Patents Examined by Benjamin Lamont
  • Patent number: 12641559
    Abstract: Example frequency compensation methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes determining first information and sending the first information by a network device to a terminal device, where the first information indicates a frequency compensation manner of an uplink signal of the terminal device or the first information indicates a configuration parameter of the terminal device. The terminal device receives the first information, and determines, based on the first information, the frequency compensation manner to be used to send the uplink signal. The terminal device performs frequency compensation for the uplink signal based on the frequency compensation manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hejia Luo, Xiaolu Wang, Jianwei Zhou, Ying Chen, Chenlei Xu, Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 12640957
    Abstract: A branding and configuring system for devices of a vehicle to be branded includes: an Ethernet switch including ports; a branding module connected to the Ethernet switch and generating new identification information for each of the devices and send the new identification information via a respective one of the ports to that device; and the devices connected respectively to the ports and including a RAM and a NVM. Each of the devices is configured to: store the corresponding new identification information received from the branding module for that device in the RAM or replace identification information stored in the RAM of that device with the corresponding new identification information in the RAM; and based on the new identification information, receive programming from a testing device external from the vehicle to reprogram that device for a dedicated functional role within the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Kryszak, Subhash Vijaya Doddachikkaveeranna, Chang Liu, Anup Dhote, Michael Potts, Daniel Pinheiro Carlesimo
  • Patent number: 12634767
    Abstract: In an uplink transmission method for extended reality (XR) services, user equipment (UE) notifies a base station that a data flow of a current service has an uplink integrity transmission requirement. The base station maps a QoS flow having the uplink integrity transmission requirement to a corresponding radio bearer, and notifies the UE of the corresponding radio bearer through a signaling configuration. The UE then reports, through a MAC CE, a data amount of the service flow having the integrity transmission requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Erkai Chen, Shuri Liao, Youlong Cao, Shengyue Dou, Xiaoying Xu
  • Patent number: 12627416
    Abstract: A method for configuring a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) delay is applied to a network device, and includes: determining a first HARQ feedback delay value for a terminal of a first type, wherein the first HARQ feedback delay value belongs to a first HARQ feedback delay value set, and the first HARQ feedback delay value set is associated with the terminal of the first type and is different from a second HARQ feedback delay value set associated with a terminal of a second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qin Mu
  • Patent number: 12627953
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, disclosed are a method for transmitting a first message by a first device in a wireless communication system supporting sidelink, and a device therefor. Disclosed are the method and the device for same, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a first request message for requesting transmission of the first message on the basis of a bypass interface; transmitting a response message for acknowledging transmission of the first message; and transmitting a second message, which has been received from the network, as the first message on the basis of the bypass interface, wherein the bypass interface is an interface for transmitting the second message, which has been received through a first interface, as the first message through a second interface without involvement of an application layer of the first device, and the response message includes channel information related to the second interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jaeho Hwang, Hakseong Kim, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 12615586
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling wireless communication between one or more on-aircraft communication networks, including a wireless cabin network, and a plurality of off-aircraft communication networks. A first communication module is configured for wireless communications with a first off-aircraft network, such as for example a network configured for high altitude communications. A second communication module is configured for wireless communications with a second off-aircraft network, such as for example a network configured for terrestrial communications. Availability of a data link between the second communication module and the second network is determined. When the data link is determined to be available, the second communication module couples one or more of the on-aircraft networks to the second network. When the data link is determined to be not available, the first communication module couples one or more of the on-aircraft networks to the first network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Cirrus Design Corporation
    Inventors: Jeff Fischer, Brad Cyr, Doug Young
  • Patent number: 12615121
    Abstract: A communication apparatus compliant with the IEEE802.11 standard series comprises: first transmission unit configured to transmit a plurality of data frames to a communication partner apparatus using a plurality of links; second transmission unit configured to transmit, to the communication partner apparatus, a request frame that requests an acknowledgement (Ack) frame to the plurality of transmitted data frames; and reception unit configured to receive the Ack frame from the communication partner apparatus in response to transmitting the request frame, wherein the request frame includes sequence information about sequence numbers of a plurality of data frames transmitted on each link of the plurality of links, and the sequence information includes identification information that identifies at least one data frame group distinguished every series of data frames having consecutive sequence numbers out of the plurality of data frames transmitted on the each link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuki Fujimori
  • Patent number: 12603727
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, based at least in part on a first symbol offset, a starting symbol and an ending symbol for a first repetition of a plurality of repetitions of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission. The UE may determine, based at least in part on a second symbol offset, a starting symbol and an ending symbol for a second repetition of the plurality of repetitions of the PUSCH transmission. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Fang Yuan, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Wooseok Nam, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12593350
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to collision resolution for overlapping uplink transmissions, and includes a method and apparatus for identifying a plurality of scheduled uplink transmissions that overlap in at least a first slot and a second slot, wherein the plurality of uplink transmissions comprises a high priority uplink transmission scheduled for repetitive transmission across at least a first slot and a second slot and further comprises one or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the first slot and two or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the second slot, wherein the two or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the second slot comprise at least a first low priority uplink transmission and a second high priority uplink transmission; and performing a first collision resolution procedure in the first slot and performing a second collision resolution procedure in the second slot, the second collision resolution procedure being independent of the first collision resolution procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Gaal, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 12581523
    Abstract: The present application is related to a method performed by user equipment (UE). The method includes: determining whether a uplink (UL) transmission and a sidelink (SL) transmission overlap in time domain; and in response to the UL transmission and the SL transmission overlapping in time domain, determining, based on quality of service (QoS) requirements of the UL transmission and the SL transmission, transmitting which one of the UL transmission and the SL transmission and not transmitting the other one of the UL transmission and the SL transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Jing Han, Lianhai Wu, Haiming Wang, Jie Shi, Jie Hu
  • Patent number: 12562861
    Abstract: A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: a terminal device receives first information, and sends an SRS based on the first information. The first information indicates an SRS frequency domain resource. The SRS frequency domain resource includes a first frequency domain unit and a second frequency domain unit. The first frequency domain unit is different from the second frequency domain unit. The first frequency domain unit is a frequency domain resource occupied by the SRS on a first frequency hopping subband in a first frequency hopping period. The second frequency domain unit is a frequency domain resource occupied by the SRS on the first frequency hopping subband in a second frequency hopping period. The first frequency hopping subband is one of a plurality of frequency hopping subbands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingxin Gong, Di Zhang
  • Patent number: 12563453
    Abstract: A base station including at least one processor, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the base station at least to configure a user equipment, UE, with a bandwidth part associated with a non-serving cell, and with a reference signal associated with the bandwidth part, and to activate a transmission configuration indicator, ICI, state for PDCCH and/or PDSCH reception within the bandwidth part. The activated TCI state comprises quasi-co-located, QCL, information associated with the reference signal or with a further reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Timo Koskela, Sami Hakola, Jorma Kaikkonen, Juha Karjalainen, Mihai Enescu
  • Patent number: 12532275
    Abstract: The disclosure provides information transmission methods and communication apparatuses. One example method includes that a receiving apparatus receives a synchronization signal and cell-specific information that are sent by a sending apparatus on a first beam, where the cell-specific information includes indication information which indicates whether there is beam-specific information, and the first beam comprises a plurality of second beams. In response to determining that the indication information indicates that there is the beam-specific information, the receiving apparatus receives beam-specific information of second beam of the plurality of second beams, where the beam-specific information is sent by the sending apparatus on the second beam, and the receiving apparatus is within coverage of the second beam. The receiving apparatus performs initial access using the synchronization signal, the cell-specific information, and the beam-specific information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Jianwei Zhou, Yunfei Qiao, Hejia Luo, Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 12532329
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first information sent by a network device, where the first information is used to indicate an association relationship of physical downlink control channels PDCCH sent by N transmission receiving points, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; receiving, by the terminal device, the PDCCHs according to the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Meng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12526119
    Abstract: A terminal including a reception unit that receives configuration information in a high frequency band higher than or equal to a frequency band of a frequency range 2 (FR2), the FR2 being in a range including a frequency range 1 (FR1) that is a low frequency band and the FR2 that is a high frequency band in a new radio (NR) system; and a control unit that configures at least one of a format of a random access preamble, a sequence of the random access preamble, a subcarrier spacing applied to a channel on which the random access preamble is to be transmitted, or a subcarrier spacing applied to an uplink shared channel, based on the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Tomoya Ohara, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang
  • Patent number: 12520175
    Abstract: Embodiments of a device, a method, and a system for wireless local area network (WLAN) sensing are disclosed. In an embodiment, the device for WLAN sensing includes a wireless network interface device implemented on one or more integrated circuits (ICs), where the wireless network interface device is configured to receive a sounding Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) that includes preamble training fields, and detect environmental changes using managed sensing measurements obtained from the preamble training fields included in the sounding PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Wei, Rui Cao, Hongyuan Zhang, Christian Raimund Berger, Liwen Chu
  • Patent number: 12507281
    Abstract: Wireless communication systems and methods related to channel occupancy time (COT) sharing when operating in a frame-based-equipment (FBE) mode over a shared frequency band are provided. In one aspect, a user equipment (UE) contends for a channel occupancy time (COT) in a first frame-based equipment (FBE) frame. The UE transmits, to a base station (B S), an uplink communication signal during a first portion of the COT. The UE receives, from the BS based on COT sharing information, a downlink communication signal during a second portion of the COT, wherein the second portion is non-overlapping with the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Siyi Chen, Changlong Xu, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Hao Xu, Rajat Prakash
  • Patent number: 12507286
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to, at a wireless communication device, occupying a slot in a first subchannel, wherein the first subchannel comprises a sidelink subchannel in a licensed band, transmitting sidelink control in the first subchannel during the slot, except during a symbol gap indicated to include at least a last symbol of a plurality of symbols supported by the slot, seeking access to a secondary carrier in an unlicensed band, and transmitting sidelink traffic in the secondary carrier upon receiving the access to the secondary carrier. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Ozcan Ozturk, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal, Changlong Xu
  • Patent number: 12501478
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to collision resolution for overlapping uplink transmissions, and includes a method and apparatus for identifying a plurality of scheduled uplink transmissions that overlap in at least a first slot and a second slot, wherein the plurality of uplink transmissions comprises a high priority uplink transmission scheduled for repetitive transmission across at least a first slot and a second slot and further comprises one or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the first slot and two or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the second slot, wherein the two or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the second slot comprise at least a first low priority uplink transmission and a second high priority uplink transmission; and performing a first collision resolution procedure in the first slot and performing a second collision resolution procedure in the second slot, the second collision resolution procedure being independent of the first collision resolution procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Gaal, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 12489563
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an assisting wireless device may track a first retransmission metric that is based on a number of retransmitted packets that the assisting wireless device received from a source device. The assisting wireless device may receive, from a sink wireless device, an acknowledgement assistance request indicating a second retransmission metric for the sink wireless device. The assisting wireless device may transmit, to the sink wireless device, a response to the acknowledgement assistance request based on respective values of the first retransmission metric and the second retransmission metric. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Skanda Kumar Kaipu Narahari, Sourabh Jana, Nitin Raghavendra Kidiyoor