Patents Examined by Jae Y Lee
  • Patent number: 11916630
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to accelerate the estimation of a radio model of a beamforming access point within a radio environment, such as a beamforming access point that has been newly added to or relocated. In a method, the presence of a first beamforming access point in a radio environment is determined and information is obtained regarding one or more of a plurality of beams that are transmitted by the first access point. The method then estimates the radio model of the first access point based at least upon: (i) at least some of the information regarding the one or more of the beams transmitted by the first access point and (ii) signal propagation characteristics of one or more existing access points in the radio environment as represented by respective radio models of the one or more existing access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Marko Luomi, Petri Rauhala, Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola
  • Patent number: 11917694
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods performed by a wireless device for random access to a wireless communications network. Such methods include transmitting a random access preamble in a first uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP) of a carrier and selecting a first downlink (DL) BWP of the carrier based on an association between the first UL BWP and the first DL BWP. Such methods include monitoring the first DL BWP for a random access response from the wireless communication network to the transmitted random access preamble. Other embodiments include complementary methods for a base station configured to support random access by wireless devices, as well as wireless devices and base stations configured to perform such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Björn Hofström, Jan Christoffersson, Min Wang
  • Patent number: 11910239
    Abstract: Optimizing carrier aggregation assignment for relay nodes by assigning all available component carriers within a sector towards relay node transmissions regardless of a buffer status of the relay nodes. Embodiments include stationary relay nodes and those with consistent channel states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum LP
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11910368
    Abstract: Systems and methods of controlling a mobile network include processors and memory storing instructions that cause the processors to perform receiving, from an external source or receiver, dynamically updated location data of a controller of the mobile network; determining, based on the dynamically updated location data, one or more permitted radiofrequency (RF) channels through which RF signals are transmitted from a mobile access point associated with the mobile network and traffic data corresponding to the permitted radiofrequency channels; and adjusting a frequency behavior of the mobile access point based on the permitted RF channels and the traffic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventor: Ian Beyer
  • Patent number: 11901935
    Abstract: The present application relates to wireless communications suitable for smart manufacturing and industrial automation. In particular, the application proposes a wireless communication device (UE) and a network device (BS), in particular suitable for cyclic communication. The BS is configured to provide a first information defining a hopping sequence to a UE, and to provide a second information to the UE defining when the hopping sequence should be repeated, in particular periodically repeated. The UE is accordingly configured to receive the first information from the BS, and to receive the second information from the BS. The hopping sequence specifies at least two spatial resources and/or at least two radio resources, which the UE is configured to use for transmissions to and/or from the BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Konstantinos Manolakis, Daniel Medina, Mario Hernán Castañeda Garcia, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Zhongfeng Li
  • Patent number: 11902946
    Abstract: In wireless communication systems using a subband full duplex carrier, a single slot may include one or more uplink (UL) portions and/or one or more downlink (DL) portions. In a case where a scheduler operating in a 3GPP New Radio (NR) network utilizes a Type 0 or Type 1 resource allocation, part of the DL allocation may fall within the UL portion of the carrier designated by the slot format, or vice versa. User equipment (a UE) may perform a logical operation that identifies, as a usable downlink resource allocation, a set of resource blocks belonging to both a given UL/DL resource allocation and a set of resources designated for UL/DL transmission in the slot format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11902132
    Abstract: A circuit system includes an analog-to-digital converter circuit, a digital-to-analog converter circuit coupled to the analog-to-digital converter circuit, and a variable latency circuit coupled to a data path that includes the digital-to-analog converter circuit. The variable latency circuit generates a deterministic latency in an output signal that is based on a measured latency of the data path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Pritsker, Colman Cheung, Benjamin Esposito
  • Patent number: 11895538
