Patents Examined by Brian D. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11895569
    Abstract: A wireless audio system using low overhead in-band control and audio transmission is provided. The wireless audio system includes a first wireless audio device configured to operate separate physical layer channels for audio data and control data, and transmit the audio data and control data using a single wideband carrier. The wireless audio system also includes one or more second wireless audio devices configured to receive the audio data and control data, and execute an instruction based on the control data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11889507
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may extract, from a neighboring base station with cell coverage that overlaps cell coverage of the base station, information associated with user equipment (UE) transmission of MsgA messages. The base station may select, based at least in part on the information, a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource to allocate to a UE for transmission of a MsgA message. The base station may transmit, to the UE, an allocation of the PUSCH resource. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sarath Pinayour Chandrasekaran, Satish Kumar
  • Patent number: 11889553
    Abstract: A method of performing a channel access procedure (CAP) for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, is discussed. The method can include performing a CAP based on a first channel access priority class value; receiving, from a base station, downlink control information including (i) first information for scheduling the PUSCH and (ii) second information related to a second channel access priority class value; and based on the first channel access priority class value being same or larger than the second channel access priority class value, performing the CAP based on the first channel access priority class value, and transmitting the PUSCH based on the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hanjun Park, Seonwook Kim, Joonkui Ahn
  • Patent number: 11882467
    Abstract: Specific clients are assigned to a second access point based balancing an Ethernet uplink load status of the specific access point relative to the uplink load status of access points across a WLAN system, wherein the RSSI strength of the specific client relative to a first access point is higher than the RSSI strength of the specific client relative to the second access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivasa Subbarao Neeli, Sudheer Nagurla
  • Patent number: 11877289
    Abstract: A method for providing multiple physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources for a uplink control information (UCI) report can include receiving one or more PUCCH resource configurations from a base station (BS) at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, and determining a first PUCCH resource configuration from the one or more PUCCH resource configurations for reporting a UCI. The first PUCCH resource configuration can indicate multiple frequency domain transmission occasions in a bandwidth. The UCI can be transmitted on at least one of the multiple frequency domain transmission occasions indicated by the first PUCCH resource configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventor: Cheng-Rung Tsai
  • Patent number: 11855685
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit uplink transmissions according to a frequency hopping pattern. The UE may identify that a first set of uplink transmissions are to be transmitted to a base station by a first set of resources (e.g., a first set of slots, a first set of frequency resources) as indicated by the frequency hopping pattern. The UE may further identify, based on the frequency hopping pattern, that a second set of uplink transmissions are to be transmitted to the base station by a second set of resources (e.g., a second set of slots, a second set of frequency resources). The first set of slots and the second set of slots may each include more than one slot. Additionally, the first and second set of resources may be within a same bandwidth part or in different bandwidth parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Huilin Xu, Hung Dinh Ly, Renqiu Wang
  • Patent number: 11848734
    Abstract: To appropriately control a plurality of CSI reports of different types, a user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a transmitting section that transmits channel state information (CSI) reports of different types; and a control section that, when transmission durations of a plurality of the CSI reports overlap, drops a given CSI report according to priority or multiplexes a given CSI report on a given uplink channel, based on a type of each of the plurality of the CSI reports and a type of an uplink channel used for transmission of each of the plurality of the CSI reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11838901
    Abstract: A new radio base station establishes a first and a second component. The first and second component carrier overlap each other. The base station transmits first synchronization signal blocks on the first component carrier. The base station transmits second synchronization signal blocks on the second component carrier interleaved in time with the first synchronization signal blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.
