Patents Examined by Afshawn M Towfighi
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Patent number: 11722905Abstract: Dedicating antenna elements to specific wireless devices by identifying specific wireless devices that meet a set of criteria, such as wireless devices using a certain application type that is associated with a bandwidth, and respectively dedicating a separate portion of antenna elements for communicating with each specific wireless device. The separate portion of antenna elements is selected based on being configured to utilize a bandwidth that meets a threshold bandwidth or matches the bandwidth associated with the application type.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Sprint Spectrum LPInventors: Vanil Parihar, Sreekar Marupaduga, Nitesh Manchanda, Rashmi Kumar
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Patent number: 11722876Abstract: The present invention relates to transmitting user equipment for transmitting data to a receiving user equipment over a direct link connection in a communication system. The transmitting user equipment is adapted to request resources for discovery transmission in the communication system and comprises a generating unit configured to generate a resource request message for allocation of resources for discovery transmission. The resource request message includes information on the amount of data to be transmitted and on discovery indication. The transmitting user equipment may further include a transmitting unit configured to transmit to a base station the generated resource request message, and a receiving unit adapted to receive from the base station a resource configuration message allocating the requested resources for discovery transmission.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Joachim Loehr, Prateek Basu Mallick
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Patent number: 11716747Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for polling and keep-alive signals for multimedia broadcast multicast service. The method may include receiving a physical downlink control channel order addressed to a group-radio network temporary identifier. The method may also include performing uplink transmission of a signal in response to the physical downlink control channel order.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Benoist Pierre Sébire, David Bhatoolaul, Volker Pauli, Esa Mikael Malkamäki, Athul Prasad
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Patent number: 11711745Abstract: In an adaptive route wireless network and bi-directional protocol, each computing device along a route to a gateway appends the previous node's network address to downstream messages as they are transmitted along the route from an originating computing device to the gateway. The list of appended network addresses thus records the route taken by the downstream network message through the adaptive route network. A server computing device maintains a route table including the list of appended network addresses received with each downstream message. To send unsolicited upstream messages to any computing device on the wireless network, the server generates an upstream network message that includes the appended network address(es) from the portion of the route table corresponding to the destination computing device. The upstream route to the destination computing device is thus contained in the list of appended network addresses within the network message.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.Inventor: David L. Snodgrass
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Patent number: 11711778Abstract: This application provides methods and apparatuses for uplink timing synchronization. The method includes: determining, based on beam information of a first beam and ephemeris information of the satellite base station, an uplink timing frame number of a first cell corresponding to the first beam; determining timing information of a first terminal device in the first cell based on the uplink timing frame number of the first cell, where the timing information is used to indicate a timing advance or a timing lag; and outputting the timing information.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Peng Liu, Jun Chen, Jingjing Huang, Guangjian Wang
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Patent number: 11711802Abstract: Methods and devices for grant-free uplink transmission in unlicensed spectrum are provided. A base station (BS) transmits grant-free resource configuration information to one or more electronic devices (EDs). The grant-free resource configuration information is used to configure the ED for GF uplink transmission in unlicensed spectrum. The GF resource configuration information includes GF ED group-specific resource configuration information indicating GF ED group-specific time-frequency (T/F) resources of the unlicensed spectrum for GF uplink transmission. The ED(s) transmit grant-free uplink transmissions over the unlicensed spectrum in accordance with the GF resource configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mohamed Adel Salem, Jiayin Zhang
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Patent number: 11706728Abstract: Disclosed are a relay system synchronization method and apparatus, and a computer device and a storage medium. The method may comprise: a relay node determining a first slot boundary; the relay node sending downlink data to a child node by means of time alignment between a second slot boundary of the downlink data sent to the child node and the first slot boundary; in addition, the relay node determining a first timing advance at least according to the following information: a second timing advance for the relay node to send uplink data to a parent node and the transmission delay between the relay node and the child node; and the relay node sending the first timing advance to the child node, wherein the first timing advance is used for the child node to determine the sending time for sending the uplink data to the relay node.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventors: Qianxi Lu, Huei-Ming Lin
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Patent number: 11706142Abstract: Techniques described herein provide for fast updating of a forwarding table in a single active multihoming configuration. A first network device that is not connected to an ethernet segment (ES), receives a plurality of ethernet segment (ES) routes (e.g., EVPN type-4 routes) from a plurality of network devices that are connected to a host via the ES. When connectivity is lost to the on a designated forwarded for the ES, t the first network device performed a designated forwarding election algorithm based on the plurality of the received ES routes, to identify that a second network device of the plurality of network devices is designated as a new forwarding device. The first network device modifies an entry in a forwarding table to indicate that the host is now reachable via the second network device.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: ARISTA NETWORKS, INCInventors: Rajesh Kumar Semwal, Amit Dattatray Ranpise
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Patent number: 11700613Abstract: A user terminal includes a receiving section configured to receive first downlink control information for activation of a first channel following periodicity configured by a higher layer and receive second downlink control information for scheduling retransmission of the first channel, and a control section configured to apply a given parameter among first configuration information indicating a configuration for the first channel, second configuration information indicating a configuration for a second channel with periodicity not configured by a higher layer, and the second downlink control information, to the retransmission.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
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Patent number: 11696305Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a relay device may receive, from a first user equipment (UE) on a sidelink channel, a buffer status report. Accordingly, the relay device may receive, from a base station, a grant of an uplink resource based at least in part on determining a priority of data associated with the buffer status report. Additionally, the relay device may transmit, to the base station, the buffer status report based at least in part on receiving the grant of the uplink resource. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Linhai He
