Patents by Inventor Yassin Aden Awad
Yassin Aden Awad 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).
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Publication number: 20230309004Abstract: There is provided a system for providing a service to a communications node via a relay node in a mobile telecommunications network, wherein the communications node is configured to connect to the mobile telecommunication network via a wireless interface provided by a relay node and wherein the relay node is configured to relay communications for the communications node via a base station of the mobile telecommunication network, when connected to the base station, the system comprising the communications node, wherein the communications node is configured to identify a requested service to be requested; the relay node, wherein the relay node is configured to identify a service supported by the relay node when connected to the base station; and a capability assessment function configured to determine whether the requested service and the supported service match.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yassin Aden AWAD
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Publication number: 20230291530Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which a communication device and a base station initially communicate using a first bandwidth. The communication device monitors for control data transmitted, by the base station, using a first control resource set conveyed in the first bandwidth. The communication device and the base station switch to using a second bandwidth, wherein the second bandwidth is different to the first bandwidth, and the communication device monitors for control data transmitted, by the base station, using a second control resource set that is conveyed in the second bandwidth.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yassin Aden AWAD, Chadi KHIRALLAH, Jagdeep Singh AHLUWALIA, Robert ARNOTT
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Publication number: 20230292283Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device to receive user plane data from a network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications network when the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode, the method comprising: receiving paging message signalling from the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the paging message signalling comprises an indication the network infrastructure equipment has user plane data for transmission to the terminal device while the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode; determining from the paging message signalling a set of radio resources on which the user plane data is to be transmitted by the network infrastructure equipment to the terminal device; and receiving the user plane data from the network infrastructure equipment using the determined set of radio resources while the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Vivek SHARMA, Yassin Aden AWAD
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Patent number: 11758548Abstract: A communications system is described in which user devices are allocated sub-carriers on which to transmit uplink data to a base station. ACK/NACK messages for the data transmitted on the uplink are then transmitted by the base station on sub-carriers that depend on the sub-carriers used to carry the uplink data. A direct mapping function is preferably used to determine the sub-carriers to be used for the ACK/NACK messages from the uplink sub-carriers. In another embodiment, the ACK/NACK messages are transmitted to the user devices on sub-carriers that are previously identified to the user devices, preferably by transmitting one or more index values to the user device in a control channel thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Diptendu Mitra, Yassin Aden Awad
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Patent number: 11757504Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a network entity for a mobile telecommunications system having circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to transmit, to the at least one user equipment, time information for indicating a beam which will cover the at least one user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yuxin Wei, Yassin Aden Awad, Vivek Sharma, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Hideji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 11751165Abstract: A method for operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a radio access network part of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprising configuring a notification area of a radio access network part by determining one or more base stations and/or one or more of non-terrestrial network parts which form part of the notification area, the base stations and/or the non-terrestrial network parts of the notification area being for use in transmitting signals to a communications device from the wireless communications network, determining, based on the notification area and on a present time, which one of the base stations and/or the non-terrestrial network parts of the notification area is presently serving the communications device, and transmitting a paging message to the serving base station or serving non terrestrial network part for subsequent transmission to the communications device.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Yassin Aden Awad
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Patent number: 11736228Abstract: A communication system is described in which system information is transmitted to communication devices, by a communication apparatus of the system, in system information blocks, in accordance with a system information block transmission scheme. The communication apparatus configures at least one system information block to include control information indicating how the system information blocks will be transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Yuhua Chen, Yassin Aden Awad, Robert Arnott
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Publication number: 20230261732Abstract: A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises in advance of transmitting the data by a child node to a donor node, configuring, by one of the donor node and a parent node, a Buffer Status Report, general BSR timer for the child node, the general BSR timer being common and synchronised among at least a subset of a plurality of infrastructure equipment, receiving, at the parent node, subsequent to expiry of the general BSR timer, a signal comprising a BSR from the child node indicating an amount of uplink data that the child node has ready to transmit to the parent node, and scheduling, by the parent node, in accordance with the BSR received from the child node, communications resources of the backhaul communications link to the child node in which the child node is to transmit the uplink data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yassin Aden AWAD
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Patent number: 11729703Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which minimum system information associated with a cell of a radio access network (RAN) is transmitted by a base station. The minimum system information comprises parameters for accessing a cell of the base station, divided into an initial part and a remaining part of the minimum system information. The base station transmits the initial part of the system information via a broadcast channel using a first set of communication resources; transmits information identifying an allocation of at least one further communication resource in a shared channel; and transmits the remaining part of the minimum system information using the at least one further communication resource identified by the allocation.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Yassin Aden Awad
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Publication number: 20230239763Abstract: A method of operating a source node of a wireless network for controlling handover of a device from the source node to a target node of the wireless network is provided. The method comprises selecting, by the source node, to handover the device from the source node to the target node at a future time on a basis of a predicted location of the device at the future time; transmitting, by the source node, a pre-configuration message to the device including a configuration for the handover of the device from the source node to the target node at the future time; and arranging, by the source node, for the device to receive a trigger instructing the device to handover from the source node to the target node at the future time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2021Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yassin Aden AWAD
