Channel Allocation Patents (Class 455/509)
  • Patent number: 11595089
    Abstract: A communication device for providing a channel state information, CSI, feedback in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver to receive a radio signal including downlink reference signals. The processor estimates an explicit CSI, selects a Doppler-delay precoder matrix for a composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder, calculates and reports to the transmitter a CSI feedback. The communication device selects from one or more codebooks a subset of D delay components and/or a subset of F Doppler-frequency components and uses the selected subset of delay components for each polarization and each spatial beam and/or the selected subset of Doppler-frequency components for each polarization, each spatial beam and each delay, when calculating the Doppler-delay precoder matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Inventors: Venkatesh Ramireddy, Marcus Grobmann, Markus Landmann
  • Patent number: 11589411
    Abstract: When a first access node is considering setup of dual-connectivity service for a UE, the first access node could take into consideration a group delay variation of each of one or more candidate second access nodes, in order to decide whether to set up the dual-connectivity service for the UE and/or to decide which of the multiple second access nodes to use for the UE's dual-connectivity service. For instance, the first access node may decide to use a given candidate second access node for the dual-connectivity service of the UE, with the decision being based on the given candidate second access node having a lower group delay variation than one or more other candidate second access nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum LLC
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11582082
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitter which improves the flexibility of SRS resource allocation without increasing the amount of signaling for notifying the cyclic shift amount. In the transmitter, with regard to each basic shift amount candidate group having a basic shift amount from 0 to N?1, a transmission control unit (206) specifies the actual shift amount imparted to a cyclic shift sequence used in scrambling a reference signal transmitted from each antenna port, said specification being performed based on a table in which cyclic shift amount candidates correspond to each antenna port, and based on setting information transmitted from a base station (100). With regard to basic shift amount candidates for shift amount X, the table differentiates between an offset pattern comprising offset values for cyclic shift amount candidates corresponding to each antenna port and an offset pattern corresponding to basic shift amount candidates of X+N/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino, Takashi Iwai
  • Patent number: 11582728
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives a discovery signal transmitted from a connection point (CP) via a directional beam. The discovery signal may include first information (including beam sweep configuration information) related to the CP. The apparatus then transmits an association signal to the CP based on the beam sweep configuration information and monitors for a resource grant from the CP based on the transmitted association signal. Alternatively, the apparatus transmits a discovery signal via a directional beam to a user equipment (UE). The discovery signal may include first information (including beam sweep configuration information) related to the apparatus. The apparatus then receives an association signal from the UE based on the beam sweep configuration information and determines a resource grant for communicating with the UE based on the received association signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Omar El Ayach, Sundar Subramanian, John Edward Smee, Ashwin Sampath, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11564151
    Abstract: A method of a communication technique in which a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting more high data transmission rate after a fourth generation (4G) system converges with an internet of things (IoT) technology, and a system is provided. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, healthcare, digital education, a retail business, security and safety-related services, or the like) based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. A terminal receives, from a base station, a first message including configuration information of at least one band, receive, from the base station, a second message for activating a band among the at least one band, and activate the band according to the second message, the configuration information including indication of the at least one band, and each band of the at least one band being part of a bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seunghoon Park, Jungsoo Jung, Sunheui Ryoo, Byounghoon Jung
  • Patent number: 11552682
    Abstract: A communication device for providing a channel state information, CSI, feedback in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver to receive a radio signal including downlink reference signals. The processor estimates an explicit CSI, selects a Doppler-delay precoder matrix for a composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder, calculates and reports to the transmitter a CSI feedback. The communication device selects from one or more codebooks a subset of D delay components and/or a subset of F Doppler-frequency components and uses the selected subset of delay components for each polarization and each spatial beam and/or the selected subset of Doppler-frequency components for each polarization, each spatial beam and each delay, when calculating the Doppler-delay precoder matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventors: Venkatesh Ramireddy, Marcus Grobmann, Markus Landmann
  • Patent number: 11546924
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit, and a user equipment (UE) may receive a group physical control channel signaling, which may configure grant uplink transmissions for a set of UEs including the receiving UE. The group physical control channel signaling may indicate allotted resources for configured grant uplink transmissions. The group physical control channel signaling may further indicate a group physical control channel which a UE may monitor for control messages. The UE may transmit a configured grant uplink transmission in accordance with the group physical control channel signaling. The base station may receive the configured grant uplink transmission and may determine a control message which it may transmit in the group physical control channel based on the configured grant uplink transmission. The UE may receive the control message, and may determine whether to retransmit a configured grant uplink transmission based thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Jing Jiang, Yang Yang, Chih Ping Li, Junyi Li, Chong Li, Farhad Meshkati
  • Patent number: 11543516
    Abstract: Radio frequency (RF)-based ranging and imaging in a wireless communications circuit, particularly for a wireless communications system (WCS) is provided. The wireless communications circuit includes an antenna circuit configured to radiate an RF probing signal in a number of directions in a wireless communications cell and receives a number of RF reflection signals corresponding to the RF probing signal. A radar signal processing (RSP) circuit is configured to process the RF reflection signals to detect an obstacle(s) in the wireless communications cell and generate a surrounding image that includes the detected obstacle(s). By generating the surrounding image of the wireless communications cell, it may be possible to detect the obstacle(s) that was not accounded for in an initial deployment design. As a result, it may be possible to adjust a remote unit(s) incorporating the wireless communications circuit to improve RF coverage, throughput, and/or capacity in the wireless communications cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Siddhartha Dhananjaya Kundalkar, Brenndon Byung-Taek Lee, Farhan Aslam Qazi
  • Patent number: 11546800
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data processing method. The method includes: separately establishing, by a terminal, communication connections to a first frequency band network of a router and a second frequency band network of the router; transmitting, by the terminal, data by using the first frequency band network and the second frequency band network, where the data includes uplink data and downlink data; determining, by the terminal based on a transmission status of the first frequency band network and a transmission status of the second frequency band network, to transmit the downlink data by using the second frequency band network and transmit the uplink data by using the first frequency band network; and transmitting, by the terminal, the downlink data by using the second frequency band network, and transmitting the uplink data by using the first frequency band network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanping Wen, Pei Huang
  • Patent number: 11539499
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to hybrid in-band same-frequency full-duplex (SFFD) and frequency-offset-frequency full-duplex (FD) wireless communication are provided. A user equipment (UE) transmits first data to a base station (BS) over a first frequency band while receiving second data from the BS the first frequency band responsive to a first pathloss between the UE and the BS satisfying a threshold for an SFFD operation. The UE transmits third data to the BS over a second frequency band while receiving fourth data from the BS over a third frequency band that is distinct from the second frequency band according to an offset-frequency FD operation responsive to a second pathloss between the UE and the BS failing to satisfying the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Haim Mendel Weissman, Assaf Touboul, Gideon Shlomo Kutz
  • Patent number: 11540346
    Abstract: A method and system to help address excessive RAB-modification requests as may happen when a UE is connected with and served by a first access node and the first access node repeatedly configures and de-configures dual connectivity for the UE where the UE would be connected with and served concurrently by the first access node and a second access node, with each configuring and de-configuring including a RAB-modification request to transfer a RAB of the UE between being anchored at the first access node and being anchored at a second access node. A computing system could detect that the rate of such RAB-modification requests is at least predefined threshold high and could cause the requests to be discontinued, such as by causing the first access node to at least temporary stop sending such requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Saravana Velusamy, Mohammed Samiuddin
  • Patent number: 11540334
    Abstract: A system can receive an indication associated with establishing a transmission control protocol (TCP) connection. The system can determine, based on the indication, information that identifies a user device associated with the TCP connection. The system can determine, based on the information that identifies the user device, a predicted congestion level of a base station associated with the TCP connection. The system can select, based on the predicted congestion level, a congestion control algorithm to be implemented for the TCP connection. The system can cause the TCP connection to be established and implement the congestion control algorithm for the TCP connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Haim S. Ner, Feng Li, Eduard Rubinshtein, Jae Won Chung, Bjorn Olof Erland Kalderen, Damascene M. Joachimpillai
  • Patent number: 11528063
    Abstract: Supporting distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (DM-MIMO) in a distributed communications system (DCS) is disclosed. The DCS includes multiple remote units each configured to communicate downlink and uplink radio frequency (RF) communications signals with a number of user equipment (UEs) at different UE locations in the DCS. Each remote unit includes multiple antennas, multiple RF chains, and an RF switch circuit configured to dynamically couple the RF chains to a subset of antennas in accordance to the UE locations such that the subset of antennas can be activated to concurrently radiate the downlink RF communications signals and absorb the uplink RF communications signals. By dynamically activating the subset of antennas in accordance to the UE locations, it is possible to optimize signal strength and channel quality for each UE in the DCS, thus making it possible to improve wireless data capacity of the DCS with negligible additional hardware cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Solomon Tesfay Abraha, Qing Ji, Xiaojun Liang, Anthony Ng'oma
  • Patent number: 11522658
    Abstract: A method of identifying reference signal resources to be used in a transmission by a wireless device is disclosed. The method comprises a wireless device receiving signaling configuring the wireless device with a plurality of reference signal resource groups, each group comprising a plurality of reference signal resources. The wireless device subsequently receives an indication, in a control channel, of a selection of reference signal resources to be used. Each of the plurality of reference signal resources to be used is selected from a different one of the plurality of reference signal resource groups such that reference signal resources belonging to the same reference signal resource group are not selected for simultaneous use. A reference signal is then transmitted to a network node in the network using the indicated selection of reference signal resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Robert Mark Harrison, Sebastian Faxér, Andreas Nilsson, Sven Petersson
  • Patent number: 11522623
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining an encoding scheme for RSRP transmission. One method includes determining multiple reference signal received power (“RSRP”) values. Each RSRP value of the multiple RSRP values corresponds to a beam measurement. The method includes determining a difference between a first RSRP value of the multiple RSRP values and a second RSRP value of the multiple RSRP values. The method also includes, in response to the difference being less than or equal to a predetermined threshold, transmitting information indicating the second RSRP value using a first encoding scheme. The method includes, in response to the difference being greater than the predetermined threshold, transmitting the information indicating the second RSRP value using a second encoding scheme. The first encoding scheme is different from the second encoding scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Chenxi Zhu
  • Patent number: 11510184
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, in connection with an ultra-reliable low latency communication service, a configuration message to configure transmission of a physical uplink control channel for the ultra-reliable low latency communication service. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive the configuration message. In some aspects, the user equipment may transmit, in a single slot, a plurality of repetitions of the physical uplink control channel based at least in part on receiving the configuration message. In some aspects, the base station may receive the plurality of repetitions. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Wanshi Chen, Wei Yang
  • Patent number: 11502711
    Abstract: A method that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, by a system comprising a processor, interference information associated with one or more physical resource blocks (PRBs) from each base station of a plurality of base stations. Further, the method can include determining, by the system, from the interference information a strategy for improving a PRB utilization of a first base station of the plurality of base stations. In addition, the method can include conveying, by the system, the strategy to at least one base station of the plurality of base stations. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: ISCO International, LLC
    Inventor: Amr Abdelmonem
  • Patent number: 11500094
    Abstract: Sensing apparatus includes a radiation source, which emits pulses of optical radiation toward multiple points in a target scene. A receiver receives the optical radiation that is reflected from the target scene and outputs signals that are indicative of respective times of flight of the pulses to and from the points in the target scene. Processing and control circuitry selects a first pulse repetition interval (PRI) and a second PRI, greater than the first PRI, from a permitted range of PRIs, drives the radiation source to emit a first sequence of the pulses at the first PRI and a second sequence of the pulses at a second PRI, and processes the signals output in response to both the first and second sequences of the pulses in order to compute respective depth coordinates of the points in the target scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Thierry Oggier, Bernhard Buettgen, Cristiano L Niclass, Rahmi Hezar, Shingo Mandai, Darshan Shrestha, Gary Chung, Moshe Laifenfeld
  • Patent number: 11483737
    Abstract: Provided by the present application are a data transmission method and device, which are used to solve the problem of being unable to accurately transmit an RRC message which is too large. The method comprises: when determining that the length of an original RRC message exceeds a preset threshold, compressing the original RRC message; packaging the compressed RRC message into a PDCP PDU; and sending the packaged PDCP PDU to a receiving end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiancheng Sun, Haiyang Quan, Huiying Zhang
  • Patent number: 11470581
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for channel-bandwidth-attributed per-band user equipment capability reporting. A user equipment (UE) may determine a first and second set of physical layer capabilities associated with a first and second channel bandwidth, respectively. The UE may transmit a first and second UE capability report to the base station, where the capability reports may indicate the corresponding channel bandwidth and may include the UE physical layer capabilities. The UE may receive control information indicating a channel bandwidth from the base station and the UE may communicate with the base station according to the received control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shiau-He Tsai, Parisa Cheraghi, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 11464006
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method, a network device, and a terminal. When the method is performed by the terminal, the method includes: obtaining, a time-frequency resource used to transmit uplink data, where the time-frequency resource is at least one time-frequency resource block selected from a plurality of time-frequency resource blocks; each of the time-frequency resource blocks is corresponding to one piece of configuration information; and transmitting, the uplink data on the at least one selected time-frequency resource block based on configuration information of the at least one selected time-frequency resource block. The terminal may select a relatively narrow bandwidth to perform uplink transmission, to increase a transmit power of the terminal. In addition, the terminal performs the uplink transmission based on the corresponding configuration information, to further increase a transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: You Li, Xiaoyong Tang, Bo Fan
  • Patent number: 11457413
    Abstract: This application discloses example power control methods and apparatuses. One example method includes receiving, by a first node, first information sent by a second node, where the first information is used to determine a first transmit power, where the first transmit power is a power used when the first node sends downlink information to the second node through a first link, where the first link is a link between the first node and the second node, and where the first node is an upper-level device of the second node. The first node can then determine the first transmit power based on the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Chen, Fengwei Liu, Jing Qiu
  • Patent number: 11451421
    Abstract: Proposed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting a wake-up frame in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a transmission apparatus configures a wake-up frame to which an OOK scheme is applied, and transmits the wake-up frame to a reception apparatus. The wake-up frame comprises an on-signal and an off-signal. The on-signal is configured using a signal obtained by masking one-half of a signal obtained by inserting a CP into a first time domain signal. The first time domain signal is generated by inserting coefficients into 13 consecutive subcarriers in a 20 MHz band and performing 64-point IFFT on the 13 consecutive subcarriers. A signal placed at a front part of the on-signal is nulled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunsung Park, Jinyoung Chun, Jinsoo Choi, Dongguk Lim
  • Patent number: 11451953
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for event subscription management in a network comprising a set of NF nodes, and corresponding NF nodes. The method comprises receiving a subscription request of an event for a user from an event subscriber, in response to receipt of the subscription request, transmitting, to a second network function node, a query request for querying whether the event for the user has been subscribed; and if a response to the query request from the second network function node indicates that the event for the user has been subscribed, transmitting, to the second network function node, an updating request for updating a subscriber list of the event for the user by the second network function node to include the event subscriber into the subscriber list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Hongxia Long
  • Patent number: 11445396
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a channel measurement method and an apparatus. The method includes: for a to-be-measured frequency band that includes at least one reporting subband and 0 or more non-reporting subbands, obtaining channel state information of each reporting subband, where the channel state information of each reporting subband is obtained based on channel estimation, and the at least one reporting subband is included in reporting subbands that are contiguous in frequency domain, or the at least one reporting subband is included in reporting subbands that are not contiguous in frequency domain; and sending a measurement report of the to-be-measured frequency band to a transmit end device, where the measurement report includes the channel state information of one or more of the at least one reporting subband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Han, Huangping Jin, Ye Wu, Xiaoyan Bi
  • Patent number: 11444736
    Abstract: The application relates to a communication device comprising: a communication interface configured to transmit a pilot signal via a communication channel to a second communication device and to receive a plurality of data elements representing channel state information (CSI) from the second communication device, wherein the plurality of data elements are a subset of a set of data elements representing the full channel state information (CSI) being available at the second communication device; and a processing unit configured to generate the full channel state information (CSI) on the basis of the plurality of data elements by applying a fitting scheme to the plurality of data elements received from the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Van Minh Nguyen, Marco Maso, Merouane Debbah
  • Patent number: 11438757
    Abstract: A system and method to provide identification of the Tune Away in DSDS device, wherein identification of such Tune Away in DSDS device and mitigation of such Tune Away is done by Aperiodic CQI, Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) and Pro-Active scheduling based on periodicity and duration of Tune Away to minimize HSI degradation in DSDS devices. This disclosure provides improved throughput for network subscriptions in multi-SIM, multi-RATs wireless devices by preventing downlink scheduling in Tune Away periods and minimize radio resource wastage occurring due to DSDS UEs as well as improving HSI performance in such UEs by preventing lower layer retransmissions and conserve radio resources that are wasted in carrying those retransmissions earlier. The disclosure increases throughput performance for the data session in a DSDS device ecosystem and prevent substantial decline in average throughput experienced at DSDS UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: JIO PLATFORMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Devesh Chauhan, Veera Sai Satyanarayana Prasad Marni, Abhilash Shrivastava
  • Patent number: 11432361
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for configuring UE information. The method may include: after UE is controlled to switch from an RRC connected state to an RRC inactive state, a radio notification area is determined, where the radio notification area indicates a set of one or more cells and the UE in the RRC inactive state moving among the cells in the radio notification area does not cause a cell handover; and UE information of the UE is sent to all base stations within the radio notification area. The UE information of the UE in the RRC inactive state is synchronously configured to other base stations within the radio notification area, such that the base stations may accurately and efficiently determine the RRC state of the UE, thereby improving the transmission efficiency between the base station and the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 11425604
