Patents Examined by Janice N Tieu
  • Patent number: 10708112
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards dynamically changing which quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) table a user equipment is to use based on channel quality information. A network schedules a user equipment with 256 QAM modulation if the user equipment recommends 256 QAM in the CQI report (and the scheduler decides to use 256 QAM for that particular user equipment). The network indicates to the user equipment that it has to use 256 QAM modulation and coding scheme (MCS) table and not the configured QAM MCS table while determining the scheduling parameters by decoding PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 10708107
    Abstract: Phase noise (PN) is suppressed in an OFDM signal. In an initial iteration, an estimation of the PN samples in an OFDM signal vector is produced and the OFDM signal is demodulated using the initial estimation of the PN to generate constellation symbols for the initial iteration. In an additional iteration, an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform of constellation symbols generated in a preceding iteration is calculated to reconstruct preceding samples of the transmitted signal vector. A PN effect on the reconstructed samples is estimated. A next estimation of the PN in a next signal vector is produced based on the estimated PN effect on the reconstructed samples. The next signal vector is demodulated using the next estimation of the PN to generate constellation symbols for the additional iteration. A predetermined maximum number of additional iterations may be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peyman Neshaastegaran, Ming Jian
  • Patent number: 10707930
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal over the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping by a precoding weight and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 10693543
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by a terminal, a quantity M of beamforming vectors needing to be reported by the terminal and a first reference signal that are sent by a base station; estimating downlink channel states on N dual-polarized antenna ports based on the first reference signal; selecting m first beamforming codewords based on the downlink channel states and the quantity M of beamforming vectors needing to be reported that is sent by the base station; and feeding back the m selected first beamforming codewords and ranks of the downlink channel states to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanliang Sun, Bin Liu
  • Patent number: 10686584
    Abstract: Generating, at a plurality of delay stages of a local oscillator, a plurality of phases of a local oscillator signal, generating a loop error signal based on a comparison of one or more phases of the local oscillator signal to one or more phases of a received reference clock, generating a plurality of phase-specific quadrature error signals, each phase-specific quadrature error signal associated with a respective phase of the plurality of phases of the local oscillator signal, each phase-specific quadrature error signal based on a comparison of the respective phase to two or more other phases of the local oscillator signal, and adjusting each delay stage according to a corresponding phase-specific quadrature error signal of the plurality of phase-specific quadrature error signals and the loop error signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Kandou Labs, S.A.
    Inventors: Armin Tajalli, Amin Shokrollahi
  • Patent number: 10659138
    Abstract: Precoding is a technique that may be used in wireless communications when antenna spacing in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is smaller than optimum spacing conditions. A precoding system and method are disclosed herein that distributes power among streams to trade-off increased data throughput and complexity of interference cancellation. Distributing power among streams may increase data throughput compared to singular value decomposition (SVD) precoding, but interference may be reduced compared to other methods that result in relatively high interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoda Shahmohammadian, Ming Jian
  • Patent number: 10651951
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for sub-block based architecture of Cholesky decomposition and channel whitening. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus is provided that parallel processes sub-block matrices (R00, R10, and R11) of a covariance matrix (R) to determine a whitening coefficient matrix (W). The apparatus includes a first LDL coefficient calculator that calculates a first whitening matrix W00, lower triangle matrix L00, and diagonal matrix D00 from the sub-block matrix R00, a first matrix calculator that calculates a lower triangle matrix L10 from the sub-block matrix R10 and the matrices L00 and D00, and a second matrix calculator that calculates a matrix X from the matrices D00 and L10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Cavium, LLC.
    Inventors: Yuanbin Guo, Hong Jik Kim
  • Patent number: 10651969
    Abstract: Method disclosed is applied to an OFDM wireless transmission system which includes at least two OFDM symbols, and includes: adding a zero power padding ZP to a tail end of each of the at least two OFDM symbols; adding data of Nw consecutive points at one end of a first OFDM symbol of the at least two OFDM symbols to the ZP at the other end of the first OFDM symbol, so that the data of the Nw points is a prefix and/or a suffix of the first OFDM symbol, where the first OFDM symbol includes data of N points, N>Nw; and performing point multiplication processing with symmetric time domain window function on the data of the Nw points at the two ends of the first OFDM symbol to which the prefix and/or the suffix is added, so that a sum of point coefficients corresponding to the symmetric time domain window function is 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengpeng Dong, Yuanzhou Hu, Zongjie Wang
  • Patent number: 10644715
    Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) module includes a plurality of frequency stacked ADCs. A splitter splits channels into two segments to transmit the signal through respective low pass and high pass filters to send the analog signal to a low frequency ADC and a high frequency ADC along each channel. When using a quad-tuner having four channels, there are eight ADCs: four high frequency ADCs and four low frequency ADCs. Typically, there is one ADC associated with each channel. Thus, a quad-tuner would be used with an ADC module having four ADCs. However, by splitting and filtering each channel and increasing the number of ADCs in the ADC module, the system, assembly, and method in the present disclosure is able to increase the frequency bandwidth throughput along legacy radio frequency (RF) cables on a platform without the need of replacing any legacy hardware or the legacy RF cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan A. Thibideau, David A. Brigham, Gregory S. Laste, Timothy Naylor, Jonathan E. Oppelaar
  • Patent number: 10630358
    Abstract: There is provided a solution for transmitting periodic signals in a cell. According to an aspect a method comprises in a network node: generating a plurality of radio beams in a cell, wherein said plurality of radio beams comprise a plurality of beam-forming configurations, and wherein at least one radio beam comprised in the plurality of radio beams comprises a discovery signal transmission; determining, for the at least one radio beam, whether or not at least one terminal device is located in a coverage area of the at least one radio beam; defining a transmission periodicity of the discovery signal transmission on the basis of said determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Sami-Jukka Hakola, Esa Tapani Tiirola
  • Patent number: 10631343
    Abstract: Various aspects described herein relate to techniques for connection setup procedures in a wireless communication system (e.g., a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication system in millimeter wave). In an aspect, the method includes identifying information for V2X communications, and initiating a random access procedure based on the identified information. The method further includes identifying one or more random access channel (RACH) resources based on the information, identifying one or more RACH response resources based on the one or more RACH resources, and performing directional communications using at least the one or more RACH resources or the one or more RACH response resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Shailesh Patil, Libin Jiang, Junyi Li, Kapil Gulati, Tien Viet Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10616021
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) frame in a Very High Throughput (VHT) Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system includes generating a MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) to be transmitted to a destination station (STA), generating a PLCP Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) by adding a PLCP header, including an L-SIG field containing control information for a legacy STA and a VHT-SIG field containing control information for a VHT STA, to the MPDU, and transmitting the PPDU to the destination STA. A constellation applied to some of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbols of the VHT-SIG field is obtained by rotating a constellation applied to an OFDM symbol of the L-SIG field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Wi-Fi One, LLC
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Dong Wook Roh, Byeong Woo Kang, Yong Ho Seok, Yu Jin Noh, Bong Hoe Kim
  • Patent number: 10608725
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, specifically, provides a method for reporting a channel state and an apparatus therefor. A terminal of the present invention receives, from a base station, configuration information for a plurality of sets, each including at least one of a plurality of channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resources configured for a channel state information (CSI) process. The terminal reports CSI measured on the basis of only at least one CSI-RS resource included in a first set which is one of the plurality of sets. Here, the first set may include only some CSI-RS resources of the plurality of CSI-RS resources configured for the CSI process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kijun Kim, Jonghyun Park, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 10594370
    Abstract: An apparatus of a base station can include an antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements, and processing circuitry coupled to the antenna array. The processing circuitry is configured to perform operations including generating a plurality of sub-carrier signals using a carrier signal. A sub-carrier pattern formed from a subset of the plurality of sub-carrier signals is selected. Each signal in the subset of sub-carrier signals corresponds to a different antenna element in a subset of the plurality of antenna elements. The sub-carrier signals are transmitted using the subset of antenna elements. Each of the sub-carrier signals is transmitted with a transmission power corresponding to a transmission weight of a plurality of transmission weights. During the transmitting, the sub-carrier pattern is transitioned throughout the antenna array to adjust the transmission power for each of the sub-carrier signals in the sub-carrier pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Zhengxiang Ma
