Patents Examined by Debebe A Asefa
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Patent number: 11483877Abstract: A user terminal (UT) for a mobile satellite communications system, and an associated method for managing tracking areas for such a UT is provided. When initiating establishment of a radio connection, the UT transmits a connection request message to a satellite gateway (SGW) of the mobile satellite communications system, where the connection request message includes position information identifying a current location of the UT. The UT processes a connection setup message received in response to the connection request message, where the connection setup message includes a first tracking area identifier (TAID) that identifies a one of a plurality of tracking areas that is associated with the current location of the UT. The UT transmits a connection complete message to the SGW, together with an attach request message for a core network of the mobile satellite communications system, which includes the first TAID.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: Channasandra Ravishankar, John Corrigan, Rajeev Gopal, Nassir Benammar, Gaguk Zakaria, Deepak Arur
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Patent number: 11476981Abstract: A method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes: receiving, from a base station (BS), a radio resource control (RRC) message that includes a first configuration indicating a first parameter associated with a first bandwidth part (BWP) and a second configuration indicating a second parameter associated with a second BWP; receiving, from the BS, downlink control information (DCI) having a DCI format, the DCI indicating either a data reception or a data transmission on a BWP, and the DCI including a field indicating a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number to be applied by the UE for the data reception or the data transmission; determining whether a bit length of the field is fixed or variable according to the DCI format; and in a case that the bit length of the field is variable, determining the bit length of the field according to one of the first parameter and the second parameter that is associated with the BWP.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Hannibal IP LLCInventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Chie-Ming Chou
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Patent number: 11476913Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method, apparatus and software program product for partitioning channel state information into groups of different priority levels, wherein said channel state information comprises non zero coefficients and said partitioning comprises using at least one permutation function to prioritize said non-zero coefficients substantially based on an amplitude distribution of said non zero coefficients to determine mapping of said non zero coefficients to said groups, and further for omitting zero or more non-zero coefficients in accordance with said amplitude distribution based prioritizing from said groups, and for transmitting remaining non zero coefficients in said groups.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Filippo Tosato, Marco Maso, Salah Eddine Hajri
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Patent number: 11470608Abstract: A device to device (D2D) communication method includes: receiving, by user equipment (UE), resource pool configuration information, where the resource pool configuration information includes frequency domain resource location information and time domain resource location information and the frequency domain resource location information includes a frequency domain resource pool indicator and a frequency domain spacing between two consecutive device to device D2D resources; determining, by the UE, an available frequency domain resource based on the resource pool configuration information; and performing, by the UE, D2D communication on the available frequency domain resource.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Zhenshan Zhao
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Patent number: 11463361Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a system comprising a request transmitter to transmit a plurality of transaction requests from a first daemon to a central database, wherein the first daemon belongs to a plurality of daemons using the central database to communicate with each other to perform networking related functions. The system may include a baseline determiner to determine a baseline response time for receiving a response to the plurality of transaction requests, a transaction request transmitter to transmit a transaction request, belonging to the plurality of daemons, to the central database and a transaction requester determiner to determine that the central database is processing more requests that it can handle. The system may include a delay time generator to generate a delay time for a subsequent transaction request to the central database and a subsequent request transmitter to transmit the subsequent transaction request to central database.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Anil Raj, Madhusoodhana Chari Sesha
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Patent number: 11456847Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the communications field, and in particular, to an information sending/receiving method and apparatus in the communications field. The information receiving method includes: determining an information receiving time based on any two of a time division duplex sector sweep acknowledgement frame count index, a count index, and a time division duplex sector sweep frame count index, duration of a time division duplex sector sweep frame, and duration of a time division duplex sector sweep acknowledgement frame; and receiving information at the determined information receiving time. According to the information receiving/sending method provided in the embodiments of this application, the information sending apparatus can send information at an accurate information sending time, the information receiving apparatus can receive the information at an accurate information receiving time, and system communication can be normally performed.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiao Han, Chenlong Jia, Yan Xin
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Patent number: 11456836Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for multiple instances of aperiodic tracking reference signals (TRSs) that use a same set of large-scale channel properties. If two or more aperiodic TRS transmissions are triggered by downlink control information from a base station with a same transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state, a UE that receives the two or more aperiodic TRS transmissions may measure the multiple instances of the aperiodic TRS transmissions assuming that the same large scale parameters or properties can be inferred from each of the aperiodic TRS transmissions. The UE may then update one or more time tracking parameters, frequency tracking parameters, or combinations thereof, based on the same large scale transmission parameters being used for the multiple instances of the aperiodic TRS transmissions.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Weimin Duan, Alexandros Manolakos, Peter Gaal
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Patent number: 11451428Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for providing configurable reference signal timing difference (RSTD) search windows for positioning. In an aspect, an RSTD search window is configured based on a positioning reference signal (PRS) configuration. The RSTD search window is provided to the UE. A plurality of PRS is transmitted from a network entity to a user equipment (UE), each PRS having the PRS configuration. The plurality of PRS are transmitted in a subset that is less than all subcarriers over a given bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Sven Fischer, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug
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Patent number: 11451340Abstract: A Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) feedback configuration method includes: configuring HARQ codebook switching information for a data sender according to carrier aggregation information; and sending the HARQ codebook switching information the data sender.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Juejia Zhou
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Patent number: 11452082Abstract: A data transmission method and apparatus, and a data reception method and apparatus. The data transmission method comprises steps of: generating at least one total downlink assignment index for a plurality of component carrier groups; and carrying the at least one total downlink assignment index in downlink control information to transmit the same to a receiving end.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Xing Liu, Peng Hao, Wei Gou, Zhisong Zuo, Chunli Liang, Feng Bi
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Patent number: 11444816Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a signal sending method and apparatus and a signal receiving method and apparatus. The signal sending method includes: generating, by a network device, a first signal, where the first signal includes at least one sequence pair, each of the at least one sequence pair includes two sequences, and an element value of one sequence of the two sequences is a value obtained by calculating, according to a first calculation rule, an element value of the other sequence of the two sequences and an element value of a first sequence corresponding to the other sequence, where each sequence in the at least one sequence pair and the first sequence are complex sequences with lengths greater than 1; and sending, by the network device, the first signal to a terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tong Ji, Zhe Jin
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Patent number: 11444745Abstract: A method performed in a system comprising a joint traffic direction scheduler configured to coordinate time-division-duplexing (TDD) transmissions for multiple cells comprises obtaining TDD operation information from each of the cells, determining, based on the obtained TDD operation information, a transmission direction to be used by each of the cells during one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs), and indicating to the cells the determined transmission direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Du Ho Kang, Jung-Fu Cheng, Havish Koorapaty, Sorour Falahati
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Patent number: 11438124Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to coordinate information across a wireless network. One or more access nodes of a wireless network may configure a time resource container for receiving, amplifying, and forwarding a signal, such as a notification signal, in an operating mode. A notification signal may include an indication of coordination information and may be transmitted or received in the time resource container, such as in a first subset of a set of time resources of the time resource container. An access node may first receive a signal from a second access node, amplify and forward the signal in the time resource container to a third access node, and then decode the received signal and determine whether the signal includes coordination information for the access node. If the signal includes coordination information for the access node, the access node may perform one or more actions.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jianghong Luo, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Luca Blessent, Tao Luo, Karl Georg Hampel
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Patent number: 11438780Abstract: Embodiments provide a channel sounding information feedback method, user equipment, and a base station. The method includes: determining, by UE, a first period used to periodically report channel sounding information; and periodically sending, by the UE based on received preset downlink control information DCI that is sent by a base station, the channel sounding information by using the first period as a sending period. System overheads can be reduced, a configuration response can be improved, and spectrum utilization of a system can be improved while periodic feedback of indication is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xu Zhang, Yan Cheng, Lixia Xue
