Channel Assignment Patents (Class 370/329)
  • Patent number: 11950297
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information indicating at least one of: a configuration for requesting repetition for an uplink shared channel transmitted after receiving a contention-free random access (CFRA) message, or a configuration for dropping one or more repetitions of the uplink shared channel. The UE may request the repetition for the uplink shared channel if the configuration information indicates the configuration for requesting repetition. The UE may transmit the uplink shared channel based at least in part on the configuration information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal, Jelena Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 11950196
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide synchronization techniques for user equipment (UEs) that may be otherwise unable to support sidelink communication a synchronized UE and may have also lost global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and/or Evolved Node Base Stations (eNBs) as a synchronization source. In such instance, the unsynchronized UE may utilize reference signals (RS) from the data packets received from other UEs to track the timing and perform autonomous timing adjustments based thereon for synchronized packet transmission or reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Gulati, Shailesh Patil, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Naga Bhushan, Tien Viet Nguyen, Arjun Bharadwaj
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 11950259
    Abstract: To extend a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) in wireless communications, an extended physical broadcast channel (EPBCH) transmission is generated with one or more legacy PBCH blocks and one or more EPBCH blocks within an extension window. A size of the extension window is determined based at least in part on a PBCH repetition number and a number of the legacy PBCH blocks relative to a number of the EPBCH blocks. The EPBCH transmission is transmitted by a base station (BS) to one or more user equipment (UE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Chunhai Yao, Haitong Sun, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Jie Cui, Haijing Hu, Zhibin Wu, Fangli Xu
  • 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: 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: 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: 11949516
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and device for wireless communications in sidelink. A first node receives a first signaling and a first radio signal, the first signaling indicating a first priority; determines whether to transmit a second signaling jointly according to a current value of a first counter and the first priority; when determining to transmit the second signaling, transmits the second signaling and updates the first counter's value with an initial value; when determining not to transmit the second signaling, drops transmitting the second signaling and updates the first counter's value by 1; herein, the first signaling comprises configuration information of the first radio signal. The present disclosure addresses the RLF triggered by the data-transmitting device due to the influence of the Half Duplex and/or transmitting capability of the V2X UE, thus enhancing the link robustness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 11943625
    Abstract: Proposed are a method and a device for configuring a spatial reuse field in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a reception STA receives a trigger frame from a transmission STA. The reception STA transmits a TB PPDU to the transmission STA through a pre-configured frequency band. The trigger frame comprises a common information field and a special user information field. The common information field comprises first to fourth spatial reuse fields. The special user information field comprises fifth and sixth spatial reuse fields. When the pre-configured frequency band is a 20 MHz band, the first to fourth spatial reuse fields are configured by the value of the fifth spatial reuse field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunsung Park, Jinyoung Chun, Jinsoo Choi, Dongguk Lim, Insun Jang, Jeongki Kim
  • Patent number: 11943080
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for estimating dense multipath parameters by means of multipolarized broadband extended array responses, which includes: first transmitting multiple different transmitted signal sequences via a multipolarized antenna array, and processing received data in multiple snapshots according to the known transmitted signals, to obtain channel responses of multipolarized antenna components at all frequency points in a frequency band; extending the obtained channel response matrixes of multiple frequency points in multiple snapshots into a large two-dimensional channel response matrix; then, acquiring a delay parameter regarding multipath propagation by using a reference array element, and estimating two-dimensional departure and arrival angles by using a channel matrix subjected to frequency domain smoothing and dimensionality reduction; and afterwards, pairing the estimated departure and arrival angles, and estimating parameters such as the cross-polarization ratios, the initial phases, and the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Southeast University
    Inventors: Haiming Wang, Bensheng Yang, Peize Zhang, Chen Yu, Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 11943783
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive configuration information indicating a set of physical channel frequency resources. The WTRU may receive downlink control information (DCI), and the DCI may include an indication of an allocation of at least a subset of the set of physical channel frequency resources. Further, the WTRU may determine a time period and one or more physical channel frequency resources from the subset of the set of physical channel frequency resources. The WTRU may transmit control information in a physical shared channel transmission using the determined one or more physical shared channel frequency resources during the determined time period. Also, the control information may include a WTRU-identifier (ID) associated with the WTRU. In an example, the control information may include a new data indicator (NDI) or a retransmission of previously transmitted control information. In a further example, the physical shared channel transmission may further include data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Moon-il Lee, Afshin Haghighat, Erdem Bala, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Mihaela C. Beluri, Ananth Kini
