Diversity Patents (Class 375/267)
  • Patent number: 11700040
    Abstract: A method is based on the user-specific frozen bit patterns of polar codes assigned to users. At the transmitter, the binary-valued user-specific frozen bit pattern sequences to be used in frozen bit locations are determined for each user, the information bits of each user are encoded using a polar encoder, and the binary-valued user-specific frozen bit patterns are used in frozen bit locations during encoding operation to improve the performance of the downlink multi-user MIMO system. Coded bits are mapped to symbols to be transmitted, and the symbols are mapped to the MIMO layers. Then, multi-antenna precoding is applied and baseband-to-RF processing is performed onto the precoded symbols to transmit the signal. The signal of all users is transmitted at the same time-frequency resources using transmit antennas. Each receiver receives the transmitted signal which is transmitted through respective downlink channels. Each user performs RF-to-baseband processing to their respective received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: ASELSAN ELEKTRONIK SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI
    Inventors: Cagri Goken, Onur Dizdar
  • Patent number: 11700611
    Abstract: Provided are a communication device and an SRS transmission method capable of reducing the possibility of a difference in recognition between the presence or absence of an SRS transmission between a base station and a terminal or of an SRS resource so as to prevent degradation of system throughput. At a terminal (200), a reception processing unit (203) detects control information indicating whether or not to request transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS), whereupon a transmission signal forming unit (207) transmits an A-SRS by way of control by a transmission control unit (206) on the basis of control information. The transmission control unit (206) determines whether or not to execute SRS transmission on the basis of an “SRS Transmission Execution Rule” and the reception status of trigger information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 11700637
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are provided for performing for multi-user (MU) transmission. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may be configured to receive a frame, decode the received frame and determine whether the received frame is a null data packet (NDP) multi-user (MU) media access control (MAC) physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) (NDP MU MAC PPDU) based on meeting an NDP condition. The NDP MU MAC PPDU may correspond to an MU transmission and may include a PLCP header which includes an NDP signal (SIG) field having MU control information. Based on the received frame meeting the NDP condition, the WTRU may be further configured to process the NDP SIG field, generate a response based on the NDP SIG field and the MU control information, and transmit the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Hanqing Lou, Guodong Zhang, Robert L. Olesen, Xiaofei Wang
  • Patent number: 11696264
    Abstract: A method and a device in a communication node used for wireless communications is disclosed in the present disclosure. The communication node first receives first information and second information; and transmits a first radio signal in a first time window; and then transmits a second radio signal; the first information is used to determine a target time window, the second radio signal occupies a second time window in time domain, and the second information is used to determine at least one of whether the second time window belongs to the target time window or a relative position relationship between the second time window and the target time window; an end of the first time window is earlier than a start of the target time window. The present disclosure helps improve the utilization ratio of resources in Grant-Free transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zheng Liu, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11695459
    Abstract: A design for reference signals dedicated for positioning measurements in UL and DL directions and a mechanism for Tx/Rx beam pair selection for positioning is disclosed. The design can improve performance of positioning operation in NR communication systems, can improve resource efficiency of positioning operation in NR communication systems, and can reduce the amount of resources needed for PRS transmission, reduce latency and increase the positioning measurement quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexey Khoryaev, Sergey Sosnin, Mikhail Shilov, Sergey Panteleev, Seunghee Han
  • Patent number: 11695461
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to encode channel state information (CSI), e.g., enhanced type II CSI. A common frequency basis may be selected. Spatial-frequency coefficients, frequency basis related information, and/or spatial basis related information may be determined. At least a portion of the coefficients and/or information may be encoded in a CSI report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sai Sravan Bharadwaj Karri, Swaminathan Balakrishnan, Junsung Lim, Haitong Sun, Johnson O. Sebeni, Faraz Faheem
  • Patent number: 11690091
    Abstract: A resource mapping method and apparatus and a resource mapping indication method and apparatus are provided to adapt to an interference cancellation function of a receiver. According to the method, a network device obtains a mapping mode used for resource mapping during uplink transmission, and sends, to a terminal, information indicating the mapping mode. The mapping mode is used to indicate mapping locations of a plurality of modulation symbols in a resource mapping block (RMB), the RMB comprises a plurality of resource elements (REs), and at least one of the plurality of REs carries at least two modulation symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huazi Zhang, Ming Jia, Rong Li, Jian Wang, Xianbin Wang, Shengchen Dai, Jun Wang, Yiqun Ge, Yan Chen, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 11689269
    Abstract: A management system obtains, from a user device, information indicating a power measurement of a beam set that is utilized to communicate with the user device. The beam set includes one or more active beams, of a plurality of beams, that are associated with a single beam identifier. The management system identifies a location of the user device and thereby determines an expected power measurement of the beam set. The management system determines that a difference between the power measurement of the beam set and the expected power measurement of the beam set satisfies (e.g., is greater than or equal to) a difference threshold. The management system therefore causes the beam set to be modified. The management system may use a machine learning model (e.g., a neural network machine learning model) to facilitate modification of the beam set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Corey J. Christopherson, Donna L. Polehn
  • Patent number: 11689254
    Abstract: A method of transmission over multiple wireless channels in a multiple antenna system includes storing channel modulation matrices at a transmitter; receiving quantized channel state information at the transmitter from plural receivers; selecting a transmission modulation matrix using the quantized channel state information from the stored channel modulation matrices; and transmitting over the multiple channels to the plural receivers using the selected transmission modulation matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.
