Patents Examined by Deepa Belur
  • Patent number: 11646777
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine, based at least in part on two or more measurements on a channel taken at different points in time, that the channel is classified as static. The wireless communication device may perform at least one optimization based at least in part on determining that the channel is classified as static. For example, the at least one optimization may include modifying a channel state feedback procedure, reducing a periodicity associated with a measurement gap, modifying a filtering associated with measurements of the channel, reducing a threshold associated with beam switching, and/or refraining from performing at least one filtering at a radio frequency receiver of the wireless communication device. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhinav Sridhar, Paolo Minero, Yongle Wu, Ashok Mantravadi, Hari Sankar, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 11641642
    Abstract: In embodiments, a base station may send to a user equipment (UE) a P3 beam management (BM) channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) having two ports, and may receive from the UE a P3 BM report in response. The P3 BM report may include a proactive UE beam switch indication and a CSF report corresponding to the best UE beam determined by a UE based on the P3 BM CSI-RS. The base station may determine whether the P3 BM report includes an indication that the UE will perform a beam switch from a first UE beam to a second UE beam, and may determine a UE beam switch slot during which the UE will perform the beam switch. Starting at the beam switch slot, the base station may send a physical downlink shared data channel (PDSCH) transmission to the UE using the adjusted downlink transmission parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Levitsky, Raghu Narayan Challa, Ruhua He, Assaf Touboul
  • Patent number: 11637557
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device includes frequency generation circuitry configured to generate a clock signal, a phase-locked loop (PLL) configured to generate a local clock based on the clock signal, a receiver configured to receive a data stream from a remote clock source and recover a remote clock from the data stream, and a controller configured to find a clock differential between the local clock and the remote clock identified as a master dock, and provide a control signal to the frequency generation circuitry responsively to the clock differential, which causes the frequency generation circuitry to adjust the clock signal so as to iteratively reduce an absolute value of the clock differential between the local clock and the remote clock identified as the master clock so that the local clock generated by the PLL is synchronized with the master clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ran Ravid, Aviv Berg, Lavi Koch, Chen Gaist, Dotan David Levi
  • Patent number: 11638263
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may measure a per-beam channel busy ratio (CBR) for each of one or more beams configured on the sidelink receiver for transmitting or receiving sidelink transmissions including a first CBR for a first beam that is to be used for receiving a sidelink transmission transmitted by a first sidelink transmitter; and may transmit an indication of the per-beam CBR. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive information associated with a per-beam CBR including a first CBR for a first beam to be used by a sidelink receiver for receiving a sidelink transmission transmitted by the sidelink transmitter, and may selectively transmit the sidelink transmission for reception by the sidelink transmitter using the first beam based at least in part on the indication of the per-beam CBR. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11622090
    Abstract: A method and system for communication between devices includes connecting a plurality of communication devices through a communication system. At least one communication device acts as a source entity sending a plurality of data packets to an access point. A plurality of communication devices act as destination entities receiving the data packets. The data packets are distributed, by the access point, to the destination entities in such a way that the data packets are queued for receipt by each destination entity in a separate non-interdependent queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: David Clark Company Incorporated
    Inventors: Brad Deschenes, Sanjay Gupta, Nicholas Cannata
  • Patent number: 11616559
    Abstract: A non-personal basic service set control point/access point (non-PCP/AP) communication apparatus includes a reception circuit, an estimation circuit, and a transmission circuit. The reception circuit receives a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) Beacon frame including a sector sweep (SSW) field, the SSW field including a Parameter subfield indicating a value obtained by using a transmission Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of a PCP/AP communication partner apparatus and a reception antenna gain of the PCP/AP communication partner apparatus. The estimation circuit estimates an expected reception power at the PCP/AP communication partner apparatus by using the value of the Parameter subfield, and checks inequality between the estimated expected reception power and a receiver sensitivity value. The transmission circuit transmits a frame for Association Beamforming Training (A-BFT) if the estimated expected reception power is larger than the receive sensitivity value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yao Huang Gaius Wee, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Lei Huang, Tomoya Urushihara, Masataka Irie
  • Patent number: 11606762