  • Patent number: 10587364
    Abstract: A wireless communication system and device improve throughput in a propagation path environment where retransmission is repeated. In a transmission-side wireless communication device, transmission signal storage memories hold bit sequences related to two packet signals for which NACK has been returned, a helper packet generation unit operates the exclusive OR of bit sequences related to two or more of a predetermined number of packet signals held in the transmission signal storage memories, and a coding unit to a transmitting and receiving antenna transmits an auxiliary packet generated by coding a bit sequence of a helper packet that is a result of the exclusive OR operation when the number of packet signals for which NACK has been returned reaches the predetermined number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Tadashi Matsumoto, Ade Irawan
  • Patent number: 10587330
    Abstract: A reception device including reception antennas is provided. In the reception device, a demodulation unit is configured to calculate, for each of a plurality of antenna combinations of the reception antennas, log likelihood ratios of coded bits of error correction code obtained from reception signals of the reception antennas. A mutual information amount calculation unit is configured to calculate an average mutual information amount based on the log likelihood ratios corresponding to each of the antenna combinations. An antenna combination selection unit is configured to output determination information for specifying one of the antenna combinations for which the average mutual information amount is the maximum. A signal selection unit is configured to select the log likelihood ratios corresponding to the specified antenna combination based on the determination information, and a decoding unit is configured to decodes the selected log likelihood ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Daiki Hoshi, Tatsuhiro Nakada, Kei Ito, Hiroki Kato
  • Patent number: 10581537
    Abstract: Devices and methods of simultaneous data reception and measurement are generally described. A UE transmits to an eNB antenna capacity and receives a Beamformed Reference Signal (BRS) configuration in response. Beamformed signals from the eNB include a BRS subframe in accordance with the BRS configuration. The BRS subframe has a BRS whose structure depends on the UE antenna capacity. If the UE has a single antenna panels, neither an EPDCCH nor a PDSCH for the UE is in the BRS frame. If the UE has a single antenna panels and multiple ports or multiple antenna panels, the BRS may contain an EPDCCH or PDSCH for the UE as different ports or antenna panels may be assigned different functionality. The UE measures BRS Received Power (BRS-RP) of the BRS, transmits a BRS report based on the BRS-RP and selects an optimal beam based on BRS-RPs from BRSs of the beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Yuan Zhu, Gang Xiong, Huaning Niu, Wenting Chang
  • Patent number: 10573998
    Abstract: Methods and systems described include a first dielectric material having a plurality of embedded conductors of a multi-wire channel, the plurality of embedded conductors comprising at least a first, second and third conductor, wherein a first distance between the first and second conductors is less than a second distance between the first and third conductors, wherein the first dielectric material has a first dielectric constant ?1 and a second dielectric material embedded in the first dielectric material, the second dielectric material embedded in between the first and third conductors, the second dielectric material having a second dielectric constant ?2, wherein ?2>?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: KANDOU LABS, S.A.
    Inventors: Amin Shokrollahi, Margaret Wang Johnston
  • Patent number: 10560299
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to generating and receiving radio frames with multiple portions that have different encoding schemes. An apparatus may include one or more processing elements configured to receive, via a wireless radio, wireless data that includes a plurality of portions that each include multiple orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. Different ones of the portions have different frequency transform sizes and different sampling rates. The wireless data may also include control data that indicates the frequency transform sizes and sampling rates for the ones of the portions. The apparatus may select, based on the control data and a determined velocity of the apparatus, one or more but not all of the plurality of portions and may decode the selected one or more portions to determine data represented by the OFDM symbols in the selected one or more portions. Different portions of the wireless data may be adapted for decoding by devices moving at different maximum velocities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignees: COHERENT LOGIX, INCORPORATED, SINCLAIR TELEVISION GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Michael J. Simon, Kevin A. Shelby, Mark Earnshaw
  • Patent number: 10560298
    Abstract: This application discloses a signal transmission method. The method includes: mapping, to M evenly spaced subcarriers, each of a first sequence including M elements and a second sequence including M elements, where the M subcarriers are subcarriers on a same time domain symbol, the first sequence and the second sequence are code division-orthogonal, the first sequence a0, a1, . . . , aM-1 is obtained by extending a third sequence c0, c1, . . . , cK-1 having a length of K, and the second sequence b0, b1, . . . , bM-1 is obtained by extending a fourth sequence d0, d1, . . . dK-1 having a length of K, where M=p×K, i is a variable, a value of i is 0, 1, . . . , M?1, u and v each are one of 0, 1, . . . , p?1, and v is not equal to u; generating a to-be-sent signal based on elements on the M subcarriers; and sending the to-be-sent signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingyu Qu, Chuanfeng He