Patents Examined by Bob A. Phunkulh
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Patent number: 11950106Abstract: An apparatus of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method, and a system. The apparatus includes a Radio Frequency (RF) interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the RF interface. The processing circuitry is to: generate a signal including capability information of the UE, wherein a time period for intra-frequency cell detection and measurement for the UE is based on the capability information; and cause a transmission of the signal within a cellular network to include the UE using the RF interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Manasa Raghavan, Jie Cui, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 11937243Abstract: A method for allocating resources for a scheduling request indicator (SRI) is disclosed. An SRI cycle period for use by user equipment (UE) within a cell is transmitted from a NodeB in a cell to UE within the cell. The NodeB transmits a specific SRI subframe offset and an index value to the particular UE within the cell. The specific SRI subframe offset and the index value enable the UE to determine a unique combination of cyclic shift, RS orthogonal cover, data orthogonal cover, and resource block number for the UE to use as a unique physical resource for an SRI in the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Pierre Bertrand, Zukang Shen, Tarik Muharemovic
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Patent number: 11930413Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for a network-initiated packet data network connection in communication systems are described.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexandre S. Stojanovski, Muthaiah Venkatachalam
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Patent number: 11930478Abstract: A communication method for data transmission in the internet of vehicles V2X and a related device. The method includes a first terminal device that receives first information from a first radio access network device, where the first information includes service information of a service of the first terminal device and a resource configuration mode on a sidelink, and there is a correspondence between the service information and the resource configuration mode on the sidelink. The first terminal device transmits, based on the correspondence, data corresponding to the service information on a sidelink transmission resource configured based on the resource configuration mode. The service information may be reliability information.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Chunhua You, Qiang Fan, Wenjie Peng, Jun Wang, Qufang Huang, Mingzeng Dai
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Patent number: 11924014Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a dynamic indication to switch from a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) table to a new MCS table. The UE may transmit, to the base station, one or more uplink communications that use a transmit waveform type associated with the new MCS table. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Michael Levitsky, Ran Berliner, Gokul Sridharan, Hung Dinh Ly
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Patent number: 11923971Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, which may be otherwise known as user equipment (UE), may identify a default modulation and coding scheme table and a preconfigured modulation and coding scheme table associated with a resource pool. The UE may receive, from a transmitting communication device, an indication of the preconfigured modulation and coding scheme table to use for upcoming sidelink communications. The UE may then communicate based on the preconfigured modulation and coding scheme table.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Gabi Sarkis, Tien Viet Nguyen, Kapil Gulati, Shuanshuan Wu, Sudhir Kumar Baghel
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Patent number: 11910217Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, in a full duplex communication mode, a data transmission or a control transmission; perform a self-interference measurement (SIM) associated with an uplink transmit beam from a first panel and a downlink receive beam from a second panel of the UE, based at least in part on at least part of the data transmission or the control transmission; and transmit a measurement report indicating the SIM. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Navid Abedini
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Patent number: 11902921Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for transmitting and receiving signals between a user equipment and a base station in a wireless communication system and device for supporting the same. More specifically, the invention discloses a method by which, when a base station transmits synchronization signal blocks in various beam directions, a user equipment achieves synchronization with the base station by detecting the index of a received synchronization signal block and then transmits and receives signals with the base station.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyunsoo Ko, Kijun Kim, Eunsun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon
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Patent number: 11902195Abstract: A communication system includes a first communication device that configures a first wireless network together with another peripheral device or a plurality of other peripheral devices by using a first BSSID and a second communication device that configures a second wireless network together with another peripheral device or a plurality of other peripheral devices by using a second BSSID. The first communication device is configured to transmit a first frame in which a first identification value has been designated as a BSSID. The first communication device and the second communication device are configured to perform reception processing of a frame in which the first identification value has been designated as the BSSID, as a valid frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takumi Kanaya, Yoshitaka Imura, Takayuki Shibata, Sho Kurose, Weiwei Yan
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Patent number: 11889298Abstract: Method and apparatus relating to a wireless device supporting 3GPP 4G and 5G radio interfaces and also supporting non-3GPP access, i.e., WiFi, for selecting a security gateway of a first type e.g., ePDG or a security gateway of a second type, e.g., N3IWF for accessing to the core network of first type, e.g., EPC or of a second type e.g., SGC. As the access methods via ePDG and N3IWF are not the same, the wireless device has to determine based on information obtained by a function in the network and its capabilities whether to use an ePDG or an N3IWF for untrusted non-3GPP access. The wireless device may take into account in the selection whether it is connected to the Core network over 3GPP 4G or 5G radio access network. A corresponding apparatus claim is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: George Foti, Lila Madour
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Patent number: 11889372Abstract: A method of operation of a wireless communication device to perform handover from a source cell to a target cell in a wireless communication system is provided. The wireless communication device performs (202) a beam tracking procedure for one or more neighbor cells to provide, for each neighbor cell, a list of tracked beams for the neighbor cell. The wireless communication device receives (212) a handover command from a source radio access node that instructs the wireless communication device to perform a handover from a source cell served by the source radio access node to a target cell served by a target radio access node. The target cell is one of the one or more neighbor cells for which the beam tracking procedure is performed. The wireless communication device then selects (214) a beam of the target cell from the list of tracked beams for the target cell based on random access resource configuration and/or a quality threshold.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Janne Peisa, Icaro Leonardo J. Da Silva, Pradeepa Ramachandra
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Patent number: 11882576Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, in a single dynamic signaling communication, an indication to activate one or more coverage enhancement parameters. The UE may activate the one or more coverage enhancement parameters based at least in part on receiving the indication. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo, Jelena Damnjanovic, Juan Montojo, Qiang Wu, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Xiaoxia Zhang, Peter Gaal, Jing Sun
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Patent number: 11876654Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or base station. The apparatus can select one or more rows or one or more columns in a DFT matrix, the one or more rows being even-numbered rows in the DFT matrix and the one or more columns being even-numbered columns in the DFT matrix. The apparatus can also determine an orthogonal matrix based on the one or more rows or the one or more columns in the DFT matrix, the orthogonal matrix having a size of (M×N)×(M×N) with M×N rows and M×N columns. Also, the apparatus can determine a codebook based on the orthogonal matrix, the codebook including a plurality of codepoints. The apparatus can also transmit at least one signal including a first codepoint of the plurality of codepoints in the codebook.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yi Huang, Wei Yang, Peter Gaal, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Wanshi Chen, Juan Montojo
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Patent number: 11871387Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine at least one of a granularity or range of a timing adjustment value based at least in part on at least one of a timing adjustment command indicating the granularity, configuration information indicating the granularity, information regarding a communication, carrier, or band associated with the user equipment, or a combination thereof; and/or perform timing adjustment based at least in part on at least one of the granularity or the range of the timing adjustment value. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 11870640Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for a self-contained multi-modal communication system. The multi-modal communication system comprises a first mobile telecommunication node, which provides a private telecommunication network, a layer 2 (L2) backhaul wireless transceiver, an ethernet switch and an embedded edge cloud compute device. The edge cloud compute device includes an automatic failover detection system, wherein the automatic failover detection system receives as input a plurality of network parameters and automatically performs failover and communication modality switching for one or more communication devices associated with the self-contained multi-modal communication system.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Fenix Group, Inc.Inventors: David Peterson, Stefan Schaner, Taylor Thompson, Bryan Coxwell, Aaron Hoogland
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Patent number: 11844108Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for channel access for semi-static uplink (UL) resources are provided. One method may include receiving, at a user equipment, an indication of at least one of time portions of channel occupancy time (COT) where the user equipment can use a first type of channel access for configured uplink (CUL) transmission or time portions where a second type of channel access is required prior to the configured uplink (CUL) transmission. The method may then include, based on the received indication, determining a channel access mechanism to use when transmitting on a configured uplink (CUL) resource.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Kari Juhani Hooli, Vitaly Petrov, Timo Erkki Lunttila
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Patent number: 11832234Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method in a network node comprises determining a first uplink/downlink scheduling pattern for a first plurality of consecutive subframes; transmitting the first uplink/downlink scheduling pattern to a wireless device; transmitting at least one subframe to the wireless device according to the first uplink/downlink scheduling pattern; determining a second uplink/downlink scheduling pattern for a second plurality of consecutive subframes, wherein the first plurality of consecutive subframes and the second plurality of consecutive subframes share at least one subframe; and transmitting the second uplink/downlink scheduling pattern to the wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Daniel Larsson, Jung-Fu Cheng, Sorour Falahati, Havish Koorapaty
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Patent number: 11817947Abstract: A modulation technique, such as for example either Pi/2 BPSK or QPSK, is selected for transmission, based on a characteristic of the data to be transmitted, or the physical channel over which it is to be transmitted. The data characteristic may be the coding rate, or characteristics indirectly related to the coding rate, such as the number of coded bits or number of uncoded bits (payload size). The physical channel characteristic may for example be the physical channel bandwidth, the physical channel length, a number of physical channel modulation symbols, a number of the physical channel resource elements used for the data to be transmitted, or a number of the physical channel modulation symbols carrying the data to be transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Erik Dahlman, Sorour Falahati, Havish Koorapaty, Stefan Parkvall
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Patent number: 11818732Abstract: A method and a BS for construction of a DCI format are provided. The method includes configuring a first DAI field of first DCI with a first size and configuring a second DAI field of second DCI with a second size; generating at least one bit with a zero value for one of the first DAI field and the second DAI field if a size difference between the first size and the second size exists; and transmitting, to a UE, an RRC message, the first DCI, and the second DCI, wherein the RRC message includes information for configuring a HARQ-ACK codebook list, the HARQ-ACK codebook list includes a first HARQ-ACK codebook indicated by the first DCI and a second HARQ-ACK codebook indicated by the second DCI, and the first DCI and the second DCI have a same format.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Wan-Chen Lin, Yu-Hsin Cheng
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Patent number: 11812471Abstract: A wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method for clear channel assessment, and more particularly, to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for performing an efficient clear channel assessment for spatial reuse of a communication system are provided. The wireless communication terminal comprises: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal; and a processor configured to control an operation of the terminal. The processor is configured to: perform a backoff procedure of a channel for data transmission, suspend the backoff procedure when a wireless signal having a signal strength higher than a predetermined first clear channel assessment (CCA) threshold is received through the channel, identify whether the received wireless signal is a wireless signal of the same basic service set (BSS) as the terminal, and determine whether to resume the backoff procedure based on a CCA threshold determined according to the identification result.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.Inventors: Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak, Geonjung Ko