Patents by Inventor Karl Georg Hampel

Karl Georg Hampel 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).

  • Patent number: 11950149
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node may determine a cell configuration of a distributed unit (DU) of the IAB node. The cell configuration may be associated with a second IAB donor. The DU may be one of a set of DUs of the IAB node. The IAB node may have a first signaling connection to a central unit (CU) of a first IAB donor. The IAB node may provide the cell configuration associated with the second TAB donor. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Publication number: 20240106796
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a central entity in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network may determine that a trigger condition for updating transport network layer information of an TAB node in the TAB network is satisfied, based at least in part on at least one of: a change of a donor distributed unit associated with the TAB node, a central entity change associated with the TAB node, or an establishment, release, or modification of a route including the TAB node; and provide, to the TAB node, updated transport network layer information, based at least in part on the trigger condition being satisfied. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Naeem AKL, Karl Georg HAMPEL, Jianghong LUO, Navid ABEDINI, Luca BLESSENT, Junyi LI, Tao LUO
  • Patent number: 11936595
    Abstract: A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be an IAB node. The apparatus may receive communication from one or more of a parent IAB node or a child IAB node using a first frequency carrier of a paired spectrum comprising the first frequency carrier and a second frequency carrier. The apparatus may transmit communication to the one or more of the parent IAB node or the child IAB node using the second frequency carrier in the paired spectrum. At least one of the first frequency carrier or the second frequency carrier in the paired spectrum carries both uplink and downlink communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Navid Abedini, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Naeem Akl, Tao Luo, Karl Georg Hampel
  • Patent number: 11937163
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. In one aspect, the apparatus may send a request to a second BS to configure a backhaul routing path via the second BS to a third BS that has a signaling connection to the first BS. The apparatus may also communicate, with the second BS, a first backhaul adaptation protocol (BAP) configuration associated with the backhaul routing path. The apparatus may also transmit a second BAP configuration to the third BS in association with the communicated first BAP configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11937311
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a control node may receive a resource management indication from a network node to identify a resource utilization with communications of the network node; determine, based at least in part on the resource management indication, a collision management configuration for the network node; and transmit information associated with the collision management configuration based at least in part on the determination of the collision management configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Luca Blessent, Jianghong Luo, Karl Georg Hampel, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11924897
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first network node may receive, from a first integrated access and backhaul (IAB) donor central unit (CU), information indicating a first resource configuration used by an IAB node that has a first connection with a first parent IAB node that is a child of the first IAB donor CU. The first network node may transmit, to a second parent IAB node that is a child of the first network node, the information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11917429
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may transmit, to an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) donor central unit (CU), information indicating a cell served by the network node and associated with another CU. The network node may receive, from the IAB donor CU, a distributed unit (DU) cell resource configuration for the cell. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11917698
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may communicate, with an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) donor, an indication associated with establishing a sidelink connection between the wireless node and an IAB node. The wireless node may receive, from the IAB donor, a configuration that maps a routing identifier to a route that includes the sidelink connection between the wireless node and the IAB node. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Sony Akkarakaran, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11917440
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a central unit (CU) may receive one or more cross-link interference (CLI) measurement reports that are based at least in part on one or more CLI measurements performed by one or more downstream nodes. The CU may transmit, and a distributed unit (DU) may receive, CLI measurement information based at least in part on the one or more CLI measurement reports. In some aspects, the DU may perform one or more CLI mitigation actions based at least in part on the CLI measurement information received from the CU. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Xipeng Zhu, Qian Zhang, Karl Georg Hampel, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11910483
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may identify one or more parameters indicating a mobility of a served node relative to a serving node. The wireless node may classify the served node within a category, among a plurality of categories, based at least in part on the one or more parameters. In some aspects, the plurality of categories may include at least a first category for served nodes that have a low mobility relative to the serving node and a second category for served nodes that have a high mobility relative to the serving node. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Wanshi Chen, Karl Georg Hampel, Luca Blessent, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Publication number: 20240057008
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify that an uplink transmission to a base station is to occur in accordance with an uplink timing advance value representing an amount of time that the uplink transmission takes from transmission at the UE to reception at the base station. The UE may perform an autonomous open-loop adjustment to the uplink timing advance value. The UE may transmit the uplink transmission to the base station in accordance with the adjusted uplink timing advance value. The base station may transmit an indication of a set of uplink timing advance values for a UE to use for uplink transmissions, each of the set of uplink timing advance values representing an amount of time that an uplink transmission is expected to take from transmission at the UE to reception at the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Jung Ho RYU, Navid ABEDINI, Junyi LI, Karl Georg HAMPEL, Juergen CEZANNE, Sundar SUBRAMANIAN, Jianghong LUO, Nazmul ISLAM
