Patents by Inventor Stephen Grant

Stephen Grant 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: 20220330166
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) being configured to receive a downlink (DL) information, determine a spatial association for an uplink (UL) transmission based on the DL information, and determine UL power control (PC) parameters based on the DL information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ravikiran NORY, Stephen GRANT, Claes TIDESTAV, Niklas WERNERSSON
  • Patent number: 11469871
    Abstract: User equipment, base station and methods are provided for user equipment uplink data transmission to a base station. In one embodiment, the user equipment includes receiving circuitry configured to receive signaling information in an uplink data grant about unavailable resource elements in a uplink subframe for uplink data transmission over a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) indicated by the data grant and processing circuitry configured to transmit the PUSCH on only available resource elements in the subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Shiwei Gao, Mattias Frenne, Stephen Grant, Robert Mark Harrison, Siva Muruganathan
  • Publication number: 20220321383
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network, the method including performing channel estimation based on received signaling, the channel estimation providing a channel estimate value for each subcarrier of a set of subcarriers. The received signaling covers a number NPRB of Physical Resource Blocks, PRB, in frequency domain, each PRB having a number NSC of subcarriers. The set of subcarriers has a number NSUB of subsets of subcarriers, subcarriers of the same subset being associated to the same PRB of the number NPRB of PRBs. The channel estimation associates different channel estimate values to different subcarriers of one or more of the NSUB subsets. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Gustav ALMQUIST, Jung-Fu CHENG, Stephen GRANT
  • Publication number: 20220312346
    Abstract: Network nodes, wireless devices and methods of reducing signaling overhead are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting to the wireless device at least one power threshold parameter to be used by the wireless device to determine a number of beams to be included in a multi-beam precoder codebook and transmitting to the wireless device a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) to be used by the wireless device to determine to use one of a single beam precoder and a multiple beam precoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Siva MURUGANATHAN, Sebastian FAXÉR, Shiwei GAO, Stephen GRANT, Robert Mark HARRISON
  • Publication number: 20220311648
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving first signaling, the first signaling covering at least one allocation unit carrying Demodulation Reference Signaling, DMRS. Receiving includes performing Inter Carrier Interference, ICI, suppression for the at least one allocation unit carrying DMRS based on received DMRS. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Jung-Fu CHENG, Mehrnaz AFSHANG, Yuhang LIU, Stephen GRANT
  • Publication number: 20220311647
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving first signaling and second signaling, wherein the first signaling includes first Phase Tracking Reference Signaling, PT-RS, on a first set of subcarriers, and the second signaling includes second PT-RS on a second set of subcarriers, wherein the first set of subcarriers is non-overlapping with the second set of subcarriers, wherein receiving the first signaling is based on estimating a phase noise for the first signaling based on the first PT-RS and the second PT-RS. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Jung-Fu CHENG, Mehrnaz AFSHANG, Yuhang LIU, Stephen GRANT
  • Publication number: 20220311571
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving first signaling and second signaling, the first signaling including first Phase Tracking Reference Signaling, PT-RS, on a first set of subcarriers, and the second signaling including second PT-RS on a second set of subcarriers, the first set of subcarriers being non-overlapping with the second set of subcarriers. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Jung-Fu CHENG, Stephen GRANT, Mehrnaz AFSHANG, Yuhang LIU
  • Publication number: 20220312334
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving signaling based on evaluating Phase Tracking Reference Signaling, PTRS, associated to the signaling, wherein evaluating is based on assuming a power level of PTRS relative to associated data signaling based on the number or PTRS ports and/or transmission sources for the signaling indicated to the receiving radio node. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Shiwei GAO, Stephen GRANT, Siva MURUGANATHAN
  • Patent number: 11451358
    Abstract: Techniques are provided to control the activation of resource sets via medium access control (MAC) signaling. In some aspect, a radio network node generates a MAC message comprising a first field indicating whether a second field is present, or absent, in the MAC message, the second field identifying one or more resource sets among a plurality of resource sets which are to be activated or deactivated, and a third field comprising quasi co-location (QCL) information. The radio network node then transmits the MAC message to a wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Helka-Liina Määttanen, Siva Muruganathan, Stephen Grant
  • Publication number: 20220295465
    Abstract: A method, network node and wireless device for flexible configuration of channel occupancy measurements in New Radio (NR) are disclosed. According to one aspect, a wireless device configured to communicate with a network node is provided. The wireless device includes processing circuitry configured to: determine a time-domain configuration for a channel occupancy measurement based on at least one configuration parameter where the time-domain configuration is independent of subcarrier spacing of at least one carrier on which the channel occupancy measurement is performed; and optionally perform the channel occupancy measurement based at least on the determined time-domain configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Iana SIOMINA, Peter ALRIKSSON, Stephen GRANT, Havish KOORAPATY
  • Publication number: 20220295560
