Patents Examined by Gary Mui
  • Patent number: 11962678
    Abstract: A method of providing communication between a wireless mission critical communication link (MCCL) and a wired MCCL, comprising: determining a wireless communication cycle of a primary device coupled to the wireless MCCL; determining a wired communication cycle of a secondary device, wherein the secondary device is coupled via the wired MCCL; receiving a feedback signal from the secondary device over the wired MCCL; synchronizing a start time of the wireless communication cycle to a start of the wired communication cycle; and transmitting the feedback signal over the wireless MCCL to the primary device at an aligned start time of the wired communication cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CoreTigo Ltd.
    Inventors: Ofer Blonskey, Benny Zelman, Omer Ephrat
  • Patent number: 11950308
    Abstract: Inform a master node about the feasible of secondary node cells during resumption of dual connectivity may require a large message. Additionally, the message may need to be encrypted. A solution to overcome the size and security limitation is to report a short identifier (or index) which is only shared between the UE and the MN. Accordingly, an apparatus, e.g., a UE, may be configured to receive, from a master node, a configuration comprising a mapping of cell identities for a plurality of secondary cells for reporting SN measurements and transmitting an SN report comprising measurements for at least a subset of the plurality of secondary cells using the mapping of cell identities. The apparatus may be configured to receive, from a first master node, a configuration for MN-DC, enter an inactive state or an idle state, and resume a connected state with a second master node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ozcan Ozturk, Peng Cheng, Huichun Liu, Gavin Bernard Horn
  • Patent number: 11943831
    Abstract: The embodiments of this application provide a communication method and an apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to successfully report MCG link failure information. The method includes: When a terminal device sends a first data unit to a first access network device via an MCG split bearer, the terminal device determines that an MCG link failure occurs. In addition, the terminal device sends a second data unit to a second access network device via an SCG split bearer, so that the second access network device sends the second data unit to the first access network device, where the second data unit includes information used to indicate the MCG link failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tingting Geng, Rui Wang, Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 11937304
    Abstract: A user equipment for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, includes: a transceiver; and at least one processor configured to perform a random access procedure with a base station and record log information that is information related to the random access procedure, wherein the random access procedure includes transmitting a random access preamble to the base station and receiving, from the base station, a random access response that is a response to the transmission of the random access preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: June Hwang, Soenghun Kim, Sangbum Kim, Jaehyuk Jang, Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 11937262
    Abstract: A first base station may communicate with a second base station regarding a wireless device and handover. The first base station may send the wireless device's configuration to the second base station, and may receive, from the second base station, configuration parameters of carriers associated with the wireless device. The carriers may be of different types, and may have differences regarding reference signals. The first base station may inform the wireless device of the configuration parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11929836
    Abstract: A feedback method for grant-free uplink transmission includes: receiving, by an access network device, uplink data sent by a UE in a UE group, wherein the UE group includes n UEs, n being a positive integer; sending, by the access network device, downlink feedback information in a group common search space corresponding to the UE group, wherein the downlink feedback information indicates uplink transmission success/failure of the UE group. For the grant-free uplink transmission, the UE group can be acquired by grouping the UE, the access network device can send the downlink feedback information in the group common search space corresponding to the UE group, and the uplink transmission success/failure of the UE group can be indicated by the downlink feedback information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Juejia Zhou
  • Patent number: 11924897
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first network node may receive, from a first integrated access and backhaul (IAB) donor central unit (CU), information indicating a first resource configuration used by an IAB node that has a first connection with a first parent IAB node that is a child of the first IAB donor CU. The first network node may transmit, to a second parent IAB node that is a child of the first network node, the information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11901982
    Abstract: A base station performs joint channel estimation for a set of physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs) with bundled DMRS from a user equipment (UE). The UE receives an indication to transmit the set of PUSCHs, each PUSCH of the set of PUSCHs comprising a corresponding DMRS from the base station. The base station transmits, and the UE receives, a sounding reference signal resource indicator for each PUSCH of the set of PUSCHs. The UE transmits the PUSCHs based on a same sounding reference single resource, the SRI for a first PUSCH of the set of PUSCHs indicating the same SRS resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly, Gokul Sridharan, Wei Yang, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 11903055
    Abstract: The user equipment comprises a reception unit configured to receive allocation information of reference signals from a base station apparatus or a first user equipment, the reference signals being used in a device-to-device direct communication; a control unit for determining a device-to-device direct communication signal based on the allocation information of reference signals used in the device-to-device direct communication; and a transmitter configured to transmit the determined device-to-device direct communication signal to a second user equipment, wherein the allocation information of reference signals used in the device-to-device direct communication includes a transmission density of the reference signals used in the device-to-device direct communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Yuichi Kakishima, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11882617
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a wireless device, operating in a wireless network, handles transitions from Radio Resource Control, RRC, connected state to an RRC inactive state. The wireless device receives, from the wireless network, a message indicating either that the wireless device is to enter the RRC inactive state or that the wireless device is to remain in the RRC inactive state. The wireless device, responsive to the message, uses, for inactive state operation, at least one previously stored inactive state parameter corresponding to a parameter omitted from the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Icaro L. J. da Silva, Gunnar Mildh
  • Patent number: 11882610
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to establishing connections between a user equipment (UE) and a base station via a communication link using multiple subscriptions. In an aspect, a UE configured to communicate using a first subscription and a second subscription may establish a first connection with a base station via a communication link using the first subscription of the UE and may establish a second connection with the base station via the communication link using the second subscription of the UE. The UE may further perform a second connection with the base station via the communication link using the second subscription of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Punyaslok Purkayastha, Gavin Bernard Horn, Ozcan Ozturk, Reza Shahidi
  • Patent number: 11877315
    Abstract: Embodiment methods for managing communication between a wireless device and a base station may include a wireless device sending an indication in a random access channel (RACH) message to the base station that the wireless device is capable of millimeter wave (mmWave) digital beamforming. Embodiment methods may include a base station receiving the indication in a random access channel (RACH) message from the wireless device that the wireless device is capable of millimeter wave (mmWave) digital beamforming, generating a first RACH response to the wireless device in response to the indication in the RACH message that the wireless device is capable of mmWave digital beamforming, and multiplexing the first RACH response to the wireless device with a second RACH response transmitted to a second wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan
  • Patent number: 11877165
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to one or more embodiments, a child IAB node is configured to communicate with a first parent IAB node and a descendant IAB node over a backhaul network. The child IAB node includes processing circuitry configured to: detect a backhaul link failure between the child IAB node and the first parent IAB node; in response to the detected backhaul link failure, cause transmission of a radio link failure indication to the descendant IAB node; receive signaling indicating for the child IAB node to connect to a second parent IAB node; and modify network topology at least in part by connecting to the second parent IAB node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Ajmal Muhammad, Oumer Teyeb, Gunnar Mildh
  • Patent number: 11871455
    Abstract: A method for controlling random access is provided according to the embodiments of the present disclosure, which is applied to an electronic device. The method includes determining whether a count value of a beam failure indication counter is greater than or equal to a preset value in response to receiving a beam failure instance indication by a medium access control layer from a physical layer; and initiating random access in response to the count value of the beam failure indication counter being greater than or equal to the preset value, and performing a preset operation to avoid triggering further random access during the random access. The embodiments of the present disclosure may prevent the user device from occupying resources for contention-free random access for a long time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11863491
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transmitter device and a receiver device for efficient transmission of information messages. The transmitter device superposes a selected subset of columns of a projection matrix based on an information message so as to obtain a signal for transmission. The signal is transmitted to the receiver device. The receiver device performs iterative successive interference cancellation on a received signal based on a projection matrix so as to obtain a subset of the columns of the projection matrix and therefrom obtains a recovered information message based on the subset of the columns of the projection matrix. Thereby, it is provided a sparse superposition coding scheme with quasi-orthogonal projection matrix achieving good performance in respect of spectral efficiency. Furthermore, the invention also relates to corresponding methods and a computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alberto Giuseppe Perotti, Branislav M. Popovic
  • Patent number: 11864120
    Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform power control for uplink (UL) reference signals (RS). A UE may determine spatial configuration for UL RS based on another communication. A UE may determine an updated pathloss within a reduced implementation following an update of downlink (DL) RS. A UE may reset a power control factor in response to receiving an update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Yakun Sun, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 11856583
    Abstract: To provide a wireless communication device which enables reliable detection of a downlink without using a CRS. There is provided a wireless communication device including a communication unit (220) configured to perform wireless communication using an unlicensed band, and a detecting unit (241) configured to detect a downlink on the basis of a second downlink signal different from a first downlink signal which is periodically transmitted, in which the detecting unit starts PDCCH monitoring after detecting a downlink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Kusashima
  • Patent number: 11856630
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and 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 present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Donggun Kim
  • Patent number: 11856633
    Abstract: A method of performing cell selection, by a terminal, in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a control message including configuration information for a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state, entering the RRC inactive state based on the configuration information; performing cell selection, and in response to a suitable cell not being found and an acceptable cell being found in the cell selection, entering an RRC idle state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangbum Kim, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11849408
    Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes, in case that a first message to perform a handover from a first base station to a second base station is received, from the first base station, performing a medium access control (MAC) reset, wherein performing the MAC reset includes stopping a power headroom report (PHR) periodic timer; receiving, from the second base station, first information related to a first uplink resource; in case that the first uplink resource is first allocated for a new transmission since the MAC reset is performed, starting the stopped PHR periodic timer; transmitting, to the second base station, a second message to confirm the handover using the first uplink resource; triggering a PHR, in case that the started PHR periodic timer expires; receiving, from the second base station, second information related to a second uplink resource; and transmitting, to the second base station, the triggered PHR using the second uplink resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventors: Soeng-Hun Kim, Himke Van Der Velde