Patents Examined by Aristocratis Fotakis
  • Patent number: 11362720
    Abstract: For example, an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (EDMG) initiator station (STA) of a Beam Refinement Protocol (BRP) Transmit (TX) Sector Sweep (SS) (TXSS) may be configured to, during an initiator BRP TXSS, transmit one or more initiator EDMG BRP-TX packets to an EDMG responder STA; during a responder BRP TXSS following the initiator BRP TXSS, to receive one or more responder EDMG BRP-TX packets from the EDMG responder STA; and to transmit to the EDMG responder STA a BRP frame including feedback based on measurements on the one or more responder EDMG BRP-TX packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Claudio Da Silva, Artyom Lomayev, Jonathan Kosloff, Carlos Cordeiro, Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 11356161
    Abstract: Fast calculation of channel state information using demodulation reference signals (DM-RS) is provided herein. The channel state information can be calculated by estimating the signal to noise ratio of a communication link based on the DM-RS, and then estimating the channel quality indicator based on the SINR. The advanced receivers can use list-based detection methods which the estimated SINR can improve the performance thereof. Channel state information is traditionally calculated based on the channel state reference signals (CS-RS). Demodulation reference signals, which are used for channel estimation for a data channel, are transmitted at different times than CS-RS however, and so some portions of the channel state information including layer indicator (LI) and channel quality indicator (CQI) can be calculated based on the demodulation reference signals, allowing a network to adapt more quickly to changing channel conditions, without having to transmit a CS-RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11349526
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for pre-distortion of multi-level signaling are described. A device may identify two multi-level signals that are to be transmitted over two transmission lines at the same time. The device may estimate the crosstalk expected to be caused by one of the multi-level signals on the other during propagation. Based on the expected crosstalk, the device may generate a signal that compensates for the expected crosstalk. In some examples, the signal may be a combination of the first signal and a cancelation signal. In some examples, once the compensated signal has been generated, it is transmitted over its respective transmission line at the same time that the other multi-level is transmitted over its respective transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Anton Spirkl, Michael Dieter Richter, Martin Brox, Peter Mayer, Thomas Hein
  • Patent number: 11336336
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamic transmit diversity fallback are provided. One method may include configuring a user equipment with a maximum number of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers used for transmission mode 9 or transmission mode 10 scheduling, and performing, by a network node, at least one of transmission mode 9 or transmission mode 10 scheduling. The configuring may include indicating to the user equipment to use a modified mapping table providing transmit diversity fallback for the at least one of transmission mode 9 or transmission mode 10 scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Klaus Hugl, Timo Erkki Lunttila
  • Patent number: 11336349
    Abstract: An example method may include obtaining first beamforming feedback from a station based on first sounding signals from a first set of antennas selected from multiple antennas of an access point, and obtaining second beamforming feedback from the station based on second sounding signals from a second set of antennas selected from the multiple antennas of the access point. The method may also include, using the first beamforming feedback and the second beamforming feedback, determining correlational relationships between pairs of the multiple antennas of the access point, and deriving a beamforming steering matrix from the correlational relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Evgenii Dombrovskii
  • Patent number: 11329694
    Abstract: A first mobile device including a connection terminal configured to electrically connect to a second mobile device, a variable impedance device connected to the connection terminal, the variable impedance device configured to vary an impedance, processing circuitry configured to determine a power line communication (PLC) mode between the first mobile device and the second mobile device to be one of a low-speed PLC mode or a high-speed PLC mode, and control the impedance of the variable impedance device according to the determined PLC mode, and a PLC modem configured to receive power from the second mobile device or communicate data with the second mobile device based on the determined PLC mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungwoo Lee, Hyoungseok Oh, Minkyu Kwon, Sungkyu Cho
  • Patent number: 11316718
    Abstract: A system and related method sends Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) control traffic via an Over the Air (OTA) waveform in a variety of military voice radios. The system employs a voice to Internet Protocol (IP) conversion to create voice sized frames and redundancy DSA frames recognizable and transmittable by the voice radio. The system dynamically adapts to different types of military waveforms including those which implement: (1) an encoded digitized voice to be divided into frames, (2) an encoded digitized voice to a continual bit stream, (3) direct analog modulation of voice samples, and (4) transmission of voice and data over a single channel. The system adapts to an available channel being voice or non-voice in the military radio enabling DSA control traffic to run with data (in-band) channel or in a voice channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: George F. Elmasry, James A. Stevens
