Patents Examined by Brenda H. Pham
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Patent number: 12041567Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a transmitting unit that transmits a request signal for requesting a radio base station to transmit a reference time, to the radio base station; and a receiving unit that receives a radio resource control message from the radio base station according to the transmission of the request signal, the radio resource control message including a reference system frame number and the reference time associated with the reference system frame number. In other aspects, radio base stations, a radio communication method, and a radio communication system are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Teruaki Toeda, Tooru Uchino, Tianyang Min
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Patent number: 12028771Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The network device configures resources located on a plurality of target cells on a preset path, so that the terminal device can realize, based on the resources on the plurality of target cells, seamless handover among the plurality of target cells on the preset path. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first information, the first information including resource allocations on a plurality of target cells, and the plurality of target cells being located on a first path to be passed through by the terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Xin You
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Patent number: 12022452Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A frequency band configuration for a full-duplex slot may be indicated, where a frequency band configuration may include one or more downlink frequency bands and one or more uplink frequency bands. In some cases, a frequency band configuration may also include one or more guard bands. A user equipment (UE) may determine the frequency band configuration for a full-duplex slot based on a frequency configuration indication, which may include an index for a table of frequency band configurations, one or more bitmaps, or respective start and length indications for each frequency band. A frequency band configuration may apply to one slot or to multiple slots.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2023Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Wanshi Chen, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Huilin Xu, Shimman Arvind Patel, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji
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Patent number: 12022527Abstract: A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for performing a random access procedure in a wireless communication system is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Hyunjeong Kang
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Patent number: 12022366Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for allocating resources for environment sensing. In an aspect, a base station transmits a first radar reference signal (RRS) on a first set of resources comprising first time resources, first frequency resources, first spatial resources, or any combination thereof, wherein the first set of resources is selected to enable a first user equipment (UE) to perform a first type of environment sensing, and transmits a second RRS on a second set of resources comprising second time resources, second frequency resources, second spatial resources, or any combination thereof, wherein the second set of resources is selected to enable a second UE to perform a second type of environment sensing, wherein the second set of resources is different from the first set of resources, and wherein the second type of environment sensing is different from the first type of environment sensing.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Peter Gaal, Taesang Yoo, Simone Merlin
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Patent number: 12021791Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for determination and scheduling for multiple PDSCH/PUSCH operations in wireless communication, e.g., in 5G NR systems and beyond, including methods for separate HARQ-ACK sub-codebook operation, for collision handling between PDSCH/PUSCH with TDD configurations, and for multi-PXSCH scheduling signaling.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
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Patent number: 12015482Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are described for configuring Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) simultaneous transmissions, which can be used to enhance network performance and/or to enhance procedures within the UE to achieve more efficient operations. For example, techniques are described for determining which modulation coding scheme (MCS) table to apply based on various factors. Different techniques are also described for configuring user equipment (UE) with an RNTI based on different considerations.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Chie-Ming Chou, Hung-Chen Chen
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Patent number: 12009927Abstract: A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided, the method includes receiving, from a base station, a sidelink configured grant for a sidelink transmission, transmitting, to another terminal, a sidelink signal based on the sidelink configured grant, generating a second hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information based on whether first HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the sidelink signal is received from the another terminal, and reporting on an uplink channel, to a base station, the second HARQ-ACK information.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miao Zhou, Min Wu, Yi Wang, Feifei Sun
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Patent number: 11997727Abstract: The present invention provides an access control method in user equipment and user equipment that can efficiently and reliably establish a radio bearer for data transmission. The access control method comprises: determining a layer-2 destination ID according to information acquired from an upper layer; and establishing a radio bearer (RB) associated with the determined layer-2 destination ID.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu
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Patent number: 11991062Abstract: In some implementations, a sensor may determine a delay latency value associated with an amount of time from completion of a set of sensor tasks to an actual time of reception of a trigger to selectively transmit or sample sensor data. The sensor may calculate a deviation of the delay latency value from a target delay latency. The sensor may transmit a data frame including an indication associated with the deviation of the delay latency value from the target delay latency.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Christof Michenthaler, Thomas Hafner, Benjamin Kollmitzer, Alexander Plautz, Andrea Possemato, Constantin Stroi
