Patents Examined by Brian P Cox
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Patent number: 11870714Abstract: A device and method in which a plurality of Zadoff-Chu sequences is allocated to a frame, a value of a parameter in the Zadoff-Chu sequence is different among the plurality of Zadoff-Chu sequences, and the Zadoff-Chu sequence allocated to the frame is different among a plurality of cells.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Oketani, Yoshikazu Kakura
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Patent number: 11864014Abstract: A method for mobility management implemented by a user equipment (UE) includes measuring a reference signal thereby producing mobility measurements for a mobility procedure, wherein the reference signal is associated with one of a cell or a bandwidth part (BWP), and scaling the mobility measurements in accordance with at least one BWP parameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Aimin Justin Sang, Jialin Zou, Mazin Ali Al-Shalash, Xuelong Wang
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Patent number: 11844097Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) are described. A UE may receive, from a base station, a control message including an indication of a reference signal configuration associated with one or more physical channels scheduled during a set of time intervals. The UE may identify that demodulation reference signal is absent in a first time interval. In some examples, the UE may determine, based on the control message, a location for transmitting a phase tracking reference signal in the first time interval of the set of time intervals. The UE may then transmit the phase tracking reference signal in the first time interval at the determined location.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo, Gokul Sridharan
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Patent number: 11818690Abstract: A WLAN system resource indication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: generating, by an access point, a frame that carries resource indication information; and sending, to multiple stations, the frame that carries the resource indication information. The resource indication information includes multiple pieces of sub resource indication information. Correspondingly, each piece of the sub resource indication information uniquely corresponds to one of the multiple stations. Therefore, a station side does not need read the entire resource indication information, so as to reduce resource overheads and improve efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Luo, Jiayin Zhang, Jiyong Pang
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Patent number: 11800393Abstract: A knowledge base of cell information can be built and made available to one or more mobile devices. A mobile device with access to this cell information may proactively perform a radio signal scan at a frequency of an expected cell(s) that is/are indicated in the cell information (e.g., if the expected cell is associated with a serving cell and/or with a geolocation that corresponds to the current Global Positioning System (GPS) location of the mobile device). After performing the radio signal scan, the mobile device may store measurement information (e.g., signal strength) about the expected cell(s) in local memory of the mobile device, and, upon receiving an instruction from the serving cell, the mobile device may access the stored measurement information from its local memory, and may send the measurement information to the requesting serving cell.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Hsin Fu Henry Chiang, Ming Shan Kwok
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Patent number: 11792837Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating opportunistic CSI for sidelink communication are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a responding sidelink UE includes receiving, from an initiating sidelink UE, a request to provide CSI feedback to the initiating sidelink UE, the request excluding a CSI-RS. The example method also includes decoding a transmission from the initiating sidelink UE to a neighboring sidelink UE, the transmission including a CSI feedback trigger. The example method also includes transmitting, to the initiating sidelink UE, a CSI report based on the transmission.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yisheng Xue, Xiaoxia Zhang, Chih-Hao Liu, Jing Sun
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Patent number: 11778685Abstract: A method and device are disclosed from the perspective of a first User Equipment (UE) to support Sidelink (SL) Discontinuous Reception (DRX). In one embodiment, the method includes the first UE establishing a unicast link with a second UE. The method further includes the first UE receiving a SL DRX configuration associated with the second UE from the second UE. The method also includes the first UE transmitting the SL DRX configuration to a network node. In addition, the method includes the first UE receiving a sidelink grant from the network node, wherein the sidelink grant indicates sidelink resources. Furthermore, the method includes the first UE performing a sidelink transmission to the second UE based on the sidelink resources.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.Inventors: Li-Te Pan, Li-Chih Tseng, Ming-Che Li
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Patent number: 11778621Abstract: Example uplink control information transmission methods and apparatus are provided. One example method includes receiving first indication information, where the first indication information includes a parameter ? and a parameter ?. First information is determined based on the first indication information. A quantity of resources for sending uplink control information (UCI) is determined based on first information. The first information includes scheduling information, a ratio of a quantity of bits of the UCI to a quantity of bits of data, a first preset parameter, the parameter ?, a quantity of available resources of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and the parameter ?. The parameter ? is an offset of the UCI. The parameter ? is configured by higher layer signaling and the parameter ? is less than 1. The UCI is sent to a network device based on the determined quantity of resources for sending the UCI.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hua Li, Yongzhao Cao
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Patent number: 11777587Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a resource configuration method, apparatus, and system. A network device sends a resource configuration of a physical uplink control channel PUCCH used for beam failure recovery to a terminal device, where the resource configuration of the PUCCH includes a corresponding transmit beam of the PUCCH. When detecting a beam failure event, the terminal device sends a transmit beam failure recovery request to the network device based on the resource configuration of the PUCCH and a corresponding periodicity of the PUCCH. The periodicity of the PUCCH may be configured by the network device, or may be a preset periodicity. According to the configuration manner of the PUCCH resource used for beam failure recovery in the embodiments of this application, the terminal device can flexibly and effectively perform beam failure recovery.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lei Chen, Peng Guan
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Patent number: 11777692Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Zheng Liu, Xiaobo Zhang, Lin Yang
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Patent number: 11757483Abstract: Wireless communications may use one or more devices for transmission and/or reception that may lead to potentially harmful exposure. One or more safety measures may be used for wireless communication devices, such as maximum power exposure (MPE) reporting and/or related operations. An MPE report may be sent based on MPE detection and one or more messages, such as for cell activation, bandwidth part (BWP) or other wireless resource activation and/or switching, and/or a discontinuous reception (DRX) or other state transition.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Dinan, Yunjung Yi, Ali Cirik, Kai Xu, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Jonghyun Park
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Patent number: 11743002Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter transmits a Trigger Frame for allocating resources for Uplink Multi User (UL MU) transmission, the Trigger Frame comprising a common information field that includes a type subfield indicating one of a plurality of trigger types, wherein the plurality of trigger types includes a first trigger type, a second trigger type and a third trigger type, the first trigger type indicating a basic trigger, the second trigger type indicating multi-user block ack request, and the third trigger type indicating a specific trigger used for soliciting a specific type of UL MU response frame from a plurality of terminal stations. The receiver, responsive to the type subfield indicating the third trigger type, receives the specific type of UL MU response frame from the plurality of terminal station.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Rojan Chitrakar, Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe
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Patent number: 11742973Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to maintaining a first reference clock for a first local area network (LAN). The first reference clock is usable by a first set of computing devices coupled to the first LAN to participate in a shared experience with a second set of computing devices coupled to a second LAN. A computing system synchronizes, via a first time synchronization protocol, the first reference clock with a global reference clock accessible to the computing system over a wide area network (WAN). The computing system provides, via a second time synchronization protocol, a time value of the first reference clock to one of the first set of computing devices to coordinate an event in the shared experience with one of the second set of computing devices, where the second time synchronization protocol has a precision that is greater than a precision of the first time synchronization protocol.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Alessandro Angeli
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Patent number: 11722938Abstract: A technique performed by a client on a device includes detecting one or more wireless networks in range of the device, where the one or more wireless networks support connection over at least two frequency bands; controlling the device to connect to the one or more wireless networks over at least one of the two frequency bands; and controlling the device to switch connections among different ones of the at least two frequency bands based on levels of service provided by the different ones of the at least two frequency bands.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLCInventors: William Kenneth Logan, Oliver James Jauncey
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Patent number: 11722990Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a transmitter configured to transmit first information specifying at least one communication resource requested to be allocated; and a receiver configured to receive second information specifying at least one communication resource allocated depending on the first information. The transmitter is configured to transmit a signal via the allocated communication resource and the receiver is configured to receive a signal via the allocated communication resource.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR GROUPInventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Tomoko Adachi
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Patent number: 11716706Abstract: The present disclosure method and device in node used for wireless communication. A first node receives first information, the first information being used for indicating a first time-unit format; determines second information; and determines a first resource pool; herein, a first time window comprises Q first-type time-domain-resource blocks, the Q being a positive integer greater than 1; a first symbol is one of the positive integer number of multicarrier symbol(s) comprised in any of the Q first-type time-domain-resource blocks; the first time-unit format is used for indicating whether the first symbol is a first-type symbol; the second information is used for indicating a positive integer number of first-type time-domain-resource block(s) out of a first time-domain-resource-block subset. A flexible slot format has been taken into account in the process of V2X resource pool configuration in the present disclosure, thus ensuring that the resource pool can effectively meet traffic requirements.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Jin Liu, Xiaobo Zhang
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Patent number: 11706753Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a sidelink grant scheduling a sidelink data transmission associated with one or more sidelink resources. The UE may determine a minimum time delay between the sidelink grant and the sidelink data transmission scheduled by the sidelink grant based at least in part on a value associated with a sidelink minimum-k parameter configured for the UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Jung Ho Ryu, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11706648Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Marko Usaj, Andrej Barbis, Marko Panger, Joze Arh
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Patent number: 11695519Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive, on a downlink control channel and a first beam, first downlink control information (DCI), wherein the first DCI identifies a second DCI that is carried on a downlink shared channel; and receive multiple repetitions of the second DCI on the downlink shared channel on a plurality of second beams.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Kiran Venugopal, Tianyang Bai
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Patent number: 11683837Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications, and more specifically to random access procedures and/or prioritization of broadcast transmissions in machine type communications (MTC) devices and enhanced MTC (eMTC). An example method generally includes determining a plurality of subframes in which the UE may transmit a bundled random access channel (RACH) message to a base station (BS), determining, within the subframes, at least one narrowband region for transmitting the bundled RACH message, determining a bundling size for the bundled RACH message, the bundling size indicating a number of the plurality of subframes in which the bundled RACH message is transmitted, and transmitting the bundled RACH message in the narrowband region of the plurality of subframes, based at least in part on the determined bundling size.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Madhavan Srinivasan Vajapeyam, Hao Xu, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian