Patents Assigned to Wi-Lan Inc.
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Publication number: 20250141612Abstract: Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel. Various example channel characteristics and combinations thereof are described. Different data allocation options for aggregated channels are described. Other alternative implementations are also presented herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2025Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Kenneth L. Stanwood, Ramon Khalona, Lei Wang, Yair Bourlas, Gene W. Marsh, Robert P. Gilmore, Ron Porat, Paul W. Piggin
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Publication number: 20250119185Abstract: A method of transmission over multiple wireless channels in a multiple antenna system includes storing channel modulation matrices at a transmitter; receiving quantized channel state information at the transmitter from plural receivers; selecting a transmission modulation matrix using the quantized channel state information from the stored channel modulation matrices; and transmitting over the multiple channels to the plural receivers using the selected transmission modulation matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Bartosz Mielczarek, Witold A. Krzymien
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Patent number: 12192124Abstract: Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel. Various example channel characteristics and combinations thereof are described. Different data allocation options for aggregated channels are described. Other alternative implementations are also presented herein.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Kenneth L. Stanwood, Ramon Khalona, Lei Wang, Yair Bourlas, Gene W. Marsh, Robert P. Gilmore, Ron Porat, Paul W. Piggin
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Patent number: 12170551Abstract: A method of transmission over multiple wireless channels in a multiple antenna system includes storing channel modulation matrices at a transmitter; receiving quantized channel state information at the transmitter from plural receivers; selecting a transmission modulation matrix using the quantized channel state information from the stored channel modulation matrices; and transmitting over the multiple channels to the plural receivers using the selected transmission modulation matrix.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Bartosz Mielczarek, Witold A. Krzymien
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Patent number: 12149999Abstract: Methods and devices for operating a wireless communication device that can communicate with at least two different co-located APs are described. The device may receive, from a first AP, information corresponding to a second AP of the co-located APs. The information corresponding to the second AP may include state information of the second AP. The device may establish a first wireless link with the first AP using a first frequency of the first AP and establish a second wireless link with the second AP using a second frequency which is different than the first frequency. The device may simultaneously receive first data from the first AP and second data from the second AP.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Dennis P. Connors, Gene W. Marsh
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Publication number: 20240187044Abstract: Methods are disclosed for improving communications on feedback transmission channels, in which there is a possibility of bit errors. The basic solutions to counter those errors are: proper design of the CSI vector quantizer indexing (i.e., the bit representation of centroid indices) in order to minimize impact of index errors, use of error detection techniques to expurgate the erroneous indices and use of other methods to recover correct indices.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: Wi-LAN, INC.Inventors: Bartosz Mielczarek, Witold A. Krzymien
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Publication number: 20240089040Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for mitigating intercell interference in wireless communication systems utilizing substantially the same operating frequency band across multiple neighboring coverage areas. The operating frequency band may be shared across multiple neighboring or otherwise adjacent cells, such as in a frequency reuse one configuration. The wireless communication system can synchronize one or more resource allocation regions or zones across the multiple base stations, and can coordinate a permutation type within each resource allocation zone. The base stations can coordinate a pilot configuration in each of a plurality of coordinated resource allocation regions. Subscriber stations can be assigned resources in a coordinated resource allocation region based on interference levels. A subscriber station can determine a channel estimate for each of multiple base stations in the coordinated resource allocation region to mitigate interference.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Hari SANKAR, Ron Porat, Danjie Pan, Wee Peng Goh, Srikanth Gummadi, Lei Wang
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Publication number: 20240057104Abstract: A method of wireless communication including a base station transmitting a preamble including information indicating a sector identifier and an antenna port value. The base station further transmits a pilot sequence, wherein the pilot sequence and the location of the pilot sequence are based on the sector identifier and on the antenna port value. A base station configured to perform the method is also disclosed. A corresponding subscriber station configured to receive the preamble and pilot sequence is also disclosed, as well as a subscriber station method.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Gene Marsh, Srikanth Gummadi, William Burchill, Michael Wengler
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Patent number: 11901976Abstract: Methods are disclosed for improving communications on feedback transmission channels, in which there is a possibility of bit errors. The basic solutions to counter those errors are: proper design of the CSI vector quantizer indexing (i.e., the bit representation of centroid indices) in order to minimize impact of index errors, use of error detection techniques to expurgate the erroneous indices and use of other methods to recover correct indices.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Bartosz Mielczarek, Witold A. Krzymien
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Publication number: 20240048193Abstract: A method of transmission over multiple wireless channels in a multiple antenna system includes storing channel modulation matrices at a transmitter; receiving quantized channel state information at the transmitter from plural receivers; selecting a transmission modulation matrix using the quantized channel state information from the stored channel modulation matrices; and transmitting over the multiple channels to the plural receivers using the selected transmission modulation matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Bartosz Mielczarek, Witold A. Krzymien
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Publication number: 20230403621Abstract: Methods and devices for operating a wireless communication device that can communicate with at least two different co-located APs are described. The device may receive, from a first AP, information corresponding to a second AP of the co-located APs. The information corresponding to the second AP may include state information of the second AP. The device may establish a first wireless link with the first AP using a first frequency of the first AP and establish a second wireless link with the second AP using a second frequency which is different than the first frequency. The device may simultaneously receive first data from the first AP and second data from the second AP.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Dennis P. Connors, Gene W. Marsh
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Patent number: 11824800Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for mitigating intercell interference in wireless communication systems utilizing substantially the same operating frequency band across multiple neighboring coverage areas. The operating frequency band may be shared across multiple neighboring or otherwise adjacent cells, such as in a frequency reuse one configuration. The wireless communication system can synchronize one or more resource allocation regions or zones across the multiple base stations, and can coordinate a permutation type within each resource allocation zone. The base stations can coordinate a pilot configuration in each of a plurality of coordinated resource allocation regions. Subscriber stations can be assigned resources in a coordinated resource allocation region based on interference levels. A subscriber station can determine a channel estimate for each of multiple base stations in the coordinated resource allocation region to mitigate interference.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Hari Sankar, Ron Porat, Danjie Pan, Wee Peng Goh, Srikanth Gummadi, Lei Wang
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Patent number: 11800536Abstract: A method of wireless communication including a base station transmitting a preamble including information indicating a sector identifier and an antenna port value. The base station further transmits a pilot sequence, wherein the pilot sequence and the location of the pilot sequence are based on the sector identifier and on the antenna port value. A base station configured to perform the method is also disclosed. A corresponding subscriber station configured to receive the preamble and pilot sequence is also disclosed, as well as a subscriber station method.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Gene Marsh, Srikanth Gummadi, William Burchill, Michael Wengler
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Patent number: 11743792Abstract: Methods and devices for operating a wireless communication device that can communicate with at least two different co-located APs are described. The device may receive, from a first AP, information corresponding to a second AP of the co-located APs. The information corresponding to the second AP may include state information of the second AP. The device may establish a first wireless link with the first AP using a first frequency of the first AP and establish a second wireless link with the second AP using a second frequency which is different than the first frequency. The device may simultaneously receive first data from the first AP and second data from the second AP.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: WI-LAN INC.Inventors: Dennis P. Connors, Gene W. Marsh
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Publication number: 20230239849Abstract: Methods and apparatus for communicating and utilizing persistent allocation of resources are described herein. A base station may allocate persistent resources to a client station, and may associate the client station or persistent resource allocation with a particular shared NACK channel. The base station may monitor the NACK channel for a NACK indicating a map error. The base station may monitor the resource allocation to implicitly determine a map error. The base station may resend one or more persistent resource allocation information elements in response to the NACK or implicit error determination. A client station having a persistent resource allocation may monitor persistent resource allocation information elements in map messages and/or may indicate failure to receive a persistent resource allocation information element in a NACK message on a shared NACK channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Yair Bourlas, Kirupairaj Asirvatham
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Publication number: 20230217465Abstract: A multicast broadcast service controller is disclosed. The MBSC processes multicast broadcast data streams for transmission to access service network gateways or base stations. The MBSC includes a MBSC core processor for establishing time synchronization information used by the access service network gateways or base stations to synchronously transmit data streams. The MBSC core processor selects streams for transmission in a time diversity interval (TDI) and builds multicast broadcast (MBS) region content based on the selected streams and configuration information. The MBS region content includes timing synchronization information, resource information and MBS region content location information. A MBS region distribution module (MRD) transmits the MBS region content to the access service network gateways or base stations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Yoav Nebat, Sina Zahedi, Dennis Connors
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Patent number: 11689254Abstract: A method of transmission over multiple wireless channels in a multiple antenna system includes storing channel modulation matrices at a transmitter; receiving quantized channel state information at the transmitter from plural receivers; selecting a transmission modulation matrix using the quantized channel state information from the stored channel modulation matrices; and transmitting over the multiple channels to the plural receivers using the selected transmission modulation matrix.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Bartosz Mielczarek, Witold A. Krzymien
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Publication number: 20230155637Abstract: Methods are disclosed for improving communications on feedback transmission channels, in which there is a possibility of bit errors. The basic solutions to counter those errors are: proper design of the CSI vector quantizer indexing (i.e., the bit representation of centroid indices) in order to minimize impact of index errors, use of error detection techniques to expurgate the erroneous indices and use of other methods to recover correct indices.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: Wi-LAN, INC.Inventors: Bartosz Mielczarek, Witold A. Krzymien
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Patent number: 11621990Abstract: A method of encapsulating data and a single frequency network configured to perform the method are disclosed. A content stream of data packets is received, and the data packets in the content stream are formatted in accordance with a first protocol. Information identifying a container size established for the content stream is received. The data packets formatted in accordance with the first protocol are fragmented and packed to form data units formatted in accordance with a second protocol, and the data units are sized based on the container size. The data units formatted in accordance with the second protocol are encapsulated to form second protocol data packets. The second protocol data packets are provided to a transmitter that is synchronized to one or more transmitters in a single frequency network so that each transmitter in the single frequency network broadcasts a same signal that includes the second protocol data packets.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Brian D. Petry, Dennis P. Connors, Gene W. Marsh, Srikanth Gummadi, Keerthi S. Govind, William S. Burchill, Seema Madan
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Patent number: 11611964Abstract: Methods and apparatus for communicating and utilizing persistent allocation of resources are described herein. A base station may allocate persistent resources to a client station, and may associate the client station or persistent resource allocation with a particular shared NACK channel. The base station may monitor the NACK channel for a NACK indicating a map error. The base station may monitor the resource allocation to implicitly determine a map error. The base station may resend one or more persistent resource allocation information elements in response to the NACK or implicit error determination. A client station having a persistent resource allocation may monitor persistent resource allocation information elements in map messages and/or may indicate failure to receive a persistent resource allocation information element in a NACK message on a shared NACK channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Yair Bourlas, Kirupairaj Asirvatham