Patents Examined by Fahmida S Chowdhury
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Patent number: 11973711Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus, a wireless communication method and a computer-readable medium. The electronic apparatus for wireless communication according to one embodiment comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform control to send or receive configuration information. The configuration information is related to configuration of a reference signal used in a discovery process of an integrated access backhaul (IAB) link node.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaodong Xu, Mengying Sun, Guanyu Chen, Yingting Yuan, Wenbo Zhang
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Patent number: 11974313Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and techniques directed to using a supplementary uplink (SUL) to mitigate a desensitization condition. The described systems and techniques include a user equipment having a desensitization manager application that directs the user equipment to determine a presence of a desensitization condition. The desensitization manager application further directs the user equipment to transmit, to a base station, a first message that requests the base station to allocate, to the user equipment, a portion of resources used for a supplementary uplink between the user equipment and the base station. After receiving a second a message from the base station that identifies the allocated portion of the resources, the desensitization manager application directs the user equipment perform uplink transmissions using the allocated portion of the resources.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Fei He, Bao Phuc Hoang
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Patent number: 11968150Abstract: An operation method of an electronic device includes determining whether a first communication module based on a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second communication module based on a second RAT operate in a connected state; determining whether a combination of a first band used by the first communication module and a second band used by the second communication module is a combination causing interference; and if the combination of the first band and the second band is a combination causing interference, transmitting a signal requesting to change one of the first band or the second band. The interference is caused by at least one transmission signal of the first RAT or at least one other signal derived from the at least one transmission signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Yongjun An, Soon Park, Kyuhyuck Kwak, Janghyun Nam, Jonghun Yoo, Taeyun Lee, Haekwon Lee, Hyoseok Na
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Patent number: 11963177Abstract: Provided are a communication device and an SRS transmission method capable of reducing the possibility of a difference in recognition between the presence or absence of an SRS transmission between a base station and a terminal or of an SRS resource so as to prevent degradation of system throughput. At a terminal (200), a reception processing unit (203) detects control information indicating whether or not to request transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS), whereupon a transmission signal forming unit (207) transmits an A-SRS by way of control by a transmission control unit (206) on the basis of control information. The transmission control unit (206) determines whether or not to execute SRS transmission on the basis of an “SRS Transmission Execution Rule” and the reception status of trigger information.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura
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Patent number: 11963258Abstract: Methods and devices for prematurely terminating a transmission are provided. The method includes that a base station in a machine type communication (MTC) system receives a first data repeatedly uploaded by a terminal in the MTC system. Additionally, the base station determines whether all data blocks included in the first data are successfully demodulated. The first target number of times is a maximum number of times configured by the base station for the terminal for repeatedly uploading the first data. When determining that all the data blocks included in the first data are successfully demodulated before the total number of times of repeatedly uploading the first data reaches the first target number of times, target downlink control information (DCI) is transmitted to the terminal. The target DCI is configured to instruct the terminal to prematurely terminate uploading the first data to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.Inventor: Qin Mu
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Patent number: 11963221Abstract: A communication method for using an unlicensed frequency band is provided. The method includes: A first wireless device receives first indication information in a first time unit, where the first indication information is used to indicate a second wireless device to transmit data in a second time unit, or the first indication information is used to indicate a second wireless device not to transmit data in a second time unit, where the second time unit is a preset time unit used by the second wireless device to transmit data.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xu Zhang, Lixia Xue, Yongxing Zhou
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Patent number: 11936438Abstract: Provided are an interference finding method and apparatus, a receiving device, a transmitting device and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving measurement configuration information configured by a transmitting device; and performing, according to the measurement configuration information, a receiving measurement on a transmit beam associated with the measurement configuration information, where the receiving measurement includes a received signal strength indicator and/or a channel occupancy.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Li Niu, Yajun Zhao
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Patent number: 11937226Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described to support raw channel estimation. A base station may determine a transmission pattern for a set of multiple transmit beams, where each transmit beam may be associated with a respective reference signal, and may signal the transmission pattern to a user equipment (UE). The transmission pattern may indicate one or more sets of transmit beams, where each set may include two or more transmit beams used for concurrent transmission of respective reference signals. The set of multiple transmit beams may be associated with at least two synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), and the concurrently transmitted reference signals may each be associated with a respective orthogonal cover code. The UE may monitor for concurrently transmitted reference signals based on the transmission pattern, perform associated beamformed measurements, and transmit a channel state information report to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 11930550Abstract: A UE for beam failure detection is provided. The UE includes a radio frequency (RF) signal processing device. The RF signal processing device receives a first candidate-beam reference-signal (RS) list and a second candidate-beam RS list and reports a beam failure information. The first candidate-beam RS list is associated with a first beam-failure-detection RS (BFD-RS) set and the second candidate-beam RS list is associated with a second BFD-RS set. The beam failure information includes at least one of following: at least on component carrier (CC) index, at least one new candidate beam, an identity of BFD-RS set, or an CORESETPoolIndex.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: ACER INCORPORATEDInventors: Li-Chung Lo, Chien-Min Lee
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Patent number: 11924694Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that enable predictive device mobility session management in a wireless network. A wireless communications network is able to maintain IP session continuity as a wireless device roams among wireless access points of the communications network by ensuring that the wireless device maintains communications with its home wireless access gateway.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Teddy El-Rashidy, Colleen Szymanik
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Patent number: 11924922Abstract: Application mobility is a unique feature of the edge computing to support relocation of application instance across edge computing hosts or between edge computing host and cloud computing over underlying mobile network. With the active-standby mode application instance implementation with support of L2 networks, the application mobility could achieve the service continuity with low latency switching time. An application mobility mechanism can be implemented in the data plane of edge computing host under the control of edge computing platform and management. It can be also implemented in L2 switching function of the User Plane Function in 5G networks.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Yonggang Fang, Qiang Huang, ZhiQiang Han, Bo Sun
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Patent number: 11917531Abstract: A transmitter and a method therein for transmitting discovery signals to a receiver. The transmitter and the receiver are comprised in a radio communications system. The transmitter transmits two or more discovery signals over two or more directions. Each discovery signal is configured to span over a fraction of a carrier bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Kumar Balachandran, Dennis Hui
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Patent number: 11910202Abstract: Provided are a transmission control method, sounding reference signal transmission method, terminal, base station and medium. The transmission control method includes: receiving the configuration information sent by the network side, the configuration information including an association relationship between a group index and first information, where the first information has an association relationship with a channel or a reference signal; and determining a receiving mode or a sending mode of the channel or reference signal associated with the first information according to the group index.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Bo Gao, Yu Ngok Li, Zhaohua Lu, Ke Yao, Shujuan Zhang
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Patent number: 11909372Abstract: A differential combiner circuit (200) comprises three ports each has two terminals (1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b). The differential combiner circuit (200) further comprises a first sub-circuit comprising a first inductor (L1) connected between the first terminals (1a, 2a) of the first and second ports, and a first capacitor (C1) connected between the first terminals (2a, 3a) of the second and third ports; a second sub-circuit comprising a second inductor (L2) connected between the second terminals (1b, 2b) of the first and second ports, and a second capacitor (C2) connected between the second terminals (2b, 3b) of the second and third ports.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventor: Henrik Sjöland
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Patent number: 11910320Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to report channel state information (CSI). The UE receives CSI configuration information corresponding to downlink new radio (NR) traffic with non-integer periodicity, wherein the CSI configuration information includes one of CSI measurement configuration information, CSI reporting configuration information or CSI measurement configuration information and CSI reporting configuration information, receives CSI measurement resources and reports CSI feedback to a network.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Weidong Yang, Huaning Niu, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 11902802Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), configuration information for both a first set of reference signals for a first beam sweeping procedure and a second set of reference signals for a second beam sweeping procedure. The UE may receive the first set of reference signals according to the configuration information, and may transmit a channel state information (CSI) report to the base station based on the received reference signals. After transmitting the CSI report, both the base station and the UE may autonomously update a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state based on the CSI report (e.g., using a preferred transmit beam indicated in the CSI report). The base station may transmit on the preferred transmit beam, and the UE may receive on various candidate receive beams, the second set of reference signals.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11894929Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In some aspects, a first WLAN device may transmit a first HARQ frame to a second WLAN device. The first WLAN device may determine whether a first feedback message received from the second WLAN device includes HARQ acknowledgement information or non-HARQ acknowledgment information. The first feedback message may be a HARQ Block Acknowledgement (H-BA) message having a multi-station Block ACK (M-BA) frame format that includes HARQ acknowledgment information. The first WLAN device may transmit a second HARQ frame to the second WLAN device in response to determining the first feedback message includes the HARQ acknowledgment information. The first WLAN device may transmit a non-HARQ frame in response to determining the first feedback message includes non-HARQ acknowledgement information.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Lochan Verma, Jialing Li Chen, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Dung Ngoc Doan, Bin Tian
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Patent number: 11895535Abstract: A wireless backhaul method, including: a wireless backhaul device generates a first F1AP message, maps the first F1AP message to a signaling-plane bearer of an LTE Uu interface, and sends the first F1AP message to a primary base station of the wireless backhaul device via the signaling-plane bearer of the LTE Uu interface. The primary base station obtains the first F1AP message via the signaling-plane bearer of the LTE Uu interface, encapsulates the first F1AP message into a first X2AP message, and sends the first X2AP message to a secondary base station of the wireless backhaul device. The secondary base station receives the first X2AP message and obtains the first F1AP message based on the first X2AP message.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Jing Liu, Mingzeng Dai, Yuanping Zhu, Yibin Zhuo
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Patent number: 11895123Abstract: A method of propagating data packets in a network of nodes is disclosed. The method, implemented at one of the nodes, includes: collecting a set of first data packets during a first time period, the set including at least one data packet received from one or more first nodes in the network; obtaining a plurality of encoded data packets, each one of the plurality of encoded data packets being generated by combining two or more first data packets of the set using network coding; determining a mapping of the plurality of encoded data packets and the first data packets of the set to one or more neighbouring nodes connected to the node; and transmitting the plurality of encoded data packets and the first data packets of the set to the one or more neighbouring nodes according to the determined mapping.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: nChain Licensing AGInventors: Silvia Bartolucci, Simone Madeo
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Patent number: 11895681Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for fast beam indication. A method of operating a UE includes receiving a number (M) of transmission configuration indicator (TCI)state code points activated by a medium access control element (MAC CE) and, if the UE is configured to be indicated TCI state code points on DL control information (DCI) and M>1, receiving the DCI that indicates at least one TCI state code point from the M TCI state code points and determining a TCI state to apply to at least one of downlink (DL) channels and uplink (UL) channels. The method further includes updating one or more spatial filters for at least one of the DL channels and the UL channels based on the determined TCI state and at least one of receiving and transmitting the DL channels and the UL channels, respectively, based on the updated one or more spatial filters.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Emad N. Farag, Eko Onggosanusi, Md. Saifur Rahman, Dalin Zhu