Patents Examined by Dang T Ton
  • Patent number: 12289628
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a wireless terminal is disclosed. The wireless communication method comprises receiving, from a wireless network node, a first report configuration associated with one or more reference signals, measuring the one or more reference signals, and transmitting, to the wireless network node, a report comprising at least one of at least one first reference signal in the one or more reference signals, at least one channel quality or at least one first set of group information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Ngok Li, Ke Yao, Shujuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12289269
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for port selection for channel state feedback with analog feedforward. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes selecting one or more channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) ports, of a plurality of CSI-RS ports, for the UE to report CSI. The port selection includes selecting any of the plurality of CSI-RS ports for selecting CSI-RS based on a grouping of the plurality of CSI-RS ports. The UE determines a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) formed by a linear combination of the one or more selected CSI-RS ports. The UE computes at least wideband linear combination coefficients for the selected CSI-RS ports. The UE provides the selected one or more CSI-RS ports and the computed wideband linear combination coefficients to a base station (BS) in a CSI report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chenxi Hao, Liangming Wu, Yu Zhang, Chao Wei, Hao Xu, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 12289761
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and a method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit configured to: provide indication information to user equipment, the indication information being used to indicate a transmission beam used by the electronic device to transmit a downlink signal to the user equipment; and control transmission of the downlink signal according to the result of a first clear channel assessment performed by the user equipment using, on the basis of the indication information, a corresponding receiving beam. According to at least one aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, for a transmission beam used by a base station to transmit downlink signals, user equipment uses a corresponding receiving beam to perform a clear channel assessment, so as to accurately determine whether the transmission beam can be used to transmit downlink signals to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianfei Cao, Tao Cui
  • Patent number: 12284641
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to configuring, at a device, default beam information for determining a beam for data channel communications. The device can determine to use the default beam information for configuring the beam for a data channel communication based on determining explicit beam information is not configured. In addition, the device can transmit, based on determining to use the default beam information, the data channel communication based on the beam configured using the default beam information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Xiao Feng Wang, Tao Luo, Wooseok Nam, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 12273891
    Abstract: Provided is a processing method for split resources, which includes: receiving authorization information sent by the network apparatus, the authorization information is used to allocate transmission resource to the terminal apparatus; the media access control layer of the terminal apparatus determines that the transmission resource includes at least one split resource; starting or restarting the configuration authorization timer based on the transmission resource or the split resource. In the present solution, when the terminal apparatus determines that the transmission resource authorized by the network apparatus includes at least one split resource, based on the transmission resource or the split resource, the configuration authorization timer is started, which provides a solution for how to process split resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhe Fu, Jing Xu, Qianxi Lu, Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 12267811
    Abstract: A communications method is described that includes a first terminal apparatus determining control information, where the control information includes a first field, and a value of the first field is used to indicate a quantity of first frequency domain units, a first start frequency domain unit index, and a second start frequency domain unit index; and the quantity of first frequency domain units is a quantity of frequency domain units included in a first data channel, a second data channel, or a third data channel, the first start frequency domain unit index is a start frequency domain unit index of the second data channel, and the second start frequency domain unit index is a start frequency domain unit index of the third data channel. The first terminal apparatus sends the control information and the first data channel to a second terminal apparatus in a first time unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Dong, Lei Lu
  • Patent number: 12267183
    Abstract: A method and slave devices are disclosed in which an address assignment to slave devices takes place with the aid of a collision detection. The slave device receives an initialization signal, transmits an identifier over a bus in response to the initialization signal, checks whether a collision occurs on the bus when transmitting the identifier, and if a collision occurs, places the slave device into an inactive state, and if no collision occurs, receives an address for the slave device after the transmission of the identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Christof Michenthaler, Leo Aichriedler, Thomas Hafner, Dirk Hammerschmidt
  • Patent number: 12256432
    Abstract: A wireless communication system for a vehicle includes a wireless access point (AP), an ultra-wide band (UWB) system, a communication link, a controller, and a vehicle system. The UWB system is in communication with the wireless AP via a communication link. The wireless communication system is operable to detect, via the wireless AP, a request for localized wireless communication. The UWB system requests the wireless AP to generate a clear to send (CTS) transmission, which includes selecting an ultra-wide band (UWB) channel, mapping the UWB channel to a plurality of WiFi channels, and transmitting, by the wireless AP, the CTS transmission to each of the plurality of WiFi channels. The UWB system then transmits a UWB message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Adler, Lakshmi V. Thanayankizil, Djordje Preradovic
  • Patent number: 12256410
    Abstract: A method for a UE for performing a CG-SDT is provided. The method includes receiving a CG-SDT-specific RSRP threshold from a BS, the CG-SDT-specific RSRP threshold being configured to the UE for an SSB selection for the CG-SDT; in a case that one or more SSBs with RSRPs above the CG-SDT-specific RSRP threshold are available, performing the SSB selection to determine a first SSB index from one or more SSB indices of the one or more SSBs; and performing an initial transmission of the CG-SDT or a subsequent new transmission of the CG-SDT through a first UL grant corresponding to the first SSB index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Heng-Li Chin, Mei-Ju Shih
  • Patent number: 12250049
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for interference avoidance. The method which may be performed by a network node comprises selecting a serving beam for a terminal device from candidate beams reported to the network node by the terminal device, based at least in part on inter-cell interference information of the candidate beams. The method may further comprise informing the terminal device of the selected serving beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Qi Zhang, Chunhui Liu, Wei Zhou
  • Patent number: 12244454
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for analyzing root-causes of network access failures in a wireless network. In response to detecting that a client device experiences a network access failure that prevents communication with a server device, a method, according to one implementation, includes a step of analyzing the network access failure to predict one or more root-causes. Also, the method includes beginning a remediation procedure for remediating the one or more root-causes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Triplet, Asit Panigrahy, Vidya Sivaraju, Vandana Putchala, Hitendri Bomble
  • Patent number: 12245281
    Abstract: A frequency domain resource allocation method, a terminal, and a network device are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a resource allocation indication, where the resource allocation indication corresponds to a parameter of a BWP configured for the terminal; and determining a frequency domain resource indicated by the resource allocation indication in the BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Na Li, Lei Jiang
  • Patent number: 12238511
    Abstract: A communication method includes receiving, by a terminal device comprising a processor, indication information from a master node. The indication information is used to indicate that a key used for signaling transmission performed between the terminal device and a first secondary node by using a second signaling radio bearer (SRB) is a first key. The first key is used for signaling transmission performed between the terminal device and the master node by using a first SRB. The first secondary node and the master node share one central unit. The communication method also includes determining, by the terminal device, based on the indication information, that the first key is used for signaling transmission performed between the terminal device and the first secondary node by using the second SRB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Le Yan, Qinghai Zeng, Hongping Zhang, Tingting Geng
  • Patent number: 12238037
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify a plurality of resource sets, wherein a resource set, of the plurality of resource sets, includes one or more type-0 resources and one or more type-1 resources, wherein the one or more type-0 resources are configured with a single transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state and the one or more type-1 resources are configured with at least two TCI states; identify a plurality of hypotheses; identify a set of hypothesis groups, wherein the plurality of hypotheses are divided into the set of hypothesis groups; and report, to one or more transmit receive points (TRPs) and for the set of hypothesis groups, a set of channel state information (CSIs) corresponding to the set of hypothesis groups. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Chenxi Hao, Xiaoxia Zhang, Yu Zhang, Hao Xu, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12237994
    Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to beam information for independent links. For example, beam information for one link may be sent on at least one other link. In some aspects, the independent links may involve a first device (e.g., a user equipment) communicating via different independent links with different devices (e.g., transmit receive points (TRPs) or sets of TRPs). For example, the first device may communicate with a second device (e.g., a TRP) via a first link and communicate with a third device (e.g., a TRP) via a second link. In some scenarios, one link can indicate beam switching for at least one other link. In some scenarios, one link can indicate link recovery for at least one other link. In some scenarios, one link can indicate link failure for at least one other link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Tamer Kadous, Junyi Li, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Taesang Yoo, Siddhartha Mallik
  • Patent number: 12237962
    Abstract: The data recovery from gradients (DRG) of sub-carriers of a received OFDM signal affected by deterministic and random distortions introduced by a transmission link, contributes a method and a system for utilizing gradients characterizing shapes of OFDM sub-carriers comprised in such OFDM signal for recovering data symbols transmitted originally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventor: John W Bogdan
  • Patent number: 12232024
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclose techniques for time-multiplexing multiple listening schedules and physical layer modes that include a first node listening, using a first physical layer mode, for a first network discovery signal; in response to not detecting the first network discovery signal, listening, using a second physical layer mode, for a second network discovery signal; and in response to detecting the second network discovery signal transmitted by a second node using the second physical layer mode, establishing a connection with the second node using the second physical layer mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ITRON, INC.
    Inventors: Fabrice Monier, Jerome Bartier, Yacine Khaled, Imad Jamil, Khalid Maallem, Samuel De Vals
  • Patent number: 12232131
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a device of processing a terminal capability are provided and related to the field of communications. The method performed by a network-side device includes: receiving at least one set of downlink control channel monitoring capability information; wherein, each set of downlink control channel monitoring capability information includes: a minimum quantity of symbols in an interval between adjacent spans, a maximum quantity of consecutive symbols within a span, and at least one of following information: a quantity of blind detections and a quantity of non-overlapping Control Channel Elements CCEs supported by a terminal within a span.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Xuejuan Gao, Yanping Xing
  • Patent number: 12231874
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device receives, from base station providing a source cell, a conditional handover command identifying a target frequency on a target cell for conditional handover. After determining that conditions have been met for the conditional handover, the UE device observes the target frequency. If the target frequency is occupied, the UE device transmits, to the serving base station, an indication that the target frequency is unavailable for the conditional handover. The indication may include, or be transmitted with, a measurement report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Henry Chang, Masato Fujishiro
  • Patent number: 12231373
    Abstract: A method of conveying an allocation of radio resources on a radio channel for communicating data between a base station and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system, wherein the radio channel spans a channel frequency bandwidth divided into frequency resource units which may be selectively allocated for communicating data between the base station and the terminal device, and wherein the method comprises, at the base station, selecting a combination of resource units for communicating the data between the base station and the terminal device from among a predefined set of allowable combinations of resource units, wherein the allowable combinations of resource units include non-contiguous combinations of resource units and wherein the number of allowable combinations of resource units is smaller than the total number of combinations of resource units, and conveying, to the terminal device, an indication of the selected combination of resource units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale