Patents Examined by Hassan Phillips
  • 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: 11785562
    Abstract: A multi-link device may be configured to initiate transmission of a first data unit on a first wireless link of a first multi-link device, and request transmission of a trigger from a second multi-link device on a second wireless link. In response to receiving the trigger, the multi-link device may align a last symbol end time of a response transmission on the second wireless link with a last symbol end time of the first data unit being transmitted on the first multi-link device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventor: Matthew James Fischer
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11785645
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for aggregating random access requests across two or more physical random access channel (PRACH) occasions. Poor channel quality may inhibit the receipt of random access requests, and for user equipments (UEs) located in areas with relatively poor coverage, such aggregated random access requests may have an increased likelihood of successful receipt at a base station. The base station may configure a number of PRACH occasions to be available for aggregation of random access requests. A UE may receive PRACH configuration information from the base station, may aggregate a random access request across two or more PRACH occasions using the PRACH configuration information, and may transmit the aggregated random access request via the PRACH occasions. The base station may also configure one or more PRACH occasions to have a smaller subcarrier spacing for transmission of a random access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Zhifei Fan, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11778570
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for transmission of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) using adjusted transmit powers. In one aspect, a power offset may be configured for one or more sets of SSBs. The power offset may be configured to be applied for a set of SSBs based on a duplexing mode of one or more of a transmitter wireless node (that transmits an SSB) or a receiver wireless node (that receives the SSB). The duplexing mode may be based on whether the transmitter receiver node or the wireless receiver node is operating in a full-duplex mode or may be based on a resource configuration associated with a resource used to transmit the SSB. Some techniques and apparatuses described herein also provide signaling to support the transmission of SSBs using adjusted transmit powers, and techniques for receiving and processing SSBs that use adjusted transmit powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11765723
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication relay may receive, via a first wireless link with a base station, a scheduling request that identifies scheduling information for scheduling transmission or reception of data via a second wireless link with a network node. The wireless communication relay may transmit, via the second wireless link, a scheduling command in accordance with the scheduling information. The wireless communication relay may transmit or receive, via the second wireless link, the data in accordance with the scheduling information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Karl Georg Hampel, Vincent Loncke, Junyi Li, Ashwin Sampath
  • Patent number: 11758008
    Abstract: A communication apparatus notifies that service information is to be communicated outside a cyclically repeated period in which a plurality of apparatuses including the communication apparatus transmits or receives a beacon to another communication apparatus included in the plurality of apparatuses and being a destination of the service information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hitoshi Aoki
  • Patent number: 11750241
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for synchronizing multiple channels in an access network, where the multiple channels are neighboring channels such that a guard band between them or use of a diplexer to prevent inter-channel interference is not required. Synchronization is achieved by defining channel MAP (media access plan) cycle structures such that all channels work in the same direction (upstream US or downstream DS) at any given time. Moreover, the network controller of channel may send out a beacon to allow new nodes to join. A long MAP cycle (402) may be followed by three consecutive regular MAP cycles (404, 406), and (408). These MAP cycles are repeated between beacon transmissions. Synchronization allows multiple channels to be configured contiguous (without a guard band between neighbouring channels) and without utilizing diplexers. A plurality of customer premises equipment may operate on each of the communications channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Entropic Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Zong Wu
  • Patent number: 11750335
    Abstract: Provided herein are a method of transmitting a Sidelink Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (SL HARQ) feedback by a first device and a device supporting the same. The method may include the steps of receiving a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) from a second device, and transmitting a SL HARQ feedback related to the PSSCH to the second device, wherein a resource in which the SL HARQ feedback is transmitted is determined based on an identifier (ID) of the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 11742926
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable mediums for beam management. In example embodiments, a method implemented at a first network device is provided. According to the method, a first group of resources are determined to be used by a terminal device for determining a first group of beams from the first network device. The first group of resources are different from a second group of resources configured by a second network device to the terminal device for determining a second group of beams from the second network device. The first group of resources are configured to the terminal device. A plurality of synchronization and/or reference signals are transmitted, using the first group of beams, on the first group of resources to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukai Gao, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11743898
    Abstract: Methods and systems for transmitting uplink control information and feedback are disclosed for carrier aggregation systems. A user equipment device may be configured to transmit uplink control information and other feedback for several downlink component carriers using one or more uplink component carriers. The user equipment device may be configured to transmit such data using a physical uplink control channel rather than a physical uplink shared channel. The user equipment device may be configured to determine the uplink control information and feedback data that is to be transmitted, the physical uplink control channel resources to be used to transmit the uplink control information and feedback data, and how the uplink control information and feedback data may be transmitted over the physical uplink control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar, Kyle Jung-Lin Pan, Robert L. Olesen, Ghyslain Pelletier, Marian Rudolf, Paul Marinier, Charles A. Dennean, Stephen G. Dick, Allan Y. Tsai, Christopher R. Cave, Chang-Soo Koo
  • Patent number: 11743768
    Abstract: A wireless communication link is established between a first station (STA) and a second STA in a 6-GHz band. The first STA and the second STA the communicate in the 6-GHz band using a low-power indoor (LPI) long range (LR) physical-layer protocol data unit (PPDU). The LPI LR PPDU includes a legacy preamble, a universal signal field (U-SIG), an extreme-high-throughput signal field (EHT-SIG), an extreme-high-throughput short training field (EHT-STF), an extreme-high-throughput long training field (EHT-LTF), and a payload. Each of the legacy preamble, U-SIG and EHT-SIG is modulated and duplicated over multiple 20-MHz subchannels for a 80-MHz, 160-MHz or 320-MHz bandwidth over which the LPI LR PPDU is transmitted. Each of the EHT-STF, EHT-LTF and payload is modulated and transmitted on an entirety of the 80-MHz, 160-MHz or 320-MHz bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianhan Liu, Shengquan Hu, Hsuan-Yu Liu, Thomas Edward Pare, Jr., Yungping Hsu
  • Patent number: 11737121
    Abstract: A system may include a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) including nodes. The nodes may include beacon-based clusterhead (BB-CH) nodes and members. Each of the nodes may be configured to transmit communication data packets and transmit beacons. Each of the nodes may have passive spatial awareness. For each of at least some of the BB-CH nodes having members, a BB-CH node may be configured to compile spatial awareness information of all members of the BB-CH node. The compiled spatial awareness information may include a BB-CH node identification, position-location information (PLI) of the BB-CH node, a quantity of the members, and a member list with PLI. For each of the at least some of the BB-CH nodes, the BB-CH node may be configured to broadcast, via efficient flooding, some or all of the compiled spatial awareness information to every connected node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Tj T. Kwon, William B. Sorsby, Eric J. Loren
  • Patent number: 11736984
    Abstract: A method or apparatus for wireless communication at a wireless device. The wireless device transmits sidelink control information (SCI) indicating an aperiodic resource reservation and indicating a time gap between aperiodic resource reservations based at least in part on supplemental bits. The apparatus transmits a sidelink message based on the aperiodic resource reservation on a resource pool that supports periodic resource reservation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tien Viet Nguyen, Gabi Sarkis, Kapil Gulati, Sourjya Dutta
  • Patent number: 11736990
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may communicate on a primary carrier using a first antenna port. The UE may communicate on a secondary carrier using a second antenna port. The UE may determine whether to switch the secondary carrier from the second antenna port to the first antenna port based on a channel condition associated with the second antenna port. The UE may switch the secondary carrier from the second antenna port to the first antenna port based on a determination to switch the secondary carrier from the second antenna port to the first antenna port. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sachin Jain, Sridhar Bandaru, Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt, Thawatt Gopal
  • Patent number: 11728958
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus for automatically coordinating time domain duplex (TDD) configurations and transmission parameters among wireless network providers operating on adjacent TDD channels and/or bands in proximity of each other to avoid cross link interference (CLI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: Abdulrauf Hafeez, Maulik Vaidya
  • Patent number: 11729669
    Abstract: Described herein are a method and device for transmitting data. The method includes: determining a plurality of carriers or carrier groups for transmitting duplicated data according to a plurality of logical channels for carrying the duplicated data, wherein at least two logical channels in the plurality of logical channels correspond to different carriers or carrier groups for transmitting the duplicated data; transmitting the duplicated data carried in the plurality of logical channels respectively on the plurality of carriers or carrier groups; wherein in the plurality of logical channels, different logical channels correspond to different media access control (MAC) entities; wherein at least two logical channels in the plurality of logical channels corresponding to different carriers or carrier groups for transmitting the duplicated data comprises: in the MAC entities corresponding to the plurality of logical channels, different MAC entities correspond to different carriers or carrier groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanan Lin, Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11722257
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) history feedbacks are provided. A user equipment (UE) receives one or more data blocks of a plurality of data blocks, each of the one or more data blocks received in one of a plurality of transmission occasions. The UE transmits an individual feedback for each of the one or more data blocks indicating whether the data block is received successfully. The UE transmits a feedback history report for one or more transmission occasions of the plurality of transmission occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Wanshi Chen, Yi Huang, Heechoon Lee, Tingfang Ji, Peter Gaal, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 11716171
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for efficiently managing simultaneous data transmissions of a plurality of terminals. To this end, provided are a base wireless communication terminal including: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal; and a processor configured to control an operation of the base wireless communication terminal, wherein the processor is configured to: transmit a trigger frame triggering a multi-user uplink transmission of a plurality of terminals, receive multi-user uplink data through resources allocated to the plurality of terminals, and transmit a block ACK through the resources in response to the received multi-user uplink data, wherein the transmission of the block ACK in each resource is terminated at the same time, and a wireless communication method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woojin Ahn, Yongho Kim, Jinsam Kwak, Juhyung Son
  • Patent number: 11711758
    Abstract: A user equipment transmits user equipment information, associated with a communication of the user equipment, to permit a base station to select a first bandwidth part, a second bandwidth part, or a third bandwidth part. The user equipment is configured to communicate by the first bandwidth part, the second bandwidth part, and the third bandwidth part. The user equipment receives, from the base station, an instruction to monitor the first bandwidth part, the second bandwidth part, or the third bandwidth part. The instruction is selected based on the user equipment information. The user equipment monitors, based on the instruction, the first bandwidth part, the second bandwidth part, or the third bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Nanjun Qian, Xin Wang, Jun Yuan