Patents Examined by Eric Nowlin
  • Patent number: 12690088
    Abstract: A beam configuration method is performed by a terminal, and includes: determining one or more transmission configuration indication (TCI) states of a control resource set (CORESET); wherein one or more reference signal resources indicated by the one or more TCI states are associated with at least one of: a serving cell of the terminal; or a neighboring cell of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mingju Li
  • Patent number: 12684589
    Abstract: The application provides a method and device in a node used for wireless communications. A node receives a first information block, and the first information block determines a first search space set; the node monitors a first control channel candidate, and the first control channel candidate belongs to the first search space set; the node transmits a first bit set, the first bit set comprises X bit subsets, and each bit subset comprises a positive integer number of HARQ-ACK bit(s); the X bit subsets are respectively for X cell groups; the first control channel candidate is used for a first serving cell, and the first serving cell belongs to one or multiple cell groups among the X cell groups; the first control channel candidate is used to determine a first identity. The present application guarantees the transmission of HARQ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: APOGEE 5G GLOBAL, LLC
    Inventors: Zheng Liu, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 12677304
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a transceiver being configured to participate in at least one communication service provided by a wireless communication network, the transceiver having a communication interface for receiving and/or transmitting communication data pertaining to the at least one communication service. The transceiver is configured to transmit and/or receive the communication data pertaining to the at least one communication service only if at least one of the following predetermined criteria is met: a) the current location of the transceiver is determined to be inside a designated geographical area being related to the at least one communication service, b) the transceiver receives an intimation signal from a second being different to the at least one communication service, c) the transceiver received communication data pertaining to the at least one communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Sarun Selvanesan, Baris Goektepe
  • Patent number: 12677140
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and non-transitory, machine-readable media for uniquely identifying user equipment with a wireless network may include one or a combination of the following. A cellular network core may include a user plane function (UPF). The UPF may collect and store subscription permanent identifier (SUPI) information and/or generic public subscription identifier (GPSI) information corresponding to user equipment (UE) having an IP address. In response to a request, the cellular network core may execute a conditional process based at least in part on the UPF using the SUPI information and/or the GPSI information as part of the conditional process to respond to the request. The request may be for GPSI information corresponding to the UE. An external IP address of the UE may be provided along with the request. Upon completion of the conditional process, the cellular network core may return the GPSI information corresponding to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: Boost SubscriberCo L.L.C.
    Inventors: Jinsook Ryu, Kazi Bashir
  • Patent number: 12672202
    Abstract: In an aspect, a first wireless node, obtains a reference signal for positioning or sensing (RS-P-S) configuration that configures RS-P-S occasions, wherein the RS-P-S occasions comprises RS-P occasions associated with a position estimation session or radio frequency for sensing (RF-S) occasions associated with an RF-S procedure. The first wireless node further obtains a discontinuous communication (DCX) configuration associated with the first wireless node or a second wireless node. In an aspect, a periodicity associated with the RS-P-S occasions matches or overlaps with a periodicity of DCX ON periods associated with the DCX configuration, and the RS-P-S configuration comprises a DCX ON offset associated with a respective RS-P-S occasion per matching or overlapping DCX ON period. The first wireless node performs operation(s) associated with a configured RS-P-S occasion of the RS-P-S occasions in accordance with the RS-P-S configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Marwen Zorgui, Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah, Ahmed Attia Abotabl
  • Patent number: 12665696
    Abstract: A method for configuring a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) table is performed by a terminal, and includes: determining to use at least one of a first MCS table subset or a second MCS table subset in response to meeting a first condition; wherein the first MCS table subset is at least a part of a table in a first MCS table, and the second MCS table subset is at least a part of a table in a second MCS table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qin Mu
  • Patent number: 12665834
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) agent for forming a two-tier hybrid smart agriculture network architecture is provided. The UAV agent is configured to support two communication protocols, a short-range communication protocol and a long-range communication protocol. The agriculture sensor gathers agriculture data such as soil temperature and participates in a first-tier short range wireless communication network to send the collected data to at least one UAV agent. A UAV agent participates in one or more first-tier short-range communication networks to pick up sensor data from agriculture sensors in one or more clusters and also participates in a second-tier long-range communication network to route the collected sensor data to at least one cloud server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Jianlin Guo, Guojun Xiong, Kieran Parsons, Philip Orlik
  • Patent number: 12666419
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: receiving downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission to be transmitted by a first antenna panel of the UE, and a second PUSCH transmission to be transmitted by a second antenna panel of the UE, receiving data indicative of at least two transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, the at least two TCI states including a first TCI state indicating a beam of the first antenna panel for transmission of the first PUSCH transmission, and a second TCI state indicating a beam of the second antenna panel for transmission of the second PUSCH transmission, and transmitting the first PUSCH transmission using the beam of the first antenna panel and the second PUSCH transmission using the beam of the second antenna panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Chunhai Yao, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Huaning Niu, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
  • Patent number: 12659948
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for indicating whether a scheduled data transmission is a retransmission or a new transmission. A wireless communication device may receive a downlink control indicator (DCI) including a first indicator from a wireless communication node. The wireless communication node may transmit the DCI including the first indicator to a wireless communication device. The first indicator can be indicative of whether a scheduled data transmission is a retransmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Linxi Hu, Nan Zhang, Zhen Yang, Jianqiang Dai
  • Patent number: 12652575
    Abstract: Downlink control information (DCI) size determination for multi-cell scheduling. A method includes receiving first information for a set of cells, identifying first combinations of cells from the set of cells, and determining a first maximum size among first sizes of a first DCI format. The first DCI format schedules physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) receptions on a first combination of cells from the first combinations of cells, and the first sizes correspond to the first combinations of cells. The method further includes receiving the first DCI format based on the first maximum size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Aristides Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 12647800