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present application relates a user plane resource management method, a user plane network element, and a control plane network. The method carried out by a user plane network element includes: receiving a data transmission channel establishment request message sent by a control plane network element, where the data transmission channel establishment request message is used to instruct the user plane network element to establish a data transmission channel; establishing the data transmission channel based on current user plane resource status information, and assigning a channel identifier marking the data transmission channel; and sending, the channel identifier to the control plane network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Runze Zhou, Yanping Zhang, Zhongping Chen
  • Patent number: 11425770
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling dual-connectivity service in a system where a first access node provides service on a first air interface and a second access node provides service on a second air interface, and where (i) in a single-connection-uplink mode for the dual-connectivity service, uplink user-plane communication is carried on just the second air interface and (ii) in a split-uplink mode for the dual-connectivity service, uplink user-plane communication is split between the first air interface and the second air interface. An example method includes determining an uplink Multi-User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) grouping efficiency of the second air interface and, based on the determined uplink MU-MIMO grouping efficiency of the second air interface, controlling whether to provide the dual-connectivity service in the single-connection-uplink mode or rather in the split-uplink mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11419017
    Abstract: A method and system for mobility latency reduction in a hierarchical NR architecture is provided. In an embodiment, a method in a network component for handover of a UE includes configuring, by the network component, at least one TRP determined according to UE mobility information. The configuring the at least one target TRP is performed prior to the UE moving into a border area between the at least one target TRP and a first serving TRP. Configuring the at least one target TRP results in the at least one target TRP being configured to act as a secondary serving TRP to the UE. The method also includes configuring at least one target TRP and the UE with corresponding dedicated access resource and monitoring opportunities. The method also includes activating a connection and data communication between the UE and the at least one pre-configured secondary serving TRP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jialin Zou, Tingting Geng, Le Yan, Qinghai Zeng, Yalin Liu
  • Patent number: 11419116
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a compressed user equipment (UE) capability message that can indicate to a mobile network the various capabilities of the UE. In particular, the carrier aggregation and dual connectivity capabilities are compressed as disclosed herein. In traditional implementations, each carrier aggregation and dual connectivity combination and implementation that is supported is explicitly indicated in the message. As disclosed herein, rather than listing explicit combinations, the UE capability message can be compressed by instead listing boundary values of several different parameters which can be used by the network to derive the carrier aggregation and dual connectivity combinations. The UE capability message can also list the boundary values for LTE (Long Term Evolution), NR (New Radio, or 5G), and Dual Connectivity separately within the message to reduce ambiguity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Yonghui Tong, Wen Yang, Yupeng Jia, Yi Shen, Marc B. Grant
  • Patent number: 11419124
    Abstract: Devices and methods of providing joint scheduling in a full-duplex LTE system are generally described. The UE measures intra-cell interference at the UE caused by a UL transmission from each intra-cell UE, calculates a ratio of the intra-cell interference over an average inter-cell interference, determines whether the intra-cell UE is an aggressor or non-aggressor based on whether the ratio exceeds a threshold, transmits at least some of the determinations to the eNB as feedback, and communicates with the eNB based on a schedule that is dependent on the feedback such that the UE is neither an aggressor nor is subject to interference from aggressors. The schedule may also be based on wideband CQI feedback based on a ratio of an average overall DL interference plus noise over the average inter-cell interference plus noise and/or subband CQI feedback based on SINR measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shu-Ping Yeh, Jingwen Bai, Sung-En Chiu, Ping Wang, Feng Xue, Yang-Seok Choi, Shilpa Talwar
  • Patent number: 11419058
    Abstract: A technique includes controlling uplink transmission power of auser device, wherein a resource block allocation for the user device includes resource blocks in a user device channel bandwidth that is a part of a base station channel bandwidth and the user device channel bandwidth is less than the base station channel bandwidth, wherein the controlling uplink transmission power of the user device comprises reducing a maximum transmission power of the user device for an uplink transmission via the resource block allocation by a maximum power reduction value that is determined based on a distance of the resource block allocation from at least one edge of the base station channel bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti-Veikko Piipponen, Petri Vasenkari, Vesa Lehtinen, Jaakko Marttila, Ville Syrjälä
  • Patent number: 11411706
    Abstract: A resource block group partitioning method and user equipment are provided. The method includes: determining a resource block included in a first resource block group in a bandwidth part; determining a resource block included in other resource block group in the bandwidth part according to a pre-acquired resource block group size, wherein the other RBG is a resource block group other than the first resource block group in the bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanping Xing
  • Patent number: 11411689
    Abstract: A dynamic UE grouping method for dense NOMA systems. One objective is to improve the performance gain by adding virtual diversity into the network. An embodiment allows a network node to consider different groups of UEs for data transmission using NOMA based on the UEs' message decoding status without CSI updates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSO (PUBI.)
    Inventors: Behrooz Makki, Ali Behravan, Mona Hashemi
  • Patent number: 11405941
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for adaptive channel and traffic shaping management in a network including configuring an element management control unit including a set of distribution (DU) and central units (DU/CU) for monitoring power and channel traffic at a plurality of cell sites in a network; transmitting and receiving by a scheduler unit, data traffic data of user equipment (UE); receiving control data, by the scheduler unit, about congested network channels in Uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) transmissions from the UE; applying channel management solutions, by the scheduler unit, at a cell site to choke off congested channels via a schedule schema based on the control data about the traffic amounts on a channel; applying, by a control unit coupled to the scheduler unit to manage network traffic at the cell site, adaptive traffic management solutions to shape network data traffic on select channels based on the control data of traffic type on the channel; and iteratively applying, by the control unit, t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C
    Inventors: Dhaval Mehta, Amit Pathania
  • Patent number: 11405068
    Abstract: Systems for bi-directional single-ended transmission are described. For example, a system may include a receiver with a first differential input terminal and a second differential input terminal, wherein the first differential input terminal is coupled to a first node and the second differential input terminal is coupled to a second node; a transmitter with an output terminal coupled to a third node; a first inductor connected between the first node and the third node; a second inductor connected between the second node and the third node; and a shunt resistor connected between the third node and a ground node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Heegon Kim, Abhilash Rajagopal, Samir Bouadjel
  • Patent number: 11394498
    Abstract: If repetition transmission is applied to a response signal for a downlink data signal and an uplink signal, the uplink signal is repeatedly transmitted using a certain number of consecutive subframes starting with a first subframe, at which the repetition transmission of the uplink signal starts, and the response signal is repeatedly transmitted using at least the certain number of consecutive subframes starting with a second subframe, at which the repetition transmission of the response signal starts. The first subframe is set to be the same as the second subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Seigo Nakao, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11395302
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a resource reporting method, a terminal device, and a network device. The terminal device may select a resource to listen to and select a resource to report. In addition, the resource listening approach and the resource reporting approach can be flexibly determined. Therefore, the communication requirements of Release 15 or higher releases can be satisfied. The method includes a terminal device reports to a network device the measurement result of a first wireless time-frequency resource used for terminal-to-terminal communication. The terminal device is a terminal device supporting a network scheduling mode of a terminal-to-terminal communication resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Hai Tang, Huei-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 11388713
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to multi-slot slot format indicators (SFIs) are provided. In one embodiment, a first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a first SFI for a first set of slots and a second SFI for a second set of slots overlapping with the first set of slots. The first wireless communication device communicates with the second wireless communication device based on at least one of the first SFI or the second SFI. In one embodiment, a first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a configuration for a first slot and an SFI indicating slot formats for a set of slots including the first slot. The SFI indicates an unspecified slot format for the first slot. The first wireless communication device communicates with the second wireless communication device in the first slot based on the configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Heechoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11387879
    Abstract: A wireless device receives a configuration of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) group. The PUCCH group comprises a PUCCH secondary cell with a secondary PUCCH and a secondary cell. A command indicating deactivation of the PUCCH secondary cell is received in a first subframe. In response to the deactivation of the PUCCH secondary cell, transmission of channel state information for the secondary cell in a second subframe that is eight subframes after the first subframe is stopped. Thee stopping does not occur before the second subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11382054
    Abstract: Provided are an information indication method and device. The method comprises operations as follows. A terminal device receives a synchronization signal block (SSB) transmitted by a network device (301). The terminal device acquires indication information according to frequency-domain position information of the SSB. The indication information is used to indicate an attribute of a carrier associated with the SSB, the attribute of the carrier comprises whether the carrier is used in a licensed carrier system or an unlicensed carrier system (302).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11382051