    Abstract: A wireless device (110) receives a frequency resource configuration (200) from an access node (120), the access node generates downlink control information DCI (201) and transmits a control message (202) including at least one slot format indicator, SFI, field and a frequency resource indicator field. Based on the frequency resource indicator, the wireless device determines whether a particular frequency resource is available for operation (203) and whether the wireless device can receive or transmit data on said frequency resource (204, 205).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Hazhir SHOKRI RAZAGHI, Min WANG, Reem KARAKI, Stephen GRANT, Iana SIOMINA, Tai DO, Yuhang LIU, Havish KOORAPATY, Sorour FALAHATI, Jung-Fu CHENG
  • Patent number: 11444741
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method in a radio node includes obtaining a parameter associated with a reference signal type and using the parameter associated with the reference signal type to calculate an initial value, Cinit, for a reference signal. A reference signal sequence is generated using Cinit, and the reference signal is demodulated using the reference signal sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Karl Werner, Mattias Frenne, Stephen Grant, Lars Lindbom
  • Patent number: 11438094
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring, in a network node of a wireless communication network, a reference signal resource used to perform channel-state information, CSI, measurements with one or more wireless devices. In an example method, a reference signal resource is aggregated in one or more of a frequency and a time domain, and a density characteristic of the aggregated reference signal resource that is to be transmitted to the one or more wireless devices is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Stephen Grant, Mattias Frenne
  • Publication number: 20220264599
    Abstract: In one aspect, a network node is configured for multi-interval scheduling downlink or uplink transmissions to or from a wireless device. The network node sends (702), to the wireless device, configuration information indicating one or both of a maximum number of scheduling intervals that can be scheduled with a single scheduling message and a time-domain resource allocation data structure to be used when multi-interval scheduling is in use. Alternatively, the network node schedules (802) one or more downlink or uplink transmissions to or from the wireless communication device, using a single scheduling message scheduling a transmission in each of multiple scheduling intervals. The number of scheduled intervals is indicated in the scheduling message by a dedicated field in or by a time resource assignment indication that implicitly or explicitly indicates the number of scheduled intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Reem Karaki, Stephen Grant, Johan Rune, Stefan Parkvall, Sorour Falahati
  • Publication number: 20220247537
    Abstract: A method for selecting orthogonal cover codes repetition sequence for Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) transmission in a New Radio-Unlicensed (NR-U) network is provided. In embodiments disclosed herein, a set of time domain and/or frequency domain variables, ?, is first determined to be used in a function, ƒ(?), that determines a selected PUCCH sequence, rl(m), among at least two PUCCH sequences to be repeated with Orthogonal Cover Codes (OCC). Accordingly, a subset of the selected PUCCH sequence, rl(m), is repeated with OCC. By employing the method disclosed herein to determine the selected PUCCH sequence, rl(m), for repetition with OCC, it is possible to satisfy the occupied bandwidth and the maximum Power Spectral Density (PSD) requirements mandated in the NR-U network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Gustav Almquist, Stephen Grant
  • Publication number: 20220240289
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes communicating utilising data signaling based on a received control information message, the control information message scheduling multiple occurrences of data signaling, wherein communicating is based on extracting a code block group (CBG) setup for communicating based on the received control information message and/or a CBG configuration. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Reem KARAKI, Jung-Fu CHENG, Yuhang LIU, Stephen GRANT
  • Publication number: 20220232624
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a radio node in a wireless communication network, the radio node being adapted for accessing a carrier for transmission based on a Clear Channel Assessment procedure, the method including transmitting Short Control Signaling on the carrier without a CCA procedure and/or with limited CCA procedure based on the fulfillment of one or more SCS criteria. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Peter ALRIKSSON, Reem KARAKI, Stephen GRANT, Narendar MADHAVAN, Havish KOORAPATY
  • Publication number: 20220231751
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a transmitting radio node in a wireless communication network, the method comprising transmitting reference signaling to a receiving radio node, and/or receiving reference signaling from a receiving radio node, based on a beam switching time indication pertaining to the receiving radio node. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen GRANT, Emma WITTENMARK, Peter ALRIKSSON
  • Publication number: 20220232567
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network, the method comprising receiving signaling on an initial bandwidth part (IBWP) utilising a subcarrier spacing, the subcarrier spacing being based on at least one of a signaling characteristic of received synchronisation signaling and/or information carried in received synchronisation signaling. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Peter ALRIKSSON, Emma WITTENMARK, Stephen GRANT
  • Publication number: 20220232557
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus are disclosed for transmitting feedback information when operating in unlicensed portions of the radio frequency spectrum. In one embodiment, a wireless device is configured to receive a configuration for a 5 plurality of channels, the configuration configuring each of the plurality of channels with at least one physical uplink control channel, PUCCH, resource; and transmit feedback on the at least one PUCCH resource that is configured in at least one channel of the plurality of channels. In another embodiment, a network node is configured to transmit a configuration for a plurality of channels, the configuration 10 configuring each of the plurality of channels with at least one physical uplink control channel, PUCCH, resource; and receive feedback on the at least one PUCCH resource that is configured in at least one channel of the plurality of channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Reem KARAKI, Stephen GRANT, Min WANG, Tai DO