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for MAC CE based common beam indication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a higher layer parameter to enable MAC CE based common beam indication; receiving a common beam indication MAC CE; and determining a common beam according to the common beam indication MAC CE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Bingchao Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Wei Ling, Yi Zhang, Lingling Xiao
  • Patent number: 12635027
    Abstract: A communication method includes obtaining, by a terminal device or a chip in the terminal device, configuration information of a multicast service. The configuration information is useable by the terminal device to receive data of the multicast service. The method further includes receiving first indication information from an access network device. The first indication information is useable to indicate a manner of obtaining configuration update information of the multicast service by the terminal device. The manner of obtaining the configuration update information of the multicast service is a first manner or a second manner. The first manner is obtaining the configuration update information by receiving a common message. The second manner is obtaining the configuration update information by receiving a dedicated message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haifeng Yu, Bingzhao Li, Zhenzhen Cao, Lei Chen
  • Patent number: 12635000
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first network entity may transmit, to a second network entity, a first random access communication including a random access preamble. The first network entity may receive, from the second network entity, a second random access communication including an identifier indicative of the random access preamble, and a first resource allocation. The first network entity may receive, from the second network entity, a third random access communication including the identifier, and indicating a second resource allocation. The first network entity may transmit, to the second network entity, a fourth random access communication via a particular resource allocation, wherein the particular resource is either the first resource allocation or the second resource allocation. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Raviteja Patchava, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 12634956
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques described herein support transmission of a transport block over multiple slots (TBoMS) with subband full duplex (SBFD) operation. For example, if a time domain resource allocation for a TBoMS includes both uplink slots and downlink slots configured with an uplink subband, a user equipment (UE) may determine which slots to use in accordance with a scheme for selecting available slots for the TBoMS from indicated candidate slots, and the UE may determine the transport block size based on the selected slots. In some examples, the UE may first determine the quantity of resource elements available in each of the different slot types, and then may determine the transport block size based on the quantity of resource elements available in each of the different slot types and the quantity of each of the different slot types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gokul Sridharan, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim, Hung Dinh Ly
  • Patent number: 12628173
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system. A method for transmitting a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, may comprise the steps of: receiving a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for scheduling a first PUSCH and a second PDCCH for scheduling a second PUSCH; and transmitting the first PUSCH and the second PUSCH. The first PDCCH and the second PDCCH may be associated with different control resource sets (CORESETs) having different CORESET pool indexes, the second PDCCH may be received before the first PUSCH is transmitted after the time when the first PDCCH is received, and the first PUSCH and the second PUSCH may correspond to the same transport block (TB) on the basis of the same hybrid automatic repeat and request (HARQ) process identifier (ID) for the first PUSCH and the second PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyuseok Kim, Jiwon Kang, Hyungtae Kim
  • Patent number: 12627434
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first network node may receive second phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) configuration information for a second PTRS that is associated with a second network node. The first network node may transmit a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that includes a first PTRS that is based at least in part on first PTRS configuration information, the PDSCH being based at least in part on cross-PTRS rate matching and the second PTRS configuration information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gaurav Nigam, Jae Ho Ryu, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Jae Won Yoo, Manish Jain, Hari Sankar
  • Patent number: 12628128
    Abstract: A communication method includes receiving coordination information. The coordination information is used by a first sidelink device to determine a first resource set. The first resource set is used by the first sidelink device to send information. The communication method also includes determining that the coordination information includes one or more of information about a second resource set recommended to the first sidelink device, information about a third resource set scheduled to the first sidelink device, information about a fourth resource set expected to be excluded by the first sidelink device, a coordination parameter or a measurement result, where the coordination parameter or the measurement result is used by the first sidelink device to determine the first resource set, or indication information, where the indication information instructs the first sidelink device to determine the first resource set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Dong, Hongjia Su, Wenting Guo, Chang He, Lei Lu
  • Patent number: 12609792
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a method performed by a user equipment in a wireless communication system is provided. The method may include repeatedly receiving, from a base station through a plurality of transmission and reception points (TRPs), control information having a same downlink control information (DCI) format and payload, repeatedly receiving, from the base station through the plurality of TRPs, downlink data corresponding to the control information, performing soft combining on the repeatedly received control information, and performing decoding on the control information, based on a result of the soft combining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngrok Jang, Jinhyun Park, Taehyoung Kim, Hoondong Noh, Hyoungju Ji
  • Patent number: 12604323
    Abstract: A wireless device receives a first PDCCH from a base station. The first PDCCH indicates a resource allocation of a first PDSCH transmitted on a first time-frequency resource. The wireless device decodes data carried in the first PDSCH according to the first PDCCH. The wireless device obtains a resource allocation of a second PDSCH based on a mapping rule. The mapping rule maps resources of the first PDSCH to resources of the second PDSCH. The wireless device generates encoded bits for the second PDSCH. The encoded bits are based on the decoded data carried in the first PDSCH and the resource allocation of the second PDSCH. The wireless device generates reference signals associated with the second PDSCH. The wireless device transmits the encoded bits to a user equipment (UE). The encoded bits are transmitted on the resources of the second PDSCH on the second time-frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventor: Lung-Sheng Tsai
  • Patent number: 12593339
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for dynamic indication of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission to a single transmission/reception point (TRP) or multiple TRPs are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method in a network node includes configure the WD with a first sounding reference signal, SRS, resource set, and with a second SRS resource set for physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, and schedule, by sending a downlink control information, DCI, to the WD, a PUSCH transmission by the WD in at least one PUSCH transmission occasion associated with one of the first SRS resource set, the second SRS resource set, and both the first and the second SRS resource sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Shiwei Gao, Siva Muruganathan