Patents Examined by David B. Lugo
  • Patent number: 11621745
    Abstract: An antenna system (150) with distributed power supply is disclosed. The antenna system (150) comprises a CPU (151) comprising a central power supply (152), multiple antenna units (161, 162, . . . 171, 172 . . . ) connected to the CPU by cables and at least one distributed power supply unit (180) located at someplace along a chain of antenna units. At least one antenna unit (161) receives power from the central power supply (152). In the antenna system (150), at least one antenna unit (171) receives power from another antenna unit (172), at least one antenna unit (173) receives power from the at least one distributed power supply unit (180) such that at least two power supply domains (191, 192) are set up. In each power supply domain, a number of antenna units are connected to the same power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Pål Frenger, Jan Hederen
  • Patent number: 11611365
    Abstract: Aspects include systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory processor readable storage mediums for reducing excessive millimeter wave (mmW) radio frequency (RF) exposure to a user of a wireless device. Various aspects may enable an RF exposure condition for the wireless device to be detected while the wireless device is operating in a mmW mode during a voice. In some aspects, a mmW carrier quality report may be adjusted to deprioritize mmW in response to determining the RF exposure condition for the wireless device is occurring during the voice call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Akash Kumar, Sumitkumar Shrikant Dubey
  • Patent number: 11606120
    Abstract: A radio frequency front end system can include a first module configured to provide multi-input multi-output (MIMO) receive operations for a first plurality of mid bands and a first plurality of high bands. The first module can be further configured to provide transmit operations for the plurality of mid bands. The first module can include a first node. The radio frequency front end system can include a second module configured to provide transmit and receive operations for a second plurality of mid bands and a second plurality of high bands. The second module can be a power amplifier integrated duplexer (PAiD) module. The second module can include a second node. The first module and the second module can be coupled by a signal path at the first node and the second node, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: John Chi-Shuen Leung
  • Patent number: 11606227
    Abstract: This application provides a beam selection method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes: separately measuring a sounding reference signal SRS sent by at least one terminal, to determine a first spectral efficiency of each terminal; calculating a second spectral efficiency of each beam group based on the first spectral efficiency of each terminal, where each beam group includes at least one beam, and each beam covers at least one terminal; and determining a target beam group based on the second spectral efficiency of each beam group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pengcheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11601166
    Abstract: A multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) transceiver comprises a plurality of RF chains, a plurality of antennas, a plurality of switching components, and control circuitry operatively coupled to the plurality of switching components. In some examples, a total quantity of RF chains included in the plurality of RF chains is equal to a first value, and a total quantity of antennas included in the plurality of antennas is equal to a second value that is less than the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Shurhabeel Zamir Seyed
  • Patent number: 11588542
    Abstract: A method and system for improving link performance for a user terminal (UT) in a satellite network is disclosed. The method including: providing a first beam servicing a first service area that is adjacent a second service area serviced by a second beam; transmitting, from the first service area, a transmission via the first beam to a receiver via a satellite; beamforming the first beam and the second beam at the receiver; extracting the first beam and a remnant signal of the first beam from the second beam; and processing the first beam and the remnant signal to receive the transmission, wherein the remnant signal may include a portion of the transmission received by a second beam antenna of the satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Channasandra Ravishankar
  • Patent number: 11581933
    Abstract: Dynamic reconfiguration of CSI-RS resources for CSI reporting is described for full dimension multiple input, multiple output (FD-MIMO) systems. While a larger number of channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) resources with independent resource configuration are configured and associated with a CSI process, only a subset of resources that are activated by additional signaling are used for CSI measurement and reporting. The set of activated CSI-RS resources may include only a single CSI-RS resource. Both periodic and aperiodic CSI reporting may then be based on the same set of the activated CSI-RS resources. Medium access control (MAC) control elements may be used to provide activation/deactivation of the CSI-RS resources. Additionally, CSI reporting may be based on both the activated CSI-RS resources and the associated number of antenna ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Chao Wei
  • Patent number: 11575493
    Abstract: A time synchronization method, applied to a power-line communication (PLC) network that includes a head end node and at least one tail end node coupled to the head end node. The method includes the head end node generates data about voltage zero-crossing points based on reference time, where the data about the voltage zero-crossing points includes zero-crossing time points of the voltage zero-crossing points. When a first timing point arrives, the head end node sends first information to the tail end node, where the first information includes a timestamp of a first zero-crossing point, the first zero-crossing point is a voltage zero-crossing point closest to the first timing point, and the timestamp of the first zero-crossing point is used by the tail end node to determine a zero-crossing time point of a second zero-crossing point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yueping Leng, Kuichao Song
  • Patent number: 11568115
    Abstract: Systems and methods for application specific integrated circuit design using Chronos links are disclosed. A Chronos Link is an ASIC on-chip and off-chip interconnect communication protocol that allows interfaces to transmit and receive information. The protocol may utilize messages or signals to indicate the availability and/or readiness of information to be exchanged between a producer and a consumer allowing the communication to be placed on hold and to be resumed seamlessly. A method includes inserting gaskets and channel repeaters connected to interfaces of multiple intellectual property (IP) blocks in order to replace traditional links with Chronos Links; performing simplified floorplanning; performing simplified placement; performing simplified clock tree synthesis (CTS) and routing; and performing simplified timing closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: CHRONOS TECH LLC
    Inventors: Stefano Giaconi, Giacomo Rinaldi
  • Patent number: 11570026
    Abstract: Provided are communication apparatus and a communication method that allow for secure communication even in a case that an eavesdropper has multiple antennas. An apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit a constant amplitude signal from three or more transmit antennas; a controller configured to control a phase of the constant amplitude signal, based on channel information and a target symbol; and a modulation unit configured to generate a modulation symbol from bits. The target symbol is generated by multiplying the modulation symbol by an amplitude coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Atsushi Shirakawa, Ryota Yamada, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Kazuhiko Fukawa
  • Patent number: 11570629
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure take advantage of a prism-like effect that occurs in a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS), where the RIS reflects incident signals of different frequencies in different directions. for determining characteristics of a channel between a transmitter and a receiver wherein the channel includes the RIS. In particular, this may include estimating an angle of arrival (AoA) to the RIS in uplink transmission or the angle of departure (AoD) from the RIS in downlink transmission. Aspects of the present disclosure also provide solutions to compensate the prism effect for wideband transmission, especially at high frequencies (e.g. mmWave and THz).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ahmad Abu Al Haija, Mohammadhadi Baligh
  • Patent number: 11563612
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a transmission method and a first communication device. The method includes: transmitting, by a first communication device, a target reference signal that belongs to a first type of reference signal in a case that the first communication device receives indication information from a second communication device and the indication information indicates transmission of the first type of reference signal, where a reference signal sequence of the first type of reference signal is generated based on a first characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Sun, Hao Liu, Peng Sun
  • Patent number: 11550982
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing Chronos Channel interconnects in an ASIC are provided. Chronos Channels rely on a reduced set of timing assumptions and are robust against delay variations. Chronos Channels transmit data using delay insensitive (DI) codes and quasi-delay-insensitive (QDI) logic. Chronos Channels are insensitive to all wire and gate delay variations, but for those belonging to a few specific forking logic paths called isochronic forks. Chronos Channels use temporal compression in internal paths to reduce the overheads of QDI logic and efficiently transmit data. Chronos Channels are defined by a combination of a DI code, a temporal compression ratio and hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CHRONOS TECH LLC
    Inventors: Stefano Giaconi, Giacomo Rinaldi, Matheus Trevisan Moreira, Matthew Pryor, David Fong
  • Patent number: 11546196
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for generating a secure long training field (LTF). In some implementations, the secure LTF may include a randomized bit sequence that is difficult, if not impossible, to replicate by any device other than the transmitting device and the intended receiving device. For example, the transmitting device may use a block cipher or stream cipher to generate a pseudorandom bit sequence and may select a subset of bits of the pseudorandom bit sequence to be mapped to a sequence of modulation symbols representing an LTF symbol of the secure LTF. More specifically, each of the modulation symbols is mapped to a respective one of a number of subcarriers spanning a bandwidth of the secure LTF. The transmitting device may further transmit a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) that includes the secure LTF to the receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Bin Tian, Alireza Raissinia, Youhan Kim
