Patents Examined by Ashley Shivers
  • Patent number: 11689260
    Abstract: A method for transmitting channel state information performed by a User Equipment (UE) may include receiving, from a base station, a bitmap for configuring codebook subset restriction (CSR) and reporting, to the base station, Channel State Information (CSI), when a number of antenna ports is configured as 16 or more and a number of layers associated with a rank indicator (RI) in the CSI is 3 or 4, a unit of multiple bits in a bitmap for configuring the CSR is associated with each precoder, and a reporting of precoding matrix indicator (PMI) corresponding to the precoder associated with the multiple bits is restricted in the CSI, when the CSR is indicated in any one of the multiple bits, and each bit in the bitmap for configuring the CSR is associated with each precoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Haewook Park, Kijun Kim, Minki Ahn
  • Patent number: 11689975
    Abstract: Example aspects include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for network-triggered reestablishment by a network node of a wireless communication network, comprising transmitting, to a user equipment (UE) in a connected state with a first central unit (CU), an indication to perform a radio resource control (RRC) reestablishment procedure with a second CU. The indication comprises a reestablishment cell identifier. The aspects further include performing the RRC reestablishment procedure with the UE to transfer the UE from the first CU to the second CU using the reestablishment cell identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11683698
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for using unmanned vehicles to manage radio-based network infrastructure. In one embodiment, a determination is made to add coverage to a radio-based network via a radio unit. An unmanned vehicle carrying the radio unit as a payload is instructed to travel to a particular location. The unmanned vehicle is instructed to deliver the radio unit to the particular location. The radio unit is activated to add the coverage to the radio-based network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tipu Saleem Qureshi, Diwakar Gupta, Upendra Bhalchandra Shevade
  • Patent number: 11664853
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving downlink data in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for receiving downlink data from multiple cells in a wireless communication system may comprise a step for receiving downlink data on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), wherein the PDSCH includes a first resource block group and a second resource block group, downlink data transmitted from a first cell is mapped to the first resource block group, downlink data transmitted from a second cell is mapped to the second resource block group, and a quasi-co-location (QCL) assumption is independently applied in order to decode the first resource block group and the second resource block group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jonghyun Park, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 11647427
    Abstract: A method of processing state information relating to user equipment in a communications system comprising a radio access network, the method comprising: maintaining current state information relating to the user equipment; and on the basis of a change of connection of the user equipment from a first cell to a second cell: transmitting a current value associated with a given state information part to the target radio access node in response to detecting at least one of one or more predetermined triggers that indicate that the target radio access node may not have received the current value from the source radio access node; or relying on the target radio access node having received the current value from the source radio access node if said at least one of said one or more predetermined triggers is not detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Himke Van der Velde, Gert Jan Van Lieshout
  • Patent number: 11641265
    Abstract: A method for supporting carrier aggregation and a short transmission time interval (sTTI) in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed by a terminal, and may comprise a step of reporting the maximum number of component carriers supporting a combination of downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) sTTI lengths, in units of bands or band combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunho Lee, Yunjung Yi, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11627504
    Abstract: A first exemplary embodiment provides a method performed by a wireless device (10) for handling communication of the wireless device in a wireless communication network, wherein the wireless communication network comprises a first radio network node (12) and a second radio network node (13), which first radio network node (12) serves the wireless device (10). The wireless device receives an indication indicating a mapping between one or more channel state information reference signals, CSI-RS, and one or more random access channel, RACH, configurations. The wireless device receives one or more CSI-RSs from the second radio network node (13), and selects a CSI-RS out of the one or more received CSI-RSs. The wireless device further initiates a random access procedure towards the second radio network node (13) using at least part of the RACH configuration mapped to the selected CSI-RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Icaro L. J. da Silva, Patrik Rugeland, Johan Rune
  • Patent number: 11627613
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to perform low latency communication using historical beam information. The wireless device may establish a radio resource control connection, and may subsequently release the resource control connection. The wireless device may store antenna element and beam information for the resource control connection. The wireless device may determine whether to use the stored antenna element and beam information when establishing another radio resource control connection. If the wireless device determines to do so, the wireless device may use the stored antenna element and beam information when establishing that radio resource control connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Li Su, Vijay Venkataraman, Rohit R. Matolia
  • Patent number: 11620912
    Abstract: A system, method, node and computer program for determining a flight policy to be applied to an unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV, (10) is described. The UAV (10) is associated with a first UAV-Application Server, UAV-AS, (100) maintaining a flight policy applicable for a geographical service area (150) where the UAV (10) is located. The method comprising the first UAV-AS (100) determining whether the UAV (10) is going to leave the geographical service area (150) towards a second geographical service area (150). If so, determining by the first UAV-AS (100) a flight policy applicable for the second geographical service area (150), wherein that flight policy is maintained by a second UAV-AS (130). The method also comprises that the first UAV-AS (100) instructs the determined flight policy to the UAV (10), before the UAV (10) has entered the second geographical service area (150).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Jens Poscher, Ralph Detke, Stefan Eichinger, Pedro Tercero
  • Patent number: 11616675
    Abstract: A method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station used for wireless communication systems that support broadcast signals. The UE receives a first radio signal on a first time-frequency resource. The first radio signal comprises a first RS sequence, RSs in the first RS sequence are mapped from lower frequency to higher frequency in frequency domain, the first time-frequency resource belongs to a first frequency domain resource. The first frequency domain resource comprises K frequency domain sub-resource(s). (A) Position(s) of the K frequency domain sub-resource(s) in the first frequency domain resource is(are) unfixed, RSs of the first RS sequence in a given frequency domain sub-resource are not related to a position of the given frequency domain sub-resource in the first frequency domain resource. Therefore, the UE is able to correctly receive RSs even without knowing the position of frequency domain resources in the system bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11616567
    Abstract: A satellite communication method and a network device are disclosed. A first network device learns of traffics of a plurality of satellite communications link or air interface resources allocated to a plurality of satellite base stations. The first network device sends identification information to a second network device, where the identification information indicates that a traffic of a satellite communications link reaches a specified threshold, or that an air interface resource allocated by a ground station to a satellite base station reaches a specified threshold. The second network device receives an identifier message, determines a to-be-linked satellite base station that has an idle resource, and sends, to the to-be-linked satellite base station, a second message including information about a generated beam of the to-be-linked satellite base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meixin Lin, Yunfei Qiao, Xian Meng, Dali Qin
  • Patent number: 11611901
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first network parameter associated with a first network device and obtaining a second network parameter associated with a second network device. Further embodiments include determining that the first network device is less congested than the second network device based on the first network parameter and the second network parameter resulting in a first determination. Additional embodiments include amplifying a first wireless signal based on the first determination and in response to receiving the first wireless signal from the first network device resulting in a first amplified wireless signal, and transmitting the first amplified wireless signal Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Bhumit Patel, Wasib Khallil, Jonathan Chang, Iftekhar Alam
  • Patent number: 11611390
    Abstract: An enhanced L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications System (LDACS) may include LDACS ground stations; and a LDACS airborne stations, each configured to communicate with the LDACS ground stations at a given class of service from among different classes of service. The enhanced LDACS may also include a network controller configured to operate the LDACS ground stations and LDACS airborne stations at the different user classes of service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SKYSTREAM LLC
    Inventors: Shawn H. Gallagher, Eric J. Salyers, Timothy Huggins, Ivica Kostanic, Edward Paulsen, Daniel Schwinn
  • Patent number: 11606814
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for handling transmissions or channels in wireless communications that collide with one another. The described techniques relate to handling the collision between multiple overlapping channels (e.g., two or more channels of the same priority). For example, a collision resolution configuration may include resolving the collisions among the channels of the same priority first (e.g., feedback information transmissions first, and then control information), among the channels of the same service type first (e.g., normal channels first, and then low latency channel(s)), or across all of the channels of all priorities at once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wei Yang, Peter Gaal, Yi Huang, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
  • Patent number: 11601879
    Abstract: [Problem] The base station includes a plurality of radio communication units configured to individually support a plurality of communication capabilities, and performs, for a terminal station that is connected to the base station, control for selecting a radio communication unit based on a communication scheme supported in the terminal station. [Solution] Provided is a radio communication method for a radio communication system including a plurality of base stations provided with a plurality of radio communication units for which different communication schemes are settable, and a terminal station configured to perform radio communication with the radio communication unit of the base station by using a specific communication scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Akiyoshi Inoki, Keisuke Wakao
  • Patent number: 11595880
    Abstract: A base station distributed unit transmits at least one system information block to a wireless device. The at least one system information block indicates a first public land mobile network (PLMN) and a second PLMN. The base station distributed unit receives a radio resource control message from the wireless device. The radio resource control message indicates at least one PLMN of the first PLMN and the second PLMN. The base station distributed unit determines, by based on the at least one PLMN, at least one base station central unit from: a first base station central unit of the first PLMN; and a second base station central unit of the second PLMN. The base station distributed unit transmits the radio resource control message to the at least one base station central unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Ali Cirik
  • Patent number: 11589381
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for transmitting, by a terminal, a sounding reference signal (SRS). The terminal receives a grant for uplink multiple subframes from a base station. The terminal determines a first subframe for an SRS transmission of the terminal among the uplink multiple subframes on the basis of SRS transmission position information received from the base station. Further, the terminal transmits the SRS in the first subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jung Sun Um, Hoiyoon Jung, Seung Keun Park, Sungjin Yoo
  • Patent number: 11588544
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for non-terrestrial network beam switching is provided. A non-terrestrial network base station includes a transmitter configured to transmit downlink data to user equipment and a receiver configured to receive uplink data from the user equipment. A channel bandwidth of the non-terrestrial network base station is divided into a plurality of bandwidth parts respectively corresponding to a plurality of geographic areas, and each bandwidth part is respectively associated with a satellite beam. When the user equipment is located in a first geographic area, the transmitter transmits the downlink data to the user equipment over a corresponding first bandwidth part. After the user equipment transitions from the first geographic area to a second geographic area, the transmitter transmits the downlink data to the user equipment over a corresponding second bandwidth part of the plurality of bandwidth parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.
    Inventors: Mehdi Alasti, Siddhartha Chenumolu, Mariam Sorond
  • Patent number: 11576138
    Abstract: A method for selecting best radio signal in air traffic control includes: determining a respective latency of at least two receiving channels, wherein each receiving channel is provided between a corresponding receiver and a measurement and analysis module; measuring a respective arrival time of at least two radio signals received via the at least two receiving channels by the measurement and analysis module; determining the delay time between the at least two radio signals based on their arrival times; aligning the at least two radio signals with each other by taking the delay time determined into account, thereby obtaining at least two aligned signals; determining the quality of the at least two aligned signals; and switching to the receiving channel that processes the respective radio signal with the best quality determined. Further, an air traffic control system for selecting best radio signal is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Alexandru Rusu
  • Patent number: 11576133
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for timing synchronization of sidelinks. In some example embodiments, there may be provided an apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least receive information to enable synchronized operation of a vehicle-to-vehicle sidelink with another user equipment; and configure the vehicle-to-vehicle sidelink. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Jari Olavi Lindholm