplink carrier aggregation capability of the UE or an uplink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capability of the UE. The UE may perform, to the first base station or to a second base station, and via a second RF chain associated with a second subscription and configured to operate simultaneously with the first RF chain, a second uplink transmission based at least in part on one or more of the uplink carrier aggregation capability of the UE or the uplink MIMO capability of the UE. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: James Beckman, Reza Shahidi, Cheol Hee Park, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Aamod Khandekar, Krishna Chaitanya Mukkera
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Publication number: 20230216535Abstract: In one implementation, a wireless communication device includes a first transceiver configured to generate a transmit signal and a band pass filter (BPF) select circuit configured to filter the transmit signal by a one of a first BPF with a relatively high-frequency passband or a second BPF with a relatively low-frequency passband. The wireless communication device includes a second transceiver configured to receive a received signal filtered by the other one of the first or second BPF. Having the transmit and received signals filtered by two different passband filters improves the isolation between the transmitter and receiver. Another implementation configures the first transceiver to include its own set of first and second BPFs, and the second transceiver to also include its own first and second BPFs.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2020Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Shaofeng WANG, Rongliang YANG, Devdutt PATNAIK, Rohit TRIPATHI, Francis Ming-Meng NGAI
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Publication number: 20230180170Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may use multiple subscriber identification modules (SIMs) in dual-SIM dual-active (DSDA) communications. A DSDA UE may support identification of a set of available radio frequency (RF) resources for communications, where the set of available RF resources include multiple RF components (e.g., transmit/receive antennas), RF baseband resources (e.g., processing resources that support processing and decoding of transmissions), or combinations thereof. The set of available resources may be shared between multiple SIMs, and the UE may identify different resource partitions of the set of available resources, with different resource partitions used to provide concurrent communications of both the first SIM and the second SIM based on parameters of each SIM.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Mutaz Zuhier Afif Shukair, Qingxin Chen, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Reza Shahidi, Cheol Hee Park, Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt
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Publication number: 20230048785Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a multi-subscriber identity module (SIM) user equipment (UE) may communicate, using a first SIM, on a plurality of component carriers. The multi-SIM UE may select a first subset of component carriers from the plurality of component carriers based at least in part on a component carrier prioritization. The multi-SIM UE may identify an amount of memory available to a second SIM. The multi-SIM UE may tune away, based at least in part on the amount of memory available to the second SIM, from a second subset of component carriers The first subset of component carriers may be different from the second subset of component carriers. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Francis Ming-Meng NGAI, Arnaud MEYLAN, Suli ZHAO, Liangchi HSU, Cheol Hee PARK, Qingxin CHEN, Jun HU, Leena ZACHARIAS, Pulkit HANSWAL, Reza SHAHIDI, Thawatt GOPAL, Raghu Narayan CHALLA, Heechoon LEE
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Publication number: 20220295422Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. A user equipment (UE) may configure a first initial set of maximum transmit powers for a first subscriber module. The UE may configure a second initial set of maximum transmit powers for a second subscriber module. The UE may configure a first maximum transmit power associated with a first connection for the first subscriber module. The UE may configure, independently of the configuration of the first maximum transmit power, a second maximum transmit power associated with the second connection. The UE may transmit based at least in part on at least one of the first maximum transmit power or the second maximum transmit power. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Shanshan WANG, Reza SHAHIDI, Francis Ming-Meng NGAI, Akhil DEODHAR, Troy CURTISS, Bhupesh Manoharlal UMATT, Lan LAN, Qingxin CHEN, Leena ZACHARIAS, Cheol Hee PARK, Farhad MESHKATI, Dinesh Kumar DEVINENI, Tienyow LIU, Tianpei CHEN, Jagadish NADAKUDUTI, Lin LU
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Publication number: 20220294510Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may perform, to a first base station and via a first radio frequency (RF) chain associated with a first subscription, a first uplink transmission based at least in part on one or more of an uplink carrier aggregation capability of the UE or an uplink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capability of the UE. The UE may perform, to the first base station or to a second base station, and via a second RF chain associated with a second subscription and configured to operate simultaneously with the first RF chain, a second uplink transmission based at least in part on one or more of the uplink carrier aggregation capability of the UE or the uplink MIMO capability of the UE. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: James BECKMAN, Reza SHAHIDI, Cheol Hee PARK, Francis Ming-Meng NGAI, Aamod KHANDEKAR, Krishna Chaitanya MUKKERA
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Patent number: 11362692Abstract: Certain aspects of the disclosure related to communications apparatus provides isolation between wireless protocols when operating currently while incurring the additional insertion loss based on providing the isolation only when needed. In an aspect, an apparatus include a switched filter coupled to an antenna where the switched filter includes a filter and a bypass line along with switching circuitry configured to selectively establish a bypass signal path including the bypass line or a filtered signal path including the filter. The apparatus further includes a switched filter controller configured to cause the switching circuitry to selectively connect a transceiver unit to the antenna via the bypass signal path or via the filtered signal path based at least on a frequency band of a carrier signal and a bandwidth of the carrier signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Steve Andre Beaudin, Patric Heide, Wai San Wong, Michael Kohlmann, David Maldonado, Ryan Scott Castro Spring, Stefan Freisleben, Mykola Shevelov, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai
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Patent number: 10075964Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may be communicating on a radio frequency spectrum band of a first radio access technology (RAT) using a set of antennas. The UE may reconfigure at least one antenna of the set of antennas to perform a first scan on the radio frequency spectrum band of a second RAT. The UE may determine, based on the first scan, whether to reconfigure a remaining portion of the antennas of the set of antennas to perform a second scan on the radio frequency spectrum band of the second RAT.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sandip HomChaudhuri, Gangadhar Burra, Eric Y. Tsou, Chintan Shirish Shah, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Pattabiraman Subramanian, Ning Zhang, James Simon Cho
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Publication number: 20170265205Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may be communicating on a radio frequency spectrum band of a first radio access technology (RAT) using a set of antennas. The UE may reconfigure at least one antenna of the set of antennas to perform a first scan on the radio frequency spectrum band of a second RAT. The UE may determine, based on the first scan, whether to reconfigure a remaining portion of the antennas of the set of antennas to perform a second scan on the radio frequency spectrum band of the second RAT.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: Sandip HomChaudhuri, Gangadhar Burra, Eric Y. Tsou, Chintan Shirish Shah, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Pattabiraman Subramanian, Ning Zhang, James Simon Cho
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Patent number: 9648635Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for scheduling subscriptions in a user equipment (UE) having at least a first receive radio and a second receive radio, including receiving, by the first receive radio, a broadcast activity for a first subscription and receiving, by the second receive radio, a reception activity for a second subscription. A trigger event is detected while the broadcast activity for the first subscription is being received by the first receive radio and the reception activity for the second subscription is being received by the second receive radio. In response to detecting the trigger event, the reception activity for the second subscription is received by the first receive radio and the broadcast activity for the first subscription is received by the second receive radio.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kuo-Chun Lee, Chih-Ping Hsu, Jack Shyh-Hurng Shauh, Sivaramakrishna Veerepalli, Reza Shahidi, Chintan Shirish Shah, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Daniel Amerga, Shailesh Maheshwari
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Patent number: 9544042Abstract: Methods and devices are disclosed for implementing opportunistic mobile receive diversity (“OMRD”) on a multi-SIM wireless device. The wireless device may receive a request from a protocol stack associated with the first SIM to utilize the second RF resource for receive diversity, and determine whether a protocol stack associated with the second SIM currently has a lower priority than the protocol stack associated with the first SIM. Upon determining that the protocol stack associated with the second SIM currently has a lower priority than the protocol stack associated with the first SIM, the wireless device may grant control of the second RF resource to the protocol stack associated with the first SIM. Granting control may provide, to the protocol stack associated with the first SIM, a capability to enable and disable receive diversity using the first and second RF resources.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wenjun Li, Jun Hu, Huang Lou, Vansh Pal Singh Makh, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Ashish Gaonekar, Varsha Rao, Surekha Muralidharan
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Patent number: 9544040Abstract: A wireless device includes: a first radio and first transceiver configured to transmit and receive according to a first radio access technology; a second radio and second transceiver configured to transmit and receive according to a second radio access technology; a first antenna and a second antenna connected to the first radio and the second radio; a switch; and a control unit configured to control the switch to configure connections of the first and second antennas to the first and second radios. The control unit is configured to control the switch to disconnect the second radio from the second antenna in response to a receiving, by the second radio through the second antenna, a signal that is below a predetermined threshold, and to connect the second radio to the first antenna during a wakeup period of the second radio.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hongbo Yan, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Daniel Fred Filipovic, Ning He
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Publication number: 20160374108Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for scheduling subscriptions in a user equipment (UE) having at least a first receive radio and a second receive radio, including receiving, by the first receive radio, a broadcast activity for a first subscription and receiving, by the second receive radio, a reception activity for a second subscription. A trigger event is detected while the broadcast activity for the first subscription is being received by the first receive radio and the reception activity for the second subscription is being received by the second receive radio. In response to detecting the trigger event, the reception activity for the second subscription is received by the first receive radio and the broadcast activity for the first subscription is received by the second receive radio.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2015Publication date: December 22, 2016Inventors: Kuo-Chun Lee, Chih-Ping Hsu, Jack Shyh-Hurng Shauh, Sivaramakrishna Veerepalli, Reza Shahidi, Chintan Shirish Shah, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Daniel Amerga, Shailesh Maheshwari
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Publication number: 20160309407Abstract: Various embodiments enable cell broadcast reception on a multi-SIM mobile communication device with first and second subscriptions for respective technologies. A multi-SIM device may measure channel conditions for the first and second radio access technologies, determine whether the channel conditions of the first radio access technology are greater than or equal to a threshold for receiving cell broadcasts, determine whether the channel conditions of the second radio access technology are greater than or equal to the threshold when the channel conditions of the first radio access technology are less than the threshold, and designate the second radio access technology to receive cell broadcasts when the channel conditions of the second radio access technology are greater than the threshold and disabling cell broadcast reception on the first radio access technology. A Voice or Data call mode on one technology may require another technology to be designated to receive cell broadcasts.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2015Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventors: Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Anand Rajurkar, Soumen Mitra
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Patent number: 9462489Abstract: Various embodiments provide methods implemented in a mobile communication device (e.g., a multi-RAT communication device) for maintaining at least one separate RGS value for each of a plurality of RATs operating on the mobile communication device. Specifically, a device processor on the mobile communication device (e.g., a crystal oscillator manager) may maintain a separate, up-to-date RGS value for each of the plurality of RATs and may associate each of the plurality of RATs with their respective RGS values. By keeping track of the plurality of RATs' respective RGS values, the device processor may ensure that an appropriate RGS value is used to facilitate each RAT's individual operations, such as acquisition/re-acquisition operations, sleep scheduling calculations, and handover/inter-RAT measurement operations. As a result, various embodiments may improve the performance of each RAT and the overall performance of the mobile communication device.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sasidhar Movva, Mihir Pravin Nabar, Chih-Ping Hsu, Sridhar Bandaru, Shriram Gurumoorthy, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Christopher Barrett, Bhaskara Viswanadham Batchu
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Patent number: 9445276Abstract: Various embodiments leverage the typical manner in which a RAT selects a supported frequency band listed in its acquisition database and the standard communications with its network indicating the supported frequency bands to avoid potential coexistence events with one or more other RATs. In particular, various embodiments include methods for avoiding band interference between RATs operating on a multi-SIM communication device by identifying the frequency bands available to each of the RATs, comparing the identified frequency bands to determine whether any RAT's frequency bands will interfere with one or more other RAT's frequency bands, and in response to determining that there is a possibility of frequency band interference, removing those interfering frequency bands from that RAT's acquisition database. As a result, during standard communications, that RAT will report to its network that it supports only non-interfering frequency bands.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Parthasarathy Krishnamoorthy, Reza Shahidi, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Anand Rajurkar, Sai Kwok
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Publication number: 20160254851Abstract: A wireless device includes: a first radio and first transceiver configured to transmit and receive according to a first radio access technology; a second radio and second transceiver configured to transmit and receive according to a second radio access technology; a first antenna and a second antenna connected to the first radio and the second radio; a switch; and a control unit configured to control the switch to configure connections of the first and second antennas to the first and second radios. The control unit is configured to control the switch to disconnect the second radio from the second antenna in response to a receiving, by the second radio through the second antenna, a signal that is below a predetermined threshold, and to connect the second radio to the first antenna during a wakeup period of the second radio.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Inventors: Hongbo Yan, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Daniel Fred Filipovic, Ning He