Patents Examined by Ahmed Elallam
  • Patent number: 11716714
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to tone mapping for a high-efficiency (HE) trigger-based (TB) null data packet (NDP) feedback physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU). A device may identify a frame received from a second device. The device may determine, based on the frame, a resource unit allocated to the device, wherein the resource unit is associated with a 20 MHz sub-channel of a bandwidth. The device may determine, based on the resource unit and the bandwidth, tones associated with a HE short training field (HE-STF) of a HE TB NDP feedback PPDU. The device may send the HE TB NDP feedback PPDU to the second device in the 20 MHz sub-channel, wherein the HE TB NDP feedback PPDU includes the tones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaogang Chen, Shlomi Vituri, Assaf Gurevitz, Qinghua Li, Feng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11711769
    Abstract: Wireless communications are described. A wireless device may be configured to transmit a first signal via a first cell group that may overlap in time with a second signal via a second cell group. The wireless device may adjust a signal transmission power of at least one of the first signal or the second signal. Additionally or alternatively, the wireless device may drop at least one of the first signal or the second signal. Adjusting and/or dropping at least one of the first signal or the second signal may be based on the overlap in time of these signals satisfying a duration threshold and a total power to transmit the first signal and the second signal exceeding a power threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Dinan
  • Patent number: 11706762
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a codebook feedback processing method, a device, an apparatus and a medium. The method includes: determining, by a terminal, based on a quantity of repeated transmissions of a repeatedly transmitted semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), whether there is at least one valid transmission in corresponding transmission opportunities; and determining, by the terminal, based on whether there is at least one valid transmission, whether a feedback bit position is reserved for the SPS PDSCH in a feedback codebook. A base station determines, based on whether there is at least one valid transmission, whether a feedback bit position is reserved for the SPS PDSCH in the feedback codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qianqian Si, Xuejuan Gao
  • Patent number: 11706640
    Abstract: Among other things, a communication system comprising at least one remote unit and controller is described. The at least one remote unit wirelessly exchanges radio frequency (RF) signals with mobile devices. Each RF signal comprises information destined for, or originating from, at least one of the mobile devices. The at least two remote units and the controller communicate baseband data corresponding to the information across an intermediate network. The at least two remote units each implement at least some physical layer processing for an air interface used to wirelessly communicate with the subscriber devices. The controller is configured to perform at least some receive signal processing using combined data resulting from combining at least some of the baseband data communicated from more than one of the at least two remote units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Vedat Eyuboglu, Arthur J. Barabell
  • Patent number: 11706668
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for performing: receiving, while connected to a first cell, preparation information for preparing the apparatus for a conditional handover of the apparatus to at least one other cell; receiving, from the first cell, a message, wherein the message causes the apparatus to transition from a connected state to an inactive state; receiving, from the first cell, information of a release condition; when it is determined that the release condition is met, sending a release indication and releasing the preparation information from the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Tommi Jokela, Mikko Saily, Sofonias Hailu
  • Patent number: 11696353
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to single-radio multi-channel medium access. A device may detect that a primary channel is occupied by a transmission of a first packet by a neighboring station device in an overlapping basic service set (OBSS). The device may detect that a secondary channel is idle. The device may select the secondary channel for packet transmission while the primary channel is occupied by the first packet. The device may cause to send a second packet to a first station device using the secondary channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Minyoung Park
  • Patent number: 11678270
    Abstract: Embodiments provide techniques for device power management in wireless networks. For instance, an apparatus may include a power management module, and a transceiver module. The power management module determines a beacon interval and a wakeup interval. The transceiver module to send a transmission to one or more remote devices that includes the beacon interval and the wakeup interval. The beacon interval indicates a time interval between consecutive beacon transmissions of the apparatus, and the wakeup interval indicates a time interval between when the apparatus receives two consecutive beacons from a peer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaohong Gong, Jesse Walker
  • Patent number: 11671863
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for handling of radio frequency front-end group delays (GDs) for round trip time (RTT) estimation. In an aspect, a network entity determines information indicating a network total GD and a user equipment (UE) determines information indicating a UE total GD. The network entity transmits one or more RTT measurement (RTTM) signals to the UE, each including a RTTM waveform. The UE determines one or more one or more RTT response (RTTR) payloads for one or more RTTR signals, each including a RTTR waveform. The UE transmits the RTTR signal(s) to the network entity. For each RTTR signal, a transmission time of the RTTR waveform and/or the RTTR payload is/are determined based on the UE total GD. The network entity determines a RTT between the UE and the network entity based on the RTTM signal(s), the RTTR signal(s), and the information indicating the network total GD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Alexandros Manolakos, Naga Bhushan, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Sven Fischer
  • Patent number: 11665601
    Abstract: Method for handover report and a terminal device are provided. In the method for handover report, the terminal device sends first indication information when connection establishment between the terminal device and the first target network device is successful, the first indication information is for indicating to a source network device that connection establishment between the terminal device and the first target network device is successful; and/or the terminal device sends a second indication information when connection establishment between the terminal device and the first target network device fails, where the second indication information is for indicating to the source network device that connection establishment between the terminal device and the first target network device fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin You, Qianxi Lu
  • Patent number: 11659443
    Abstract: A first device in a communication network receives from at least one second device in the communication network, a first request for acquiring a token, the token being permission for communicating with a third device. Based on the first request, a device from the at least one second device and the first device as a communication device is selected for providing a communication service to the third device in the communication network; and the token is transmitted to the communication device. The communication device receives the token for communicating with the third device. Other devices receive key information associated with communication of the third device from the first device, and monitor data associated with the communication of the third device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Zhijie Yang, Haiqin Wu
  • Patent number: 11652911
    Abstract: A method and system for differentiating different Protocol Data Units (PDU) in a D2D communication network. The type of PDU to be differentiated is assigned/associated with a unique data/value and transmitted to the destination, by a transmitting User Equipment. At the receiving end, the receiving User Equipment differentiates between different types of PDU packets received, based on the unique data associated with the collected data. Further, the received PDU data is processed based on a suitable packet processing function that matches the PDU type of the PDU data received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 11653275
    Abstract: Provided is a method of switching, by a user equipment (UE), a transmission chain across carriers, the method including determining to switch a first transmission chain for a transmission between a first carrier and a second carrier, determining a length of a switching gap during which no transmission or reception occurs on the first carrier and/or the second carrier, locating the switching gap within a switching duration, and switching the first transmission chain between the first carrier and the second carrier during the switching gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung Hyun Bae
  • Patent number: 11653268
    Abstract: A core network can send first data transmissions to a radio access network (RAN) at a first data rate that is based at least in part on a first RAT policy associated with a first RAT used by the RAN for downlink transmissions to user equipment. The core network can obtain information indicating that the RAN is using a second RAT for the downlink transmissions to the user equipment. The core network can cause a RAT policy that is applied to the data transmissions from the core network to the RAN to be changed from the first RAT policy to a second RAT policy that is associated with the second RAT. The core network can send second data transmissions from the core network to the RAN at a second data rate that is based at least in part on the second RAT policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Piotr Michal Galecki, Michael Anthony Brown, Haibo Qian, Fred Walter Rink, Liang Tian
  • Patent number: 11647539
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may receive a clear channel assessment trigger from a second wireless device, the clear channel assessment trigger associated with a data transmission by the second wireless device. The first wireless device may transmit, based at least in part on a result of a first clear channel assessment procedure, feedback information for the clear channel assessment trigger. The first wireless device may receive the data transmission based at least in part on the feedback information for the first clear channel assessment procedure. The first wireless device may transmit, based at least in part on a result of a second clear channel assessment procedure, feedback information for the data transmission, wherein the first clear channel assessment procedure has a first duration that is longer than a second duration for the second clear channel assessment procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Vinay Chande, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Srinivas Yerramalli, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11647426
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for processing Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node information in an IAB network, including a second IAB node receives notification information transmitted by a first IAB node, where the notification information includes at least one of: notification information for notifying a connection handover event and/or a connection reestablishment event, and instruction information for instructing to perform Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) status reporting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei Zou, Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 11611911
    Abstract: A routing device for installation on a moving platform connects with multiple wireless access devices for wireless interconnection with a wide-area network (WAN). The routing device routes traffic to the WAN through an active one of the wireless access devices. The routing device monitors connection quality between each of the wireless access devices and the WAN and in response to the metric of connection quality for the wireless access device at the active port dropping below a threshold value, reconfigure the routing device to route data traffic to the WAN through a wireless access device at a targeted one of the ports, different from the active one of the ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Canada Limited
    Inventors: Noam Ivri, William Zhao
  • Patent number: 11601251
    Abstract: In wireless communications for multi-users, a station may generate a first frame and transmit the first frame to an access point. The first frame may include media access control protocol data units (MPDUs). Each MPDU is associated with a traffic identifier (TID). In one aspect, a TID of one of the MPDUs is different from a TID of another one of the MPDUs. In response to receiving the first frame, the access point may generate a second frame based on the first frame. The second frame may include an indication that all of the MPDUs having TIDs are received. The access point may transmit the second frame to the station. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Atlas Global Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Yongho Seok
  • Patent number: 11595850
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an architecture for an edge computing platform based on an underlying wireless mesh network. The architecture includes nodes installed with equipment for operating as part of a wireless mesh network, including (1) a first tier of one or more Point of Presence (PoP) node, (2) a second tier of one or more seed nodes that are each directly connected to at least one PoP node via a PoP-to-seed wireless link, and (3) a third tier of one or more anchor nodes that are each connected to at least one seed node either (i) directly via a seed-to-anchor wireless link or (ii) indirectly via one or more intermediate anchor nodes, one or more anchor-to-anchor wireless links, and one seed-to-anchor wireless link, where at least one node in each of these tiers is further installed with equipment for operating as part of an edge computing platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: L3VEL, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Ross, Muhammad Ahsan Naim
  • Patent number: 11595994
    Abstract: A wireless communication method performed by a first apparatus includes acquiring a transmit opportunity (TXOP) to transmit or receive a first physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU), identifying a second apparatus for sharing the TXOP, permitting at least one of transmission and reception of a second PPDU to the second apparatus in the shared TXOP, and transmitting the first PPDU to at least one third apparatus in the shared TXOP or receiving the first PPDU from the at least one third apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jonghun Han, Chulho Chung, Sharan Naribole, Srinivas Kandala
  • Patent number: 11589391
    Abstract: A communication device includes a radio transceiver and a collision detection device. The radio transceiver is configured to receive a wireless signal which includes an acknowledgment packet from a wireless communication channel. The acknowledgment packet includes acknowledgment information which corresponds to a plurality of transmitted packets. The collision detection device is coupled to the radio transceiver and configured to receive the acknowledgment packet, determine whether collision has occurred in the wireless communication channel according to the acknowledgment information corresponding to the transmitted packets and accordingly generate a detection result. The collision detection device determines whether collision has occurred according to a distribution of the acknowledgment information having a predetermined acknowledgment status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Wei-Chi Lai, Wei-Hsuan Chang, Yu-Nan Lin