Patents by Inventor Timo Ville Vintola

Timo Ville Vintola 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: 20230032247
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, signaling that indicates a relative power difference between a first cell and a second cell. The UE may apply the relative power difference in a transmission occasion that includes at least a first uplink transmission on the first cell and a second uplink transmission on the second cell, wherein applying the relative power difference causes the first uplink transmission on the first cell to be transmitted at a lower power level than the second uplink transmission on the second cell. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Timo Ville VINTOLA, Peter GAAL, Hemish PARIKH, Masato KITAZOE, Kazuki TAKEDA
  • Patent number: 11569886
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device, which may be an example of a user equipment and/or a base station, may receive a signal from a receiving device indicating an antenna topology supported by the receiving device. The transmitting device may select, based at least in part on the antenna topology, a diversity scheme for performing a wireless transmission to the receiving device, the diversity scheme including one or more diversity types from a plurality of diversity types. The transmitting device may transmit the wireless transmission to the receiving device employing the selected diversity scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sumant Jayaraman Iyer, Timo Ville Vintola, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11509447
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for enhanced carrier aggregation techniques described. For example, component carrier groups including multiple component carriers may be configured. In some cases, each component carrier group may be configured to include 2n component carriers. Also, component carriers may be managed on a per component carrier group basis. In some cases, a single management message may be used to communicate management information for a component carrier group. Similarly, a single control message may be used to communicate control information, such as physical layer parameters, for a component carrier group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu, Peter Gaal, Timo Ville Vintola
  • Publication number: 20220286978
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine that uplink communications are to be performed between the UE and a first cell group associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and between the UE and a second cell group associated with a second RAT. The UE may determine that the UE is configured for power sharing for the uplink communications with the first cell group associated with the first RAT and the second cell group associated with the second RAT. The UE may calculate, based on the power sharing and the uplink communications, a power reduction factor for the uplink communications between the UE and the second cell group. The UE may perform the uplink communications with the first cell group and selectively perform the uplink communications with the second cell group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Gene Fong, Timo Ville Vintola, Xiao Feng Wang, Heechoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11382048
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine that uplink communications are to be performed between the UE and a first cell group associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and between the UE and a second cell group associated with a second RAT. The UE may determine that the UE is configured for power sharing for the uplink communications with the first cell group associated with the first RAT and the second cell group associated with the second RAT. The UE may calculate, based at least in part on the power sharing and the uplink communications, a power reduction factor for the uplink communications between the UE and the second cell group. The UE may perform the uplink communications with the first cell group and selectively perform the uplink communications with the second cell group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Gene Fong, Timo Ville Vintola, Xiao Feng Wang, Heechoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11330534
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, and a base station may receive, a report that includes information related to a power headroom available to the UE at a current power level and information related to a duty cycle that the UE can sustain over a moving integration window based at least in part on a maximum permissible exposure limit. In some aspects, the base station may transmit, and the UE may receive, scheduling information based at least in part on the information related to the power headroom available to the UE at the current power level and the information related to the duty cycle that the UE can sustain over the moving integration window. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu, Raghu Narayan Challa, Timo Ville Vintola, Tienyow Liu, Farhad Meshkati
  • Publication number: 20220124666
    Abstract: Aspects include systems and methods for compressed direct current (DC) location reporting, such as DC location reporting in uplink (UL) carrier aggregation (CA) deployments in a wireless network. Various aspects may include a UE computing device determining and indicating DC locations only for a subset of a plurality of component carriers (CCs) in a channel bandwidth to a base station and/or a UE computing device determining and indicating DC locations for a subset of activation permutations for bandwidth parts (BWPs) of a plurality of CCs in a channel bandwidth that is less than all possible activation permutations of the BWPs of the plurality of CCs in the channel bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Timo Ville VINTOLA, Peter GAAL, Masato KITAZOE
  • Publication number: 20220070891
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can report direct current (DC) subcarrier location information for a subset of possible combinations of bandwidth parts and component carriers supported by a base station. In one aspect, the UE can receive, from a scheduling entity, a message for activating a first combination of bandwidth parts (BWPs) and component carriers (CCs) in a list including a subset of combinations of BWPs and CCs configured for the UE. The UE can report direct current subcarrier location information for the first combination of BWPs and CCs to the scheduling entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Wooseok NAM, Peter GAAL, Peter Pui Lok ANG, Timo Ville VINTOLA, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20210367724
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a UE capability message, the UE capability message indicating a supported transmit antenna switching (TxAS) capability for each port of the UE. The UE may receive a configuration message indicating an uplink multiple-input/multiple-output (UL MIMO) configuration for the UE, the UL MIMO configuration being based at least in part on the UE capability message. The UE may identify, based at least in part on the configuration message, a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration to use for transmitting SRSs in conjunction with the UL MIMO communications, the SRS configuration comprising a configuration for transmission by the UE of SRSs using at least one of the two or more ports of the UE, the SRSs transmitted on one or more antennas of the UE selected according to a TxAS configuration for the respective port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Wanshi Chen, Chao Wei, Peter Gaal, Timo Ville Vintola, Vishal Mahajan, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Alexandros Manolakos, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu
  • Patent number: 11153830
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a base station may signal one or more emission limits for one or more different frequency bands, and two or more values for one of the emission limits may be provided. A first subset of user equipments (UEs) may be capable of aerial operations (e.g., unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones) and may use a first value of the first emission limit and the second subset of UEs may not capable of aerial operations and may use a second value of the first emission limit. A UE status such as altitude or position, or transmission directivity may also be used to determine if the UE is to apply the first value or the second value for an emission limit of a frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Marco Papaleo, Le Liu, Umesh Phuyal, Stefano Faccin, Timo Ville Vintola, Gene Fong, Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu
  • Patent number: 11088750
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for providing beam switch latency using communications systems operating according to new radio (NR) technologies. For example, the method generally includes determining a latency associated with a beam switch from a source antenna array module to a target antenna array module when the target module is in a low power mode; and signaling a base station to use the determined latency after sending a command for the beam switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu, Raghu Challa, Ruhua He, Yong Li, Timo Ville Vintola
  • Patent number: 11050598
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive carrier information identifying at least one of: an initial absolute frequency for a carrier, a tone boundary offset value for the carrier, a number of resource blocks included in the carrier, or a frequency offset from a reference frequency; and determine a resource allocation of the carrier based at least in part on the carrier information and a subcarrier spacing of the user equipment. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu, Timo Ville Vintola, Hung Dinh Ly, Yang Yang, Jing Jiang, Heechoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11026189
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for wireless communication. In certain aspects, the method generally includes determine a transmission power for each of at least one first sounding reference signal (SRS) to be transmitted using at least one first antenna, wherein the determination is based on whether the at least one first SRS is transmitted using an amplifier of a transmit chain configured for transmissions using a second antenna, and transmitting the at least one first SRS based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Timo Ville Vintola, Peter Gaal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Yi Huang, Vishal Mahajan, Andrew Puayhoe See, Alexandros Manolakos
  • Publication number: 20210144652
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, and a base station may receive, a report that includes information related to a power headroom available to the UE at a current power level and information related to a duty cycle that the UE can sustain over a moving integration window based at least in part on a maximum permissible exposure limit. In some aspects, the base station may transmit, and the UE may receive, scheduling information based at least in part on the information related to the power headroom available to the UE at the current power level and the information related to the duty cycle that the UE can sustain over the moving integration window. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Valentin Alexandru GHEORGHIU, Raghu Narayan CHALLA, Timo Ville VINTOLA, Tienyow LIU, Farhad MESHKATI
  • Patent number: 11005695
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus relating to reference signal design for Pi/2-binary phase shift keying (Pi/2-BPSK) modulation with frequency domain spectral shaping (FDSS). In certain aspects, a method includes generating a set of Gold sequences each having a length and adjusting the length of each of the Gold sequences in the set of Gold sequences. The method also includes applying a phase rotation to each of the Gold sequences in the set of Gold sequences and modulating each of the Gold sequences in the set of Gold sequences by a DFT-s-OFDM with frequency domain spectral shaping (FDSS). The method further includes selecting one or more sequences from the set of modulated Gold sequences based on a parameter and transmitting the one or more sequences to a user equipment (UE) or a base station (BS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyong Park, Peter Gaal, Yi Huang, Renqiu Wang, Xiao Feng Wang, Sony Akkarakaran, Timo Ville Vintola, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11006373
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may determine an amount of energy with which the UE is able to transmit in a first network. The UE may send, to a base station, information indicating the determined amount of energy. The UE may receive, from the base station, scheduling information based on the information indicating the determined amount of energy. The base station may receive, from the UE, the information indicating the amount of energy with which the UE is able to transmit in a first network. The base station may determine scheduling information based on the information indicating the amount of energy with which the UE is able to transmit in the first network, and the scheduling information may prevent the UE from exceeding a threshold amount of energy for a time period. The base station may send, to the UE, information indicating the scheduling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Junsheng Han, Raghu Narayan Challa, Timo Ville Vintola, Reza Shahidi
  • Patent number: 10952154
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for managing unwanted transmissions by a wireless communications device, such as spurious transient transmissions caused by changing a power level of a transmitter. An exemplary method includes determining, based on one or more parameters, an action to reduce an impact of a spurious transmission by the UE, wherein the spurious transmission relates to at least one of changing a transmit power level at the UE or switching one or more radio components at the UE, and taking the determined action to reduce the impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal, Timo Ville Vintola, Hao Xu
  • Publication number: 20210051595
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a base station may signal one or more emission limits for one or more different frequency bands, and two or more values for one of the emission limits may be provided. A first subset of user equipments (UEs) may be capable of aerial operations (e.g., unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones) and may use a first value of the first emission limit and the second subset of UEs may not capable of aerial operations and may use a second value of the first emission limit. A UE status such as altitude or position, or transmission directivity may also be used to determine if the UE is to apply the first value or the second value for an emission limit of a frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Marco Papaleo, Le Liu, Umesh Phuyal, Stefano Faccin, Timo Ville Vintola, Gene Fong, Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu
  • Publication number: 20210045004
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Techniques to use capability information for user equipment in wide band systems such as millimeter wave systems. The capability information can include information indicative of support for limited non-contiguous intra-band carrier aggregation. The capability information can include information indicative of support for sharing time and frequency tracking information between cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Timo Ville VINTOLA, Shrenik PATEL, Peter GAAL, Joseph Binamira SORIAGA
  • Patent number: 10912040
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may determine an emissions mask (e.g., an in-band emission (IBE) mask) for a user equipment (UE) which may be determined based on the total number of UEs scheduled by the base station for uplink transmissions during a same transmission time interval (TTI). The base station may transmit downlink control information (DCI) to the UE indicating the emissions mask. The base station may additionally transmit a grant to the UE allocating resources for the UE based on the UE's position relative to other UEs served by the base station. The UE may receive the DCI and may map the emissions mask to a maximum power reduction (MPR). Based on the MPR, the UE may determine a transmit power and may transmit an uplink transmission to the base station according to the transmission power and the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alessio Marcone, Marco Papaleo, Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu, Sumant Jayaraman Iyer, Timo Ville Vintola