  • Patent number: 11539502
    Abstract: Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of cross correlation including symbols indicative of radio frequency (RF) energy. An electronic device including a statistic calculator may be configured to calculate a statistic including the cross-correlation of the symbols. The electronic device may include a comparator configured to provide a signal indicative of a presence or absence of a wireless communication signal in the particular portion of the wireless spectrum based on a comparison of the statistic with a threshold. A decoder/precoder may be configured to receive the signal indicative of the presence or absence of the wireless communication signal and to decode the symbols responsive to a signal indicative of the presence of the wireless communication signal. Examples of systems and methods described herein may facilitate the processing of data for wireless communications in a power-efficient and time-efficient manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Tamara Schmitz, Jeremy Chritz, Jaime Cummins
  • Patent number: 11533091
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to method and system for providing a MIMO transceiver in high speed mobility. The method includes dividing, by the wireless MIMO transmitter, transmission data into a plurality of transmit chains corresponding to an antenna. The method further includes generating for the plurality of transmit chains, a Circularly Pulse Shaped Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (CPS-OTFS) time frequency signal based on a first primary parameter. Value of the first primary parameter is determined based on a first predefined algorithm. The method further includes converting for the plurality of transmit chains, the CPS-OTFS time frequency signal to a CPS-OTFS time domain signal based on at least one of a plurality of secondary parameters. A first plurality of N-point Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) are employed on the CPS-OTFS time frequency signal. The first plurality corresponds to the number of sub-carriers and N corresponds to a set of time symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Wipro Limited
    Inventors: Shashank Tiwari, Suvra Sekhar Das, Subhas Chandra Mondal, Parag Aggarwal
  • Patent number: 11532880
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media herein dynamically adjust the number of elements active within a neighboring base station in order to reduce the back lobe overlap and thus reduce the interference caused by such an overlap. User devices assigned to communicate with an antenna array are monitored to determine if they are experiencing a decreased level of performance which may be caused by an overlapping back lobe from a neighboring cell site. If the user device's performance falls below a threshold value, the gain associated with the neighboring cell site is dynamically reduced in order to reduce the back lobe overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11522744
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a set of resources, in a set of physical multicast channel symbols, for receiving a first type of reference signal and a second type of reference signal. The UE may receive one or more reference signal transmissions in accordance with the set of resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Ayan Sengupta, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Arash Mirbagheri, Chu-Hsiang Huang
  • Patent number: 11522581
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, and a base station may receive, information related to multipath richness of a channel environment and information related to antenna module capabilities associated with the UE for at least a first frequency band and a second frequency band. The base station may transmit, and the UE may receive, information indicating a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) mode in which to operate one or more antenna modules of the UE based at least in part on the information related to the multipath richness of the channel environment, the antenna module capabilities associated with the UE, and respective cell loadings in the first frequency band and the second frequency band. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tao Luo, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Yu-Chin Ou, Kobi Ravid, Ozge Koymen, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11515935
    Abstract: A base station for communication with a terminal station having a plurality of terminal station antennas. The base station has a plurality of directional antennas, each of the plurality of directional antennas in communication with satellites in view. The base station also has a processing device (e.g., eNodeB) to transmit each of the multiple base-station antenna signals via each of the plurality of directional antennas to satellites and/or the beams of the same satellite seen by the terminal station for retransmission to the plurality of terminal station antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: AST & Science, LLC
    Inventors: Huiwen Yao, Abel Avellan, Sriram Jayasimha, Zhi Zhong Yu