  • Patent number: 11303494
    Abstract: Mixture of implicit and explicit signaling of the Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) time index for 5G New Radio. In NR, multiple SSBs (each containing PSS, SSS and PBCH) are sent on different beams, and on multiple time occurrences. The UE when detecting the SSB has therefore to identify the SSB time instance and the beam ID used by the gNB. This detection is allowed by said SSB time index. If sent on the PBCH, this prevents soft combining between PBCH time instances. It is therefore proposed to send the SSB time index via the DMRS interleaved with the PBCH. Problem: overhead would be too high for DMRS solution only. Solution: Part of the bits (the LSBs) of the SSB time index are signaled implicitly via the relative position of PSS, SSS and PBCH within a SSB. The other bits are explicitly sent using DMRS scrambling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale
  • Patent number: 11283561
    Abstract: Techniques for wireless networking that include transmission and reception of signals using orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation techniques are disclosed. For example, a wireless access point may communicate with a station using OFDM modulated WiFi (OFDM-WiFi) at one time and using OTFS modulated WiFi (OTFS-WiFi) at another time. The OTFS-WiFi may provide improved throughput and coverage over OFDM-WiFi in static and mobile environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Devan Namboodiri
  • Patent number: 11277192
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may monitor multiple beam pair links (BPLs) including a first BPL currently used by the UE to communicate with a network node (e.g., a base station), and a second BPL. The first BPL comprises a first network beam and a first UE beam, and the second BPL comprises a second network beam and a second UE beam. The UE may decide to switch beams from using the first BPL to using the second BPL based on signaling from the network node or autonomously. When the beam switch is made, the UE switches uplink (UL) transmission from over the first UE beam to over the second UE beam. After the beam switch is made, the UE transmits in the UL over the second UE beam using UL timing adjusted based on the first and second propagation delays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hongbo Yan, Raghu Narayan Challa, Guy Wolf, Michael Levitsky, Ran Berliner, Awlok Singh Josan
  • Patent number: 11251829
    Abstract: A radio frequency module is provided. A matching circuit includes an inductor which is connected in series to the power amplifier and is formed in a substrate. The substrate includes a ground layer, a low permittivity portion, and a high permittivity portion. The ground layer at least partially overlaps with a first input terminal of the low-noise amplifier in a plan view from a thickness direction of the substrate. The low permittivity portion at least partially overlaps with the first input terminal in a plan view from the thickness direction, and is provided between the first input terminal and the ground layer. The high permittivity portion is in contact with the inductor and has the permittivity greater than the permittivity of the low permittivity portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuro Harada
  • Patent number: 11245486
    Abstract: A communications system receives a plurality of input data streams and applies a different orthogonal function to each of the plurality of input data streams. The system processes each of the plurality of input data streams to spatially locate a first group of the plurality of input data streams onto a first carrier signal and to spatially locate a second group of the plurality of input data streams onto a second carrier signal. The system temporally locates the first carrier signal and the second carrier signal onto a third carrier signal and transmits the third carrier signal over a communications link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NXGEN PARTNERS IP, LLC
    Inventors: Solyman Ashrafi, Roger D. Linquist
  • Patent number: 11240796
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for block interleaving. In one embodiment, a method includes generating an interleaver sequence for a control resource set, CORESET, configuration for a physical downlink control channel, the interleaver sequence associated with an interleaving matrix; optionally, for each one of an allowed value of number of rows for the interleaving matrix, determining a number of null entries to be added to the interleaving matrix; and selecting a number of rows, R, for the interleaving matrix such that the number of null entries to be added to the interleaving matrix is: no more than a number of columns, C, of the interleaving matrix; and optionally, the smallest among the numbers of null entries determined for each of the allowed values of number of rows for the interleaving matrix. In another embodiment, a method includes decomposing the interleaver sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Xingqin Lin, Jung-Fu Cheng, Stefan Parkvall, Havish Koorapaty
  • Patent number: 11233683
    Abstract: A method for processing an electrical signal comprises receiving an electrical signal comprising a frequency modulated signal encoding digital data; sampling a first portion of the electrical signal to obtain a plurality of samples to obtain a first sample set; determining an index value from the first sample set by assigning a value to each sample in the first sample set based upon an amplitude of the sample; comparing the determined index value with a plurality of predetermined index values to identify a first output value from a plurality of predetermined output values, each of the predetermined index values corresponding to one of the plurality of predetermined output values; and outputting an indication of the output value. Each of the predetermined output values indicates a respective frequency modulation encoded value and the first output value indicates a frequency modulation encoded value within the first portion of the electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Philip J. Agar, Alison Cooper
  • Patent number: 11218212
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for performing wireless communication through channel state prediction using a local dynamic map. The method may include (a) receiving probe node data (PND) of a base station node and a mobile node, (b) generating local dynamic map (LDM) information including communication network information between the base station node and the mobile node using the probe node data, and (c) transmitting the LDM information to the base station node and the mobile node, wherein the LDM information may be used to select a transmission beam of the base station node and a reception beam of the mobile node corresponding to the transmission beam or a reception beam of the base station node and a transmission beam of the mobile node corresponding to the reception beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, KOREA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TRANSPORTATION
    Inventor: Cheol Mun
  • Patent number: 11218156
    Abstract: The present invention relates to data communication and electrical circuits. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide a clock and data recovery (CDR) architecture implementation for high data rate wireline communication links. In an embodiment, a CDR device includes a phase detector, a loop filter, and a fractional-N PLL. The fractional-N PLL generates output clock signal based on output of the loop filter. There are other embodiments as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Mrunmay Talegaonkar, Jorge Pernillo, Junyi Sun, Praveen Prabha, Chang-Feng Loi, Yu Liao, Jamal Riani, Belal Helal, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Aaron Buchwald
  • Patent number: 11205857
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, a transceiver is configured to generate a first signal in response to receiving a first guided electromagnetic wave from a remote system via a launcher. A controller is configured to generate a channel quality indicator in response to the first signal. The transceiver is further configured to generate a second signal that conveys the channel quality indicator. The launcher, responsive to the second signal, is further configured to launch a second guided electromagnetic wave that conveys the channel quality indicator to the remote system, wherein the second guided electromagnetic wave is guided by the transmission medium and propagates along the transmission medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Harold Lee Rappaport, Giovanni Vannucci, Paul Shala Henry
  • Patent number: 11196594
    Abstract: A communication system in which multiple shaping codes are selectively and iteratively used to encode a data frame such that possible energy inefficiencies associated with the use of constant-probability codes and/or transmission of dummy constellation symbols can be relatively small. In an example embodiment, the used shaping codes have different respective code rates, and a code selector of the shaping encoder operates to select one of the shaping codes by adaptively matching the rate of the code to the effective rate needed to efficiently encode the unprocessed portion of the data frame. The encoding is carried out in a manner that enables the shaping decoder to unequivocally determine the shaping codes that have been used for encoding each particular data frame based on the same rate-matching criteria as those used by the shaping encoder. At least some embodiments advantageously lend themselves to being implemented using circuits of relatively low complexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OY
    Inventor: Joon Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 11196468
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a calculation unit configured to calculate, for each of radio apparatuses, a combination of a pre-coding weight and a post-coding weight using a first channel information matrix based on estimated values of channel responses between each of the radio apparatuses and each of terminals, a selection unit configured to select one combination from the combinations calculated using the first channel information matrices as a first combination, and an orthogonalization unit configured to generate a second channel information matrix for each of the radio apparatuses by projecting each first channel information matrix onto the subspace that is orthogonal to the post-coding weight included in the first combination. The calculation unit calculates a combination for each of the radio apparatuses using a second channel information matrix, and the selection unit selects one combination from the combinations calculated using the second channel information matrix as a second combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Shikida, Naoto Ishii
  • Patent number: 11190290
    Abstract: Provided is a sequence allocation method capable of reducing inter-cell interference of a reference signal when a ZC sequence is used as the reference signal in a mobile communication system. In the sequence allocation method, R×M sequences specified by a ZC sequence number r (r=1 to R) and a cyclic shift sequence number m (m=1 to M) are divided into a plurality of sequence groups X (X=1 to R) in accordance with the transmission band width of the reference signal, so that the ZC sequence is allocated to each cell in each sequence group unit. When it is assumed that R=9 and M=6, the number of sequences is 54. Each of the sequence groups is formed by two sequences. Accordingly, the number of sequence groups is 27. The 27 types of sequence groups are allocated to each cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Tomofumi Takata