    Inventors: Bartosz Mielczarek, Witold A. Krzymien
  • Patent number: 11689265
    Abstract: An antenna system for a mobile communications base station and a method of operating a communications network including a base station is described. The antenna system includes an antenna array for beamforming and is configured either as a radar sensor, a communications antenna or a combined radar sensor. A radar image may be used to determine a map of objects in the vicinity of the antenna system and to adapt the beamsteering or beamforming of the antenna system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Paul Mattheijssen, Konstantinos Doris, Dominicus Martinus Wilhelmus Leenaerts, Mark Tomesen
  • Patent number: 11689252
    Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for wireless communications for establishing, by a user equipment (UE), a first time period to evaluate one or more quality parameters of one or more reference signals, wherein the first time period is based on at least one of a number of panels of the UE or a number of beams that the UE monitors simultaneously; determining, by the UE, a quality parameter of a beam or a cell based on the one or more quality parameters of the one or more reference signals; and determining, by the UE, whether the one or more quality parameters of the one or more reference signals exceeds a quality threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Juergen Cezanne, Arash Mirbagheri, Awlok Singh Josan
  • Patent number: 11689263
    Abstract: A small cell cellular base station includes an eight port radio and an eight-port base station antenna that has four linear arrays of dual-polarized radiating elements. Each of the linear arrays has a different azimuth boresight pointing direction and each dual-polarized radiating element includes first and second radiators that have respective directional radiation patterns. The radio is configured to determine and apply a first set of amplitude and phase weights to RF signals that are received through the eight ports of the antenna, and to apply a second set of amplitude and phase weights to RF signals that are output by the radio to the eight ports of the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Martin L. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 11689258
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may associate a first and second port with a set of antenna elements based on a first and second linear precoding vector. The base station may generate coefficients indicating a first combination and a second combination of a first data set for a first user equipment (UE) and a second data set for a second UE. The base station may apply the first and second linear precoding vectors to the first and second combinations, respectively, transmit a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS) and a second DMRS using a first comb corresponding to the first and second ports, and transmit at least a third DMRS indicating the coefficients using a second comb. The UEs may extract data from the precoded combinations by applying the coefficients and estimating channels associated with the first and second DMRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: June Namgoong, Hyojin Lee, Taesang Yoo, Naga Bhushan, Tingfang Ji, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 11689346
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a switched amplifier is provided to amplify a data transmission. The switched amplifier may use a control signal that is received via a control signal channel in a transmission cable. Also, the switched amplifier may detect signal power to determine whether the data transmission is received at one of a first port and a second port. Data transmissions via the data transmission channel occur in a first direction and a second direction in a same frequency range in a time division multiplex (TDD) mode. Also, the control signal and data transmission are diverted from the transmission cable that transmits a type of signal different from the control signal and the data transmission. The switched amplifier is controlled based on the control signal or the signal power detected. The amplified signal is diverted in the first direction or the second direction via the data transmission channel back to the transmission cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: David B. Bowler, Clarke V. Greene, Lawrence Hrivnak, Samuel Francois, Xinfa Ma, Bruce C. Pratt
  • Patent number: 11689261
    Abstract: Example embodiments are directed towards beam formation matching for communications between a receiver and transmitter in a multiple beam Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yeong-Sun Hwang, Yuan Zhu, Yushu Zhang, Huaning Niu, Wenting Chang
  • Patent number: 11683076
    Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method, so that data transmission reliability can be improved. The method includes: receiving, by the terminal device, a plurality of reference signals used for channel measurement; and sending, by the terminal device, a plurality of pieces of first indication information based on the at least one reference signal and a transmission scheme on which CSI feedback is based, where the plurality of pieces of first indication information are used to indicate x target precoding matrices, at least one of the plurality of pieces of first indication information is used to indicate one target precoding matrix, and the x target precoding matrices are determined based on the plurality of precoding matrices, where x is a quantity of target precoding matrices that need to be fed back, and x is an integer greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ye Wu, Huangping Jin, Wei Han, Xiaoyan Bi
  • Patent number: 11683737
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for signal offloading in an mmWave environment in the event of high fading. The methods and systems include one or more mmWave nodes that are each configured to wirelessly communicate with a user device in a geographic service area and a Wi-Fi access point configured to wirelessly communicate with the user device. The methods and systems determine that the user device has detected a fading measurement corresponding to an mmWave transmitted by one of the one or more mmWave nodes is above a threshold. In response to the fading measurement being above the threshold, the methods and systems redirect a control signal of the user device through the Wi-Fi access point to the one or more mmWave nodes. Accordingly, the user device transmit data through the Wi-Fi access point to the one or more mmWave nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Atul Kulkarni, Sreekar Marupaduga, Anurag Thantharate
  • Patent number: 11677600
    Abstract: In wireless communications for a 20 megahertz (MHz) channel bandwidth, a first device may determine a high efficiency long training field (HE-LTF) mode. The first device may generate an HE-LTF symbol by using a portion or an entirety of an HE-LTF sequence corresponding to the channel bandwidth and HE-LTF mode. The first device may transmit, in the channel bandwidth, a high efficiency physical layer protocol data unit (HE PPDU) that includes the HE-LTF symbol. A second device may receive, in the 20 MHz channel bandwidth, a downlink HE PPDU that includes an HE-LTF symbol. The second device may obtain, from the HE-LTF symbol, a portion or an entirety of an HE-LTF sequence corresponding to the channel bandwidth and an HE-LTF mode of the HE-LTF symbol. The downlink HE PPDU may be the HE PPDU from the first device. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Atlas Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Daewon Lee, Sungho Moon, Yujin Noh, Minho Cheong
  • Patent number: 11678318
    Abstract: A method and apparatus may be used to support coordinated and cooperative sectorized transmissions. Power control and clear channel assessment for sectorized transmissions may be used, along with sectorized beacon and associated procedures. Transmissions in a network may be protected by a first access point (AP) sending an omni-directional transmission and a beamformed or sectorized transmission to a station (STA), an overlapping basic service set (OBSS) confirming a spatially orthogonal (SO) condition based on the omni-directional transmission, and a second AP monitoring the omni-directional transmission and confirming the SO condition. The STA may be configured to receive a request-to-send (RTS) frame indicating data is available for transmission, and transmit a cooperative sectorized (CS) clear-to-send (CTS) frame indicating an ability for multiple AP reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Pengfei Xia, Oghenekome Oteri, Hanqing Lou, Nirav B. Shah, Monisha Ghosh, Robert Olesen
  • Patent number: 11671987
    Abstract: Disclosed are a parameter transmission method and apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The transmission parameter method includes: sending, by a sending end, control information carrying a value of at least one transmission parameter in at least one transmission parameter set; wherein the control information adopts a value of a transmission parameter for a slot or a link on which the control information acts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yijian Chen, Yu Ngok Li, Zhaohua Lu, Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 11671154
    Abstract: A method and a device for sending parameters of a precoder in a wireless communication system are disclosed. According to one aspect, the method comprises: sending, to a network node, an indication of a subset of beams selected from a plurality of orthogonal beams and an indication of power levels of the selected subset of beams, for a first frequency granularity; and sending, to the network node, an indication of phases of the selected subset of beams, for a second frequency granularity, wherein the indication of the selected beams, the indication of the power levels of the selected subset of beams and the indication of the phases of the selected subset of beams are part of the parameters of the precoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Svante Bergman
  • Patent number: 11671943
