Patents Examined by Christine Ng
  • Patent number: 11844044
    Abstract: Techniques for communication by a user equipment (UE) are disclosed. Techniques can include determining a positioning state information (PSI) report to transmit, where the PSI report comprises positioning-related information, and selecting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource with which to transmit the PSI report, where the selected PUCCH resource comprises a number of resource blocks (RBS). Techniques can further include determining whether to transmit the PSI report using the selected PUCCH resource, based on: the number of RBS, a size of uplink control information (UCI) to be transmitted using the selected PUCCH resource, the selected PUCCH resource being configured with a capability to include both the PSI report and a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK), or the selected PUCCH resource being configured to include only one or more PSI reports, and optionally one or more CSI reports, as a payload, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Weimin Duan, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11838131
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein provide for an eNodeB operating in an RF band comprising a conflicting wireless technology. One exemplary eNodeB assigns an ID to a UE, processes a scheduling request for UL data from the UE, processes another scheduling request for second UL data from the UE, determines priorities of the first and second UL data based on priority indicators in the scheduling requests, and grants time and frequency for the UE to transmit the first and second UL data. The eNodeB also waits until the UE performs an LBT operation. The LBT determines whether the granted time and frequency are occupied by another wireless system comprising a different wireless technology. The eNodeB also determines that the first UL data is stale, and transmits the ID to the UE to reserve the granted time and frequency for the second UL data when unoccupied by the other wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11832148
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a compensation indicator that is based at least in part on Doppler information associated with a group of UEs in a single frequency network (SFN). The UE may communicate based at least in part on the compensation indicator. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Venugopal, Wooseok Nam, Tianyang Bai, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11825499
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and apparatuses for a dynamic indication of measurement sources for CSI reporting are provided. An example method at a UE includes receiving DCI including a DL grant. The example method further includes measuring the CSI based on a set of resources for measuring CSI based on the DL grant. The example method further includes transmitting at least one aperiodic CSI report associated with the CSI measurements. An example method at a base station includes transmitting a DL DCI including a DL grant to a UE. The DL grant indicating a set of resources for measuring CSI. The example method further includes receiving, based on the DL grant, at least one aperiodic CSI report associated with CSI measurements of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11824809
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a configuration indicating a set of resources for a reference signal to track an in-phase and quadrature-phase imbalance of the UE. The set of resources may include a first subset of resources for transmitting the reference signal and a second subset of resources for a mirror image signal that is generated during upconversion of the reference signal. The UE may upconvert the reference signal to a set of subcarriers corresponding to the first subset of resources and transmit the upconverted reference signal on the first subset of resources. The base station may receive the reference signal and the mirror image signal and determine a signal adjustment for communications with the UE based on the received reference signal and the received mirror image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: David Yunusov, Assaf Touboul, Shay Landis
  • Patent number: 11825427
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a control signal scheduling the UE to receive a downlink message from the base station using a set of time and frequency resources. The UE may identify an aggressor UE attempting to receive uplink communications, downlink communications, or both, transmitted between the UE and the base station and determine a transmit power for transmitting a jamming signal to the aggressor UE during the set of time and frequency resources. The UE may apply a jamming signal power scheme to the jamming signal by either using the determined transmit power or adjusting the determined transmit power in accordance with the jamming signal power scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 11818064
    Abstract: A user apparatus is provided. The user apparatus performs communications with a base station. The user apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a downlink pilot signal, a downlink control signal, and downlink user data by using a subframe that includes a pilot signal area, to which the downlink pilot signal is mapped, a control signal area, to which the downlink control signal is mapped, a user data area, to which the downlink user data is mapped, and a multiple use area, to which an uplink signal or a downlink signal is mapped; and a transmission unit configured to map the uplink signal to the multiple use area and transmit the mapped result to the base station in the case where information is included in the downlink control signal indicating that the uplink signal is to be mapped to the multiple use area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kiichi Tateishi
  • Patent number: 11812418
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may select at least one of a primary carrier associated with a physical uplink control channel group or a secondary carrier associated with a physical uplink control channel group for transmitting a physical uplink control channel message to a base station. The UE may transmit, based on selecting at least one of the primary carrier or the secondary carrier, the physical uplink control channel message using at least one of the primary carrier or the secondary carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Wei Yang, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11805481
    Abstract: HVAC components having improved efficiency are described. In one embodiment, excessive sleep current draw in a battery-powered device having a microcontroller is detected by measuring a voltage drop across a MOSFET device coupled in a forward-conducting orientation in series between the battery and the microcontroller, causing a transistor to conduct when the voltage drop exceeds a predetermined threshold to generate a first trigger signal, integrating the first trigger signal to generate a second trigger signal, and generating an interrupt to the microcontroller. In another embodiment, a battery-saving method of operating an HVAC component includes maintaining the HVAC device in the sleep mode, receiving a user input to wake the device, transmitting a data request and returning the HVAC component to the sleep mode, waking up the HVAC device to poll an adjacent network node storing a cached response, displaying the response, and returning the HVAC device to sleep.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Joel C. VanderZee, Christopher C. VanderKoy
  • Patent number: 11805483
    Abstract: A method for waking up, from a low-power mode, a first communications node coupled to a second node via a first communication link, includes determining, while the first node is awake, a first transmission rate for transmitting data over the first link, storing the first rate at the second node, and selectively transmitting, from the second node to the first node, a first wake-up command at a symbol rate corresponding to the first rate. Where a third node is coupled to the second node via a second link, the method may further include determining, at the second node, while the third node is awake, a second transmission rate for transmitting data over the second link, storing the second rate at the second node, and selectively transmitting, from the second node to the third node, a second wake-up command at a symbol rate corresponding to the second rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hon Wai Fung, Dance Wu, Liang Zhu
  • Patent number: 11800491
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method includes receiving, from a second UE, a configuration for receipt of a sidelink resource pool message, determining that the first UE has information to be transmitted to the second UE via sidelink communications, receiving, in accordance with the configuration, the sidelink resource pool message, identifying, based on the sidelink resource pool message, a resource pool that includes sub-channels for sidelink communications to the second UE, and attempting to access a sub-channel of the resource pool in order to transmit the information to the second UE via sidelink communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Junyi Li, Ozcan Ozturk, Chih-Hao Liu, Piyush Gupta
  • Patent number: 11800448
    Abstract: A circuit includes a controller configured to: receive a first decoded beacon frame which includes a first indication of a first data transmission; receive a second decoded beacon frame which includes a second indication of a second data transmission; compare the first and second decoded beacon frames to determine common bytes in the first and second decoded beacon frames; determine an expected time of receiving the common bytes in a third beacon frame; control a device to enter into a low power mode; and control the device to wake up from the low power mode at a time to receive and decode at least a portion of the third beacon frame, in which the time to wake up is based on the expected time to receive the common bytes instead of based on an expected time to receive a preamble at a start of the third beacon frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Oran Naftali, Avi Baum, Yuval Jakira, Asaf Even-Chen
  • Patent number: 11785648
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide techniques for indication of a system frame number (SFN) in and/or associated with a random access response (RAR) for a random access procedure. A UE may transmit a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble in a PRACH occasion (e.g., in a Msg1 or MsgA) and monitor for a message (e.g., Msg2 or MsgB) in a RAR window. The RAR window may be greater than one frame. The Msg2 or MsgB (e.g., a downlink control information (DCI) and/or a medium access control (MAC) RAR) may indicate the SFN associated with the RACH occasion. The UE may determine whether the message is for the UE or another UE based on the SFN. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Lopamudra Kundu, Yongjun Kwak, Seau S. Lim, Yingyang Li
  • Patent number: 11782496
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for intelligently sampling information, such as location, activities, etc. on device. Sampling and uploading of background context is optimized using machine learning, such that battery usage is reduced, and quality of metrics based on the reported information is maintained or improved. A policy is generated based on the machine learning, the policy dictating how scanning and upload rates should change in response to conditions on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Varshavsky, Bhaskar Mehta, Brian Coopersmith, Giovanni Botta
  • Patent number: 11777685
    Abstract: A method of processing a signal received over a wireless link may utilize sharing of Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) and Transport Block Size (TBS) data. At least one parameter is obtained including a sub-carrier spacing of a transport format. A modulation order and a transport block size may be detected, based on the at least one parameter. The signal received over the wireless link is then processed, based on the detected modulation order and the transport block size. An apparatus may perform the embodiments of the method to process the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong-hun Kim, Yang-Soo Kwon, Min-goo Kim, In-hyoung Kim, Joo-hyun Do
  • Patent number: 11770222
    Abstract: One general aspect of the present disclosure includes a device configured to operate in a wireless system. The device including: a transceiver configured with a plurality of E-UTRA operating bands; and a processor operably connectable to the transceiver. The processer may be configured to: control the transceiver to transmit an uplink signal via at least two bands among the plurality of E-UTRA operating bands; and control the transceiver to receive a downlink signal via three bands among the plurality of E-UTRA operating bands, wherein pre-configured MSD value is applied to a reference sensitivity for receiving the downlink signal based on the E-UTRA operating band 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jongkeun Park, Yoonoh Yang, Sangwook Lee, Suhwan Lim, Manyoung Jung, Jinyup Hwang
  • Patent number: 11764915
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to update beam configurations for specific component carriers or all component carriers in a component carrier group. The UE may receive a signaling message. The UE may apply an update to a beam configuration based at least in part on the signaling message. The UE may receive an indication of a set of component carriers and apply an update to the set of component carriers. The UE may update multiple beam configurations based at least in part on a selected configuration from the multiple beam configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11729817
    Abstract: Provided are a terminal, a base station and a signal transmission control method whereby a response signal can be efficiently transmitted when the terminal receives downstream allocation control information via an R-PDCCH. An extraction unit receives downstream control information via one of a first downstream control channel, which is transmitted by use of one or more control channel elements (CCE) associated with an upstream control channel resource, and a second downstream control channel different from the first downstream control channel, and also receives data via a data channel. A control unit selects, from resources associated with CCE and from particular resources reported by a base station, an upstream control channel resource to be used in transmission of the response signal, and controls the transmission of the response signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventor: Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 11716160
    Abstract: A vehicle remote instruction system 100 transmits a remote instruction request from an autonomous driving vehicle 2 to a remote instruction apparatus 1, and controls travel of the autonomous driving vehicle 2 based on a remote instruction transmitted from the remote instruction apparatus 1 in response to the remote instruction request. The vehicle remote instruction system 100 includes a delay determination unit 39 configured to determine whether or not a communication delay occurs between the remote instruction apparatus 1 and the autonomous driving vehicle 2, and a rejection unit 40 configured to reject the remote instruction transmitted in response to the remote instruction request if it is determined by the delay determination unit 39 that the communication delay occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sho Otaki, Hiromitsu Urano
  • Patent number: 11700601
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus by which user equipment controls transmission power of a sidelink signal in a wireless communication system that supports a sidelink, according to various embodiments. Disclosed are a method and an apparatus by which user equipment controls transmission power of a sidelink signal in a wireless communication system that supports a sidelink, wherein the method comprises the steps of: calculating required power for each antenna unit included in a plurality of antenna units to which the sidelink signal is transmitted; determining reference transmission power on the basis of the required power calculated for the plurality of antenna units; and allocating transmission power for the plurality of antenna units on the basis of the reference transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hyukjin Chae