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Patent number: 11991716Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. To monitor a PDCCH for CA, a UE may receive PDCCH candidates in a plurality of configured component carriers (CCs). In response to a determination that a maximum number of virtual CCs that the UE is capable of monitoring for PDCCH is smaller than a number of the plurality of configured CCs, the UE groups the plurality of configured CCs into CC groups based at least in part on SCS numerologies and PDCCH monitoring configurations corresponding to span patterns within a slot of a DL subframe. The UE determines a maximum number of blind decoding operations and non-overlapped CCEs for each of the CC groups. The UE then monitors at least a first portion of the PDCCH candidates based on the maximum number of blind decoding operations and non-overlapped CCEs for each of the CC groups.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 11991763Abstract: A method and apparatus for sidelink connection request based on congestion level for establishing a direct connection between wireless devices is provided. A first wireless device triggers a signaling procedure based on a congestion level of at least one carrier, selects a carrier among the at least one carrier, and transmits a message in the signaling procedure on the selected carrier. Upon receiving the message, a second wireless device may perform carrier reselection.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Taehun Kim, Jongwoo Hong
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Patent number: 11985657Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may report, to a base station, a capability of the UE to support interleaving physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) messages. The base station may schedule two or more PUSCH transmissions having temporally overlapping durations based on the reported capability of the UE, and the UE may transmit interleaved PUSCH messages scheduled by the base station. In some cases, demodulation reference signal (DMRS) bundling may be enabled for PUSCH transmissions. A UE may be incapable of both performing DMRS bundling for PUSCH transmissions and transmitting interleaved PUSCH transmissions. In some case, a UE may disable DMRS bundling, drop a scheduled PUSCH transmission, transmit PUSCH messages sequentially (e.g., not interleaved), and/or indicate an error to the base station if the UE receives uplink grants scheduling two or more PUSCH transmissions having temporally overlapping durations.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Gokul Sridharan, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Hung Dinh Ly
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Patent number: 11979868Abstract: Disclosed are a control information sending method and detecting method, a base station, a terminal, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: a base station determining first-type physical layer control information, which is used for indicating a first-type control parameter of a second-type physical layer control channel; determining second-type physical layer control information, which is used for indicating a second-type control parameter of a data channel; sending the first-type physical layer control information; and sending the second-type physical layer control information on the second-type physical layer control channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Yijian Chen, Zhaohua Lu, YuNgok Li, Hao Wu, Peng Hao
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Patent number: 11979787Abstract: A target RAN node (3) receives, from a core network (5), a message requesting a handover of a radio terminal (1) from a bearer-based network to a bearer-less network. This handover request message includes flow information related to at least one session to be established in the bearer-less network in order to transfer at least one packet flow of the radio terminal (1). The target RAN node (3) transmits, to the core network (5), a handover acknowledge response message containing a transparent container that includes a radio resource configuration information derived from the flow information and is to be forwarded to a source RAN node associated (2) through the core network (5). It is thus, for example, possible to appropriately configuring an AS layer of a target RAT in an inter-RAT handover.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi Futaki, Sadafuku Hayashi
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Patent number: 11971294Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) systems, methods, and structures that employ a distributed fiber optic sensor placement procedure that advantageously provides a desirable sensor coverage over a network at minimal cost.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Philip Ji, Ting Wang, Zilong Ye
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Patent number: 11974282Abstract: A method of user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), a downlink signal including position information for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a short physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), determining, based on the position information, a position of the OFDM symbols of the short PUCCH included in a slot, and transmitting, to the BS, the short PUCCH using the OFDM symbols based on the determined position.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Young-Han Nam, Sudhir Ramakrishna, Li Guo, Boon Loong Ng
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Patent number: 11968707Abstract: A communication method and a communication apparatus are described. A network device explicitly indicates, by using indication information, a transmission priority of data that can be carried on a scheduled transmission resource. After receiving the indication information, a terminal device can determine whether data currently to be sent can be sent on the scheduled transmission resource, to reduce a probability of a communication failure caused by resource preemption in a scenario in which data of at least three transmission priorities coexists. The terminal device may further determine, based on the indication information, whether to-be-received data exists on the scheduled transmission resource.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Shurong Jiao, Meng Hua
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Patent number: 11963152Abstract: A method for transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: receiving a higher layer message including information related to a configuration of a PUSCH (multi-TU PUSCH) transmitted in a plurality of time units, the plurality of time units (TUs) being classified into a plurality of TU groups; receiving a lower layer message related to a spatial relation RS applied to the transmission of the multi-TU PUSCH; determining beams for each of remaining TU groups other than at least one specific TU group of the plurality of TU groups based on the lower layer message; determining a beam for at least one specific TU group based on the beams for each of the remaining TU groups; and transmitting the multi-TU PUSCH based on the determined beams.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jiwon Kang, Jonghyun Park
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Patent number: 11963088Abstract: Aspects presented herein may enable the base station to apply coverage enhancement for one or more SSB beam(s) or a subset of SSB beams for broadcasting system information in a more efficient manner, where the base station and the UE may adapt the system information differently for different SSB beams. In one aspect, a UE may receive, from a base station, RMSI indicating beam-specific system information in association with one or more SSB beams for receiving an SSB. Then, the UE may receive the SSB from the base station based on the received RMSI indicating the beam-specific system information.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal