Patents by Inventor Heng Kuo

Heng Kuo 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).

  • Publication number: 20240168123
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for reporting of integrity-related information for positioning are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Ping-Heng KUO, Oana-Elena BARBU, Diomidis MICHALOPOULOS
  • Patent number: 11991686
    Abstract: A user equipment may receive a configuration message comprising at least one of: a configured grant configuration, or a semi-persistent scheduling configuration, wherein configuration may be associated with a cross-division duplexing slot format, wherein the cross-division duplexing slot format may comprise at least one of: a cross-division duplexing time slot for concurrent transmission in a plurality of communication directions, or a cross-division duplexing time slot for transmission in one communication direction; receive an information indicating at least one resource of the configuration; determine whether the at least one resource is valid, based on a comparison between a corresponding cross-division duplexing slot format of the at least one resource and the cross-division duplexing slot format associated with the configuration; and perform communication with the network device on the at least one resource based, at least partially, on a determination that the at least one resource is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Guillermo Pocovi, Ping-Heng Kuo, Klaus Ingemann Pedersen
  • Publication number: 20240107524
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for, in aspects, receiving, at a User Equipment (UE), a configuration relating to a logical channel (LCH) from a Base Station (BS); receiving, at the UE, an uplink grant for an uplink data; identifying a subset of the LCH mappable to the uplink grant based on the at least a part of the configuration; determining, at the UE, a connected-mode discontinuous reception (C-DRX) setting to be applied for an uplink transmission associated with the uplink grant based on the identified subset of the LCH; and controlling a quiescent state of the UE based on the C-DRX setting, wherein, in aspects, mappable may refer to allowed to be mapped or actually mapped. When LCHs of the subset are associated with different C-DRX settings, rule-based C-DRX selection can be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ping-Heng Kuo, Weidong Yang, Ralf Rossbach
  • Patent number: 11933908
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for reporting of integrity-related information for positioning are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Ping-Heng Kuo, Oana-Elena Barbu, Diomidis Michalopoulos
  • Publication number: 20240089727
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), comprising a memory, and a processor to execute instructions from the memory, wherein the processor is configured to access a non-3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Access Network (AN), establish a link with a Non-3GPP Interworking Function (N3IWF) via the non-3GPP AN, request information from the N3IWF about network slicing capabilities of a 3GPP Radio Access Network (RAN), receive information from the N3IWF about network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN, and determine whether to register with the 3GPP RAN based upon the network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN. Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described for sending information about network slicing capabilities of a 3GPP RAN to a N3IWF, establishing a link between a WTRU operating on a non-3GPP AN and the N3IWF via the non-3GPP AN, and sending information from the N3IWF to the WTRU about network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos Jesus Bernardos, Ping-Heng Kuo, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Alain Mourad, Charles Turyagyenda
  • Publication number: 20240089880
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide uplink synchronization for a user equipment with one or more uplink transmissions to be transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Ping-Heng Kuo, Ralf Rossbach
  • Publication number: 20240079536
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a plurality of light-emitting diodes, a first wavelength conversion layer and a metasurface. The light-emitting diodes are arranged on the first substrate, in which the light-emitting diodes emit a first color light, and the light-emitting diodes includes a first light-emitting diode, a second light-emitting diode and a third light-emitting diode. The first wavelength conversion layer is on the first light-emitting diode, and configured to convert the first color light emitted from the first light-emitting diode into a second color light, in which the second color light is different from the first color light. The metasurface is above the first wavelength conversion layer, and configured to reflect the first color light and pass the second color light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yu-Heng HONG, Shih-Chen CHEN, Hao-Chung KUO
  • Publication number: 20240073891
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: receiving at least one configuration message; determining at least a first uplink resource associating to a first configured grant configuration and a second uplink resource associating to a second configured grant configuration based on the at least one configuration message; generating a transport block; transmitting the transport block on the first uplink resource associating to the first configured grant configuration via a first channel; transmitting the transport block on the second uplink resource associating to the second configured grant configuration via a second channel, wherein the first configured grant configuration is different to the second configured grant configuration, and wherein the first channel is different to the second channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Matha DEGHEL, Ping-Heng KUO, Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe LADDU, Youngsoo YUK
  • Publication number: 20240049081
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE), a baseband processor or other network device can operate in a new radio (NR) unlicensed network can operate to communicate in a UE to UE (U2U) relay path through a first relay UE with another UE as a source or destination UE according to a direct communication request initiating from the source UE. The UE, as a source UE, can also perform the U2U relay reselection based on a measurement report received from a destination UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Peng Cheng, Zhibin Wu, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Fangli Xu, Ping-Heng Kuo, Alexander Sirotkin, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Ralf Rossbach
  • Publication number: 20240049009
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE), a baseband processor or other network device can operate in a new radio (NR) unlicensed network can operate to communicate in a UE to UE (U2U) relay path through a first relay UE with another UE as a source or destination UE according to a direct communication request initiating from the source UE. The UE can further perform a U2U relay reselection to a second relay UE in response to a trigger condition, either as a source UE or a destination UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Peng Cheng, Zhibin Wu, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Fangli Xu, Ping-Heng Kuo, Alexander Sirotkin, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Ralf Rossbach
  • Publication number: 20240014943
    Abstract: Various example embodiments relate to generation of coded transport blocks in connection with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process(es). A device may generate a plurality of protocol data units (PDU) for transmission. The PDUs may be stored in at least one HARQ buffer. The device may determine to transmit at least one coded transport based on identifying at least two of the PDUs for generating the coded transport block(s). Apparatuses, methods, and computer programs are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Ping-Heng KUO, Hans Thomas HÖHNE, Ling YU, Kalle Petteri KELA, Dawid KOZIOL
  • Publication number: 20240007986
    Abstract: A measurement gap pattern configuration method of a network element (130) of a wireless communications system includes sending, by the network element (130), assistance data to a user equipment (UE) (110) of the wireless communications system; sending, by the network element (130), positioning performance target data and at least a portion of the assistance data to a serving next generation Node B (gNB) (120) of the UE (110); sending a positioning request to the UE (110); and notifying the gNB (120) that a positioning session has started with respect to the UE (110) by sending a positioning session start notification message to the gNB (120).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Oana-Elena BARBU, Ping-Heng KUO, Diomidis MICHALOPOULOS
  • Patent number: 11864273
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), comprising a memory, and a processor to execute instructions from the memory, wherein the processor is configured to access a non-3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Access Network (AN), establish a link with a Non-3GPP Interworking Function (N3IWF) via the non-3GPP AN, request information from the N3IWF about network slicing capabilities of a 3GPP Radio Access Network (RAN), receive information from the N3IWF about network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN, and determine whether to register with the 3GPP RAN based upon the network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN. Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described for sending information about network slicing capabilities of a 3GPP RAN to a N3IWF, establishing a link between a WTRU operating on a non-3GPP AN and the N3IWF via the non-3GPP AN, and sending information from the N3IWF to the WTRU about network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos Jesus Bernardos, Ping-Heng Kuo, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Alain Mourad, Charles Turyagyenda
  • Publication number: 20230412309
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: determining at least one expected arrival sequence of one or more expected data units to be transmitted over at least one network system; determining if at least one of the one or more expected data units does not arrive for transmission over the at least one network system as expected; and if it is determined that at least one of the one or more expected data units does not arrive for transmission over the at least one network system as expected, increasing transmission reliability of one or more data units adjacent to at least one expected data unit that has not arrived for transmission over the at least one network system as expected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Ling YU, Ping-Heng KUO
  • Publication number: 20230413346
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive, from a base station, a configuration establishing a radio bearer for sending at least one measurement report related to at least one application layer measurement, perform the at least one application layer measurement, determine a first channel access priority class (CAPC) for the radio bearer based on at least one rule, select a second CAPC for a transport block to be used to send the at least one measurement report based on the first CAPC for the radio bearer and send the at least one measurement report using the transport block based on the second CAPC for the transport block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Ping-Heng KUO, Pavan NUGGEHALLI, Ralf ROSSBACH
  • Publication number: 20230403639
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus including circuitry for: selecting at least one covered user equipment among a plurality of covered user equipment inside the coverage area of the apparatus; sending, to the at least one covered user equipment, a searching message, wherein the searching message includes an indication that the at least one covered user equipment is to send a searching result message to the apparatus, wherein the searching result message includes an indication of at least one non-covered user equipment located outside the coverage area of the apparatus and inside a coverage area of the at least one covered user equipment; and receiving, from the at least one covered user equipment, the searching result message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Zhilan Xiong, Man Hung NG, Matthew BAKER, Ping-Heng KUO
  • Publication number: 20230333139
    Abstract: A testing device is disclosed. The testing device includes a socket configured to support a DUT and a first detection module disposed at a first side of the socket and configured to detect a location relationship between the DUT and the socket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicants: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc., ASE TEST, INC.
    Inventors: Jia Jin LIN, Chia Hsiang WANG, Shih Pin CHUNG, Wei Shuo CHU, You Lin LEE, Pin Heng KUO, Cheng Chia TU
  • Publication number: 20230308229
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine that a packet data unit from a higher protocol layer entity is associated with a risk of survival time violation; and select between one or more first lower data protocol entities and one or more second lower protocol layer entities to process the protocol packet data unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventor: Ping-Heng KUO
  • Publication number: 20230288523
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for positioning are disclosed. In the arrangement a request for information associated with location of an apparatus is received by the apparatus, the request including an indication of a plurality of sets of radio accesses and information of positioning integrity. The apparatus determines based on the information of positioning integrity whether a position estimate based on a set of radio accesses of the indicated plurality of sets of radio accesses is to be reported in response to the request and responds the request according to the determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventor: Ping-Heng KUO
  • Patent number: 11751014
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for positioning measurements are provided. One method may include receiving, from a user equipment, a number of supported receive and transmit panels that can be simultaneously activated and/or a panel switch time. The method may then include computing or otherwise determining a UE-based latency lag using the number of supported receiver and transmitter panels that can be simultaneously activated and the panel switch time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Oana-Elena Barbu, Diomidis Michalopoulos, Ping-Heng Kuo