Patents Examined by Benjamin H Elliott, IV
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Patent number: 12225485Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a synchronization signal block (SSB) configuration that indicates SSB location information associated with an SSB burst, the SSB location information indicating one or more SSB positions corresponding to at least one SSB position subset of a plurality of SSB position subsets. The UE may receive an SSB based at least in part on the SSB configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang
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Patent number: 12218823Abstract: An object is to provide a network device and the like that enable a first network that determines a traffic communication route using the Ethernet ring protocol and a second network that determines a traffic communication route by transmitting/receiving a control frame related to the traffic communication route within the network to be connected in a redundant configuration. When the network device according to the present invention has transitioned to a state in which there is no interface that can communicate with the first network and there is an interface that can communicate with the second network, it transitions to a standby state and further transmits information indicating that communication is impossible to the second network, and when there is an interface that can communicate with the first network and there is no interface that can communicate with the second network, it transitions to the standby state and further transmits communication route change information to the first network.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki Kimura, Erina Takeshita
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Patent number: 12212448Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for increasing the transmit power of wireless communication devices operating on power spectral density (PSD)-limited wireless channels. Some implementations more specifically relate to tone mapping techniques and packet designs that support duplicate (or “DUP mode”) transmissions to multiple users. In some implementations, an access point (AP) may transmit a PPDU that includes first user data and second user data, where at least the first user data is transmitted in a DUP mode. As such, the first user data may be mapped to a number (N) of tones spanning a first RU in accordance with a dual carrier modulation (DCM) scheme, and a duplicate copy of the first user data may be mapped to N tones spanning a second RU in accordance with the DCM scheme. In some implementations, the second user data also may be transmitted in a DUP mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jialing Li Chen, Kanke Wu, Bin Tian
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Patent number: 12206607Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for on-demand UE positioning. For example a method may include transmitting a request that comprises one or more parameters based on a request configuration, to at least one of a plurality of base stations of a network, to participate in at least one of an uplink UE positioning procedure or a downlink UE positioning procedure, and receiving signaling from the at least one of the plurality of base stations of the network in response to the request.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12200513Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, wireless communication for transmission of a beam failure recovery (BFR) MAC-CE is disclosed. A method performed on a user equipment (UE) includes detecting a beam failure of at least one beam of a beam group. The method further comprises triggering a BFR in response to the detection of the beam failure of the at least one beam of the beam group. In addition, the method includes generating a BFR medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) that includes BFR information associated with the beam group. Further, the method comprises transmitting the BFR MAC-CE that includes the BFR information associated with the beam group using a transmission resource.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jelena Damnjanovic
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Patent number: 12199778Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a method for wireless communication are provided. The method includes: receiving a radio resource control (RRC) configuration from a base station (BS); determining whether a first parameter is configured in the RRC configuration; receiving first downlink control information (DCI) from the BS, the first DCI including a first field indicating a first Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARD) process identifier (ID); determining that a number of bits in the first field is a default number in a case that the first parameter is not configured in the RRC configuration; and determining that the number of bits in the first field is a specific number greater than the default number in a case that the first parameter is configured in the RRC configuration.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chien-Chun Cheng, Chia-Hao Yu, Chia-Hung Wei, Yu-Hsin Cheng, Hung-Chen Chen
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Patent number: 12199781Abstract: The apparatus may be a UE configured to select, from a plurality of PSFCH resource sub-pools of a PSFCH resource pool for receiving HARQ feedback, a particular PSFCH resource sub-pool for receiving HARQ feedback associated with a particular SL transmission; transmit, to at least one UE, a PSRI identifying the particular PSFCH resource sub-pool; and receive, from the at least one UE, HARQ feedback regarding the particular SL transmission, the HARQ feedback being received via resources in the PSFCH resource sub-pool indicated by the PSRI. The apparatus may be a base station in a Mode 1 resource allocation that may select, from a plurality of PSFCH resource sub-pools of a PSFCH resource pool for receiving HARQ feedback, a particular PSFCH resource sub-pool for receiving HARQ feedback associated with the particular SL transmission and transmit, to a UE, a PSRI identifying the particular PSFCH resource sub-pool.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yisheng Xue, Jing Sun, Chih-Hao Liu, Xiaoxia Zhang, Shuanshuan Wu
