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: 11871215
    Abstract: A child node in a wireless multi-hop network may receive a configuration for transmission of an uplink reference signal for a handover procedure; transmit the uplink reference signal according to the configuration; and receive a handover command or monitor for a downlink reference signal for the handover procedure based at least in part on transmitting the uplink reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Karl Georg Hampel, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11863324
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a node or a base station. In one aspect, the apparatus may receive, via a first set of resources, communication including at least one data packet, the first set of resources allocated for a reception entity of the node. The apparatus may also decode, at the reception entity, the at least one data packet during a decoding period, the decoding period including a decoding start time and a decoding completion time. Additionally, the apparatus may transmit, via a second set of resources, the communication including the at least one data packet to a next hop node, the second set of resources allocated for a forwarding entity of the node, at least one first resource overlapping with at least one second resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Navid Abedini, Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Luca Blessent, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11856623
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a relay user equipment (UE) may establish a sidelink unicast link with a remote UE via a sidelink signaling interface. The relay UE may identify configuration information for an adaptation layer of the sidelink signaling interface, the configuration information including at least one of: a remote UE identifier associated with the sidelink unicast link for a relay service, bearer identifier information identifying one or more bearers between the remote UE and a network entity for the relay service, a radio link control (RLC) channel mapping between a bearer identifier and one or more RLC channels, or data routing information associated with the relay service. The relay UE may relay communications between the remote UE and the network entity based at least in part on the configuration information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Karthika Paladugu, Peng Cheng, Soo Bum Lee, Hong Cheng, Gavin Bernard Horn, Karl Georg Hampel
  • Publication number: 20230403627
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node may have a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a first central unit of a first network node. The IAB node may receive an indication that the IAB node is to establish an IAB node-to-central unit connection (e.g., a F1 detour connection) with a second central unit of a second network node via the RRC connection between the IAB node and the first network node. The indication may be associated with a handover between the first network node to the second network node, where the first network node may the source node and the second network node may be the target node, or vice versa. The IAB node may communicate, with the second network node, via the IAB node-to-central unit connection using the RRC connection between the IAB node and the first network node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Naeem AKL, Karl Georg HAMPEL, Hong CHENG, Francesco PICA, Lenaig Genevieve CHAPONNIERE
  • Publication number: 20230403620
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a source node may forward a first message between a user equipment (UE) and a core node via a distributed node, wherein the first message is a non-access stratum message. The source node may transmit, to a target node, a second message associated with a migration of the distributed node from the source node to the target node, wherein the second message identifies the forwarding of the first message. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Naeem AKL, Karl Georg HAMPEL, Hong CHENG, Lenaig Genevieve CHAPONNIERE, Francesco PICA
  • Patent number: 11844062
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a child node of a parent node in an integrated access backhaul (IAB) network may determine communication information that includes one or more of a schedule or a configuration for a communication to be transmitted by the child node. The child node may be an IAB node, and the parent node may be an IAB donor or an intervening IAB node between the IAB node and an IAB donor. The child node may transmit the communication information to the parent node via a wireless backhaul link between the child node and the parent node. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Naeem Akl, Tao Luo, Luca Blessent, Karl Georg Hampel, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11844060
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a central entity may determine a set of schedulable resources for a plurality of links associated with a plurality of nodes of a multi-link network; and may provide scheduling information to the plurality of nodes to schedule communication on the plurality of links based at least in part on determining the set of schedulable resources. In some aspects, a node of a network may determine an extended slot format indicator for the node based at least in part on a received extended slot format indicator of a parent node of the node and a received null adjust request from a child node of the node; may provide the determined extended slot format indicator to the child node; and may provide the received null adjust request to the parent node. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Junyi Li, Karl Georg Hampel
  • Patent number: 11838928
    Abstract: An access node may monitor for uplink and downlink resource release indications signaled by a parent access node and a child access node prior to scheduling a released resource. In some cases (e.g., when the child node is capable of half-duplex communications), the parent access node may determine to release a resource, and the child access node may determine to release a hard resource (e.g., a child node controlled resource). Receiving uplink and downlink resource release indications may enable the access node to schedule communication with the child node via a soft resource (e.g., a parent node controlled resource). Other aspects of the described techniques are directed to feedback support for a slot format indicator (SFI). The feedback from the access node may accept or reject the SFI based on an impact the SFI has on scheduling via a child link established with a child node of the access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Navid Abedini, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Luca Blessent, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Karl Georg Hampel
  • Patent number: 11832205
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Karl Georg Hampel, Juergen Cezanne, Sundar Subramanian, Jianghong Luo, Muhammad Nazmul Islam
  • Patent number: 11832235
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a central entity may determine a set of schedulable resources for a plurality of links associated with a plurality of nodes of a multi-link network; and may provide scheduling information to the plurality of nodes to schedule communication on the plurality of links based at least in part on determining the set of schedulable resources. In some aspects, a node of a network may determine an extended slot format indicator for the node based at least in part on a received extended slot format indicator of a parent node of the node and a received null adjust request from a child node of the node; may provide the determined extended slot format indicator to the child node; and may provide the received null adjust request to the parent node. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Junyi Li, Karl Georg Hampel
