Patents Examined by Hardikkumar D Patel
  • Patent number: 11452123
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for sending uplink control information. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving an uplink grant for transmission on a plurality of physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs), the plurality of PUSCHs being located on different component carriers (CCs); identifying one or more PUSCHs of the plurality of PUSCHs on which uplink control information (UCI) can be transmitted in a slot; assigning PUSCH data to the one or more identified PUSCHs on which the UCI can be transmitted before assigning PUSCH data to remaining PUSCHs of the plurality of PUSCHs; and transmitting the UCI and the PUSCH data in the slot on the assigned PUSCHs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bao Vinh Nguyen, Shailesh Maheshwari, Linhai He, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Pranay Sudeep Rungta, Vishal Dalmiya, Dinesh Kumar Devineni, Krishna Chaitanya Mukkera
  • Patent number: 11445554
    Abstract: User equipment communicates with a base station apparatus, and the user equipment includes a receiver that receives, from the base station apparatus, one or more blocks, wherein each of the one or more blocks includes information used for initial access and the information used for the initial access is associated with a beam transmitted from the base station apparatus; a controller that specifies a resource for transmitting a preamble based on the information included in the one or more blocks; a transmitter that transmits the preamble to the base station apparatus using the specified resource, wherein the information included in each of the one or more blocks includes a set for specifying a plurality of resources and preambles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoya Ohara, Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 11445530
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a coding unit configured to map coded bits for an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) and a first sequence to a set of elements, and a transmitter configured to transmit a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), wherein each of the elements is identified by a subcarrier index of the PUSCH and an OFDM symbol index of the PUSCH, and whether the first sequence is mapped without using a prescribed set of elements is given based on at least the number of hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ-ACK bits mapped to the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11445532
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a physical downlink shared channel and a transmitter configured to multiplex first channel state information having a higher priority than second channel state information with the second channel state information and an HARQ-ACK and to transmit the first channel state information, the second channel state information and the HARQ-ACK multiplexed, by using a physical uplink control channel resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Taewoo Lee, Huifa Lin, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 11438956
    Abstract: A method of sidelink unicast service management in an access stratum layer for a first user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, by the first UE through a PC5 interface, a sidelink unicast configuration associated with a second UE, from the second UE, transmitting, by the first UE through a radio resource control, RRC, signaling of the PC5 interface, a sidelink unicast link problem report, to the second UE in responsive to that the first UE is unable to comply with all or part of the sidelink unicast configuration, and performing, by the first UE, a sidelink unicast fallback procedure with the second UE by continuously using a sidelink unicast configuration setting of the first UE with corresponding configurations in a sidelink unicast pre-configuration used prior to the received sidelink unicast configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yung-Lan Tseng, Hung-Chen Chen, Mei-Ju Shih, Yu-Hsin Cheng
  • Patent number: 11438897
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provides User Equipment (UE) providing beam management and method for beam recovery and beam management to be executed by the UE. The method for beam management comprises a beam failure detection, a beam reporting and a beam recovery. The present disclosure provides one or more methods for performing beam management and beam recovery when the UE is operating in multiple carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pravjyot Singh Deogun, Saidhiraj Amuru, Jae-Won Kim, Anshuman Nigam
  • Patent number: 11431761
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for connecting to network services on a private network. A gateway device may coordinate communications between a client device on a public network and a host device on a private network. The client device may request to access the host device via the gateway device. The gateway device may authenticate the client device. The gateway device may transcode communications between the client device and the host device, thereby masking the address of the client device and the host device. The gateway device may maintain two different encryption methods between the client device and the gateway device, and the gateway device and the host device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: OVH
    Inventors: Francois Loiseau, Miroslaw Piotr Klaba
  • Patent number: 11432343
