Patents Assigned to Qualcomm
  • Patent number: 12120578
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide means by which a civic location of a target mobile device may be determined using crowdsourced information from other mobile devices. The information can include information regarding Access Points (APs) and/or other access nodes obtained by the other mobile devices, as well as respective locations of the other mobile devices. A server, for example, can use this information to determine a coverage heatmap for each AP. Coverage heatmaps can be used, along with civic location information, to determine a civic location of a target mobile device based on the target mobile device's detection and possible measurements of wireless signals from one or more of the APs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephen William Edge
  • Patent number: 12119940
    Abstract: A UE may identify slots to transmit and/or receive information related to one or more HARQ processes in frame structure that includes both sub-band full duplex slot types and time division duplex slot types. Based on a first slot used for control information, a UE can identify a second slot for PUSCH or PDSCH communication based on an offset between the first slot and the second determined by calculating slot offsets (e.g., based on parameters received from a base station). In some aspects, a UE may exclude certain slot duplex types (e.g., SBFD or TDD) when calculating slot offsets. In some aspects, a UE may calculate slot offsets differently for different HARQ processes corresponding to one frame. In some aspects, slot offset behaviors may be based on priority of information associated with a HARQ process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Hwan Joon Kwon, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 12120675
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station (BS) may determine at least one of a variable random access response (RAR) window start time, a variable maximum quantity of slots for an index of a first slot of a physical random access channel occasion, or scheduling information related to one or more variable delays for an uplink transmission. The BS may transmit, to a user equipment, at least one of information that identifies the RAR window start time, information that identifies the variable maximum quantity of slots, or the scheduling information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiao Feng Wang, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Peter Gaal, Jun Ma, Huilin Xu
  • Patent number: 12120572
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may detect radio link failure on a master cell group. Accordingly, the UE may determine a state of a secondary cell group (SCG). Additionally, the UE may initiate activation of the SCG based at least in part on the state of the SCG. For example, the activation of the SCG may be initiated based at least in part on the state being a deactivated state, a dormant state, or an enhanced dormant state. Accordingly, the UE may transmit master cell group (MCG) failure recovery information over the SCG and receive, on the SCG, MCG reconnection information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ozcan Ozturk, Punyaslok Purkayastha, Ravi Agarwal, Gavin Bernard Horn
  • Patent number: 12120549
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus configured to obtain a decision-point value, and send, for a logical channel group (LCG) having a quantity of data pending an uplink transmission, a long buffer status report in response to the decision-point value exceeding a threshold value, or a short buffer status report in response to the decision-point value being equal to or less than the threshold value are disclosed. The decision-point value may be a buffer status report-type determinative value, which may be based on a peak power envelope of a wireless communication device, a data transmission rate historically obtained by the wireless communication device, a number of component carriers available for a complete upload of a buffer holding data, a cost function, an amount of data associated with the LCG that is pending the uplink transmission, a type of the wireless communication device, or a latency of communications of the wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Nitin Agarwal, Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi, Joe Thomas, Girish Khandelwal, Deepak Wadhwa, Dinesh Kumar Devineni, Thang Tu, Gangaram Patidar, Talha Patel, Farhad Tavassoli
  • Patent number: 12120569
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may detect, while operating in an out-of-service (OOS) mode associated with a first network, that a second network satisfies one or more switching criteria. The UE may increase a time duration associated with a periodic network acquisition scan associated with the first network based at least in part on detecting that the second network satisfies the one or more switching criteria. The UE may switch, while operating in the OOS mode, from using the first network for connectivity to using the second network for connectivity based at least in part on detecting that the second network satisfies the one or more switching criteria. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xinning Shen, Qin Xue Frantti, Osama Lotfallah, Yong Xie, Sony Akkarakaran, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Reza Shahidi
  • Patent number: 12120045
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The techniques described herein support dynamically indicating uplink control channel repetition multiple different types of uplink signaling. A user equipment (UE) may receive first control signaling indicating a first repetition factor for transmission of a feedback message associated with a beam or transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state. The UE may receive second control signaling scheduling transmission of a control message associated with the beam or TCI state. The UE may transmit, in accordance with a second repetition factor, the control message based at least in part on both the feedback message and the control message being associated with the beam. In some cases, the second repetition factor may be configured with the second control signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12120614
    Abstract: Method and apparatus to determine a sidelink beam and associated power control parameter for sidelink communication. The apparatus initiates a beam pairing with a second UE, the first UE being a transmitting UE and the second UE being a receiving UE. The apparatus identifies a sidelink beam from a plurality of sidelink beams and at least one power control parameter for sidelink communication with the second UE. Different sidelink beams use different power control parameters. The apparatus communicates with the second UE via a selected sidelink beam and the at least one power control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hua Wang, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Yan Zhou, Hong Cheng, Jelena Damnjanovic, Peter Gaal, Jung Ho Ryu
  • Patent number: 12120544
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for reducing the overhead of low layer positioning reports. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) performs at least one positioning measurement of at least one downlink positioning reference signal (DL-PRS) received from at least one transmission-reception point (TRP) during a positioning session, and reports, to a positioning entity via low layer signaling, a relative value of the at least one positioning measurement relative to an expected value of the at least one positioning measurement, wherein the relative value of the at least one positioning measurement is a difference between the expected value of the at least one positioning measurement and a measured value of the at least one positioning measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Alexandros Manolakos, Tingfang Ji, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 12120712
    Abstract: A method of indicating resources for uplink-based positioning includes: determining whether a UE is within a downlink coverage area of a serving cell, for a first frequency band and a transmit power of the serving cell, and outside an uplink coverage area of the serving cell for the first frequency band and a transmit power of the UE; identifying a second frequency band supported by the UE, the second frequency band including frequencies below a lowest frequency of the first frequency band; and providing at least one PRS indication indicating at least OFDM UL-PRS resources in the second frequency band for the UE based on a determination that the UE is outside the uplink coverage area of the serving cell for the first frequency band and the transmit power of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Akash Kumar
  • Patent number: 12120747
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may monitor multiple synchronization signal resources, each synchronization signal resource associated with a beam of a set of beams and may determine that multiple candidate beams of the set of beams satisfy a channel quality threshold. The UE may transmit an indication that the multiple candidate beams satisfy the channel quality threshold. For example, the UE may transmit a single random access message on a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource associated with multiple candidate beams, or may transmit multiple random access messages, each one on a different PRACH resource associated with a different candidate beam. The UE may receive an indication of one of the candidate beams from the base station and may establish a connection with the base station using the indicated candidate beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yongjun Kwak, Wanshi Chen, Hung Dinh Ly, Jing Lei, Huilin Xu, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Yuchul Kim, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 12120655
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may spatial time-division multiplex a plurality of sounding reference signal (SRS) ports, each of the plurality of SRS ports being associated with at least one of a set of orthogonal weights, the set of orthogonal weights corresponding to phase shifting, and transmit a plurality of SRSs via the plurality of spatially time-division multiplexed SRS ports simultaneously, each of the plurality of SRSs including at least two SRS repetition. The plurality of SRSs may be configured to form or present a quasi-co-location (QCL) receive (Rx) beam subspace. The UE may configure the plurality of SRSs to form the subspace as the QCL Rx beam subspace, and a base station may signal the UE to a specific Rx beam subspace such that it is aligned to the base station's beamforming direction, and achieve spatial multiplexing gain in the QCL Rx beam subspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Jing Jiang, Joseph Patrick Burke, Tingfang Ji, Peter Gaal, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 12119912
    Abstract: Aspects relate to configuring active groups of antenna ports. An apparatus may support different groups of antenna ports. One or more of these groups may be designated as active (e.g., for a scheduled transmission). In some examples, a first apparatus may send to a second apparatus an indication of the active groups. The second apparatus may then use the active groups for a transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Yu Zhang, Runxin Wang, Hyojin Lee
  • Patent number: 12120539