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Patent number: 11696096Abstract: A controller, which is a communication device, includes: a transfer unit including a function of transferring data received from a first terminal to another communication device via wireless communication; and a determination unit configured to determine whether first information is included in the data received by the transfer unit, the first information indicating that the data is to be multicast. The transfer unit is further configured to multicast the data to a second terminal when the determination unit determines that the first information is included in the data, the second terminal and the first terminal being different terminals.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventor: Yutaka Murakami
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Patent number: 11690127Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method, system, and apparatus may include managing the operation mode of a user equipment in vehicle-to-everything communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit an inactive request message (or a request message) to a base station to indicate the user equipment is switching from a base station scheduling mode (or a radio access network node scheduling mode) to a peer user equipment scheduling mode (or a roadside unit scheduling mode). The user equipment may receive an acknowledgment message from the base station indicating a state change to allow the peer user equipment scheduling mode. In some cases, the user equipment may receive an area identifier from the base station, and the area identifier may indicate an area where the peer user equipment scheduling mode is allowed.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hong Cheng, Arjun Bharadwaj, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati, Zhibin Wu, Junyi Li, Shailesh Patil
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Patent number: 11690072Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive configuration information that schedules a search space set; receive, on the search space set, first downlink control information (DCI) that schedules or configures one or more second DCIs that are multiplexed with one or more semi-persistent scheduling occasions; and process the one or more second DCIs based at least in part on the first DCI. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Qiang Wu, Tao Luo, Jun Ma, Mehmet Izzet Gurelli, Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal
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Patent number: 11689279Abstract: A network management systems (NMS) and methods for automating aircraft wideband streaming L band providing dedicated high data rate communication links from an aircraft fitted with an approved L-band terminal and antenna over a satellite communication network, such as the Inmarsat Swift Broadband network. The systems and methods allow for modifying the L-band terminal wiring to inject a dedicated single channel per carrier (SCPC) signal from an external modem to achieve return data rates in the range of several Mbps over a dedicated leased satellite bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Satcom Direct, Inc.Inventors: Rodrigo Gomez, Timothy W. Knowles, Ben T. Vuong, Lasse Thorbro-Steenberg
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Patent number: 11683393Abstract: The present disclosure provides embodiments in which computing (e.g., edge computing) is part of base station (BS) capability. These embodiments may enable conducting computing offloading between a user equipment (UE) and BS in the radio access network (RAN), for example, compute in the RAN, and deliver “true” edge computing user experience. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Qian Li, Geng Wu, Zongrui Ding, Xiaopeng Tong, Gabriel Arrobo Vidal, Alexandre Saso Stojanovski
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Patent number: 11678401Abstract: A transmission timing information sending method, a transmission timing information receiving method, and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: configuring, by a base station, higher layer signaling, where the higher layer signaling includes at least one transmission timing set used to indicate a transmission timing value, and each of the at least one transmission timing set includes at least one transmission timing value; sending, by the base station, the higher layer signaling to a terminal; determining, by the base station, downlink control information (DCI), where the DCI is used to instruct the terminal to determine a transmission timing value in the at least one transmission timing set, and the determined transmission timing value is a slot that the terminal is instructed to use when sending feedback information; and sending, by the base station, the DCI to the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xu Zhang, Lixia Xue, Zukang Shen
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Patent number: 11678203Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For example, a method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), may include receiving a configuration for reporting feedback associated with beam blocking. The UE may perform a decoding process on one or more downlink transmissions via a set of multiple beams. The UE may determine whether a failure of the decoding process is a result of one or more of the plurality of beams being at least partially blocked during the one or more downlink transmissions according to the configuration. The UE may also transmit a negative acknowledgement (NACK) and link adaptation information, where the NACK acknowledgement is based on the failure of the decoding process and the link adaptation information is based on determining whether the one or more of the set of multiple beams are at least partially blocked.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Konstantinos Dimou, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo
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Patent number: 11671986Abstract: A control information transmission method, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. An example method includes: determining configuration information of a control channel, wherein the configuration information comprises at least one of frequency domain information or time domain information, the at least one of frequency domain information or time domain information indicates a time-frequency resource occupied by the control channel, and the configuration information further comprises indication information indicating a quantity of at least one resource element set, wherein the time-frequency resource occupied by the control channel comprises the at least one resource element set; mapping control information to one or more of the at least one resource element set based on the configuration information; sending the configuration information to a terminal device; and sending the control information to the terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xu Zhang, Jianguo Wang, Lixia Xue, Zheng Chen
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Patent number: 11671820Abstract: A wireless access node control Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) layers for a User Equipment (UE). A radio wirelessly exchanges network signaling with the User Equipment (UE) and exchanges the network signaling with baseband circuitry. The baseband circuitry exchanges the network signaling with the radio. The baseband circuitry determines a UE capability and identifies radio band status for the UE. The baseband circuitry selects a number of the MIMO layers for the UE based on the UE capability and the radio band status. The baseband circuitry precodes user data into precoded data for the selected number of MIMO layers and transfers the precoded data to the radio. The radio receives the precoded data from the baseband circuitry and wirelessly transmits the precoded data to the UE over the selected number of MIMO layers.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLCInventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
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Patent number: 11672046Abstract: Embodiments provide a data receiving status reporting method and apparatus. The method includes: determining, by first user equipment, a status of receiving at least one packet data convergence protocol layer protocol data unit PDCP PDU by second user equipment, where the at least one PDCP PDU is forwarded by the first user equipment to the second user equipment after being received by the first user equipment through a communications link between the first user equipment and a network device; and sending, by the first user equipment, a first status report to the network device, where the first status report is used to indicate the status of receiving the at least one PDCP PDU by the second user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haibo Xu, Nathan Edward Tenny, Jian Wang, Yiru Kuang