Patents Assigned to Qualcomm
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Patent number: 12375967Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to report feedback to a base station to address polarization impairments in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications. The UE and the base station may establish a communications link using a pair of orthogonally polarized beams, where the pair of polarized beams may be selected based on a beam sweep procedure. The UE may transmit a report to the base station indicating one or more polarization parameters associated with beam pairs identified in the beam sweep procedure, such as one or more orthogonality parameters, one or more polarization parameters relating to one or more beam pairs, or one or more angular spread parameters. Based on the report, the base station may transmit a beam configuration to the UE for polarization MIMO communications.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 12375998Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may receive, from a first network entity, data to be relayed to a second network entity. The mobile station may transmit the data to the second network entity. The mobile station may receive, from the second network entity, a digitally signed acknowledgement of reception of the data. The mobile station may transmit the digitally signed acknowledgement to the first network entity. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kapil Gulati, Hong Cheng, Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Navid Abedini, Aria Hasanzadezonuzy
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Patent number: 12376015Abstract: A first device may receive, from a second device, perception information for an environment of the first device based at least in part on a perception capability of the second device. The first device may generate a perception associated with a communication by the first device based at least in part on the perception information from the second device, where the perception indicates characteristics of the environment. The first device may adjust a parameter associated with the communication based at least in part on the perception. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hussein Metwaly Saad, Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Simone Merlin, Tom Edward Botterill, Yann Lebrun, Ravi Agarwal, Juan Carlos Bucheli Garcia, Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Danlu Zhang
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Patent number: 12376127Abstract: A method and apparatus for downlink and uplink control management of component carriers during carrier aggregation in a new radio wireless communication system is disclosed. For example, the method and apparatus include receiving, at a user equipment (UE), a slot format indicator in at least one slot of at least one component carrier of a plurality of component carriers from a network entity, where the at least one component carrier includes a group common Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), the slot format indicator within the group common PDCCH indicating at least slot structure information for one or more other component carriers from the plurality of component carriers; and communicating, with the network entity, using the at least slot structure information for the one more other component carriers.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wanshi Chen, Heechoon Lee, Tingfang Ji, Peter Gaal
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Patent number: 12376141Abstract: Aspects relate to mechanisms for a wireless communication device to generate a superposition transmission of a sidelink signal to be transmitted to at least one receiving wireless communication device and an uplink signal to be transmitted to a base station. The wireless communication device may transmit the superposition transmission on resources allocated by the base station on a common carrier utilized for both sidelink and uplink transmissions. The superposition transmission includes a base layer corresponding to the uplink signal and an enhanced layer corresponding to the sidelink signal. The wireless communication device may further generate and transmit interference assistance information to the receiving wireless communication device for use by the receiving wireless communication device in canceling the base layer from the superposition transmission.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Shuanshuan Wu, Kapil Gulati, Sudhir Kumar Baghel
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Patent number: 12374787Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a first device may determine a state change based on a condition associated with communications between the first device and a second device and perform an adjustment for one or more sets of antenna elements of the first device based on the state change. A state change may, for example, include a change of an antenna configuration or a quasi co-location (QCL) configuration of the respective device. Based on determining the state change, the first device may transmit a state change request to the second device. According to the state change request, the second device may perform an adjustment for a set of one or more of its antenna elements. The second device may transmit an indication of an adjustment to the first device, and the first device and the second device may communicate according to the adjustment.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 12373714Abstract: A method comprises obtaining a first laser angle; obtaining a second laser angle; obtaining a laser angle difference for a third laser angle; determining a predicted value based on the first laser angle and the second laser angle; and determining the third laser angle based on the predicted value and the laser angle difference for the third laser angle.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Geert Van der Auwera, Louis Joseph Kerofsky, Bappaditya Ray, Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian, Marta Karczewicz
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Patent number: 12374124Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for determining a characteristic of a device's object detection sensor oriented in a first direction. An example device may include one or more processors. The device may further include a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory including one or more instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the device to determine a direction of travel for the device, compare the direction of travel to the first direction to determine a magnitude of difference, and determine a characteristic of the object detection sensor based on the magnitude of difference.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Charles Wheeler Sweet, III, Hugo Swart
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Patent number: 12375740Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for facilitating using a streaming manifest including a profile signal for content encoded based on a encapsulation format. An example method disclosed herein includes identifying structures associated with first media, wherein the first media is associated with a first streaming format. The example method also includes generating a streaming manifest for the first media, wherein the streaming manifest maps the structures associated with the first media to structures associated with a second streaming format, and including an indication with the streaming manifest, wherein the indication identifies the streaming profile used to map the structures.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2024Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Thomas Stockhammer
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Patent number: 12375779Abstract: An example device for retrieving media data includes one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to receive a manifest file including data indicating a number of segment chunks available for a segment of a representation of media data, the segment comprising an independently retrievable media file having a unique uniform resource locator (URL), determine an identifier for one of the chunks using the data indicating the number of chunks available for the segment, and send a request specifying the identifier for the one of the chunks to a server device.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventor: Thomas Stockhammer
