Patents Examined by Afshawn M Towfighi
  • Patent number: 12289764
    Abstract: A terminal device includes: a receiver configured to: receive RRC signaling for configuring one or a plurality of channel access types, the one or the plurality of channel access types including at least one of the following: a first channel access type not performing channel detection, a second channel access type containing a detection interval, a third channel access type containing a detection interval and a contention window, and receive downlink control information (DCI) indicating a channel access type of a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) used for transmitting HARQ feedback information from the one or the plurality of channel access types; and a transmitter configured to transmit the PUCCH according to the channel access type of the PUCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Guoyu Zhang, Qinyan Jiang, Meiyi Jia, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12279314
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for performing: determining information comprising: a rate of failure for random access channel attempts in at least one cell controlled by the apparatus; and/or a number of successful random access channel attempts in the at least one cell controlled by the apparatus and a number of failed random access channel attempts in the at least one cell controlled by the apparatus; and sending the information from the apparatus to a second apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Anna Pantelidou, Hakon Helmers
  • Patent number: 12279149
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described herein for prioritizing sidelink communication transmissions. In accordance with one example embodiment, a WTRU may include a processor, configured to receive vehicle-to-x communication (V2X) configuration parameters from a V2X network node. The V2X communication parameters may be associate with sidelink communications for a V2X service. The WTRU may send a user equipment (UE) information message to a gNB. The UE information message may include quality of service (QoS) information associated with the V2X service. The WTRU may further receive a radio resource control (RRC) configuration message from the gNB. The RRC configuration message may include an indication of a logical channel to be used for communication sidelink data associated with the V2X service, and one or more logical channel configuration parameters for the logical channel to be used for communication of the sidelink data associated with the V2X service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 12273740
    Abstract: Examples relate to processing circuitry, processing means, methods and computer programs for a base station and a user equipment. The processing circuitry for the base station is configured to select one of a first uplink beamforming management mode and a second uplink beamforming mode for a beamformed uplink communication between a user equipment and the base station. The selection is based on a path loss on a first wireless channel between the base station and the user equipment and based on a path loss on a second wireless channel between the user equipment and the base station. The processing circuitry is configured to provide an instruction related to the selection of the first or second uplink beamforming management mode to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Zhibin Yu
  • Patent number: 12267185
    Abstract: A method for verifying an alarm condition in an environmental sensing system includes monitoring data received from environmental sensors; detecting anomalous data received from one of the plurality of environmental sensors; determining the context in which the anomalous data was acquired is consistent with typical usage activities; and providing an alarm condition alert when the determined context is not consistent with typical activities. A system for intelligently monitoring environmental conditions includes environmental sensors configured to monitor first and second environmental conditions and to communicate with an intelligent analysis module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Elemental Machines, Inc.
    Inventor: Sridhar Iyengar
  • Patent number: 12267724
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first E-UTRAN cell global identifier (ECGI) associated with an aerial base station (ABS), determining a location of the ABS, and determining that a terrestrial base station (TBS) is within a distance threshold of the location of the ABS. Further embodiments include providing the first ECGI of the ABS to the TBS, and providing instructions to the TBS to indicate to each terrestrial communication devices (TCDs) communicatively coupled to the TBS to add a cell individual offset (CIO) factor to a first signal strength associated with a first signal received from the ABS. The TBS provides instructions to each of the TCDs to add a CIO factor to the first signal strength associated with the first signal received from the ABS. The second instructions includes the first ECGI associated with the ABS. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Vivanco
  • Patent number: 12267826
    Abstract: A configuration of providing uplink resources that supports low throughput traffic and high throughput traffic, while providing efficient utilization of downlink resources. The apparatus configures at least one UE with a set of group identifiers, the set of group identifiers including at least one group identifiers. The apparatus transmits a GC-DCI in a GC search space, the GC-DCI indicates to the at least one UE a change of uplink data resources, the GC-DCI may be encoded using a group identifier from the set of group identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qiaoyu Li, Chao Wei, Peter Pui Lok Ang
  • Patent number: 12250653
    Abstract: A TA configuration method, a terminal and a network side device are provided. The TA configuration method includes: transmitting, by a terminal, a first SRS to a network side device on N SRS resource sets through N antenna groups respectively, N being an integer greater than 1; and receiving, by the terminal, a first configuration message transmitted by the network side device, the first configuration message being used to configure N TAs, the N TAs corresponding to the N antenna groups respectively, the N TAs being obtained by the network side device through measuring the first SRS on the N SRS resource sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Sun, Runhua Chen
  • Patent number: 12250645
    Abstract: Provided is a method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, including: receiving, from a base station, configuration information regarding a plurality of search spaces for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) repetition; monitoring a plurality of PDCCHs on at least one cell based on the configuration information; identifying a time at which a repetition of PDCCHs including a first downlink control information (DCI) format, from among the plurality of PDCCHs, ends; determining at least one power headroom report (PHR) for the plurality of PDCCHs, based on an actual transmission or a reference format configured from higher layer signaling according to the identified time; and transmitting the determined at least one PHR on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) scheduled by the first DCI format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seongmok Lim, Youngrok Jang, Ameha Tsegaye Abebe, Hyoungju Ji