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Patent number: 12200511Abstract: The invention provides a method performed by user equipment and user equipment. The user equipment is configured in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode. The method performed by user equipment comprising: initiating a random access (RA) procedure if a value of a beam failure instance (BFI) counter is greater than or equal to a threshold, the threshold being configured by an information element (IE) beamFailureInstanceMaxCount; transmitting a RA preamble; starting a RA response window, the RA response window being configured in an IE BeamFailureRecoveryConfig; and monitoring a PDCCH on a search space indicated by an IE RecoverySearchSpaceId while the RA response window is running. The user equipment can reliably complete a procedure to recover from beam failure even if the user equipment is configured in a DRX mode, thereby improving the overall reliability and communication efficiency of a communication system related to the user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shohei Yamada, Chongming Zhang
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Patent number: 12191925Abstract: Methods for tracking a signal origin by a spectrum analysis and management device are disclosed. Signal characteristics of other known emitters are used for obtaining a position of an emitter of a signal of interest. In one embodiment, frequency difference of arrival technique is implemented. In another embodiment, time difference of arrival technique is implemented.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2024Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Digital Global Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel R. Garcia, Daniel Carbajal
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Patent number: 12191920Abstract: Provided are a method, apparatus and system for measuring total radiated power of an array antenna. The method includes: determining a Rayleigh resolution of the array antenna in an angle space, and setting a stepping grid spacing of sampling points according to the Rayleigh resolution; determining the sampling points according to the stepping grid spacing, measuring equivalent isotropic radiated power (EIRP) at positions of the sampling points and determining the TRP according to the EIRP. Compared with a traditional rest mode using an angle stepping grid ?grid and ?grid of 15°, this reduces measurement errors; and additionally, through a normalized wave vector space transformation, the number of sampling points is further reduced, and the measurement efficiency is improved.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Yanchun Zhuang, Hua Gao, Kunjing Zhong, Fei Xue
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Patent number: 12192101Abstract: Described are methods and devices for communication between local networks and global networks. In some examples, a method comprises storing mapping data for multiple hosts in a global network and in a local network. The method further comprises receiving a first data packet from one of the multiple hosts in the local network. The first data packet comprises a first source address being the local network address of the host in the local network, a first destination address being the local network address of the host in the global network and payload data. The method further comprises determining, based on the mapping data, the global network address of the host in the local network and a global network address of the host in the global network, and sending a second data packet over the global network.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignees: The Boeing Company, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Guangyu Pei, Dongxi Liu, Surya Nepal, Nan Li
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Patent number: 12184563Abstract: A method by a master network node for measurement gap configuration includes establishing a connection with a wireless device operating in dual connectivity with the master network node and a secondary network node. The master network node operates on a New Radio, NR, wireless network and the secondary network node operates on a Long-Term Evolution, LTE, network. The measurement gap configuration is configured on a per frequency basis for at least a first frequency and a second frequency on the NR wireless network. The measurement gap configuration is configured on a per frequency basis for the first frequency on the LTE network. The method further incudes configuring, by the master network node, the wireless device with at least one measurement gap for the second frequency when the master network node configures a measurement that requires the at least one measurement gap.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Oumer Teyeb, Stefan Wager, Antonio Orsino
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Patent number: 12184461Abstract: Provided are wireless communication devices and methods. A wireless communication device can comprise: circuitry operative to map at least a first type of reference signals (RSs) onto orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol(s) other than the OFDM symbols onto which shortened transmission time intervals (TTIs) are mapped in a subframe, each of the shortened TTIs comprising 1-7 OFDM symbols; and a transmitter operative to transmit a physical channel in one of the shortened TTIs and transmit at least the first type of RSs.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Lilei Wang, Ayako Horiuchi, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Masayuki Hoshino
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Patent number: 12177812Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive a set of resource maps from one or more second UEs, each resource map of the set of resource maps including resource availability information for a respective time window. The first UE may select a set of resources based at least in part on at least one resource map of the set of resource maps. The first UE may transmit a signal using the selected set of resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Chang-Sik Choi, Kapil Gulati, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Gabi Sarkis
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Patent number: 12177007Abstract: An apparatus, such as a base station, may determine channel conditions associated with at least two carriers on which communication with another apparatus is configured. The apparatus may encode a dataset into a set of protocol data units (PDUs) using fountain coding based on the channel conditions. The apparatus may send a first subset of the set of PDUs to the other apparatus on a first carrier of the at least two carriers. The apparatus may send a second subset of the set of PDUs to the other apparatus on a second carrier of the at least two carriers. Another apparatus, such as a user equipment (UE), may receive the set of PDUs from the apparatus over the at least two carriers, and may decode the set of PDUs to obtain a dataset using fountain coding.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Changlong Xu, Ruiming Zheng, Tao Luo, Hao Xu
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Patent number: 12166573Abstract: A communication apparatus operable in both a base station mode and a terminal mode, obtains identification information of a first wireless network to be connected in the terminal mode; and establishes, when operating in the base station mode, a second wireless network having the same identification information as the obtained identification information.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takafumi Nakajima
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Patent number: 12167231Abstract: The communication apparatus includes a wireless communication unit and a determination unit. The wireless communication unit selectively connects to and communicates with a plurality of wireless communication networks in which at least one of a frequency band and a wireless communication method is different from each other. The determination unit determines whether to switch to another wireless communication network among the plurality of wireless communication networks on the basis of a communication status of at least any one of communication of layer 2, layer 3, layer 4, and layer 7 performed via any one of the plurality of wireless communication networks.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Koki Horita, Toshiya Ikenaga
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Patent number: 12155480Abstract: A base station may perform interleaving of parts of a plurality of transport blocks for a broadcast or multicast transmission across a plurality of time intervals. A size of a transport block of the plurality of transport blocks may be scaled by a scaling factor. The base station may transmit the interleaved parts in the plurality of time intervals.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ayan Sengupta, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Aamod Khandekar, Thomas Stockhammer
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Patent number: 12156124Abstract: A method for registering an electronic device in one embodiment includes broadcasting access information of an electronic device to be registered, receiving a request for communication connection based on the broadcast access information of the electronic device from a user terminal, transmitting a request for confirmation of a device corresponding to the received request for communication connection to the user terminal, receiving device confirmation information from the user terminal as a result of manipulation of a user, generating device authentication information based on the confirmation information, receiving access point (AP) access information from the user terminal, performing communication connection with an electronic-device managing server based on the received AP access information while transmitting identification information of the electronic device, and requesting registration of the device in a user account stored in the electronic-device managing server based on the transmitted identificatiType: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Soo Young Choi
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Patent number: 12155502Abstract: Optimized automated access network connectivity is provided. A network connecting device (NCD) may perform an optimized access network setup process upon boot-up to connect to an access network. The optimized process may be determined by a cloud-based machine-learning system based on learned connecting and network usage behaviors. The optimized process may include a sequence of network connectivity evaluations configured to minimize the setup time associated with discovering and connecting to an access network. The optimized process may further reduce or eliminate the probability of device failure due to an erroneous access network implementation by establishing communications with a test server prior to committing an access operating mode to non-volatile memory. The NCD may be configured to modify the device's master configuration settings to include the optimized process such that when a master reset is performed, the device may utilize the optimized process to discover and connect to the access network.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Inventors: Michael Paul Overcash, Yousef Wasef Nijim, James Alan Strothmann