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Patent number: 11438826Abstract: In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration that indicates an association between a pre-emption indication field and at least one of: a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, a set of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) ports, or a set of layers; receive downlink control information (DCI) that includes a pre-emption indication that is indicated as a set of bits in the pre-emption indication field; determine whether the UE is scheduled to receive a communication in one or more pre-empted resources indicated by the set of bits, via a component carrier associated with the pre-emption indication, and using at least one of: a TCI state included in the set of TCI states, a DMRS port included in the set of DMRS ports, or a layer included in the set of layers; and decode the communication based at least in part on the determination.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncoporatedInventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan
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Patent number: 11438055Abstract: Provided is a method where mobile relay performs bidirectional inter-terminal communication in wireless communication system. The method includes determining optimal values of predetermined variables for maximizing a transmission ratio for the bidirectional inter-terminal communication during a predetermined time segment using pieces of basic information of at least one of the mobile relay, a first terminal, or a second terminal, transmitting setting information on the optimal values to at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal, and performing the bidirectional inter-terminal communication on the basis of the optimal values. The predetermined variables include at least one of a position of the mobile relay, a speed of the mobile relay, acceleration of the mobile relay, a downlink transmission power of the mobile relay, an uplink transmission power of the first terminal, an uplink transmission power of the second terminal, or a transmission resource allocation ratio for uplink and downlink.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Korea University Research and Business FoundationInventors: Inkyu Lee, Su Bin Eom
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Patent number: 11438929Abstract: To make a mobile station apparatus efficiently generate a base sequence. In a mobile station apparatus that generates a sequence for a demodulation reference signal on the basis of at least a sequence group number and transmits to a base station apparatus the demodulation reference signal together with a physical uplink shared channel used for transmission of a transport block, the mobile station apparatus receives information indicating a value of a parameter relating to the sequence from the base station apparatus, and determines the sequence group number without using the value of the parameter in a case where the mobile station apparatus performs transmission of the transport block on the physical uplink shared channel as part of a contention based random access procedure.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Kimihiko Imamura, Tatsushi Aiba, Wataru Ouchi
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Patent number: 11418442Abstract: The embodiments described herein provide a data transmission system comprising a plurality of video routers, a supervisory system for transmitting one or more router configuration signals to one or more video routers, and a control communication network for coupling the plurality of video routers and the supervisory system. Each router in the system comprises a backplane including a plurality of backplane connections, at least one line card and at least one fabric card. Each line card comprises a plurality of input ports and output ports where each input and output port is coupled to a respective external signal through the backplane. Each line card further comprises a line card cross-point switch having a plurality of input switch terminals and a plurality of output switch terminals. Each fabric card comprises a fabric card cross-point switch having a plurality of input switch terminal and a plurality of output switch terminals.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Evertz Microsystems Ltd.Inventor: Rakesh Patel
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Patent number: 11412558Abstract: An Internet of Things (IoT) module adaptor application may be used to provide operational compatibility between a device application of an IoT device and multiple IoT modules. The IoT module adaptor application may detect that an IoT module is connected to the IoT device, in which the IoT module provides a network connectivity functionality to the IoT device. An identity of the IoT module is ascertained by the IoT module adaptor application based on identification information provided by the IoT module. The IoT module adaptor application may determine a specific combination of at least one of one or more ATtention (AT) commands or one or more application program interfaces (APIs) as stored in a software library that corresponds to the identity of the IoT module. Subsequently, the IoT module adaptor application may provide a device application of the IoT device with access to the specific combination for the device application to interact with the IoT module.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventor: Poornima Magadevan
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Patent number: 11411301Abstract: Base station antennas are provided that include a plurality of linear arrays of radiating elements, a feed network having a first RF input that is configured to receive a first RF signal that is within a first frequency band and a second RF input that is configured to receive a second RF signal that is within a second frequency band that is different from the first frequency band. The first RF input is coupled to all of the linear arrays while the second RF input is only coupled to a first subset of the linear arrays that includes less than all of the linear arrays.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventor: Peter J. Bisiules