Patents Examined by Hardikkumar D Patel
  • Patent number: 11558813
    Abstract: Disclosed is a 5th generation (5G) or a pre-5G communication system provided to support a higher data transmission rate than that of post-4th generation (4G) communication systems, such as long term evolution (LTE). A method of operating a network node in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a plurality of first network nodes, network data, generating first recommendation operation information for a second network node based on the network data, and transmitting, to the second network node, a first analysis result message including the first recommendation operation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungshin Park, Yoonseon Han, Sangsoo Jeong
  • Patent number: 11546912
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may switch semi-persistently scheduled (SPS) or configured grant (CG) transmissions for a user equipment (UE) across component carriers according to a resource switching pattern to avoid resource conflict with control information on one or more component carriers. The resource switching pattern may have multiple flows spanning different component over a time interval for redundancy. According to some aspects, a base station may transmit a synchronization signal block (SSB) in one of a set of flexible SSB locations or candidate SSB locations, where each of the set of candidate SSB locations is associated with a respective SSB identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Hamed Pezeshki, Konstantinos Dimou
  • Patent number: 11540163
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to determining a group of relaying user equipment (UEs), selecting a sub-channel of multiple sub-channels for transmitting, to the group of relaying UEs, quality-of-service (QoS) traffic along with one or more other transmitting UEs in the time duration, and transmitting the QoS traffic to the group of relaying UEs in the same time duration over the sub-channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tien Viet Nguyen, Shailesh Patil, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Junyi Li, Kapil Gulati
  • Patent number: 11533660
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication method for merging an IoT technique with a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services on the basis of a 5G communication technique and IoT-related techniques. The disclosed method relates to processing a resource allocation request of a terminal in a communication system, the method comprising the steps of: triggering a resource allocation request; confirming whether a resource for transmitting the resource allocation request has been allocated to a first subframe of at least two serving cells at the same time; and transmitting the resource allocation request to one serving cell of the at least two serving cells according to a predetermined condition when the resource is allocated to the first subframe of the at least two serving cells at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: Soenghun Kim, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11503141
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a network forwarding integrated circuit (IC) that includes at least one packet processing pipeline. The packet processing pipeline includes multiple match-action stages, at least one of which includes a stateful processing unit that operates at a line rate of the network forwarding IC. The stateful processing unit is configured to receive data stored in a memory location associated with a stateful table of the match-action stage. The data includes a set of values. The stateful processing unit is further configured to identify one of a maximum value and a minimum value from the set of values, and to output the identified value for use by a next match-action stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Barefoot Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Evan Scott Peterson, Michael Gregory Ferrara, Patrick Bosshart, Changhoon Kim, Remy Chang
  • Patent number: 11503652
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to determining that a time division is for receiving a synchronization signal block (SSB) and for a random access occasion (RO) for transmitting a random access preamble in full duplex (FD) communications, and based on the determining, at least one of receiving the SSB or transmitting the random access preamble in the RO during the time division.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly, June Namgoong, Shimman Arvind Patel, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar
  • Patent number: 11496276
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring reference signals. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a control message indicating a first quasi co-location (QCL) for an aperiodic-tracking reference signal (A-TRS), the A-TRS being associated with a periodic-tracking reference signal (P-TRS), determining a second QCL for the P-TRS based on the first QCL for the A-TRS, setting a receive beam for reception of the P-TRS based on the second QCL of the P-TRS, and decoding one or more frames based on channel statistics estimated via the P-TRS received via the receive beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Alexandros Manolakos, Joseph Binamira Soriaga
  • Patent number: 11490402
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a maximum transmission power for an uplink transmission on a first cell of a first cell group (CG) based on a direction of communications (e.g., uplink, downlink, or flexible) with a separate cell of a second CG during a same duration of the uplink transmission and within a same first frequency range, where the direction of communications is either an actual direction or an assumed direction. The UE may receive an uplink grant scheduling the uplink transmission during a symbol and within the first frequency range, determine the maximum transmission power for the UE based on the direction of communications for the separate cell during the symbol and within the first frequency range, and subsequently transmit the uplink transmission in accordance with the maximum transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11483771
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting a wakeup packet in a wireless LAN system are proposed. Specifically, a transmitter generates a wakeup packet by applying an OOK scheme. The transmitter transmits the wakeup packet to a receiver via an 80 MHz channel. The 80 MHz channel includes first to fourth subchannels. If some of the first to fourth subchannels are busy or there are no pending wakeup packets for the receiver in some of the subchannels, some of the subchannels are punctured. The wakeup packet is transmitted via the remaining subchannels of the first to fourth subchannels. Each of the first to fourth subchannels is a 20 MHz channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Eunsung Park, Dongguk Lim, Jinsoo Choi
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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