  • Patent number: 11943781
    Abstract: Provided are a method for monitoring, transmitting, and receiving downlink pre-emption indication information in a next-generation/5G radio access network. The method may include receiving monitoring configuration information for downlink pre-emption indication information from a base station; receiving configuration information on a control resource set (CORESET) for receiving the downlink pre-emption indication information from the base station; configuring reference downlink resources based on the configuration information on a control resource set; and monitoring the downlink pre-emption indication information for the reference downlink resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: KT Corporation
    Inventors: Kyujin Park, Woo-jin Choi
  • Patent number: 11943787
    Abstract: A wireless device may receive radio resource control (RRC) messaging comprising a field indicating a starting symbol for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The wireless device may monitor for at least one PDCCH candidate. A PDCCH candidate may start based on a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure, the starting symbol, and the offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11943165
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of decoding, by a user equipment, a downlink signal in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving rate matching pattern information indicating a rate matching resource having a repetition period from a base station; and decoding a downlink shared channel using the rate matching pattern information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kunil Yum, Jiwon Kang, Kijun Kim, Hyungtae Kim, Jonghyun Park
  • Patent number: 11943057
    Abstract: A method for indicating a sidelink HARQ feedback includes: allocating a target resource to a user equipment to perform sidelink communication; sending a downlink control signaling to the user equipment, where the downlink control signaling includes the target resource and first indication information; the first indication information indicates at least one of the followings: when the user equipment uses the target resource allocated by the base station to perform sidelink unicast communication, whether to perform the sidelink HARQ feedback; when the user equipment uses the target resource allocated by the base station to perform sidelink multicast communication, whether to perform the sidelink HARQ feedback; when the user equipment uses the target resource allocated by the base station to perform the sidelink multicast communication, a feedback manner of performing the sidelink HARQ feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11943773
    Abstract: In New Radio, NR, when a SR PUCCH resource to which a triggered SR is mapped overlaps with a PUCCH carrying UCI, such as HARQ-ACK and/or CSI, an indication of the corresponding schedulingRequestID, which determines the logical channel ID with new data, is directly encoded in the UCI. That is, rather than directly transmit the relevant SR PUCCH resource(s), which indirectly identifies the SR ID, an indication of the SR ID is directly transmitted on the PUCCH transmission. The encoding of an indication of SR ID may comprise adding bits to UCI to be transmitted, for PUCCH formats 2, 3, or 4. For PUCCH format 0, encoding the indication of SR ID comprises adding an initial cyclic offset indicating the triggered SR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sorour Falahati, Robert Baldemair, Henning Wiemann
  • Patent number: 11943059
    Abstract: A base station may transmit one or more configuration parameters for a cell. The one or more configuration parameters may indicate a periodic resource configuration. The periodic resource configuration may be activatable by predetermined values of: a hybrid automatic repeat request process identifier (HARQ ID) field of a first downlink control information (DCI) format; and a redundancy version (RV) field of the first DCI format. The base station may transmit a DCI based on a second DCI format without at least one of the HARQ ID field or the RV field. The base station may activate the periodic resource configuration based on: a size of the HARQ ID field of the DCI and/or the RV field of the DCI being zero; and the periodic resource configuration being in an inactive state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Hua Zhou
  • Patent number: 11943159
    Abstract: Certain aspects are directed to a user equipment (UE) configured to receive reference signals from a network node via multiple resource element groups (REGs) including at least one REG carrying a downlink transmission. In some examples, the UE may be configured to receive, from the network node, communication parameters for a downlink transmission, the communication parameters indicative of a first resource element group (REG) bundle and a second REG bundle. In some examples, the UE may receive the downlink transmission via the first REG bundle. In some examples, the UE may be configured to perform channel estimation of the downlink transmission based on reference signals transmitted via the first REG bundle and the second REG bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Peter Gaal, Mostafa Khoshnevisan
  • Patent number: 11943161
