Patents Assigned to Qualcomm Incorporated
  • Patent number: 12732893
    Abstract: One aspect provides a method for wireless communication. The method includes obtaining a first indication of a first set of beam configurations associated with a plurality of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs); obtaining a second indication of a second set of beam configurations associated with one or more of the plurality of SSBs that are reconfigured; and obtaining at least one of the plurality of SSBs in accordance with the second indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Tao Luo, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 12732901
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for interworking function selection by a remote user equipment (UE) for UE-to-network sidelink relay access. A method that may be performed by a remote user equipment (UE) includes receiving a plurality of interworking function configurations, for accessing a network via a sidelink relay UE, and a plurality of relay service codes. The remote UE determines a service to use for communications in the network. The remote UE selects one of the plurality of interworking function configurations based on the relay service code for the determined service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Karthika Paladugu, Hong Cheng, Haris Zisimopoulos, Stefano Faccin, Gavin Bernard Horn
  • Patent number: 12732943
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for communication. In an aspect, a reference device (e.g., gNB or BS) and a BS obtain a configuration of a TDOA procedure including respective PRSs to be transmitted by the reference device and the BS. In an aspect, the reference device and the BS each mute their own transmission while the other device is transmitting its respective PRS. Other aspects are directed to DL-TDOA, UL-TDOA and elliptical positioning techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Dai, Chao Wei, Alexandros Manolakos, Weimin Duan, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 12732959
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support paging for network-based user equipment (UE)-to-UE communication. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication performed at a network entity includes identifying a UE-to-UE paging request condition originating at a source UE. The method also includes identifying one or more other network entities within a paging area relative to a location of the source UE. The method further includes transmitting, to the one or more other network entities, one or more paging messages in accordance with the UE-to-UE paging request condition. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Shuanshuan Wu, Hong Cheng, Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Qing Li
  • Patent number: 12733095
    Abstract: A substrate comprising a core layer, at least one first dielectric layer coupled to a first surface of the core layer, at least one second dielectric layer coupled to a second surface of the core layer, a plurality of interconnects located at least partially in the at least one first dielectric layer; a region comprising a plurality of block interconnects of an interconnect block; and a solder resist layer coupled to the at least one first dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hong Bok We, Joan Rey Villarba Buot, Sang-Jae Lee, Zhijie Wang
  • Patent number: 12733036
    Abstract: Aspects relate to selection of a channel access priority class (CAPC) table for a sidelink channel access procedure on an unlicensed carrier in a sidelink network. A wireless communication device (e.g., a UE or sidelink device) may select between a downlink CAPC table and an uplink CAPC table based on at least one of a sidelink mode, a role of the wireless communication device in the sidelink network, a cast type of sidelink traffic to be transmitted by the wireless communication device, or a channel type of the sidelink traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Liu, Xiaoxia Zhang, Qing Li, Jing Sun, Giovanni Chisci
  • Patent number: 12732209
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for efficiently performing operations using data compression. An example method generally includes identifying, for a block of data samples, a number of leading bits to remove from each data sample in the block of data samples. A block of compressed data samples is generated based on the identified number of leading bits and truncation of a number of least significant bits from each data sample in the block of data samples. A bitstream including the block of compressed data samples and an indication of a type of compression applied to the block of data samples is generated and output for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jian Shen, Jamie Menjay Lin
  • Patent number: 12732315
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a wireless communication device, an aggregated signal including a plurality of frequency division multiplexed (FDM) signals corresponding to a plurality of beams, each of the plurality of signals comprising a discrete Fourier transform (DFT)—spread-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) waveform associated with a unique pre-DFT-spreading sequence of a plurality of pre-DFT-spreading sequences. The UE may decode the plurality of FDM signals based at least in part on the plurality of pre-DFT-spreading sequences. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qiaoyu Li, Chao Wei, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 12732334
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel raster design. A method for wireless communications by a network entity includes determining a channel raster comprising a subset of radio frequency (RF) reference frequencies separated by a channel raster granularity, wherein the channel raster granularity is less than 100 kHz and outputting an indication of one or more of the RF reference frequencies to one or more user equipments (UEs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu, Peter Gaal, Masato Kitazoe
  • Patent number: 12732216
    Abstract: This disclosure provides wireless communication methods, components, devices and systems for applying spectral masks and spectral flatness parameters in conjunction with transmission of millimeter wave (mmWave) signals in wireless communication networks. In some examples, in conjunction with transmission of an mmWave signal, a wireless communication device can apply a derivative spectral mask featuring transitional offset ranges that correspond to transitional frequency offset ranges of a spectral mask for a nominal carrier signal, scaled according to a ratio between a bandwidth of the mmWave signal and a bandwidth of the nominal carrier signal. In some examples, the derivative spectral mask can feature an in-band frequency offset range that is wider than a scaled width of an in-band frequency offset range of the spectral mask for the nominal carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jialing Li Chen, Lin Yang, Bin Tian
  • Patent number: 12732255
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless device may transmit mechanical displacement information that indicates an expected amount of time to mechanically displace at least one antenna panel in the wireless device. The wireless device may receive a configuration for a set of beam failure reference signals (BFRSs) that are associated with the mechanical displacement information. The wireless device may receive the set of BFRSs in accordance with the configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Jung Ho Ryu
  • Patent number: 12732312
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration message indicating a threshold time duration event associated with transmission of a polling message for requesting a status protocol data unit (PDU). The threshold time duration event may correspond to a time period following transmission of a data message without reception of the status PDU. The UE may transmit a first data message. After a time duration has elapsed since transmission of the first data message without reception of a first status PDU, the UE may transmit a first polling message that requests the first status PDU. The first status PDU may include feedback for the first data message. The UE may transmit the first polling message based on the time duration satisfying the threshold time duration event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Sherif Elazzouni, Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi
  • Patent number: 12732327
    Abstract: The apparatus of wireless communication includes a UE and a base station. The base station may transmit, to the UE, a configuration for a plurality of PDCCH monitoring groups for monitoring different sets of search spaces. The plurality of PDCCH monitoring groups may include a first PDCCH monitoring group with a first number of PDCCH monitoring occasions and a second PDCCH monitoring group with a second number of PDCCH monitoring occasions different from the first number. The base station may determine which PDCCH monitoring group to send a PHCCH, and transmit the PDCCH to the UE. The UE may determine to monitor search spaces of the PDCCH monitoring group, and monitor search spaces corresponding to the PDCCH monitoring group. The UE may switch between the first and second PDCCH monitoring groups based on a condition or an indication from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Luanxia Yang, Changlong Xu, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 12733001
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring sounding reference signals (SRS) resources for RRC inactive or idle UEs and multiplexing SRS with small data transmission on preconfigured uplink resources (PUR) An example method by a user equipment (UE) generally includes receiving signaling configuring the UE with SRS resources, QCL relationship, power control and timing advance information for SRS transmissions, and transmitting SRS in conjunction with one or more of the PUR occasions in accordance with the configuration and signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Alexandros Manolakos, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Huilin Xu, Weimin Duan
  • Patent number: 12733051
    Abstract: Aspects relate to coordination of communication links associated with multiple subscriptions. For example, a base station may determine that a first communication link and a second communication link are established with a user equipment (UE) using a first subscription and a second subscription of the UE, respectively. At least one of the first communication link or the second communication link may be established between the UE and the base station. The base station may coordinate communication of information with the UE via at least one of the first communication link or the second communication link based on the determination. The base station may coordinate the communication of information by selecting, based on the information, one of: the first communication link and the second communication link for communicating the information, or the first communication link or the second communication link for communicating the information without utilizing the other communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ozcan Ozturk, Gavin Bernard Horn, Punyaslok Purkayastha, Juan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12732926
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive signaling indicating a plurality of energy values associated with communications with a network node, wherein each energy value of the plurality of energy values is associated with a different configuration from a plurality of configurations for the communications with the network node. The UE may communicate with the network node according to a first configuration of the plurality of configurations that is associated with a first energy value of the plurality of energy values. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aria Hasanzadezonuzy, Navid Abedini, Naeem Akl, Tommy Azzino, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12732983
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to indicate a single frequency network (SFN) mode and associated composite channel reference signals to a user equipment (UE). A UE and a base station may communicate via two or more transmission and reception points (TRPs) using an SFN transmission, which may represent a transmission having multiple beam configurations. The base station may transmit a configuration associated with a control channel that explicitly or implicitly indicates whether control channel transmissions are associated with an SFN mode or are configured with multiple candidate beam configurations. The base station may transmit an indication of activated beam configurations for the control channel. The UE may receive one or more reference signals from each TRP and, based on the SFN indication, may use information from the one or more reference signals to receive the control channel transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Runxin Wang, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12732792
    Abstract: A method for of wireless communication, by a multi-subscription user equipment (UE) includes selecting a first subscription to receive a positioning system information broadcast (posSIB) based on a first subscription state and a second subscription state. The method also includes receiving the posSIB via the first subscription. The UE may switch from the first subscription to a second subscription to receive a subsequent posSIB, in response to the second subscription state changing and/or the first subscription state changing. The state switching may be between connected mode and inactive/idle mode, or between voice service and data service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun Lee, Qingxin Chen, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Reza Shahidi, Shanshan Wang, Liangchi Hsu, Rishav Rej, Ie-Hong Lin, Karthik Venkatram, Subashini Krishnamurthy, Sudeep Jain, Amit Jain, Tom Chin
  • Patent number: 12732804
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein may enhance the security of UWB ranging, thereby improving the accuracy and reliability of the UWB ranging. In one aspect, a first wireless device embeds first information for generating a secure sequence of a ranging message in a payload section of the ranging message. The first wireless device generates the secure sequence based at least in part on the first information. The first wireless device transmits the ranging message including the secure sequence and the payload section for a second wireless device. In another aspect, a second wireless device receives a ranging message from a first wireless device that includes a first secure sequence and a payload section. The second wireless device generates a second secure sequence based on information embedded in the payload section of the ranging message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Varun Amar Reddy, Alexandros Manolakos, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 12732853
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media to determine a location of a device using carrier phase positioning. A process includes transmitting, at the device to a network entity, a phase measurement capability of a device (e.g., a user equipment (UE)) for subcarrier set pairs of different resources received by the device. The different resources are associated with a reference signal. The process can include receiving, at the device, a phase measurement request from a network entity for configuring phase measurements of the subcarrier set pairs of the different resources. The process can include transmitting a phase measurement report to the network entity based on the phase measurement request, the phase measurement report including information associated with a measured phase difference of at least one subcarrier set pair associated with the different resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Mukesh Kumar, Srinivas Yerramalli, Fnu Siddhant, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug