Patents Assigned to Sony Mobile Communication Inc.
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Patent number: 12253854Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to realize a rich motion expression of an autonomous mobile object by easier attitude control. The information processing device includes: a motion control unit that controls a motion of an autonomous mobile object, wherein the autonomous mobile object includes a wheel that can be stored inside a main body and that can be protruded to an outside of the main body, and the motion control unit keeps a standing state by making the wheel protruded to the outside of the main body and performs driving control of the wheel and attitude control of the autonomous mobile object in movement of the autonomous mobile object, and makes the autonomous mobile object remain still in a seated state during a stop thereof by storing the wheel inside the main body is provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2024Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Noriaki Takagi, Masahiro Shimase, Tomoyuki Sonoda, Daisuke Watanabe, Kohei Takada
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Publication number: 20250089101Abstract: A communications device transmits data in preconfigured resources of an uplink of a wireless communications network by performing a procedure to determine whether the communications device can transmit signals in the preconfigured resources of the uplink, and if the communications device determines that it can transmit signals in the preconfigured resources, transmitting signals representing the data in the preconfigured resources. The procedure to determine whether the communications device can transmit signals in the preconfigured resources of the uplink includes a transmission parameter confirmation procedure which confirms that a value of one or more transmission parameters to be used for transmitting the signals representing the data can be used for the signals representing the data to be detected by an infrastructure equipment of the wireless communications network.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Martin Warwick BEALE, Shin Horng WONG, Basuki PRIYANTO
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Publication number: 20250071734Abstract: A method of communicating data between a radio network infrastructure and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network. The method comprises establishing at a radio network infrastructure element there is data available for communication between the radio network infrastructure and the terminal device and transmitting a paging message for the terminal device from the radio network infrastructure element. The paging message comprises an indication of an identifier for the terminal device and an indication of a network allocated resource for use in subsequently communicating the data between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device. In response to receiving the paging message the terminal device transmits to the radio network infrastructure element a paging response indicating the terminal device received the paging message, after which the data is communicated between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device using the network allocated resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Brian Alexander MARTIN, Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Shinichiro TSUDA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN
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Patent number: 12238678Abstract: A method of managing a paging message for a user Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication network includes transmitting the paging message to the UE in the wireless communication network, receiving a wait indication from the UE, and delaying a retransmission of the paging message to the UE responsive to receiving a wait indication from the UE. A method of operating a UE in a wireless communication network includes receiving a paging message from a network node, and, responsive to receiving the paging message, transmitting a wait indication to the network node indicating a delay in transmission of a response to the paging message.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Torgny Palenius, Lars Nord
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Patent number: 12224965Abstract: A communication device includes a receiver, a transmitter and a control circuit. The receiver is configured to receive, from an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network, downlink signals on a downlink via a wireless access interface of the mobile communications network. The transmitter is configured to transmit, to the infrastructure equipment, uplink signals on an uplink via the wireless access interface. The control circuit is configured to control the receiver to receive the downlink signals and control the transmitter to transmit the uplink signals. The control circuit is further configured to delay a reception period for the receiver to receive the downlink signals after a transmission period in which the transmitter transmits the uplink signals when a duration of the transmission period exceeds a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong, Basuki Priyanto
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Patent number: 12213215Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system, which has a circuitry configured to communicate with a new radio base station and a LTE base station. The circuitry is further configured to: perform simultaneous uplink communication with the LTE base station and the new radio base station; detect an overheating situation; and transmit capability information in response to detecting the overheating situation.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignees: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Yuxin Wei, Anders Berggren, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
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Patent number: 12177728Abstract: A terminal device and a method of operating a terminal device in a wireless communication network. The method comprises establishing, by the terminal device, a first radio connection with a first network access node for transmission of data via a first bearer and a second radio connection with the first network access node for transmission of data via a second bearer. Based on a difference between quality of service for the data transmission via the first bearer and the second bearer, a third radio connection is established between the terminal device and a second network access node for transmission of the data via the first bearer; and the third radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node, a fourth radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node for transmission of the data via the second bearer.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yuxin Wei, Anders Berggren
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Patent number: 12160897Abstract: A communications device transmits data in preconfigured resources of an uplink of a wireless communications network by performing a procedure to determine whether the communications device can transmit signals in the preconfigured resources of the uplink, and if the communications device determines that it can transmit signals in the preconfigured resources, transmitting signals representing the data in the preconfigured resources. The procedure to determine whether the communications device can transmit signals in the preconfigured resources of the uplink includes a transmission parameter confirmation procedure which confirms that a value of one or more transmission parameters to be used for transmitting the signals representing the data can be used for the signals representing the data to be detected by an infrastructure equipment of the wireless communications network.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong, Basuki Priyanto
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Publication number: 20240397367Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device to establish a radio resource control connection with network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications network, wherein the terminal device is associated with a previously-allocated temporary identifier that identifies the terminal device within the wireless telecommunications network; the method comprising: transmitting a first message to the network infrastructure equipment comprising an indication of a first portion of the temporary identifier; and transmitting a second message, which is separate from the first message, to the network infrastructure equipment comprising an indication of a second portion of the temporary identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Svante ALNÅS, Lars NORD, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Anders BERGGREN, Yuxin WEI
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Publication number: 20240397515Abstract: An infrastructure equipment that transmits a radio network identifier to a communications device for identifying the communications device when allocating communications resources of the wireless access interface for transmitting downlink data to the communications device. After the communications device has entered an inactive connected state, the infrastructure equipment transmits control signals including the radio network identifier for allocating communications resources of the wireless access interface for the communications device to receive downlink data, determine whether the communications device is still within a radio coverage area of the infrastructure equipment, and if the communications device has left the coverage area, transmit an indication to the one or more other infrastructure equipment via the inter-connecting interface to trigger a process for transmitting downlink data to the communications device from the one or more other infrastructure equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Shin Horng WONG, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Martin Warwick BEALE, Yuxin WEI, Anders BERGGREN, Lars NORD
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Patent number: 12150068Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system includes circuitry including a receiver and a transmitter and which is configured to communicate with a new radio base station and a LTE base station. The circuitry is further configured to indicate a co-existence indication to the new radio base station or to the LTE base station; and receive a power control instruction for controlling power output of the transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Anders Berggren, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
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Patent number: 12150093Abstract: A method of communicating data between a radio network infrastructure and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network. The method comprises establishing at a radio network infrastructure element there is data available for communication between the radio network infrastructure and the terminal device and transmitting a paging message for the terminal device from the radio network infrastructure element. The paging message comprises an indication of an identifier for the terminal device and an indication of a network allocated resource for use in subsequently communicating the data between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device. In response to receiving the paging message the terminal device transmits to the radio network infrastructure element a paging response indicating the terminal device received the paging message, after which the data is communicated between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device using the network allocated resource.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren
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Patent number: 12143174Abstract: A method of configuring a multichannel uplink transmission comprising multiple channels between a wireless communication device and multiple receive panels of at least one network node is provided. The multiple receive panels and the at least one network node are connected via backhaul links. The method is carried out by the wireless communication device. The method comprises receiving, from the at least one network node, a downlink message encoding control data for the multichannel uplink transmission, the control data being associated with the backhaul links. The method further comprises configuring the multichannel uplink transmission based on the control data.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Fredrik Rusek, Erik Bengtsson, Olof Zander
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Publication number: 20240373410Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device to communicate with a network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications system using radio resources comprising a narrowband carrier supported within a wider system frequency bandwidth of the wireless telecommunications system, wherein the method comprises: establishing initial frequencies for radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier; receiving configuration signalling from the network infrastructure equipment providing an indication of a frequency shift to apply to the initial frequencies for the radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier; establishing shifted frequencies for the radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier by applying the indicated frequency shift to the initial frequencies; and communicating with the network infrastructure equipment using the radio resources for the narrowband carrier with the shifted frequencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Basuki PRIYANTO
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Patent number: 12133211Abstract: The present disclosure provides a new radio base station for a mobile telecommunications system. The new radio base station has a circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment and at least one LTE base station and to establish a new radio cell. The circuitry is further configured to transmit a time division duplexing configuration of the new radio cell to the LTE base station for identifying, based on the received time division duplexing configuration, a coexistence and intermodulation influence on an LTE receiver of the at least one user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Yuxin Wei, Anders Berggren, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
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Patent number: 12114366Abstract: A method of transmitting data in a telecommunications system comprising a terminal transmitting a first random access request message to the base station in accordance with the first random access procedure for transmitting the data to the base station, the first random access request message comprising at least part of the data and a first preamble; and upon determination that the use of the first random access procedure has been unsuccessful, the terminal transmitting a second random access request message to the base station in accordance with the second random access procedure for transmitting the data to the base station, the second random access request message comprising a second preamble.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Yuxin Wei, Anders Berggren, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20240314015Abstract: A method and device for selecting a beam used in communication in an environment in which massive-MIMO beamforming is performed, to include a base station including: a communication unit configured to form multiple beams and perform communication with a terminal apparatus; and a control unit configured to transmit, to the terminal apparatus, first identification information of a group that is used in communication with the terminal apparatus among the first identification information allocated to groups each of which includes multiple beams to be formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventor: Takashi NAKAYAMA
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Patent number: 12075397Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device to communicate with a network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications system using radio resources comprising a narrowband carrier supported within a wider system frequency bandwidth of the wireless telecommunications system, wherein the method comprises: establishing initial frequencies for radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier; receiving configuration signalling from the network infrastructure equipment providing an indication of a frequency shift to apply to the initial frequencies for the radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier; establishing shifted frequencies for the radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier by applying the indicated frequency shift to the initial frequencies; and communicating with the network infrastructure equipment using the radio resources for the narrowband carrier with the shifted frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Basuki Priyanto
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Patent number: 12069660Abstract: An infrastructure equipment that transmits a radio network identifier to a communications device for identifying the communications device when allocating communications resources of the wireless access interface for transmitting downlink data to the communications device. After the communications device has entered an inactive connected state, the infrastructure equipment transmits control signals including the radio network identifier for allocating communications resources of the wireless access interface for the communications device to receive downlink data, determine whether the communications device is still within a radio coverage area of the infrastructure equipment, and if the communications device has left the coverage area, transmit an indication to the one or more other infrastructure equipment via the inter-connecting interface to trigger a process for transmitting downlink data to the communications device from the one or more other infrastructure equipment.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Brian Alexander Martin, Martin Warwick Beale, Yuxin Wei, Anders Berggren, Lars Nord
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Patent number: 12063564Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system including a terminal device; first infrastructure equipment operable to communicate with the terminal device using a first radio access technology (RAT) and second infrastructure equipment operable to communicate with the terminal device using a second RAT. During a handover procedure for handover from the first infrastructure equipment as a source master infrastructure equipment to a third infrastructure equipment as a target master infrastructure equipment, the second infrastructure equipment is operable to communicate with the third infrastructure equipment using an interface associated with the second RAT so as to allow information necessary for completing the handover to be exchanged between the first infrastructure equipment and the third infrastructure equipment via the second infrastructure equipment.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2023Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Brian Alexander Martin, Anders Berggren, Lars Nord