Patents Examined by Chi ho A. Lee
  • Patent number: 12250057
    Abstract: A wireless relay station to be included in a ladder-type wireless relay network along a moving route of a moving object includes a relay control unit that includes station identification information in the wireless relay network assigned sequentially along the moving route to each of the wireless relay stations included in the wireless relay network and deployed along the moving route, configures and updates, using a first routing table that provides an address of a destination wireless relay station, a second routing table including the address, the station identification information, and an information update time, being associated with one another, of the destination wireless relay station, and provides control to share, among the wireless relay stations included in the wireless relay network, the second routing table configured and updated by each wireless relay station; and a relay communication unit that performs wireless relay communication with other wireless relay stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishimoto, Yasunori Kato, Manabu Sakai, Kenichiro Kamohara, Hiroyasu Sano
  • Patent number: 12245301
    Abstract: Extending cellular telecommunication service from a first UE to another device. The first UE may register for cellular telecommunication service with a cellular network using a first cellular service account, using a cellular communication link via a cellular radio. A second device may be discovered and a communication link may be established between the first UE and the second device. The second device may be registered to use cellular telecommunication capability provided by the first UE. Communications between the second device and the cellular network may be conveyed via the communication link between the first UE and the second device and the cellular communication link. Conveying communications between the second device and the cellular network may provide use of the first cellular service account for cellular telecommunication service to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Kapil Chhabra
  • Patent number: 12244544
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for signaling cross-division duplex configurations. One of the methods includes identifying, by a first device and for a first link with a second device, a switch in a first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part for the first link, the first link associated with a second link having a third bandwidth part; determining, by the first device, whether a bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies a threshold guard band; and selectively determining to maintain the third bandwidth part for the second link or to switch the third bandwidth part to a fourth bandwidth part for the second link using a result of the determination whether the bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies the threshold guard band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Yushu Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Sigen Ye, Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri
  • Patent number: 12245260
    Abstract: System and methods for using channel quality reports to reduce inter-band interference are disclosed. Channel information is received at a first wireless communication device from a second wireless communication device. The first wireless device is operating in a first frequency range, and the second wireless device is operating in a second frequency range. The first frequency range is adjacent to the second frequency range. A channel quality report is generated at the first wireless communication device. The channel quality report indicates that particular sub-bands in the first frequency range have low channel quality. The particular sub-bands are selected using the channel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Alon Ben Ami, Shlomit Ben Yakar, Alon Paycher, Uri Weinrib
  • Patent number: 12244533
    Abstract: A method and a corresponding apparatus for performing uplink transmission in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method comprises: based on at least one of the information indicating uplink transmission resources, acquiring the number of resource elements REs used for determining a PUSCH transmission; determining a transport block size TBS for the uplink transmission based on the number of REs; and performing the uplink transmission based on the determined TBS. Wherein, a PUSCH transmission occupies m time unit for transmission, and the rate matching and RE mapping of the PUSCH are performed on all resources occupied in m time unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feifei Sun, Qi Xiong, Yi Wang, Sa Zhang, Jingxing Fu, Bin Yu
  • Patent number: 12238034
    Abstract: For more efficient use of the limited bandwidth in 5G and 6G communications, and to enable longer battery life in remote user devices, the user device can request that unnecessary downlink control messages be withheld. Instead, a custom search-space can be assigned to the user device, such that all downlink data messages will begin in one of the resource elements of the custom search-space, thereby greatly simplifying the user device's task of detecting its incoming messages in a stream of unrelated transmissions. In addition, the user device can request that the user device's identification code, and optionally the length of the data message, be prepended to the data message, for further assistance to low-cost reduced-capability user devices that do not require low latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
  • Patent number: 12232112
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transceiver device and a scheduling device, and communication methods for transceiver device and scheduling device. The transceiver device comprises a transceiver, which, in operation, receives control information over a Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, the control information indicating a scheduled transmission of data; and circuitry, which, in operation, sets a monitoring period according to a number of blind retransmissions of the data, wherein the transceiver, in operation, monitors the PDCCH during the monitoring period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rikin Shah, Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ming-Hung Tao, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 12232099
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for a terminal to perform a beam management operation in a wireless communication system supporting sidelink according to various embodiments. Disclosed are a method and a device for same, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring, from a second terminal, a measurement value indicating the quality of a beam pair in which a sidelink signal is transmitted and received; and determining whether to perform a beam management operation for the beam pair on the basis of one or more thresholds and the measurement value, wherein each of the one or more thresholds may be set on the basis of at least one among mobility information about the first terminal, the relative speed of the first terminal with respect to the second terminal, the congestion level of a channel, and service characteristics related to the sidelink signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Heejin Kim, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 12225516
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, transmitting a first value for a first parameter to a first user equipment, wherein the first parameter pertains to a first number of scans to be performed by the first user equipment to detect a first signal having a first frequency within a first frequency band as part of a first scanning procedure, and transmitting a second value for a second parameter to the first user equipment, wherein the second parameter pertains to a first amount of time that the first user equipment is to wait between the first scanning procedure and a second scanning procedure, the second scanning procedure pertaining to detection of the first signal having the first frequency within the first frequency band. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Hongyan Lei
  • Patent number: 12224864
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to data transmission methods and apparatuses and storage media. The method includes generating a data frame, wherein the data frame includes a payload format identifier bit for indicating a payload format of the data frame; and transmitting the data frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiandong Dong
  • Patent number: 12225413
    Abstract: A method and network node for flexible indication of resources in LTE-M using bitmaps are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes indicating to the wireless device a set of reserved resources for machine communications in compatibility with a broadband radio access technology sharing resources in a time frame and frequency band that encompasses the set of reserved resources, the indicating using a two level bitmap operating in the time-domain, a first bitmap level of the two level bitmap indicating a first set of subframes containing reserved resources, and a second bitmap level of the two level bitmap indicating reserved symbols within an indicated subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mohammad Mozaffari, Johan Bergman, Anders Wallén, Mattias Frenne
  • Patent number: 12213152
    Abstract: A method of transmitting information includes: determining one or more physical resource blocks (PRBs) for transmitting one or more associated channels of a current physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and transmitting the one or more associated channels on the one or more determined PRBs. The one or more determined PRBs include one or more PRBs other than a current PRB for transmitting the current PDCCH. By determining one or more PRBs for transmitting the one or more associated channels of the current PDCCH or for repeatedly transmitting the current PDCCH, with the one or more determined PRBs including one or more PRBs other than the current PRB for transmitting the current PDCCH, when the one or more associated channels are transmitted on the one or more determined PRBs, it can avoid service congestion caused by excessive load on a certain PRB, and can improve a scheduling flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qin Mu
  • Patent number: 12213100
    Abstract: A User Equipment, UE (700), determines paging occasions that are associated with a Narrowband Reference Signal, NRS, from a plurality of paging occasions based on a common timing reference between a Radio Access Network, RAN, node (600) and the UE (700). The RAN node (600) transmits, to the UE (700) the NRS on paging occasions based on the common timing reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Gerardo Agni Medina Acosta, Yutao Sui, Ritesh Shreevastav
  • Patent number: 12207261
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) and a base station may support communicating uplink control messages over a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) using a time domain waveform. For example, the base station may configure the UE with a first group of PUCCH resource sets associated with a first type of time domain waveform and a second group of PUCCH resource sets associated with a second type of time domain waveform. The base station may transmit downlink control information (DCI) to the UE that indicates a type of time domain waveform and a PUCCH resource of a PUCCH resource set. In response, the UE may select the PUCCH resource set from either the first group or the second group and may transmit an uplink control message using the indicated PUCCH resource and type of time domain waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hemant Saggar, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12199782
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention discloses a terminal of a wireless communication system. The terminal comprises a communication module and a processor for controlling the communication module, wherein the processor generates a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-ACK codebook including one or more bits indicating whether reception of a channel or signal is successful, and transmits the HARQ-ACK codebook to a base station of the wireless communication system, wherein the HARQ-ACK codebook is generated on the basis of a slot corresponding to a value of an HARQ-ACK feedback timing parameter (K1) set in a sub-slot level, and each of bits configuring the HARQ-ACK codebook corresponds to at least one sub-slot form among a plurality of sub-slots included in the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Kyungjun Choi, Minseok Noh, Geunyoung Seok, Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 12200604
    Abstract: A wireless device may transmit capability IE(s) indicating that the wireless device supports fast SCell activation. The wireless device may receive a command indicating activation of a reference signal for fast activation of a SCell. The wireless device may activate the SCell based on the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PanPsy Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 12192128
    Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more configuration parameters for a cell. The one or more configuration parameters indicate control resource set (coreset) groups, and each of the coreset groups comprises one or more respective coresets. The wireless device selects, for radio link monitoring of the cell and based on the one or more configuration parameters, a coreset group among the coreset groups. The wireless device measures, for the radio link monitoring of the cell, a reference signal indicated by a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state of a coreset in the coreset group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Youngwoo Kwak, Kyungmin Park, Kai Xu, Hyoungsuk Jeon
  • Patent number: 12184567
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method, a network device, and a terminal device. The method may include detecting, by a network device, a first signal in an uplink signal. The method may also include determining, by the network device, a signal structure of the uplink signal based on a result of detecting the first signal. Furthermore, the method may include receiving, by the network device, the uplink signal based on the signal structure, and/or responding to the uplink signal based on the signal structure. According to the data transmission method in the embodiments of this application, before receiving data, the network device can determine the signal structure, used by the terminal device, of the uplink signal, and then use a corresponding receiving method to avoid complexity and a reliability risk that are caused by completely blind detection performed by the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiuqiang Xu, Yan Chen, Liqing Zhang, Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 12185368
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal using a determination of basic service set identification information of a received frame, and more particularly, to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for performing an operation according to a determination result whether the received frame is an intra-BSS frame or an inter-BSS frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Geonjung Ko, Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak, Woojin Ahn
  • Patent number: 12177699
    Abstract: A terminal that communicates simultaneously with a first communication node and a second communication node includes a detection unit that detects a failure in communication with the second communication node; and a transmitting unit that transmits notification including failure information and positional information to the first communication node, the failure information concerning a failure in communication with the second communication node and the positional information being obtained at the time when the failure was detected. In another aspect a communication node is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tianyang Min, Kenji Kai