    Abstract: A method and a device in a User Equipment and a base station are provided. The UE receives first information and monitors a first signaling in M Resource Element (RE) sets. The first information determines the M RE sets. The UE assumes that P modulation symbol groups are one-to-one mapped to P RE sets of the M RE sets. One blind detection for the first signaling is performed on the P RE sets. Modulation symbols obtained by modulating the bits in a first bit sequence constitute a first modulation symbol set sequentially. The bits in the first bit sequence are sequentially arranged according to an output of a channel encoder. The first modulation symbol set is successively divided into the P modulation symbol groups, each consisting of X modulation symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI QIYU COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICE CENTER
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11943162
    Abstract: A transmission of information from a secondary to a primary node occurs in a plurality of transmission instances which are logical time durations. A secondary node receives an allocation of periodic transmission instances for a scheduling request indicator (SRI) and an allocation if periodic transmission instances for a sounding reference signal (SRS). In a particular transmission instance allocated for the transmission of both SRS and SRI, the secondary node transmits the SRI without transmitting the SRS if the SRI indicates a pending scheduling request; otherwise, the secondary node transmits the SRS without transmitting the SRI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pierre Bertrand, Zukang Shen, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 11943043
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine a transmission frequency for an uplink transmission based at least in part on a reference point for the uplink transmission, the reference point being associated with one of: a satellite that provides a cell covering the user equipment, the satellite being associated with a non-terrestrial network, or a gateway associated with the satellite; and transmit the uplink transmission based at least in part on the transmission frequency. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiao Feng Wang, Peter Gaal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Jun Ma, Qiang Wu, Liangping Ma, Ayan Sengupta, Dan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11943169
    Abstract: To efficiently transmit CSI. A receiver configured to receive a physical downlink control channel for conveying downlink control information including a first information field and a transmitter configured to report channel state information (CSI) are included, wherein the first information field indicates first information, the first information indicates one of multiple states, each of the multiple states is associated with a configuration related to one or multiple CSI reports and a configuration related to one or multiple CSI resources, and the one of the multiple states is configured to be associated with a first serving cell and a bandwidth part (BWP) of the first serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11943036
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for transmitting or receiving a signal on the basis of a space parameter in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jiwon Kang, Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim
  • Patent number: 11943166
    Abstract: In an example, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a message indicating activation or reactivation of semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) between the UE and the base station. The UE may determine, based on the message, a first resource for transmitting a first acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) to acknowledge reception of the message. The UE may also receive, from the base station and subsequent to the receiving of the message, an SPS message. The UE may also determine a second resource for transmitting a second ACK/NACK to acknowledge reception of the SPS message. The UE may also transmit, to the base station, the first ACK/NACK on the first resource and the second ACK/NACK on the second resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Wei Yang, Peter Gaal, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11943022
    Abstract: Systems and methods of beamforming and improving mmWave communications for drones are described. Multiple RF chains are used to adapt the main beam to track changes without the use of pilot signals. To reduce interference, interfering signal power is eliminated by optimizing a non-Gaussian measure to extract the interferers. The AoA of signals from a target drone on neighbouring drones and location of the neighbouring drones and base stations are used to independently corroborate the location reported by the target drone. The base station provides additional synchronization signals below 6 GHz and restricts the search/measurement space in the vertical direction. The inherent sparse structure above 6 GHz is exploited by applying different beamformers on a sounding signal and estimating the AoA and impulse response. Variations of fully digital and hybrid beamforming architectures for multi-cell DL sync and CRS measurement are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Venkatesan Nallampatti Ekambaram, Yang-Seok Choi, Junyoung Nam, Feng Xue, Shu-ping Yeh, Hosein Nikopour, Shilpa Talwar, Jan Schreck, Nageen Himayat, Sagar Dhakal
  • Patent number: 11943033
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to reselect a full-duplex beam pair using a beam management report include transmitting a beam management report that reports a set of one or more candidate full-duplex beam pairs from a UE to a base station. Methods and apparatus also include determining when to apply a full-duplex beam pair from the set of one or more candidate full-duplex beam pairs after transmitting the beam management report from the UE to the base station, and applying the full-duplex beam pair at a determined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11943056
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices supporting flexible frequency domain resource allocation (FDRA) for sidelink are described. For example, a wireless device may receive, over a sidelink channel, control information including a parameter associated with a first FDRA of a first transport block (TB) associated with an initial transmission and an indication of a second FDRA of a second TB associated with a subsequent transmission after the initial transmission. The wireless device may identify the first FDRA of the first TB based on receiving the control information and may communicate one or more signals over the sidelink channel based on identifying the first FDRA of the first TB and receiving the indication of the second FDRA of the second TB. In some examples, the wireless device may receive, over a second sidelink channel, second control information including a second parameter associated with a size of the second TB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Chih-Hao Liu
