Patents Assigned to Qualcomm Incorporated
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Patent number: 11558763Abstract: According to various aspects and techniques to enable methods and systems for a first communication device to determine an approximate number of other communication devices that have lost contact with a host communication device. This includes determining a common future time window using a last known global time stamp and determining a transmit time within the common future time window. This also includes receiving samples that are captured during the common future time window on a predefined communication channel, as well as analyzing the received samples to estimate the total number of other communication devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Paul Dominic Hiscock, Robin Heydon, Thomas Allan, Nicolas Graube
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Patent number: 11558817Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transmitting and receiving a group wake-up signal (WUS) in conjunction with an ungrouped WUS. A base station may group one or more UEs in a UE group, while other UEs may not be assigned to a UE group. The configuration of WUS resources and WUS sequences for grouped UEs and other UEs is a challenge. The base station may transmit, to one or more UEs in the UE group, a resource allocation of a group WUS resource within a set of WUS resources associated with a paging occasion that is assigned to the one or more UEs in the UE group. A UE, after receiving the resource allocation, may determine a location of the group WUS resource within the set of WUS resources. The UE may monitor for a group WUS at the determined location in the resource allocation of the group WUS resource.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Mungal Singh Dhanda
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Patent number: 11558819Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide an apparatus for wireless communications. The apparatus generally includes a processing system configured to generate a frame for triggering transmission of a plurality of data units from a plurality of wireless nodes, a first interface configured to output the frame for transmission to the plurality of wireless nodes, and a second interface configured to obtain the plurality of data units after outputting the frame for transmission, wherein the plurality of data units have different lengths.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Bin Tian
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Patent number: 11558876Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive, from a base station, an indication of a resource allocation for a data communication having a known payload, the known payload comprising data associated with a machine learning process; and communicate with the base station based at least in part on the resource allocation. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Hamed Pezeshki, Jingchao Bao, Taesang Yoo, Wooseok Nam, Ajay Gupta, Vinod Viswanatha Menon
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Patent number: 11558095Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel state information measurement adaptation to maximum multiple-input multiple-output layers. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a first channel state information (CSI) report configuration including one or more first CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) resources, wherein each first CSI-RS resource comprises a first resource set; determining, based on an indication of a maximum number of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers that the UE is expected to receive, a first resource subset on which to report first CSI; and reporting the first CSI to a base station (BS), wherein the first CSI is based on the determined first resource subset.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Alexandros Manolakos, Huilin Xu, Wooseok Nam, Peter Pui Lok Ang
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Patent number: 11558098Abstract: Certain aspects relate to methods and apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus generally includes a first interface configured to output one first frame for transmission to solicit CSI feedback from each of one or more first wireless nodes associated with a first BSS and from each of one or more second wireless nodes associated with a second BSS, a second interface configured to obtain the CSI feedback solicited from the first and second wireless nodes, and a processing system configured to generate data frames for the first wireless nodes based on the CSI feedback solicited from the first wireless nodes, and one or more nulling frames based on the CSI feedback solicited from the second wireless nodes. The first interface is configured to simultaneously output the data frames for beamformed transmission to the first wireless nodes, and the nulling frames for beamformed transmission to the second wireless nodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Sameer Vermani, Bin Tian
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Patent number: 11556486Abstract: An apparatus includes an interface circuit adapted to couple the apparatus to a serial bus, a slot counter, and a processor. The slot counter may be configured to monitor a radio frequency coexistence management cycle that includes a plurality of time slots. The processor may be configured to transmit a first datagram through the interface circuit during a first time slot in the plurality of time slots. The apparatus may be uniquely permitted to initiate transactions over the serial bus during the first time slot. The processor may be further configured to participate in an arbitration procedure during a second time slot in the plurality of time slots. More than one device coupled to the serial bus may be permitted to initiate transactions in the second time slot.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mohit Kishore Prasad, Lalan Jee Mishra, Richard Dominic Wietfeldt
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Patent number: 11558166Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may order assignment indicator values for transmissions for use by feedback information in a feedback message. The UE may receive, during a monitoring occasion, a first control information over a first serving cell and a second control information over a second serving cell, where each control information schedules a respective transmission for a scheduled serving cell. The UE may order assignment indicator values for the transmissions based on indexes associated with the first and second serving cells (e.g., scheduling serving cells), an index associated with the scheduled serving cell, a start time of the transmissions, or some combination thereof, among other examples. The assignment indicator values may be associated with hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ/ACK) feedback, such that the UE may use the assignment indicator values to construct and transmit a feedback message.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Kazuki Takeda, Huilin Xu
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Patent number: 11558786Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable medium for enabling an efficient group handover mechanism that has less signaling overhead than single UE handover are provided. An example method at a base station includes transmitting a group handover request for the group of UEs to a target base station. The method further includes receiving a group handover acknowledgment from the target base station. The method further includes transmitting a group handover message to the group of UEs.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Bharat Shrestha, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Umesh Phuyal
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Patent number: 11558793Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to receiving, from a serving cell, a configuration for performing conditional handover to one or more target cells, establishing, based on detecting a condition from the configuration, a connection with a target cell for performing handover to the target cell, and transmitting, based on establishing the connection with the target cell and based on determining that the conditional handover is of a type where a source connection with the source cell remains, a notification to the serving cell.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Tao Luo, Yan Zhou, Wooseok Nam, Hung Dinh Ly
