Diversity Patents (Class 375/267)
  • Patent number: 11825505
    Abstract: A channel measurement method, a terminal device, and a network side device are provided. The channel measurement method is applied in a user equipment (UE) and comprises: receiving M measurement reference signals sent by a network side device on the measurement resource, M being an integer greater than 1; the measurement resource comprising N measurement sub-resources; the measurement sub-resources being continuous in a time domain and a frequency domain; N being an integer greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Wu, Xueming Pan, Dajie Jiang
  • Patent number: 11824558
    Abstract: An encoding apparatus is provided. The encoding includes a low density parity check (LDPC) encoder which performs LDPC encoding on input bits based on a parity-check matrix to generate an LDPC codeword formed of 64,800 bits, in which the parity-check matrix includes an information word sub-matrix and a parity sub-matrix, the information word sub-matrix is formed of a group of a plurality of column blocks each including 360 columns, and the parity-check matrix and the information word sub-matrix are defined by various tables which represent positions of value one (1) present in every 360-th column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong-sil Jeong, Se-ho Myung, Kyung-joong Kim
  • Patent number: 11824691
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving first signaling and second signaling, wherein the first signaling includes first Phase Tracking Reference Signaling, PT-RS, on a first set of subcarriers, and the second signaling includes second PT-RS on a second set of subcarriers, wherein the first set of subcarriers is non-overlapping with the second set of subcarriers, wherein receiving the first signaling is based on estimating a phase noise for the first signaling based on the first PT-RS and the second PT-RS. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Jung-Fu Cheng, Mehrnaz Afshang, Yuhang Liu, Stephen Grant
  • Patent number: 11824611
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a plurality of antenna modules at different positions, a first radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit, and processing circuitry configured to select one antenna module from among the plurality of antenna modules to obtain a selected antenna module, perform communication using the selected antenna module and the first RF integrated circuit, monitor signal quality through at least one of the plurality of antenna modules to obtain a monitoring result, and control switching from the selected antenna module to another antenna module among the plurality of antenna modules based on the monitoring result, the switching including selectively switching a connection of the first RF integrated circuit from the selected antenna module to the other antenna module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dahae Chong, Beomkon Kim, Joohyun Do
  • Patent number: 11818661
    Abstract: The disclosure relates in some aspects to an energy-aware architecture that supports a low power scheduling mode. For example, a media access control (MAC) architecture for a base station (e.g., an enhanced Node B) and associated access terminals (e.g., UEs) can take the power needs of the access terminals into account when scheduling the access terminals. In some aspects, an access terminal may support a particular frame structure for a low power mode. Accordingly, scheduling of the access terminal may include use of the particular frame structure during low power mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Pui Lok Ang, Tingfang Ji, Jing Jiang, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, John Edward Smee, Naga Bhushan
  • Patent number: 11817927
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to preparing for a connection with a user equipment while the user equipment is in an idle state in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include facilitating transmitting a signal directed by an antenna of base station equipment. The method can further include, facilitating receiving, from a user equipment, a message, wherein the message comprises feedback information describing receipt of the signal while the user equipment was in an idle mode at a location. Further, the method can comprise, based on the feedback information and the location, generating a model of signal propagation applicable to signals at the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P., AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Henderson, Kurt Huber, Daniel Vivanco, Julius Fodje
  • Patent number: 11817926
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus may determine a time-averaged power limit of a set of antennas. The apparatus may modify an antenna switching configuration based at least in part on the time-averaged power limit. The apparatus may transmit a signal using an antenna, from the set of antennas, associated with the modified antenna switching configuration, wherein the antenna is associated with a higher power limit than one or more other antennas. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Sridhar Bandaru, Brian Clarke Banister, Reza Shahidi, Troy Curtiss, Akhil Deodhar, Lin Lu, Jagadish Nadakuduti
  • Patent number: 11818076
    Abstract: A method by which a terminal transmits channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, linear combining-based codebook-related parameters; calculating the CSI on the basis of the codebook-related parameters; and reporting the CSI to the base station, wherein a channel quality indicator (CQI) in the CSI is calculated using a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) determined so as to maintain orthogonality between respective layers by using a predefined method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Haewook Park, Jiwon Kang
  • Patent number: 11817974
    Abstract: A method for sounding-interval adaptation using link quality for use in an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a sounding transceiver. The method includes the following steps: periodically transmitting a sounding packet to a beamformee through a downlink channel from the apparatus to the beamformee according to a first sounding interval; in response to the sounding transceiver receiving a data packet or a report packet from the beamformee, obtaining a current first channel profile from the received data packet or the received report packet; and adaptively adjusting the first sounding interval according to a first mobility indicator which is calculated according to the current first channel profile and the previous first channel profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Hao-Chih Yu, Pu-Hsuan Lin, Yu-Ting Su
  • Patent number: 11817920
    Abstract: The application relates to a communication device [e.g., UE] for communicating with one or more other communication devices using multiple-input-multiple-output, MIMO, communication, wherein the communication device is configured to: select [e.g., from ?] one or more preferred beams [e.g., bi]; and find one or more other beams [e.g., those such that INRk(cl)>?1] which have a comparatively high spatial correlation with the one or more preferred beams or which have a comparatively high probability of interference with the one or more preferred beams [e.g., if INRk(cl)>?1], wherein the communication device is configured to provide, to a coordinating communication device [e.g., BS, gNB]: first information [e.g., Fk,1] identifying the one or more preferred beams [e.g., Fk,1 is made of columns identifying the preferred beams]; and second information [e.g., rk,i,1, rk,i,2] identifying the one or more found other beams or a region [e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Martin Kurras, Lars Thiele, Junyoung Nam, Marcus Großmann, Niels Hadaschik, Thomas Haustein
  • Patent number: 11817923
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, transmitter, apparatus and computer readable storage media for signal precoding of massive MIMO. The transmitter comprises a first number of transmitting antennas. In example embodiments, the transmitter iteratively performs the following operations: determining a first number of signals to be transmitted by the first number of antennas in a second number of streams based on a second number of original signals, determining whether at least one feature of the first number of signals is to be regulated, and in response to determining that the at least one feature of the first number of signals is to be regulated, adjusting at least one of the first number of signals in order to regulate the at least one feature of the first number of signals. Accordingly, the first number of signals are transmitted by the first number of antennas in the second number of streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Lijun Wang, Weiqiang Mao
  • Patent number: 11817925
    Abstract: A method for a channel state information (CSI) feedback comprises receiving CSI feedback configuration information for the CSI feedback including a spatial channel information indicator based on a linear combination (LC) codebook, wherein the spatial channel information comprises at least one of a downlink channel matrix, a covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix, or at least one eigenvector of the covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix; deriving the spatial channel information indicator using the LC codebook that indicates a weighted linear combination of a plurality of basis vectors or a plurality of basis matrices as a representation of at least one of a downlink channel matrix, a covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix, or at least one eigenvector of the covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix; and transmitting over an uplink channel, the CSI feedback including the spatial channel information indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Saifur Rahman, Eko Onggosanusi
  • Patent number: 11816698
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to estimate and deduplicate audiences are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a controller to determine a subunion of at least first and second marginal audiences of media based on of panel data and census data, the panel data including a panel impression count and a panel audience size, and the census data including a census impression count, an audience size calculator to determine a census audience size of the at least the first and second marginal audiences based on the panel impression count and the panel audience size and determine a subunion census audience size, the subunion census audience size corresponding to an overlap between the at least the first and second marginal audiences; and a report generator to generate a report including the census audience size and the subunion census audience size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Sheppard, DongBo Cui, Diane Morovati Lopez, Molly Poppie
  • Patent number: 11817924
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit capability information to the network indicating its coherence capability for transmitting multiple layers on a single antenna port. In some cases, the indicated capability information may actually be less than the actual capability of the UE, but may indicate which transmission precoding matrix indicator (TPMI) indexes are valid, such that the UE is not expected to transmit complex waveforms resulting from too many layers per antenna port. In some examples, the UE may indicate, in the capability information, a threshold number of layers per antenna port it can support. In some examples, the UE may indicate its coherence capability on a per-rank basis. In some examples, the UE may be capable of supporting up to 8 layers per antenna port. In some cases, codebooks may be restricted to support 8 layer transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gokul Sridharan, Yi Huang, Hyojin Lee, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11817932
    Abstract: Disclosed are a spatial multiplexing method and apparatus using polarization in a multi-beam system. As the spatial multiplexing method using polarization in a multi-beam system, an embodiment of the present invention provides a spatial multiplexing method including determining different phases and different polarizations to be applied to a first beam and a second beam, precoding a signal so that the first beam and the second beam have the determined different phases, and converting polarization of the precoded signal so that the first beam and the second beam have the determined different polarizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: KMW INC.
    Inventors: Tae Youl Oh, Joon Hyong Shim, Min Seon Yun, Jae Young Choi, Kyung Hoon Kwon, Young Chan Moon, Oh Seog Choi
  • Patent number: 11811476
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a digital beamforming section. The digital beamforming section is configured to encode each data beam of a first plurality of data beams of a first channel with a first plurality of respective time delays and phases to generate an encoded first plurality of data beams and encode each data beam of a second plurality of data beams of a second channel with a second plurality of respective time delays and phases to generate an encoded second plurality of data beams. The second plurality of data beams is different from the first plurality of data beams. The apparatus includes a channel combiner, electrically coupled to the digital beamforming section, and configured to generate a combined channel comprising an aggregation of at least a portion of the encoded first plurality of data beams and at least a portion of the encoded second plurality of data beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Alireza Mehrnia, Masoud Kahrizi, Ka Shun Carson Pun, Omid Nasiby, Alex Ahmad Mirzaei
  • Patent number: 11810068
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed to identify low performing parameters of the same content hosted on different platforms. The same content is provided to different platforms, where the same content includes an agent specific to a platform. Communication is performed to an agent on a platform to capture parameter data related to the same content. The captured parameter data is parsed to identify low performing parameter data on the platform. Quality checks are performed on the identified low performing parameter data on the platform. A report is provided on the same content and the low performing parameter data. A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Rathi Babu, Mainak Roy
  • Patent number: 11811479
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes M signal processors that respectively generate modulated signals directed to M reception apparatuses, M being an integer equal to or greater than 2, and an antenna section. Each signal processor modulates a first bit sequence made up of two bits to generate a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal, and modulates a second bit sequence made up of other two bits to generate a third modulated signal and a fourth modulated signal, in a case of transmitting multiple streams to a corresponding one of the M reception apparatuses. The antenna section includes a first antenna that transmits the first modulated signal and the third modulated signal and a second antenna that transmits the second modulated signal and the fourth modulated signal. At least either the signals transmitted from the first antenna or the signals transmitted from the second antenna are phase-changed signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11811434
    Abstract: A wireless device driving method includes hiding a header emulated with a second protocol in a payload of a packet defined with a first protocol and transmitting the emulated header at a transmission side, receiving the emulated header and an ambient signal at a reception side, and decoding the ambient signal according to the second protocol to obtain a bit sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Woo Jae Jeong, Song Min Kim, Jin Hwan Jung, Seok Won Yang, Yung Yi
  • Patent number: 11811572
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein that relate to Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) reduction in a MIMO OFDM transmitter system. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a transmitter system includes, for each carrier of two or more carriers, performing precoding of frequency-domain input signals for the carrier to provide frequency-domain precoded signals for the carrier, the frequency-domain input signals for the carrier being for a plurality of transmit layers for the carrier, respectively. The method further includes processing the two or more pluralities of frequency-domain precoded signals for the two or more carriers, respectively, in accordance with a multi-carrier processing scheme to provide a plurality of multi-carrier time-domain transmit signals for a plurality of antenna branches, respectively, of the MIMO OFDM transmitter system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Pierre-Andre Laporte, Mark Edward Rollins
  • Patent number: 11811471
    Abstract: Example channel measurement methods and communications apparatus are described. One example method includes receiving a precoded reference signal by a terminal device, where the precoded reference signal is obtained by precoding a reference signal based on K angle vectors and L delay vectors. First indication information is generated and sent, where the first indication information indicates P weighting coefficients corresponding to P angle-delay pairs. The P weighting coefficients are determined by using the precoded reference signal. The P angle-delay pairs and the P weighting coefficients corresponding to the P angle-delay pairs are used to determine a precoding matrix. Each angle-delay pair includes one of the K angle vectors and one of the L delay vectors. The K angle vectors and the L delay vectors are determined based on uplink channel measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhimeng Zhong, Huangping Jin, Haifan Yin, Xiaoyan Bi, Li Fan
  • Patent number: 11811484
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) determines a receive (RX) spatial filter for receiving both a first measurement resource and a second measurement resource. The RX spatial filter is determined based on a first spatial quasi-co-located (QCL) reference associated with the first measurement resource and a second spatial QCL reference associated with the second, measurement resource. The UE measures the first and second measurement resources with the determined Rx filter configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, Sebastian Faxér, Mattias Frenne
  • Patent number: 11812393
    Abstract: A transmission power allocation method for a transmitter is disclosed. The transmitter includes a number of at least two transmitter paths for spatial multiplexing of two or more signals to be transmitted using respective allocated transmission powers to respective ones of two or more users, wherein each transmitter path includes at least one component causing non-linear distortion and a transmit antenna. The method includes determining a respective received distortion power for each of the two or more users as a function of respective hypothesized transmission powers for the two or more users and based on a model of a spatial behavior of the non-linear distortion. The method also includes allocating respective transmission powers for the two or more users based on the determined respective received distortion powers. Corresponding transmission power allocation apparatus, transmitter, network node, wireless communication device are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Ulf Gustavsson, Christopher Mollén, Erik Larsson
  • Patent number: 11811473
    Abstract: A device including a plurality of antennas may sense or receive data related to a magnetic field. A strength of the magnetic field may be determined. Based on the strength of the magnetic field, a location or orientation of the device may be determined. The location of the device may be used to select an antenna from the plurality of antennas for transmitting data from the device or receiving data at the device. If the location of the device is associated with historical performance data, the historical performance data may be used to select an antenna from the plurality of antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Ryan Michael Cunningham
  • Patent number: 11812390
    Abstract: This disclosure proposes a mobile communication system to use multiple power control loops in the uplink. Each power control loop may be associated with a respective antenna beam transmitted from an antenna array of the electronic device (e.g. UE) in the uplink of the communication system. Each power control loop may also be associated with a respective set of one or more MIMO layers. This concept is applicable to open-loop, closed-loop power control or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Hyejung Jung, Gregory Morozov, Victor Sergeev
  • Patent number: 11811475
    Abstract: A method and an access network node are disclosed for beam control. According to an embodiment, the access network node determines first spatial domain information of a channel between a first terminal device and the access network node, based on second spatial domain information of the channel estimated by uplink signals received previously from the first terminal device at multiple time points. The access network node determines beamforming weights for the first terminal device based on the first spatial domain information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Kangqi Liu, Yipeng Zhang, Huaisong Zhu
  • Patent number: 11804885
    Abstract: A method, in a radio network node, comprises identifying, among a predetermined codebook of precoding matrix codewords, a subset of precoding matrix codewords that are not to be reported by the wireless device in channel-state-information, CSI, feedback, and transmitting, to the wireless device, a bitmap identifying the subset of precoding matrix codewords that are not to be reported by the wireless device; where each bit in the bitmap corresponds to only one combination of a first dimension index l?1 and a second dimension index l?2 out of the possible combinations of the first dimension index l?1 and the second dimension index l?2, and where the first dimension index l?1 and the second dimension index l?2 identify a two-dimensional beam, the two-dimensional beam being defined by a vector of complex numbers comprised within at least one column of a precoding matrix codeword in the codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Siva Muruganathan, Mattias Frenne, Shiwei Gao, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 11804881
    Abstract: A characteristic variable antenna configured to be able to select or switch antenna characteristics in accordance with a predetermined periodic variable timing, an RF unit configured to perform a reception process on a signal received by the characteristic variable antenna, an ADC unit configured to sample the analog signal input from the RF unit at a sampling period corresponding to the variable timing of the antenna characteristics of the characteristic variable antenna, a signal dividing unit configured to divide the digital signal input from the ADC unit into different digital signals in accordance with the antenna characteristics and output the divided different digital signals, a MIMO-OFDM demodulation unit configured to receive inputs of the different digital signals divided by the signal dividing unit and perform a demodulation process of predetermined MIMO-OFDM, and a control unit configured to periodically select or switch the antenna characteristics of the characteristic variable antenna in accorda
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira, Riku Omiya, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11804890
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a processing circuit configured to: receive, from an antenna array during a previous period, a first directional electromagnetic signal including beam sweeping reference symbols of a previous beam sweeping period; compute an estimated combined channel; estimate a dominant angle-of-arrival (AoA) of the first directional electromagnetic signal based on the estimated combined channel and a previous beamforming codebook including two or more beamforming vectors corresponding to different AoAs; construct an updated beamforming codebook based on the estimated dominant AoA and one or more remaining AoAs spaced apart from the estimated dominant AoA; receive, at the antenna array during a current period, a second directional electromagnetic signal including data symbols; determine a beamforming vector for data reception of the second directional electromagnetic signal based on the updated beamforming codebook; and detect the data symbols in the second directional electromagnet
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanru Tang, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11804886
    Abstract: Provided are CSI feedback and receiving methods, apparatuses, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: a terminal determines PMI, the PMI includes at least one of: first base vector information, second base vector information, second coefficient amplitude information or phase information; for one transmission layer, a frequency domain resource in one preset frequency domain unit corresponds to one precoding vector, the precoding vector is a linear combination of first base vectors, and weighting coefficients used in the linear combination of the first base vectors are first coefficients; on multiple frequency domain units contained in a CSI feedback band, a vector composed of first coefficients corresponding to a same first base vector is a linear combination of second base vectors, and weighting coefficients used in the linear combination of the second base vectors are second coefficients; and the terminal feeds back CSI containing the PMI to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Hao Wu, Yijian Chen, Guozeng Zheng, Yong Li, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Ngok Li
  • Patent number: 11799513
    Abstract: A non-coherent long range (LoRa) communication system based on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology, including a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is configured to transmit signals to the receiver, and the receiver is configured to receive and demodulate the signals. The transmitter includes a bit-symbol converter, a space-time mapper, and a plurality of transmitting antennas. The space-time mapper is configured to select a transmit antenna for the signal in each transmission time slot and transmit a base Chirp signal x0 and the modulating signal xm to the receiver in different time slots. The receiver includes a plurality of receiving antennas. The receiving antenna is configured to preprocess the signal to obtain a first cache matrix and a second cache matrix. After Hadamard product operation is performed on the first and second cache matrixes, operation results of the receiving antennas are accumulated and demodulated to output demodulated information bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Guangdong University of Technology
    Inventors: Yi Fang, Huan Ma, Yiwei Tao
  • Patent number: 11799588
    Abstract: A technology related to a distributed antenna system is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a distributed antenna system may include a master unit and a plurality of remote units. The master unit may be interfaced with a wireless communications network and perform a bidirectional simultaneous digital radio frequency distribution of a wireless signal. The plurality of remote units may be each coupled to the master unit, and each perform a wireless transmission or reception of a split radio frequency signal to or from terminals located within a coverage. The master unit and the plurality of remote units may transmit or receive digital radio frequency signals in a wavelet transform domain. The master unit may determine whether the digital radio frequency signal, transmitted by each of the remote units, is normal, and merge the digital radio frequency signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SOLiD Inc.