  • Patent number: 11943082
    Abstract: Radio network nodes, wireless devices, and related methods are provided in which a pseudo-random sequence initialization value, which is used during the generation of pseudo-random and/or scrambling sequences, is based, at least in part, on a first identifier, wherein the first identifier is equal to a first parameter if the first parameter has been configured and if a second identifier corresponds to a wireless-device-specific identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Stefan Parkvall, Robert Baldemair, Claes Tidestav, Mattias Frenne
  • Patent number: 11943792
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station via a first instance of a periodic data burst, where the periodic data burst may include one or more uplink or downlink transmissions scheduled on a first bandwidth part (BWP). The UE may start a bandwidth switching timer at the beginning of the first instance of the periodic data burst, and determine whether the bandwidth switching timer has expired upon expiration of an inactivity timer that was triggered by receipt of one or more downlink control channel messages. The UE may operate, based on the determination, on one of the first BWP or a second BWP during at least a portion of a time period that extends from the expiration of the inactivity timer and a beginning of a second instance of the periodic data burst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mickael Mondet, Prashanth Haridas Hande, Chih-Ping Li, Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap
  • Patent number: 11943170
    Abstract: A method includes: An access point generates an NDPA frame, where the NDPA frame includes a station information field, and the station information field includes an AID subfield indicating an association identifier AID of a station; the station information field further includes a partial bandwidth information subfield; the partial bandwidth information subfield indicates an RU that is in a bandwidth corresponding to the NDPA frame and for which the station needs to feed back channel state information; and the bandwidth corresponding to the NDPA frame is greater than 160 MHz. The access point transmits the NDPA frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Yu, Yuchen Guo, Chenchen Liu, Yunbo Li, Ming Gan, Dandan Liang
  • Patent number: 11943756
    Abstract: Bandwidth part (BWP) configurations supporting various communication approaches (e.g., full duplex and/or half duplex operations) are described. Full duplex (FD) frequency-based BWP configurations may, for example, be configured as a subset of defined BWP resources for supporting full duplex operation by base stations and/or user equipments (UEs). Usable bandwidth of a FD frequency-based BWP configuration may be selected from half duplex frequency-based BWPs in legacy BWPs. Bandwidths of usable BWPs for a FD frequency-based BWP configuration may be selected so as to be non-overlapping in frequency. Transition between configurations and modes (e.g., between full duplex frequency-based BWP configurations, between half duplex and full duplex modes, etc.) may be managed to avoid periods in which a communication device cannot perform any uplink or downlink transmissions due to switching between defined BWP configurations, or otherwise reduces BWP switching time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Pui Lok Ang, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Huilin Xu, Hung Dinh Ly, June Namgoong
  • Patent number: 11943724
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for demodulating a NR-PBCH signal. The method may comprise receiving a primary SS and an SSS. The received SSS signal may be used as a reference signal to detect demodulation reference signals of the NR-PBCH. These demodulation reference signals may be interleaved with data on the NR-PBCH. In one method, the NR-PBCH DMRS are associated with an SSB index in an effort to improve randomization in the synchronization process. The NR-PBCH payload may be demodulated using the PSS and/or SSS and the DMRS. In one embodiment, the NR-PBCH DMRS may mapped to DMRS REs on a frequency first and time second mapping basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Jung-Lin Pan, Fengjun Xi, Steven Ferrante, Chunxuan Ye, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Nirav B. Shah
  • Patent number: 11943721
    Abstract: A method of operating multiple time alignment timers (TimeAlignmentTimer) is provided for facilitating communication between and evolved Node B (eNB) and a User Equipment (UE) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system supporting multiple carriers. The method includes starting a first TAT of a first group including the primary cell, starting a second TAT when Timing Advance (TA) information on a second group not including the primary cell is received; and determining transmission of at least one of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative-acknowledgement (HARQ ACK/NACK), a physical uplink control channel, and a sounding reference signal according to a start and an expiration of at least one of the first and second TATs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehyuk Jang, Kyeong In Jeong
  • Patent number: 11943730
