Patents Examined by Ayanah S George
  • Patent number: 11706709
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A hub user equipment (UE) in a star topology may broadcast to a set of peripheral UEs indicating slots when the hub UE will not be in a transmission mode. The hub UE may broadcast a slot format indication to the peripheral UEs to indicate operating modes in a set of slots. In a first group of slots, the hub UE may operate in a forward mode, transmitting sidelink communications to the peripheral UEs. In a second group of slots, the hub UE may operate in a reverse mode, receiving sidelink communications from the peripheral UEs. In slots when the hub UE operates in the reverse mode, if a peripheral UE does not have data or control information, the peripheral UE may enter a sleep mode in one or more slots of the second group to save power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Junyi Li, Ozcan Ozturk, Chih-Hao Liu, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11706758
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for scheduling component carriers and one or more operations on a per NB RF chain basis. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes monitoring occurrences of a first number of operations to be performed for a plurality of component carriers (CCs) according to different periodicities, determining a second number of available narrow band (NB) radio frequency (RF) chains, and scheduling, on the available NB RF chains, up to the second number of the operations to be performed for the plurality of CCs based on a scheduling algorithm if the first number is greater than the second number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Yongle Wu, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 11700593
    Abstract: Frequency-selective single frequency network (SFN) operation is disclosed based on a modified Type-II port selection codebook. Within the channel state information (CSI) feedback procedure, a user equipment (UE) observing the CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource configured by the serving base station with two ports configured over multiple sectors of the serving base station may select a precoder from the Type-II port selection codebook which accommodates additional subband amplitude information. The additional subband amplitude information may include a subband dynamic SFN activation indicator. In such a CSI report selected from the Type-II port selection codebook, the UE may indicate to the serving base station both a wideband SFN activation/deactivation and a subband SFN activation/deactivation in addition to the subband phase information. The serving base station may then use this CSI report to activate/deactivate SFN operations in both wideband and subband over each of the participating sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Kiran Venugopal, Tianyang Bai
  • Patent number: 11690030
    Abstract: A method and a user equipment are provided for wireless link monitoring. In the method, the user equipment acquires a plurality of measurement resources for wireless link monitoring. The user equipment performs wireless link measurement on each measurement resource to acquire a plurality of measurement results. The user equipment reports an indication of synchronization or an indication of asynchronization to a base station according to report association information comprising the plurality of measurement results and at least one preset threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yajun Zhu
  • Patent number: 11690138
    Abstract: A terminal performs: in response to receipt of first identifying information, from a first function-executing device via a first wireless connection established between the terminal and the first function-executing device, receiving, when the computer program is launched by an OS program of the terminal, at least the first device-identifying information from the OS program; establishing a second wireless connection between the terminal and the first function-executing device, using the first device-identifying information received from the OS program without requiring user input of an operation for selecting a connection-target function-executing device from at least one function-executing device; receiving first function information that indicates at least one function executable by the first function-executing device; and displaying, a first function screen for enabling a user to select a function required of the first function-executing device to execute, from the at least one function executable by the fi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka Asakura, Longlong Ruan
  • Patent number: 11689396
    Abstract: [Object] To adaptively adjust a symbol interval in accordance with a communication environment. [Solution] An apparatus including: a communication unit configured to perform radio communication; and a control unit configured to perform control such that control information for adjusting a symbol interval in a complex symbol sequence into which a bit sequence is converted is transmitted from the communication unit to a terminal, the control information being set on a basis of a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Ryo Sawai
  • Patent number: 11683844
    Abstract: A terminal receives a downlink signal on the basis of a random access channel procedure (RACH procedure) in an unlicensed band. In particular, a first physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble is transmitted through message A, in response to the message A, a random access response (RAR) is received through message B related to contention resolution, information on at least one DRX timer for setting a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation is received, and a downlink signal is received during an On duration on the basis of the at least one DRX timer, wherein the first PRACH preamble is a PRACH preamble mapped to a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) occasion for the message A, and a window for reception of the message B may start after at least one symbol from the last symbol of the PUSCH occasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jeongsu Lee, Sukhyon Yoon, Hyunsoo Ko, Seonwook Kim
  • Patent number: 11683827
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a node used for wireless communication. A first node receives a first signal to determine a first channel quality; determines a first speed; and determines whether a first resource pool comprises a first time-frequency resource block; selects a target time-frequency resource block from the first resource pool; and transmits a second signal in the target time-frequency resource block; herein, the first speed is a speed of mobility of the first node; the first resource pool comprises multiple time-frequency resource blocks, whether the first resource pool comprises the first time-frequency resource block is dependent on the first speed. The present disclosure takes into account the speed of mobility of a user in resources sensing, thus ensuring that the channel quality which autonomously selects resources meets the current transmission requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jin Liu, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11678329
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for phase noise reference signal (PNRS) transmission, comprising receiving, at a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU), scheduling information for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission, wherein the scheduling information includes an indication of a set of physical resource blocks (PRBs) and a modulation coding scheme (MCS) level, determining a density for the PNRS transmission based on at least one of: the MCS level, a frequency band for the PUSCH transmission, or a subcarrier spacing of the PUSCH transmission, and transmitting the PUSCH in the scheduled set of PRBs using the determined density of PNRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Moon-il Lee, Erdem Bala, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Mihaela C. Beluri, Alphan Sahin, Rui Yang
  • Patent number: 11671856
    Abstract: There is provided a method of evaluating user churn in wireless networks. The method includes receiving data from a plurality of wireless electronic devices connected to and operating in a plurality wireless networks and/or network types, wherein the data has been collected for each wireless electronic device by wireless device software embedded in an application or memory of the respective wireless electronic device and configured to collect the data when the wireless electronic device accesses one or more of the plurality of wireless networks and/or network types, and wherein the data comprises one or more identifiers associated with the wireless electronic device or a user of the wireless electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Tutela Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Brennen Stephen Chow, Hunter Banford Bulmer MacDonald, David Daniel Yarish, Anthony Sean Kroeker, Stephen William Neville, Thomas E. Darcie
  • Patent number: 11665580
    Abstract: A device of a RAN may receive first traffic associated with a first network type service, second traffic associated with a second network type service, and core network data associated with a core network that provides the first network type service and the second network type service. The device may calculate a per QCI split based on the core network data, and may calculate an initial resource split based on the per QCI split. The device may provide, to a first device, data identifying the initial resource split, and may receive a traffic bias per QCI based on providing the data identifying the initial resource split. The device may calculate a final resource split for the first traffic and the second traffic based on the traffic bias per QCI, and may cause the final resource split to be implemented via resources associated with the RAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ratul Kumar Guha, Kalyani Bogineni, Lori E. Fountain
  • Patent number: 11658718
    Abstract: The invention provides a communication system and components thereof for controlling coordinated transmissions using a plurality of carriers operated by a plurality of transmission points. A transmission point configures a number of signal quality and interference measurements for a mobile telephone communicating over the plurality of carriers, each measurement being associated with multiple carriers and multiple measurement configurations. The mobile telephone performs the configured measurements with respect to each of the multiple carriers and reports the results of the relevant measurements to the transmission point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Caroline Liang
  • Patent number: 11659422
    Abstract: When a user equipment (UE) encounters a radio link failure condition, the UE may transmit a radio link failure report to a network. The report may include information defining the radio link monitoring (RLM) resources of a current RLM configuration. The information may take the form of a resource bitmap or a list of resource identifiers/indices. The network may use the information (and radio resource management measurements) to determine whether the radio link failure occurred due to misconfiguration of RLM resources for the UE. In cases where the network does not provide RLM configuration, the UE may omit the bitmap (or list), or populate the bitmap with all zeros, or populate the bitmap (or list) according to a currently active Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state, which is indicated by downlink control information (DCI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuqin Chen, Yushu Zhang, Fangli Xu, Qiming Li, Chunhai Yao, Gurunadha Rao Kota, Zhibin Wu, Haijing Hu, Dawei Zhang, Panagiotis Botsinis, Christian Hofmann, Sameh M Eldessoki
  • Patent number: 11652599
    Abstract: When a downlink bandwidth part (BWP) is switched from a first BWP to a second BWP without a change of a cell defining synchronization signal block (SSB), if a reference signal type for Radio Link Monitoring (RLM) is set to an SSB type, a radio terminal (12) continues to use for RLM measurements a first SSB associated with the first BWP after switching of the downlink BWP to the second BWP. This for example enables the radio terminal to monitor a suitable Reference Signal (RS) for RLM measurements after switching of the DL active BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisashi Futaki
  • Patent number: 11653253
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for operating and controlling a data flow. The method includes steps of: acquiring, by a first node, information on a Quality-of-Service (QoS) flow and/or resource information on a node; and deciding, by the first node, whether to accept the QoS flow and/or performance result information for the QoS flow, according to the acquired resource information on the node and/or the acquired information on the QoS flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaowan Ke, Hong Wang, Lixiang Xu
  • Patent number: 11652569
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for facilitating scheduling of uplink data using demodulation reference signal and scheduled resources. According an embodiment, a system can comprise configuring a network device with a periodic rate of specified sounding reference signals with a periodicity using radio resource control signaling. The system can further facilitate estimating channel state information associated with a channel via which the network device communicates. The system can further facilitate transmitting an uplink grant with uplink transmission parameters to set up a physical uplink shared channel, wherein the uplink transmission parameters are determined based on the channel state information. The system can further facilitate estimating scheduling parameters based on a first estimation information associated with the physical uplink shared channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11653255
    Abstract: A control apparatus (40) determines a control value to be supplied to a node (604) in a communication network so as to achieve a setpoint of Quality of Service (QoS) performance required by a traffic flow transferred through the communication network. This control value causes the node (604) to adjust allocation of network resources to the traffic flow. The control apparatus (40) corrects the control value to be supplied to the node (604) on the basis of a control delay between the control apparatus (40) and the node (604) and on the basis of a trend in changes in a traffic-related parameter. It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to stabilizing control for guaranteeing QoS performance required by a traffic flow even when there is a non-negligible control delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Iwai, Nobuhiko Itoh
  • Patent number: 11638211
    Abstract: A method by which a terminal monitors a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a wireless communication system, and a device therefor are provided. In the method, a terminal wakes up in a DRX cycle linked with a monitoring occasion so as to monitor a PDCCH if a wake up signal (WUS) monitoring occasion does not exist in a monitoring window for allowing the terminal to monitor the WUS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Joonkui Ahn, Changhwan Park, Seunggye Hwang
  • Patent number: 11638321
    Abstract: Embodiments include systems and methods for UE signaling a network regarding customized ringing signal (CRS) capability and use of such information by the network. Various embodiments may receiving from the network an INVITE message notifying the UE of an incoming call, determining whether the INVITE message indicates that the network provides CRS service if the UE supports a CRS function, and including an indication in a response to the INVITE that the UE supports the CRS function in response to determining that the INVITE message includes an alert information header field indicating that the network provides CRS service. Various embodiments include a network computing device receiving such information and performing negotiations for CRS service with the UE only if the UE indicates CRS functional capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo, Jelena Damnjanovic, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo, Wanshi Chen, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11632212
    Abstract: An apparatus and method in a wireless communication system and a computer readable storage medium. The apparatus comprises a processing circuit, which is configured to: configure a sounding reference signal (SRS) mapping structure for a user equipment on the basis of at least the number of antenna ports of the user equipment and the number of transmitting beams and/or receiving beams to be scanned; and notify the user equipment of the SRS mapping structure, wherein the SRS mapping structure at least comprises SRS resource settings for achieving uplink beam management and channel state information (CSI) acquisition at the same time, thereby reducing the system time delay and improving the uplink resource utilization rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Xu, Dongru Li, Hang Yang, Xiaofeng Tao, Jianfei Cao