  • Patent number: 12244397
    Abstract: In aspects, a non-terrestrial communication system communicates with a user equipment, UE, using repetitive communications. The non-terrestrial communication system determines a repetition configuration for repetitive communications with the UE and indicates the repetition configuration to the UE. The non-terrestrial communication system communicates with the UE using the repetitive communications in accordance with the repetition configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer, Aamir Akram, Sharath Ananth
  • Patent number: 12245321
    Abstract: The present specification discloses a DRX operation method performed, by a terminal in which a PCell and a SCell are configured, in a wireless communication system. The DRX operation method comprises: receiving DRX configuration information from a base station; monitoring a PDCCH on the PCell based on the DRX configuration information; receiving dormant BWP configuration information from the base station, wherein the dormant BWP configuration information is information about a downlink BWP used as a dormant BWP on the SCell, from among at least one downlink BWP configured for the terminal; receiving, from the base station, DCI for notifying activation of the dormant BWP; and stopping monitoring a second PDCCH in the dormant BWP on the SCell, wherein a BWP inactivity timer is not used based on the activation of the dormant BWP, and the BWP inactivity timer may be a timer for transition to a default BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim
  • Patent number: 12245068
    Abstract: This application discloses a communication method and apparatus, to improve transmission efficiency of a control plane message of a terminal according to a control and provisioning of wireless access points protocol. In this application, a control request message of a terminal may be transmitted between a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus through a target channel. Because the target channel supports concurrency of a plurality of messages, transmission efficiency of the control request message of the terminal can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haoren Zhu, Huan Li, Weisheng Jin
  • Patent number: 12244409
    Abstract: Provided are a configuration method and apparatus, a receiving method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The configuration method includes: determining a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) set based on a higher-layer configuration parameter; and configuring an MCS of data based on the MCS set; where the higher-layer configuration parameter indicates whether data transmission supports a 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM) modulation scheme, and the MCS set includes one or more of: a first MCS set and a second MCS set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Luanjian Bian, Bo Dai, Youjun Hu, Kun Liu, Weiwei Yang
  • Patent number: 12238812
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for support of service continuity for handover between stand-alone non-public network (SNPN) and public land mobile network (PLMN) is provided. A session management function (SMF) of a first network transmits, to a user plane function (UPF) of the first network, a duplication request for the UPF of the first network to duplicate downlink (DL) data and send the duplicated DL data to both a next generation radio access network (NG-RAN) of the first network and a non-3GPP interworking function (N3IWF) of the first network. The SMF of the first network further transmits, to the N3IWF of the first network, a data buffering request for the N3IWF of the first network to buffer the duplicated DL data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seokjung Kim, Myungjune Youn, Jian Xu, Daewook Byun
  • Patent number: 12238738
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a method performed by user equipment and user equipment are provided. The method performed by user equipment is characterized by including: determining a size of one or more DCI formats in a set S of DCI formats; and receiving DCI, wherein the set S of DCI formats includes at least one of DCI format 3_0 and DCI format 3_1, and the UE is configured with at least one of an SL-RNTI, an SL-CS-RNTI, an SL-L-CS-RNTI, and an SL SPS V-RNTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chao Luo, Renmao Liu, Yinan Zhao, Tomoki Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 12231268
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Chuangxin Jiang, Shujuan Zhang, Zhaohua Lu, Bo Gao, Meng Mei
  • Patent number: 12232199
    Abstract: A receiving STA of a wireless local area network (LAN) system, according to various embodiments, can support a multi-link including a first link and a second link. The receiving STA can request and receive a link for the transmission of low latency traffic. The receiving STA can transmit the low latency traffic on the basis of a first parameter set through a first link that is set as a link for the transmission of low latency traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Suhwook Kim, Jeongki Kim, Jinsoo Choi
  • Patent number: 12219484
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may transmit a plurality of repetitions of a cell-common wakeup signal (WUS) on a different transmit beam in each monitoring occasion of one or more monitoring occasions. Another apparatus may beam sweep receive beams in each monitoring occasion to receive the cell-common WUS and to identify a transmit beam/receive beam pair for receiving a paging communication in a paging occasion associated with the transmit beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chao Wei, Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Wanshi Chen, Peter Pui Lok Ang
  • Patent number: 12219526
    Abstract: A terminal device including a control unit that transmits transmission report information after transmitting a first packet on a sidelink. The transmission report information includes information indicating time and a frequency of a resource used to transmit the first packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Patent number: 12213134
    Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives demodulation reference signal (DMRS) information relating to at least one resource of a DMRS, to which at least one DMRS a first precoder for a beam is applied and a second precoder for superposing signals for a plurality of terminals in the beam is not applied, and a control section that demodulates a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) to which the first precoder and the second precoder are applied, based on the DMRS and information relating to the second precoder. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, downlink throughput using the MIMO can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Wenjia Liu, Lu Jiang, Xiaolin Hou