Patents Examined by Afshawn M Towfighi
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Patent number: 11974302Abstract: A method and a User Equipment (UE) for beam operations are provided. The method includes monitoring at least one of a plurality of Control Resource Sets (CORESETs) configured for the UE within an active Bandwidth Part (BWP) of a serving cell in a time slot; and applying a first Quasi Co-Location (QCL) assumption of a first CORESET of a set of one or more of the monitored at least one of the plurality of CORESETs to receive a Downlink (DL) Reference Signal (RS), wherein the first CORESET is associated with a monitored search space configured with a lowest CORESET Identity (ID) among the set of one or more of the monitored at least one of the plurality of CORESETs.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Hannibal IP LLCInventors: Chien-Chun Cheng, Tsung-Hua Tsai, Yu-Hsin Cheng, Wan-Chen Lin
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Patent number: 11963225Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving uplink control information. The method includes: determining a channel access type of an uplink control channel used for transmitting uplink control information by a terminal equipment; and detecting a channel according to the channel access type and transmitting the uplink control information to a network device after the channel is detected as being idle, or not detecting a channel according to the channel access type and transmitting the uplink control information to the network device. Hence, in some scenarios, uplink control information may be transmitted without detecting a channel, which may lower latency and improve transmission efficiency; and in some other scenarios, uplink control information may be transmitted after the channel is detected as being idle, which may avoid or lower interference and improve reliability of transmission.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Guoyu Zhang, Qinyan Jiang, Meiyi Jia, Lei Zhang
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Patent number: 11963017Abstract: Provided are an interference control method and apparatus, a response message sending method and apparatus, a response message forwarding method and apparatus, a communication device, and a communication system. A reference signal sent by a victim base station carries an addressing identifier. The addressing identifier corresponds to route information of a victim node set. Thus, when an aggressor base station monitors the reference signal, an aggressor node set may send a response message to the victim node set according to the addressing identifier, so that the victim base station in the victim node set can respond to the message to determine that the aggressor base station has received the reference signal sent by the victim base station.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Dapeng Li, Yin Gao, Yang Liu
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Patent number: 11962372Abstract: A channel matrix representing characteristics of a multi-path channel between a transmitter device (210) equipped with multiple transmitter antennas (211, 212, 213, 214, 215) and at least one receiver device (220, 230, 240) equipped with one or more receiver antennas (221, 222, 231, 232, 241, 242). The channel matrix is organized in one or more channel vectors each associated with a corresponding one of the one or more receiver antennas (221, 222, 231, 232, 241, 242). An iterative optimization algorithm is applied to determine a precoding matrix from the channel matrix. At least one step size of the iterative optimization algorithm is set depending on a vector norm of at least one of the channel vectors. Multi-antenna transmission by the transmitter device (210) is then controlled based on the determined precoding matrix.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Mohammadreza Malek-Mohammadi, Niklas Jaldén
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Patent number: 11958634Abstract: A constellation planning system receives a request, from a client, to plan an optimal set of tasks for one or more satellites in a constellation of satellites and at least one ground station in a constellation of ground stations. The request includes a planning problem object. The system generates a status of the planning task describing a progress of the planning task, and returns the status to the client. If the status of a task is successful, then the client may retrieve the resulting schedule and publish it to the constellation.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SPIRE GLOBAL SUBSIDIARY, INC.Inventors: Marcus Tallhamn, Barry King
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Patent number: 11950311Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a transmitter configured to transmit a first message for requesting resume from an inactive state to a connected state; a receiver configured to receive a second message that includes priority information for cell selection (first information) and indicates a transition to an idle state (release of connection); and a controller configured to store the first information, in which the controller determines, based on whether or not a transition from an inactive state to an idle state is triggered by reception of the second message, in a case of storing the first information, whether to store or discard the first information.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidekazu Tsuboi, Takako Hori, Shohei Yamada
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Patent number: 11949598Abstract: A window adjustment method and apparatus, a network device and a terminal device, the method comprising: a network device determining a first sending parameter, the first sending parameter being used to indicate an SN of a first data packet, and sending the first data packet according to the first sending parameter, the first data packet being a next data packet expected to be sent in a send window (501); if the network device confirms that the first data packet has been accurately received by at least one terminal device, the network device moving the send window; a starting SN of the send window before being moved being a first SN, a starting SN of the send window after being moved being a second SN, and the second SN being a first unconfirmed SN after the first SN (502).Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Shukun Wang
