Patents Examined by Chuong T. Ho
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Patent number: 11770852Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method for use in a user equipment (UE) of transmitting uplink data in unlicensed spectrum comprises receiving, from a network node, an uplink grant comprising an indication of one or more subframes to use for transmitting uplink data. Each subframe comprises a plurality of symbols. The method further comprises obtaining an indication of a listen-before-talk (LBT) type. The LBT type indicates a type of LBT procedure that the UE should perform before transmitting uplink data. The method further comprises determining, using the obtained LBT type, at least one of a starting symbol and a stopping symbol for transmitting uplink data, and transmitting uplink data according to at least one of the determined starting symbol and the determined stopping symbol.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Withrow & Terranova, PLLCInventors: Havish Koorapaty, Jung-Fu Cheng, Sorour Falahati, Amitav Mukherjee
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Patent number: 11765689Abstract: Proposed is a method for performing a sidelink operation in a wireless communication system, the method being performed by a terminal. The method comprises: selecting a preferred resource pool from among a plurality of resource pools, wherein the preferred resource pool is one of a first resource pool including a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource and a second resource pool without the PSFCH resource; and, on the basis of a re-selection condition, performing the sidelink operation on the first resource pool or the second resource pool.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Sunghoon Jung
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Patent number: 11758612Abstract: The present disclosure discloses example communication methods and access network device. One example method includes sending, by an access network device, indication information to user equipment, where the indication information indicates a manner of receiving multicast service data, and the manner of receiving multicast service data includes a unicast manner. The multicast service data is sent by the access network device in the unicast manner.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yada Huang, Yuanping Zhu
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Patent number: 11757571Abstract: A method performed by a communication device. The method includes the communication device receiving assistance information, wherein the assistance information comprises at least one of: i) channel sensing statistics information (e.g., LBT failure ratio) and ii) channel occupancy, CO, information related to channel occupancy of a channel. The method further includes the communication device making a decision based on the received assistance information.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Min Wang, Jan Christoffersson
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Patent number: 11757691Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for multiple access transmission. The method includes: determining (S401) a first signature allocated to a first transmission; and determining (S402) a second signature allocated to a second transmission. With hopping of the signature, the successful rate of NOMA transmission in the communication system will be improved.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Zhipeng Lin, Ali Behravan, Robert Mark Harrison, Robert Baldemair, Andres Reial, Behrooz Makki
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Patent number: 11751236Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a bandwidth part (BWP) allocation method and an apparatus, and relate to the communications field. The method includes: A base station may implement dynamic BWP allocation based on information such as terminal status information and/or a BWP usage status, so that a flexible and reliable BWP allocation manner is provided, to improve resource utilization.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Haidong Yan
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Patent number: 11750251Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described herein for dynamic allocation of multiple channels and data streams for multi-channel transmission and multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO). For example, a station (STA) may receive an enhanced poll (EPoll) frame that includes a time offset, a channel offset and antenna/sector settings from an access point (AP). The STA may transmit, based on the received EPoll frame, an enhanced service period request (ESPR) frame that includes a MIMO control field and a multi-channel control field. The MIMO control field may indicate whether the STA supports MIMO transmission. The multi-channel control field may indicate whether the STA supports multi-channel transmission. Upon transmitting the ESPR frame, the STA may receive an enhanced grant frame from the AP. The enhanced grant frame may include an antenna configuration and a multi-channel allocation to enable the STA to perform the MIMO transmission and the multi-channel transmission.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Hanging Lou, Li Hsiang Sun, Oghenekome Oteri, Rui Yang
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Patent number: 11751188Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. In one aspect of the disclosure, a method for wireless communication includes shifting, based on a partial overlap between a scheduled downlink transmission occasion and a scheduled uplink transmission occasion that each include a first and second repetition, a first repetition boundary of one transmission occasion of the downlink transmission occasion or the uplink transmission occasion, and performing full duplex communication with repetition based on the shifted first repetition boundary. In some implementations, shifting includes shifting an entirety of the one transmission occasion. In some implementations, shifting the first repetition boundary changes a number of consecutive symbols included in the first repetition of the one transmission occasion.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11743795Abstract: A network for providing air-to-ground (ATG) wireless communication in various cells may include a receiver station disposed on an aircraft in flight, a plurality of base stations, each base station defining a corresponding radiation pattern such that the base stations are spaced apart from each other to define at least partially overlapping coverage areas, and a control module in communication with at least one of the base stations. The control module may be configured to receive information indicative of an altitude of the aircraft and select a frequency for communication between the at least one of the base stations and the receiver station based on the altitude.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLCInventor: Douglas Hyslop
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Patent number: 11736989Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides a random access method, a network node and a user equipment. With the solution of the above embodiment of the present disclosure, the performance of the UE randomly accessing the target cell can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qi Xiong, Chen Qian, Bin Yu, Feifei Sun
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Patent number: 11722186Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for transmitting feedback information and a terminal device. The method includes receiving, by a terminal device, trigger signaling. The trigger signaling is used for triggering the terminal device to send feedback information. The method further includes determining, by the terminal device, to send a first feedback information codebook or a second feedback information codebook according to the trigger signaling. The first feedback information codebook includes feedback information corresponding to at least one downlink channel indicated by the trigger signaling, and the second feedback information codebook is a full codebook.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventors: Yanan Lin, Zuomin Wu
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Patent number: 11722998Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and devices for transmission by selecting between uplink resources. According to a method implemented by a terminal device in a communication system, a configuration of a first resource is received from a network device, the first resource being a grant-free resource. An uplink grant is received from the network device, indicating a second resource for use in a transmission time interval. The terminal device determines, based on the configuration of the first resource, whether the first resource is available in the transmission time interval. In response to determining that the first resource is available and possibly in response to a predefined condition associated with a logical channel for the terminal device is met, the terminal device transmits uplink data to the network device using the first resource.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Benoist Sebire, Chunli Wu, Samuli Turtinen
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Patent number: 11716633Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to communications in a network that supports data transmitted in an unlicensed frequency band and a licensed frequency band are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a configuration indicating a first resource in an unlicensed frequency band and a second resource in a licensed band. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device in the unlicensed frequency band, a first communication signal based on the configuration. The first wireless communication device communicates with the second wireless communication device in the licensed frequency band, a second communication signal based on at least one of a channel status of the unlicensed frequency band or a transmission parameter associated with at least one of the first communication signal or the second communication signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kaushik Chakraborty, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Tamer Kadous
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Patent number: 11706661Abstract: A wireless communication device according to an embodiment includes one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors: collect forwarding load information about wireless communications in a wireless multi-hop network; determine, based on the forwarding load information, a degree of forwarding priority for a packet corresponding to a forwarding determination target; perform a forwarding control such that the packet corresponding to the forwarding determination target is forwarded earlier as the degree of forwarding priority is higher; and, when the packet corresponding to the forwarding determination target is forwarded, transmit the packet corresponding to the forwarding determination target by multi-cast communications or broadcast communications.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takeshi Sakoda, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Toshio Ito
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Patent number: 11700509Abstract: This application discloses a communications system, a communication method, and an apparatus thereof. The system includes: a multicast session management network element, an access and mobility management network element and a user plane function network element. The multicast session management network element sends a first multicast session request carrying a multicast session context to the access and mobility management network element to request to establish a multicast session based on the multicast session context; and sends a second multicast session request to the user plane function network element, where the second multicast session request carries user plane forwarding-related information indicating a user plane forwarding rule of the multicast session. The access and mobility management network element sends the first multicast session request to an access network node.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yanmei Yang, Cuili Ge
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Patent number: 11700604Abstract: Systems and methods determine a PUSCH default beam in NR with multiple UE antenna panel operation and multiple TRP operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Guotong Wang, Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Bishwarup Mondal, Gang Xiong
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Patent number: 11696360Abstract: A method and a user equipment (UE) for controlling Discontinuous Reception (DRX) behavior on multiple radio interfaces are provided. The method includes receiving, from a Base Station (BS), a first set of timers configured for controlling a first DRX behavior of the UE on a Uu interface to the BS; performing control channel monitoring according to the first set of timers; identifying that a Sidelink (SL) activity occurs on an SL interface that is a PC5 interface, the SL activity associated with one or more SL destinations on the PC5 interface; and starting or restarting at least one of the first set of timers in response to identifying the SL activity.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Chia-Hao Yu, Yung-Lan Tseng, Hsin-Hsi Tsai
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Patent number: 11695492Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting broadcasting signal using transmitter identification and method using the same are disclosed. An apparatus for transmitting broadcasting signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a waveform generator configured to generate a host broadcasting signal; a transmitter identification signal generator configured to generate a transmitter identification signal for identifying a transmitter; and a combiner configured to inject the transmitter identification signal into the host broadcasting signal in a time domain so that the transmitter identification signal is transmitted synchronously with the host broadcasting signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Sung-Ik Park, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Jae-Young Lee, Heung-Mook Kim, Nam-Ho Hur
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Patent number: 11696258Abstract: A method and an apparatus for performing a radio resource selection and contention indication in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for performing, a user equipment (UE), the radio resource selection and contention indication in the wireless communication system includes selecting a plurality of sidelink resources from a sidelink resource pool and contending at least one of the sidelink resources reserved in advance from another UE.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventors: Huei-Ming Lin, Zhenshan Zhao, Qianxi Lu
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Patent number: 11696193Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides a random access method, a network node and a user equipment. With the solution of the above embodiment of the present disclosure, the performance of the UE randomly accessing the target cell can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qi Xiong, Chen Qian, Bin Yu, Feifei Sun