Patents by Inventor Wook Bong Lee

Wook Bong Lee 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).

  • MANAGEMENT OF MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20220368381
    Abstract: Apparatuses of a user equipment (UE), a cellular base station, and radio access network (RAN) nodes are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless communication device includes circuitry configured to measure reference signals received from a plurality of antennas of an other wireless communication device, and circuitry configured to cause one or more antennas of the wireless communication device to transmit information regarding the received reference signals back to the other wireless communication device to enable the other wireless communication device to estimate a utility function for different transmit parameter sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Jan Schreck, Nageen Himayat, Hosein Nikopour, Feng Xue, Ehsan Aryafar, Oner Orhan, Mustafa R. Akdeniz, Wook Bong Lee, Jing Zhu
  • MANAGEMENT OF MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20220368382
    Abstract: Apparatuses of a user equipment (UE), a cellular base station, and radio access network (RAN) nodes are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless communication device includes circuitry configured to measure reference signals received from a plurality of antennas of an other wireless communication device, and circuitry configured to cause one or more antennas of the wireless communication device to transmit information regarding the received reference signals back to the other wireless communication device to enable the other wireless communication device to estimate a utility function for different transmit parameter sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Jan Schreck, Nageen Himayat, Hosein Nikopour, Feng Xue, Ehsan Aryafar, Oner Orhan, Mustafa R. Akdeniz, Wook Bong Lee, Jing Zhu
  • MANAGEMENT OF MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20220368383
    Abstract: Apparatuses of a user equipment (UE), a cellular base station, and radio access network (RAN) nodes are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless communication device includes circuitry configured to measure reference signals received from a plurality of antennas of an other wireless communication device, and circuitry configured to cause one or more antennas of the wireless communication device to transmit information regarding the received reference signals back to the other wireless communication device to enable the other wireless communication device to estimate a utility function for different transmit parameter sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Jan Schreck, Nageen Himayat, Hosein Nikopour, Feng Xue, Ehsan Aryafar, Oner Orhan, Mustafa R. Akdeniz, Wook Bong Lee, Jing Zhu
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION FOR EXCHANGING RANGING INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20220369305
    Abstract: A method of establishing communication between a first device and a second device to exchange ranging information is provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes: sending, by the first device to the second device via a first channel, or receiving, by the first device from the second device via the first channel, a first control message indicating a start time; sending, by the first device to the second device via a second channel, a second control message including one or more ranging parameter values for exchanging the ranging information, the second control message being sent at the start time; and exchanging, by the first device with the second device via the second channel, the ranging information over one or more ranging rounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Wook Bong Lee, Ashok Ranganath
  • INSERTED PPDU
    Publication number: 20220361190
    Abstract: A system and method for managing latency in a wireless network. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, by a non-Access Point Station (non-AP STA), a first inserted packet; and sending, by the non-AP STA, an Acknowledgement (ACK) for the first inserted packet, the first inserted packet beginning after the beginning of a first originally scheduled Aggregated Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (A-PPDU) and being substituted for a portion of the data of the first originally scheduled A-PPDU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Wook Bong Lee, Ruchen Duan, Srinivas Kandala, Ashok Ranganath, Myeongjin Kim
  • BEAM RECOVERY FRAME STRUCTURE AND RECOVERY REQUEST FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20220346102
    Abstract: An apparatus is configured to be employed within a base station. The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to select one or more recovery channels based on one or more recovery factors; determine a beam recovery frame structure using the selected one or more recovery channels and based at least partially on beam correspondence capabilities; and provide the selected one or more recovery channels and the determined beam recovery frame structure to the RF interface for transmission to a user equipment (UE) device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Wook Bong Lee, Gang Xiong, Hong He, Yongjun Kwak, Daewon Lee, Seung Hee Han, Alexei Davydov, Guotong Wang
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING HIGH DATA THROUGHPUT IN 6 GHZ WI-FI NETWORK
    Publication number: 20220294584
    Abstract: A method for allowing wireless communication between an access point and a wireless station in a wireless communication network includes: providing at least one from a combination of a 2.4 GHz frequency band and a 5 GHz frequency band; providing a frequency band including a 6 GHz frequency band for allowing wireless data communication; assigning a first data communication channel having a first frequency bandwidth in the frequency band including the 6 GHz frequency band between the access point and the wireless station; and transmitting data packets between the access point and the wireless station via the first data communication channel in the frequency band including the 6 GHz frequency band. Each of the 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Tianyu Wu, Wook Bong Lee, Minyoung Park
  • Method and system for simultaneous multi-channel downlink operation in wireless local area network
    Patent number: 11438926
    Abstract: Methods and a devices are provided is for receiving simultaneous downlink transmissions at a mobile station (STA). Information regarding whether endings of simultaneous data transmissions to the mobile station are to be aligned is transmitted to an access point (AP). The simultaneous data transmissions are between the AP and the STA over a pair of channels. Reception begins of a first data transmission, from the AP, on a first channel of the pair of channels. Reception begins of a second data transmission, from the AP, on a second channel of the pair of channels. The second data transmission overlaps at least a portion of the first data transmission. Reception of the second data transmission ends upon an end of the first data transmission when the information indicates that the endings of simultaneous downlink data transmissions are to be aligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventors: Sharan Naribole, Srinivas Kandala, Wook Bong Lee, Ashok Ranganath
  • Wireless communication technology, apparatuses, and methods
    Patent number: 11424539
    Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asl, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Brandon Davis, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Yossi Tsfati, Marian Verhelst, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
  • MULTI LINK TXOP AGGREGATION
    Publication number: 20220264597
    Abstract: A method of providing multi-link operation channel access in a multi-link network includes initiating a first backoff countdown and a second backoff countdown associated with a first link and a second link of the multi-link network, respectively, and in response to the first backoff countdown reaching zero, determining whether the second backoff countdown is less than or equal to an aggregation threshold, and in response to determining that the second backoff countdown is less than or equal to the aggregation threshold, transmitting a first frame and a second frame on the first and second links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Sharan Naribole, Srinivas Kandala, Wook Bong Lee, Ashok Ranganath
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SUB-BAND WHITENING IN THE PRESENCE OF PARTIAL-BAND INTERFERENCE
    Publication number: 20220255582
    Abstract: A method and system for providing sub-band whitening are herein provided. According to one embodiment, a method includes deriving an estimated noise plus interference variance (NIVar) based on at least one legacy-long training field (LLTF) symbol from an LLTF signal; and updating an interference whitening (IW) factor by using a sub-band NIVar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Mostafa Sayed Roshdy IBRAHIM, Ruchen Duan, Wook Bong Lee, Minki Ahn, Hyun Bae Jeon
  • EHT RELEASE 2 DEVICE INDICATION
    Publication number: 20220248258
    Abstract: A system and method for selecting values for Validate and Disregard bits. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, by a first wireless station, from a second wireless station, an information element reporting capabilities of the second wireless station; and determining, by the first wireless station, based on the information element, whether to transmit, to the second wireless station, a default value for each of a plurality of Validate bits and for each of a plurality of Disregard bits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Ruchen DUAN, Wook Bong LEE, Srinivas KANDALA, Ravi GIDVANI, Jonghun HAN, Chulho CHUNG, Ashok RANGANATH
  • System and method of establishing communication for exchanging ranging information
    Patent number: 11405894
    Abstract: A method of establishing communication between a first device and a second device to exchange ranging information is provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes: sending, by the first device to the second device via a first channel, or receiving, by the first device from the second device via the first channel, a first control message indicating a start time; sending, by the first device to the second device via a second channel, a second control message including one or more ranging parameter values for exchanging the ranging information, the second control message being sent at the start time; and exchanging, by the first device with the second device via the second channel, the ranging information over one or more ranging rounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wook Bong Lee, Ashok Ranganath
  • Beam recovery frame structure and recovery request for communication systems
    Patent number: 11388730
    Abstract: An apparatus is configured to be employed within a base station. The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to select one or more recovery channels based on one or more recovery factors; determine a beam recovery frame structure using the selected one or more recovery channels and based at least partially on beam correspondence capabilities; and provide the selected one or more recovery channels and the determined beam recovery frame structure to the RF interface for transmission to a user equipment (UE) device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Wook Bong Lee, Gang Xiong, Hong He, Yongjun Kwak, Daewon Lee, Seung Hee Han, Alexei Davydov, Guotong Wang
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOWNLINK FEEDBACK
    Publication number: 20220216937
    Abstract: A system and method for downlink feedback in communications between a station and an access point. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, from the access point, by the station, a null data packet announcement (NDPA) including a first number of spatial streams, and sending, by the station, to the access point, a Compressed Beamforming Report (CBR) including a second number of spatial streams, different from the first number of spatial streams; or sending, by the station, to the access point, an Operating Mode Indication (OMI) declaring a change in a station Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS) capability for a third number of spatial streams; or sending, by the station, to the access point, an Association Request including a declared Single-User (SU) MCS capability for a first bandwidth and a declared Multi-User (MU) MCS capability for the first bandwidth, the MU MCS capability being different from the SU MCS capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Pavankumar VEERASHETTY, Wook Bong LEE, Ashok RANGANATH, Ravi GIDVANI, Shailender KARMUCHI, Srinivas KANDALA
  • Access point supporting wireless communication and operation method thereof
    Patent number: 11381284
    Abstract: An operation method of a transmitting device such as an access point providing wireless communication includes receiving a feedback of channel response information from an external communication device, generating a beam steering matrix based on the channel response information, generating a power allocation matrix based on an average SNR for each of a plurality of streams included in the channel response information, and performing beamforming on the external communication device based on the generated power allocation matrix and the generated beam steering matrix. The channel response information is a compressed beamforming feedback of multiple input multiple output single user beamforming. A first power allocated to a first stream, of which an average SNR is a first value, from among the plurality of streams is larger than a second power allocated to a second stream, of which an average SNR is a second value greater than the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minki Ahn, Wook Bong Lee, Sungsoo Kim, Joonsuk Kim, Eun Sung Jeon
  • Beam management with multi-transmission reception point multi-panel operation
    Patent number: 11368962
    Abstract: An apparatus is configured to be employed within a base station. The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to generate one or more signals for transmission to a user equipment (UE) device, wherein the UE device has a plurality of antenna panels; receive a beam state report from the RF interface from the UE device; select beams for communication with one or more of the plurality of antenna panels based on the received beam state report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Guotong Wang, Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Gang Xiong, Wook Bong Lee
  • Systems and methods for providing high data throughput in 6 GHz Wi-Fi network
    Patent number: 11362775
    Abstract: A method for allowing wireless communication between an access point and a wireless station in a wireless communication network includes: providing at least one from a combination of a 2.4 GHz frequency band and a 5 GHz frequency band; providing a frequency band including a 6 GHz frequency band for allowing wireless data communication; assigning a first data communication channel having a first frequency bandwidth in the frequency band including the 6 GHz frequency band between the access point and the wireless station; and transmitting data packets between the access point and the wireless station via the first data communication channel in the frequency band including the 6 GHz frequency band. Each of the 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Tianyu Wu, Wook Bong Lee, Minyoung Park
  • Multi link TXOP aggregation
    Patent number: 11357025
    Abstract: A method of providing multi-link operation channel access in a multi-link network includes initiating a first backoff countdown and a second backoff countdown associated with a first link and a second link of the multi-link network, respectively, and in response to the first backoff countdown reaching zero, determining whether the second backoff countdown is less than or equal to an aggregation threshold, and in response to determining that the second backoff countdown is less than or equal to the aggregation threshold, transmitting a first frame and a second frame on the first and second links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sharan Naribole, Srinivas Kandala, Wook Bong Lee, Ashok Ranganath
  • RADIO (NR) SHORT AND LONG DURATION PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (PUCCH) DESIGN
    Publication number: 20220174663
    Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to encode a New Radio (NR) short duration physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for transmission to a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) is disclosed. The UE can identify uplink control information (UCI) for the UE. The UE can multiplex, using frequency division multiplexing (FDM) at the UE, the UCI and a pseudo-random sequence associated with a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) onto a plurality of subcarriers in one or more physical resource blocks (PRBs) of one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. The UE can encode the UCI and the pseudo-random sequence associated with the DMRS multiplexed onto the plurality of subcarriers of the one or more OFDM symbols for transmission on the NR short duration PUCCH to the gNB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Joonyoung Cho, Gang Xiong, Hong He, Lopamudra Kundu, Wook Bong Lee