Patents Examined by Christopher T Wyllie
  • Patent number: 11444809
    Abstract: One embodiment is directed to an uplink signal combiner that is configured to receive, via the data network, data packets from the remote antenna units. Each of the data packets includes respective control data and respective user data. The respective control data include data for managing a communication link between a baseband unit and a respective remote antenna unit. The respective user data represents a respective uplink signal received by each of the remote antenna units from one or more mobile stations. The uplink signal combiner is configured to generate additional user data representing a first combined uplink signal by combining the user data extracted from the data packets. The uplink signal combiner is configured to transmit an additional data packet to the baseband unit. The additional data packet includes the additional user data and additional control data derived from the control data from the received data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Andrew Wireless Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Van E. Hanson
  • Patent number: 11432251
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transmitting a primary synchronization signal (PSS) by a base station in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method may comprise the steps of: dividing one symbol into multiple periods; generating multiple sequences for the PSS, the number of which is identical to the number of the multiple periods; and mapping the multiple sequences to the one symbol divided into the multiple periods, and transmitting the multiple sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngsub Kim, Hyunsoo Ko, Kijun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon, Changhwan Park
  • Patent number: 11432305
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for a thin control channel structure that can be utilized to enable multiplexing of two or more data transmission formats. For example, a thin control channel may carry information that enables ongoing transmissions utilizing a first, relatively long transmission time interval (TTI) to be punctured, and during the punctured portion of the long TTI, a transmission utilizing a second, relatively short TTI may be inserted. This puncturing is enabled by virtue of a thin channel structure wherein a control channel can carry scheduling information, grants, etc., informing receiving devices of the puncturing that is occurring or will occur. Furthermore, the thin control channel can be utilized to carry other control information, not being limited to puncturing information. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tingfang Ji, John Edward Smee, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Naga Bhushan, Peter Gaal, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Michael Alexander Howard, Rotem Cooper, Peter Ang
  • Patent number: 11394458
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for inband telemetry for a virtual transponder are disclosed. A disclosed method for inband telemetry for a virtual transponder comprises transmitting, by a payload antenna on a vehicle, a payload signal to a hosted receiving antenna. The method further comprises transmitting, by the payload antenna, a hosted telemetry signal to the hosted receiving antenna. In one or more embodiments, the hosted telemetry signal and the payload signal are transmitted on the same frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kristina Miller, Eric Anden, Robert J. Winig, Dimitri D. Thomas
  • Patent number: 11382109
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for a thin control channel structure that can be utilized to enable multiplexing of two or more data transmission formats. For example, a thin control channel may carry information that enables ongoing transmissions utilizing a first, relatively long transmission time interval (TTI) to be punctured, and during the punctured portion of the long TTI, a transmission utilizing a second, relatively short TTI may be inserted. This puncturing is enabled by virtue of a thin channel structure wherein a control channel can carry scheduling information, grants, etc., informing receiving devices of the puncturing that is occurring or will occur. Furthermore, the thin control channel can be utilized to carry other control information, not being limited to puncturing information. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tingfang Ji, John Edward Smee, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Naga Bhushan, Peter Gaal, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Michael Alexander Howard, Rotem Cooper, Peter Ang
  • Patent number: 11382011
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication is provided. The method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a minimum required received level factor in a System Information Block Type 1 (SIB1) from a base station, determining, by the UE, whether a first Supplementary Uplink (SUL) related factor is present in the SIB1, obtaining, by the UE, a first minimum required received level from the minimum required received level factor, when the first SUL related factor is not present in the SIB1, determining, by the UE, a first cell selection criterion based on the first minimum required received level, and performing, by the UE, cell selection based on the first cell selection criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Mei-Ju Shih, Chie-Ming Chou, Hung-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 11357022
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for a thin control channel structure that can be utilized for a variety of purposes including, for example, enabling the multiplexing of two or more data transmission formats. In another example, the thin control channel can be utilized to carry control information that relates to interference experienced by a user. By utilizing this control information on a thin control channel, the network can take suitable action to mitigate the interference. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tingfang Ji, John Edward Smee, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Naga Bhushan, Peter Gaal, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Michael Alexander Howard, Rotem Cooper, Peter Ang
  • Patent number: 11357004
    Abstract: A method and system for managing carriers on which a base station provides service to a user equipment device (UE), based on consideration of latency. A base station that is arranged to operate on a plurality of carriers may, while serving a UE on a set of one or more carriers of the plurality, select, from at least two other carriers of the plurality, an additional carrier to add to the set of one or more carriers on which the base station serves the UE, and may make the selection based a latency on the selected carrier. In response to selecting the additional carrier, the base station may add the selected carrier to the set of one or more carriers on which the base station serves the UE, and may then serve the UE on the set of one or more carriers including the selected carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Hemanth B. Pawar, Pratik Kothari, Chunmei Liu, Krishna Sitaram
  • Patent number: 11357015
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure implement techniques that allow a vehicle performing V2X communications to provide more accurate S-RSSI measurements and CBR calculations for use in channel selection and congestion control. Techniques may include measuring a sidelink received signal strength indicator (S-RSSI) for each of a plurality of sub-channels, determining one or more signal impairment adjustment factors based on the S-RSSI for each of the plurality of sub-channels, calculating a channel busy ratio (CBR) for the plurality of sub-channels based on the one or more signal impairment adjustment factors, and initiating communication with at least one of the plurality of sub-channels based on at least the CBR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Cheol Hee Park, Ashish Shankar Iyer, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Hongsan Sheng, Subramanya Rao, Feng Lu, Santosh Kumar Rongala, Li Sheng, Yuanbo Wang
  • Patent number: 11343811
    Abstract: Provided are a data transmitting and feedback method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The data transmitting method includes: selecting a grant-free resource to send a data packet, where the grant-free resource is K continuous time slots of one frequency band, where the K is an integer greater than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Xi'an Zhongxing New Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xianming Chen, Bo Dai, Kun Liu
  • Patent number: 11323914
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods for decompression of headers of received Internet Protocol (IP) packets, such as by a device. Such methods include receiving a single transmission unit that includes a bitmap comprising a plurality of bits, and an aggregation of a first IP packet and a reference IP packet. Each bit in the bitmap indicates whether a corresponding header information element, of a header of the first IP packet, is redundant or non-redundant with respect to a corresponding header information element of a header of the reference IP packet. Such methods include reconstructing the header of the first IP packet based on the header of the reference IP packet and on the bitmap, and decompressing the header of the first IP packet. Other embodiments include devices configured to perform operations corresponding to such methods, and computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions that embody such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Luis Felipe Del Carpio Vega, Ari Keränen, Anna Larmo, Maria Ines Robles
  • Patent number: 11324033
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to monitor, via a receive beam, a first transmission time interval (TTI) of a plurality of different TTIs for a control resource set. The UE may decode the control resource set to obtain a first grant and a second grant. Upon decoding the control resource set, the UE may determine that the first grant and the second grant are associated with different parameters. In some cases, the parameters may be spatial quasi-colocation (QCL) assumptions mapped to the control resource set. The UE may decode, resources of a shared data channel indicated in at least one of the first grant and the second grant. In some cases, the UE may decode the resources during at least one of the first TTI and a second TTI of the plurality different TTIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Yan Zhou, Hung Dinh Ly
  • Patent number: 11317312
    Abstract: A method for a device-to-device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system is discussed. The method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes measuring a D2D received signal strength indicator (RSSI) for each resource region for the D2D communication, the D2D RSSI representing a received signal strength per symbol in the resource region; obtaining ratio information indicating a ratio of D2D resource regions having a higher D2D RSSI than a specific threshold within a resource pool for the D2D communication; and transmitting a measurement report including the ratio information to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 11304162
    Abstract: A data communication method for a V2X communication apparatus is disclosed. A data communication method for a V2X communication apparatus including a plurality of transceivers according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving service advertisement information over a control channel (CCH) by using a first transceiver; and receiving, on the basis of the service advertisement information, service data over a service channel (SCH) by using a second transceiver, wherein accessing the control channel is performed on the basis of a sync interval, and the sync interval includes a first time unit and a second time unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jongseob Baek, Woosuk Ko
  • Patent number: 11296774
    Abstract: Herein is disclosed an antenna pairing system comprising a first plurality of antennas configured to receive an ordered set of transmissions; a signal strength measuring circuit, configured to measure a received signal strength of transmissions within the ordered set of transmissions as received by the first plurality of antennas; one or more processors, configured to identify a pairing transmission, the pairing transmission being a transmission from the ordered set of transmissions having a received signal strength fulfilling a predefined criterion, according to the signal strength measuring circuit; and identify an antenna of the first plurality of antennas at which the pairing transmission was received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jens Schaub, Cornelius Claussen, Julian Raedel
  • Patent number: 11284416
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication for adaptive ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) are described. One method includes determining a data packet payload size for a transmission using SPS resources in a transmission time interval (TTI). The method also includes sending a release signal to release a portion of the SPS resources in the TTI based on the size and transmitting the data packet during the TTI using unreleased SPS resources. Another method includes identifying that a packet profile of packets transmitted on SPS resources varies by more than a packet profile threshold and sending, based at least in part on the identifying, a request-to-update (RTU) signal to update the SPS resources. The method also include receiving a confirmation of receipt of the RTU signal and updating a resource allocation or a resource attribute based at least in part on the packet profile and confirmation of receipt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Chong Li, Junyi Li, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11284387
    Abstract: An advanced wireless communication system, and a method for use at an advanced wireless communication system are disclosed that support direct communication to provide flexible resource pool sharing. The method comprises: measuring, at a first UE, utilization of at least one resource pool of a direct communication channel associated with a configured shared region; transmitting, by the first UE and to at least one second UE, sidelink control information (SCI) identifying a selected resource pool of the at least one resource pool; and transmitting, by the first UE and to the at least one second UE, data associated with the SCI in the selected resource pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Huei-Ming Lin, Phong Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11277715
    Abstract: An example network device may include a processor to assign resource units (RUs) for a multicast frame and a unicast frame, wherein the assigned RUs include a first RU corresponding to the multicast frame and a second RU corresponding to the unicast frame, and wherein a client device corresponding to the unicast frame is excluded in a subset of client devices corresponding to the multicast frame; and transmit the multicast frame and the unicast frame in a same duration by the first RU and the second RU, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Qiang Zhou, Guangzhi Ran, Jianpo Han
  • Patent number: 11277232
    Abstract: Methods and devices, particularly radio base station and communication terminal, for controlling a feedback process in a communication between nodes of a communication system, comprising selectively employing one or both of a first feedback process which provides fast feedback and a second feedback process which provides reliable feedback, wherein the first and second feedback processes operate at least partly on the same transmission buffers or queues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Andreas Bergström, Erik Eriksson, Pål Frenger, Cong Shi
  • Patent number: 11272426
    Abstract: Techniques are described that support techniques for directional discovery in a millimeter wave communications system. A vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications system may support beam discovery procedures that use directional beams to discover other entities, establish directional communication links with other entities, or maintaining directional communication links with other entities. The beam discovery procedure may include a sweep pattern where a transmitting entity may probe with directional beams in a plurality of beam directions. During a beam discovery procedure a transmitting entity may transmit discovery signals in a plurality of different directions and a receiving entity may listen for the discovery signals in a plurality of different directions. The sweep patterns of the transmitting entity and the receiving entity may be coordinated to increase a likelihood that the receiving entity will discover the transmitting entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Junyi Li, Kapil Gulati, Tien Viet Nguyen, Libin Jiang, Shailesh Patil