Channel Assignment Patents (Class 370/329)
  • Patent number: 11956078
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of receiving system information by a user equipment in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method may include receiving a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) including Downlink Control Information (DCI) for scheduling the system information; descrambling a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) of the DCI based on a System Information-Radio Network Temporary Identifier (SI-RNTI); obtaining first information on a type of the system information from a specific bit included in the DCI; receiving the system information based on second information for scheduling the system information, which is included in the DCI; and determining the type of the system information based on the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Ko, Kijun Kim, Eunsun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11956807
    Abstract: A miss-detection determination method, a terminal and a network device are provided. The miss-detection determination method includes: sending a target sequence or signal to a network device in an uplink grant-free transmission occasion; determining that no miss-detection occurs in the network device in a case that miss-detection indication information is received from the network device within a preset time period after sending the target sequence or signal, otherwise, determining that miss-detection occurs in the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Bai, Xuejuan Gao, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11956810
    Abstract: A radio control device that can eliminate quality deterioration in a wireless communication system is provided. The radio control device (REC) includes a first delay unit configured to perform delay control based on a first delay time less than a unit processing time of a basic frame, on radio data in units of the basic frames of a CPRI (Common Public Radio Interface) frame, based on a desired data transmission timing in a radio device, and a radio data multiplexing unit configured to multiplex the radio data that has undergone the delay control to the basic frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideo Hata
  • Patent number: 11956717
    Abstract: Techniques for wireless communications are described. A mode for reporting uplink control information may be selected when a first serving cell and a second serving cell are both configured with uplink control resources. The reporting modes may include a mode for transmitting uplink control information over one uplink control resource or over multiple uplink control resources. Multiple sets of uplink control information may be separately generated for different sets of component carriers or different transmission/reception points. After selecting the reporting mode, the multiple sets of uplink control information may be transmitted over one or multiple uplink control resources in accordance with the selected reporting mode. Communication devices may switch between the reporting modes based on obtained information or calculations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11956831
    Abstract: In the transmission of message A corresponding to a 2-step random access process or message 1 corresponding to a 4-step random access process, a method and a device for transmitting/receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, use an option in which an RO for a PRACH transmission for each message is set differently, or an option in which an RO for a PRACH transmission for each message is shared and PI is set differently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim, Changhwan Park
  • Patent number: 11956834
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for increasing uplink beamforming gain. In one aspect there is provided a method of identifying user equipment which makes use of the proposed new beam-sweeping random access channel procedure that enables the base station to identify the best uplink transmit beam rather than the first beam that the base station managed to detect. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Marco Maso, Simon Svendsen, Axel Mueller, Matthew Baker, Karri Ranta-Aho, Jun Tan
  • Patent number: 11956722
    Abstract: A wireless device receives parameters, including a first discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration associated with unicast transmissions in a cell and a second DRX configuration associated with multicast and broadcast services (MBS) in the cell. The wireless device may also receive a power saving (PS) indication indicating not to start a DRX on duration timer. The PS indication may be applied for the first DRX configuration; and it may not be applied for the second DRX configuration. The wireless device may further skip monitoring, in a first DRX on duration of the first DRX configuration, first physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) for the unicast transmissions based on receiving the PS indication. The wireless device may also monitor, in a second DRX on duration of the second DRX configuration and while skipping monitoring the first PDCCHs in the first DRX on duration, second PDCCHs for the MBS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Yunjung Yi, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Jonghyun Park, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Hyukjin Chae, Kai Xu
  • Patent number: 11956836
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for implementing an 802.11ax communication protocol. A first wireless connection is established between a first device and a network device in association with a first service set identifier. A second wireless connection is established between a second device and a network device in association with a second service set identifier. The network device communicates with the first device over the first wireless connection according to an 802.11ax communication protocol. Full allocation of remaining resource units to the second wireless connection according to the 802.11ax communication protocol is denied based on a priority status of the second service set identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ARISTA NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Balram Ketan Vakil, Asvin Kumar Muthurangam