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Patent number: 11943835Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method and a communications apparatus, and are used in the field of communications technologies, to resolve a problem of how to notify an access network device of an NR PC5 QoS parameter of a terminal. The method in one embodiment includes a home V2XCF that obtains an NR PC5 QoS parameter of a terminal, and the home V2XCF sends the NR PC5 QoS parameter to an access network device, such as a first network element that is in an EPS. The first network element receives the NR PC5 QoS parameter and sends the NR PC5 QoS parameter to an MME. After receiving the NR PC5 QoS parameter, the MME sends the NR PC5 QoS parameter to an access network device. The first network element may be an HSS or a PCRF.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiangwei Ying, Meng Li, Xiao Xiao
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Patent number: 11943652Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described herein for prioritizing sidelink communication transmissions. In accordance with one example embodiment, an apparatus may transmit, to a network node, assistance parameters associated with sidelink communication comprising quality of service (QoS) parameters. The apparatus may receive, from the network node, configuration parameters associated with sidelink communication that comprise a logical channel configuration, a mapping of a QoS parameter to a sidelink radio bearer, and a mapping of the sidelink radio bearer to a sidelink logical channel. The apparatus may receive a sidelink resource grant and may select, based on the logical channel configuration, one or more sidelink logical channels to be served by the sidelink resource grant. The apparatus may transmit a generated a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU), comprising data associated with the selected one or more sidelink logical channels, using the received sidelink resource grant.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Pascal M. Adjakple, Qing Li, Joseph M. Murray, Lakshmi R. Iyer, Mohamed Awadin, Yifan Li, Allan Y. Tsai, Guodong Zhang
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Patent number: 11937292Abstract: User equipment (UE)—initiated accesses within a cellular network are optimized to account for cell size and to reduce signaling overhead. A fixed set of preamble parameter configurations for use across a complete range of cell sizes within the cellular network is established and stored within each UE. A UE located in a given cell receives a configuration number transmitted from a nodeB serving the cell, the configuration number being indicative of a size of the cell. The UE selects a preamble parameter configuration from the fixed set of preamble parameter configurations in response to the received configuration number and then transmits a preamble from the UE to the nodeB using the preamble parameter configuration indicated by the configuration number.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Pierre Bertrand, Jing Jiang
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Patent number: 11930559Abstract: A wireless communication device controls Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) layers that use a radio band. The wireless communication device determines radio band status for the radio band. The wireless communication device wirelessly indicates the radio band status for the radio band to a wireless access node. The wireless access node selects a number of the MIMO layers based on the radio band status for the radio band. The wireless communication device wirelessly receives signaling from the wireless access node that indicates the number of the MIMO layers. The wireless access node wirelessly receives user data from the wireless access node over the radio band using the number of MIMO layers in response to the signaling.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLCInventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
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Patent number: 11924878Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment, a network side device, a wireless communication method and a storage medium. The user equipment of the present disclosure comprises a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured to: generate channel occupancy time (COT) sharing indication information, wherein the COT sharing indication information comprises time frequency resources used by other user equipments when the user equipment shares a COT with the other user equipments; and send the COT sharing indication information to the other user equipments. By using the user equipment, the network side device, the wireless communication method and the storage medium of the present disclosure, COT sharing can be supported in a D2D communication mode, thereby enabling a channel to be utilized more reasonably, and simplifying a usage process of an unauthorized frequency band in D2D communication.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaodong Xu, Guanyu Chen, Yingting Yuan, Xin Guo, Chen Sun, Mengying Sun, Rui Liu
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Patent number: 11917572Abstract: Disclosed are a transmission delay indication method and device. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, a network device determines a common transmission delay of at least one cell, and sends the common transmission delay to a terminal in the at least one cell. The common transmission delay is used for the terminal in the at least one cell to determine a transmission timing sequence with a network side.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Deshan Miao, Yanping Xing, Yali Zhao, Shaohui Sun
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Patent number: 11910397Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to generating a notification that instructs a user equipment (UE) to perform a configured grant-small data transmission (CG-SDT) action to cause CG-SDT resources of the UE to be released. A base station generates a notification with an instruction to perform a CG-SDT action and communicates the notification to a UE. The UE receives the instruction and performs the CG-SDT action to release CG-SDT resources allocated to the UE while the UE is in an inactive state.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Joachim Löhr, Prateek Basu Mallick
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Patent number: 11910321Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and an apparatus, to reduce a quantity of times of repeated transmission of data, reduce power consumption of a terminal device, save transmission resources, and maintain a high time diversity gain. The method includes: A network device sends first information, and a terminal device receives the first information, where the first information is used to configure K repeated transmission occasions. The network device and the terminal device repeatedly transmit first data on N repeated transmission occasions in the K repeated transmission occasions, where the N repeated transmission occasions are discontinuous in time domain, K is an integer greater than 1, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than K.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yunhao Zhang, Xiuqiang Xu, Yan Chen
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Patent number: 11910243Abstract: Method, apparatuses, and computer program product for network slice minimum and maximum resource quotas with soft limits. One method may include sending by a user, a request for user connection to a network element, the request resulting in resource quota reservation in a specific network concept. The method may also include receiving from the network element, an indication of whether the request was successful or unsuccessful. The request may include at least one procedure or action indicating network resource availability. The method may further include receiving allocated resources according to resource allocation rules specific to whether the user is entitled to use the allocated resources, and whether a user connection, a session, a bearer, a signaling connection or a data radio bearer request was successful.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OYInventor: Anna Sillanpaa
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Patent number: 11902214Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting, to a base station, capability information of the UE, and receiving configuration information associated with a transport block size (TBS). The TBS is determined based on a value of NRE·R·Qm·v. The NRE corresponds to a number of allocated resource elements, the R corresponds to a code rate, and the Qm corresponds to a modulation order, and the v corresponds to a number of allocated layers. A maximum value of the TBS is considered for transport block over multiple slots (TBoMS), and the maximum value of the TBS is determined by limiting at least one of a value of the NRE, the R, the Qm, or the v.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sungjin Park, Seho Myung, Younsun Kim, Hyunseok Ryu
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Patent number: 11902945Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of communications, and provided thereby are a data transmission method, device, equipment and system and a storage medium. The method comprises: generating m transmission blocks (TB) according to data to be transmitted, each TB comprising partial data from within the data, and m?2; dividing transmission content related to each TB into n transmission units within time domain, wherein n?2; and transmitting the n transmission units related to each TB alternately to a receiving terminal in the time domain, the transmission of the n transmission units in the time domain being non-continuous.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Qin Mu
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Patent number: 11902828Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a multicast message or a broadcast message that uses a radio link control (RLC) format associated with an RLC acknowledged mode (RLC-AM). The UE may decode the multicast message or the broadcast message to identify information associated with an RLC unacknowledged mode (RLC-UM) based at least in part on a capability of the UE. The UE may operate in accordance with the RLC-UM based at least in part on decoding the multicast message or the broadcast message. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Umesh Phuyal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Le Liu, Kazuki Takeda
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Patent number: 11894951Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for transmission link configuration using reference signal mapping in next generation cellular networks are described. An example method for wireless communication, based on the disclosed technology, includes transmitting data over at least one transmission link that is configured based on a mapping between two reference signals, each of which is configured with different subsets of one or more network parameters. Another example method includes dividing a plurality of SRS (sounding reference signal) resource sets into a plurality of groups based on network parameters of SRS resources or SRS resource sets, and transmitting, within one of the plurality of groups, only one SRS resource in each of multiple SRS resource sets at an identical time, where the SRS resources in different SRS resource sets can be transmitted simultaneously. The methods described may include beam management implementations for wireless communications.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Chuangxin Jiang, Shujuan Zhang, Zhaohua Lu, Bo Gao, Meng Mei