Patents Assigned to Qualcomm Incorporated
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Patent number: 12294424Abstract: A device includes at least a first and a second antenna array module. The first antenna array module serves a first frequency band, the first antenna array module having a first antenna array surface that is substantially perpendicular to a first boresight and oriented substantially parallel to a first surface of the device adjacent to the first antenna array module, the second antenna array module serves a second frequency band, the second antenna array module having a second antenna array surface that is substantially perpendicular to a second boresight and oriented at an angle relative to a second surface of the wireless communication device adjacent to the second antenna array module, and the device transmits an indication of a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for use in the first frequency band and the second frequency band, the set of TCI states being selected based on the angle.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Yu-Chin Ou, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 12294952Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine a transmission power for an uplink shared channel communication based at least in part on at least one of a code rate parameter, a block length parameter, or a target block error rate parameter associated with the uplink shared channel communication. In some aspects, the user equipment may transmit the uplink shared channel communication using the transmission power based at least in part on determining the transmission power. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Ying Wang, Wei Yang, Jing Jiang, Gabi Sarkis, Wanshi Chen, Xiao Feng Wang
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Patent number: 12294954Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently performing and reporting reference signal received power (RSRP) measurements. In particular, the techniques described herein may allow a user equipment (UE) to efficiently identify reference signals on which to perform RSRP measurements (e.g., based on signaling from a base station), identify when to report RSRP measurements (e.g., aperiodically, periodically, or semi-persistently), and identify a channel on which to report RSRP measurements (e.g., a sidelink channel or an uplink channel). In addition, the techniques described herein may also allow a UE to efficiently identify open loop parameters to use to determine an appropriate transmit power for transmitting to another UE over a sidelink.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Piyush Gupta, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li, Xiaoxia Zhang, Aleksandar Damnjanovic
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Patent number: 12294540Abstract: Disclosed are various techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives, from a network entity, a positioning reference signal (PRS) configuration indicating one or more PRS resources. The UE determines that one or more transmission properties of the one or more resources should be modified and transmits PRS modification information to the network entity based on the one or more transmission properties of one or more PRS resources to be modified. The network entity may be a location server or location management function. The PRS modification information may include a request to modify the PRS configuration and information indicating a start time, a stop time, a duration, or a combination thereof, associated with modifying the PRS configuration.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Mukesh Kumar, Srinivas Yerramalli
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Patent number: 12294947Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication at a wireless device of a wireless wearable device. In one aspect, the wireless device may transmit a first report based on one of a location of the wireless wearable device, a time period, or reception of a user-controlled indication to transmit the first report. The wireless device may also receive, based on the transmitted first report, a configuration to switch from a first mode to a second mode. In some aspects, the configuration can include at least one parameter associated with a power savings at the wireless wearable device while in the second mode. Additionally, the wireless device can operate based on the at least one parameter while in the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yiqing Cao, Tingfang Ji, Wanshi Chen, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Juan Montojo, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Jing Lei, Huilin Xu, Yan Li
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Patent number: 12295003Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit uplink data to a base station in a configured grant small data transfer (CG-SDT) occasion in a CG-SDT occasion group associated with multiple UEs. The UE may receive a group common physical downlink control channel (GC-PDCCH) multiplexing CG-SDT feedback targeted to the multiple UEs associated with the CG-SDT occasion group. In some aspects, the CG-SDT feedback multiplexed in the GC-PDCCH includes CG-SDT feedback for the uplink data transmitted in the CG-SDT occasion. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jing Lei, Linhai He, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
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Patent number: 12294980Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling indicating a set of sidelink shared resources of a sidelink shared resource pool, a threshold quantity of mini-slot reservations for the set of sidelink shared resources, and an indication of a sidelink transmission mode of operation, where each slot of one or more slots of the set of sidelink shared resources may include multiple mini-slots. The UE may transmit to one or more sidelink UEs, sidelink control information that may include a reservation of a set of mini-slots of a first slot of the multiple slots, where the quantity of the set of mini-slots satisfies the threshold quantity of mini-slot reservations. The UE may transmit sidelink signaling to the one or more sidelink UEs, via the set of mini-slots according to the sidelink transmission mode of operation associated with the set of mini-slots.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wei Yang