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Patent number: 11558862Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes selecting, by a user equipment (UE), a first codepoint from a codebook based on control information to be transmitted to a base station. The codebook is associated with non-coherent transmissions from the UE to the base station. The method further includes generating, based on the first codepoint and a scrambling sequence that is associated with the UE, a second codepoint representing the control information. The method further includes transmitting the second codepoint by the UE to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yi Huang, Wei Yang, Peter Gaal, Tingfang Ji
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Patent number: 11558823Abstract: Aspects of a methods, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for wireless communication at a wireless device are provided herein. The wireless device may receive a configuration for a resource pool for sidelink communication, the resource pool having a plurality of physical resource blocks (PRBs) including a first set of PRBs that are grouped in one or more sub-channels, each sub-channel having an equal number of PRBs, and a second set of PRBs that are not in the one or more sub-channels having the equal number of PRBs. The apparatus may transmit in the second set of PRBs. The second set of PRBs may not be monitored by a receiving device.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Gabi Sarkis, Tien Viet Nguyen, Assaf Touboul, Shay Landis, Tal Oved, Cheol Hee Park, Chu-Hsiang Huang
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Patent number: 11558144Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine that a first set of downlink control information (DCI) formats is associated with a same DCI size as a second set of DCI formats, and perform a padding operation so that the first set of DCI formats and the second set of DCI formats are associated with different DCI sizes. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wei Yang, Wanshi Chen, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Huilin Xu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
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Patent number: 11558884Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support resolution of uplink (UL) transmission overlap of communication types having different priorities. In some implementations, a method of wireless communication includes determining, at a user equipment (UE), that a first scheduled UL transmission corresponding to a first communication type having a first priority overlaps with a second scheduled UL transmission corresponding to a second communication type having a second priority. The first priority is higher than the second priority. The method also includes multiplexing at least a portion of the first scheduled UL transmission with at least a portion of the second scheduled UL transmission to generate a third UL transmission. The method further includes transmitting, from the UE to a base station, the third UL transmission. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yi Huang, Hwan Joon Kwon, Peter Gaal, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wei Yang
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Patent number: 11558923Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for uplink resource management. For example, a method is provided including receiving a configuration granting a plurality of periodic uplink resources for use by the first wireless communication device to transmit data on an uplink. The method further includes determining for a first uplink resource of the plurality of periodic uplink resources, that grant of the first uplink resource for use by the first wireless communication device can be released. The method further includes based on the determining for the first uplink resource, transmitting to a second wireless communication device an indication that the grant of the first uplink resource for use by the first wireless communication device can be released.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jianghong Luo, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini
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Patent number: 11558735Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for indicating carrier aggregation capabilities. An example method generally includes signaling, to a base station (BS), carrier aggregation capability information indicating a capability for performing separate operations concurrently on a plurality of component carriers; receiving a carrier aggregation configuration indicating component carriers designated for the separate operations; and receiving or transmitting transmissions based on the carrier aggregation configuration.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Xiaoxia Zhang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
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Patent number: 11558155Abstract: This disclosure describes a first slave device that transmits information to a second slave device indicating that a first data packet was improperly received from a master device, so that a corresponding data packet may be relayed from the second slave device to the first slave device. In an aspect, the second slave device may receive a first data packet followed by an indication that the first slave device improperly received the first data packet, where the second slave device is configured to relay the first data packet to the first slave device in response thereto. In another aspect, the second slave device may receive a request to listen for a separate data stream of the first slave device based on a first data packet being improperly received by the first slave device and transmit a second data packet of the separate data stream to the first slave device.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Joel Linsky, Mayank Batra, Robin Heydon, Brian Redding
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Patent number: 11558616Abstract: An example device for processing video data includes memory configured to store the video data and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to adjust a chroma dynamic range adjustment (DRA) scale value based on a luma DRA scale value and determine a chroma quantization parameter (QP) based on the luma adjusted chroma DRA scale value, wherein the chroma QP comprises an integer component and a fractional component. The one or more processors are configured to determine an integer chroma QP offset based on the integer component and determine a fractional chroma QP offset based on the fractional component. The one or more processors are configured to determine a DRA chroma scale adjustment value based on the integer chroma QP offset and the fractional chroma QP offset and process the video data based on the DRA chroma scale adjustment value.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Dmytro Rusanovskyy, Yan Zhang
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Patent number: 11558088Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may manage a shape of a beam to selectively reduce interference at one or more wireless nodes. The base station may receive a capability message from a first wireless node indicating a capability of the first wireless node to support one or more beam tapering configurations. In some cases, the base station may receive an interference report from a second wireless node, indicating that the first wireless node caused interference at the second wireless node. The base station may transmit a beam tapering configuration of the one or more beam tapering configurations to the first wireless node, and the first wireless node may transmit a beamformed message to the base station according to the beam tapering configuration. In some cases, the beam tapering configuration may be associated with less interference when transmitting the beamformed message.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Igor Gutman, Navid Abedini
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Patent number: 11558162Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) operating in discontinuous reception (DRX) mode receives a DRX configuration, receives a reference signal resource configuration, determines, at least based on the DRX configuration and the reference signal resource configuration, whether an overlap exists between a reference signal occasion of a plurality of reference signal occasions of the reference signal resource configuration and an active time of the DRX configuration, receives or transmits at least based on a determined overlap, at least a first reference signal in the reference signal occasion, and receives or transmits, while remaining in an active state of the DRX configuration, at least based on the determined overlap, at least a second reference signal in remaining reference signal occasions of the plurality of reference signal occasions after expiration of the active time.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Sven Fischer