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Patent number: 12375129Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a first serving cell via Layer 3 control signaling, a configuration indicating a plurality of transmission reception points (TRPs) and one or more parameters enabling activation or deactivation of TRPs in the plurality of TRPs. The UE may receive, from the first serving cell via Layer 2 control signaling, explicit multi-TRP information that indicates an activation of a second serving cell and a TRP associated with the second serving cell, wherein the explicit multi-TRP information indicates that the second serving cell is to be activated as a primary cell and the TRP is to be activated as a primary TRP. The UE may communicate with the primary cell and the primary TRP. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mohamed Atef Abdelazim Shehata, Jelena Damnjanovic, Changhwan Park, Tao Luo, Mostafa Khoshnevisan
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Patent number: 12375135Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may generate a recommendation for a first codebook that is for a single transmit receive point (TRP) and that does not include a time domain (TD) or Doppler domain (DD) basis, or for a second codebook that is for multiple TRPs or that includes a TD or DD basis. The UE may transmit the recommendation. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kiran Venugopal, Wooseok Nam, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12375142Abstract: Method and apparatus for sharing dynamic capability levels of calibration to other devices in a network. The apparatus transmits, to a second UE, a first calibration capability message indicating a first set of one or more levels of calibration capabilities. The apparatus performs an online calibration procedure with the second UE based at least on the first calibration capability message indicating the first set of one or more levels of the calibration capabilities. The apparatus may receive, from the second UE, a second calibration capability message associated with the second UE indicating a second set of one or more levels of the calibration capabilities for the second UE. The apparatus may transmit a beamforming loss indication indicating a loss in beamforming array gain with use of an uncalibrated amplitude or phase settings corresponding to at least one of an operating frequency, a temperature level, or a gain stage level.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Kobi Ravid, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 12369222Abstract: Aspects relate to aligning discontinuous reception (DRX) timing associated with sidelink communication. In some examples, a DRX alignment group may be indicated for a user equipment (UE) for the purposes of aligning the DRX timing of a sidelink connection with the DRX timing of at least one other connection (e.g., a base station connection and/or another sidelink connection). In some examples, a base station may signal to the UE an indication of at least one DRX alignment group for the UE.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kaidong Wang, Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12369045Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless communications system may support quasi co-location prioritization techniques. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling to monitor at least one control resource set. The UE may receive a control message to monitor a shared data channel that overlaps in time with the at least one control resource set. For example, the control message may schedule a downlink message via the shared data channel in a time period of the at least one control resource set. The UE may monitor the at least one control resource set, the shared data channel, or both based on one or more priority rules. A priority rule may indicate to monitor a corresponding control resource set, shared data channel, or both based on whether the quasi co-location assumptions of the various control resource sets or shared data channels are the same or different.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Yitao Chen, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12369024Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for controlling access and use of network resources and services by user equipment based on user equipment capabilities. In one aspect, a method for wireless communication by a network entity, includes: receiving, from a user equipment, a request to connect to a network, the request comprising a user equipment identifier and a reduced capability indication; determining a validity of the reduced capability indication based on at least one of: subscription data associated with the user equipment; or one or more capabilities associated with the user equipment; and making a connection decision based on the validity of the reduced capability indication.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2023Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Linhai He, Gavin Bernard Horn, Soo Bum Lee, Miguel Griot, Hwan Joon Kwon, Jing Lei, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Rajat Prakash
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Patent number: 12369073Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may obtain one or more communication parameters associated with one or more communications to be transmitted by the UE. The UE may transmit the one or more communications based at least in part on a congestion control algorithm selected from a set of candidate congestion control algorithms, the congestion control algorithm selected based at least in part on the one or more communication parameters. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ertugrul Necdet Ciftcioglu, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Yubing Jian, Reza Shahidi, Arnaud Meylan, Supratik Bhattacharjee, Gautham Hariharan
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Patent number: 12369141Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a second UE or a network node, a configuration for a resource pool, wherein the resource pool is associated with a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource comprising more than two symbols. The first UE may receive, from the second UE, a sidelink transmission. The first UE may transmit, to the second UE and based at least in part on the sidelink transmission, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) feedback based at least in part on the PSFCH resource comprising more than two symbols. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
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Patent number: 12369143Abstract: An apparatus may be configured to transmit a first indication of a maximum number of active periodic resource sets of a plurality of periodic resource sets at the first wireless device, where the plurality of periodic resource sets is configured for communication between the first wireless device and a second device, receive a second indication of a first state of the plurality of periodic resource sets, and transmit, based on a power-related characteristic of the first wireless device, a third indication of an update to the first state of the plurality of periodic resource sets.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2023Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Diana Maamari, Huilin Xu, Yuchul Kim, Linhai He, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
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Patent number: 12366632Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) in a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) system may receive configuration information from an assisting node, such as a roadside unit (RSU), for calculating location information for a target UE in the V2X system. The assisting node may reflect one or more radar signals from the UE towards the target, and from the target back towards the UE according to the configuration information. That is, the assisting node may modify one or more waveform parameters of the reflection according to the configuration information. The UE may calculate location information for the target based on the reflection, such as by classifying the target as non-line-of-sight (NLOS) based on modified waveform parameters, location information of the assisting node, or both.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Preeti Kumari, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li, Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Shuanshuan Wu, Navid Abedini, Sourjya Dutta