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a synchronization signal block (SSB)-level sleep mode. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining, from a synchronization signal burst set, a first set of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) to forgo performing measurements on using one or more receive beams based, at least in part, on one or more previous measurements associated with the determined first set of SSBs and performing measurements on only one or more remaining SSBs in the synchronization signal burst set using the one or more receive beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 11606155
    Abstract: A method for exchanging a clock synchronization packet performed by a network apparatus, including: exchanging a clock synchronization packet with a first clock source, where the network apparatus includes a boundary clock; determining a first time deviation of the boundary clock relative to the first clock source according to the clock synchronization packet exchanged with the first clock source, where the boundary clock avoids performing an operation of calibrating a time of a local clock of the boundary clock according to the first time deviation; and sending a clock synchronization packet to a first slave clock of the boundary clock, where the clock synchronization packet includes a first timestamp, a value of the first timestamp is equal to a first corrected value, and the first corrected value is a value obtained by the boundary clock by correcting the time of the local clock by using the first time deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinhui Wang, Chuan Xu
  • Patent number: 11601177
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for wireless communications in narrowband frequency bands using frequency hopping. In some implementations, a base station (BS) groups a plurality of hopping channels of a frequency hopping pattern into a number of groups based on a bandwidth part (BWP) hopping frequency of each hopping channel of the frequency hopping pattern. The BS transmits indications of the frequency hopping pattern and the grouping of hopping channels to user equipments (UEs). The BS transmits a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) on a first hopping channel, and receives channel state information (CSI) of the first hopping channel from one or more of the UEs. In some other implementations, a UE receives indications of the frequency hopping pattern and hopping channel groups, and determines CSI of the first hopping channel based on the received CSI-RS. The UE may transmit the CSI to the BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Liu, Yisheng Xue, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
  • Patent number: 11601314
    Abstract: Facilitating selection of demodulation reference signal port combinations in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise evaluating a capability of a mobile device. The operations can also comprise assigning a first group of port combinations for the mobile device based on the capability of the mobile device being a first capability and a second group of port combinations for the mobile device based on the capability of the mobile device being a second capability, resulting in a port combination assignment. The port combination assignment can mitigate a peak-to-average power ratio value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: SaiRamesh Nammi
  • Patent number: 11589371
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to be employed in a gNodeB associated with a new radio (NR) system is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more processors configured to configure one or more sidelink sounding reference signals (SRS), for one or more user equipments (UEs) associated with the gNodeB, to be utilized by the one or more UEs for transmission or reception, or both, over sidelink. The one or more processors is further configured to generate one or more sidelink SRS configuration signals to be provided, respectively, to the one or more UEs, wherein each sidelink SRS configuration signal comprises sidelink SRS configuration information on the one or more sidelink SRS configured for a respective UE. The apparatus further comprises a radio frequency (RF) interface, configured to provide, to a radio frequency (RF) circuitry, the one or more sidelink SRS configuration signals, for subsequent transmission to the one or more UEs, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Patent number: 11582770
    Abstract: The present invention includes a receiver configured to receive first information, the first information including information for configuring whether transform precoding for a physical uplink shared channel is enabled, and a transmitter configured to transmit information indicating a first power headroom level for the physical uplink shared channel with the transform precoding enabled and information indicating a second power headroom level for the physical uplink shared channel with the transform precoding not enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Shohei Yamada, Hidekazu Tsuboi, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11576052
    Abstract: To schedule panel specific uplink transmissions, the UE may assist in the scheduling of the panel specific uplink transmission by improving the manner in which the specific panel is indicated for uplink transmission. The apparatus receives, from a base station, an indication of a UE panel for an uplink transmission. The apparatus determines a Tx panel at the UE based on the indication of the UE panel. The apparatus transmits, to the base station, the uplink transmission using the Tx beam associated with the Tx panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Jung Ho Ryu, Kiran Venugopal, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11576128
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application provide a wakeup region update method and device for updating a wakeup region of a terminal. The method includes a terminal receiving a wakeup signal, the wakeup signal carrying a wakeup region indicator; and the terminal updating the wakeup region indicator of the terminal according to the wakeup region indicator carried by the wakeup signal received. The present application is adopted to achieve updating and maintenance of the wakeup region of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meiying Yang, Deshan Miao, Fang-Chen Cheng
  • Patent number: 11564054
    Abstract: An improved manner of transmitting and receiving messages in sidelink communication is presented in which a wireless device receives sidelink control information (SCI) that indicates a zone ID associated with a sidelink message. The wireless device determines a location of the wireless device and determines whether to send feedback for the sidelink message based, at least in part, on the zone ID associated with the sidelink message and the location of the wireless device. The feedback may include hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback, and the sidelink message may include a groupcast message. The wireless device may further receive an indication of an intended range in the SCI and may determine whether to send the feedback based on a combination of the zone ID and the intended range for the sidelink message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati, Arjun Bharadwaj, Hong Cheng, Shailesh Patil, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11552689
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Beam pair link (BPLs) may be associated with a state of a wireless device. For example, a first wireless device may communicate with a second wireless device using a set of BPLs, and the second wireless device may operate using a predetermined movement sequence, where different movements may correspond to the second wireless device using respective states. In some examples, a BPL may be selected for each state of the second wireless device and used to communicate with the first wireless device, where the BPL that corresponds to a particular state may be determined through beam training procedures. In some cases, BPLs associated with respective states may experience decreased link quality and the first wireless device may transmit a configuration that modifies the communications between the first and second wireless devices based on the affected BPLs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11546110
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and device for multi-antenna transmission in UE and base station. The user equipment receives a first radio signal at first, then receives a first signaling. The first radio signal is transmitted by K antenna port groups, and the first signaling is used to determine a first time resource pool; a second antenna virtualization vector is associated with the first antenna port group; the second antenna virtualization vector is an antenna virtualization vector available to the user equipment in the first time resource pool. The invention effectively reduces signaling overhead of wireless resource dynamic scheduling of a massive MIMO system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: APEX BEAM TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: XiaoBo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11546871
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a processor that scales a delay requirement of an intra-frequency measurement based on a synchronization signal block by a scaling factor corresponding to each of a plurality of carriers; and a receiver that receives the synchronization signal block in each of the plurality of carriers, wherein a specified carrier out of the plurality of carriers satisfies a condition, wherein a first scaling factor for an unspecified carrier out of the plurality of carriers is based on a number of the plurality of carriers, and wherein a second scaling factor for the specified carrier is not based on the number of the plurality of carriers. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura, Takuma Takada
  • Patent number: 11522733
    Abstract: A gateway device for a vehicle network system installed in a vehicle is provided. The vehicle network system includes a network, an electronic control unit connected to the network, and the gateway device connected to the first network and configured to communicate outside the vehicle. The gateway device receives a first frame from outside the vehicle; determines whether or not the first frame is appropriate; generates a second frame when the first frame is not determined to be appropriate; and transmits the second frame to the network. The second frame includes control information and additional information based on content of the first frame. The control information restricts processing of the additional information included in the second frame by the electronic control unit, after the second frame is received by the electronic control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Hideki Matsushima, Toshihisa Nakano, Tohru Wakabayashi, Hiroshi Amano, Tomoyuki Haga, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 11523442
    Abstract: A random access resource selection method and a terminal device are provided. The random access resource selection method includes: determining a first moment at which a terminal device determines that the reception of a random access response signal is unsuccessful; selecting a delay time according to a received backoff indicator BI value; and selecting a random access resource according to the first moment and the delay time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yumin Wu