Patents Examined by Hassan Phillips
  • Patent number: 11882587
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for identifying User Equipment (“UEs”) associated with relevant users, such as “personal” UEs associated with first responders, based on the occurrence of an event, notifying the UEs of the event, and modifying radio access network (“RAN”) parameters such that the identified UEs are provided with priority access. Further, such modifications may be temporary (e.g., reverted after the event has occurred). In this manner, personal UEs associated with relevant users may be dynamically provided priority access in situations where such access may be beneficial, without needing to permanently provide the priority access to such UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Gregg L. Veinpel, Michael J. Pepe, Walter S. Schaefer, Joseph James Ahrens, Edward Luna, Irv Hilf
  • Patent number: 11882564
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) operation related to at least one of embodiments of the disclosure may include multiplexing a plurality of UCIs on a single physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and transmitting the single PUSCH in which the plurality of UCIs are multiplexed. Based on that the UE is configured to multiplex UCIs having different priorities on the same PUSCH, that a priority of a first UCI included in the plurality of UCIs is Priority-H higher than Priority-L, and that the first UCI with the Priority-H includes 2-part channel state information (CSI), the UE may drop all hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information of a second UCI with the Priority-L lower than the Priority-H, and map a first part of the CSI and a second part of the CSI onto the single PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim, Duckhyun Bae
  • Patent number: 11877288
    Abstract: In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform determining a mismatch between at least one of a location or the number of physical resource blocks occupied by at least one of a plurality of physical uplink shared channel transmissions and at least one of a location or a number of physical resource blocks occupied by a physical uplink control channel for a physical uplink control channel transmission; and based on the determined mismatch, performing operations comprising at least one of: multiplexing uplink control information for the physical uplink control channel transmission with the at least one of the plurality of physical uplink shared channel transmissions, adapting the at least one of the location or the number of physical resource blocks of the physical uplink control channel transmission for matching the at least one of the location or the number of physical resource blocks occupied by the at least one of the plurality of physical uplink s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Alessio Marcone, Nhat-Quang Nhan, Marco Maso
  • Patent number: 11877199
    Abstract: A base station information DB (11) of a base station management apparatus (1) stores base station information that indicates wireless schemes that can be implemented by base stations (5), scheduled periods for implementation of the wireless schemes, and coverage areas of the base stations (5) in which wireless terminals can be accommodated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Maiko Naya, Kenji Shimizu, Takahiro Yamazaki, Atsushi Taniguchi, Takayuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11877281
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE), the UE receives one or more signals indicative of a first Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) and a second PUSCH on a first cell and in a Transmission Time Interval (TTI). The UE determines to transmit a first Uplink Control Information (UCI) in the TTI, wherein the first UCI overlaps with the first PUSCH and the second PUSCH in time domain. The UE selects the first PUSCH for multiplexing the first UCI based on whether the UE is configured with joint Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback mode or separate HARQ feedback mode. The UE transmits the first PUSCH and the second PUSCH on the first cell, wherein the first PUSCH transmitted on the first cell includes the first UCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ASUS TECHNOLOGY LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Huang, Yu-Hsuan Guo
  • Patent number: 11863969
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus (200) including: an acquisition unit (241) that acquires, from a base station apparatus (100), information for operating as a master for controlling a sidelink communication between other apparatuses; and a control unit (240) that performs a process for operating as the master on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yifu Tang, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima
  • Patent number: 11864278
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for Fifth Generation New Radio (5G NR) frequency range two (FR2) based communications beam management. The UE may configure, via communications with a base station, serving the UE, a group ID for PUCCH resources within a group of PUCCHs, e.g., for FR2 based communications. The UE may receive, from the base station, an update to one or more PUCCH resources within the group of PUCCHs via a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) that may include one of a resource ID indicating an update to a PUCCH resource or the group ID to update the group of PUCCH resources. The UE may update, based on the MAC-CE, the one or more PUCCH resources within the group of PUCCHs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Jia Tang, Pengkai Zhao, Tianyan Pu, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11849483
    Abstract: A dynamic configuration of crest factor reduction in a licensed assisted access radio system. A processing device comprises a detecting block, a clipping pulse generator, a first storage block, a selecting block, a full clipping block and a simplified clipping block. The detecting block performs a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure on a plurality of carriers in parallel and generates a trigger signal in response to LBT success on one or more carriers. The clipping pulse generator generates, for the carrier(s) with LBT success, a clipping pulse within a time period from the receipt of the trigger signal to the start of user traffic transmission. The first storage block stores the clipping pulse for use by the full clipping block. The selecting block selects the full clipping block when there is user traffic on the carrier(s) and selects the simplified clipping block when there is no user traffic on the carrier(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Gan Wen, Jinsong Yang
  • Patent number: 11849392
    Abstract: Procedures and mechanisms for narrowband multi-channel transmission for wakeup radio (WUR) operation are disclosed. A station (STA) operating in WUR mode may have its a primary connectivity radio (PCR) turned off and its WUR turned and operating according to previously negotiated WUR operating parameters. The STA may monitor, for WUR beacons and frames over a first WUR channel, and determine that the first WUR channel does not support reliable transmission based on no beacons being received within a first duration. The STA may turn off the WUR, and turn on the PCR to send a first short WUR frame including a wakeup reason, and receive a second short WUR frame with a WUR channel assignment. The STA may turn off the PCR, turn on the WUR, and monitor for WUR signals on a second WUR channel according to the WUR channel assignment and the previously negotiated WUR operating parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Hanqing Lou, Xiaofei Wang, Oghenekome Oteri, Alphan Sahin, Li-Hsiang Sun, Rui Yang
  • Patent number: 11843465
    Abstract: A method and a device for performing uplink transmission or reception in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A method for performing uplink transmission by a terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, configuration information including N1 pieces of first information related to unicast SPS transmission and N2 pieces of second information related to multicast SPS transmission; and transmitting, to the base station, first HARQ-ACK information associated with N1 pieces of unicast SPS transmissions and second HARQ-ACK information related to N2 pieces of multicast SPS transmissions, the first and second HARQ-ACK information being multiplexed on a first PUCCH, wherein the first HARQ-ACK information and the second HARQ-ACK information are multiplexed on the first PUCCH on the basis of the ascending order of the indexes of the N1 pieces of first information and the N2 pieces of second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim
  • Patent number: 11838930
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a multi-task joint computing unloading and resource allocation method based on D2D (Device-to-Device) communication. For solving the problems that computing resources of a local terminal cannot complete all computing tasks on time when there are multiple computing tasks with delay requirements on a local terminal, the method introduces a computing unloading mechanism to reduce the delay and the overhead of the local terminal itself. The method is based on a D2D communication technology. In the scenario where mobile terminals are densely distributed, the local terminal can unload the computing tasks at the same time to several surrounding idle terminals for processing. According to the method, a total overhead objective function is established in consideration of the task delay, energy consumption, and unloading fee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Qi Zhu, Yuelin Han
  • Patent number: 11832277
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for paging for multicast and broadcast service in a wireless communication system is provided. A Distributed Unit (DU) of a Radio Access Network (RAN) node may receive, from a central unit (CU) of the RAN node, a service identity for a Multicast and/or Broadcast (MB) service. A MB session may be set for the MB service. A DU of a RAN node may transmit, to multiple User Equipments (UEs) in Connection Management (CM)-IDLE state, the service identity of the MB service. The multiple UEs may have joined to the MB session. A DU of a RAN node may receive, from at least one UE among the multiple UEs, an RRC message to request the MB service. A DU of a RAN node may forward the RRC message to the CU of the RAN node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Daewook Byun, Jian Xu, Seokjung Kim
  • Patent number: 11832259
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a deep-learning-based framework for designing components of a downlink precoding system. The components of such a system include downlink training pilots and channel estimation based on receipt of the downlink training pilots. Another component involves channel measurement and feedback strategy at the user equipment. The components include a precoding scheme designed at the base station based on the feedback from the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CANADA CO., LTD., THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    Inventors: Wei Yu, Foad Sohrabi, Kareem Attiah Alboraie, Mohammadhadi Baligh
  • Patent number: 11832179
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing uplink timing synchronization during DRX operation in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: James Earl Womack, Yi Yu, Zhijun Cai
  • Patent number: 11832131
    Abstract: The application provides a bandwidth allocation method and device. The method includes that: Discontinuous Reception (DRX) indication information is determined, the DRX indication information being used for a terminal device to determine a working bandwidth to be used within a DRX cycle and/or a frequency point of the working bandwidth; and the DRX indication information is transmitted to the terminal device. According to the bandwidth allocation method of the embodiments of the application, unnecessary power consumption of the terminal device may be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11825479
    Abstract: A method for determining uplink control information and a communications device are disclosed in implementation of this application. The method includes: obtaining, by a communications device, a target parameter set, where the target parameter set includes at least one first parameter value and at least one second parameter value, the at least one first parameter value is used for transmitting a first kind of data, and the at least one second parameter value is not used for transmitting the first kind of data; and determining, by the communications device according to the at least one first parameter value, a quantity of bits for transmission of feedback information associated with the first kind of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanan Lin, Jing Xu
  • Patent number: 11818789
    Abstract: A communication equipment for which an extended DRX is available negotiates with a management apparatus included in a network to acquire a configuration parameter of the extended DRX. The communication equipment checks whether the base station is for which the extended DRX is available based on notification information received from the base station. The communication equipment notifies the external equipment of an operation state indicating whether the communication equipment is performing an extended DRX operation based on whether a configuration parameter of the extended DRX is acquired and whether the base station is for which the extended DRX is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yagi, Masaaki Nakata, Makoto Tomizu
  • Patent number: 11812277
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for silencing signal transmissions by a user equipment (UE). Silencing signals may be transmitted periodically during shared spectrum downlink communications from a serving base station to the UE to prevent an interfering node from passing a listen before talk (LBT) procedure. The silencing signal transmissions may be configured by the base station and enabled in cases where potential interfering nodes are detected. An interfering node may be notified that silencing signals are being used, and may adjust a periodicity or wait time of its LBT procedures based on the silencing signal periodicity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Tao Luo, Vinay Chande, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11800428
    Abstract: A method performed by a first node includes determining a routing metric for individual nodes in a set of nodes, receiving a network packet from a second node, selecting a third node in the set of nodes based on the routing metrics, and transmitting the network packet to the third node. The routing metric for a respective one of the set of nodes being based on at least one of a power storage status of the respective one of the set of nodes or a solar power generation status of the respective one of the set of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: ITRON, INC.
    Inventors: Bruce Edwards, Kunal Pankaj Shah
  • Patent number: 11785632
    Abstract: A wireless device receives, from a base station, a first system information block. The first system information block comprises a broadcast status parameter indicating that a second system information block for a sidelink communication is provided on-demand. A radio resource control (RRC) request to establish an RRC connection for the sidelink communication is transmitted based on the broadcast status parameter. Based on the RRC connection, a sidelink request for a sidelink resource for the sidelink communication is transmitted. An RRC message indicating the sidelink resource is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Taehun Kim, Esmael Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Jinsook Ryu