Patents Examined by Huy D. Vu
  • Patent number: 12381918
    Abstract: One disclosure of the present specification provides a communication method related to a change of an application server performed by an SMF node. The method may comprise: a step for transmitting a notification message related to a change of a user plane path to an AF node; a step for receiving a response message from the AF node in response to the notification message; and a step for transmitting a message including information on an IP address of the changed application server to a terminal through an AMF node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunsook Kim, Laeyoung Kim, Myungjune Youn
  • Patent number: 12382462
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for transmitting and receiving a downlink signal between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system supporting an unlicensed band, and a device supporting the method. As a specific example, the present invention includes a method for: transmitting and receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal in an unlicensed band so that a base station and a terminal transmit and receive system information associated with a particular synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block; and, based on the PDCCH signal, transmitting and receiving a PDSCH signal including the system information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seonwook Kim, Sukhyon Yoon, Hyunsoo Ko, Changhwan Park, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 12376150
    Abstract: A method for receiving a signal by a wireless communication device according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: monitoring candidates of a control channel in a BWP on the basis of a control channel search space set (SS) configuration and a CORESET configuration; and acquiring control information from the control channel detected as a result of the monitoring of the candidates, wherein: a control channel SS configured on the basis of the control channel SS configuration is associated with a CORESET configured on the basis of the CORESET configuration; the BWP includes one sub-band (SB) or two or more SBs; and in order to monitor the candidates, the wireless communication device configures each CORESET frequency resource area of each SB in the BWP on the basis of a CORESET frequency resource area of one specific SB in the BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim, Sukhyon Yoon, Changhwan Park
  • Patent number: 12355656
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and techniques for routing data through a mesh network and for self-healing of the mesh network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Crius Technology Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Glenn John Robertson
  • Patent number: 12342265
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program for user equipment of a mobile communication system. The method for user equipment (UE) of a mobile communication system and for determining a communication group of multiple UEs includes receiving information on radio access capabilities from candidate UEs of the communication group, determining one or more radio access technologies to use in the communication group based on the information on the radio access capabilities from the candidate UEs, determining participants of the communication group based on their radio access technologies, and forming the group based on communicating using the one or more radio technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Guillaume Jornod, Andreas Pfadler
  • Patent number: 12301487
    Abstract: Disclosed are various techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a method of wireless communication includes determining, based on environment information about an environment in which a user equipment (UE) that is receiving positioning reference signals (PRSs) using a first bandwidth (BW) is operating, a second BW to be used by the UE for receiving PRSs, and transmitting PRSs using the second BW to be used by the UE for receiving PRSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chang-Sik Choi, Kapil Gulati, Piyush Gupta, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12294987
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a preconfigured resource, and a method and an apparatus for data transmission. The method for controlling the preconfigured resource includes: determining a first condition, wherein the first condition includes the maximum number of consecutive transmission occasions that a terminal is allowed to skip; and releasing a preconfigured resource for the terminal in response to not detecting predetermined information sent by the terminal during N consecutive transmission occasions. N is the maximum number of consecutive transmission occasions that the terminal is allowed to skip. When the terminal in the grant-free scheduling state is in a disconnected state and needs to transmit data, the data is transmitted at a specified transmission occasion on a resource preconfigured by a network device for the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qin Mu
  • Patent number: 12244542
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating UE indication of null tone placement for demodulation are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a UE includes measuring one or more downlink transmissions in one or more frequency subcarriers received from a base station over a time period. The example method also includes transmitting, to the base station, a null tone indication indicating one or more locations for one or more null tones, the one or more locations for the one or more null tones based at least in part on measurements performed on the one or more downlink transmissions received over the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Wooseok Nam, Mohamed Marzban
  • Patent number: 12245258
    Abstract: A method for implementing opportunistic user scheduling under long-term and short-term resource fairness constraints is presented. The method includes enabling a base station to communicate with a plurality mobile devices handled by a plurality of users within a single-cell wireless communication network, deriving a feasible region of resource block (RB) fairness vectors by enabling an opportunistic scheduler to select active users from the plurality of users at each RB, implementing an optimal user scheduling strategy to maximize system utility by optimizing, via the opportunistic scheduler, transmit power and user mode selection, wherein the optimal user scheduling strategy includes a threshold-based strategy (TBS) phase and a compensation phase, and employing a short-term resource fair scheduling strategy satisfying user resource demands over a finite window-length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Mohammad Khojastepour
  • Patent number: 12219598
    Abstract: Provided are a method for performing sidelink transmission by a first apparatus (100) and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise steps of: determining to perform first sidelink transmission related to LTE and second sidelink transmission related to NR; and performing any one of the first sidelink transmission or the second sidelink transmission on the basis of a priority order of the first sidelink transmission and a priority order of the second sidelink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Hyukjin Chae
  • Patent number: 12206574
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting one or more physical communication link breaks are disclosed. An indication of a failure of one or more network layer links may be received. A physical layer link associated with the one or more network layer links may be determined based on the indication of the failure, and based on data indicating one or more associations between network layer links and physical layer links. A score may be determined indicating a probability that the physical layer link comprises a failure associated with a break in a physical communication link of the physical layer link based on determining a total quantity of the network layer links associated with the physical layer link, and based on a quantity of one or more network layer links associated with the indication of the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Chuchu Wu, Patrick Carretas, Gulrukh Ahanger, Jacques Louvet, Fnu Venu Gopal Krishna Murthy
  • Patent number: 12199709
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may receive, via a first interface of a repeater, information associated with a second interface of the repeater. The base station may determine a configuration for the second interface of the repeater based at least in part on the information associated with the second interface, and may communicate the configuration for the second interface of the repeater via the first interface. In some aspects, a repeater may transmit, to a base station via a first interface, information associated with a second interface of the repeater. The repeater may receive, via the first interface, a configuration for the second interface, and may configure the second interface based at least in part on the configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Raju Hormis, Junyi Li, Juergen Cezanne, Ozge Koymen
  • Patent number: 12184551
    Abstract: A method for operation of a broadband access network of a telecommunications network includes: in a first step, a traffic load information message regarding the current load situation of a first leaf network node is transmitted, by the local power management entity or functionality of the first leaf network node, to a central power management entity or functionality; in a second step, the central power management entity or functionality transmits a session transfer request message to a session management entity or functionality; in a third step, the session management entity or functionality transmits a session transfer answer message to the central power management entity or functionality; and in a fourth step, the central power management entity or functionality transmits a traffic load execution message to the local power management entity or functionality of the first leaf network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventors: Thomas Haag, Hans-Joerg Kolbe
  • Patent number: 12160310
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A UE may communicate with a set of transceiver nodes (e.g., transmission reception points (TRPs)) in a first transceiver node operation mode (e.g., a multi-TRP mode). A first transceiver node of the set of transceiver nodes may receive, from a second of the set of transceiver nodes, an indication to switch between rate matching states. The first transceiver node may switch from a first rate matching state to a second rate matching state and may transmit a downlink shared channel based on a resource configuration associated with the second rate matching state. The UE may receive the shared channel based on an antenna port configuration determined by the UE based on the first transceiver node operation and rate matching information. The rate matching information may be provided by the first transceiver node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sungwoo Park, Tao Luo, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Wooseok Nam
  • Patent number: 12156140
    Abstract: Provided are a parameter configuration and power determination method, device and a communication node. The parameter configuration method includes: configuring at least one transmission parameter setting set for a first communication node, where the transmission parameter setting set includes at least one first transmission parameter set, the first transmission parameter set includes at least one of: a transmission parameter set identifier for identifying the first transmission parameter set, target receiving power configuration information, path loss configuration information, or first indication information for indicating whether to reset a closed-loop power adjustment amount locally maintained by the first communication node. The problem of large overhead of the power control scheme in the NR multi-beam scenario in the existing art is solved, and achieving the effect of reducing the air interface signaling overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Ke Yao, Zhaohua Lu, Bo Gao, YuNgok Li, Chuangxin Jiang
  • Patent number: 12155469
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to transmitting, by a device and to a base station, assistance information to facilitate configuring one or more parameters for communicating with the base station, detecting, by the device, that an assistance response signal including the one or more parameters based on the assistance information is not received from the base station within a threshold period of time, degrading, by the device and based on the detecting that the assistance response signal is not received within the threshold period of time, feedback to be communicated to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Tao Luo, Wooseok Nam, Linhai He, Peter Pui Lok Ang
  • Patent number: 12150002
    Abstract: An information reporting method and device, and a terminal are provided. The method comprises: after detecting that a failure event occurs in a master cell group (MCG) or a failure event occurs in a secondary cell group (SCG), a terminal reports MCG failure information or SCG failure information to a network side, the MCG failure information or SCG failure information being used for network optimization by the network side, wherein the MCG is a cell group of master nodes, and the SCG is a cell group of secondary nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Shukun Wang, Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 12143838
    Abstract: A processing method includes: performing a target operation when data transmission on a target transmission path in the M transmission paths fails, where the target operation includes at least one of: reporting failure indication information; performing a first operation on a target radio link control (RLC) entity corresponding to the target transmission path; performing a second operation on a target medium access control (MAC) entity corresponding to the target transmission path; performing a third operation on a target SCell corresponding to the target transmission path; or performing a fourth operation on the target split bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yumin Wu
  • Patent number: 12133257
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an uplink transmission method, user equipment, and a network-side device. The uplink transmission method applied to user equipment includes: receiving a scheduling instruction transmitted by a network-side device, where the scheduling instruction includes a set of interlace indices of resource blocks and a scheduled bandwidth, and an interlace of resource blocks in the scheduled bandwidth indicated by the set of interlace indices of resource blocks includes a guard band physical resource block PRB; performing clear channel detection for the scheduled bandwidth; determining a PRB for data transmission in the interlace of resource blocks based on a detection result of the clear channel detection; and transmitting data by using the PRB for data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueming Pan, Kai Wu, Lei Jiang
  • Patent number: 12133288
    Abstract: A method for processing a change in a radio capability of a terminal apparatus is provided. The method comprises that an access network apparatus receives radio capability change indication information. The radio capability change indication information indicates that a radio capability of a terminal apparatus changes. The access network apparatus obtains a changed part of the radio capability of the terminal apparatus. The access network apparatus generates updated radio capability information of the terminal apparatus based on at least an old radio capability of the terminal apparatus and the changed part of the radio capability of the terminal apparatus. The access network apparatus sends the updated radio capability information to a core network apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhenglei Huang