  • Patent number: 11956842
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application relates to a multi-link communication setup method and a related apparatus. The method includes: a non-AP MLD sends an association request frame on a first link, to request multi-link setup. An AP MLD returns an association response frame on the first link, to notify whether multi-link setup succeeds. The AP MLD sets a second status code field of a multi-link element of the association response frame to a newly defined value, to indicate that a cause why a link is not accepted is that the first link is not accepted. This application is applied to a WLAN system that supports a next generation Wi-Fi protocol of 802.11ax, for example, 802.11be, Wi-Fi 7, or EHT, and other 802.11 series protocols; and for another example, a next generation protocol of 802.11be: Wi-Fi 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuchen Guo, Guogang Huang, Yunbo Li, Ming Gan
  • Patent number: 11956709
    Abstract: A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system include intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a base station for transmitting a paging message is provided. The method includes determining a number of paging frames (PFs) in a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle based on information on paging search space, transmitting, to a terminal, information on the number of PFs in system information block 1 (SIB1), identifying at least one PF based on the number of PFs, and transmitting, to the terminal, at least one paging message in the at least one PF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 11956662
    Abstract: A wireless communication system in which wireless stations perform transmission, a plurality of wireless modules that are operated in a shared frequency band being installed in the wireless stations, wherein the wireless stations each include means for notifying a control device of environment information that includes capacity information regarding the wireless station and information regarding a surrounding wireless environment, and setting frequency channels in the plurality of wireless modules, the wireless stations being notified of the frequency channels by the control device, and the control device includes means for calculating a frequency channel of each wireless module of each wireless station based on the environment information collected from each wireless station, following a control guideline that is determined in advance, and notifying the wireless stations of the frequency channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Tomoki Murakami, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11956735
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. A power control method for uplink transmission in a wireless cellular communication system is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Seunghoon Choi, Youngbum Kim, Younsun Kim, Taehyoung Kim, Jeongho Yeo
  • Patent number: 11956087
    Abstract: Provided are a method for performing wireless communication by a first device, and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise: determining one or more logical channels of interest from among a plurality of logical channels; based on sidelink (SL) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback being enabled for at least one logical channel among the one or more logical channels of interest, allocating N SL processes, from among a plurality of SL processes for transmitting a plurality of medium access control protocol data units (MAC PDUs), to a SL resource in which a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource is configured; and performing HARQ feedback-based SL communication based on the N SL processes, wherein N is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Giwon Park, Youngdae Lee, Seungmin Lee, Seoyoung Back, Jongwoo Hong
  • Patent number: 11956777
    Abstract: Some aspects of the present disclosure disclose methods and systems related to managing overlapping semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configured physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission occasions. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify one or more semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission occasions in a slot and receive, from a base station (BS) and via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release configured to release at the UE a SPS configuration including a configuration index. The UE may then perform SPS PDSCH transmission occasions collision avoidance procedures while releasing the SPS PDSCH transmission occasion to manage overlapping SPS PDSCH transmission occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11956641
    Abstract: In a wireless communications system, such as a 5G CBRS system, a Spectrum Access System (SAS) assigns portions of the (CBRS) spectrum to associated base stations (CBSDs). In some embodiments, a central spectrum-database server receives information about spectrum allocations made by two or more different SASs operated by different companies and tabulates that information in a combined spectrum database that each SAS can independently retrieve for use in allocating bandwidth to its CBSDs. In some implementations, the messages between each SAS and multiple associated CBSDs are transmitted via a domain proxy that snoops on multiple spectrum-allocation-related messages (e.g., spectrum grant/revocation messages and/or heartbeat messages) to gather the information to be transmitted to the server, where the information does not include any company- or network-sensitive information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Volkan Sevindik
  • Patent number: 11956177
    Abstract: Implementations of this disclosure provide a resource allocation method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first indication information sent by a network device, the first indication information being used for determining frequency domain units included in a first interlace on a first BWP; and determining, by the terminal device, the frequency domain units included in the first interlace according to the first indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11956089