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a receiving STA may receive a Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) including a first signal field and a second signal field, wherein the first signal field includes 3 bit information related to a version of the PPDU, wherein the second signal field includes 10 bit information related to a configuration of a plurality of resource units (RUs), wherein first bit information of the 10 bit information includes information for determining the configuration as one of a first configuration and a second configuration. Further, the receiving STA may decode the PPDU based on the first signal field and the second signal field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongguk Lim, Jinyoung Chun, Jinsoo Choi, Eunsung Park
  • Patent number: 11671156
    Abstract: Transmitting a data signal employing a digital beamforming technique including determining a first phase offset in response to a first transmitted signal received at a first antenna and a second phase offset in response to a second transmitted signal received at the first antenna, determining a third phase offset in response to the first transmitted signal received at a second antenna and a fourth phase offset in response to the second transmitted signal received at the second antenna, generating a first correction weight in response to an average of the first phase offset and the third phase offset, generating a second correction weight in response to an average of the second phase offset and the fourth phase offset, and transmitting the first correction weight to the first transmitter and the second correction weight to the second transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventors: John Kleider, Christopher Steenhoek
  • Patent number: 11671166
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitting device which can expand a communication range when performing multicast/broadcast communication. The transmitting device includes a plurality of transmission antennas, and includes: a signal processor which generates a first baseband signal by modulating data of a first stream, and a second baseband signal by modulating data of a second stream; and a transmitter which generates, from the first baseband signal, first transmission signals having different directivities, generates, from the second baseband signal, second transmission signals having different directivities, and transmits the first transmission signals and the second transmission signals at a same time. When the transmitter has received, from a terminal, a request to transmit the first stream, the transmitter further generates, from the first baseband signal, third transmission signals which are different from the first transmission signals and have different directivities, and transmits the third transmission signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11671128
    Abstract: This application provides an antenna system and a base station. The antenna system includes a radiation array, a transceiver (TRX) unit, and a filter bank. The radiation array includes a transmit antenna element group and a receive antenna element group that are separately disposed. The transmit antenna element group is configured to transmit a signal, and the receive antenna element group is configured to receive a signal. The TRX unit includes a transmit module and a receive module. The filter bank includes a first-type filter and a second-type filter. The first-type filter is connected between the transmit antenna element group and the transmit module, and the second-type filter is connected between the receive antenna element group and the receive module. The antenna system in this application can reduce interference between a passive intermodulation (PIM) signal generated by a transmitted signal and a received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weihong Xiao, Zhiqiang Liao, Jianping Li, He Cui
  • Patent number: 11671159
    Abstract: A method is described of selecting, by a multi-antenna base station of a wireless communications system, at least one transmission beam to transmit data to at least one terminal. The method can include determining a grid of N2 transmission beams intended to cover a portion of the space served by the base station and generated by using N1 antennas of the base station, where N1 and N2 designate integers such as N2>N1, and selecting one or more non-adjacent beam(s) of the grid to transmit data to at least one terminal during at least one given time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Zwi Altman, Deepak Nayak, Suresh Kalyanasundaram, Philippe Sehier
  • Patent number: 11671150
    Abstract: A method and system for optimizing the performance of spatial multiplexing techniques in MU-MIMO wireless systems comprising subsectors where the presence of significant correlation between antenna elements can impair the performance of MU-MIMO techniques. The proposed solution ensures optimum selection of a specific combination of transmit antenna elements and receive antenna elements that maximizes MU-MIMO performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONICA, S.A.
    Inventors: Javier Lorca Hernando, Elena Serna Santiago, Juan Francisco Esteban Rivas
  • Patent number: 11671165
    Abstract: A method for determining frame timing, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method for determining frame timing includes that: a terminal device receives beam-specific information sent by a network device through a beam, here, the beam-specific information includes a sequence number of a time-domain location where a synchronization signal is sent through the beam; the terminal device determines a time-domain offset between the synchronization signal and the frame timing according to a correspondence of a sequence number of the beam, the sequence number of the time-domain location where the synchronization signal is sent and the time-domain offset; and the terminal device determines the frame timing according to the time-domain offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11664866
    Abstract: Aspects are provided which allow a transmitting device to provide reference signals to a receiving device for beam management according to an arbitrarily determined sequence of transmission beams at any time, and to implicitly convey information regarding the determined sequence of transmission beams to the receiving device. The transmitting device provides a message to the receiving device indicating a beam sequence conveyance mode. The transmitting device subsequently determines a sequence of different transmission beams, and associates a reference signal with each one of the transmission beams for transmission to the receiving device according to the sequence. The receiving device obtains the plurality of reference signals from the transmitting device, where each of the reference signals is associated with a different transmission beam. The receiving device identifies a reception beam for each of the transmission beams, and determines a sequence of the transmission beams in response to the identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11664857
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a monitoring signal associated with one or more antennas. The UE may identify, based at least in part on the monitoring signal, a blockage associated with the one or more antennas. The UE may perform a beam search using a decreased frequency of occurrence of tracking occasions for the one or more antennas based at least in part on the identification of the blockage associated with the one or more antennas. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 11664880
    Abstract: A wireless communication system non-collaborative, multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) space division multiple access (SDMA) system determines subscriber station combining and weighting vectors that yield a high average signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR). Each subscriber station independently transmits information to a base station that allows the base station to determine a weight vector wi for each subscriber station using the determined combining vector of the subscriber station. The ith combining vector corresponds to a right singular vector corresponding to a maximum singular value of a channel matrix between a base station and the ith subscriber station. Each subscriber station transmits signals using a weight vector vi, which corresponds to a left singular vector corresponding to a maximum singular value of a channel matrix between the ith subscriber station and the base station. The base station uses the weight vector wi to determine the signal transmitted by the ith subscriber station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jayesh H. Kotecha, Jayakrishnan C. Mundarath
  • Patent number: 11664878
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for performing interference-resistant calibration and compensation of radio-frequency (RF) and analog front-end electronics of antenna-array based receivers during active operation. Examples of systems and methods are described herein that may provide interference-resistant calibration maintenance and ongoing compensation for changing gain and phase in receiver front-end electronic components, due to manufacturing tolerances and operational and environmental factors such as variations in temperature, humidity, supply voltage, component aging, connector oxidation, mechanical stresses and vibration, and/or maintenance operations such as sparing and swapping of cables, front-end electronics modules, and/or associated circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Tarana Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen P. Bruzzone, Eric Pierre Rebeiz
  • Patent number: 11665574
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for generating packet preambles. Some implementations more specifically relate to preamble designs for special cases such as, for example, full-bandwidth multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO), single-user (SU) preamble puncturing, hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ), and multi-AP coordination. Multi-AP coordination may refer to coordinated beamforming (CoBF), joint transmission (JT), or coordinated orthogonal frequency division multiple access (C-OFDMA). Additionally, or alternatively, some implementations more specifically relate to preamble designs that accommodate signal fields of different cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jialing Li Chen, Sameer Vermani, Bin Tian, Lin Yang
  • Patent number: 11664860
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support mechanisms for sidelink beamforming alignment over a set of resources based on a deterministic sequence in a wireless communication system. In aspects, an sidelink initiator user equipment (UE) may initiate a beamforming alignment procedure with a responder UE over a the sidelink. The initiator UE may define a set of subchannels specified by a deterministic sequence. The set of subchannels may be subchannels over which the initiator UE may perform reception beam sweeping. The deterministic sequence may be anchored to a direct frame number (DFN) of the sidelink frame without initial sensing, and may be determined via a sequence index, as a function of sidelink UE identification ID(s), or a combination thereof. In this manner, the number of bits for indicating the deterministic sequence to the responder UE may be reasonable, manageable, and/or moderate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Chih-Hao Liu
  • Patent number: 11664863
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a processor; a memory; a PMU; a wireless interface adapter for communicating, via a plurality of transceiving antennas operated by one or more radio frequency (RF) subsystems, wireless links; an antenna controller to receive: a wireless ecosystem persona, a link persona, a system configuration persona, and a usage persona; the antenna controller to execute an antenna selection algorithm to use, as input, the wireless ecosystem persona, the link persona, the system configuration persona, and the usage persona to output a connectivity resource mapping used to assign the plurality of antennas to be communicatively coupled to the one or more peripheral devices and plurality of operating wireless links; and the antenna controller to switch between operating transceiving antennas by accessing RF switches to dynamically change the assignment of the plurality of antennas to the or more peripheral devices and plurality of operating wireless links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Suresh K. Ramasamy, Abeye Teshome, Liam B. Quinn, Julius Mueller
  • Patent number: 11665553
    Abstract: A solution for controlling active antenna modules in a cellular communication system. According to an aspect, a method includes causing, at a first time interval, a first antenna module and a second antenna module to respectively provide overlapping coverage areas inside a service area of an access node of a cellular communication system, wherein the first antenna module and the second antenna module are antenna modules of the access node and each of the first antenna module and the second antenna module provides respective coverage in the service area within the overlapping coverage area, the respective coverages being independent of one another; and causing, at a second time interval, the first antenna module and the second antenna module to respectively provide non-overlapping coverage areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Paavo Sakari Sistonen, Mikko Juhani Junttila
  • Patent number: 11664856
    Abstract: A method and a network entity are provided. A set of transmission configuration indicator state configurations are transmitted to a user equipment, via a protocol layer above the physical layer, wherein each transmission configuration indicator state includes an indication of an associated at least one downlink reference signal which is used as a quasi co-location source for a resource and a quasi co-location type associated with the at least one downlink reference signal. The at least one downlink reference signal associated with the set of transmission configuration indicator state configurations is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyejung Jung, Ziad Ahmad, Vijay Nangia
  • Patent number: 11658710
    Abstract: A transmission device includes: a weighting synthesizer that generates a first precoded signal and a second precoded signal from a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal, respectively; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×?? to the second precoded signal; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the second precoded signal applied with the phase change; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the second precoded signal applied with the phase change and inserted with the pilot signal. The weighting synthesizer performs, in the precoding process, a calculation that uses F = ( e j ? ? 11 e j ? ( ? 11 + ? 4 ) e j ? ? 21 e j ? ( ? 21 + ? + ? 4 ) ) on the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal modulated via a modulation scheme of QPSK.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Hiroyuki Motozuka
  • Patent number: 11658709
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a channel estimation method and apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to help reduce indication overheads. The method includes: generating and sending indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate M N-dimensional precoding vectors, each precoding vector is applied to one of M frequency bands, the M N-dimensional precoding vectors form a space-frequency matrix, and the space-frequency matrix is generated by performing weighted combination on a plurality of space-frequency component matrices, where the space-frequency matrix is an M×N-dimensional space-frequency vector or an X×Y space-frequency matrix, X and Y are one and the other of M and N, M?1, N?2, and both M and N are integers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaohan Wang, Huangping Jin, Xiang Ren, Wei Han, Xiaoyan Bi
  • Patent number: 11658700
    Abstract: A frequency interference prediction system, used to electronically detect signals transmitted from one or more devices at a specified frequency. For each of the detected signals, the frequency interference prediction system detects the packet error rate, signal strength, and frequency channel and records the time the signal was detected. The frequency interference prediction system determines whether there is interference on the frequency channel at the time the signal was detected based on the packet error rate, signal strength, and frequency channel. The frequency interference prediction system then predicts whether there will be interference on the signal at a future time based on the determination that there was interference on the frequency channel and the times the signals were detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.
    Inventor: Daniel Dennis
  • Patent number: 11658708
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communication systems, and in particular, to techniques for generation and processing of an embedding representing a beam for communication. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a wireless node. The method generally includes receiving an embedding representing a characterization associated with a beam; providing the embedding to a machine learning (ML) model; generating one or more communication parameters for communication using the beam via the ML model based on the embedding; and communicating using the one or more communication parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lindsey Makana Kostas, Ryan Michael Carey, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Lorenzo Ferrari, Yuan Gao, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 11658851
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to employing modulation layer mapping to improve the performance of multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. In one embodiment, a method comprises determining, by a device comprising a processor, codeword information in association with establishment of a wireless communication link with a network device of a wireless communication network, wherein the device and the network device are configured to communicate via the communication link using a MIMO communication scheme. The determining the codeword information comprises determining a code rate and determining a number of modulation indexes for the code rate based on signal-to-noise ratios respectively associated with channel layers included in the MIMO communication scheme. The method further comprises sending, by the device, the codeword information to the network device via a control channel of the wireless communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11658617
    Abstract: A method for modelling a power amplifier, including memory effect modelling, for general input waveforms and power levels involves generating an extraction waveform having a plurality of tones each having a different frequency, a difference between the frequencies of two adjacent tones of the plurality of tones not being an integer multiple of a difference in frequency between any two other adjacent tones of the plurality of tones. The method further involves providing the extraction waveform to the power amplifier, receiving output from the power amplifier generated in response to the extraction waveform, and generating a model of the power amplifier based on the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Young-Youl Song
  • Patent number: 11652521
    Abstract: A communication device, computer program product, and method proactively implement a successful transmit antenna configuration to address antenna outages for multiple transmit carrier scenarios. A carrier of the communication device determines a first transmit carrier, of at least two transmit carriers of a multiple transmit carrier mode, that is identified as having priority among the at least two transmit carriers. The controller identifies one or more transmit antenna configurations in the transmit antenna configuration data that support the first transmit carrier. The carrier determining, for each transmit antenna configuration, an aggregate antenna outage metric that indicates the transmit performance for a corresponding transmit antenna configuration. The controller configures an antenna switching network and RF frontend of a communication subsystem of the communication device with a first transmit antenna configuration that has a better aggregate antenna outage metric than other antenna configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Daniel C Chisu, Si Chen, Armin W Klomsdorf
  • Patent number: 11652522
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to communication systems, and more particularly, to improving performance for sounding reference signal (SRS) antenna switching in carrier aggregation (CA). A method is provided, that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) for wireless communications. The method includes determining one or more band combinations that share an antenna switch and sending a list of one or more bands in the one or more band combinations to a base station (BS). The BS receives the list and schedules the UE based on the received list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Prashanth Akula, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Aamod Khandekar, Helena Deirdre O'Shea, Supratik Bhattacharjee
  • Patent number: 11652517
    Abstract: A method of indicating a spatial characteristic parameter set, a user-side device and a network-side device are provided. The method includes: acquiring first indication information, wherein the first indication information indirectly indicates a spatial characteristic parameter set scheduled to the user-side device, the spatial characteristic parameter set is one of a plurality of spatial characteristic parameter sets configured for the user-side device; determining, according to the first indication information, the spatial characteristic parameter set scheduled to the user-side device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Sun, Xueming Pan
  • Patent number: 11651190
    Abstract: This specification relates to end-to-end learning in communication systems and describes: organising a plurality of transmitter neutral networks and a plurality of receiver neural networks into a plurality of transmitter-receiver neural network pairs, wherein a transmitter-receiver neural network pair is defined for each of a plurality of subcarrier frequency bands of a multi-carrier transmission system; arranging a plurality of symbols of the multi-carrier transmission system into a plurality of transmit blocks; mapping each of said transmit blocks to one of the transmitter-receiver neural network pairs; transmitting each symbol using the mapped transmitter-receiver neural network pair; and training at least some weights of the transmit and receive neural networks using a loss function for each transmitter-receiver neural network pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventor: Jakob Hoydis
  • Patent number: 11652667
    Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus includes: a front end circuit to process incoming radio frequency (RF) signals into orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) samples of a plurality of OFDM symbols; a transform engine coupled to the front end circuit to convert the plurality of OFDM samples into a plurality of frequency domain sub-carriers; a demodulator coupled to the transform engine to demodulate the plurality of frequency domain sub-carriers; a channel estimation circuit coupled to the transform engine to determine a first channel estimate based on a first set of pilot sub-carriers of the plurality of frequency domain sub-carriers and a second channel estimate based on the first set of pilot sub-carriers; and a control circuit coupled to the channel estimation circuit to control a configuration of the demodulator based at least in part on a selected one of the channel estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander Kleinerman
  • Patent number: 11652680
    Abstract: A wideband chaotic waveform that is rateless in that it may be modulated at virtually any rate and has a minimum of features introduced into the waveform. Further, the waveform provided may be operated below a signal to noise ratio wall to further enhance the LPD and LPE aspects, thereof. Additionally, the present disclosure may provide a mix of coherent and non-coherent processing techniques applied to signal samples to efficiently achieve coarse synchronization with a waveform that is faster, more efficient and more accurate than using time domain signal correlators alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Sherman, Bassem Scander
  • Patent number: 11646772
    Abstract: A transmitting station apparatus includes a training signal generation unit, a transmission end linear equalization unit configured to equalize data signals by a transmission end transfer function, and a transmitting station communication unit configured to transmit a training signal or a plurality of data signals and receive information of the transmission end transfer function from a receiving station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Kuriyama, Hayato Fukuzono, Tsutomu Tatsuta