Patents Examined by Don N. Vo
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Patent number: 11902929Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, systems, etc., directed to performing positioning of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) while it is in idle mode and/or inactive mode (collectively “idle/inactive mode”) in NR are disclosed herein. Performing positioning, including positioning measurement and/or reporting, in idle/inactive mode may allow for increased positioning accuracy and/or decreased latency of location determination. In various embodiments, a WTRU in idle/inactive mode may transmit a positioning measurement report in various ways, including (i) in a Random-Access Channel (RACH) preamble; (ii) appended to a RACH preamble; and/or (iii) in a Physical Uplink Shared Channel. In various embodiments, a WTRU in idle/inactive mode may transmit uplink-based positioning related reference signals. In various embodiments, a WTRU in an idle/inactive mode may transmit, over a dedicated physical channel, (e.g., downlink) positioning measurement reports and/or reference signals (RSs) for uplink positioning measurements.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Sanjay Goyal, Kevin T. Wanuga, Arnab Roy, Alpaslan Demir, Janet Stern-Berkowitz, Muhammad Fazili, Mihaela Beluri
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Patent number: 11895559Abstract: An object is to provide a moving route determination device that makes it possible to accurately determine a user's moving route. A server device 100 includes a geofence evaluation unit 105 configured to store a scoring table for determining a moving route of a user terminal 200, a check-in log acquisition unit 103 configured to acquire at least one of a check-in log which is a history of position management information, such as check-in information, settlement information, or search information, indicating that the user terminal 200 is located in a predetermined range, a settlement log, and a search log as a position management log, and a scoring determination unit 106 configured to determine a moving route of the user terminal 200 on the basis of the position management log and determination information stored in the geofence evaluation unit 105 in a case where a moving means is not able to be determined from at least one of the check-in log, the settlement log, and the search log.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tomohiro Nakagawa, Takuya Doumen, Chao Xue
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Patent number: 11895613Abstract: A central node receives, from each of a plurality of access points providing access for user equipments to a communication network, a result of a measurement related to a position of a user equipment, receives additional information comprising at least one of an evaluation of the result of the measurement and a reference towards which the measurement was done, and calculates the position of the user equipment by combining the results of the measurements received from the plurality of access points using at least one of the evaluation and the reference.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Joerg Schaepperle, Luca Rose, Jakob Hoydis
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Patent number: 11881971Abstract: The present application relates to an adaptive PAM4 decision feedback equalization circuit, including a decision feedback equalization main circuit and an adaptive circuit. The main circuit includes an adder, a first decision device, a second decision device, a third decision device, a first delay unit group, a second delay unit group, a third delay unit group, a decoder, and a DSP coefficient table; the adaptive circuit includes an eye pattern monitoring module and an adaptive module; and the adaptive module includes a comparison unit, a delay unit, and a coefficient regulation and control unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2023Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: INSPUR SUZHOU INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yongzheng Zhan
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Patent number: 11882498Abstract: Even in communication via a long-distance wireless link unit, a packet size is reduced and a packet transmission frequency is increased so that a moving device can be finely controlled. An instruction generation unit that generates a packet containing control information for a moving device, and a wireless communication unit that transmits the packet are included. The wireless communication unit includes a plurality of wireless link units that executes wireless communication in different frequency bands. In a case where the distance to the moving device is equal to or greater than a threshold value, the instruction generation unit generates a packet of a size smaller than that in a case where the distance is less than the threshold value, and calculates an allowable packet transmission frequency on the basis of the packet size, thereby executing high-frequency packet generation and transmission processing.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Takuya Iwai
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Patent number: 11876582Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a radar system for object identification. The radar system transmitting an azimuth fan beam and incrementing elevation of the beam. The radar system may include a transmit antenna and a receive antenna, each having a plurality of antenna elements arranged in rows and columns. The radar system may include a transceiver coupled to the transmit antenna and the receive antenna, the transceiver configured to control transmit beams having an azimuth fan beam, or an elevation fan beam. The radar system may include a processing unit. In various embodiments, the processing unit may include a digital processing unit; a range Doppler mapping module; and an azimuth detection module coupled to the transceiver. The azimuth detection module may be configured to process received signals and identify an azimuth angle of arrival by correlating signals received at antenna elements in rows of the receive antenna.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Metawave CorporationInventors: Abdullah Ahsan Zaidi, Kenneth Ray Carroll, Soren Shams, Maha Achour
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Patent number: 11863251Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-beam Channel State Information (CSI) reporting are provided. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a second node connected to a first node in a wireless communication network for reporting multi-beam CSI includes reporting a rank indicator and a beam count indicator in a first transmission to the first node. The method also includes reporting a cophasing indicator in a second transmission to the first node. The cophasing indicator identifies a selected entry of a codebook of cophasing coefficients where the number of bits in the cophasing indicator is identified by at least one of the beam count indicator and the rank indicator. In this way, feedback for both a rank indicator and a beam count indicator may be possible which may allow robust feedback and variably sized cophasing and beam index indicators.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Shiwei Gao, Robert Mark Harrison, Siva Muruganathan
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Patent number: 11863493Abstract: A method for transmitting feedback information includes receiving, by a terminal device, trigger signaling which is used for triggering transmission of feedback information for at least one downlink transmission channel by the terminal device and which is used for indicating a total number of bits of feedback information to be transmitted, wherein the feedback information to be transmitted comprises the feedback information for the at least one downlink transmission channel.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventors: Yanan Lin, Zuomin Wu
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Patent number: 11863243Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for operating an electronic device. The technique includes an electronic device determining one or more signal characteristics of a link between the electronic device and a base station, estimating a coupling loss for the link based on the one or more signal characteristics, determining whether the coupling loss exceeds a maximum coupling loss (MCL) for the link; and in response to determining that the coupling loss exceeds the MCL, delaying transmission of one or more messages from the electronic device over the link to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: ITRON, INC.Inventors: Richard Donald Maes, II, Robert Vernon Dusenberry
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Patent number: 11864070Abstract: Systems and methods may provide for establishing a data usage budget based on one or more of user input and historical usage data, wherein the data usage budget distinguishes between usage types and distinguishes between connection types. Additionally, a data usage of one or more client devices may be monitored in accordance with the data usage budget. In one example, the usage types are designated as one or more of a high bandwidth usage and a low bandwidth usage and the connection types are designated as one or more of a capped connection and a non-capped connection.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Charles Baron, Sherry S. Chang
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Patent number: 11863241Abstract: A method and system for performing Over-The-Air (OTA) testing for 5G New Radio (NR) beamforming is presented. In one embodiment the method includes transmitting, by only the User Equipments (UEs) U and Sx, the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols containing UL Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) that are orthogonal to each other during Uplink (UL) subframes; performing, by a gNB, channel estimation in the same UL subframe, precoding matrix computation, and antenna elements weighting coefficient computations; transmitting, by the gNB in a subsequent Downlink (DL) subframe, known data streams to UEs U and Sx using the massive MU-MIMO beamforming coefficients; collecting by the host PC, the IQ samples from the UE U and all the victim UEs Vx in the DL subframe; and evaluating a performance of the beam that was meant for UE U.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.Inventor: Hemanth Palally
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Patent number: 11856124Abstract: An electronic device including a communication interface, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive information related to at least one first event generated for a predetermined first time from an external electronic device and acquire a first pattern and a first parameter related to the first pattern, based on information on at least one second event generated within at least one predetermined time interval among the information on the at least one first event. The processor is configured to receive information related to at least one third event generated for a predetermined second time from the external electronic device. The processor is configured to acquire a second parameter related to the first pattern, based on the information related to the at least one third event. The processor is configured to generate a first template and transmit information on the first template to a server.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yongsub Jung
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Patent number: 11856533Abstract: One disclosure of the present specification provides a UE. The UE comprises: a transceiver for transmitting a signal and receiving a signal; and a processor to control the transceiver, wherein the UE is a power class 5 UE, wherein the maximum output of the UE is 20 dBm in the n96 band, wherein the transceiver receives a network signal from a base station, wherein, based on the network signal, the processor determines a frequency range of i) 5925 MHz or more and ii) 6425 MHz or less, wherein, based on A-MPR based on the network signal, the processor reduces the maximum output of the UE, wherein, based on the reduced maximum output of the UE, the processor determines transmission power, wherein the transceiver transmits a signal in the frequency range with the determined transmission power, wherein the A-MPR is based on pre-coding, modulation scheme, channel bandwidth, and RB allocation scheme.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Yoonoh Yang, Jaehyuk Jang, Sangwook Lee, Jinyup Hwang, Jinwoong Park
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Patent number: 11848016Abstract: A voice control command generation method includes displaying, by a terminal, prompt information in response to a first operation, where the prompt information prompts a user to enter a to-be-recorded operation, receiving, by the terminal, one or more operations from the user, recording, by the terminal in response to a second operation of the one or more operations, operation information corresponding to the one or more operations determining, by the terminal based on a third operation of the one or more operations, first text information corresponding to the operation information, receiving, by the terminal, a first voice command, and performing, by the terminal, a corresponding operation based on the operation information when a text of the first voice command matches the first text information.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Jun Xu
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Patent number: 11838891Abstract: Methods and devices of enabling paging of a wireless communication device. In an aspect, a method of a node configured to provide core network user plane functionality in a communications network is provided to enable paging of a wireless communication device being in an idle state.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Jari Vikberg, Göran Hall, Ulf Mattsson, Gunnar Mildh, Göran Rune
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Patent number: 11838802Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a slice information processing method and apparatus to preferentially allocate a network slice resource to a slice for which a slice service level agreement SLA has been signed. An example solution includes: An access network device determines that a slice service level agreement (SLA) has been signed for a first slice and that no slice SLA has been signed for a second slice. The access network device prioritizes a user behavior action of the first slice, or deprioritizes a user behavior action of the second slice.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yang Xin, Xiaobo Wu, Weiwei Chong, Fangyuan Zhu, Clarissa Marquezan
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Patent number: 11831356Abstract: Technologies directed to calibration and measurement of transmit phased array antennas with digital beamforming are described. One method includes a communication device generating a radio frequency (RF) signal and a reference RF signal generated using a first offset value. A processing device sending to a measurement device data indicating a first periodicity of the first RF signal and a first data acquisition parameter. The processing device receives measurement data indicating conditions of the first RF signal and the reference RF signal received at the measurement device. The processing device determines signal characteristics of the first RF signal and the reference RF signal. The processing device sends a command to the communication device. The command indicates a modification of the first offset value to a second offset value. The communication device generates a second RF signal using the second offset value.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Iyappan Ramachandran, Farideddin Fayazbakhsh, Yu Ho, Tara Yousefi
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Patent number: 11831484Abstract: A method of a wireless communication transmitter is disclosed for peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) control of communication symbols with N time-domain signal samples for transmission via each of M antenna elements. The method comprises: applying a PAPR cost function f(x) which has a proximal operator with closed form and is differentiable in an interval, and the proximal operator comprises a parameter lambda for tuning; selecting a value for lambda to perform a trade-off between PAPR and at least one other characteristic of the wireless communication transmitter; selecting a precoding for the collection of samples as a solution to an optimization problem for the selected value for lambda, wherein the optimization problem comprises minimization of an overall cost function comprising at least the PAPR cost function, and wherein solving the optimization problem comprises using the proximal operator of the PAPR cost function.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Milad Fozooni, Ulf Gustavsson, Pierre-Andre Laporte
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Patent number: 11817894Abstract: In an embodiment, a receiver included in a communications system includes a channel extractor configured to segregate a received signal into a plurality of channel signals, wherein the plurality of channel signals includes a plurality of data signals; and a plurality of decoders electrically coupled to the channel extractor and configured to decode each of the plurality of channel signals into a respective plurality of decoded data beam portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.Inventors: Alireza Mehrnia, Masoud Kahrizi, Alex Ahmad Mirzaei, Bagher Afshar, Ali Sajjadi, Bernd Pregardier, Ka Shun Carson Pun, Omid Nasiby, Igor Elgorriaga
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Patent number: 11817913Abstract: An example process determines a first error vector magnitude (EVM) of a signal output by a device under test (DUT). The process includes adding attenuation on a signal path between the DUT and a vector signal analyzer (VSA), where the attenuation is changeable: measuring, at the VSA, at least two second EVMs for different values of attenuation of the signal output by the DUT, where the at least two second EVMs are corrupted by noise from the VSA, and where each of the at least two second EVMs is based on two or more measurements; and determining the first EVM based on a linear relationship that is based on the first EVM, the at least two second EVMs, and a function based on the attenuation, where the first EVM is without at least some of the noise from the VSA.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: LITEPOINT CORPORATIONInventors: Chen Cao, Christian Volf Olgaard, Ruizu Wang, Qingjie Lu