Patents Examined by Clemence S Han
  • Patent number: 11617183
    Abstract: To provide demapping at a receiving side, a trained model for a demapper is used to output log-likelihood ratios of received signals representing data in a multi-user transmission. Inputs for the trained model for the demapper comprise a resource grid of equalized received signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Mathieu Goutay, Faycal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis
  • Patent number: 11601850
    Abstract: A base station may obtain information associated with a bearer established for a communication session involving a user equipment. The bearer may be associated with a quality of service (QoS) flow of a network slice and the information may include a QoS flow identifier, a QoS configuration identifier associated with a QoS that is to be provided for communications associated with the QoS flow, and a network slice identifier. The base station may determine a scheduling weight for the bearer based on the QoS flow identifier, the QoS configuration identifier, and the network slice identifier. The base station may cause resources to be allocated to the bearer according to the scheduling weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Yuexin Dong, Jin Yang
  • Patent number: 11595259
    Abstract: Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: VENIAM, INC.
    Inventors: Joao Barros, Carlos Ameixieira, Diogo Lopes, Andre Cardote, Rui Costa, Ricardo Matos
  • Patent number: 11589222
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display, a communication interface, a memory comprising at least one instruction, and a processor configured to execute the at least one instruction, and the processor, by executing the at least one instruction, is configured to, based on an external user terminal being discovered through the communication interface, control the display to display a marker including at least one of a text or an image for guiding an operation of a user to establish a communication connection with the external user terminal, based on authentication on the electronic apparatus being performed by capturing the electronic apparatus outputting the marker by the external user terminal, receive a signal confirming authentication on the electronic apparatus from the external user terminal, and establish a communication connection with the external user terminal in response to the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungjun Hwang, Jiyeon Ma, Donghun Shin, Euijun Kim, Youngah Lee
  • Patent number: 11582157
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for multi-level classification of data traffic flows based on information in a first packet for a data traffic flow. In exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, a key can be generated from intercepted DNS data to track data traffic flows by application names and destination IP addresses. Based on these keys, patterns can be discerned to infer data traffic information based on only the information in a first packet, such as destination IP address. The determined patterns can be used to predict classifications of future traffic flows with similar key information. In this way, data traffic flows can be classified and steered in a network based on limited information available in a first packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventor: David Anthony Hughes
  • Patent number: 11582798
    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 resource grant for at least one sidelink channel, wherein the resource grant indicates an uplink resource for transmitting sidelink transmission acknowledgement messages. The UE may transmit, to the base station and on the uplink resource, an indication of at least one status associated with a listen-before-talk procedure used on the at least one sidelink channel. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Ozcan Ozturk, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11582734
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for measurement information reporting. A method of a user equipment (UE) includes method receiving a configuration for a set of resources comprising non-zero-power channel state information reference signal (NZP CSI-RS) resources or synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block resources and receiving NZP CSI-RS in the NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks in the SS/PBCH block resources from the set of resources. The method includes measuring signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR) values based on the NZP CSI-RS or the SS/PBCH blocks; and transmitting, for a subset of resources from the set of resources, a largest of the SINR values, differential SINR values relative to the largest SINR value, and NZP CSI-RS resource indexes (CRIs) or SS/PBCH block indexes for at least some of the NZP CSI-RS resources or the SS/PBCH blocks resources from the subset of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Guo, Md Saifur Rahman
  • Patent number: 11576163
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may be provisioned with multiple semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configurations and/or semi-static configured grants (CGs). The UE may receive a first message indicating a first set of parameters for a first SPS configuration or for a first CG. The UE may receive a second message including at least one updated parameter for a SPS configuration or a CG. The UE may determine that the second message is applicable to one or more SPS configurations or CGs including the first SPS configuration or the first CG. The UE may overwrite a corresponding parameter of the first set of parameters with the at least one updated parameter. The UE may receive according to the first SPS configuration or transmit according to the first CG based on the at least one updated parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 11575424
    Abstract: Aspects relate to dynamically modifying channel state information (CSI) settings, such as CSI report settings and/or CSI resource settings, utilized by a user equipment (UE) in reporting CSI to a base station. For example, a UE may identify at least one parameter associated with a CSI setting and provide a recommendation to modify the CSI setting based on the at least one parameter to a base station. The recommendation may include, for example, an optimized configuration of the CSI setting or soft output, such as an uncertainty level or confidence level associated with the CSI setting. The base station may then select the optimized CSI setting based on the recommendation and provide the optimized CSI setting to the UE for use in generating and transmitting CSI reports to the base station. Other aspects, features, and embodiments are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Xiaoxia Zhang, Taesang Yoo, Lorenzo Ferrari, Rajat Prakash
  • Patent number: 11570762
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a transmitter that performs uplink transmission; and a processor that adjusts timing of the uplink transmission with respect to a downlink reception timing, wherein, when a band of a cell in which uplink transmission is performed is not a predetermined band, the processor adjusts the timing by using a same offset value when a duplex mode of the band of the cell is frequency division duplex (FDD) and when the duplex mode of the band of the cell is time division duplex (TDD). In other aspects, a base station and an uplink transmission timing adjustment method executed by the terminal are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Tomoya Ohara
  • Patent number: 11570711
    Abstract: Embodiments include systems and methods for managing millimeter wave (mmWave) communications with wireless devices capable of mmWave digital beamforming. Various embodiments may enable a wireless device to indicate to a base station that the wireless device is capable of wake-up signal (WUS) reception at mmWave frequencies using digital beamforming. Various aspects may include sending an indication to a base station that the wireless device is capable of using digital beamforming for WUS reception. Various aspects may include scheduling one or more WUS monitoring occasions for a single discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle and a single beam configuration for each of the one or more WUS monitoring occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan
  • Patent number: 11564270
    Abstract: An Internet of Things (IoT) device may receive a network configuration profile including one or more parameters relating to a scan interval and a mode priority of the IoT device indicating a priority for a first IoT network over a second IoT network. The IoT device may scan for an availability of the first IoT network. Based on determining that the first IoT network is unavailable, the IoT device may scan for an availability of the second IoT network. Based on determining that the second IoT network is available, the IoT device may initiate a network connection with the second IoT network. While connected to the second IoT network, the IoT device may scan for the availability of the first IoT network. Based on determining that the first IoT network is available, the IoT device may initiate a network connection with the first IoT network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhir Patel, Jeremy Nacer, Sachin Kamat, David G. Greiner, Nanjun Qian, Ye Huang, Jin Yang
  • Patent number: 11564127
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards a composite HARQ-ACK response that contains information corresponding to a current HARQ-ACK composed with one or more previous HARQ-ACKs in a single uplink transmission. As a result, even with a HARQ-ACK repetition factor greater than one, the network is able to schedule the user equipment in consecutive time intervals as if the repetition factor was one (that is, as if no repetition).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11558840
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for using multiple timing advances for simultaneous uplink reception, for example, using multiple antennas, beams, and/or antenna panels. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes configuring a plurality of timing advances (TAs) for a plurality of uplink transmissions using a plurality of antennas. The UE transmits the plurality of uplink transmissions to a base station (BS) using the plurality of antennas based on the plurality of timing advances. A method that may be performed by a BS includes receiving a plurality of uplink transmissions from a UE and transmitting timing information to the UE in a message, the timing information based on when each of the plurality of uplink transmissions was received at the BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Tianyang Bai, Kiran Venugopal, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11553521