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device and a communication method that can achieve communication that has high reliability and low delay. Provided is a communication device that constitutes a base station, the communication device including a control unit that performs a control that generates redundancy information regarding a provision of redundancy for transmission data transmitted by a terminal station or the base station, and multiplexing information regarding multiplexing of the transmission data, and transmits the redundancy information and the multiplexing information that have been generated to the terminal station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 11950114
    Abstract: An example method includes monitoring a status of a long term evolution network connection and a status of a fifth generation network connection over which a user endpoint device is simultaneously receiving data using an evolved-universal terrestrial radio access new radio dual connectivity configuration, detecting, based on the monitoring, that a performance metric of one of: the long term evolution network or the fifth generation network falls below a predefined threshold metric, and terminating, in response to the detecting, the long term evolution network connection or the fifth generation network connection to terminate the evolved-universal terrestrial radio access new radio dual connectivity configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Haywood Peitzer
  • Patent number: 11950252
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which repetitions of communications may be configured for multi-transport block (TB) communications. A UE may determine that an acknowledgment of one or more initial repetitions of one or more TBs is received, and may cancel one or more subsequent repetitions of the acknowledged TB(s). The acknowledgment of the one or more initial repetitions may be provided by a base station in a new resource grant that provides an implicit acknowledgment of one or more TBs. In cases where multiple different TBs may be associated with the prior resource grant, the UE can determine to drop one or more repetitions after an implicit acknowledgment of a TB based on whether the resource grants are for a single TB or are for multiple TBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Mungal Singh Dhanda, Ayan Sengupta, Umesh Phuyal
  • Patent number: 11950253
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system according to an embodiment, a method of receiving, by a user equipment (UE), physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) based on discrete Fourier transform spreading orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DFT-S-OFDM) includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a first PDCCH including first downlink control information (DCI) in which information about a size of DFT precoding applied to a second PDCCH is included; performing blind decoding on the first PDCCH to obtain the first DCI; receiving the second PDCCH including second DCI from the BS; and performing blind decoding on the second PDCCH to obtain the second DCI, based on the information about the size of DFT precoding applied to the second PDCCH included in the first DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Taehyoung Kim, Hyoungju Ji, Juho Lee
  • Patent number: 11950268
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and apparatus for resource allocation for a control resource region in a wireless communication system. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method may include determining resource units each containing a predetermined number of resource blocks based on available transmission resources. Resource blocks not contained in the resource units are distributed in the available transmission resources to divide resource blocks contained in the resource units into a plurality of resource segments. The method also comprise allocating one or more of the determined resource units to the control resource region and transmitting resource allocation information indicating the allocated one or more of resource units. With embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an effective solution for resource allocation for control resource region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhaobang Miao, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11950275
    Abstract: A base station (eNB) determines device-to-device (D2D) transmission parameters for signal transmission over a D2D communication link between a first user equipment (UE) device and a second UE device. The eNB instructs the first UE device to transmit a reference signal that is received by the second UE device. The second UE device reports D2D channel characteristic information indicative of the received reference signal. Based on the D2D channel characteristic information, the base station determines the D2D transmission parameters and provides the parameters to the first UE device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Kalhan, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 11950232
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a second UE, a grant-only indicator to indicate that a second stage sidelink control information (SCI-2) is decoupled from physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) data in a slot, and that the SCI-2 indicates an SCI-2-only grant. The first UE may transmit, to the second UE in the slot, the SCI-2-only grant multiplexed with data-only traffic in a first PSSCH transmission based at least in part on the grant-only indicator, wherein the SCI-2-only grant indicates a resource allocation for a subsequent slot. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lik Hang Silas Fong, Piyush Gupta, Junyi Li, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11950287
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A wireless device may select a reference signal and/or random access channel resource based on configuration parameters for a beam failure recovery procedure. A base station may send configuration parameters using a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11950294