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication that a tune-away period is available. The UE may perform one or more neighbor cell measurements during the tune-away period based at least in part on the indication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mungal Singh Dhanda, Umesh Phuyal, Bharat Shrestha, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Ayan Sengupta
  • Patent number: 12120574
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a remote user equipment (UE) may receive a measurement reference channel configuration from a source relay. The UE may transmit a reference channel based at least in part on the measurement reference channel configuration. The UE may receive, from the source relay, a command for the remote UE to switch from the source relay to a target relay based at least in part on a measurement of the reference channel transmitted from the remote UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly, Tingfang Ji, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 12119944
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for hierarchical communications and low latency support within a wireless communications system. An eNB and/or a UE may be configured to operate within the wireless communications system which is at least partially defined through a first layer with first layer transmissions having a first subframe type and a second layer with second layer transmissions having a second subframe type. The first subframe type may have a first round trip time (RTT) between transmission and acknowledgment of receipt of the transmission, and the second layer may have a second RTT that is less than the first RTT. Subframes of the first subframe type may be multiplexed with subframes of the second subframe type, such as through time division multiplexing. In some examples symbols of different duration may be multiplexed such that different symbol durations coexist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Taesang Yoo, Siddhartha Mallik, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Jelena Damnjanovic, Madhavan Srinivasan Vajapeyam, Jun Wang, Yongbin Wei, Durga Prasad Malladi
  • Patent number: 12120695
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a signal identifying a configuration of a plurality of search spaces to monitor for a plurality of downlink control information (DCI) transmissions, wherein the plurality of search spaces is interleaved over a plurality of transmit beams of the base station, and each DCI transmission carries information associated with one or more transmit beams of the plurality of transmit beams. The UE may monitor the plurality of search spaces for the plurality of DCI transmissions associated with the UE, wherein each search space of the plurality of search spaces includes at least a portion of each DCI transmission of the plurality of DCI transmissions. The UE may decode each received DCI transmission in the plurality of DCI transmissions based at least in part on the monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Amit Bar-Or Tillinger, Shay Landis, Idan Michael Horn
  • Patent number: 12120664
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for relaying communications from a source device to a destination device via one or more relay devices. Scheduled resource grants may be used to provide resources for the relayed communications, and may provide one or more associated relaying parameters for relayed communications. A source device and relay device may use parameters to determine a relaying priority for multiple communications that are to be relayed. Additionally or alternatively, scheduled resource grants may include energy harvesting (EH) parameters for communications that use the scheduled resources. The EH parameters may include, for example, time-switching energy harvesting parameters that configure a first subset of symbols for data and a second subset of symbols for EH, or power-splitting EH where power of a received signal is split between EH components and decoding components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 12117547
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a network entity determines a location of a target base station and a location of at least one reference device, determines an angle-of-arrival (AoA) measurement of one or more reference signals received by at least one antenna array of the target base station from the at least one reference device, determines an expected AoA between the at least one antenna array and the at least one reference device based on the location of the target base station and the location of the at least one reference device, and determines an orientation offset of the at least one antenna array based on a difference between the expected AoA and the AoA measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Alexandros Manolakos, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 12120348
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described herein for processing media data using a neural network system. For instance, a process can include obtaining a latent representation of a frame of encoded image data and generating, by a plurality of decoder transformer layers of a decoder sub-network using the latent representation of the frame of encoded image data as input, a frame of decoded image data. At least one decoder transformer layer of the plurality of decoder transformer layers includes: one or more transformer blocks for generating one or more patches of features and determine self-attention locally within one or more window partitions and shifted window partitions applied over the one or more patches; and a patch un-merging engine for decreasing a respective size of each patch of the one or more patches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yinhao Zhu, Yang Yang, Taco Sebastiaan Cohen