Patents Examined by Eric Nowlin
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Patent number: 11792813Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive one or more retransmissions of an initial group-common transmission. The UE may receive, in accordance with a first SPS configuration, a group-common transmission of a group-common downlink shared channel, the group-common transmission being associated with a first RNTI. The UE may transmit feedback information for the group-common transmission. The UE may then receive a downlink control information (DCI) message scheduling either a group-common retransmission of the group-common downlink shared channel or a unicast retransmission of the group-common downlink shared channel. The DCI may indicate that either the group-common retransmission is associated with the first RNTI or that the unicast retransmission is associated with a second RNTI that may be different from the first RNTI.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Le Liu, Kazuki Takeda, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Ayan Sengupta
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Patent number: 11792802Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an uplink grant that indicates scheduling information for an uplink shared channel transmission by the UE. The UE may also receive a downlink grant scheduling feedback information to be piggybacked on the uplink shared channel transmission, and may determine whether the downlink grant has been received after the uplink grant. The UE may then select from a set of resources indicated in the uplink grant, or determine that a feedback piggybacking condition has been met based on the downlink grant. The UE may perform the uplink shared channel transmission to the base station, in some cases including the feedback information.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wei Yang, Yi Huang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
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Patent number: 11791943Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to retransmission implementations in new radio (NR) wireless communication systems. In one aspect, a network entity may initially perform a multicast transmission and then a multicast retransmission according to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process. In another aspect, a user equipment (UE) may initially receive a multicast transmission from a network entity and a subsequent multicast transmission according to a HARQ process. In an additional aspect, a network entity may initially perform a multicast transmission and then a subsequent unicast retransmission according to a HARQ process. In yet another aspect, a UE may initially receive a multicast transmission from a network entity and a subsequent unicast transmission according to a HARQ process.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Kazuki Takeda, Le Liu
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Patent number: 11784758Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) protocol using multiple beams. In some aspects, the UE may receive a first HARQ transmission from a base station (BS) via a first beam, and may transmit a HARQ feedback to the first BS. The BS may receive the HARQ feedback message and determine whether to transmit a HARQ retransmission associated with the first HARQ transmission via the first beam or via a different beam (such as a second beam) based on beam-specific conditions. The BS may provide a HARQ retransmission beam indication to the UE indicating that the HARQ retransmission will be transmitted via the second beam. The BS may transmit the HARQ retransmission via the second beam. The UE may receive the HARQ retransmission associated with the first HARQ transmission via the second beam.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Idan Michael Horn, Shay Landis, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger
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Patent number: 11778499Abstract: A SS of a SS block of a SS burst set can be received. A measurement can be performed at least on the received SS of the SS block. A PBCH of the SS block that can include a first portion and a second portion of the PBCH can be received. The first portion can carry at least a part of minimum system information. The second portion can carry timing information. The timing information can include information including at least an indication of a SS block index of the SS block within the SS burst set. The SS block index can be determined. A measurement report that can include a measurement quantity from the measurement on the received SS of the SS block and that can include the determined SS block index can be transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Hyejung Jung, Vijay Nangia, Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Löhr, Ravi Kuchibhotla
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Patent number: 11778618Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication method and device. Frequency-domain resource allocation and/or bandwidth part configuration is flexibly performed on a terminal device in conjunction with a synchronous signal block, and the performance of a communication system can be raised. The method comprises: a network device receiving a first message sent by a terminal device, the first message being used for indicating a first synchronous signal block detected by the terminal device; and according to the first synchronous signal block, the network device performing frequency-domain resource allocation and/or bandwidth part configuration on the terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Zhi Zhang
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Patent number: 11770267Abstract: A system described herein may provide for the selection of a charging function (“CHF”) associated with a particular user equipment (“UE”). A particular CHF may be selected, from a group of candidate CHFs, based on CHF selection criteria respectively associated with the candidate CHFs and attribute information associated with the UE. The attribute information may describe attributes of the UE, profile information associated with the UE, and/or attributes of traffic and/or bearers associated with the UE.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Lixia Yan, James Mathison, Barry F. Hoffner, Marc Chiaverini
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Patent number: 11764838Abstract: A method of performing an operation for a first user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes transmitting a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) to a second UE by the first UE, and transmitting, to a base station (BS), feedback information based on a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) for the PSSCH on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) by the first UE. A transmission timing of the PUCCH is determined based on information about the number of slots from the PSFCH to the PUCCH.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Daesung Hwang, Seungmin Lee, Jinwoo Kim, Hanbyul Seo
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Patent number: 11764925Abstract: A reference signal sending method and a communications device are provided. The reference signal sending method includes: generating, by a first device, a tracking reference signal, where the tracking reference signal corresponds to a DMRS port that is used by the first device when the first device sends data to a second device; mapping, by the first device, the tracking reference signal to a time-frequency resource that is used by the first device when the first device sends the data to the second device through the DMRS port, where the tracking reference signal is mapped to at least two modulation symbols on a same frequency resource in one transmission slot; and sending, by the first device, the tracking reference signal mapped to the time-frequency resource to the second device.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lei Chen, Xi Zhang, Rong Wen
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Patent number: 11758551Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may dynamically cancel and reschedule configured transmission occasions for communicating with a user equipment (UE). The transmission occasions may be configured according to a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration (e.g., for downlink transmissions) or a configured grant (CG) configuration (e.g., for uplink transmissions). The base station may transmit a dynamic grant to the UE that indicates a cancellation of a transmission occasion and schedules a dynamic transmission occasion for communicating data scheduled for transmission at the canceled transmission occasion. In some examples, the cancellation in the grant may be explicit or implicit.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Qiang Wu, Jelena Damnjanovic, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo, Yan Zhou, Wooseok Nam, Hwan Joon Kwon, Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni
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Patent number: 11758552Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring capability that indicates an amount of time between two consecutive PDCCH monitoring windows, a number of slots to be included in a PDCCH monitoring window, and a number of consecutive symbols in a slot to be associated with PDCCH monitoring. The UE may receive a PDCCH monitoring configuration that is based at least in part on the PDCCH monitoring capability. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wooseok Nam, Jing Sun, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Hari Sankar
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Patent number: 11751225Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may determine a result associated with an initial set of transmissions of a periodic transmission cycle, and switch a search space configuration set to be used for one or more slots of the periodic transmission cycle based at least in part on the result, the search space configuration set being switched to a candidate search space configuration set. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine that a search space configuration set to be used for a slot of a periodic transmission cycle is to be switched based at least in part on a result associated with an initial set of transmissions of the periodic transmission cycle; and switch the search space configuration, the search space configuration set being switched to a candidate search space configuration set. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yan Zhou, Kazuki Takeda, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Hamed Pezeshki, Konstantinos Dimou, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sony Akkarakaran
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Patent number: 11751239Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for wireless communication and a device, which may select at least one of a random access sequence or a random access resource by use of quality of a signal in a second signal set when a link for a signal in a first signal set is too poor to be available.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventors: Zhihua Shi, Wenhong Chen, Zhi Zhang
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Patent number: 11750526Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for an ingress packet processing pipeline of a network forwarding integrated circuit (IC). The ingress packet processing pipeline is for receiving packets from a port of the network forwarding IC and processing the packets to assign different packets to different queues of a traffic management unit of the network forwarding IC. The method receives state data from the traffic management unit. The method stores the state data in a stateful table. The method assigns a particular packet to a particular queue based on the state data received from the traffic management unit and stored in the stateful table.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Barefoot Networks, Inc.Inventors: Yi Li, Michael Feng, Anurag Agrawal, Jeongkeun Lee, Changhoon Kim, Remy Chang
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Patent number: 11743942Abstract: A wireless device receives configuration parameters of a first uplink carrier and a second uplink carrier of an unlicensed cell. A first contention window is determined for a first listen before talk (LBT) procedure for a first channel of the first uplink carrier. Based on switching from the first uplink carrier to the second uplink carrier, a second contention window is determined to be a minimum contention window, of a plurality of contention windows, for a second LBT procedure of a second channel of the second uplink carrier. A transport block is transmitted, via the second uplink carrier, based on the second LBT procedure using the second contention window.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Ofinno, LLCInventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Hua Zhou, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Kyungmin Park
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Patent number: 11743963Abstract: Methods performed by a first sink device, a source device, or a second sink device. The first sink device is connected to a source device via a first communication link and a second sink device via a second communication link, wherein the second sink device is configured to eavesdrop on communications between the first sink device and the source device on the first communication link. The methods include determining an occurrence of a trigger event and modifying an operation of at least one of the first sink device, the second sink device or the source device based at least on the trigger event occurring.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lei Li, Xiaojun Chen, Camille Chen, Siegfried Lehmann, Vusthla Sunil Reddy, Peter M. Agboh
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Patent number: 11729847Abstract: A communication device includes: a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication; and a control unit configured to allocate respective resources for communication with a plurality of terminal devices in which at least any of bandwidths or central frequencies of channels to be used is different. The control unit allocates a first control channel to be commonly transmitted to the plurality of terminal devices to a first region overlapping between the respective channels of the plurality of terminal devices in a region in which the resources are allocated. The control unit allocates a second control channel to be individually transmitted to each of the plurality of terminal devices to a second region different from the first region.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Naoki Kusashima
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Patent number: 11728916Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are discussed that enable robust, high-speed communication of sensor data. One example system includes a sensor bus, an electronic control unit (ECU), and one or more sensors. The ECU is coupleable to the sensor bus and configured to generate a synchronization signal, and is configured to output the synchronization signal to the sensor bus. The one or more sensors are also coupleable to the sensor bus, and at least one sensor of the one or more sensors is configured to sample sensor data in response to the synchronization signal and to output the sampled sensor data to the sensor bus.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Leo Aichriedler
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Patent number: 11728940Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless device may receive, for communications with one or more of a base station or another wireless device, information identifying that an uplink transmission on a sidelink and a downlink transmission on a sidelink are to precede an uplink transmission on an access link and a downlink transmission on an access link. The wireless device may communicate, with the one or more of the base station or the other wireless device, based at least in part on the information identifying that the uplink transmission on the sidelink and the downlink transmission on the sidelink are to precede the uplink transmission on the access link and the downlink transmission on the access link. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Lik Hang Silas Fong, Piyush Gupta, Hua Wang, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11722914Abstract: Provided are a communication method and system enabling convergence of 5G communication and IoT technology to achieve higher data rates for beyond 4G communication systems. In addition, provided is a method for transmitting a power headroom report (PHR) by a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system. The method includes: receiving a first PHR configuration information for a first base station (first ENB); receiving a second PHR configuration information for a second ENB; generating, when the UE has dual connectivity to the first ENB and the second ENB, a dual connectivity PHR containing PHR information for the first ENB and second ENB based on a dual connectivity PHR format; and sending the dual connectivity PHR. There is also provided a user equipment supporting the above method. There is further provided a base station and operation method therefor that enable the user equipment to have dual connectivity.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Soenghun Kim, Sangsoo Jeong, Sunghwan Won, Kyeongin Jeong, Jaehyuk Jang, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Sangbum Kim, Songyean Cho