Patents Examined by Fitwi Y Hailegiorgis
  • Patent number: 11190243
    Abstract: A control device for a wireless communication system is configured to obtain a first channel estimation for a first client device and a second channel estimation for a second client device, to allocate a common resource block (RB) for concurrent wireless transmission between a first network node and the first client device using a first radio access technology (RAT) and between a second network node and the second client device using a second RAT based on the first channel estimation and the second channel estimation. The control device is further configured to allocate a first precoder for the common RB for the first client device and a second precoder for the common RB for the second client device. The first precoder and the second precoder are configured for spatially multiplexing the concurrent wireless transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaojia Lu, Anders Dahlen, Gunnar Peters, Per Tengkvist
  • Patent number: 11184080
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide to techniques for radio link monitoring (RLM), detecting beam failure, and beam failure recovery (BFR) using radio link monitoring reference signal (RML-RS) resources and beam failure recovery reference signal (BFR-RS) resources. An exemplary method by a user equipment (UE) may include obtaining a first configuration indicating one or more radio link monitoring reference signal (RLM-RS) resources and one or more beam failure recovery reference signal (BFR-RS) resources, wherein each RLM-RS resource corresponds to at least a first link, and each BFR-RS resource corresponds to at least a second link, obtaining a first indication that a first link quality for the first link is below a first threshold and a second link quality for the second link is above a second threshold, and taking action regarding a radio link failure (RLF) based on the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sumeeth Nagaraja, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11184071
    Abstract: A system and method for beamforming includes providing an antenna including feeds, a coverage area including service areas and data streams for each of the service areas; scheduling N data streams of the data streams, selecting a cluster of M feeds from the feeds; computing, with a GBBF processor (ground based beam former), M×N weights; generating M feed excitations by distributing the N data streams per the M×N weights; switching an array to transfer a respective one of the M feed excitations to a respective one of the M feeds; and beamforming, with the M feeds of the antenna, N beams. In the method, the N beams are each focused on a respective service area of each of the N data streams, the M×N weights improve the transmitting into the respective service area of each of the N data streams, and at least one of the N beams includes a portion of a plurality of the M feed excitations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Stanley E. Kay, Uday R. Bhaskar, Neal David Becker
  • Patent number: 11177865
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure disclose various methods for grouping network resources into precoder resource groups (PRGs) for precoding in MIMO communication. A user equipment (UE) may select a common precoder that may not be restricted to a codebook for precoding the resources in the same PRG. These resource grouping methods provide the UE with the flexibility to select a precoder that is well suited to the channel or bandwidth. Moreover, the base station may reduce downlink signaling because it does not need to signal the precoder choice to the UE. In some examples, the base station may receive PRG based channel state information feedback that facilitates DL precoding. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Alexandros Manolakos, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11171764
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include a communication system including a full duplex transceiver is configured to transmit and receive electromagnetic wave signals simultaneously over a transmission medium; a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitates the performance of operations, including: transmitting, via the full duplex transceiver, electromagnetic wave signals that convey a plurality of data frames, wherein the electromagnetic wave signals propagate along the transmission medium to another transceiver, wherein the electromagnetic wave signals propagate along the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path; monitoring, via the full duplex transceiver, the transmission medium for an interference; identifying, via the full duplex transceiver, one or more data frames of the plurality of data frames that were transmitted during a period of the interference; and retransmitting,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Bennett, Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Donald J. Barnickel, Giovanni Vannucci, Paul Shala Henry, Peter Wolniansky, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 11166144
    Abstract: A power outlet for controlling power to an external device and transmitting data to the external device, the power outlet including: a housing containing at least one alternating-current power input connection; a power output connection; a data connector; a sensor module; a wireless communication module, including an antenna; a processing unit configured to receive data and control an electrically connected device through the power output connection and/or data connector based on the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: LIFI Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip Bosua, Marc Alexander
  • Patent number: 11165611
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for generating two comparator outputs by comparing a received signal to a first threshold and a second threshold according to a sampling clock, the first and second thresholds determined by an estimated amount of inter-symbol interference on a multi-wire bus, selecting one of the two comparator outputs as a data decision, the selection based on at least one prior data decision, and selecting one of the two comparator outputs as a phase-error decision, the phase error decision selected in response to identification of a predetermined data decision pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: KANDOU LABS, S.A.
    Inventors: Ali Hormati, Richard Simpson
  • Patent number: 11159222
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine to report first channel state information (CSI), wherein the first CSI is associated with a parameter that indicates a priority of the first CSI. The UE may prioritize the first CSI over a second CSI based at least in part on the parameter. The UE may transmit an indication of the first CSI and may drop the second CSI based at least in part on prioritizing the first CSI over the second CSI. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Chih Ping Li, Wanshi Chen, Gabi Sarkis, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 11152991
    Abstract: A system for transmitting millimeter wave signals includes a plurality of transceivers for communicating with a plurality of remote locations over millimeter wave communications links. Each of the plurality of transceivers further includes a patch antenna array having a plurality of patch antennas. The plurality of patch antennas includes a transmitter array portion in a first orientation for transmitting signals and a receiver array portion in a second orientation for receiving signals. The first and second orientations limit interference between the transmitted signals and the received signals. Baseband processing circuitry converts between millimeter wave and baseband signals. The plurality of transceivers relays the millimeter wave signals between at least a first millimeter wave transceiver at first one of the plurality of remote locations and a second millimeter wave transceiver at a second one of the plurality of remote locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NxGen Partners IP, LLC
    Inventor: Solyman Ashrafi
  • Patent number: 11153115
    Abstract: Systems, device, and methods related to estimating a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) of a signal are disclosed. A method of estimating an SNR includes setting a threshold of a comparator of a physical layer device to a first value, applying a signal to the comparator, and determining a first bit error number of an output of the comparator with the threshold set at the first value. The method also includes setting the threshold of the comparator to a second value that is different from the first value, applying the signal to the comparator, and determining a second bit error number of the output of the comparator with the threshold set at the second value. The method further includes determining an SNR of the signal based on the first bit error number and the second bit error number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Jiachi Yu, Dixon Chen, Kevin Yang
  • Patent number: 11146441
    Abstract: A technique for transmitting data is described. The data is represented by a modulation symbol comprising an in-phase component and a quadrature component. Considering a method aspect of the technique, the modulation symbol (510) is split into at least two different baseband signals (522, 524), which are in phase with each other and jointly representative of the modulation symbol (510). The at least two baseband signals (522, 524) are up-converted from a baseband frequency to a transmission frequency. Each of the at least two up-converted signals (532, 534) is transmitted on a different physical channel (536, 538).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: János Ladvánszky, Benedek Kovács
  • Patent number: 11140000
    Abstract: A signal transmission apparatus has several serially-connected signal distribution modules, wherein interfaces of two adjacent signal distribution modules are each interconnected by a signal bridge. The signal transmission apparatus also has at least one direct connection between two signal distribution modules, which is routed through all signal bridges arranged between the two adjacent signal distribution modules and interconnects the interfaces of the adjacent signal bridges. In addition, a signal transmission bus is routed through all signal bridges and via all interfaces. The interfaces of all signal distribution modules have an identical design and all signal bridges connect two interfaces in the same way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ludwig Kraus, Christian Maul, Volker Müller
  • Patent number: 11128041
    Abstract: One example includes a phased array antenna system. The system includes a beamforming network to receive a beam signal to generate a plurality of element signals, each being provided to a respective one of a plurality of antenna elements. The system also includes a plurality of modulation controllers, each associated with a respective one of the plurality of antenna elements. Each of the modulation controllers can generate a beam code in response to a beamforming signal and a data code in response to a data signal. The system further includes a plurality of element adjustment circuits, each associated with a respective one of the plurality of antenna elements. Each of the plurality of element adjustment circuits can modulate the beam code and the data code onto a respective one of the plurality of element signals to generate a respective adjusted element signal that is provided to a respective radiating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: VIASAT, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Luna, Ashitkumar Tripathi, Jaymin Patel, Chi Wang Shum
  • Patent number: 11128390
    Abstract: A test system and interface circuitry for antenna-free bit error rate testing of an electronic device under test, including a pulse shaping circuit with a pulse shaping filter circuit to pulse shape a modulating signal before amplitude modulation with a carrier signal, and the amplitude modulated signal is coupled directly or via a transformer and a socket to the device under test without antennas to facilitate automated device testing with simple reconfiguration of signal generators for different device type. A method includes filtering a square wave modulating signal to create a pulse shaped modulating signal, amplitude modulating a carrier signal with the pulse shaped modulating signal to create an amplitude modulated signal, providing the amplitude modulated signal to the socket, and evaluating a bit error rate of the DUT according to receive data from the DUT and according to the BER test transmit data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Rajmohan, Kalyan Chakravarthi Chekuri
  • Patent number: 11115179
    Abstract: A signaling system is disclosed. The signaling system includes a first integrated circuit (IC) chip to receive a data signal and a strobe signal. The first IC includes circuitry to sample the data signal at times indicated by the strobe signal to generate phase error information and circuitry to output the phase error information from the first IC device. The system further includes a signaling link and a second IC chip coupled to the first IC chip via the signaling link to output the data signal and the strobe signal to the first IC chip. The second IC chip includes delay circuitry to generate the strobe signal by delaying an aperiodic timing signal for a first time interval and timing control circuitry to receive the phase error information from the first IC chip and adjust the first time interval in accordance with the phase error information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Bret G. Stott, Craig E. Hampel, Frederick A. Ware
  • Patent number: 11115149
    Abstract: Methods and devices for transmitting data in an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) wireless local area network, comprising: selecting, for a first resource unit assigned to the target station, a first modulation type; selecting, for a second resource unit assigned to the target station, a second modulation type different from the first modulation type; and modulating coded data and mapping the modulated data onto subcarriers associated with the assigned resource units based on the respective modulation types selected for each of the assigned resource units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan Xin, Osama Aboul-Magd, Jung Hoon Suh
  • Patent number: 11108478
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a geographic information-based simulation test system for medium-high frequency communication channels, comprising a human-machine interface module, a geographic information processor, a ground wave signal simulation processing module, a sky wave signal simulation processing module, a digital map, an ambient noise generation module, a time generator, and an simulation signal synthesizer. A ground wave transmission signal and a sky wave transmission signal are respectively simulated according to a ground wave transmission path and a sky wave transmission path; and finally, the ground wave simulation signal, the sky wave simulation signal, and the ambient noise signal are synthesized and sent to a medium-high frequency receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI ADVANCED AVIONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Difei Chen, Qiang Sun, Yao Tang
  • Patent number: 11095350
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to cellular technology applications of beamforming performed in the digital domain. In one aspect, an RF system for performing digital beamforming on a per-carrier basis is disclosed, where different phase and/or amplitude adjustments are applied to signals of different frequency ranges (i.e., to different carrier signals). In another aspect, an RF system for performing digital beamforming on a per-antenna basis is disclosed, where different phase and/or amplitude adjustments are applied to signals transmitted from or received by different antennas. In some embodiments, an RF system may be configured to implement both digital beamforming on a per-carrier basis and digital beamforming on a per-antenna basis. The RF systems disclosed herein allow implementing programmable beamforming in the digital domain in a manner that is significantly less complex than conventional implementations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Antonio Montalvo, David J. Mclaurin
  • Patent number: 11088789
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a signal quality monitoring apparatus includes a signal processor, a comparator and a determiner. The processor obtains output signals from a first transmitter and a second transmitter which are mutually redundant and respectively reproduce digital broadcast signals based on a common origin signal, and generates a first signal based on the output signal from the first transmitter and a second signal based on the output signal from the second transmitter. The comparator compares the first signal and the second signal. The determiner determines a quality of the digital broadcast signal based on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Matsushita, Mikihiko Iwaida, Noboru Taga, Hideki Ono
  • Patent number: 11089530
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify one or more candidate beams available for communication between the UE and a BS to replace another beam that is configured for communicating between the UE and the BS. The UE may transmit, based at least in part on identifying the one or more candidate beams, a communication that includes a new beam information (NBI) field and/or contents of the NBI field. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Jung Ho Ryu, Tianyang Bai, Kiran Venugopal