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for a two-step random access channel (RACH) procedure in which uplink random access preamble and message transmission occasions may span multiple transmission slots. Reference signal resources for transmitting a reference signal with a first random access message of the two-step RACH procedure may include at least one symbol in each of the multiple transmission slots. The reference signal resources, reference signal sequence, or both, may be identified based on a particular uplink random access message transmission occasion, random access preamble transmission occasion, random access preamble sequence configuration, or any combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Wanshi Chen, Seyong Park
  • Patent number: 11950239
    Abstract: Scheduling information for transmitting a first physical uplink channel within a slot can be transmitted, the slot including a plurality of symbols and including the first physical uplink channel and a second physical uplink channel, and the first physical uplink channel is shorter in duration than the second physical uplink channel. One or more allocated RBs can be determined for the first physical uplink channel based on an indicated sub-band group and one or more indicated RBGs within the indicated sub-band group, the sub-band group including one or more sub-bands, each sub-band comprising one or more RBGs, each RBG comprising one or more RBs, and an RB including one or more contiguous REs. The first physical uplink channel can be transmitted in the one or more allocated RBs in the slot. The scheduling information can indicate the sub-band group and the one or more resource block groups within the sub-band group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Hyejung Jung, Ravikiran Nory, Vijay Nangia, Robert Love
  • Patent number: 11950146
    Abstract: Techniques to configure a user equipment (UE) for a multi-connectivity handover with a source base station (SBS) and a target base station (TBS) include encoding a measurement report for transmission to the SBS. The measurement report is triggered based on a measurement event configured by the SBS. Radio resource control (RRC) signaling from the SBS is decoded, the RRC signaling including a handover command in response to the measurement report. The handover command includes an indication for multi-connectivity support by the SBS and the TBS during the handover. A first protocol stack associated with the SBS and a second protocol stack associated with the TBS are configured at the UE. A packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data unit (PDU) received at the UE during the handover is processed using the first protocol stack or the second protocol stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Candy Yiu, Yujian Zhang, Yi Guo, Jaemin Han
  • Patent number: 11950160
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes receiving signaling configuring the UE with multiple candidate target physical cell identifiers (PCIs) of at least one candidate target cell, receiving signaling configuring the UE with at least one handover (HO) condition for each PCI of the multiple candidate target PCIs, detecting that an HO condition is satisfied for a target PCI of one or more target PCIs selected from the multiple candidate target PCIs for HO, initiating an HO procedure to a target cell associated with the target PCI for which the HO condition is satisfied, the HO procedure involving transmitting a random access signal on an uplink (UL) resource configured for the target PCI, and transmitting or receiving an HO complete message, via physical or medium access control (MAC) layer signaling, a handover complete message indicating completion of the HO procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Qian Zhang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11950175
    Abstract: Example communication methods and communications apparatuses are provided which verify a user equipment route selection policy (URSP) used by a terminal apparatus. The communication method includes obtaining information about a first application of at least one packet data unit (PDU) session, where the information about the first application is determined based on a first URSP. The information about the first application is sent to a second network element, where the information about the first application is used to verify whether information about a second application of the at least one PDU session matches the information about the first application, where the information about the second application is information about an application to which a data packet in the at least one PDU session belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haiyang Sun, Chunshan Xiong, Shiyong Tan
  • Patent number: 11950154
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to perform a switch of a TCI state from a serving cell to a neighbor cell. A UE determines whether the state of the neighbor cell is known or unknown and whether the neighbor cell's TCI state is known or unknown. The total delay time to perform the TCI state switch can impacted by this the known/unknown statuses. Other factors can also contribute to the total delay time. The UE may also signal its capability to monitor the TCI state of the neighbor cell and its capability to switch to such a TCI state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Manasa Raghavan, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11950179
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method and an apparatus for obtaining a network slice identifier. In the method, a wireless access device receives a first service packet sent by a terminal; the wireless access device obtains a second service packet based on the first service packet, where the second service packet includes the first service packet and a network slice identifier; and the wireless access device sends the second service packet to a forwarding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juhua Xu, Shuping Peng, Xinjun Chen
  • Patent number: 11950233
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a method are provided. The UE includes a memory and a processor configured to receive data from at least one neighboring UE; determine, based at least partially on the received data, whether to send an assistance report including assistance information providing an indication related to communication; and transmit the assistance report including the assistance information in response to determining to send the assistance report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yaser Mohamed Mostafa Kamal Fouad, Jung Hyun Bae, Sili Lu
  • Patent number: 11950235
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a first UE may receive an indication of first resources from a second UE. In some examples, the second UE may be a UE configured to receive a transmission from a third UE over the first resources. In some such examples, the first UE may transmit, to a fourth UE, a sidelink transmission over available resources that exclude the first resources. Additionally, or alternatively, the second UE may be a UE that received sidelink control information from the third UE indicating the resources for transmission by the third UE to a fourth UE. In some such examples, the first UE may transmit, to the second UE, a sidelink transmission over available resources that exclude the first resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Sony Akkarakaran, Junyi Li, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Juan Montojo, Xiaojie Wang
  • Patent number: 11950238
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques to expedite transmissions of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgment or negative acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) feedbacks based on delay constraints associated with at least semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) downlink packets received at the user equipment (UE). Specifically, in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, each of the one or more SPS PDSCH configurations may be associated with a delay parameter that identifies the maximum amount of time or slots that the UE can wait prior to transmitting the HARQ-ACK/NACK feedback associated with the PDSCH received at the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Yi Huang, Hwan Joon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11950249
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating in a communication medium are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates with a second wireless communication device, a first scheduling grant. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, a second scheduling grant including at least one of a start slot index (SSI) or a slot format indicator (SFI). The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, an uplink communication signal based on the first scheduling grant and the second scheduling grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Kapil Bhattad, Ananta Narayanan Thyagarajan
  • Patent number: 11950219
    Abstract: A wireless device may receive at least one message comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells being in a cross-carrier scheduling group comprising a first cell and a second cell. The first cell identified by a first cell identifier may employ a first number of bits. The configuration parameters may indicate that the second cell is a cross-carrier scheduling cell for the first cell. The configuration parameters may comprise the first cell identifier and a first cell indicator field. The first cell indicator field may employ a second number of bits. The wireless device may receive downlink control information via a control channel of the second cell for a packet transmitted via the first cell. The downlink control information may comprise the first cell indicator field identifying the first cell. The wireless device may receive the packet on the first cell via radio resources identified by the downlink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11950241
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a self-contained subframe structure for time division duplex (TDD) carriers. Information transmitted on a TDD carrier may be grouped into subframes, and each subframe can provide communications in both directions (e.g., uplink and downlink) to enable such communications without needing further information in another subframe. In one aspect of the disclosure, a single subframe may include scheduling information, data transmission corresponding to the scheduling information, and acknowledgment packets corresponding to the data transmission. Furthermore, the subframe may additionally include a header and/or a trailer to provide certain bi-directional communications functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Naga Bhushan, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Peter Gaal, John Edward Smee, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 11950288
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication that a base station supports single frequency network (SFN) radio access channel (RACH) beam refinement. The UE may receive a transmission, as part of a RACH operation, the transmission having SFN enabled or having SFN not enabled. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Venugopal, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11949481
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining Non-Zero Power (NZP) Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) resources to be used for channel and interference measurement. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device comprises receiving, from a network node, a semi-static indication of one or more first sets of NZP CSI-RS resources for channel measurement and a semi-static indication of one or more second sets of NZP CSI-RS resources for interference measurement. The method further comprises receiving, from the network node, one or more dynamic indications that indicate a first set of NZP CSI-RS resources from the one or more first sets of NZP CSI-RS resources to be used by the wireless device for channel measurement and a second set of NZP CSI-RS resources from the one or more second sets of NZP CSI-RS resources to be used by the wireless device for interference measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Shiwei Gao, Sebastian Faxer, Siva Muruganathan
  • Patent number: 11949474
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jan Schreck, Nageen Himayat, Hosein Nikopour, Feng Xue, Ehsan Aryafar, Oner Orhan, Mustafa R. Akdeniz, Wook Bong Lee, Jing Zhu
  • Patent number: 11949607
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for coexistence of device-to-device communications and cellular communications in a mobile communications system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoondong Noh, Yongjun Kwak, Donghan Kim, Jinyoung Oh, Seunghoon Choi, Jeongho Yeo, Youngbum Kim, Youngwoo Kwak, Younsun Kim
  • Patent number: 11949447
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a network manager configured to wirelessly communicate with a plurality of wireless nodes of a wireless network. The network manager and at least one wireless node include a transceiver connected to transmit and receive wireless communication via an antenna. The network manager and/or the wireless node include a cognitive engine configured to receive information regarding an environment of the wireless network as input and, in response, generate configuration data as output. Subsequent communication on the wireless network is updated using the configuration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Andre Wolokita, Lance Doherty, Sean Williams, Gina Aquilano, Michael O'Brien, Cornelius O'Mahony
  • Patent number: 11949609
    Abstract: Various proposed schemes pertaining to extreme high-throughput (EHT) preamble designs for transmissions to mixed clients in wireless communications are described. In one example, an aggregated Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU), which is transmitted over a plurality of 80-MHz bandwidths with data for a plurality of stations (STAs), is received. A preamble of a specific one of the plurality of 80-MHz bandwidths is then decoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianhan Liu, Hung-Tao Hsieh, Shengquan Hu
  • Patent number: 11950218
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to facilitate the configuration of hybrid cells to support shared cell and unique cell operating modes for user equipment. In one example, a method may include obtaining a registration request for a user equipment (UE) in which the mobile network includes a radio access network (RAN) comprising a plurality of radio units (RUs) in which each RU provides a shared cell that is shared with at least one other RU and each RU also provides a unique cell that is not shared with any other RU. The method may further include determining an operating mode for the UE in which the operating mode indicates whether the UE is to operate in a shared cell or a unique cell operating mode, and facilitating connection of the UE to one of the shared cell or the unique cell of an RU based on the operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Indermeet Singh Gandhi, Mark Grayson, Arun G. Khanna
  • Patent number: 11949627
    Abstract: Wireless resource determination and use are described. A wireless device may determine to use a resource (e.g., PUCCH resource), indicated by control information (e.g., DCI), for sending an acknowledgement (e.g., HARQ-ACK feedback) of a reception of data (e.g., at least one transport block). The control information may be received in a message of a plurality of messages. The wireless device may select the control information (e.g., for determining the resource) from among other control information in the plurality of messages, based on one or more factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Yunjung Yi, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Youngwoo Kwak, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11950138
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards systems and methods for selecting, in a Fifth Generation (5G) cellular telecommunication network, a User Plane Function (UPF) of a plurality of UPFs on which to anchor a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session of a new user equipment (UE) newly appearing on the cellular telecommunication network. The selection is based on: a location of the new UE; a plurality of current loads for each UPF of the plurality of UPFs; a predicted UE load of the new UE based on network data analytics; and predicted UPF loads of the plurality of UPFs as a function of time considering the predicted UE load based on network data analytics from the Network Data Analytics Function. In the UPF selection, the Session Management Function (SMF) gives higher priority to shorter term predicted loads than longer term predicted loads. Also, in the UPF selection, the PDU session of the UE is preferred to attach on the UPF in the current serving area in which the UE is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.
    Inventors: Kazi Bashir, Mehdi Alasti, Siddhartha Chenumolu
  • Patent number: 11949633
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE), comprising generating a report indicating a capability of the UE to perform full duplex (FD) communications dependent on transmission power level and transmitting the report to a network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shay Landis, Idan Michael Horn, Ran Berliner
  • Patent number: 11950212
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may determine a set of time differences for a set of physical random access channel signals received at a set of transmit receive points (TRPs); determine a quantity of timing advances to apply to a multi-TRP transmission based at least in part on the set of time differences; and transmit, to a user equipment, an indication of the quantity of timing advances to apply to the multi-TRP transmission. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11949502
    Abstract: Disclosed in various embodiments of the present invention are: an apparatus using a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index table in a wireless communication system; an MCS index table determination method therefor; and an apparatus therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keonyoung Lee, Sangwon Kim
  • Patent number: 11949479
    Abstract: One example of this disclosure includes sending codebook based sweeping information to at least one UE; receiving Precoding Index reports from said at least one UE; grouping said at least one UE into at least one group, wherein the UEs in the same group are covered by the same transmitting precoding; sending beamformed CSI-RS in accordance with said at least one group; receiving CSI reports from UEs of said at least one group, so as to transfer data to said at least one UE accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Jinping Hao