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to suppress deterioration of communication throughput and so on even when a group common TPC command is used. In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives downlink control information (DCI) regarding transmit power control (TPC) commands transmitted in a common search space and a control section that identifies a position of a TPC command corresponding to each of carriers included in the DCI based on information regarding positions of the TPC commands for the respective carriers in a cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Kazuki Takeda
  • Patent number: 11363540
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Wireless communications between a base station and one or more wireless devices are described. A wireless device may use power ramping for transmissions and/or retransmissions. Power ramping may be used during a random access procedure. A wireless device may fail a listen before talk procedure before sending a preamble or a transport block on an unlicensed band. The wireless device may use power ramping to determine a power of transmission of the preamble and/or transport block based on the prior preamble or a transport block transmission. Power ramping may be determined using a power ramping counter value and/or a power ramping step value, which may be shared or associated with the preamble and/or a transport block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Kai Xu, Alireza Babaei, Kyungmin Park, Ali Cirik
  • Patent number: 11357029
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method for transceiving data in an unlicensed band and an apparatus for same. In particular, disclosed in the present invention are a method and an apparatus for same, the method comprising: a terminal receiving, from a base station, listen before talk (LBT)-type information and information relating to an uplink data transmission interval during which the data is transmitted from within one subframe; and transmitting the data to the base station only during the uplink data transmission interval from within the one subframe, based on an LBT operation indicated by the LBT-type information, thereby efficiently transceiving data between the terminal and the base station in the unlicensed band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hanjun Park, Joonkui Ahn, Seonwook Kim, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 11356055
    Abstract: A photovoltaic, PV, module level monitoring, MLM, system (1) comprising a base station, BS, (2) connected by means of power cables (3) to module level devices, MLD, (4) which are provided to monitor and/or to control associated photovoltaic modules, PVMs, (5), wherein the base station, BS, (2) comprises a base station transmitter (2A) adapted to transmit Rapid Shut Down, RSD, control signals, CS, in predefined time slots, TSCS, in a downlink channel, DL-CH, through said power cables (3) to said module level devices, MLDs, (4) and a base station receiver (2B) adapted to receive monitoring signals, MS, generated by said module level devices, MLDs, (4) through said power cables (3) within time slots, TSMS, via an uplink channel, UL-CH, assigned to the module level devices, MLDs, (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Fronius International GmbH
    Inventors: Andras Pozsgay, Yohan Chavanel
  • Patent number: 11356953
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for operating an electronic device within a cellular environment. The technique includes determining a coverage enhancement (CE) parameter and one or more radio frequency (RF) link parameters associated with a link between the electronic device and a cellular base station at a first point in time. The technique also includes computing a first estimate for a signal condition associated with the link based on the CE parameter and the one or more RF link parameters. The technique further includes determining that the signal condition is not adequate based on the first estimate and delaying transmission of one or more messages from the electronic device over the link until a second point in time that is later than the first point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ITRON, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Vernon Dusenberry, Richard Donald Maes, II
  • Patent number: 11350389
    Abstract: Various communication systems benefit from suitable allocation. For example, system for vehicle to X communication may benefit from semi-persistent resource allocation mechanisms, for example, for uplink semi-persistent scheduling. A method can include configuring at least one main semi-persistent scheduling occasion to a user equipment. The method can also include configuring at least one subsequent semi-persistent scheduling occasion to the user equipment. The at least one subsequent semi-persistent scheduling occasion can depend on usage of the at least one main semi-persistent scheduling occasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Haitao Li, Ling Yu, Vinh Van Phan, Jedrzej Stanczak
  • Patent number: 11343833
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to Vehicle to Everything (V2X) message communication methods and apparatus. One example method performed by a terminal includes sending a quality of service QoS request message to a network device, receiving QoS information of the terminal that is sent by the network device based on identification information of the terminal, obtaining, based on the QoS information, a QoS parameter corresponding to a message identifier of a to-be-sent V2X message, obtaining, based on the obtained QoS parameter, a radio resource used to send the to-be-sent V2X message, and sending the to-be-sent V2X message by using the obtained radio resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qiang Deng