Patents Examined by Clemence S Han
  • Patent number: 11122552
    Abstract: Technology for a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) operable to encode downlink control information (DCI) for transmission to a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The gNB can identify DCI for transmission from the gNB. The gNB can determine that a size of the DCI exceeds a defined threshold. The gNB can divide the DCI into one or more DCI segments. Each DCI segment can include header information to enable the one or more DCI segments to be assembled at the UE. The gNB can encode the one or more DCI segments of the DCI for transmission from the gNB to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Gang Xiong, Hong He, Seunghee Han
  • Patent number: 11122619
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method in a wireless device comprises determining a mapping between one or more types of traffic and one or more classes and using the mapping to determine which of the classes to use during a procedure for determining whether the wireless device can transmit in a channel. The method further comprises performing the procedure for determining whether the wireless device can transmit in the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Mattias Bergström
  • Patent number: 11122555
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to data transmission methods, terminal devices, and base station systems. In one example method, a base station sends information about a first control resource set and information about a second control resource set to a terminal device. The terminal device detects first control information in a first control channel candidate set, and detects second control information in a second control channel candidate set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junchao Li, Haibao Ren, Hao Tang, Zhenfei Tang, Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 11122554
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for using a configured feedback resource for feedback. One method includes transmitting, to a device, configuration information on a transmission resource, wherein the configuration information comprises: resource information for a data transmission; a request for feedback; and a configuration message indicating configuration of a feedback resource. The method includes monitoring for feedback from the device on the feedback resource. The method includes transmitting the data transmission after the monitoring for feedback on the feedback resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Karthikeyan Ganesan, Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 11115965
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving data using a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in a wireless communication system, the method performed by a first user equipment (UE) includes receiving first downlink control information (DCI) including information related to physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduling of the first UE from a base station, receiving second DCI including information related to PDSCH cancellation of a second UE from the base station, receiving a superposition signal from the base station through a specific resource, and decoding the PDSCH of the first UE by cancelling the PDSCH of the second UE from the superposition signal based on the received second DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seokmin Shin, Hyungtae Kim, Kijun Kim, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11115808
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises communicating with a plurality of network elements via a first communication protocol to obtain state information of the plurality of network elements; receiving a request via a second communication protocol for a communication session to be established for a client computing device; selecting one or more network elements, wherein the selection is based on at least a portion of the state information of the network elements; and communicating identification information of the one or more network elements selected for use in the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Stammers, Suraj Sharad Mody, Aeneas Sean Dodd-Noble
  • Patent number: 11115180
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided including a processor, a communications interface coupled to the processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a module saved in the memory. The module configures the processor to receive a first communications packet from a remote device via the communications interface including information useful for estimating a clock offset of the remote device, and determine an upper bound of the clock offset of the remote device with respect to the electronic device based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.
    Inventors: Monroe M. Thomas, Simon Alexander
  • Patent number: 11116002
    Abstract: Some techniques and apparatuses described herein provide for the determination of a gap for a scheduled communication involving multiple, different TBs. For example, some techniques and apparatuses described herein provide for the determination of a gap between two or more PDSCHs that are scheduled by a same DCI based at least in part on a UE capability, such as a processing time or a processing mode. Some techniques and apparatuses described herein provide for the determination of a gap between a last PDSCH and a next PDCCH based at least in part on the UE capability. The gap(s) may permit the UE to successfully receive and/or decode multiple PDSCHs and/or PDCCHs in view of the limitations imposed by the UE's processing time or processing mode. In this way, efficiency of PDSCH/PDCCH resource utilization may be improved, the likelihood of a failed PDCCH transmission is reduced, and network efficiency is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Raghavendra Shyam Ananda
  • Patent number: 11109403
    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. Provided are a method and apparatus for uplink scheduling in a mobile communication system. The method of uplink scheduling for a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system may include identifying the amount of data stored in a buffer, generating a scheduling request (SR), and transmitting the SR to a base station (NB) on the basis of the identified data amount so that an uplink resource is to be allocated from the NB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungmin Moon, Seunghoon Park, Byounghoon Jung, Jungsoo Jung
  • Patent number: 11109317
    Abstract: A receiver includes a tunable receiving chain, configured to receive a subframe header when tuned to a first receiving bandwidth; a decoder, configured to decode an allocation information from the subframe header, the allocation information indicating an allocation of a plurality of resource blocks in the subframe; and a controller, configured to derive a second receiving bandwidth from the allocation information and to tune the receiving chain to the second receiving bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Drewes, Giuseppe Patane, Thomas Mayer, Christian Wicpalek, Ram Kanumalli, Burkhard Neurauter
  • Patent number: 11109282
    Abstract: A first method (and related first apparatus) includes transmitting, in a handover request message, an indication of a first protocol version; a second method (and related second apparatus) includes receiving, in the handover request message, the indication, deciding, based on the received indication and a second protocol version, on a value of an information element included in a handover request acknowledgement message to be transmitted, the information element indicating usage of a first or second signaling scheme, and transmitting the handover request acknowledgement message including the information element; and in the first method receiving the handover request acknowledgement message including the information element; and a third method (and related third apparatus) including receiving the handover command message including the information element, and configuring according to one of the first and second signaling schemes indicated by the information element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: WIRELESS FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Andreas Bufe, Woonhee Hwang, Michael Schopp
  • Patent number: 11109366
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to frequency resource mapping for uplink control channel communications and autonomous uplink communications in a frequency spectrum shared by multiple network operating entities are provided. A first wireless communication device identifies a first configuration from a plurality of configurations for mapping an uplink resource indicator to resources in a plurality of subbands. The first wireless communication device communicates with a second wireless communication device, a subband priority configuration. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, the uplink resource indicator. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, an uplink communication signal using a first resource of the resources based on the uplink resource indicator, the subband priority configuration, and the first configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Ananta Narayanan Thyagarajan, Kapil Bhattad
  • Patent number: 11101952
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for mapping a reference signal. The method includes: mapping a target-class signal to a target symbol, where the target symbol is some symbols in a first symbol set on a time-frequency resource block, the first symbol set is a set of some symbols or all symbols on the time-frequency resource block, the target-class signal has at least two functions, and the at least two functions include a function of estimating a parameter that affects signal transmission; and mapping the reference signal to a symbol in the first symbol set other than the target symbol, where the reference signal has the function of estimating a parameter that affects signal transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Tang, Yongzhao Cao, Zhongfeng Li
  • Patent number: 11101953
    Abstract: An apparatus is configured to be employed within a base station. The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to generate control information, the control information including a configured number of ports; receive a plurality of sounding reference signals (SRS) via the RF interface from a user equipment (UE) device, wherein each of the plurality of SRS is associated with one of the one or more precoders; and generate a ranking of a the one or more precoders based on the received plurality of SRS, wherein the plurality of SRS are associated with the one or more precoders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wook Bong Lee, Alexei Davydov, Yushu Zhang, Victor Sergeev
  • Patent number: 11095345
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses enabling uplink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) are provided. A user equipment (UE) includes a transceiver and a processor operably connected to the transceiver. The transceiver is configured to receive an uplink (UL) grant for an UL transmission. The processor is configured to decode a precoding information field in downlink control information (DCI) associated with the UL grant. The precoding information field includes at least one precoding matrix indicator (PMI) corresponding to a plurality of precoders. The transceiver is further configured to precode a data stream according to the precoders indicated by the precoding information field and transmit the precoded data stream on an UL channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eko Onggosanusi, Md. Saifur Rahman, Aris Papasakellariou, Boon Loong Ng
  • Patent number: 11082823
    Abstract: A fifth generation (5G) or a pre-5G communication system provided to support a higher data transmission rate than a system after a fourth generation (4G) communication system, such as long-term evolution (LTE) is provided. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) using device-to-device (D2D) communication is provided. The apparatus includes at least one processor, and at least one transceiver configured to be operatively coupled to the at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to receive a response message from each of a plurality of UEs in response to a request message transmitted from the UE, identify at least one UE for a dynamic group from among the plurality of UEs based on the response message, generate an identifier (ID) for the dynamic group based on an ID of the UE, and transmit, to the at least one UE, a group create message including the ID for the dynamic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngjoong Mok, Sangwook Kwon, Kyungkyu Kim, June Hwang, Hyun Jeong Kang, Jonghyung Kwun, Kyuho Han
  • Patent number: 11082097
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses enabling uplink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) are provided. A user equipment (UE) includes a transceiver and a processor operably connected to the transceiver. The transceiver is configured to receive an uplink (UL) grant for an UL transmission. The processor is configured to decode a precoding information field in downlink control information (DCI) associated with the UL grant. The precoding information field includes at least one precoding matrix indicator (PMI) corresponding to a plurality of precoders. The transceiver is further configured to precode a data stream according to the precoders indicated by the precoding information field and transmit the precoded data stream on an UL channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eko Onggosanusi, Md. Saifur Rahman, Aris Papasakellariou, Boon Loong Ng
  • Patent number: 11076349
    Abstract: A message transmitting/receiving apparatus and method and a communication system. The message transmitting method includes: determining a message type of a message to be transmitted to one or more user equipments; scrambling control information of the message by using an identity to which the message type corresponds; wherein, different identities correspond to different message types; and transmitting data information of the message and the scrambled control information to the one or more user equipments. Hence, the user equipment may not proceed with processing a message that is not preferred, thereby lowering power consumption of the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Qinyan Jiang, Hua Zhou, Wei Xi
  • Patent number: 11064483
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a wireless communication apparatus capable of transmitting and receiving data in accordance with an optimum length of a short transmission time interval in a terminal apparatus among a plurality of lengths of a short transmission time interval at the time of transmission and reception of data at a short transmission time interval shorter than an existing transmission time interval. [Solution] Provided is a wireless communication apparatus including: a frame generation unit configured to generate a frame including a plurality of subframes; a transmission unit configured to transmit the generated frame to another communication apparatus; and a notification unit configured to notify of information regarding a plurality of lengths of a short transmission time interval which is a transmission time interval shorter than one subframe period in the subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11063703
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for using multiple numerologies in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE), specifically UE supporting ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC), uses a first numerology in a first numerology resource unit group (NRG) with a reference subcarrier spacing, switches from the first numerology to a second numerology, and uses the second numerology in a second NRG with a specific subcarrier spacing different from the reference subcarrier spacing. The first NRG is a set of frequency and time resources based on the first numerology, and the second NRG is a set of frequency and time resources based on the second numerology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Eunsun Kim