Patents Examined by Ajit Patel
  • Patent number: 12101713
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems/methods are disclosed wherein a transmitter is configured to wirelessly communicate with a destination device by transmitting a first plurality of subcarriers using a first set of frequencies and a first air interface; and responsive to a size of data that is to be transmitted, transmitting a second plurality of subcarriers using a second set of frequencies and a second air interface that comprises a variant of the first air interface. According to some embodiments, the first set of frequencies and/or the second set frequencies comprise frequencies that are used for cellular communications and at least some frequencies of the second set of frequencies are mutually exclusive with the first set of frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventors: Peter D. Karabinis, Dimitrios P. Karabinis
  • Patent number: 12101850
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods and systems for communicating at a cellular router between a first wireless communication module and a first subscriber identity module (SIM). The cellular router receives a first request from a first wireless communication module and encapsulates the first request in a first modified request. The cellular router then sends the first modified request to a first SIM card in a first communication apparatus and waits for a first modified reply. While waiting for the first modified reply the cellular router sends at least one halt message to the first wireless communication module after a first time threshold. After receiving the first modified reply, the cellular router decapsulates the first modified reply to retrieve a first reply and sends the first reply to the first wireless communication module where the first modified reply is a reply to the first modified request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Pismo Labs Technology Limited
    Inventors: Man Kit Kwan, Uzair Ahmed Chughtai, Yu Yeung
  • Patent number: 12101687
    Abstract: A system and method of locating “friends” having mobile devices connected to a network and associated with a user account is disclosed. The method includes sending a request to a mobile device, the mobile device determining its present geographic location and responding to the requestor with this information. This information may be in the form of a coordinate location such as a GPS location or it may be in the form of a name that the mobile device owner assigned to a particular area (e.g., “home”). Having this location information, a user is able to view the location of the friend that is associated with the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Raghu Pai, Timothy S. Hurley, Patrice Olivier Gautier, Karthik Narayanan, Murthy Parthasarathi, Maxime Veron
  • Patent number: 12101786
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for wireless communications are described. A base station may send a message with configuration parameters to a wireless device, and the configuration parameters may be for at least two different types of carriers used for communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 12096428
    Abstract: Communication methods and apparatuses are provided in this disclosure. One method includes: receiving, by a terminal device at time slot n, first downlink control information comprising a minimum slot offset value, wherein the minimum slot offset value is to be applied by the terminal device at time slot n+K, where K is a positive integer; receiving, by the terminal device at a time after the time slot n and before the time slot n+K, second downlink control information comprising the minimum slot offset value; and determining, by the terminal device, to apply the minimum slot offset value at the time slot n+K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenwen Huang, Xiaolei Tie
  • Patent number: 12096345
    Abstract: Systems/methods are disclosed wherein interconnected first and second transmitters are used to convey information to a destination device by wirelessly transmitting by the first transmitter first data using first frequencies and, responsive to a size of data that is to be transmitted to the destination device, wirelessly transmitting by the second transmitter second data using second frequencies. According to some embodiments, the first and second data are transmitted to the destination device simultaneously in time. According to further embodiments, a smartphone and/or a base station comprises the first and second transmitters. Aggregation of the first and second data is performed by the destination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventors: Peter D. Karabinis, Dimitrios P. Karabinis
  • Patent number: 12095513
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented in the form of a method or corresponding apparatus for receiving or transmitting network communications carried at acoustic wavelengths via an acoustic medium. The corresponding method or apparatus may include a gate-level digital hardware module communicatively coupled to a communications module and define therein logic blocks configured to perform respective primitive processing functions, sequences of the logic blocks being capable of processing data units in accordance with any of the multiple communications protocols on a data unit-by-data unit basis without reconfiguring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventors: Tommaso Melodia, Emrecan Demirors
  • Patent number: 12095547
    Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, a base station includes an index generation unit configured to generate an index indicating a time-domain location of a synchronization signal block where a synchronization signal or a physical broadcast channel is placed; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a portion of the index using one or more synchronization signal of a primary synchronization signal, a secondary synchronization signal, and a tertiary synchronization signal and transmit a remaining portion of the index using the physical broadcast channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daiki Takeda, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 12088451
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for cross-platform programmable network communication. The method includes receiving, at a network toolchain, instructions for network hardware of a radio access network (RAN), the instructions comprising a domain specific language for the RAN. The method also includes determining through the network toolchain an architectural model for the network hardware, the architectural model comprising network patterns of the network hardware. The method also includes generating, by the network toolchain, translated instructions based on the instructions, the translated instructions comprising a configuration and control layer (CCL) code. The method also includes sending the CCL code to the network hardware. The method also includes executing the CCL code by the network hardware. The method also includes causing the network hardware to perform a network function based on execution of the CCL code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Cirrus360 LLC
    Inventors: Alan Gatherer, Chaitali Sengupta, Sudipta Sen
  • Patent number: 12088518
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication user equipment that wirelessly communicates. The wireless communication user equipment includes a communication module; and a processor configured to control the communication module. The processor is configured to receive a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) of data channel and receive the data channel based on the DM-RS of the data channel, wherein a time-frequency resource mapped to the DM-RS is predetermined. When the time-frequency resource mapped to the transmission of the DM-RS of the data channel overlaps with the time-frequency resource mapped to a different purpose from the transmission of the DM-RS, the processor is configured not to receive the DM-RS in a resource element (RE) overlapping with the time-frequency resource mapped to the different purpose in the time-frequency resource mapped to the transmission of the DM-RS. The DM-RS is a reference signal specific to the wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Kyungjun Choi, Minseok Noh, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 12089168
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a power headroom control element for communicating power information from a user equipment (UE) to a base station (BS), a corresponding method, a method for processing received power information at a radio access network (RAN) as well as to a user equipment for communicating power information and a base station configured to process received power information, which particularly enable simple handling and processing of transmission power information, respectively. A power headroom control element is structured to comprise a power headroom field containing power headroom information and having a predetermined number of bits in the power headroom control element, and an indicator field associated with the power headroom field, wherein the indicator field serves to indicate whether a transmission power field with a predetermined number of bits is present in the power headroom control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Lisa Boström, Robert Baldemair
  • Patent number: 12081259
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus of determining frequency hopping for a channel, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: determining, by a terminal, a first bandwidth corresponding to a bandwidth part, where the first bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth part is less than a second bandwidth corresponding to a system bandwidth; determining, by the terminal based on the first bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth part, a frequency hopping step corresponding to an uplink channel; and determining, by the terminal based on the frequency hopping step corresponding to the uplink channel, a frequency domain position used for transmitting the uplink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 12082262
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to mechanism for providing multiple transmission opportunities. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the network device transmits the random access response which includes an indication as to the number of transmission opportunities. If the random access response includes the preamble of the terminal device, the indication as to the number of transmission opportunities is applied to the terminal device. In this way, overheads are saved and the flexibility is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Chunli Wu, Benoist Sebire, Samuli Turtinen
  • Patent number: 12082311
    Abstract: Integrated management of connected assets that utilize different technologies and that are located across disparate wireless communications networks is facilitated herein. A method can comprise evaluating, by a system comprising a processor, first data associated with a first device operable with a first computing platform and second data associated with a second device operable with a second computing platform different from the first computing platform. The method can also comprise transforming, by the system, at least a first portion of the first data and at least a second portion of the second data into third data. The third data can be compatible with the first data and the second data. Further, the method can comprise rendering, by the system, the third data as an integrated view of at least the first portion of the first data and at least the second portion of the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Damir Mustafic, Leonard Burnett, Pingying Xia, Steven Manenti
  • Patent number: 12082259
    Abstract: An efficient communication method and device for a Reduced-capability UE using a half-duplex communication scheme in a wireless communication system. According to an embodiment, a method for performing a random access procedure by a reduced-capability user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system comprises receiving, from a base station, configuration information including resource information for random access by the Reduced-capability UE, identifying whether there is a random access occasion overlapping a radio frequency (RF) switching gap in a time domain when the random access is performed, and when there is the random access occasion overlapping the RF switching gap, performing the random access procedure with the base station on a next random access occasion except for the overlapping random access occasion, based on the received resource information for random access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seunghoon Choi, Youngbum Kim, Hyunseok Ryu, Sungjin Park
  • Patent number: 12082153
    Abstract: A base station (BS) comprising a processor and a communication interface configured to transmit a paging identity to user equipment (UE) to recover a shared channel allocation from a control channel from among the control channels having the paging identity. Further, the BS is further configured to transmit, using the communication interface, a shared channel based on the shared channel allocation and transmit a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) assigned to the UE when the UE is in a second state, different than an idle state, and has a radio access network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures II LLC
    Inventor: Chandrika K. Worrall
  • Patent number: 12075523
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for signaling a message regarding UE receiver performance degradation between a user equipment and a network. Close UL/DL frequencies or harmonic relationships may cause MSD. A user equipment may indicate an actual or improved maximum sensitivity degradation value for a configuration, or that there is no maximum sensitivity degradation for a configuration, using capability transfer signaling, RRC reconfiguration signaling, and/or measurement reporting. The indicated maximum sensitivity degradation for a configuration may be found in a table. The user equipment may additionally signal information about configuration(s) it supports and/or measurements it has made related to cross band transmit-to-receive degradation and/or SINR. A UE may implicitly indicate a MSD value through selection of a bandwidth combination set. MSD may be used by the network to assist in making scheduling decisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Man Hung Ng, Petri Vasenkari, Toni Lähteensuo
  • Patent number: 12069637
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for combining received uplink transmissions. In an embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving a descrambled resource element associated with selected second channel state information (CSI2) and receiving a descrambling sequence used to generate the descrambled RE. The method also includes rescrambling the descrambled RE using the descrambling sequence to generate a rescrambled RE and modifying the descrambling sequence to generate a modified descrambling sequence. The method also includes descrambling the rescrambled RE with the modified descrambling sequence to generate a modified descrambled RE and accumulating the modified descrambled RE to form a combined CSI2 value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd
    Inventors: Sabih Guzelgoz, Hong Jik Kim
  • Patent number: 12063590
    Abstract: System/methods of Carrier Aggregation are disclosed. According to some embodiments, a system/method comprises a first transmitter and a second transmitter, that are connected therebetween, and configured to perform operations comprising: wirelessly transmitting to a destination device first data via the first transmitter, using frequencies that are allocated for use by cellular communications; and, responsive to a size of data that is to be transmitted to the destination device and responsive to a distance between the destination device and the second transmitter, wirelessly transmitting to the destination device second data via the second transmitter, using frequencies that are allocated for use by cellular communications; wherein, according to some embodiments, the first transmitter uses a first air interface and the second transmitter uses a second air interface that comprises a variant of the first air interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Inventors: Peter D. Karabinis, Dimitrios P. Karabinis
  • Patent number: 12058741
    Abstract: Indicating repetitions at a UE in an NTN includes decoding a communication indicating a timing relationship value associated with a distance between a serving satellite and a farthest UE in the NTN. A PRACH communication is encoded for transmission. The PRACH communication includes an indication of a number of PRACH repetitions determined based on the timing relationship value. A RAR including an uplink (UL) grant corresponding to the UE and an indication of a number of RAR repetitions is decoded. The number of RAR repetitions is determined based on the timing relationship value. A PUSCH communication including an indication of a number of PUSCH repetitions is encoded. The number of PUSCH repetitions is determined based on the timing relationship value. A content resolution communication including an indication of a number of content resolution repetitions is decoded. The number of content resolution repetitions is determined based on the timing relationship value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Chunhai Yao, Dan Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Idan Bar-Sade, Ruoheng Liu, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang