Patents Examined by Don N. Vo
  • Patent number: 12047136
    Abstract: To wirelessly communicate through a physical barrier, a network communication device determines uplink beamforming information and uplink power information. The network communication device wirelessly transfers the uplink beamforming information and the uplink power information to a serving communication device. The serving communication device wirelessly receives the uplink beamforming information and the uplink power information. The serving communication device receives an uplink signal from a user communication device. The serving communication device beamforms the uplink signal based on the uplink beamforming information. The serving communication device amplifies the uplink signal based on the uplink power information. The serving communication device wirelessly transfers the beamformed and amplified uplink signal to the network communication device. The network communication device wirelessly receives the beamformed and amplified uplink signal from the serving communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Kelley W. Ireland, Sreekar Marupaduga, Matthew Starzec
  • Patent number: 12040889
    Abstract: Technologies for switching network traffic include a network switch. The network switch includes one or more processors and communication circuitry coupled to the one or more processors. The communication circuity is capable of switching network traffic of multiple link layer protocols. Additionally, the network switch includes one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed, cause the network switch to receive, with the communication circuitry through an optical connection, network traffic to be forwarded, and determine a link layer protocol of the received network traffic. The instructions additionally cause the network switch to forward the network traffic as a function of the determined link layer protocol. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Adiletta, Aaron Gorius, Myles Wilde, Michael Crocker
  • Patent number: 12038520
    Abstract: A method, UE and integrated circuit for reporting RSTD values to a network. A user equipment (UE) is configured to establish a connection to a network, the network comprising a first cell and a second cell. The UE receives a positioning reference signal from each of the first and second cells, determines a frequency band for each of the positioning reference signals, determines reference signal time difference (RSTD) values from measured time offsets between the positioning reference signals from the first and second cells, determines RSTD reporting values based on at least the RSTD values and the determined frequency bands and transmits an indication of the RSTD reporting values to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Dawei Zhang, Zhibin Wu, Yuchul Kim, Hong He, Yushu Zhang, Haitong Sun
  • Patent number: 12040844
    Abstract: A wireless communications device may include a controller configured to, in a calibration mode, obtain a first output value of a first power detector after setting a first power amplifier to a first gain and obtain a second output value of the first power detector after setting the first power amplifier to a second gain, wherein the controller may estimate, in a normal mode, output power of a first antenna from an output value of the first power detector, based on a correction coefficient calculated using the first output value and the second output value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dooseok Choi, Youngki Lee, Joonhoi Hur
  • Patent number: 12041576
    Abstract: A data collection device includes a reference signal reception unit that receives a reference signal indicating a first time that is a time measured by an external device, the reference signal being transmitted at first time intervals from the external device, a time signal generation unit that measures a time at second time intervals and generates a time signal indicating a second time that is the measured time, a parameter generation unit that generates a parameter value on the basis of the first time indicated by the reference signal and the second time based on the time signal generated at a point in time when the reference signal is received, a signal reception unit that receives an analog signal indicating a signal waveform of an observed signal, a sampling unit that samples the received analog signal at the second time intervals to generate sampling data, and a data processing unit that performs interpolation processing on the sampling data on the basis of the parameter value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJI TECOM INC.
    Inventors: Shoji Hatano, Masaru Kobayashi, Koichi Ohta
  • Patent number: 12034674
    Abstract: Disclosed are a resource allocation method and apparatus for a V2X service, and a storage medium, a terminal and a base station. The method comprises: acquiring resource allocation auxiliary information of a secondary link with a resource allocation requirement; and transmitting secondary link information, wherein the secondary link information comprises the resource allocation auxiliary information, and the resource allocation auxiliary information is associated with a destination identifier of the secondary link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING UNISOC COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xin Qu
  • Patent number: 12028101
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods related to time-interleaved polyphase linearization for a receive signal chain are provided. An example receive signal chain includes an input node to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal. The receive signal chain further includes a plurality of polyphase mixer circuitries including first mixers and first local oscillators to generate a plurality of phase-shifted downconverted signals based on the received RF signal. The receive signal chain further includes a first multiplexer to select one of the plurality of phase-shifted downconverted signals during each time slot of a plurality of time slots. The receive signal chain further includes signal conditioning circuitry comprising at least one nonlinear component. The signal conditioning circuitry conditions, during each time slot, a respective selected one of the plurality of phase-shifted downconverted signals to generate a conditioned signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Debopam Banerjee, Mark Alan Lemkin
  • Patent number: 12028120
    Abstract: Antenna monitoring systems and methods can include, among other things, a transmitter near each of the antennas in a distributed antenna system (DAS). The transmitter can transmit an antenna identifier corresponding to that antenna, so that the various transmitters in the DAS each transmit different antenna identifiers. These antenna identifiers can be detected by a receiver and can be processed to determine whether any antenna identifiers are missing. If any expected antenna identifier is missing, the receiver can infer that the antenna or a component associated with the antenna (such as cabling) may have failed. The receiver can then output an indication or notification that may be accessed by maintenance personnel and/or emergency personnel to enable them to identify and repair the non-functioning antenna or component. The transmitter can transmit other data, such as environmental data, RF data, or the like, to facilitate additional or alternative monitoring functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: GUGLI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frederick Daniel Leaf, Joshua Travis Helling
  • Patent number: 12021558
    Abstract: A system uses pulsed lasers to enhance a signal propagation path in a telecommunications network. The system can estimate a signal propagation path, which varies based on a current location of a mobile device relative to a base station. The system can detect a propagation loss due to a condition of a propagation medium including the signal propagation path and determine whether the mobile device is in Line-of-Sight (LOS) of a laser emitter. In response to detection of the propagation loss, the laser emitter can emit a pulsed laser that can enhance signal propagation by mitigating the propagation loss on the signal propagation path. The pulsed laser has a propagation path overlapping the signal propagation path when the mobile device is in LOS of the laser emitter, which is mounted on the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: George Cummings, Brett Christian, Scott Probasco
  • Patent number: 12022422
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to a location server that transmits a control signaling request to a NTS in a non-terrestrial network, the control signaling requesting an entity type of the NTS, and ephemeris data associated with the NTS. The location server may transmit a control signaling request to a non-terrestrial network configuration entity in the non-terrestrial network, the control signaling requesting an identifier of the NTS, an entity type of the non-terrestrial network configuration entity, and/or a number of non-terrestrial network nodes communicatively connected to the non-terrestrial network configuration entity. The location server receives a control signaling response from the NTS and/or the non-terrestrial network configuration entity, the control signaling response indicating configuration parameter values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Majid Ghanbarinejad, Robin Thomas, Sher Ali Cheema
  • Patent number: 12016079
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may establish, using a first frequency band, a first communication connection on a first subscriber identity module (SIM). The UE may establish, using a second frequency band, a second communication connection on a second SIM in a multi-SIM dual receive mode that includes the first SIM and the second SIM having concurrent activity. The UE may switch from a first antenna to a second antenna for the first SIM in accordance with an antenna switching capability that is based at least in part on whether the first communication connection and the second communication connection are time division duplex (TDD) synchronized. The UE may transmit one or more communications associated with the first SIM using the second antenna. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Sridhar Bandaru, Vishal Mahajan
  • Patent number: 12015451
    Abstract: Joint transmit/receive image compensation is performed with the transceiver online and on an ongoing basis by using blind image compensation techniques when in a receive mode in order to converge receive image compensation coefficients based on “live” receive data and then in a transmit mode, after convergence of the receive image compensation coefficients, coupling the “live” transmit signal to the receive signal path to adapt the transmit image compensation coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Anokiwave, Inc.
    Inventors: Kartik Sridharan, Eric Ng
  • Patent number: 12010203
    Abstract: This disclosure contributes a Unified Clock which utilizes frequency alignment throughout network nodes for accurate time stamping and direct elimination of nodes residence delays from times originated in Grand Master (GM) and propagated downstream with PTP messages, wherein downstream slave nodes are maintaining local slave time (LST) delayed to the GM time by downstream links delays only and such links delays are estimated separately and added to the LST in order to derive Local Master Time (LMT) corresponding to the GM time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Inventor: John W. Bogdan
  • Patent number: 12003661
    Abstract: There is provided an end point device including one or more processors configured to establish a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connection with an intermediate networking device, communicate, to the intermediate networking device, an end point device credential that uniquely identifies the end point device, access a WWAN using a single user account associated with the end point device credential and the intermediate networking device, transmit network traffic to a forwarding layer of the intermediate networking device for forwarding the network traffic to the WWAN according to an access network forwarding policy, and communicate signals to indicate a current geographic location of the end point device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Headwater Research LLC
    Inventor: Gregory G. Raleigh
  • Patent number: 12003282
    Abstract: Channel predictive behavior and fault analysis may be provided. A forward time value may be determined comprising a time a forward signal takes to travel from a transmitter over a channel to the receiver. Next, a reflected time value may be determined comprising a time a reflected signal takes to travel to the receiver. The reflected signal may be associated with the forward signal. A discontinuity may then be determined to exist on the channel based on the forward time value and the reflected time value. The reflected signal may be caused by the discontinuity and a high impedance or low impedance at the transmitter present after the forward signal is sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Inventors: Amendra Koul, David Nozadze, Mike Sapozhnikov, Joel Goergen, Arnav Shailesh Shah
  • Patent number: 11996873
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For example, a transmitting wireless device, such as a user equipment or a base station, may apply a first set of digital pre-distortion (DPD) coefficients to a plurality of antenna elements to form a first transmit beam. The wireless device may determine to switch from using the first transmit beam to using a second transmit beam that is different from the first transmit beam and may apply a second set of DPD coefficients to the plurality of antenna elements to form the second transmit beam, where the second set of DPD coefficients is different from the first set of DPD coefficients. The wireless device may transmit signaling using the second transmit beam based at least in part on applying the second set of DPD coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Igor Gutman, Carl Hardin, Yehezkel Hadid, Robert Zokaim
  • Patent number: 11996626
    Abstract: A field-assembled satellite communications terminal has a plurality of discrete, modular aperture blocks. Each aperture block contains an electrically steered antenna aperture, and a plurality of interconnection ports for power and data communications between the plurality of aperture blocks. The plurality of interconnection ports are removably connectable by the end user in the field. The terminal further has a signal processing system for receiving, processing, and generating signals to and from the apertures. The aperture blocks are connected to each other in the field and self-configure to form an electrically-steered antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: All.Space Networks Limited
    Inventors: Jeremiah P. Turpin, Brian Murphy Billman, John Finney
  • Patent number: 11991260
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) or other device performs service discovery of edge computing resources in a cellular network system and dynamic offloading of UE application tasks to discovered edge computing resources. As part of the discovery process, the device (e.g., the UE) may request edge server site capability information. When performing dynamic offloading, the UE may obtain (collect and/or receive) information regarding channel conditions, cellular network parameters or application requirements and dynamically determine whether a task of the application executing on the UE should be offloaded to an edge server or executed locally on the UE. In making decisions between offloaded or local execution, the UE may use a utility function that takes into account factors such as relative differences in application latency, energy consumption and offloading cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Biljana Badic, Christian Drewes, Ralph Hasholzner, Krisztian Kiss, Teck Yang Lee, Matthias Sauer, Mikhail Vilgelm, Babar Qaisrani, Vijay Venkataraman, Robert Zaus
  • Patent number: 11990932
    Abstract: A clock buffer or driver is gated pending reception of verifiable crypto keys. These clock buffer or divers remain gated, thus disabling a processor from any meaningful function, till crypto keys are decoded, verified, and applied to the clock buffer or driver. A low frequency pseudorandom frequency hopping time sequence is generated and used for randomizing spread-spectrum to modulate a reference clock (or output clock) of a frequency synthesizer. This hopping time sequence holds the key to unlocking the crypto keys. The PWM modulated crypto keys are carried by the hopping time sequence. To decode the PWM modulated crypto keys, the hopping time sequence is used. The reference clock which is modulated with crypto keys in the spread-spectrum is sent to a decoder (in a processor) along with the hopping time sequence. The crypto keys are decoded and then used to un-gate the clock buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mohamed A. Abdelmoneum, Nasser Kurd, Thripthi Hegde, Narayan Srinivasa, Peter Sagazio
  • Patent number: 11985723
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for multiple access procedures for connection resume with early start of carrier aggregation or dual connectivity is provided. Before completing a first access procedure for a first cell, a wireless device determines that a quality of a second cell satisfies a certain criteria, and initiates a second access procedure on the second cell for aggregation with the first cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Sangwon Kim