Patents Examined by Eric Nowlin
  • Patent number: 11870734
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support dormant bandwidth part (BWP) configurations that may be used for full-duplex operation. In a first aspect, a user equipment (UE) in a full-duplex mode may, in at least one symbol, receive a downlink signal in a dormant downlink BWP and transmit an uplink signal in an uplink BWP. In a second aspect, a dormant downlink BWP may be further configured into one of multiple possible resource bandwidths (RBWs), which may include at least one dormant RBW. Each of the multiple RBWs that may be configured in the dormant BWP may be associated with a size and location as well as a set of one or more operational constraints. In a third aspect, a dormant downlink BWP may be further configured into one of multiple possible RBWs, which may include a downlink dormant RBW and an uplink dormant RBW.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Huilin Xu
  • Patent number: 11871349
    Abstract: A sleep method for a terminal device and an apparatus are provided, to meet a power consumption reduction requirement. In this method, if the terminal device receives no wake-up indication signal within a preset time, and InactivityTimer and/or RetransmissionTimer are/is running, the terminal device stops InactivityTimer and/or RetransmissionTimer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yiru Kuang, Yu Cai, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 11870572
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a communication system, including receiving, from a base station, downlink control information including resource assignment information of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), identifying a number of resource elements (REs) for the PDSCH based on the resource assignment information of the PDSCH, identifying a temporary transport block size (TBS) based on the number of REs for the PDSCH, identifying a TBS based on the temporary TBS, and receiving, from the base station, the PDSCH based on the TBS, wherein the number of REs for the PDSCH is identified by excluding a number of REs associated with a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) and a control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Hyojin Lee, Taehyoung Kim, Sungjin Park, Jeongho Yeo
  • Patent number: 11871378
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for deactivation of a configured grant and initiation of connection request upon detection of sidelink failure in a wireless communication system is provided. A first wireless device, which performs a sidelink transmission with a second wireless device based on a sidelink configured grant, detects a problem on the sidelink transmission, and deactivates the sidelink configured grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Taehun Kim, Jongwoo Hong
  • Patent number: 11855759
    Abstract: A data synchronization method, device, equipment, system and storage medium. Including: if a first data packet received by a slave device from a master device during a current Bluetooth low energy (BLE) connection interval is a new data packet, the slave device generates a hardware synchronization signal, which is a synchronization signal generated by a pure hardware circuit; if a data synchronization time of the slave device with the master device is a preset time in the current BLE connection interval, then the slave device performs data synchronization with the master device at the data synchronization time through triggering by the hardware synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ke Yang, Chunlong Wang, Linyuan Xu
  • Patent number: 11855926
    Abstract: A method for determining the length of feedback response information and a related product. The method comprises the following steps: a terminal receives configuration signaling sent by a network side device, the configuration signaling comprising: indicating the maximum transmission delay of feedback response information; the terminal dynamically determines a hybrid automatic repeat request feedback time sequence; the terminal determines the total number of bits of a feedback response message to be transmitted according to the maximum transmission delay; the terminal sends the feedback response message to be transmitted with the total number of bits to the network side device. The technical solution provided by the present invention has the advantage of supporting the multiplex transmission of feedback response information in one transmission time unit in a new radio system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 11855917
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure discloses a system, a data transmission method and a network equipment supporting a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) duplication function. The data transmission method supporting a PDCP duplication function comprises the steps of: transmitting, by a first network equipment, a configuration instruction message of a radio bearer supporting a PDCP duplication function to a second network equipment; and, performing, by the first network equipment and the second network equipment, transmission of a data packet of the radio bearer configured with the PDCP duplication function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weiwei Wang, Lixiang Xu, Xiaowan Ke, Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 11848781
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration signal identifying a scheduling constraint for the UE, the scheduling constraint for downlink feedback messages associated with a dynamic codebook configuration and scheduled using a first downlink control information (DCI) format. The UE may receive a first DCI having the first DCI format. The UE may determine, based at least in part on the first DCI format, that the scheduling constraint is satisfied. The UE may transmit a feedback message for the first downlink control information based at least in part on the scheduling constraint being satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
  • Patent number: 11844103
    Abstract: Aspects relate to configuring and managing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgment (ACK) feedback codebooks for use in wireless communication systems. The HARQ-ACK codebooks include priority-based HARQ-ACK codebooks of differing priorities, such as Type 1 and Type 2 codebooks, and one-shot (Type 3) HARQ-ACK codebooks. In one example, a wireless communication device may be configured to obtain a set of HARQ-ACK codebooks that include priority-based HARQ-ACK codebooks of differing priorities and a separate one-shot HARQ-ACK codebook. The wireless communication device may further be configured to process first and second physical uplink channels based on the priority of the first physical uplink channel and the priority of the second physical uplink channel, where one of the two physical uplink channels includes the one-shot HARQ-ACK codebook, and with the processing performed in combination with the use of the priority-based HARQ-ACK codebooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 11838918
    Abstract: A communication scheme and a system thereof are provided for converging IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a high data transmission rate beyond that of a 4G system. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. Further, the disclosure provides a method of determining DL feedback information in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving, from a BS, first information configuring a CBG based UL transmission; transmitting, to the BS, UL data including one or more CBGs, based on the first information; and receiving, from the BS, second information indicating an ACK or a NACK according to a reception result of the BS for the UL data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventors: Jinyoung Oh, Taehyoung Kim, Hoondong Noh, Hyoungju Ji
  • Patent number: 11832275
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting or receiving uplink feedback information in a communication system. An operation method of a terminal may comprise receiving downlink control information (DCI) from a base station, the DCI including resource allocation information of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); receiving data #n from the base station through the PDSCH indicated by the DCI; generating a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) codebook including an HARQ response bit #n for the data #n and an HARQ response bit #n?1 for data #n?1 received from the base station before the data #n; and transmitting the HARQ codebook to the base station. Therefore, the performance of the communication system can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Cheul Soon Kim, Jae Heung Kim, Sung Hyun Moon, Jung Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11832201
    Abstract: Described herein is a system with a first network element and a second network element. The first network element contains a processor configured to synchronize with the second network element; and maintain synchronization with the second network element. The first network element is a small cell eNB and the second network element is one of the following: a macro cell enhanced node-B (eNB); or a small cell eNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Hua Xu, Shiwei Gao, Yajun Zhu, Zhijun Cai, Chandra Sekhar Bontu, Yi Song
  • Patent number: 11825296
    Abstract: Information transmission and reception methods and apparatus are disclosed, where the transmission method includes: carrying configuration information of a control resource set on a physical broadcast channel; where the configuration information is used to indicate to a terminal at least one of the following of the control resource set: time domain position information and frequency domain position information; and transmitting the control resource set to the terminal according to the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xing Liu, Peng Hao, Haigang He, Feng Bi
  • Patent number: 11818714
    Abstract: A transmission control method includes: receiving N pieces of transmission control information; and generating, based on the N pieces of transmission control information, transmission feedback information corresponding to transport blocks respectively scheduled by using the N pieces of transmission control information. Transport blocks can be accurately distinguished based on different effective transmission parameter group fields, and an effective feedback is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shibin Ge, Xiaohan Wang, Yong Liu, Huangping Jin, Xiaoyan Bi
  • Patent number: 11804929
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication technique and a system for integrating a 5G communication system with IoT technology to support a higher data transmission rate after a 4G system. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technologies (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinhyun Park, Hoondong Noh, Youngrok Jang, Heecheol Yang, Hyoungju Ji
  • Patent number: 11805525
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication method and a system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, a smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a higher signal including a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource information, determining a PUCCH format and resource for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information corresponding to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and transmitting the HARQ feedback information based on the determined PUCCH format and the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seunghoon Choi, Jinkyu Kang, Youngbum Kim, Taehyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11799589
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) includes reception circuitry configured to receive, from a base station, first information indicating a slot format and second information indicating a maximum number of PDCCH repetition, and to monitor, based on the second information, PDCCH repetitions for a first search space set in a first CORESET, and processing circuitry configured to determine, based on the first information, whether to omit monitoring a PDCCH repetition for each PDCCH repetition among the PDCCH repetitions, wherein Downlink Control Information (DCI) is carried by the PDCCH repetition, the DCI schedules a PDSCH, and the DCI includes third information indicating a first number and forth information indicating timing of the PDSCH, and to determine, based on the third information, a first slot in which the last one PDCCH repetition of the PDCCH repetitions with the first number is located, and to determine a starting slot of a PDSCH transmission based on the forth information and the first slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11799498
    Abstract: A data processing method and apparatus. The data process method includes: determining, by a transmitting node, a code block length N0 for encoding an information bit sequence to be transmitted according to a data characteristic for representing the information bit sequence to be transmitted and a preset parameter corresponding to the data characteristic; performing, by the transmitting node, polar encoding on the information bit sequence to be transmitted according to the code block length N0; and transmitting, by the transmitting node, a code block obtained through the polar encoding to a receiving node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Saijin Xie, Jun Xu, Jin Xu, Mengzhu Chen
  • Patent number: 11791930
    Abstract: Provided is an uplink control information transmission/configuration indication method and device, a terminal, and a base station. The uplink control information transmission method includes: determining a transmission configuration set corresponding to uplink control information to be sent, selecting a transmission configuration from the transmission configuration set, and transmitting the uplink control information to be sent according to the selected transmission configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yijian Chen, Zhaohua Lu, Yungok Li, Bo Gao
  • Patent number: 11792720
    Abstract: Network equipment in a wireless communication network is configured to receive at least a portion of a subscription concealed identifier, SUCI, (34) for a subscriber. The SUCI (34) contains a concealed subscription permanent identifier, SUPI, (20) for the subscriber. The received at least a portion of the SUCI (34) indicates a sub-domain code, SDC. The SDC indicates a certain sub-domain, from among multiple sub-domains of a home network of the subscriber, to which the subscriber is assigned. The network equipment is also configured to determine, based on the SDC and from among multiple instances of a provider network function in the home network respectively allocated to provide a service to be consumed for subscribers assigned to different sub-domains, an instance of the provider network function to provide the service to be consumed for the subscriber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Cheng Wang, David Castellanos Zamora, Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi, Vesa Torvinen