  • Patent number: 11902822
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first base station central unit (CU) may transmit, and a second base station CU may receive, first inter-CU signaling including information related to cross-link interference (CLI) experienced by or to be measured by one or more victim downstream nodes associated with the first base station CU. The second base station CU may configure one or more aggressor downstream nodes to transmit one or more signals based at least in part on the first inter-CU signaling. The second base station CU may transmit, and the first base station CU may receive, second inter-CU signaling indicating a configuration associated with the signals to be transmitted by the one or more aggressor downstream nodes based at least in part on the first inter-CU signaling. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Xipeng Zhu, Qian Zhang, Karl Georg Hampel, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11902924
    Abstract: Various aspects related to using cellular RATs and/or features thereof for backhauling purposes are described. In an aspect, a solution to enable synchronization and establishing links among the ANs using available RATs with minimum modifications is provided. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus maybe a first AN, e.g., base station. The apparatus maybe configured to determine a synchronization schedule of at least one second AN based on received information indicating the synchronization schedule of the at least one second AN, and transmit information regarding the synchronization schedule of the at least one second AN to at least one of one or more neighboring ANs or one or more UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Karl Georg Hampel, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11895697
    Abstract: An apparatus acquires random access information for at least one of a donor node serving the node or a neighbor cell of the node and determines one or more random access parameters for a device to perform a random procedure with the node. The one or more random access parameters are based on the acquired random access information. The apparatus may be an IAB node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Tao Luo, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Karl Georg Hampel, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11888742
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may receive a configuration for including extended routing information in backhaul adaptation protocol (BAP) headers. The wireless node may transmit a packet that includes extended routing information in a BAP header based at least in part on the configuration. In some aspects, a wireless node may receive a packet that includes extended routing information in a BAP header. The wireless node may process the packet based at least in part on the extended routing information in the BAP header. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Sony Akkarakaran, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11889554
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing a common channel sensing procedure for transmissions via a mobile termination (MT) role or via a distributed unit (DU) role of an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node, or both. In one aspect, the IAB node may obtain channel access for transmissions via the MT role or the DU role, or both, using the same channel sensing procedure. The IAB node may select a timing of a sensing slot for the common channel sensing procedure in accordance with a capability of the IAB node and a timing of the transmissions. The IAB node may initiate a channel occupancy time (COT) for the transmissions via the MT role or the DU role, or both, as a result of determining that a measured energy detection (ED) value satisfies an ED threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini, Luca Blessent, Karl Georg Hampel
  • Patent number: 11889559
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for channel sensing with self-interference awareness for unlicensed band. A node may transmit, via a first entity of the node, at least one signal during a LBT procedure of a second entity of the node. The at least one signal may include a signal energy. The LBT procedure may be associated with a total measured interference from all detected energy sources. The node may determine a self-interference at the second entity of the node based on the signal energy of the at least one signal transmitted via the first entity of the node and calculate an interference from at least one other source based on a difference between the total measured interference from all detected energy sources and the self-interference determined based on the signal energy of the at least one signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Navid Abedini, Naeem Akl, Tao Luo, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Karl Georg Hampel
  • Patent number: 11889540
    Abstract: An integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node may transition between use of a mobile termination (MT) function at the wireless device and use of a distributed unit (DU) function. The IAB node may schedule communication using the DU function of the wireless device based on whether one or more guard symbols are provided for an allocation from a parent node for the MT function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Karl Georg Hampel
  • Patent number: 11882430
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing separate channel sensing procedures for transmissions via a mobile termination (MT) role and for transmissions via a distributed unit (DU) role of an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node. In one aspect, the IAB node may obtain channel access for transmissions via the MT role by performing a first channel sensing procedure and may obtain channel access for transmissions via the DU role by performing a second channel sensing procedure. The IAB node may determine a first timing of a first sensing slot for performing the first channel sensing procedure and a second timing of a second sensing slot for performing the second channel sensing procedure in accordance with a capability of the IAB node and a transmission timing of the transmissions via the MT role and the DU role.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Luca Blessent, Karl Georg Hampel
  • Publication number: 20240022978
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, a configuration of one or more conditional handover conditions associated with a first candidate cell. The UE may receive an indication of an operating mode associated with the first candidate cell. The UE may perform a conditional handover procedure based at least in part on the configuration of the one or more conditional handover conditions and the indication of the operating mode associated with the first candidate cell. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Naeem AKL, Navid ABEDINI, Karl Georg HAMPEL, Junyi LI, Tao LUO