    Abstract: A device of a User Equipment (UE), a method to operate the device, and a machine readable medium. The device includes processing circuitry and a radio frequency (RF) interface coupled to the processing circuitry, the processing circuitry to: decode a signal sent in a cellular network from a base station (BS), the signal including a network allocation vector (NAV) information update regarding a NAV corresponding to a Wi-Fi network, the NAV to be set by a Wi-Fi station (STA) that is in the Wi-Fi network, and that is to be coupled to the UE via a connection; and send the NAV information update to the STA by way of the connection to allow the STA to set its NAV in the Wi-Fi network based on the NAV information update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Sirotkin, Zhaohua Yi
  • Patent number: 11895695
    Abstract: An apparatus may determine whether to indicate a beam failure recovery request to a base station using a contention-free RACH procedure with a dedicated preamble when the UE is timing unsynchronized with the base station. The apparatus may perform, when the apparatus is timing unsynchronized with the base station, the contention-free RACH procedure with the dedicated preamble to indicate the beam failure recovery request when the beam failure recovery request is determined to be indicated to the base station using the contention-free RACH procedure with the dedicated preamble. The apparatus may perform, when the apparatus is timing unsynchronized with the base station, a contention-based RACH procedure to indicate the beam failure recovery request when the beam failure recovery request is undetermined to be sent to the base station using the contention-free RACH procedure with the dedicated preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Bilal Sadiq, Sony Akkarakaran, Linhai He, Sundar Subramanian, Juergen Cezanne
  • Patent number: 11895731
    Abstract: Bandwidth parts (BWPs) and other resources for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may use a BWP control procedure and/or a BWP timer management procedure for activating, deactivating, and/or switching BWPs, for example, using multiple active BWPs. A base station may send information comprising one or more fields indicating an action associated with a BWP, for example, if multiple active BWPs are supported. A wireless device may control a first BWP inactivity timer associated with a first active BWP, for example, based on activating, deactivating, and/or switching a second BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11894934
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for transmitting HARQ information, and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: a terminal device determines a first uplink time unit, the first uplink time unit being a time unit for use by the terminal device in transmitting first uplink control information, the first uplink control information comprising first HARQ information, the first HARD information being at least one piece of HARQ information corresponding to a first downlink shared channel received by the terminal device, the first downlink shared channel comprising at least one downlink shared channel, and the first downlink shared channel being transmitted in at least one downlink time unit in a first time period; and the terminal device transmits the first uplink control information in the first uplink time unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11889549
    Abstract: A method includes generating, by an apparatus, a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) for a downlink multiple-user transmission, wherein the PPDU includes: a legacy preamble, a high efficiency Wi-Fi Signaling Field 1 (HEW-SIG1), a high efficiency Wi-Fi Signaling Field 2 (HEW-SIG2), adjacent to the HEW-SIG1, and a data portion, and wherein the HEW-SIG1 comprises a HEW-SIG2 modulation and coding scheme (HEW-SIG2 MCS) field, the HEW-SIG2 MCS field indicates a transmission modulation and coding scheme (MCS) used to transmit the HEW-SIG2, the HEW-SIG1 further comprises a frame structure indication field, and the frame structure indication field indicates whether a frame structure of a scheduling transmission is an uplink structure or a downlink structure, and the HEW-SIG2 comprises resource indication information; and sending, by the apparatus, the PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingpei Lin, Jiayin Zhang, Jun Luo, Le Liu
  • Patent number: 11889442
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for receiving a sidelink synchronization signal (SLSS) by a terminal in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: receiving a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH); determining which of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) or an eNB is to be a synchronization source according to priority information included in the PSBCH; and receiving an SLSS associated with the determined synchronization source, wherein the terminal determines that the priority information is valid only when a public land mobile network (PLMN) associated with the priority information matches a PLMN to which the terminal belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 11889557
    Abstract: A predetermined STA includes a station information collection unit collecting from the STA itself and other STAs station information used for selection of STAs performing simultaneous transmission and for control of the simultaneous transmission, and a simultaneous-transmission request unit knowing occurrence of a QoS data frame based on the station information and transmitting a request frame requesting the simultaneous transmission to an AP. The AP includes a station information collection unit; a simultaneous-transmission determination unit selecting a combination of the STAs performing the simultaneous transmission based on the station information by reception of the request frame; and a trigger transmission unit transmitting to each of the STAs performing the simultaneous transmission a trigger frame instructing to performs the simultaneous transmission and including information necessary for controlling the simultaneous transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko Shinohara, Yasuhiko Inoue, Akira Kishida, Riichi Kudo, Masato Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 11888586
    Abstract: A low-latency network device and method for treating serial data comprising an oscillator generating a device-wide clock; a receiving physical medium attachment (PMA) having an internal data width, a symbol timing synchronization module configured to receive the parallelized sample stream; and detect therefrom synchronized bit values corresponding to bit values of the received serial data; and a physical convergence sublayer (PCS). The PMA is configured to receive the serial data, deserialize the serial data based on the device-wide clock and internal data width, whereby the received serial data is oversampled, the oversampling of the received serial data being asynchronous relative to a timing of the received serial data, and output a parallelized sample stream. The PCS is configured to receive the synchronized bit values; and delineate packets therefrom to provide packet-delineated parallelized data. The PMA, the symbol timing synchronization module and the PCS are all driven by the device-wide clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: Alexandre Raymond
  • Patent number: 11888781
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a transmitting node in a millimeter-wave communication network. The method includes transmitting communication signaling in a transmission timing structure, the communication signaling including leading reference signaling in a leading time interval at the beginning of the transmission timing structure and including trailing reference signaling in a trailing time interval at the end of the timing structure. The leading reference signaling starts with a first reference signaling time-domain sequence, and the trailing reference signaling ending with the first reference time-domain signaling sequence. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Mehrnaz Afshang, Rikke Apelfrojd, Jung-Fu Cheng, Ning He, Dennis Hui, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 11882471
    Abstract: In some implementations, an initiator device establishes a measurement session with each of a plurality of responder devices based at least in part on their capabilities. The initiator device negotiates, with each of the responder devices, a respective set of one or more sensing parameters based at least in part on the capabilities of the initiator device and the capabilities of the respective responder device, the respective sets of sensing parameters associated with the responder devices being identified by a unique Measurement Setup identifier (ID). The initiator device performs one or more measurement instances with the responder devices based on the respective sets of sensing parameters, each measurement instance identified by a unique Measurement Instance ID and the respective Measurement Setup ID. The initiator device obtains, from each responder device, one or more measurement reports indicating channel state information (CSI) based on the one or more respective measurement instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Solomon Trainin, Assaf Kasher, Alecsander Petru Eitan, Alireza Raissinia, Simone Merlin
  • Patent number: 11877322
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for random access preamble group selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11877179
    Abstract: To facilitate more efficient sidelink communications, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided. An example method of a user equipment (UE) may include determining a configuration of a set of congestion control measurement resources comprising one or more receiving resources and one or more transmitting resources for transmission of an activity indication signal for sidelink communication. The example method further includes measuring received signal strength indicator (RSSI) on at least one of the one or more receiving resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Peter Gaal, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Yuchul Kim, Wanshi Chen, Juan Montojo, Hwan Joon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11871213
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described herein for spectrum sharing and transmission mechanisms for different channel access priorities. For example, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may be configured as either a high priority (HP) WTRU or a low priority (LP) WTRU, wherein a HP WTRU is configured to use a first channel access method for accessing the set of network resources and a LP WTRU is configured to use a second channel access method for accessing the same set of network resources, the second channel access method having a lower priority than the first channel access method. A set of protected network resources may be scheduled within the set of network resources for being accessed by the LP unit (e.g., over a limited period of time) with fewer channel access restrictions (e.g., with a higher priority channel access method than in any unprotected network resources).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Phuong Luong, J. Patrick Tooher, Paul Marinier