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Patent number: 12294977Abstract: Aspects relate to techniques for exchanging resource pool (RP) configurations between wireless communication devices. A transmitting wireless communication device can transmit a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) message including a RP configuration of the transmitting wireless communication device to at least one receiving wireless communication device. The RMSI message is transmitted within a minimum resource block set that is common to both the transmitting wireless communication device and the at least one receiving wireless communication device. The transmitting wireless communication device may then communicate with the at least one receiving wireless communication device on a sidelink based on the RP configuration.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Chih-Hao Liu, Jing Sun, Yisheng Xue, Xiaoxia Zhang
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Patent number: 12293521Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for image segmentation are provided. For example, a computing device may obtain an image, and may apply a process to the image to generate input image feature data and input image segmentation data. Further, the computing device may obtain reference image feature data and reference image classification data for a plurality of reference images. The computing device may generate reference image segmentation data based on the reference image feature data, the reference image classification data, and the input image feature data. The computing device may further blend the input image segmentation data and the reference image segmentation data to generate blended image segmentation data. The computing device may store the blended image segmentation data within a data repository. In some examples, the computing device provides the blended image segmentation data for display.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Chung-Chi Tsai, Shubhankar Mangesh Borse, Meng-Lin Wu, Venkata Ravi Kiran Dayana, Fatih Murat Porikli, An Chen
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Patent number: 12295043Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for wireless communications that support fallback from a 2-step to a 4-step random access procedures. A user equipment (UE) may establish a connection with a base station using a random access procedure. The random access procedure may be a 2-step random access procedure and reduce a number of handover exchange messages. The 2-step random access procedure may include the UE transmitting, to the base station, a first random access message including a preamble and a payload. In some implementations, the base station may receive the preamble but fail to receive or decode the payload. The random access procedure may utilize the received preamble information instead of performing retransmission of the first random access message. The base station may transmit a second random access message to the UE indicating, explicitly or implicitly, a fallback to a 4-step random access procedure for connection establishment.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Sony Akkarakaran, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12294550Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An energy transmitter device may transmit an energy signal to an energy receiver device for energy harvesting by the energy receiver device. To communicate channel state information (CSI) of a channel between the energy transmitter device and the energy receiver device, the energy transmitter device may transmit a first signal to the energy receiver device. In response, the energy receiver device may transmit a second signal to the energy transmitter device that is indicative of the CSI, where the CSI is based on the first signal. The energy transmitter device may transmit additional signals to the energy receiver device whose transmission characteristics are based on the CSI.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Xiaojie Wang, Piyush Gupta, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 12294429Abstract: A UE may determine a number of antenna ports associated with a frequency band that includes one or more CCs. The determined number of antenna ports may be based on a plurality of UL Tx chains for the one or more CCs/frequency band. The UE may switch from a first UL Tx chain to a second UL Tx chain, at least one of which may be associated with the one or more CCs/frequency band. The number of antenna ports may correspond to a maximum number of antenna ports of an individual CC of the one or more CCs, or to a sum of antenna ports of the one or more CCs. For the latter, the number of antenna ports may be limited to an available number of UE antenna ports when the sum of antenna ports is greater than the available number of UE antenna ports.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yiqing Cao, Peter Gaal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Enoch Shiao-Kuang Lu, Wanshi Chen, Kazuki Takeda, Yan Li, Zhimin Du, Bin Han
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Patent number: 12293554Abstract: A method comprises: for each of a plurality of dimensions: identifying a reference position for the dimension, the reference position for the dimension being a position in a reference frame for the respective dimension, and the reference frame for the respective dimension and a reference frame for at least one other dimension in the plurality of dimensions being different reference frames in a plurality of reference frames; identifying an inter predictor for the respective dimension, wherein a predictor has a coordinate value in the respective dimension corresponding to a coordinate value in the respective dimension of the inter predictor for the respective dimension; and encoding or decoding the current point based on the predictor.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian, Geert Van der Auwera, Luong Pham Van, Marta Karczewicz
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Patent number: 12294534Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for enabling user equipment (UE) and a base station (BS) to communicate using a set of frequency resources in which a subset of frequency resources include a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS). In one aspect, the UE may measure the PTRS in the subset of frequency resources, and select a phase noise compensation that is used to demodulate a communication from the BS. The subset of frequency resources may be selected from the set frequency resources based on channel conditions of different subsets of frequency resources. The BS may provide an indication of the selected subset of frequency resources to the UE, such as in control information that schedules the communication from the BS.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail, Zhifei Fan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Jing Sun, Wooseok Nam
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Patent number: 12294870Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE), such as a UE associated with an extended reality (XR) device, may obtain frame data from one or more cameras associated with the UE. The UE may determine a path of a beam providing communication between the UE and a base station, determine a location of a base station in communication with the UE, or both, where the base station location may be relative to a location of the UE. The UE may identify, based on the frame data, the path of the beam, the base station location, the UE location, or a combination thereof, a physical blockage to the communication. The UE may perform beam management for the communication based on identifying the physical blockage, so as to mitigate the impact the physical blockage may have on the communications between the UE and the base station.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Hussein Metwaly Saad, Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Tom Edward Botterill, Ravi Agarwal
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Patent number: 12294463Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station (BS) may configure a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) component of a message B (msgB) communication to include a first portion of the signaling information for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback associated with the msgB communication and the signaling information for HARQ combining of msgB. The BS may configure a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) component of the msgB communication to include a second portion of the signaling information for PUCCH and msgB HARQ combining. The distributed mapping for the signaling information to the PDCCH and PDSCH components of msgB can be indicated by system information, RRC signaling, or hard coded in specifications. The BS may transmit the msgB communication to one or more UEs. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Jing Lei, Ruiming Zheng, Linhai He
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Patent number: 12294991Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a UE may transmit, to a network entity, a first control message reporting a bundled transmission capability of the UE to transmit multiple bundled uplink transmissions for maintaining phase continuity for a plurality of physical uplink channels, receive, from the network entity, control signaling scheduling the plurality of physical uplink channels in accordance with the bundled transmission capability; and transmit, based at least in part on the control signaling, the plurality of physical uplink channels having phase continuity.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Gokul Sridharan, Hung Dinh Ly, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni
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Patent number: 12292524Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first wireless device may establish a communication session with a second wireless device using a neighbor awareness networking (NAN) radio access technology (RAT). The first wireless device may transmit a first indication that the first wireless device is capable of using a secured ranging protocol. The first wireless device may receive a second indication that the second wireless device is also capable of using the secured ranging protocol. The first wireless device may determine one or more setup parameters to use for a ranging procedure between the first wireless device and the second wireless device based on the first indication and the second indication. Accordingly, the first wireless device may obtain a measurement report after using the secured ranging protocol to perform the ranging procedure in accordance with the one or more setup parameters.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Imran Ansari, Rajeev Kumar Singh, Prashant Harkude, Harbeer Singh, Shaikh Asfaquz Zaman
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Patent number: 12294860Abstract: The apparatus receives a first PDU and a first CRC that is based on the first PDU. The first PDU is encrypted based on a first nonce. The apparatus decrypts the first PDU to obtain a first payload and a first cipher stream. The apparatus soft combines the decrypted first payload with a decrypted set of payloads. The set of payloads have been encrypted based on at least one nonce different than the first nonce. The apparatus generates a second CRC based on the soft combined decrypted payloads and based on the first cipher stream. The apparatus determines whether the generated second CRC for the soft combined decrypted payloads passes a CRC check against the first CRC.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Vishal Agarwal, Huibert Denboer, Giriraj Goyal
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Patent number: 12294490Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure are generally directed to techniques for selecting a configuration for communication using vehicle to everything (V2X) type communication protocol. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a user-equipment (UE). The method generally includes determining one or more parameters corresponding to quality of service (QOS) information for communication of data using a V2X communication protocol, reporting the one or more parameters by transmitting a first message, receiving a second message indicating configuration information corresponding to the communication of the data using the V2X communication protocol, and communication the data based on the configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hong Cheng, Michaela Vanderveen, Junyi Li, Shailesh Patil, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Zhibin Wu