Patents Examined by Chuong T. Ho
  • Patent number: 11696258
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Huei-Ming Lin, Zhenshan Zhao, Qianxi Lu
  • Patent number: 11696193
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qi Xiong, Chen Qian, Bin Yu, Feifei Sun
  • Patent number: 11690068
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device and computer readable storage media for optimizing buffer state report (BSR) for limited traffic mix. In example embodiments, whether a short or long BSR being reported is up to the configuration of LCG or the configuration of LCH within the LCG. In this way, minimum overhead for low bit rate services can be kept and thus a good coverage can be achieved, while the reporting information can be increased for other traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Benoist Sebire, Chunli Wu, Samuli Turtinen
  • Patent number: 11683795
    Abstract: A communications device includes a transmitter configured to transmit signals to one or more other communications devices via a wireless access interface, the one or more communications devices configured to perform device-to-device communications. A receiver is configured to receive signals from the one of the other communications devices via the wireless access interface, and a controller controls the transmitter and receiver to transmit or to receive the signals via the wireless access interface to transmit or to receive data represented by the signals. The wireless access interface provides a scheduling region including plural predetermined sections of communications resources, and plural sections of shared communications resources. Transmission of a scheduling assignment message in a section of the scheduling region informs other devices of a group that a communications device will transmit signals representing data in a corresponding section of the shared communications channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brian Alexander Martin
  • Patent number: 11678269
    Abstract: A wireless device may receive cancellation indication configuration parameters and a second configuration parameter. The cancellation indication configuration parameters may comprise a first configuration parameter indicating a first RNTI. The second configuration parameter may indicate a value of a deactivation timer of a secondary cell. The wireless device may receive a cancellation indication DCI associated with the first RNTI. The cancellation indication DCI may indicate cancellation of an uplink transmission on the secondary cell. Based on receiving the cancellation indication DCI, the wireless device may start the deactivation timer with the value. The wireless device may deactivate the secondary cell based on the deactivation timer expiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: PanPsy Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11678357
    Abstract: A method for disconnecting a wireless time-division duplex communication link, said time-division duplex communication link being between a first node transmitting during time slots allocated to said first node and a second node transmitting during separate time slots allocated to said second node, said first node transmitting at a respective one of a plurality of frequency bands during each of said time slots allocated to said first node, said method may include sub-dividing a time slot allocated to said first node into consecutive time intervals; and disrupting communication between said first node and said second node by transmitting, using a transmitter, respective interference signals during at least some of said time intervals of the time slot to provide an aggregated disconnect signal of the time slot, each of said interference signals being transmitted on one of said plurality of frequency bands, wherein for at least two of said time intervals said interference signals are transmitted on different fre
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: D-FEND SOLUTIONS AD LTD.
    Inventors: Hanan Leizerovich, Assaf Monsa Chermon
  • Patent number: 11671795
    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving configuration information on a multicast broadcast service (MBS), and receiving, based on the configuration information, MBS data in a radio resource control (RRC)_Connected mode. The MBS data is transmitted to plurality of UEs including the UE for multicast transmission, or to the UE for unicast transmission. A Hybrid Automatic Repeat and request (HARQ) retransmission is applied to a transmission of the MBS data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11665726
    Abstract: Systems, and method and computer readable media that store instructions for slowing or stopping a progress, towards a target, of a drone controlled by a remote control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: D-FEND SOLUTIONS AD LTD.
    Inventors: Assaf Monsa Chermon, Nadav Arie, Hanan Leizerovich, Ohad Moshe Abarbanel
  • Patent number: 11665672
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a second UE, a sidelink communication via a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH). The UE may transmit, to the second UE and based at least in part on the sidelink communication via the PSSCH, hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback and channel state information (CSI) feedback on a single physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 11665713
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assigning voice communication channels used by a crew of employees using communication devices are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: electronically store information, wherein the information represents associations of individual voice communication channels with one or more communication groups; receive user input that identifies employees, automatically determine sets of communication channel assignments per communication device, between communication channels and subsets of communication groups; configure communication devices according to the determined assignments; and facilitate packet-based communication, using the communication channels, between the communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: H.M. Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: David O'Gwynn, Rick Evan Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11652503
    Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of full duplex transceiver assemblies each having an ON condition and an OFF condition, and configured to be worn by a different user, each of the plurality of full duplex transceiver assemblies having a housing and printed circuit board coupled to the housing, the printed circuit board including a transceiver having a microprocessor. Each microprocessor is configured to emit a different stream of controlling data when the plurality of full duplex transceiver assemblies are in the ON condition, thereby allowing each of the plurality of full duplex transceiver assemblies to communicate among a plurality of different logical channels. Embedded with each different stream of controlling data is a unique identification number for grouping each of the plurality of full duplex transceiver assemblies together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: WESTCOM WIRELESS, INC
    Inventor: Frank Girardi
  • Patent number: 11646858
    Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of full duplex transceiver assemblies each having an ON condition and an OFF condition, and configured to be worn by a different user, each of the plurality of full duplex transceiver assemblies having a housing and printed circuit board coupled to the housing, the printed circuit board including a transceiver having a microprocessor. Each microprocessor is configured to emit a different stream of controlling data when the plurality of full duplex transceiver assemblies are in the ON condition, thereby allowing each of the plurality of full duplex transceiver assemblies to communicate among a plurality of different logical channels. Embedded with each different stream of controlling data is a unique identification number for grouping each of the plurality of full duplex transceiver assemblies together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: WESTCOM WIRELESS, INC
    Inventor: Frank Girardi
  • Patent number: 11638123
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanmei Yang, Cuili Ge
  • Patent number: 11638292
    Abstract: Provided are a method by which a first device performs wireless communication an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise: receiving, from the base station through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a downlink control information (DCI) related to the SL HARQ process ID, wherein the DCI includes information related to a second SL grant for retransmission of the MAC PDU and information related to a second PUCCH resource, wherein, based on the buffer related to the SL HARQ process ID being flushed, the first device does not transmit the MAC PDU to the second device based on the second SL grant, and the first device does not transmit SL HARQ feedback information related to the MAC PDU to the base station based on the second PUCCH resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11638173
    Abstract: Wireless communication devices, systems, and methods related to mechanisms to aid a user equipment in determining the channel access priority (CAPC) to use for a data radio bearer (DRB) on the response link, such as uplink (UL), that includes multiple quality of service (QoS) flows for an UL transmission (such as for a configured grant UL transmission). The UE may receive a plurality of QoS flows in a common DRB from a base station. The UE may apply a rule to select a CAPC to apply for all QoS flows in the common DRB on an UL transmission. This rule may alternatively include the base station making the selection of the CAPC to apply and informing the UE of the selected CAPC for implementation. The UE may then apply the selected CAPC to the UL transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ozcan Ozturk, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 11637736
    Abstract: A transmitter includes: a modulation circuit that modulates a data sequence using QAM by mapping the data sequence to only four symbols each of which differs in phase by 90 degrees from an adjacent one of the four symbols and at least two of which have different amplitudes; and a transmission circuit that wirelessly transmits the data sequence mapped to the four symbols through the modulation by the modulation circuit, by assigning the data sequence mapped to the four symbols through the modulation by the modulation circuit to different subcarriers for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Peter Klenner
  • Patent number: 11638267
    Abstract: Systems, and method and computer readable media that store instructions for slowing or stopping a progress, towards a target, of a drone controlled by a remote control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: D-FEND SOLUTIONS AD LTD.
    Inventors: Assaf Monsa Chermon, Nadav Arie, Hanan Leizerovich, Ohad Moshe Abarbanel
  • Patent number: 11627605
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting UL data in an access network using unlicensed spectrum. One apparatus includes a processor that performs a first LBT procedure for transmission of a first TB associated with a first UL grant using a first HARQ process, where the first LBT procedure results in LBT failure, the first TB being stored in a transmission buffer of the first HARQ process. The processor also performs a second LBT procedure for transmission of a second TB associated with a second UL grant using a second HARQ process. The apparatus includes a transceiver that transmits the first TB using the second UL grant associated with the second HARQ process in response to the second LBT procedure resulting in LBT success.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joachim Loehr, Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Prateek Basu Mallick
  • Patent number: 11616631
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a first through fourth devices positioned over a substrate, the first device including first through third transceivers, the second device including a fourth transceiver, the third device including a fifth transceiver, and the fourth device including a sixth transceiver. A first radio frequency interconnect (RFI) includes the first transceiver coupled to the fourth transceiver through a first guided transmission medium, a second RFI includes the second transceiver coupled to the fifth transceiver through a second guided transmission medium, and a third RFI includes the third transceiver coupled to the sixth transceiver by the second guided transmission medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Huan-Neng Chen, William Wu Shen, Chewn-Pu Jou, Feng Wei Kuo, Lan-Chou Cho, Tze-Chiang Huang, Jack Liu, Yun-Han Lee
  • Patent number: 11606827
    Abstract: A communication apparatus acquires, from an external apparatus, an application for using a communication service using a local network in which communication is performed with a base station, that broadcasts a public land mobile wireless network identifier. The public land mobile wireless network identifier may not be defined in ITU-T Recommendation E.212, using a wireless communication method that supports transmission/reception with a plurality of OFDM subcarrier intervals, the application being bundled with connection setting information for making a connection to the local network, and make a connection to the local network using the connection setting information if the acquired application is active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Yukimasa