Patents Examined by Ian N Moore
  • Patent number: 11470559
    Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) for an uplink power control is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information indicating a power scaling value (?) to be applied to a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission, determining, based on the received configuration information, the power scaling value (?) for the PUSCH transmission from values of ? = 1 ? ? or ? ? ? = ? 0 ? , where ?0 is a number of antenna ports with a non-zero PUSCH transmission power and ? is a number of sounding reference signal (SRS) ports, and transmitting the PUSCH transmission with a linear value ({circumflex over (P)}) of transmit power scaled based on the determined power scaling value (?), where the linear value ({circumflex over (P)}) of the transmit power after power scaling, ?×{circumflex over (P)}, is divided equally across the antenna ports on which the UE transmits the PUSCH transmission with non-zero power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Md. Saifur Rahman, Eko Onggosanusi
  • Patent number: 11464038
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided that provide single or multiple Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) messages for single or multiple Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) messages to support network coordination schemes such as Non-Coherent Joint Transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Usa Vilaipornsawai, Mohammadhadi Baligh, Aman Jassal, Hamidreza Farmanbar, Zhengwei Gong, Amine Maaref
  • Patent number: 11464028
    Abstract: A TRP selects two UEs that have potential for MU-MIMO transmission, and the TRP then measures signal and interference for each panel in both UEs based on UL beam management for a set of one or more candidate TRP beams. Based on the measurements, the TRP determines if multi-user transmission (i.e., co-scheduling of the two UEs) is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Fredrik Athley, Andreas Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11457463
    Abstract: A method includes receiving scheduling information for a transmission on a plurality of resource blocks. The method also includes, based on control information on at least one invalid resource block included in the plurality of resource blocks, blocking the transmission on the at least one invalid resource block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin Beale, Shin Horng Wong, Basuki Priyanto
  • Patent number: 11452036
    Abstract: A first station generates indication information of any one of an operating channel, an operating band, or an operating channel and an operating band of a wake-up receiver in a second station. The first station sends the indication information, so that the wake-up receiver in the second station works on the indicated operating channel or the indicated operating band. The first station controls the operating channel or the operating band of the wake-up receiver in the second station by generating the indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xun Zhou, Meilu Lin, Jian Yu, Xiao Han, Yunbo Li, Ming Gan
  • Patent number: 11445394
    Abstract: A terminal access method includes: sending, by a network device, uplink signal configuration information for an idle terminal to a terminal; receiving, by the network device from a first base station, uplink signal measurement information and load of the first base station, wherein the uplink signal measurement information is obtained by measurement by the first base station upon receiving an uplink signal carrying a terminal identifier from the terminal based on the uplink signal configuration information; and configuring, by the network device, mobility for the terminal based on the terminal identifier, the uplink signal measurement information and the load of the first base station, wherein the configuring mobility is configuring a candidate serving base station for the terminal such that the terminal initiates a service request to enter an active state at the candidate serving base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: CLOUDMINDS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: William Xiao-qing Huang, Haitao Jiang, Zhenkai Wang
  • Patent number: 11445449
    Abstract: A method and a device in a node used for wireless communication are proposed. A first node receives a first information element, the first information element being used for indicating a first reference power value; and receives a second information set, the second information set comprising a second information element, the second information element being used for indicating a second limit power value; and transmits a first radio signal with a first power value; a target receiver of the first radio signal includes a transmitter of the first information element, the first power value is related to a smaller value between the first reference power value and the second limit power value. Taking into account restrictions resulted from interference when adjusting a transmitting power of a desired signal, interferences that may occur in V2X system in unicast or groupcast transmission are addressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jin Liu, XiaoBo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11445479
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including a communication control section that performs, using a network address configured by m bytes, communication control on one or more network slices, and the network address has a prefix section that includes, in a portion of high-order n bytes, a slice number that identifies the one or more network slices and a subnet number in the one or more network slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiroaki Takano, Ryo Sawai, Fumio Teraoka
  • Patent number: 11444729
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication technique and system for converging a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology. The disclosure relates to a method performed by a terminal for feeding back a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) and to a terminal for performing the method, including: generating HARQ feedback information for data that is scheduled for the terminal in at least one slot; determining a transmission timing of the HARQ feedback information based on a minimum processing time for transmission of a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) of the terminal; and transmitting the HARQ feedback information based on the determined timing, wherein the minimum processing time for the PSFCH transmission is determined based on at least one of a subcarrier spacing, a configuration of a resource pool, and a time interval between a PSSCH and the PSFCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongho Yeo, Hyunseok Ryu, Cheolkyu Shin, Sungjin Park, Jinyoung Oh
  • Patent number: 11432266
    Abstract: Provided are a data transmission method and apparatus and a computer storage medium. The method includes that: a first core network element receives data from an external network, the data being data sent to a first device group (301); and the first core network element sends the data to an access network element through a first transmission resource to enable the access network element to send the data to User Equipment (UE) in the first device group through a second transmission resource (302).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11425710
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus and method for wireless communication and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic apparatus comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: determine a signature in a multiple access signature pool to be used for user equipment in which the electronic apparatus is located, wherein the multiple access signature pool is divided into multiple sub-signature pools according to a communication system parameter, and the determined signature belongs to a sub-signature pool corresponding to the communication system parameter used for the user equipment; and using, on the basis of the determined signature, a multiple access time-frequency resource to perform transmission, wherein the multiple access time-frequency resource is shared by a group of user equipment comprising the above user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Penshun Lu, Wenbo Zhang, Tao Cui, Jianfei Cao, Xin Guo, Chen Sun
  • Patent number: 11424800
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may configure a first set of resources for a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) transmission. The UE may configure a second set of resources for a sidelink channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) transmission, the sidelink CSI-RS transmission is associated with the PSSCH transmission, and the sidelink CSI-RS transmission occurs prior to the PSSCH transmission. The UE may transmit a first sidelink control information (SCI) in a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) transmission, the first SCI including an indication of the first set of resources and the second set of resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Kapil Gulati, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11424872
    Abstract: A receiving node in a wireless communication network is operable to determining a process identifier for a repeated transmission by allocating, to a transmitting node, a plurality of resources for use with repeated transmissions, receiving a transmission from the transmitting node where the transmission uses at least one resource from the plurality of resources assigned to the transmitting node for use with repeated transmissions, and determining the process identifier for the transmission based on the at least one resource from the plurality of resources for use with repeated transmissions used by the transmission. Related methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Efthymios Stathakis, Zhenhua Zou, Gustav Wikström, Ali Behravan, Daniel Larsson
  • Patent number: 11425051
    Abstract: A flow control method and system, and a device are provided to implement flow control in a process of transmitting a media stream between devices. The method includes: receiving, by a first device, a media stream that is sent by a second device at a first rate; instructing based on a rate of a media stream in a first time period in which a buffer usage rises from a first threshold to a second threshold, the second device to send a media stream to the first device at a second rate which is less than the first rate; instructing based on a rate of a media stream in a second time period in which the buffer usage rises from the second threshold to a third threshold, the second device to send a media stream to the first device at a third rate which is not greater than the second rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nu Xia, Jinhui Zhang, Qikun Wei
  • Patent number: 11424883
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) to transmit a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from a base station, configuration information related to a first SRS resource assigned for transmission of a first SRS and a second SRS resource assigned for transmission of a second SRS, wherein the configuration information includes type information representing whether or not a SRS transmission has periodicity, and usage information representing which usage the SRS has; and when a transmission time of the first SRS is the same as a transmission time of the second SRS, transmitting the first SRS or the second SRS to the base station based on a priority between the first SRS and the second SRS, wherein the priority is determined based on at least one of the type information or the usage information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jonghyun Park, Haewook Park, Kunil Yum, Sukhyon Yoon, Kukheon Choi
  • Patent number: 11425033
    Abstract: A network communication system may include intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) in a ring communication network. A software-defined networking device may be programmed by a removable or disconnectable software-defined network (SDN) controller to control the flow path of data packets to the IEDs in the ring network. The software-defined networking device may inspect a data packet intended for a first IED to determine that the inspected data packet requests a responsive data packet from the first IED. A flow path failure may be identified based on a failure to detect a responsive data packet from the first IED within an expected response time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Amandeep Singh Kalra, David J. Dolezilek, Robert Meine
  • Patent number: 11418377
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data sending and receiving method, apparatus, and device, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: when a first transmission frequency band sends data by adopting an extended sequence modulation data sending rule, data to be transmitted on spaced sub-carriers of the first transmission frequency band is respectively multiplied by each extended element in an extended sequence with a length of 2K to obtain extended data with a number of 2K, where there is another extended element with a phase difference of ? relative to each extended element in the extended sequence; and the extended data with the number of 2K is sent on 2K spaced sub-carriers of the first transmission frequency band, where K is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Xin, Luanjian Bian
  • Patent number: 11411696
    Abstract: This application provides a resource indication method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: receiving, by the terminal device, the first indication information, and determining time domain positions of demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) based on the mapping type of the physical shared channel and with reference to a position index of the last symbol occupied by the physical shared channel or a quantity of symbols occupied by the physical shared channel in the resource unit, where the position index of the last symbol occupied by the physical shared channel in the resource unit corresponds to the first type, and the quantity of symbols occupied by the physical shared channel in the resource unit corresponds to the second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Ren, Yong Liu, Shibin Ge, Xiaoyan Bi
  • Patent number: 11405165
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for receiving remaining minimum system information (RMSI) in a wireless communication system. User equipment (UE) receives a synchronization signal (SS)/physical broadcast channel (PBCH) block from a network, receives information about an offset between the SS/PBCH block and the RMSI from the network, and receives the RMSI from the network on the basis of the information about the offset between the SS/PBCH block and the RMSI. The offset between the SS/PBCH block and the RMSI can be based on the numerology having a smaller subcarrier interval among the numerology of the SS/PBCH block and the numerology of the RMSI, and, more generally, the numerology having the smaller subcarrier interval among the numerology of the SS/PBCH block and the numerology of the RMSI can be the numerology having the smallest subcarrier interval in each frequency range (FR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11405325
    Abstract: A path MTU size determination system includes a source host device that generates and transmits a path MTU size discovery packet. A plurality of switch devices in the path MTU size determination system provide a network path that couples a destination host device to the source host device. Each of the switch devices is configured to receive the path MTU size discovery packet transmitted by the source host device, provide a switch identity of that switch device and a MTU size supported by that switch device in a MTU size reporting header included in the MTU size discovery packet, and forward the path MTU size discovery packet. One of the switch devices will operate to determine a lowest MTU size in the MTU size reporting header, and another of the switch devices will cause the source host device to provide the lowest MTU size as its path MTU size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Kannan Karuppiah, Ganesh Chennimalai Sankaran