Patents Examined by Brian T Le
  • Patent number: 10841938
    Abstract: A satisfactory latency-reducing effect is achieved when a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTI) of varying time durations are used in the same carrier. In this regard, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives scheduling information pertaining to a second TTI, which is shorter than a first TTI. The user terminal further has a control section that controls receipt and/or transmission of data in the second TTI, which is embedded in the first TTI, based on the scheduling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 10827375
    Abstract: A system and method for providing an eNodeB with the flexibility to configure a Channel State Information (CSI) report to match a specific Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) transmission hypothesis, which is a candidate for a downlink transmission to a User Equipment (UE) is disclosed. A UE receives, from the eNodeB, a configuration message that specifies a CSI report. The CSI report is specified by a particular interference hypothesis and a particular desired signal hypothesis corresponding to data transmission over at least one effective channel characterized by a specific reference signal. The UE estimates interference according to the interference hypothesis, and/or estimates at least one effective channel by performing measurements on the specific reference signal, and determines a CSI report based on the interference estimation and on the estimated effective channel. The UE also transmits the CSI report to the eNodeB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: David Hammarwall, George Jöngren, Svante Bergman
  • Patent number: 10819488
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose an interference measurement indication method, an interference measurement method, a related device, and a communication system. The interference measurement indication method includes: transmitting, by a base station, at least one piece of first-type channel state information reference signal CSI-RS configuration signaling to a user equipment UE, where the at least one piece of first-type CSI-RS configuration signaling indicates a first resource set used for CSI-RS transmission; and transmitting, by the base station, at least one piece of second-type CSI-RS configuration signaling to the UE, where a second resource set used for CSI-RS transmission, which is indicated by the at least one piece of second-type CSI-RS configuration signaling, is a subset of the first resource set. Technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention help improve the flexibility of interference measurement of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Xia, Yongxing Zhou, Jingyuan Sun, Mingyu Zhou, Xiaotao Ren
  • Patent number: 10805890
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a synchronization signal sending method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining an initial synchronization sequence, where a spectrum width corresponding to the initial synchronization sequence is greater than a bandwidth of a synchronization channel and is less than a sum of the bandwidth of the synchronization channel and a system protection bandwidth; dividing the initial synchronization sequence into N sub-synchronization sequences; carrying the N sub-synchronization sequences on N time-domain symbols; and sending the N time-domain symbols to a receiving apparatus. According to the synchronization signal sending method provided in the embodiments of this application, a bandwidth loss of a synchronization signal is reduced, and utilization and synchronization performance of a system synchronization bandwidth are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kun Yang, Ronghui Wen, Guangwei Yu, Wurong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10791431
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for use in establishing a group session in a mobile network for subscribers associated with a group are described. In one illustrative example, an access and mobility management function (AMF) entity receives, from a user equipment (UE), a request for registration which includes network slice selection assistance information (NSSAI). The NSSAI includes a group identifier associated with a group of subscribers. The AMF entity sends, to a unified data management (UDM) entity, a request for subscriber data which includes the group identifier. The AMF entity receives, from the UDM, a response to the request for subscriber data which includes a plurality of subscriber identifiers corresponding to the subscribers of the group. For a group session, the AMF entity creates a context associated with the group identifier and stores the context locally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Konstantin Livanos, Ian McDowell Campbell, Malgorzata Kaczmarska-Wojtania
  • Patent number: 10785667
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for reference signal measurement and reporting for new radio systems. A user equipment (UE) and a base station may coordinate for identifying a particular beam and subarray pair for communication. A user equipment (UE) may receive a measurement gap configuration from a base station specifying a measurement gap type of a plurality of different measurement gap types, and measure, in a measurement gap corresponding to the specified measurement gap type, a reference signal to generate a measurement using a first subarray of a plurality of subarrays of an antenna array of the UE. The UE may generate a measurement report that indicates the measurement. The UE may transmit the measurement report to the base station. The base station may use the measurement report for selecting a beam and subarray pair for communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 10771220
    Abstract: An uplink sounding signal triggering method, system, and apparatus are provided to support a sounding reference signal (SRS) group scheduling or SRS switching function. The method includes: sending, by a base station, a downlink control information (DCI) using a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), with the DCI including a sounding reference signal SRS control information intended for each UE of Y number of UEs, with Y comprising a positive integer greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shengyue Dou, Yuanjie Li
  • Patent number: 10764872
    Abstract: A method for a device-to-device (D2D) communication includes determining, by the a device, availability of a D2D buffer status report (BSR) resource. The method also includes in response to determining that the D2D BSR is not available, generating, by the device, a D2D scheduling request (D2D-SR) message in accordance with D2D-SR configuration information and transmitting, by the device, the D2D-SR message in a D2D-SR resource when the D2D-SR resource is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hossein Bagheri, Zhenzhen Cao, Philippe Sartori, Mazin Ali Al-Shalash
  • Patent number: 10750478
    Abstract: A radio terminal according to one embodiment communicates with a base station simultaneously through a plurality of cells. The radio terminal comprises a controller configured to perform a process of receiving, from the base station, a mapping configuration for setting a mapping between a bearer ID identifying a specific bearer of the radio terminal and cell IDs identifying one or more specific cells. The controller maps the specific bearer of the radio terminal with the one or more specific cells, based on the mapping configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Yushi Nagasaka, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 10750479
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining, by a terminal, a transmission resource pool in device-to-device (D2D) communication. The method for determining a transmission resource pool comprises the steps of: indexing resource blocks within a resource block pool; and mapping the indexed resource blocks to physical resource blocks, wherein the indexed resource blocks are arranged in order of increasing resource block index, the resource block pool is used to transmit D2D signals, and information about the configuration of the resource block pool can be indicated by upper layer signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngtae Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Hyukjin Chae
  • Patent number: 10743231
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transmitting, by a base station, information in a wireless communication system, and a base station performing the same, the method comprising the steps of: generating a system information block comprising first hysteresis information about a first type terminal, and second hysteresis information about a second type terminal; and broadcasting the generated system information block, wherein the first type terminal includes a terminal which does not provide a public safety network service, and wherein the second type terminal includes a terminal which provides a public safety network service. In addition, the present invention relates to a terminal which operates with the base station, and a method for operating the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongsik Dong, Junhyuk Song, Daejoong Kim
  • Patent number: 10728006
    Abstract: A communication device includes transceiver circuitry that transmits a first frame including a request parameter and at least one piece of data for a block acknowledge (ACK); and receives a second frame including a confirmation response to a response parameter and the block ACK. The transceiver circuitry receives a request for the at least one piece of data for the block ACK, transmits the first frame on a basis of occurrence of the request for transmitting the at least one piece of data of the block ACK, and executes transmission of a data frame based on the response parameter included in the received second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeru Sugaya
  • Patent number: 10727987
    Abstract: Various features related to a single bit ACK/NACK feedback for CBG based transmissions in a communication system are described. In an aspect, a base station may transmit, to a UE, a set of CBGs of a TB including a first subset of CBGs and a second subset of CBGs, the first subset of CBGs being transmitted on at least partially punctured resources. The base station may receive an ACK/NACK from the UE based on the transmitted set of CBGs, and retransmit to the UE one of the full set of CBGs or the first subset of CBGs based the received ACK/NACK. In an aspect, a UE may decode the set of CBGs received from the base station, transmit ACK/NACK feedback based on a result of the decoding, and receive, based on the transmitted ACK/NACK feedback, a retransmission of either the full set of CBGs, or the first subset of CBGs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 10721052
    Abstract: There is a need to support narrowband TDD frame structure for narrowband communications. The present disclosure provides a solution by supporting one or more narrowband TDD frame structure(s) for narrowband communications. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. In one aspect, the apparatus may receive information associated with a narrowband TDD frame structure. The apparatus may also transmit an uplink transmission a predetermined number of times using a first scrambling sequence. In one aspect, the first scrambling sequence may be determined using a first number of least significant bits (LSBs) associated with a first radio frame. In another aspect, the first number of LSBs may be larger than a second number of LSBs used in a second scrambling sequence associated with a narrowband frequency-division duplex (FDD) uplink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Bhattad, Xiao Feng Wang, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 10716061
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for triggering a plurality of PS-poll frames in a wireless LAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Giwon Park, Kiseon Ryu, Jeongki Kim, Hangyu Cho, Suhwook Kim
  • Patent number: 10708890
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal and a processor configured to control an operation of the wireless communication terminal. The processor collects data to be transmitted to a plurality of terminals, generates an aggregate-MAC protocol data unit for transmitting data to the plurality of terminals at the same time, and transmits the aggregate-MAC protocol data unit to the plurality of terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongho Kim, Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 10694419
    Abstract: A unified, rank independent mapping between antenna ports and group/code pairs. Each antenna port is uniquely associated with one code division multiplexing (CDM) group and one orthogonal cover code (OCC). The mapping between antenna ports and group/code pairs is chosen such that, for a given antenna port, the CDM group and OCC will be the same for every transmission rank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Yang Hu, David Astely, David Hammarwall, George Jöngren, Xinghua Song, Jianfeng Wang
  • Patent number: 10694441
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transmitting, by a base station, information in a wireless communication system, and a base station performing the same, the method comprising the steps of: generating a system information block comprising first hysteresis information about a first type terminal, and second hysteresis information about a second type terminal; and broadcasting the generated system information block, wherein the first type terminal includes a terminal which does not provide a public safety network service, and wherein the second type terminal includes a terminal which provides a public safety network service. In addition, the present invention relates to a terminal which operates with the base station, and a method for operating the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Samumg Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongsik Dong, Junhyuk Song, Daejoong Kim
  • Patent number: 10687227
    Abstract: System and methods for managing a Wi-Fi network of a plurality of Wi-Fi networks from a cloud-based Network Operations Control (NOC) dashboard include, subsequent to creating an account for a user of the Wi-Fi network, receiving data associated with the Wi-Fi network from the one or more access points; providing a display associated with the Wi-Fi network based on the data, wherein the display comprises a network topology and one or more tabs providing information related to operation of the Wi-Fi network; updating the display based on one or more inputs received, wherein the updating updates one or more of the network topology and the one or more tabs; and performing one or more operations via the NOC dashboard to one of manage, control, and troubleshoot the Wi-Fi network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Plume Design, Inc.
    Inventors: Evan Rusackas, Robert Miller, Patrick Li, Adam Hotchkiss, Aman Singla, William McFarland
  • Patent number: 10681682
    Abstract: The method includes: determining, by user equipment, first uplink control information and second uplink control information, where a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the first uplink control information is less than a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the second uplink control information; and when the time domain resource corresponding to the first uplink control information overlaps with the time domain resource corresponding to the second uplink control information, transmitting, by the user equipment, third uplink control information on the overlapping time domain resource, where the third uplink control information includes at least one of fourth uplink control information and fifth uplink control information, the fourth uplink control information includes some or all of the first uplink control information, and the fifth uplink control information includes some or all of the second uplink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zuomin Wu, Chaojun Li, Yongxia Lyu, Sha Ma