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Patent number: 11711841Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which a base station manages the transmission of on-demand system information to optimise the trade-off between the additional signalling overhead associated with on-demand transmission and the resource usage inefficiencies associated with the sometimes unnecessary transmission of system information on a periodic basis. The base station manages switching from on-demand transmission to periodic transmission, and vice versa, based on one or more utilisation thresholds.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Chadi Khirallah, Yassin Aden Awad, Yuhua Chen, Robert Arnott
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Publication number: 20230232355Abstract: A communications device including circuitry configured to determine that the communications device is to perform a handover procedure from the first cell to a second cell, measure a difference between the start of a first radio frame received from the first cell and the start of a second radio frame received from the second cell, and to determine, during the handover procedure, in accordance with the measured difference, at least one of a value of a propagation delay of the second cell and a value of a timing advance of the second cell, the propagation delay of the second cell defining a time taken for a signal to travel one way between the communications device and the second cell, the timing advance of the second cell being defining a time taken for a signal to travel a round trip between the communications device and the second cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yassin Aden AWAD, Vivek SHARMA, Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230224887Abstract: A mobile station which communicates with a base station includes a transceiver configured to receive a downlink control channel, and a controller configured to determine whether C-RNTI is included in the downlink control channel. The controller is further configured to determine that resource allocation in the downlink control channel overrides persistent downlink resource allocation for a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) if the C-RNTI is included in the downlink control channel. The transceiver is further configured to receive a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) transmission by using persistent downlink resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Jagdeep Singh Ahluwalia, Yassin Aden Awad
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Patent number: 11696314Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which a base station communicates with machine-type-communication (MTC) devices by dividing the base station's cell bandwidth into (non-overlapping) narrowbands. The base station identifies, based on a communication received from a communication device, a capability of that communication device to retune between narrowbands, and provides, to that communication device, control information for controlling how that communication device retunes between different narrowbands, wherein the control information is based on the identified capability of that communication device to retune between narrowbands.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Yassin Aden Awad
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Patent number: 11696253Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device to receive user plane data from a network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications network when the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode, the method comprising: receiving paging message signalling from the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the paging message signalling comprises an indication the network infrastructure equipment has user plane data for transmission to the terminal device while the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode; determining from the paging message signalling a set of radio resources on which the user plane data is to be transmitted by the network infrastructure equipment to the terminal device; and receiving the user plane data from the network infrastructure equipment using the determined set of radio resources while the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Vivek Sharma, Yassin Aden Awad
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Publication number: 20230180096Abstract: A plurality of communications nodes are configured to form a wireless backhaul network to communicate data from a core network of the wireless communications network for transmitting to one or more communications devices or to communicate data to the core network received from the one or more communications devices. At least a first and a second of the plurality of communications nodes are donor communications nodes formed from radio network infrastructure equipment having a physical connection to the core network. According to example embodiments, a migrating communications node determines that it should migrate from a first attachment point in the wireless backhaul network in which the migrating node communicates the data to or from the core network via the first donor communications node. The term “attachment point” is used to express a link of a communications node to other nodes in the backhaul network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yassin Aden AWAD
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Publication number: 20230171022Abstract: A communication system is described in which system information is transmitted to communication devices, by a communication apparatus of the system, in system information blocks, in accordance with a system information block transmission scheme. The communication apparatus configures at least one system information block to include control information indicating how the system information blocks will be transmitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yuhua CHEN, Yassin Aden AWAD, Robert ARNOTT
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Publication number: 20230141032Abstract: A method of operating a communications device in a wireless communications network is provided, the method comprising transmitting to an infrastructure equipment of the wireless communications network a time source indication, the time source indication indicating to the infrastructure equipment that the communications device is a source of timing information. The timing information may be in accordance with a non-3GPP protocol, may be generated outside of the wireless communications network, and/or may be used by entities (including logical protocol entities, applications and the like) which are outside of the scope of 3GPP specifications. An example of such timing information is time information which is compliant with the IEEE 802.1AS specification. According to the present methods, a wireless communications network can support time sensitive networking based on timing information which may have its origin and/or destination(s) outside the scope of the wireless communications network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yassin Aden AWAD, Vivek SHARMA, Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230140866Abstract: A method of processing data frames for transmission on a wireless access interface of a wireless communications system, the method comprising receiving a first data frame comprising a first protocol header, the first protocol header associated with a medium access control (MAC) frame format for data transmission within a local area network (LAN), applying header compression in accordance with a header compression context to the first data frame by compressing one or more protocol header fields of the first protocol header to form a first compressed data frame for transmission on the wireless access interface, receiving a second data frame comprising a second protocol header associated with the MAC frame format, and determining that none of the fields of the second protocol header are to be compressed in accordance with the header compression context before the second data frame is transmitted on the wireless access interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yuxin WEI, Yassin Aden AWAD
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Patent number: 11646786Abstract: A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises in advance of transmitting the data by a child node to a donor node, configuring, by one of the donor node and a parent node, a Buffer Status Report, general BSR timer for the child node, the general BSR timer being common and synchronised among at least a subset of a plurality of infrastructure equipment, receiving, at the parent node, subsequent to expiry of the general BSR timer, a signal comprising a BSR from the child node indicating an amount of uplink data that the child node has ready to transmit to the parent node, and scheduling, by the parent node, in accordance with the BSR received from the child node, communications resources of the backhaul communications link to the child node in which the child node is to transmit the uplink data.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yassin Aden Awad