Patents Assigned to Qualcomm
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Patent number: 12375951Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some systems, a second network entity (e.g., a transmitting device) may transmit first signaling to a second network entity (e.g., a receiving device) to indicate one or more frequency domain residual sideband (FDRSB) parameters associated with the second network entity. The FDRSB parameters may be associated with an imbalance between an in-phase component and a quadrature phase component of the first signaling. The second network entity may generate and transmit second signaling that is configured to have the one or more FDRSB characteristics. The first network entity may determine whether the second network entity is a source of the second signaling based on the one or more FDRSB characteristics of the second signaling and the one or more FDRSB parameters indicated by the first signaling.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Igor Gutman, Yavuz Yapici, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12375969Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless communication device, such as a network entity or a user equipment (UE), may transmit a message to another wireless communication device, such as a network entity, including a connection establishment request and an indication of a capability of the wireless communication device to support a value of a power efficiency threshold. The other wireless communication device may respond with signaling indicating for the wireless communication device to use a value of a power efficiency for communications between the wireless communication devices. The indication may include one or more parameters indicating the value of the power efficiency. The wireless communication devices may establish a connection in accordance with the value of the power efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Idan Michael Horn, Shay Landis, Daniel Paz
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Patent number: 12376021Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) connects to a first network, the first network associated with a first single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI), and displays a human-readable identifier associated with the first S-NSSAI on a user interface of the UE.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Haris Zisimopoulos, Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere, Sebastian Speicher
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Patent number: 12374928Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support signaling for energy harvesting at a first device. In some examples, the first device may transmit, to a second device, an indication of one or more an energy conversion efficiency factors, power threshold parameters, power levels, battery power levels, or the like. Based on receiving the indication of the one or more of the characteristics, the second device may determine a radio frequency power for subsequent signaling. The second device may transmit a signal having the determined radio frequency power, and the first device may receive the signaling and convert at least a first portion of the radio frequency power to direct current (DC) power.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2024Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Sony Akkarakaran, Yi Huang
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Patent number: 12376132Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine a group-specific multicast/broadcast communication configuration. The group-specific multicast/broadcast communication configuration may be independently configured from a unicast communication configuration and a cell-specific communication configuration. The UE may determine one or more multicast/broadcast communication parameters according to the group-specific multicast/broadcast communication configuration. The communication parameters may include a time resource allocation, a frequency resource allocation, a slot configuration, a downlink reference signal configuration and a resource mapping configuration for receiving multicast/broadcast downlink signals. The UE may receive multicast/broadcast downlink signals from the base station based on the one or more multicast/broadcast communication parameters.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Kazuki Takeda
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Patent number: 12373535Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for establishing a connection. For instance, a process may include receiving, by a first root of trust (C-ROT) of a first chiplet of a plurality of chiplets from a second C-RoT of a second chiplet, a second certificate along with security state information and debug information for the second chiplet; authenticating a security state and a debug state of the second chiplet based on the security state information and the debug information; authenticating the second certificate; and establishing a security boundary with the second chiplet.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Rengarajan Ragavan, Changjian Gao, Samar Asbe, Shivaprasad Hongal, Denis Pochuev, Richard Wesley Bass, Priyanka Dosi
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Patent number: 12375206Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Some wireless communications network may operate in accordance with an open-RAN (ORAN) network specification which may support functional splitting between the ORAN distributed unit (O-DU) and the ORAN radio unit (RU). The O-DU may communicate with the O-RU using control messaging. The control message may include a resource resource element (RE) mask and a resource symbol mask, the resource RE mask indicating frequency resources to be allocated for a reference signal transmission across a set of antenna ports and the resource symbol mask indicating time resources to be allocated for the reference signal transmission. Additionally or alternatively, the O-DU may transmit a control message including a puncturing resource RE mask indicating frequency resources for applying a puncturing pattern and a symbol mask indicating time resources for applying the puncturing pattern during a transmission.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2024Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Shmuel Vagner, Senthilkumar Sundaram, Abhishek Saurabh Sachidanand Sinha, Orod Raeesi, Roberto Airoldi, Deepak Agarwal
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Patent number: 12375976Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for L1 or L2 mobility are provided. An example method may include receiving a carrier aggregation (CA) configuration associated with a L1 or L2 mobility configuration from a network node, the L1 or L2 mobility configuration including primary cell (PCell) configurations for multiple cells. The example method may further include receiving at least one activation or deactivation of one of the PCell configurations from the network node.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jelena Damnjanovic, Shanyu Zhou, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12375995Abstract: This disclosure provides systems and methods for use of automated frequency coordination (AFC) to manage transmission power and frequencies. In some implementations, a device transmits, to a network entity, an AFC request. The device receives, from the network entity, an AFC response, the AFC response including an AFC power level indication of one or more nearest neighboring entities. The device sets a transmit power of the device based at least in part on the AFC power level indication of at least one of the one or more nearest neighboring entities, and the device transmits at the transmit power. In some instances, the device transmits a first number of AFC requests during a first instance of travelling along a path and transmits a second number of AFC requests less than the first number of AFC requests during one or more successive instances after the first instance of travelling along the path.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Subramanian Anantharaman, Sreekanth Natarajan, Sandip Homchaudhuri, Sujatha Varadarajan
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Patent number: 12376149Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to wireless communications in a system are provided. A first wireless communication device may communicate with a second wireless communication device in a listen-before-talk (LBT) bandwidth of a set of LBT bandwidths, downlink control information (DCI). The DCI may indicate acquisition of a channel occupancy time (COT) in a fixed frame period (FFP) across the set of LBT bandwidths and/or a starting point of the FFP in the respective LBT bandwidth. The first wireless communication device may communicate with the second wireless communication device, a communication in at least one LBT bandwidth of the set of LBT bandwidths during the respective COT.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Changlong Xu, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang
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Patent number: 12376152Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for enabling collision mitigation for a user equipment (UE) operating in a dual active mode. In some aspects, the UE may generate a communication for a first subscription in a first time window associated with a first priority for a time domain division pattern with a second subscription. The UE may transmit, using the first subscription, the communication in a second time window associated with a second priority for the time domain division pattern. For example, the second time window associated with the second priority may be a time window in which traffic for the first subscription is prioritized. In some aspects, the UE may select modified periodic intervals for transmissions of a communication to mitigate collisions associated with the time domain division pattern. For example, a transmission time of the periodic communication may be varied (or randomized) over time.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yong Xie, Vikram Singh, Lan Lan, Reza Shahidi, Zhibin Dang, Sanjeev Mittal, Carlos Marcelo Dias Pazos, Qingxin Chen, Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt, Tom Chin
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Patent number: 12376167Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating prioritizing PDCP retransmission and/or control information in dual connectivity scenarios are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a first network node includes receiving PDUs for transmitting to a second network node while operating in a dual connectivity mode associated with a first RLC leg and at least a second RLC leg, the PDUs associated with at least one of control information or retransmission data. The example method also includes transmitting first scheduling information via the first RLC leg and transmitting second scheduling information via the second RLC leg based on the PDUs being associated with at least one of the control information or the retransmission data. The example first network node may include a UE or a base station.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ajeet Kumar, Sathish Kumar Nallamanti, Vishal Dalmiya, Vaishakh Rao, Krishna Chaitanya Bellam, Pankaj Mittal, Naga Yaswanth Kotha
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Patent number: 12376176Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that a failure event for a beam or a link, between the UE and a base station, is occurring or will occur, and transmit a message to the base station indicating that the UE is refraining from performing a recovery procedure for the beam or a link for a time duration. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Jingchao Bao
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Patent number: 12376179Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive a control message that includes an indication to mute communications between the first UE and a second UE. The indication may be applicable to at least one communication link between the first UE and the second UE. The indication may include an identifier of the first UE, an identifier of the second UE, or an identifier of the at least one communication link. The first UE may receive the indication based on a power status of the first UE, a power status of the second UE, a reliability metric associated with the at least one communication link, or an interference metric associated with a network entity. Accordingly, the first UE may determine that the at least one communication link is muted for a time duration based on the indication.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Marwen Zorgui, Wei Yang, Huilin Xu, Yuchul Kim, Linhai He, Wanshi Chen
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Patent number: 12376186Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a second UE associated with a sidelink connection with the first UE, assistance information indicating at least part of a first discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration for a radio access link between the first UE and a base station. The UE may receive at least part of a sidelink DRX configuration for the sidelink connection, wherein an on duration of the sidelink DRX configuration is not aligned with an on duration of the first DRX configuration. The UE may transmit information indicating at least part of the sidelink DRX configuration. The UE may receive, from the base station, a second DRX configuration for the radio access link. The UE may communicate in accordance with the sidelink DRX configuration or the second DRX configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kaidong Wang, Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo, Ozcan Ozturk, Peter Gaal, Aleksandar Damnjanovic
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Patent number: 12376191Abstract: Methods and apparatus to handle unordered signaling radio bearer (SRB) packets are disclosed. In some aspects, the apparatus may be a user equipment (UE) or a base station. The apparatus may receive a signaling radio bearer (SRB) packet, buffer it in a radio link control (RLC)-to-Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) reordering window, and selectively forward or discard the SRB packet based upon a reordering timer with a first expiration period that is greater than a second expiration period associated with a data radio bearer (DRB) reordering timer, to give the apparatus extra time to receive a missing SRB packet while maintaining a shorter latency for DRB packets. In some aspects, the apparatus may detect an out-of-order (OOO) SRB packet and request retransmission without waiting for a sending communications device to check on receive status.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ansah Ahmed Sheik, Mohammad Ashraf
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Patent number: 12373365Abstract: Bus interrupt debounce is described for in band bus interrupts on a one-wire serial bus between a host device and one or more subordinate devices. The host device includes a line driver configured to couple the host device to a one-wire serial bus and a controller. The controller is configured to receive an interrupt request on the one-wire serial bus from a subordinate device coupled to the one-wire serial bus, drive a first sequence of challenge pulses on the one-wire serial bus, receive a second sequence of challenge responses from the subordinate device on the one-wire serial bus in response to the challenge pulses, accept the interrupt request in response to receiving the second sequence of challenge responses, and start an interrupt arbitration for the one-wire serial bus in response to accepting the interrupt request.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2024Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Lalan Jee Mishra, Umesh Srikantiah, Ryan Scott Castro Spring, Richard Dominic Wietfeldt, Jia Fu Cen
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Patent number: 12375322Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may identify channel responses between antenna elements of antenna arrays of the wireless device and user equipments (UEs) at geographic locations within a coverage area of the wireless device. For example, the wireless device may identify the channel responses based on reference signal transmissions between the UEs and the wireless device. The wireless device may process the channel responses to identify one or more directional power peaks associated with the reference signal transmissions. The wireless device may, based on the one or more directional power peaks, detect phase error values, amplitude error values, or both common to the channel responses. The wireless device may adjust the signal communicated via at least a subset of the antenna elements based on the phase error values, the amplitude error values, or both and communicate with one or more of the UEs.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2024Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Lei Xiao, Mark Wallace, Evgeny Levitan
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Patent number: 12375795Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for adjusting a posture of a subject being photographed. An example method can include obtaining, via a camera of a mobile device, an image depicting a subject posing in a first posture; determining a match between the first posture of the subject depicted in the image and a second posture from a set of stored user postures; and based on the match, generating a recommendation indicating one or more suggested adjustments to the first posture of the subject, the one or more suggested adjustments being estimated to increase a matching amount between the first posture of the subject and the second posture from the set of stored user postures.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sandeep Sethia, Ravichandra Ponaganti
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Patent number: 12375799Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for low power, variable focus. An example method can include obtaining, based on a trigger, a first image of a scene captured by an image sensor, the first image being captured with a lens of the image sensor in a first configuration of a plurality of available lens configurations; determining, based on the first image and a first detection result, whether an object of interest is present in the first image; in response to determining that the object of interest is not present in the first image, adjusting the lens to a second configuration selected from the plurality of lens configurations; obtaining, by the image sensor, a second image of the scene while the lens is in the second configuration; and determining, based on the second image and a second detection result, that the object of interest is present in the second image.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Venkata Ravi Kiran Dayana, Micha Galor Gluskin, Wesley James Holland, Jiafu Luo