    Inventor: Young Man Cho
  • Patent number: 11787059
    Abstract: A method for selecting a preferred robotic grasp of an object-of-interest using pairwise ranking includes: identifying a robotic candidate grasp usable to grasp the object-of-interest, the object-of-interest situated in an environment; receiving a grasp preference for a preferred candidate grasp of the object-of-interest; calculating a heuristic to describe a relationship of the candidate grasp to one or more of the object-of-interest and the environment; and using the heuristic and using the grasp preference, computing a pairwise ranking of two candidate grasps to determine an ordering of the at least two candidate grasps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Russell Toris, Sarah Elliott, David Kent
  • Patent number: 11791880
    Abstract: A signal detection method for a MIMO-OFDM wireless communication system includes obtaining a channel matrix of each subcarrier through channel estimation for each MIMO-OFDM data packet in a plurality of MIMO-OFDM data packets; receiving a reception vector of each subcarrier; performing channel matrix preprocessing for the channel matrix of each subcarrier to generate a global dynamic K-value table, in which the global dynamic K-value table includes a global dynamic K-value corresponding to each search layer of each subcarrier; performing MIMO detection for each OFDM symbol in the MIMO-OFDM data packet, in which the MIMO detection includes performing the following steps for each subcarrier of a current OFDM symbol: reading channel matrix preprocessing results and reception vector of the current subcarrier; transforming the reception vector of the current subcarrier into an LR search domain; and performing K-best search for the current subcarrier to obtain an LR domain candidate transmission vector of the curre
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ESPRESSIF SYSTEMS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui Zhan, Lu Kong
  • Patent number: 11791876
    Abstract: A beamforming circuit for receiving and/or transmitting one or more (typically a plurality of) beams. The beamforming circuit includes: an antenna I/O module having antenna ports; a data bus connection for connecting to a data bus for communication of data streams of one or more beams to be produced (received or transmitted); a beamforming module including a plurality of beam-forming channels connectable in between the data bus connection and the antenna ports for processing signals communicated between them to introduce controllable shifts (e.g. time-delays and/or phase-shifts) in order to beamform the processed signals, being received and/or transmitted. Whereby the beamforming circuit includes a cascade I/O module enabling to connect one or more additional beam-forming circuits to the beamforming circuit, in a “vertical” cascade, to thereby enable forming of one or more additional beams by the beamforming modules of the one or more additional beamforming circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SATIXFY UK LIMITED
    Inventor: Doron Rainish
  • Patent number: 11791883
    Abstract: Generating a channel state information (CSI) feedback report is provided. A set of reference signals is received (1502). A set of entries that are included in the CSI feedback report is computed (1504). Each entry has a most significant bit, and one or more remaining bits, where an order of each of the entries in the CSI feedback report are arranged based upon a bit level classification of the entries (1508). A value of the most significant bit of each of the entries is identified, and the entries, which have a most significant bit value corresponding to a higher bit value have the remaining bits arranged in a group that is positioned in the CSI feedback report prior to a group of tire remaining bits of the entries, which have a most significant bit value corresponding to a lower bit value (1510).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Udar Mittal, Tyler Brown, Ahmed Hindy
  • Patent number: 11791877
    Abstract: A system for transmitting millimeter wave signals includes at least one repeater for communicating with a plurality of remote locations over millimeter wave communications links. The at least one repeater further includes multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmission circuitry for transmitting signals and receiving signals over the millimeter wave communications links to the plurality of remote locations. The at least one repeater further includes full-duplex transmission circuitry for processing the transmitted signals and the received signals over the millimeter wave communications links using full-duplex communications with the plurality of remote locations. The at least one repeater relays the millimeter wave signals between at least a first millimeter wave transceiver at a first one of the plurality of remote locations and a second millimeter wave transceiver at a second one of the plurality of remote locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NxGen Partners IP, LLC
    Inventor: Solyman Ashrafi
  • Patent number: 11789640
    Abstract: A data structure that identifies a characteristic of a region that is located between programming distributions of the memory device and that corresponds to read level thresholds at the region is determined. An estimator type is selected from a plurality of estimator types corresponding with the data structure. A read level threshold of the read level thresholds is estimated using the selected estimator type. A read operation is performed at the memory device using the read level threshold estimated using the selected estimator type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Sheperek, Larry J. Koudele, Bruce A. Liikanen
  • Patent number: 11791871
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to determine precoding weights for fifth-generation (5G) new radio (NR) downlink transmission in parallel. In at least one embodiment, a parallel processor includes one or more circuits to perform precoding for a 5G downlink signal using two or more processing threads in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventor: Harsha Deepak Banuli Nanje Gowda
  • Patent number: 11784734
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method performed by a communication device. The method includes obtaining, in frequency domain, channel estimation for a transmission unit for a channel between the communication device and another communication device, and calculating correlation coefficients for the transmission unit based on the channel estimation. The method also includes obtaining a delay spread for the channel from the calculated correlation coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Wei Zhou, Peng Li, Luanxia Yang
  • Patent number: 11784696
    Abstract: A system includes remote unit(s) (RU(s)). The RU(s) is/are configured to transmit at least one signal on a plurality of different beam patterns, each beam pattern comprising an active subset an inactive subset of a plurality of fine beams covering an area of a cell. The RU(s) is/are also configured to receive, from each of a plurality of user equipment (UEs) in the area, a respective signal strength measurement for each of the plurality of different beam patterns. The system also includes a centralized unit communicatively coupled to the plurality of RUs via a fronthaul interface. The centralized unit is configured to determine a bit vector for each UE based on a combination of the signal strength measurements from the respective UE. The centralized unit is configured also to select a respective fine beam for each UE based on the respective bit vector for the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Naveen Shanmugaraju, Balaji B Raghothaman
  • Patent number: 11784697
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may configure a first set of throughput targets and a second set of throughput targets for an application layer. The UE may set a target throughput rate associated with the application to a required throughput target included in the first set of throughput targets. The UE may monitor a real-time throughput rate associated with the application layer. The UE may set the target throughput rate to a value in the second set of throughput targets based at least in part on a difference between the real-time throughput rate and the required throughput target satisfying a threshold. The UE may select, from a set of candidate beams, a serving beam associated with an estimated application layer throughput that satisfies the target throughput rate. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa, Michael Lee McCloud, Brian Clarke Banister
  • Patent number: 11784763
    Abstract: A method for transmitting feedback information between Internet-of-Vehicles (IOV) devices includes: a second IOV device receives at least one of first user data and scheduling control information of the first user data from a first IOV device; a second resource location of the first user data is determined based on a first resource location of the first user data, the first resource location indicating at least one of a time-frequency location of corresponding user data and a time-frequency location of scheduling control information of the corresponding user data; and Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback information of the first user data is sent to the first IOV device based on the second resource location of the first user data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11784690
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting a symbol from a plurality of antennas. In one example, a method comprises transmitting simultaneously, from each antenna, the symbol multiplied by a respective element of a selected column of a matrix. The number of rows of the matrix is at least the number of antennas, the number of columns of the matrix is at least 6, and the matrix comprises or is a sub-matrix of a Butson-type Hadamard matrix that includes only a minimum number of non-real elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Miguel Lopez, Leif Wilhelmsson
  • Patent number: 11777567
