Patents Examined by Deepa Belur
  • Patent number: 12659780
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive, from another communication apparatus, a signal requesting a CSI (Channel State Information) report and a CSI reference signal, in a resource autonomously selected by the another communication apparatus; a control unit configured to perform measurement by using the CSI reference signal; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the another communication apparatus, a CSI report based on a result of the measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Shinya Kumagai, Yuki Takahashi, Mayuko Okano, Masaya Okamura, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 12658994
    Abstract: A method and device for channel state information reference resource. In one embodiment, a User Equipment (UE) is configured to report Channel State Information (CSI) to a base station. Furthermore, the UE measures reference signal on a symbol in a slot for reporting the CSI. In addition, the slot is determined based on transmission direction of frequency resource to be measured for the CSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: ASUS Technology Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Ko-Chiang Lin
  • Patent number: 12652565
    Abstract: A measurement data processing method and apparatus, a communication device, and a storage medium are provided. In the measurement data processing method, a base station determines a timing difference between synchronization timing of a synchronization reference cell and synchronization timing of a neighboring cell when a user equipment (UE) performs channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) measurement; and according to the timing difference, a measurement precision requirement parameter corresponding to a CSI-RS measurement result obtained by the UE performing the CSI-RS measurement is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 12641467
    Abstract: Systems and methods for indicating positioning information in wireless communication systems are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a wireless communication device from a network, network timing error information; and reporting, by the wireless communication device to the network, downlink measurement results and User Equipment (UE) timing error information, wherein, the network timing error information comprises at least one of Transmission and Reception Point (TRP) transmission Timing Error Group (TEG) information and TRP reception TEG information; the UE timing error information comprises at least one of UE transmission TEG information and UE reception TEG information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Pan, Guozeng Zheng, Chuangxin Jiang, Shujuan Zhang, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 12634075
    Abstract: Techniques are described for configuration and/or transmission of reference signals. An example wireless communication method includes transmitting, by a first network device, a first reference signal to a second network device, where the first reference signal is transmitted on N occasions, where each of the N occasions is based on a first set of time domain resources and a first set of frequency domain resources of the first reference signal, where each of the N occasions includes X time units in time domain and Y frequency units in frequency domain, and where N, X, and Y are integers greater than or equal to 1; and receiving, by the first network device from the second network device, a measurement report in response to the transmitting the first reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xingguang Wei, Xing Liu, Xianghui Han, Junfeng Zhang, Shuaihua Kou, Jian Li
  • Patent number: 12621023
    Abstract: A receiver processes a radio signal received via a radio channel from a transmitter employing a plurality of antenna ports, determines complex precoder coefficients and delays of one or more space-delay precoders for one or more transmission layers and antenna ports at the transmitter so as to achieve a predefined property for a communication over the radio channel, and feeds back, explicitly or implicitly, delays and the complex precoder. The space-delay precoder has a dual-stage structure having a spatial codebook matrix including spatial beamforming vectors, a frequency-domain codebook matrix, and a combining element per layer for complex scaling or combining one or more of the vectors selected from the spatial and/or frequency-domain codebook matrices. The frequency-domain codebook matrix is defined by a sub-matrix of a DFT matrix, which the sub-matrix of the DFT matrix is associated with a range of delay values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Venkatesh Ramireddy, Markus Landmann, Marcus Großmann
  • Patent number: 12621032
    Abstract: A method for beam management in side-link communication between User Equipment (UEs) (104) operating in a wireless communication network (100) is described. The method comprises transmitting a reference signal using at least one beam by a first UE (104-1). The first UE (104-1) receives a feedback report of the at least one beam based on the reference signal from the second UE (104-2, 104-4). The feedback report of the at least one beam comprises at least one of UE identifier (ID), beam ID, beam strength, and beam validity. The first UE (104-1) updates entries of a beam management table based on the feedback report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignees: CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS (IIT MADRAS)
    Inventors: Anil Kumar, Abhijeet Abhimanyu Masal, Vikram Singh, Jeniston Deviraj Klutto Milleth, Bhaskar Ramamurthi
  • Patent number: 12615535
    Abstract: A network node identifies cross-link interference to a first channel of a first network node associated with a first operator, the cross-link interference being caused by a second channel from a second network node that is associated with a second operator that is different than the first operator. The network node reports the cross-link interference to the first channel of the first network node with information to identify at least one of the second channel or the second network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12610267
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) communication system or a 6th generation (6G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A method performed by a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes identifying a first terminal for measuring a cross-link interference (CLI)-reference signal (RS) and a plurality of terminals for transmitting CLI-RSs, determining a plurality of groups including at least one CLI-RS resource, transmitting, to the first terminal, information on the determined plurality of groups, transmitting, to a second terminal among the plurality of terminals, configuration information on a group of CLI-RS resources corresponding to the second terminal, and receiving, from the first terminal, a CLI measurement result which is measured based on the configuration information on the group of the CLI-RS resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwonjong Lee, Sundo Kim, Sangwon Jung, Jungsoo Jung
  • Patent number: 12604227
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a measurement gap configuration from a base station, wherein the measurement gap configuration includes a tune away period. The UE may determine whether one or more data traffic criteria are satisfied for the tune away period. The UE may disregard the measurement gap configuration based at least in part on the determination of whether the one or more data traffic criteria are satisfied. The UE may remain tuned to the base station during the tune away period based at least in part on the determination of whether the one or more data traffic criteria are satisfied. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi, Deepak Wadhwa, Shailesh Maheshwari, Seshagiri Rao Gorantla, Soo-Ki Choi, Balaji Kannan, Sharda Ranjan, Gautham Jayaram, Vishu Kumar, Vijay Marwah
  • Patent number: 12603745
    Abstract: A terminal comprises: a reception unit that receives a reference signal used for a purpose other than a measurement related to a reception quality in a physical layer; and a control unit that performs the measurement related to the reception quality in the physical layer using the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Daisuke Kurita, Mayuko Okano, Satoshi Nagata, Masaya Okamura, Tomoya Ohara
  • Patent number: 12603687
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may transmit, using a sidelink with a second UE, a first indication of one or more candidate full-duplex (FD) beam pairs selected by the first UE for an FD sidelink transmission. The UE may receive, using the sidelink, a second indication that specifies at least part of an FD beam set that includes a first FD beam pair associated with the first UE and a second FD beam pair associated with the second UE, the FD beam set being based at least in part on the one or more candidate FD beam pairs. The UE may communicate with the second UE using the sidelink based at least in part on the FD beam set and the FD sidelink transmission. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hemant Saggar, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12598493
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a non-terrestrial network (NTN) measurement gap configuration indicating an association of a location configuration with a gap configuration. The UE may selectively perform a measurement of an NTN cell according to the gap configuration based at least in part on a match of a location of the UE to a location indicated by the location configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Shuanshuan Wu, Liangping Ma
  • Patent number: 12592786
    Abstract: A method of measuring a received signal strength by a radio device in a radio access network, RAN, is provided. The radio device obtains a radio resource information indicative of a spatial domain of a radio resource for measuring the received signal strength. The spatial domain of the radio resource corresponds to a combination of antenna elements in the radio device according to a spatial domain filter. The radio device measures the received signal strength on the radio resource in the spatial domain according to the obtained radio resource information. The radio device transmits a report to the RAN, the report being indicative of the received signal strength. The received signal strength includes a received signal strength indicator, RSSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Peter Alriksson, Emma Wittenmark, Stephen Grant, Havish Koorapaty, Reem Karaki
  • Patent number: 12587251
    Abstract: An estimation method includes: transmitting first transmission signal from one of M first antenna elements of first radio; observing, by N second antenna elements of second radio, first reception signal including reflection signal of first transmission signal from living body; transmitting second transmission signal from one of N second antenna elements; observing second reception signal including reflection signal of second transmission signal from living body; calculating first combined complex transfer function representing propagation characteristics between M first antenna elements and N second antenna elements; calculating second combined complex transfer function by calculation on first combined complex transfer function to reduce effects of clock frequency error and power error between first radio and second radio; extracting biological information of predetermined frequency range corresponding to component related to living body in second combined complex transfer functions; and estimating direction
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakayama, Shoichi Iizuka, Naoki Honma, Abudusaimi Abuduaini, Nobuyuki Shiraki
  • Patent number: 12587878
    Abstract: A first user equipment (UE) receives a configuration of a channel state information (CSI) report from a base station. The configuration includes an indication of a sounding reference signal (SRS) or uplink demodulation reference signal (DMRS) transmitted from a second UE as an interference measurement resource (IMR). The base station configures the second UE to transmit the SRS or the uplink DMRS on the IMR. The first UE measures the IMR to determine a cross-link interference of the second UE to the first UE. The UE transmits the CSI report. The CSI report includes at least one channel characteristic that takes into account the cross-link interference of the second UE. The CSI report may include information for a plurality of CSI-RS resource indicators (CRIs), each CRI associated with a same channel measurement resource (CMR) and a different IMR corresponding to a different second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12581346
    Abstract: The disclosure pertains to methods and apparatus for performing positioning of wireless transmit and/or receive units (WTRUs) in wireless communication systems. A WTRU may receive configuration information indicating a time window associated with positioning. The configuration information may indicate any of a duration and a periodicity of the time window. The WTRU may receive (1) first scheduling information indicating to transmit a first uplink transmission including a sounding reference signal (SRS) and (2) second scheduling information indicating to transmit a second uplink transmission including a positioning SRS (SRSp). The first uplink transmission may not include any SRSp. On condition that the second uplink transmission is scheduled for transmission during the time window, the WTRU may transmit the second uplink transmission during the time window and may transmit the first uplink transmission only when the first uplink transmission is scheduled for transmission outside of the time window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Fumihiro Hasegawa, Jaya Rao, Moon Il Lee, Tuong Hoang, Paul Marinier, Ghyslain Pelletier, Benoit Pelletier, Janet Stern-Berkowitz, Aata EL Hamss
  • Patent number: 12581335
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) message including configuration information on an application layer measurement, for each application layer measurement configuration identifier (ID), setting an application layer measurement report entry in an application layer measurement report message, based on the configuration information, and transmitting, to the base station, the application layer measurement report message. The application layer measurement report message includes a plurality of application layer measurement configuration IDs and a plurality of application layer measurement report entries associated with the plurality of application layer measurement configuration IDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seungbeom Jeong
  • Patent number: 12574781
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a receiver device receives, from a network entity, a request to report a power delay profile (PDP) similarity metric for a first positioning frequency layer on a first component carrier and a second positioning frequency layer on a second component carrier; determines a first PDP for a first reference signal received on the first positioning frequency layer and a second PDP for a second reference signal received on the second positioning frequency layer; determines the PDP similarity metric based on the first PDP and the second PDP; and transmits, to the network entity, the PDP similarity metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Alexandros Manolakos, Mukesh Kumar, Xiaoxia Zhang, Rajat Prakash, Mohammad Tarek Fahim
  • Patent number: 12550092
    Abstract: A technique is performed at a user equipment (UE) for supporting one or more radio frequency (RF) sensing measurements. A reflected downlink signal is received, wherein the reflected downlink signal is transmitted as a downlink signal from a base station and reflected off of a target. An uplink signal is transmitted to be reflected off of the target and received by the base station as a reflected uplink signal. A UE receive-transmit (RX-TX) time difference is determined, representing a difference between a time at which the reflected downlink signal is received by the UE and a time at which the uplink signal is transmitted by the UE. A UE measured frequency offset is determined based on reception of the reflected downlink signal, the UE measured frequency offset comprising a Doppler shift component corresponding to a velocity of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Hyojin Lee, Yu Zhang, Naga Bhushan