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a channel listening type indication method and apparatus. In those embodiments, the method includes: determining, by a network device based on a relationship between a first sub-band set and a second sub-band set, a corresponding channel listening type for performing channel listening by a terminal device for the first sub-band set, where the first sub-band set includes at least one sub-band occupied when the network device schedules the terminal device to send uplink information, the second sub-band set includes at least one sub-band occupied by the network device to send downlink information, and the channel listening type includes a long listening type or a short listening type; and sending, by the network device, first indication information to the terminal device, where the first indication information is used to indicate the channel listening type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuan Li, Lei Guan
  • Patent number: 11546968
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may reside in a state of dual connectivity with a master cell group (MCG) and a secondary cell group (SCG), wherein the radio access technologies of the MCG and the SCG are different. While in the dual connectivity state, the UE device may transition to a mode of reduced activity (e.g., processing and/or RF activity) relative to the secondary cell group (SCG) in order to save power, e.g., when traffic flow via the SCG is below a threshold, or when scheduling activity on the SCG is low. Various mechanisms may be employed to reduce activity, e.g., mechanisms such as reduction of beam monitoring, deactivation of secondary cells of the SCG, reduction of number of active antenna elements, employment of longer periods for periodic measurement and reporting processes, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haitong Sun, Sriram Subramanian, Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju, Johnson O. Sebeni, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Yuchul Kim, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Wei Zeng, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Sandeep K. Sunkesala, Tarakkumar G. Dhanani, Madhukar K. Shanbhag, Shiva Krishna Narra, Longda Xing, Srinivasan Nimmala, Sree Ram Kodali, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Xu Ou
  • Patent number: 11540278
    Abstract: This application discloses a carrier switching solution for multi-carrier communication. A network device sends configuration information to a terminal. The configuration information includes first uplink carrier information and second uplink carrier information. The first uplink carrier information indicates that a first uplink carrier is an SRS switching-from uplink carrier. The second uplink carrier information indicates that a second uplink carrier is an SRS switching-to uplink carrier. At least one of the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier belongs to a cell including a supplementary uplink (SUL) carrier. The terminal may determine the SRS switching-from uplink carrier and the SRS switching-to uplink carrier in a plurality of configured uplink carriers based on the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhe Liu, Fan Wang, Guohua Zhou
  • Patent number: 11540262
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to communication systems, apparatus and methods which enable or support transmitting/receiving downlink control information (DCI) carrying a downlink grant or an uplink grant. A method includes detecting a reference length based on an effective length of a downlink (DL) grant DCI and an effective length of an uplink (UL) grant DCI and calculating a length difference based on the effective DL grant DCI length and the effective UL grant DCI length. A length of a padding field in the DL grant DCI and/or the UL grant DCI is set equal to the calculated length difference such that the lengths of the DL grant DCI and UL grant DCI are both equal to the reference length. Padding bits are inserted in the padding field of the DL grant DCI and/or the UL grant DCI. Thereafter, the DL grant DCI and/or the UL grant DCI is encoded and transmitted to a scheduled entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Piyush Gupta, Wanshi Chen, Heechoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11528710
    Abstract: A time domain resource indication method includes sending, by a first node, first time domain resource configuration information to at least one second node. The first time domain resource configuration information is used by the at least one second node to determine second time domain resource configuration information sent by the at least one second node to at least one third node. The first time domain resource configuration information indicates first time domain resources of a link between the first node and the at least one second node. The second time domain resource configuration information indicates second time domain resources of a link between the at least one second node and the at least one third node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yibin Zhuo, Zhongfeng Li, Yi Qin
  • Patent number: 11528746
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for handling pre-configured UL resources based on LBT procedure in wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving information for UL resource configuration from a network, in a state that the UE is configured with at least one serving cell operating in an unlicensed spectrum; performing LBT operation for transmission of uplink data by using the UL resource, wherein the UE starts counting a number of failures of the LBT operation once the UE is not allowed to use the UL resource for transmission of uplink data during the LBT operation, and when the number of failures of the LBT operation reaches to the maximum number of LBT failure, stopping using the UL resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Gyeongcheol Lee, Jeonggu Lee