    Inventors: Antti Immonen, Mehdi Alasti, Siddhartha Chenumolu, Abdulrauf Hafeez
  • Patent number: 11832311
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: transmitting an RA preamble on one RO among a plurality of ROs, wherein a resource to which the RA preamble is transmitted includes the following elements, (a) a sub-interval index within a 10 ms interval, (b) a slot index within a sub-interval, (c) a symbol index within a slot, and (d) a frequency resource index; and after transmitting the RA preamble, monitoring DCI having an RA-identifier within a time window, the RA-identifier being masked in a CRC in the DCI, and receiving an RA response corresponding to the DCI, wherein one of (a) to (d) is included in a payload in the DCI, and the rest of (a) to (d) is included in the RA-identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Seokmin Shin, Sechang Myung
  • Patent number: 11832263
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus, and relates to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: An AP generates a trigger frame, where the trigger frame includes a first user information field, a part or all of a frequency domain resource indicated by a resource unit allocation subfield in a fourth user information field before the first user information field is located on a primary 160 MHz channel, and a part or all of a frequency domain resource indicated by a resource unit allocation subfield in a fourth user information field after the first user information field is located on a secondary 160 MHz channel. Then, the AP sends the trigger frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Gan, Mengshi Hu, Jian Yu, Dandan Liang, Yiqing Li, Yunbo Li, Yuchen Guo
  • Patent number: 11832310
    Abstract: Provided is a method for performing transmission of an uplink channel in a wireless communication system, the method being performed by a terminal and comprising the steps of: receiving a system information block 1 (SIB1) from a base station; transmitting a preamble for a random access procedure to the base station; receiving a random access response (RAR) to the preamble from the base station; and transmitting a PUSCH to the base station on the basis of the random access response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Geunyoung Seok, Kyungjun Choi, Minseok Noh, Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 11825519
    Abstract: Random access method, terminal device, network device, and storage medium Disclosed is a random access method, comprising: a terminal device determines a first physical random access channel (PRACH) resource set and a second PRACH resource set, the first PRACH resource set being used for the PRACH sending during a first-type random access process, the second PRACH resource set being used for the PRACH sending during a second-type random access process, at least one of first PRACH resources comprised in the first PRACH resource set being different from second PRACH resources comprised in the second PRACH resource set; the terminal device determines a target PRACH resource from the first PRACH resource set or the second PRACH resource set, the target PRACH resource being used for the PRACH sending during a random access process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11824810
    Abstract: A base station transmits a resource assignment indicating a plurality of time intervals of a secondary cell for communicating with a wireless device. A deactivation timer associated with the secondary cell is restarted in response to communicating an uplink packet or a downlink packet with the wireless device during a first time interval of the plurality of time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11825505
    Abstract: A channel measurement method, a terminal device, and a network side device are provided. The channel measurement method is applied in a user equipment (UE) and comprises: receiving M measurement reference signals sent by a network side device on the measurement resource, M being an integer greater than 1; the measurement resource comprising N measurement sub-resources; the measurement sub-resources being continuous in a time domain and a frequency domain; N being an integer greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Wu, Xueming Pan, Dajie Jiang
  • Patent number: 11818700
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating an indication of SFN receiver processing modes are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a UE includes receiving an indication of a set of SFN receiver processing modes supported by a set of two or more base stations configured for SFN communication. The example method also includes receiving an SFN-beam that is SFN transmitted by the set of two or more base stations. Additionally, the example method includes transmitting an uplink signal to the set of two or more base stations based on the indication and the SFN-beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11811530
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource configuration, the SRS resource configuration indicating at least a comb pattern for at least one SRS resource allocated to the UE and a puncturing unit for the comb pattern, wherein the comb pattern is divided into one or more puncturing units, wherein each puncturing unit comprises one or more time units of the comb pattern, and wherein each of the one or more time units comprises two or more symbols, and refrains from transmitting all SRS transmissions of the at least one SRS resource within a first puncturing unit of the one or more puncturing units based on a determination that one or more SRS transmissions of the at least one SRS resource within the first puncturing unit are to be dropped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Lorenzo Ferrari, Srinivas Yerramalli, Yih-Hao Lin, Jing Sun, Alexandros Manolakos, Rajat Prakash, Marwen Zorgui
  • Patent number: 11800546
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for determining the number of uplink control information transmission resources, and a program. The method may comprise: a terminal device determining target uplink control information; and the terminal device determining, according to a preset rule or indication information sent by a network device, the number of resource for transmitting the target uplink control information. By applying the solution of the application, system performance, etc. can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 11792728
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for selecting a core network in a mobile communication system are disclosed. According to some aspects of the present disclosure, a method and apparatus are provided for selecting a core network which is appropriate to the type of user's subscribed service in a mobile communication system, without the need for re-routing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangsoo Jeong, Jonghan Park, Yong-seok Choi
  • Patent number: 11791946
    Abstract: UE can: determine to delay transmission of first HARQ-ACK information of a first SPS PDSCH to a second resource later than a first resource scheduled for the transmission of the first HARQ-ACK information; and drop the delayed transmission of the first HARQ-ACK information and receive a second SPS PDSCH, on the basis that the end of a PUCCH for the delayed transmission of the first HARQ-ACK information is temporally later than the start of the second SPS PDSCH using a HARQ process which is same as the first SPS PDSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Duckhyun Bae, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 11792778
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device including a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of receiving signal to noise and interference ratio (SINR) measurements from a cell for two or more uplink carriers associated with a mobile device; determining an optimal uplink carrier from the two or more uplink carriers based on plural parameters, wherein the plural parameters include the SINR measurements; selecting the optimal uplink carrier from the two or more uplink carriers; and sending the optimal uplink carrier selected to the cell, wherein the mobile device uses the optimal uplink carrier for uplink transmissions. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventors: Yu Zhou, Anwar Syed Aftab, Rittwik Jana