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an uplink signal transmission method and user equipment and relates to the field of communications technologies. The uplink signal transmission method includes: selecting, by the user equipment, a CP from a preset cyclic prefix CP candidate set to send an uplink transmission signal, where the CP candidate set includes at least two types of CPs of different lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaohang Chen, Peng Sun, Hao Liu
  • Patent number: 11432315
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a transmitter that transmits uplink control information including a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-ACKnowledge (HARQ-ACK) in an uplink control channel; and a processor that uses a cyclic shift in the transmission of the uplink control information, the cyclic shift being determined based on a sum of an index and a value mapped to the uplink control information, wherein a value mapped to first uplink control information including HARQ-ACK information and a negative Scheduling Request (SR) is equal to a value mapped to second uplink control information including the HARQ-ACK information and not including a positive SR or the negative SR. In other aspects, a radio control method and a base station are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11425692
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for use of SS transmitted using a UE-specific configuration of time-frequency resources. A BS may assign at least one UE-specific configuration, wherein the UE-specific configuration comprises an allocation of resources for a UE-specific SS for mobility management purposes. The BS may communicate with the UE based, at least in part, on the UE-specific configuration. A UE may correspondingly receive the UE-specific configuration and communicate with a BS based, at least in part, on the configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini, Sundar Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11425623
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for beam selection in uplink-based and downlink-based mobility scenarios, for example, for new radio (NR) systems which can improve handover reliability, reduce handover frequency, and improve power efficiency. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes transmitting an uplink reference signal with an indication of a preferred downlink beam and receiving a downlink transmission based, at least in part, on the uplink reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Keiichi Kubota, Tingfang Ji, Tao Luo, Gavin Bernard Horn, John Edward Smee, Ravi Agarwal, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Saurabha Rangrao Tavildar
  • Patent number: 11405096
    Abstract: A method includes registering, by a primary cell site processor, an unmanned aerial vehicle, receiving, by the primary cell site processor, a list of one or more potential secondary cell sites from the unmanned aerial vehicle, timing advances associated with the one or more secondary cell sites, deriving, by the primary cell site processor, a number of component carriers within each of the one or more potential secondary cell sites, selecting, by the primary cell site processor, one or more secondary cell sites from the one or more potential secondary cell sites, and transmitting, by the primary cell site processor, instructions to the one or more secondary cell sites to provide a component carrier to the unmanned aerial vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, David Ross Beppler, Slawomir Stawiarski
  • Patent number: 11394509
    Abstract: An apparatus and method in a wireless communication system, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises: determining, based on at least one or more of resource set configuration information, physical channel information, and service type information, configuration information of one or more parameter sets for a sidelink communication; and controlling a base station to send the determined configuration information of the one or more parameter sets to a user equipment so that the user equipment performs sidelink communication on the basis of the one or more parameter sets, the parameter set comprising at least a subcarrier interval and a cyclic prefix type. The method can flexibly configure the parameter set used for the sidelink communication in NR so as to improve the communication performance of the sidelink communication and meet higher requirements on a series of indicators in an NR scene such as the delay and the system stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yanzhao Hou, Xiaofeng Tao, Yuming Liu, Xin Guo, Zhaoqi Peng, Min Zhu
  • Patent number: 11394492
    Abstract: A method for encoding a bitstream for a frame in a wireless transmission is described. The method includes receiving, by an error correction unit of the wireless device, the bitstream; performing, by the error correction unit, forward error correction on the bitstream to generate an error corrected bitstream; determining, by a dual sub-carrier modulation (DCM) mapper of the first wireless device, a number of data subcarriers for modulating the error corrected bitstream to subcarriers in each half of an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, wherein the number of data subcarriers is determined to be (1) 26 for a first bandwidth of the frame, (2) 54 for a second bandwidth and performing, by the DCM mapper, DCM on the error corrected bitstream based on the determined number of data subcarriers to generate a stream of complex numbers corresponding to the number of data subcarriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NEWRACOM, Inc.
    Inventors: Yujin Noh, Jaeyoung Ryu, Dae Kyun Lee, Jong-ee Oh, Minseoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11394519
    Abstract: In the method, a terminal device receives first downlink control information from a network device, where the first downlink control information includes a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number. The terminal device receives, on a first frequency band, a first data packet carrying a first transport block, and receives, on a second frequency band, a second data packet carrying a second transport block, where the first HARQ process number corresponds to the first transport block on the first frequency band and the second transport block on the second frequency band. The terminal device performs joint decoding on the first data packet and the second data packet. The first transport block is the same as the second transport block. By using the method and the apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention, data transmission reliability in a multi-band transmission scenario can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liyan Su, Lei Guan, Sha Ma
  • Patent number: 11388049
    Abstract: Disclosed are a resource configuration method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium, being used for enabling, when a remaining minimum system information control resource set and an associated synchronization information block are in a time division multiplexing mode, the configuration of the remaining minimum system information control resource set to be more flexible, being applicable to more application scenarios. The resource configuration method comprises: determining that a remaining minimum system information control resource set (RMSI CORESET) and an associated synchronization information block (SS Block) occupy different symbols for transmission in a time division multiplexing mode; and determining the configuration parameters of the RMSI CORESET and the associated SS Block, the remaining minimum system information control resource sets associated with the SS Blocks in each SS Block burst set having identical configuration parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren Da, Tie Li, Ekpenyong Tony, Fang-Chen Cheng, Qiubin Gao, Bin Ren, Zheng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11382083
    Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information including resource allocation information for a sidelink and an uplink (UL) channel, wherein the sidelink is established between the UE and another UE; receiving, from the BS, downlink control information (DCI) including sidelink resource allocation information; identifying resources for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) response of the sidelink based on the configuration information and the sidelink resource allocation information; and transmitting, to the BS, the HARQ response of the sidelink via physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Li Guo
  • Patent number: 11375453
    Abstract: An interface circuit in an electronic device (such as an access point) may receive a setup request associated with the recipient electronic device. The setup request may specify a group address for which the recipient electronic device wants to receive associated frames and a proposed transmission interval. Based at least in part on the proposed transmission interval, the electronic device may determine a transmission schedule and/or may assign, based at least in part on the group address, the recipient electronic device to an aggregated group having a flexible multicast service identifier (FMSID). Then, the electronic device may provide a wake-up frame for the recipient electronic device, where the wake-up frame includes an identifier of the aggregated group for which a group-addressed frame will subsequently be transmitted by the electronic device. Moreover, the wake-up frame may be provided at a transmission time based at least in part on the transmission schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christiaan A. Hartman, Guoqing Li, Yong Liu, Su Khiong Yong, Jarkko L. Kneckt
  • Patent number: 11362957
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by a transport layer executed by a processor circuit in an apparatus, an identifiable grouping of data; storing, by the transport layer, the data as transport layer packets in a buffer circuit in the apparatus, the storing including inserting into each transport layer packet a grouping identifier that identifies the transport layer packets as belonging to the identifiable grouping; and causing, by the transport layer, a plurality of transmitting deterministic network interface circuits to deterministically retrieve the transport layer packets from the buffer circuit for deterministic transmission across respective deterministic links, the grouping identifier enabling receiving deterministic network interface circuits to group the received transport layer packets, regardless of deterministic link, into a single processing group for a next receiving transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Pascal Thubert, Patrick Wetterwald, Eric Michel Levy-Abegnoli, Jean-Philippe Vasseur
  • Patent number: 11362867
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus that includes two or more sensor nodes that obtain sensed data from a structure. A controller receives the sensed data from the sensor nodes, via a network formed by the sensor nodes and the controller. The controller controls functionality of each of the sensor nodes, controls time synchronization among the sensor nodes, detects information collected by the sensor nodes, and communicates, utilizing an M-ary time-reversal based protocol, the detected information using a planar surface of the structure as the transmission medium for elastic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: University of Maryland Eastern Shore
    Inventors: Yuanwei Jin, Tonmo Vanessa Carine Fepeussi