  • Patent number: 11832140
    Abstract: Aspects relate to technologies and techniques for migrating a radio access network (RAN) node associated with a first donor node in a communications network. The first donor node may receive, via a first communications interface, such as an F1-C or resource control (RRC) interface, cell configuration data associated with one or more cells of the RAN node activated by the first donor node. The first donor node may process the cell configuration data and transit the cell configuration data, using a second communications interface, such as an Xn or X2 interface, to a second donor node for use in migrating the RAN node from the first donor node to the second donor node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11832320
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB)-donor central unit (CU) may trigger connectivity between a distributed unit (DU) of a first network node and the IAB-donor CU, wherein the first network node comprises an IAB-node. The IAB may instantiate connectivity between a mobile terminal (MT) of the first network node and the IAB-donor CU after instantiation of the connectivity between the DU of the first network node and the IAB-donor CU. The IAB may transmit a communication to a second network node via the first network node. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Karl Georg Hampel, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11824817
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless node may transmit, to a second wireless node, a cross-link interference (CLI) management configuration message including information identifying a time division duplexing configuration of a mobile terminal of a third wireless node; and communicate with one or more wireless nodes in accordance with the time division duplexing configuration of the mobile terminal based at least in part on transmitting the CLI management configuration message to the second wireless node. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Xipeng Zhu, Tao Luo, Luca Blessent, Karl Georg Hampel, Jianghong Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11825359
    Abstract: Techniques for using simultaneous connectivity for mobility of integrated access and backhaul nodes may include an IAB node establishing a first connection with a first parent node (e.g., second IAB node) associated with a first IAB donor device (e.g., first base station) and establishing a second connection with a second parent node (third IAB node), wherein the second connection is simultaneous with the first connection. The IAB node may also switch the first connection from the first parent node to the second parent node. In doing so, the IAB node may have dual connectivity with the second parent node, where one connection is a master connection and the other connection is a secondary connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Publication number: 20230362964
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node may identify one or more resources for transmitting one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), the one or more resources being associated with a mobility state of the IAB node. The IAB node may transmit the one or more SSBs in the one or more resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Navid ABEDINI, Jianghong LUO, Karl Georg HAMPEL, Luca BLESSENT, Tao LUO, Junyi LI
  • Patent number: 11805548
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for UL LBT status reporting. A scheduled node (e.g., a UE) may sense a status of each LBT channel in a set of one or more LBT channels. The set of one or more LBT channels may include at least one of one or more first LBT channels associated with a scheduling grant or one or more second LBT channels unassociated with the scheduling grant. The scheduled node may transmit, to a scheduling node (e.g., a base station), a LBT status report indicative of the status of each LBT channel in the set of one or more LBT channels. The scheduling node may schedule, via a second scheduling grant, a second set of one or more LBT channels based on the status of each LBT channel indicated in the LBT status report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Navid Abedini, Naeem Akl, Tao Luo, Luca Blessent, Karl Georg Hampel, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11800388
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a distributed unit (DU) of a first integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node may configure an indication of a capability to reuse measurements, associated with a mobile terminal of the first IAB node, as crosslink interference measurements for a DU of a second IAB node. The DU may transmit the indication to a central unit of an IAB donor. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Xipeng Zhu, Qian Zhang, Karl Georg Hampel, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11800571
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for avoiding conflicts of resources assigned to one or more signals with resources assigned to Random Access Channel (RACH) in an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) network. Configurations for first and second sets of signals are obtained for a first and second base station (BS) respectively. Based on the obtained configurations, a RACH configuration is determined for the first BS for performing a RACH procedure with the second BS over a wireless backhaul link, wherein one or more Physical RACH (PRACH) occasions according to the determined RACH configuration do not conflict with resources used for at least one of the first or the second set of signals. The determined RACH configuration is communicated to the second BS, wherein the second BS transmits a RACH signal to the first BS based on the determined RACH configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Karl Georg Hampel, Jianghong Luo
  • Publication number: 20230337086
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a child node in a wireless multi-hop network may receive a cost parameter from a neighbor node in the wireless multi-hop network, wherein the cost parameter indicates a cost, due to an operating mode of the neighbor node, of selecting the neighbor node as a target node for a handover procedure, a cell selection procedure, or a cell reselection procedure. The child node may perform the handover procedure, the cell selection procedure, or the cell reselection procedure based at least in part on the cost parameter. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Naeem AKL, Navid ABEDINI, Junyi LI, Jianghong LUO, Luca BLESSENT, Karl Georg HAMPEL, Tao LUO
  • Patent number: 11792794
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for system information (SI) for access and backhaul. An access node (AN) may provide SI to devices within its cell indicating communication procedure configurations. The AN may provide SI to devices that is specific to whether the communication procedure is an access procedure or a backhaul procedure. The AN may transmit a common master information block (MIB) directing the devices within its cell to a search space in order to receive the remaining SI. The search space may be shared between access devices and backhaul devices or alternatively may be separate between access and backhaul devices. The remaining SI may not be shared between access and backhaul devices. The devices may determine different configurations as defined by the SI from the AN for communications procedures based on whether the procedure is an access procedure or a backhaul procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Karl Georg Hampel