Patents Examined by Hong S. Cho
  • Patent number: 11051234
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may receiving, from a base station, a synchronization signal block (SSB) of a set of quasi-collocated (QCL) SSBs, the SSB comprising an indication of a parameter indicating information associated with a plurality of downlink control channel locations corresponding to the set of QCL SSBs. The UE may determine, based at least in part on the parameter, the plurality of downlink control channel locations corresponding to the set of QCL SSBs. The UE may receive a downlink grant for a system information based at least in part on monitoring one or more downlink control channel locations of the plurality of downlink control channel locations. The UE may receive the system information based at least in part on the downlink grant. The UE may establish a connection with the base station based at least in part on the SSB and the received system information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Kapil Bhattad
  • Patent number: 11050502
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system which will be provided to support a higher data rate beyond a 4G communication system such as LTE. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a method performed by a terminal in a wireless cellular communication system is provided. The method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a serving base station, network deployment information of a neighboring cell, which includes information on the type of the neighboring cell; and receiving data from the serving base station on the basis of the network deployment information of the neighboring cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: Cheolkyu Shin, Younsun Kim, Hoondong Noh, Youngwoo Kwak, Seunghoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11051336
    Abstract: A method and wireless device for determining a time interval, T2, for selecting a time-frequency resource are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes determining the time interval based on at least one parameter serving as a proxy indicative of a likelihood of collision. In some embodiments, at least one of the at least one parameter is a priority level indication, such that a higher priority transmission results in a lower value of T2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Ricardo Blasco Serrano, Stefano Sorrentino
  • Patent number: 11051299
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique that fuses IoT technology with a 5G communication system to support a higher data rate than a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retailing, security and safety related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT related technology. A communication method in a terminal of a mobile communication system according to one embodiment of the present specification comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, first information associated with a resource allocation scheme for a first service and a second service; receiving, from the base station, control information associated with the first service; and receiving, from the base station, data for the first service on the basis of the control information and the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Euichang Jung, Suha Yoon, Suyoung Park, Sunghyuk Shin
  • Patent number: 11044055
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a network node reduces a probability of collision between HARQ process IDs used for acknowledging transmissions between the network node and a UE. The network node determines HARQ process IDs associated with dynamic grants of uplink resources and HARQ process IDs associated with semi-persistent scheduling (SPS). The HARQ process IDs are determined so as to reduce the probability of collision of the HARQ process IDs. The network node indicates at least the HARQ process IDs associated with the dynamic grants to the UE. The UE communicates HARQ messages using the HARQ process IDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktieboiaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Zhenhua Zou, Ali Behravan, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 11044659
    Abstract: An accessing method related to network slicing, being applied to a base station, includes: generating minimum system information, the minimum system information including two items: i) indication information indicating presence of physical random access channel (PRACH) configuration information, corresponding to one or more network slices, in other system information, ii) common random access channel configuration information; and sending the minimum system information to a user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11039482
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a terminal may store a time correction value acquired from an RA response message during an RRC layer connection to a base station, receive, from the base station, an uplink resource allocation message including an uplink resource allocated to the terminal, after the RRC layer connection to the base station is released, and when an RRC layer connection to the base station is determined, establish the RRC layer connection to the base station without transmitting an RA preamble message, on the basis of the stored time correction value and the allocated uplink resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungbo Ryu, Dongmin Kim, Namryul Jeon, Doyoung Jung, Balgeum Choe
  • Patent number: 11032037
    Abstract: Implementations described herein are directed to satellite transmitters and receivers for applying OFDM-like signaling in broadband satellite transmissions. In such systems, one or more data signals may be shaped and composited into a composite data signal at an OFDM-like transmitter for transmission over a satellite channel. The data signals that are carried over the satellite channel by the composited signal may have their own carrier, and each signal may carry multiple OFDM subcarriers. Further implementations are directed to correcting for distortion in satellite communications systems that utilize OFDM-like signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Bassel F. Beidas, Rohit Iyer Seshadri
  • Patent number: 11019635
    Abstract: A method and a device for beam failure recovery are provided. The method includes determining signal quality of a designated beam being out of a required range of control channel transmission, where the designated beam is designated by a network for control channel transmission; performing a beam measurement to determine a plurality of recommended beams, where signal quality of the plurality of recommended beams is within a preset range; and reporting beam identifications of the plurality of recommended beams to the network, so that the network can change the designated beam based on the plurality of recommended beams. The method and device can increase a success rate of beam failure recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING UNISOC COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hualei Wang
  • Patent number: 11019561
    Abstract: A communication control device comprises a receiving means which receives mode information about a restriction mode which is a setting of the first base station device; and a policy generation means which generates the access policy on the basis of the mode information. When a second base station device, which is within a radio wave range in which communication is enabled with the first base station device, communicates with another wireless communication apparatus, the restriction mode is the setting in which the wireless communication apparatus performs an operation for lowering the priority of accessing the first base station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiya Sasabe
  • Patent number: 11018802
    Abstract: A channel quality indicator feedback method and device. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a response message of data and a channel state, where the response message includes an acknowledgement message and/or a negative acknowledgement message; determining, by the terminal device, first channel state information based on the response message of the data and the channel state; and sending, by the terminal device, the response message and the first channel state information to the network side device. According to the method and apparatus provided, reliability of downlink data from a base station can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongxia Lyu, Ruixiang Ma
  • Patent number: 11019562
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a discovery signal in a wireless communication system, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: selecting from a resource pool n (n>0) resource units for transmitting a discovery signal; and transmitting the discovery signal by using the selected n resource units, wherein, when the n resource units are selected, the kth (0<k=<n) resource unit is selected from subframes excluding the subframes comprising from first resource unit to k?1th resource unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 11012921
    Abstract: A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system include intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a base station for transmitting a paging message is provided. The method includes determining a number of paging frames (PFs) in a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle based on information on paging search space, transmitting, to a terminal, information on the number of PFs in system information block 1 (SIB1), identifying at least one PF based on the number of PFs, and transmitting, to the terminal, at least one paging message in the at least one PF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 11013028
    Abstract: A wireless device receives uplink grants indicating resources of cells. First uplink grants of the uplink grants are processed as a group according to an order. The group is based on the first uplink grants being received during one or more coinciding time durations that the wireless device is configured to monitor at least one control channel for the cells. The processing comprises multiplexing data of one or more logical channels into transport blocks based on the first uplink grants. The transport blocks are transmitted based on the first uplink grants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Dinan
  • Patent number: 11012979
    Abstract: In order to overcome problems that a UE may face in determining CORESETs and beams for communication with the base station during a COT, a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided for a base station to indicate to the UE which CORESET(s), QCL relationships, UL resources, and/or spatial relationships are selected for a COT. A UE receives an indication of a set of CORESETs selected from a plurality of CORESETs or a set of QCL relationships selected from a plurality of QCL relationships. The UE determines the set of CORESETs from the plurality of CORESETs or the set of QCL relationships from the plurality of QCL relationships based on the indication received. A UE receives an indication of a set of UL resources or a set of spatial relations. The UE determines the set of UL resources or the set of spatial relations based on the indication received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Wooseok Nam, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Srinivas Yerramalli
  • Patent number: 11012218
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method by which an operating station (STA) transmits a signal in a multiple user (MU) scheme in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system. In the present method, the STA configures a wireless frame, which includes a data field for data transmission and a signaling (SIG) field including control information, wherein the SIG field includes a SIG A field, which includes bandwidth information indicating the whole bandwidth having a bandwidth of 2n times that of 20 MHz, and a SIG B field, which includes user specific information. Here, the bandwidth information of the SIG A field additionally indicates whether the whole bandwidth includes one or more 20 MHz bands (null channel), which are not used in the data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jeongki Kim, Kiseon Ryu, Jinsoo Choi, Hangyu Cho
  • Patent number: 11005630
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for detecting and decoding a primary broadcast channel transmitted by a base station at a user equipment device. Embodiments improve performance and robustness over prior methods for detecting and decoding by determining a channel differential metric for channel estimates derived based on each candidate demodulation reference symbol (DMRS) sequence and selecting a set of top DMRS sequence candidates using the associated channel differential metrics. From the set of top DMRS candidates, a best DMRS candidate, and consequently, the three least significant bits of the beam index, can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventors: Jayakrishnan Cheriyath Mundarath, Jayesh H. Kotecha
  • Patent number: 10999880
    Abstract: Provided is a method executed by user equipment, comprising: receiving a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message; determining whether the received RRCConnectionReconfiguration message contains indication information, the indication information indicating user equipment (UE) to reconfigure a first type of data radio bearer (DRB) into a second type of DRB that is different from the first type of DRB; and in a case where the received RRCConnectionReconfiguration message contains the indication information, reconfiguring the UE according to the RRCConnectionReconfiguration message, wherein the first type of DRB comprises a main cell group (MCG) DRB or a wireless local area network (WLAN) split DRB, and the second type of DRB comprises an MCG DRB, a WLN split DRB or a WLN non-split DRB. Corresponding user equipment is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fangying Xiao, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 10999863
    Abstract: A wireless device receives parameters of a configured periodic grant. The parameters indicate: a timing offset and a symbol number; a first periodicity indicating a time interval between two subsequent resources; and demodulation reference signal parameters. One or more symbols of a resource of the configured periodic grant are determining based on the timing offset, the symbol number, and the first periodicity. One or more transport blocks are transmitted, via the resource of the configured periodic grant, employing the demodulation reference signal parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 10999822
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives, by a user equipment (UE) during a first subframe, an indication of a dynamic uplink/downlink (UL/DL) subframe configuration. The apparatus determines an uplink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing based on an uplink reference subframe configuration and at least one of the dynamic UL/DL subframe configuration or a downlink reference subframe configuration. The apparatus selects an uplink subframe for communication based on the determined uplink HARQ timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chao Wei, Neng Wang, Peng Cheng, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu, Peter Gaal, Jilei Hou