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and systems for independent transmit and receive channel calibration for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Antenna responses are collected from each virtual channel of a MIMO system at an angle respective to an object. The transmit components and the receive components of the virtual channels are separated and organized into vectors (one for the transmit components and one for the receive components). Calibration values for elements of the vectors are computed and maintained in a transmit calibration matrix and a receive calibration matrix, respectively. Together, the transmit calibration matrix and the receive calibration matrix may include fewer elements than a calibration matrix for the virtual channels and, therefore, may require less memory and fewer computations to calibrate a MIMO system than using other calibration techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Zhengzheng Li, Yu Zhang, Shuimei Zhang, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11777645
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for retransmission of Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUCCH) for Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC). A User Equipment (UE) transmits at least one code block of a control channel, the at least one code block including Channel State Information (CSI), wherein each code block is polar encoded by assigning bit indices of the code block to bit channels in a particular order of reliabilities of the bit channels. The UE detects a trigger, and in response, retransmits at least a portion of each code block including retransmitted CSI, wherein the portion is polar encoded by assigning bit indices of the retransmitted CSI to the bit channels in the reverse order of reliabilities of the bit channels as compared to the polar encoding of the CSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Changlong Xu, Liangming Wu, Kai Chen, Jian Li, Hao Xu, Tingfang Ji, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 11777228
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining location information using a multi-polarized antenna array is disclosed. The multi-polarized antenna array includes a plurality of metal patches and a multiplexer. Each metal patch has at least two feed-points. The multiplexer is coupled to an RF terminal and to each of the at least two feed-points of each of the plurality of metal patches. The antenna array is configurable to couple each feed-point one at a time to the RF terminal. Location information may be determined by a controller coupled to the RF terminal from RF signals received via each feed-point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Karel Povalac, Pavel Sadek, Pavel Krenek
  • Patent number: 11777206
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for initialization and operation of intelligent reflecting surface. The method may include transmitting a synchronization signal block burst to a reflection surface device. The method may also include receiving a first measurement report of the synchronization signal block burst received at the reflection surface device. The method may further include determining a transmit beam for a subsequent synchronization signal block burst based on a highest strength of signals in the synchronization signal block burst. In addition, the method may include receiving a second measurement report of the subsequent synchronization signal block burst. Further, the method may include determining an arrival angle of the subsequent synchronization signal block burst at the reflection surface device. The method may also include establishing a connection with the reflection surface device based on the transmit beam and the arrival angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Qiping Zhu, Frederick Vook, Nitin Mangalvedhe, Jun Tan, William Hillery
  • Patent number: 11777573
    Abstract: An antenna system includes at least a first antenna processing unit, APU1, and a second antenna processing unit, APU2, adjacently connected to each other through a serialized front haul. Each one of the APU1 and APU2 has at least two antenna elements. The antenna elements of APU1 are connected to their respective Radio Frequency, RF, chains via a first beamforming unit, and the antenna elements of APU2 are connected to their respective RF chains via a second beamforming unit. A network node configures the first beamforming unit and the second beamforming unit such that an absolute value of an angular difference between at least one of the beam directions generated by the first beamforming unit and each of the beam directions generated by the second beamforming unit exceeds or is equal to a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Pål Frenger, Emil Björnson, Erik G. Larsson
  • Patent number: 11770163
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may transmit a first request for the uplink (UL) communications with a network node to be switched from a first serving cell in a first frequency range and a second serving cell in a second frequency range to a serving cell over a single first frequency range based on switching from a static codebook based hybrid beamforming to at least one of an adaptive beam weight hybrid beamforming. The UE may further transmit a second request for the network node to measure an interference caused by the UL communications from the UE with the adaptive beam weight hybrid beamforming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tao Luo