    Abstract: Aspects relate to configuring a delay between a downlink control channel and a downlink/uplink. For example, the base station determines first search spaces indicating potential locations for a first downlink control channel and/or second search spaces indicating potential locations for a second downlink control channel. The base station configures and transmits first delays and/or second delays. Each first delay indicates a respective time delay between a resource location of the first downlink control channel and a resource location of a downlink data associated with the first downlink control channel and is configured for a respective first search space of the first search spaces. Each second delay indicates a respective time delay between a resource location of the second downlink control channel and a resource location of an uplink data associated with the second downlink control channel and is configured for a respective second search space of the second search spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11940936
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to coordinating the operations of subsystems in a communication system of an electronic device where a coexistence hub device monitors the state information transmitted as coexistence messages over one or more multi-drop buses, processes the monitored coexistence messages and sends out control messages as coexistence messages to other systems on chips (SOCs). The coexistence hub device can also update the operations of the communication system. The coexistence hub device may receive an operation policy from a central processor and may execute the operation policy without further coordination of the central processor. The coexistence hub device broadcasts the control messages as coexistence messages according to the executed operation policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Helena Deirdre O'Shea, Matthias Sauer, Jorge L. Rivera Espinoza, Bernd Adler
  • Patent number: 11943744
    Abstract: A sidelink communication method, a terminal device, and a network device are provided. In some embodiments, a terminal device receives resource configuration information sent by a network device, where the resource configuration information is for configuring a common resource for the terminal device, and the common resource is a resource that is configured by the network device for all terminal devices within coverage of the network device and that is to be used by all the terminal devices to perform sidelink communication. The terminal device receives sidelink BWP indication information sent by the network device, where the sidelink BWP indication information indicates N sidelink bandwidth parts SL-BWPs, and the N SL-BWPs include a frequency domain resource corresponding to the common resource, where N is a positive integer. The terminal device performs sidelink communication with another terminal device in the N SL-BWPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongjia Su, Jun Luo, Jinfang Zhang, Lei Lu
  • Patent number: 11943767
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to negative acknowledgement (NACK)-triggered sounding reference signal transmissions are provided. In some aspects, a user equipment may detect an error when decoding a data transmission received from a base station via a bandwidth part. The UE may then trigger, in response to detecting the error, a transmission to the BS of a first sounding resource signal using a first SRS resource set of the bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Yi Huang, Ahmed Elshafie, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 11943746
    Abstract: Provided are a method for a first device to perform wireless communication, and a device for supporting same. The method may include: receiving, from a second device, a first sidelink control information (SCI) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH); receiving, from the second device, a second SCI through a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) related to the PSCCH; determining a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource, based on an index of a slot and an index of a subchannel related to the PSSCH; and determining whether or not to transmit hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information for the PSSCH to the second device on the PSFCH resource, wherein a format of the second SCI is a first format which does not include location information of the second device or a second format which includes location information of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Daesung Hwang, Woosuk Ko
  • Patent number: 11943636
    Abstract: A method performed by a network node for beam management. The network node receives one or more quality values from a User Equipment (UE). The one or more quality values are measured by the UE on first reference signals transmitted by the network node in respective one or more beams in a first set of candidate beams. The A serving beam is selected out of the first set of candidate beams based on the received quality values for data communication with the UE. The network node creates a rule related to signal quality. The network node obtains one or more second quality values related to respective subsequent messages transmitted to the UE in the selected serving beam. As long as the rule is fulfilled with respect to the second quality value, the network node transmits one or more further subsequent messages only in the serving beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Nicklas Johansson, Per Burström, Anders Landstrom, Kristina Hessler
  • Patent number: 11943764
    Abstract: A user equipment, a base station and respective methods are provided. The user equipment receives a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) config information element (IE) in form of radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the PUSCH config IE being applicable to a particular bandwidth part. The user equipment configures a table which is defined by a PUSCH time domain resource allocation list IE carried in the received PUSCH config IE, the table comprising rows, at least one row comprising a first set of values related to allocated time-domain resources for a plurality of PUSCH transmissions. The user equipment receives downlink control information (DCI) signaling carrying a time-domain resource assignment filed with value m, wherein the value m provides a row index m+1 to the RRC configured table. The user equipment determines allocated time-domain resources for the plurality of PUSCH transmissions based on the index of the slot carrying the received DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Naoya Shibaike, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hongchao Li