Patents Examined by Brian P Cox
  • Patent number: 11979356
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a device in a communication node for wireless communication. The communication node first receives first information and second information, and then transmits a first radio signal in W1 time sub-window(s); the first information is used for determining X candidate time window(s), any one of the X candidate time window(s) has a time length equal to a first time length, and the first time length is fixed; for a subcarrier spacing of a subcarrier occupied by the first radio signal, one of the X candidate time window(s) comprises Y candidate time sub-window(s), and the Y is related to the subcarrier spacing of the subcarrier occupied by the first radio signal; the second information is used for indicating W candidate time sub-window(s) out of the Y candidate time sub-window(s); and each of the W1 time sub-window(s) is one of the W candidate time sub-window(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zheng Liu, Xiaobo Zhang, Lin Yang
  • Patent number: 11979859
    Abstract: Methods and systems for autonomous sidelink resource allocation are provided. According to one aspect, a method performed by at least one wireless device for autonomous sidelink resource allocation comprises: at a first time, T1, transmitting a first control message announcing a first reservation of a set of radio resources for sidelink communication; at a second time, T2, transmitting a second control message announcing a second reservation of a set of radio resources for sidelink communication; and, at a third time, T3, performing a sidelink communication using the set of radio resources reserved by the second reservation. The second reservation may, for example, confirm the first reservation, cancel or partially cancel the first reservation, modify the first reservation, or completely change the first reservation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Marco Belleschi, Shehzad Ali Ashraf, Ricardo Blasco Serrano
  • Patent number: 11968553
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor wireless traffic. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: establish, via a first wireless interface, a wireless connection with first network credentials to match second network credentials of a primary access point; monitor traffic via a second wireless interface, the second wireless interface different than the first wireless interface; identify, via the traffic monitored via the second wireless interface, a connection of a client to the primary access point; capture, via an alternate access point, a management frame transmitted from the primary access point to the client; insert a change channel announcement into the captured management frame; and re-transmit, via the first wireless interface, the captured management frame including the change channel announcement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Marko Usaj, Andrej Barbis, Marko Panger, Joze Arh
  • Patent number: 11968648
    Abstract: An operating method of a terminal configured to perform vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication in a wireless communication system, including signaling a maximum physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) receiving capability to a base station; and receiving a wireless signal transmitted from the base station based on the maximum PSFCH receiving capability, wherein the maximum PSFCH receiving capability is a maximum number of PSFCHs receivable during one time transmission interval (TTI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongin Choi, Yangsoo Kwon, Joonsung Kim, Jinwoo Oh
  • Patent number: 11962527
    Abstract: A communications apparatus includes a processor configured to generate a radio frame. The radio frame comprises a data block. The data block comprises a plurality of N pilot blocks, a plurality of M sub-data blocks, and one guard interval (GI). Every two N pilot blocks of the plurality of N pilot blocks are not adjacent. The GI is located at a tail end of the data block, 4?N?8, N is an integer, M?N?1, and M is an integer. The communications apparatus also includes transceiver configured to send the radio frame to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Yan, Guangjian Wang, Wei Lin, Mengyao Ma, Yanchun Li
  • Patent number: 11956759
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a selection unit that selects first resource candidates for sidelink transmission based on monitoring in a sensing window, and specifies second resource candidates by excluding specific periodic resources that are reserved by another terminal from the first resource candidates; and a transmission unit that performs sidelink transmission using a resource selected from the second resource candidates. In another aspect, a transmission method executed by a terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Qun Zhao, Jing Wang, Huan Wang, Liu Liu, Anxin Li, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11956803
    Abstract: This application provides a method and apparatus for determining a resource in a relay system. By receiving resource indication information transmitted by an upper-level node, a first node determines the availability of a symbol in a first resource set located between a first hard resource set and a second hard resource set, and communicates with the upper-level node on the symbol based on the resource indication information to maximally improve resource utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengwei Liu, Jing Qiu, Lei Chen
  • Patent number: 11950114
    Abstract: An example method includes monitoring a status of a long term evolution network connection and a status of a fifth generation network connection over which a user endpoint device is simultaneously receiving data using an evolved-universal terrestrial radio access new radio dual connectivity configuration, detecting, based on the monitoring, that a performance metric of one of: the long term evolution network or the fifth generation network falls below a predefined threshold metric, and terminating, in response to the detecting, the long term evolution network connection or the fifth generation network connection to terminate the evolved-universal terrestrial radio access new radio dual connectivity configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Haywood Peitzer
  • Patent number: 11937271
    Abstract: A method of operating a mesh network is disclosed. The method includes joining a network as a child of a parent node and receiving a downlink broadcast channel from the parent node. The method further includes setting the downlink broadcast channel as an uplink broadcast channel in response to the step of receiving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kumaran Vijayasankar, Ramanuja Vedantham
  • Patent number: 11936480
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for enabling data transmission using HARQ in IEEE 802.11 systems are described. A method is disclosed, performed by a transmitting device, comprising computing a plurality of redundancy frames based on a plurality of data frames, transmitting the plurality of data frames to a receiving device, and transmitting a set of the plurality of redundancy frames to the receiving device determined by the transmitting device in response to receiving acknowledgement. One embodiment includes a method determining failed data frames of the plurality of data frames, requesting a set of the plurality of redundancy frames, and recovering the failed data frame using a decoder employing hard decision inputs. Other embodiments include an apparatus in a receiver device implementing the method of decoding the failed data frames using a decoder employing soft decision inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Samat Shabdanov, Po-Yuen Cheng, Chung-Ta Ku, Weisung Tsao
  • Patent number: 11923976
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transmitting analysis-relevant data from a transmitter (2), in which the analysis-relevant data is present, to a receiver (4), in which data analyses can be performed. In order to improve the method for transmitting analysis-relevant data from the transmitter (2) to the receiver (4), according to the invention one selection rule (30) to be applied to the analysis-relevant data is selected for a data transmission from a plurality of predefinable selection rules (26) for the selection of data to be transmitted from the analysis-relevant data, wherein the selection of the selection rule (30) to be applied for this data transmission is dependent on a data analysis applied to the data to be transmitted and on a state of the data link (6) between the transmitter (2) and the receiver (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Michael Wieczorek, Elisabeth Heindl
  • Patent number: 11924126
    Abstract: A wireless communication technique includes generating, by a wireless terminal, a transmission message that includes a preamble portion and a data portion. In this technique, transmission resources for the data portion are related to transmission resources for the preamble portion using a relationship rule. The wireless terminal transmits the transmission message to a network-side device during a random access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Ling Yang, Yajun Zhao, Kaiying Lv
  • Patent number: 11924867
    Abstract: A method, network node and wireless device for efficient signaling of rate matching patterns are disclosed. According to one aspect, a network node is configured to indicate to a wireless device whether at least one resource element, RE, associated with a reference signal is one of available and not available for physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH-to-RE mapping, the at least one RE associated with the reference signal being at least one RE in a same orthogonal frequency division multiplex, OFDM, symbol as the reference signal; and transmit signaling according to the PDSCH-to-RE mapping, the PDSCH being one of mapped and not mapped to the at least one RE associated with the reference signal based on the indication. According to another aspect, a wireless device is configured to receive the indication from the network node; and receive the PDSCH based on the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Claes Tidestav, Mattias Frenne
  • Patent number: 11924856
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for receiving system information in a wireless communication system including a receiver that receives system information configuration information and receives system information in predetermined subframes of a radio interface, and a controller that determines the predetermined subframes according to the received system information configuration information and controls the receiver to receive the system information in the predetermined subframes, wherein the system information configuration information includes a subframe scheduling field with a plurality of bits, each bit being associated with a subframe and representing whether or not system information is to be received in that subframe. The present disclosure further relates to a corresponding apparatus for transmitting system information and to the respective receiving and transmitting methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Joachim Loehr
  • Patent number: 11922564
    Abstract: A generative content system is disclosed. According to implementations, the generative content system generates literal representations of an environment based on data collected from a plurality of data sources that are selected in correspondence of the environment. In embodiments, the literal representations are used to generate a 3D rendering of the environment. In some embodiments, the generative content is used to support a location-based service system that locates devices based on a literal representation of an area as represented by the signal strengths observed throughout the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Umajin Inc.
    Inventor: David Brebner
  • Patent number: 11910212
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for MDT measurement are provided. In one aspect, a method for MDT measurement includes: obtaining MDT measurement configuration information for one or more preset types of network devices, the MDT measurement configuration information including at least a signal strength threshold for the preset type of network device; sending the MDT measurement configuration information to user equipment (UE), such that the UE performs MDT measurement upon detecting that signal strength of the preset type of network device exceeds the signal strength threshold; receiving information on the MDT measurement of the preset type of network device from the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 11903071
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for beam failure detection and related timing determinations, such as for applying a default beam after beam failure recovery response (BFRR) message. A method by a user equipment (UE) may include detecting failure of a beam associated with a first cell. The detecting can include performing beam failure detection (BFD) of a beam pair link (BPL) associated with the first cell (e.g., secondary cell (Scell)). The first cell can be in carrier aggregation (CA) with a second cell. The UE may send a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) message on a second cell (e.g., a primary cell (Pcell)). The BFRQ message can include a candidate recovery beam for the first cell. The UE can receive a BFRR message on the second cell and determine a duration from reception of the BFRR message until using a default beam for communications on the first cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Kiran Venugopal, Jung Ho Ryu, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11902220
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for implementing a repeater are described. In various embodiments the repeater determines uplink/downlink timing information either from information broadcast from a base station or from monitoring received signals and/or gaps between received signals. In various embodiments while the repeater may decode control information to determine uplink/downlink time periods, user data is not decoded and re-encoded. In various embodiments interference between uplink and downlink circuitry is reduced or minimized by controlling gains, combining weights and/or power to amplifiers in the repeater based on the mode of operation. A stored information can include sets of different weights and/or parameters for the mode of operation and/or beam forming antenna pattern in use at a given time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Mixcomm, Inc.
    Inventors: Harish Krishnaswamy, Ashwin Sampath, Frank Lane
  • Patent number: 11895684
    Abstract: A data transmission method, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method comprises: a terminal device receives configuration information sent by a network device, wherein the configuration information is used to configure one or more slot format indictors (SFIs) corresponding to one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs) configured for the terminal device; the terminal device determines a currently used target SFI according to the configuration information; and the terminal device performs data transmission according to the target SFI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jia Shen
  • Patent number: 11889472
    Abstract: A wireless communication network pages a wireless communication device over Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) access points. To send the page, a WIFI gateway identifies WIFI networks that serve the wireless user device. The WIFI gateway determines individual ones of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) access points to page the wireless user device based on the individual ones of the WIFI networks that serve the wireless user device. The WIFI gateway indicates the OFDM access points to a paging system. The paging system receives a page for the wireless user device and responsively transfers the page to a current one of the OFDM access points indicated by the WIFI gateway. The current one of the OFDM access points receives the page and wirelessly transfers the page to the wireless user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Siddharth Oroskar, Jasinder Pal Singh, Maulik K. Shah