Patents Examined by Eva Y Puente
  • Patent number: 11811569
    Abstract: A sensor includes a sensing element to produce a sensing element signal and a processor responsive to the sensing element signal to generate a sensor output signal comprising a Single Edge Nibble Transmission (SENT) frame. The SENT frame includes a Status and Communication (SCN) nibble comprising a bit 0 and a bit 1 that represent a status of at least one internal diagnostic indicator and a plurality of data nibbles. At least one of the plurality of data nibbles includes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC), the CRC being an encoding of the bit 0 and the bit 1 of the SCN nibble and the plurality of data nibbles and at least one of the plurality of data nibbles includes a count that indicates a new frame, the CRC being at least a five bit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
    Inventors: Florencia Ferrer, Jesse Lapomardo, Lucas Intile
  • Patent number: 11811471
    Abstract: Example channel measurement methods and communications apparatus are described. One example method includes receiving a precoded reference signal by a terminal device, where the precoded reference signal is obtained by precoding a reference signal based on K angle vectors and L delay vectors. First indication information is generated and sent, where the first indication information indicates P weighting coefficients corresponding to P angle-delay pairs. The P weighting coefficients are determined by using the precoded reference signal. The P angle-delay pairs and the P weighting coefficients corresponding to the P angle-delay pairs are used to determine a precoding matrix. Each angle-delay pair includes one of the K angle vectors and one of the L delay vectors. The K angle vectors and the L delay vectors are determined based on uplink channel measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhimeng Zhong, Huangping Jin, Haifan Yin, Xiaoyan Bi, Li Fan
  • Patent number: 11811470
    Abstract: A communication management resource implements an iterative process to derive settings for digital precoder W, analog precoder A, and decode function D with a bandwidth-limited fronthaul link between the application of digital precoder W and the application of analog precoder A. The iterative process includes: for a first instance of digital precoder W and decode function D, optimize an instance of the analog precoder A; and based on the optimized instance of the analog precoder A, optimize a second instance of the digital precoder W and the decode function D. In one implementation, for each iteration of multiple iterations, the communication management resource: i) optimizes an instance of the analog precoder A based on an instance of the digital precoder W and the decode function D, and ii) optimizes an instance of the digital precoder W and the decode function D based on the instance of the analog precoder A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Amitav Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 11804884
    Abstract: This application discloses a precoding processing method and an apparatus. The method includes: A base station determines first downlink channel information based on a pilot signal received from a terminal device. The base station receives a precoding matrix indication PMI from the terminal device, determines second downlink channel information based on the PMI, determines a precoding matrix of a downlink channel based on the first downlink channel information and second downlink channel information, and performs precoding processing by using the precoding matrix. In this method, when calculating a downlink BF weight, the base station combines the downlink channel information obtained based on the pilot signal with the precoding matrix indicated by the PMI, to compensate for a quantization error caused by feedback of a single PMI indication. This method improves accuracy of beamforming weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heng Xu, Jian Li
  • Patent number: 11791873
    Abstract: Technologies directed to correction of terrestrial interference using spatial signal minimum beamforming are described. One method includes a first communication device with beamforming circuitry receiving an indication of a first direction. The method further includes determining that orienting a main lobe of a first antenna gain pattern along the first direction results in an RF interference condition. The method further includes determining a second antenna gain pattern. The second antenna gain pattern comprises a second main lobe oriented along the second direction. The method further includes determining a third antenna gain pattern of the beamforming circuitry using (i) the first antenna gain pattern and (ii) the second antenna gain pattern. The method further includes receiving a first RF signal with the beamforming circuitry configured with the third antenna gain pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Aditya Chopra, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11784697
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may configure a first set of throughput targets and a second set of throughput targets for an application layer. The UE may set a target throughput rate associated with the application to a required throughput target included in the first set of throughput targets. The UE may monitor a real-time throughput rate associated with the application layer. The UE may set the target throughput rate to a value in the second set of throughput targets based at least in part on a difference between the real-time throughput rate and the required throughput target satisfying a threshold. The UE may select, from a set of candidate beams, a serving beam associated with an estimated application layer throughput that satisfies the target throughput rate. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa, Michael Lee McCloud, Brian Clarke Banister
  • Patent number: 11777779
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for indicating dynamic time offset(s) for control resource sets (CORESETS). A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving signaling indicating a dynamic time offset for monitoring occasions of a search space associated with a CORESET, and based on the dynamic time offset, monitoring for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in monitoring occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11777563
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a precoding weight by a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11770162
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for using multiple messages by the base station to indicate sub-band information without incurring big signaling overhead are described. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes receiving, by a user device from a base station, a first message that includes a first set of information for configuring a transmission from the user device to the base station. The first message includes one or more fields indicating an association between the first message and a second message for configuring the transmission. The method includes receiving, by the user device, the second message from the base station. The second message includes a second set of information for configuring the transmission. The method also includes performing the transmission based on the first and the second set of information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Hao Wu, Chuangxin Jiang, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Ngok Li
  • Patent number: 11757510
    Abstract: Disclosed are electronic devices and communication methods. An electronic device comprises a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured to: receive an RRC signaling and/or a MAC CE signaling from a control-side electronic device; determine, based on a first beam indication information of control channel in the RRC signaling and/or the MAC CE signaling, an activated beam for performing a transmission in the physical control channel with the control-side electronic device; rewrite the activated beam based on a second beam indication information of control channel included in a downlink control information (DCI) carried by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and use the rewritten activated beam to perform the transmission in the physical control channel with the control-side electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jianfei Cao
  • Patent number: 11758433
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A station (STA) may receive a first signal including an indication of a set of frequency channels for a set of target wake time (TWT) sessions that recur according to a service interval. In some examples, the first signal may indicate a respective frequency channel of the set of frequency channels for each TWT session of the set of target wake time sessions. Each TWT session of the set of TWT sessions may have an associated service period that the STA may be in an awake state. The STA may switch, for the first TWT session, from the first frequency channel to the second frequency channel. In some examples, based on the switching, the STA may communicate a signal during a service period associated with the first TWT session over the second frequency channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srikant Kuppa, Sandip Homchaudhuri, Yongchun Xiao, Hao-Jen Cheng
  • Patent number: 11750769
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to perform an automated gain control protocol with an amplifier based on historical data corresponding to contextual data are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a controller to select an automatic gain control (AGC) parameter for an AGC protocol based on historical data corresponding to contextual data, the contextual data including at least one of a time during which the AGC protocol is performed, a panelist identified by a meter, demographics of an audience identified by the meter, a location of the meter, a station identified by the meter, a media type identified by the meter, or a sound pressure level identified by the meter; and a processor to perform the AGC protocol based on the selected AGC parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: John T. Livoti, Susan Cimino, Rajakumar Madhanganesh, Stanley Wellington Woodruff
  • Patent number: 11742928
    Abstract: A method of operating a communication device includes: sweeping a plurality of first reception beams; measuring reference signals, received from another communication device, based on the plurality of first reception beams; estimating a downlink channel gain based on the measured reference signals and reception array response information corresponding to reception antenna characteristics of the communication device; generating a downlink channel related matrix based on the downlink channel gain and the reception array response information; determining a second reception beam based on the downlink channel related matrix; determining a transmission beam based on at least one of the downlink channel gain, the downlink channel related matrix, and the second reception beam; and performing communication with the other communication device using the second reception beam and the transmission beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaein Kim, Jonggun Moon, Junho Lee, Huiwon Je, Seungjin Choi
  • Patent number: 11742913
    Abstract: Aspects of the techniques and apparatuses described herein provide an intra slot antenna diversity scheme that a user equipment (UE) may use to transmit uplink communications while mitigating antenna imbalance. In an intra slot antenna diversity scheme, a UE transmits an uplink communication by transmitting a first portion of the uplink transmission in a first part of a slot using a first subset of antennas and a second portion of the uplink communication in a second part of the slot using a second subset of antennas. A decision to apply an intra slot antenna diversity scheme may be made by a network node such as a base station. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Daniel Paz, Michael Levitsky, Assaf Touboul, Jacob Pick
  • Patent number: 11736322
    Abstract: A system that includes a Viterbi Equalizer having adaptive signal levels is disclosed. Each branch metric of the Viterbi Equalizer compares the value of the incoming bit to one of a plurality of different expected signal levels. A set of default signal values may be used by the Viterbi Equalizer. The system is also configured to determine whether these default expected signal levels are acceptable by monitoring the incoming data bits. If it is determined that the actual signal levels of the incoming data bits differ from the default expected signal levels by more than a predetermined amount, the signal levels used by the Viterbi Equalizer may be changed from default signal levels to the adaptive signal levels. The adaptive signal levels may be determined using the synchronization pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventor: Guner Arslan
  • Patent number: 11728954
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive downlink signaling configured to support obtaining spatial basis functions associated with antenna ports of a network node. The UE may receive a downlink communication from the network node, the receiving the downlink communication including decoding the downlink communication using digital post-distortion (DPoD) correction that is based at least in part on the spatial basis functions. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger, Elad Meir, Assaf Touboul
  • Patent number: 11728842
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described to support increasing a sidelink feedback channel reliability. A second user equipment (UE) may transmit a sidelink message to a first UE, and the first UE may provide feedback for the sidelink message via an associated feedback opportunity. The first UE may perform frequency hopping from one symbol to another during the feedback opportunity, may transmit the feedback using multiple physical resource blocks (PRBs) within one symbol of the feedback opportunity, or both. A pattern for frequency hopping, or for the multiple PRBs, or both, may be defined or determined by a base station, the first UE, the second UE, or any combination thereof. In some cases, a pattern for frequency hopping or for PRB bundling may be defined or preconfigured at the first UE, the second UE, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11728878
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for locally suppressing interference in RF communications by satellites and related methods of using such systems. In some aspects, the interference suppression is performed by one or more small form factor satellites (e.g., CubeSats).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Vit Tall LLC
    Inventor: Steve Chan
  • Patent number: 11728833
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive one or more indications of parameters associated with one or more downlink communications transmitted to one or more additional UEs. The UE may receive a downlink communication, including applying digital post distortion (DPoD) correction based at least in part on measurements of the one or more downlink communications transmitted to the one or more additional UEs and the one or more indications of the parameters. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Elad Meir, Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger, Tal Oved, Yaron Laufer
  • Patent number: 11722189
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable medium for fronthaul compression are provided. An example method may include receiving, from a UE, uplink data via one or more active tones of a plurality of tones in a symbol, the uplink data corresponding to an access vector. The example method may further include compressing the uplink data based on a linear transformation of a pseudo-access vector generated based on the access vector, the linear transformation including a matrix, the compression enabling a second network entity to decompress the compressed uplink data without knowing one or more locations associated with the one or more active tones. The example method may further include transmitting, to the second network entity, the compressed uplink data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ori Shental, Ashwin Sampath, Ozge Koymen, Junyi Li, Juergen Cezanne, Qiang Wu, Meilong Jiang