Patents Assigned to Qualcomm
  • Cell active time configuration
    Patent number: 12342279
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, first signaling identifying a configuration for a set of wake up occasions associated with an active state of the network entity. The UE may transmit, to the network entity, a wake up signal to transition the network entity from an inactive state to the active state based on the configuration for the set of wake up occasions. The UE may receive, from a network entity, second signaling identifying a cell active time during which the network entity remains in the active state. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Power saving of network-controlled repeaters
    Patent number: 12342284
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A network controlled repeater may transmit a capability indication of the wireless device to a network entity. The capability indication of the wireless device may indicate a latency associated with processing communications. The network entity may transmit an indication of multiple monitoring occasions during a discontinuous reception mode of the wireless device, and a set of parameters associated with the multiple monitoring occasions. Each monitoring occasion of the multiple monitoring occasions may be associated with at least one of a different periodicity, length, or offset. The wireless device may periodically monitor for the communications in accordance with the multiple monitoring occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Techniques for selecting an uplink beam
    Patent number: 12342290
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may transmit a set of reference signals to a first wireless node; receive information identifying a transmit power capability of the first wireless node based at least in part on transmitting the set of reference signals; and configure one or more transmission parameters for a first link with the first wireless node or a second link with a second wireless node based at least in part on the transmit power capability of the first wireless node. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Tao Luo, Alessio Marcone
  • Supporting inter-media synchronization in wireless communications
    Patent number: 12342304
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide systems and methods for supporting synchronized delivery of packets of different type media streams of a service. Various embodiments enable wireless device and/or network assistance of packet synchronization in downlink (DL) and/or uplink (UL) transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Nikolai Konrad Leung, Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Prashanth Haridas Hande, Tao Luo, Sebastian Speicher
  • Device region estimation for near-field operation
    Patent number: 12342310
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently determining a region in which a user equipment (UE) is located. The UE may perform measurements on reference signals received from a first network entity to determine the region in which the UE is located. In some cases, the UE may provide the measurements or other information to a second network entity, and the second network entity may indicate the region in which the UE is located to the UE based on the measurements or the other information. The second network entity or the UE may also indicate the region in which the UE is located to the first network entity. The UE and the first network entity may then select suitable beams for communicating based on the region in which the UE is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Junyi Li, Danlu Zhang
  • User equipment (UE) indication enhanced bandwidth part (BWP) related capability
    Patent number: 12342330
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The UE transmits an indication of a capability of the UE to support downlink and uplink bandwidth part (BWP) pairs that have non-aligned center frequencies. The UE receives signaling configuring the UE with a downlink BWP and an uplink BWP with the non-aligned center frequencies for full-duplex operation, in accordance with the indicated UE capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Transistor cell with self-aligned gate contact
    Patent number: 12342595
    Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses including a transistor cell and methods of fabricating the transistor cell. The transistor cell may include a substrate, an active region and a gate having a gate contact in the active region. The transistor cell may further include a first portion of a spacer of the gate contact formed from a first material, and a second portion of the spacer of the gate contact formed from a second material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Junjing Bao, John Jianhong Zhu, Giridhar Nallapati
  • Random-access occasion selection for reduced-capability user equipment
    Patent number: 12342383
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques relate to improved methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses that support random-access occasion (RO) selection for reduced-capability (RedCap) user equipment (UEs). A RedCap UE operating in a half-duplex mode may use the techniques described herein to efficiently select an RO in which to transmit a random-access preamble based on a duration between a latest received downlink transmission and the RO satisfying a threshold duration. The UE may receive system information mapping a set of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) to a set of ROs. The UE may then select an RO from the set of ROs in which to transmit the random-access preamble such that the UE has sufficient time to transition from a receive mode to a transmit mode to transmit the random-access preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Chao Wei, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Linhai He, Yongle Wu, Chun-Hao Hsu, Murali Menon
  • Fast connection release after paging response
    Patent number: 12342411
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station associated with a first radio access network (RAN) may transmit, and a user equipment (UE) may receive, a paging message while the UE is operating in an inactive or idle mode on the first RAN and while the UE is operating in a connected mode on a second RAN. The UE may transmit a response rejecting the paging message to the base station associated with the first RAN, and the response may include information that causes the base station to release the UE to the inactive or idle mode. Accordingly, the base station may transmit, to the UE, a radio resource control message that includes information to release the UE to the inactive or idle mode on the first RAN. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Juan Zhang, Gavin Bernard Horn, Ozcan Ozturk, John Wallace Nasielski
  • Techniques for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) position determination in IRS aided positioning
    Patent number: 12339348
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for user equipment (UE) positioning using one or more intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs). A method that may be performed by a UE includes for each IRS of the one or more IRSs: identifying a first IRS reflection center, measuring a first impulse response from the IRS to obtain a first measured impulse response representation, determining a first impulse response for a first ray reflected from the first IRS reflection center of the IRS, estimating a first position of the UE based on, at least, the first IRS reflection centers for each of the one or more IRSs and the first impulse responses for each of the one or more IRSs, and estimating a second position of the UE in an iterative manner until one or more conditions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mehmet Izzet Gurelli, Qiang Wu, Junyi Li, Tao Luo, Navid Abedini, Ozge Koymen
  • GI-FMCW radar reference signal design for joint communication-radar
    Patent number: 12339387
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein may improve joint communication-radar system by providing a radar reference signal with GI-FMCW waveform. Aspects presented herein may be compatible with communication-centric waveforms and thereby may apply to UEs or network entities with minimal changes if specified. In one aspect, a wireless device transmits a set of communication signals. The wireless device configure one or more parameters associated with a set of radar reference signals for radar sensing based on the set of communication signals, each radar reference signal in the set of radar reference signals including a guard interval. The wireless device transmits the set of radar reference signals associated with the one or more parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Preeti Kumari, Stelios Stefanatos, Junyi Li, Kapil Gulati, Shuanshuan Wu
  • Full-duplex access points
    Patent number: 12342364
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for implementing full-duplex communications at an access point (AP) without configuring or modifying associated stations (STAs) to operate as full duplex devices. In some implementations, the AP may select at least one of one or more first STAs to transmit uplink (UL) data to the AP, determine a downlink (DL) signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) for each of one or more second STAs, select at least one of the one or more second STAs to pair with the selected at least one first STA for concurrent DL and UL communications with the AP based at least in part on the determined SINRs, and transmit DL data to the selected at least one second STA concurrently with receiving at least a portion of the UL data from the selected at least one first STA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhishek Pramod Patil, George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi
  • Filtering process for video coding
    Patent number: 12341959
    Abstract: An example device for filtering decoded video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: decode a block of video data to form a decoded block; apply a filter to the decoded block to form a filtered block; multiply samples of the filtered block by a scaling factor to form a refined filtered block; and combine samples of the refined filtered block with corresponding samples of the decoded block. The one or more processors may further encode the block prior to decoding the block. The one or more processors may encode or decode a value of a syntax element representing the scaling factor, e.g., in a picture header of a picture including the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Marta Karczewicz, Hongtao Wang, Jianle Chen, Venkata Meher Satchit Anand Kotra
  • Sparsity-based neural network mapping to computing units in a system-on-chip
    Patent number: 12340299
    Abstract: A method for an artificial neural network includes receiving a set of input values to be convolved with multiple kernels via multiple computing units. One or more thermally-stressed computing units of the multiple computing units are determined. The multiple kernels are mapped to the multiple computing units of a system-on-chip (SOC) based on the one or more thermally-stressed computing units. A convolution is performed on the set of input values and a most sparse kernel of the multiple kernels on the most thermally-stressed computing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hee Jun Park, Colin Beaton Verrilli
  • Techniques for signaling antenna module information for devices with adaptable form factor configurations
    Patent number: 12342296
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for communicating antenna module information, beamforming capabilities, power control information, etc., for computing devices capable of operating in multiple form factor configurations. A example technique includes detecting that the UE is operating in a first form factor configuration of a plurality of form factor configurations the UE is adapted to operate in. The technique also includes, in response to the detection, transmitting information associated with at least one antenna module of the UE in the first form factor configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Junyi Li, Tao Luo, Raghu Narayan Challa, Ruhua He
  • Flexible slot group for multiple slot control channel monitoring
    Patent number: 12342352
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit capability information indicating a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring capability, wherein the PDCCH monitoring capability indicates a minimum length for a group of slots and a maximum number of consecutive slots including at least one search space within the group of slots. The UE may receive a search space set configuration associated with a plurality of search spaces, wherein the search space set configuration is based at least in part on a slot group length that is greater than or equal to the minimum length. The UE may monitor for control information based at least in part on the search space set configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mohamed Fouad Ahmed Marzban, Wooseok Nam, Jing Sun, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Qingjiang Tian, Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail
  • Enhancement of PDCP duplication
    Patent number: 12341714
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. In one aspect, the apparatus may transmit a list of a plurality of CCs for a transmission of at least one PDCP PDU, the plurality of CCs corresponding to a plurality of indicated CCs. The apparatus may also transmit the at least one PDCP PDU on one or more CCs of the plurality of CCs. Additionally, the apparatus may determine whether to retransmit the at least one PDCP PDU, a retransmission of the at least one PDCP PDU being associated with a PDCP duplication procedure. The apparatus may also select one or more CCs of the plurality of CCs for the retransmission of the at least one PDCP PDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Luanxia Yang, Changlong Xu, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Rajat Prakash, Hao Xu
  • Techniques for downlink feedback from multiple transmission and reception points
    Patent number: 12341722
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit uplink messages to at least one TRP of a set of TRPs, where each uplink message is associated with a first control resource set (CORESET) pool index value or a second CORESET pool index value and is associated with a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) identifier of a set of HARQ identifiers. In some cases, the UE may receive downlink feedback information (DFI) for the set of HARQ identifiers, wherein the DFI is associated with the first COREST pool index value or the second CORESET pool index value. Further, the DFI may be valid for at least one HARQ identifier of the set of HARQ identifiers based on a CORESET pool index value associated with the DFI and a CORESET pool index value associated with at least one uplink message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Tao Luo
  • Flexible time division duplexing configuration
    Patent number: 12341730
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may select, from a plurality of slot formats for supporting time division duplexing, a slot format for use during time division duplexing; transmit an information element that includes a half-slot slot-type to identify the slot format for use during time division duplexing; and communicate with a user equipment (UE) in a time division duplexing mode in accordance with the slot format. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xipeng Zhu, Luis Fernando Brisson Lopes, Ozcan Ozturk, Huilin Xu, Peng Cheng, Kazuki Takeda
  • Bandwidth parts for a groupcast sidelink network
    Patent number: 12342357
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information to configure a sidelink channel, to be utilized by the UE to conduct groupcast sidelink communication, with a plurality of bandwidth parts. The UE may transmit or receive data based at least in part on the plurality of bandwidth parts. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Linhai He, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wei Yang, Gavin Bernard Horn, Karthika Paladugu