Patents Examined by Jason Harley
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Patent number: 11622332Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to wake up receiver (WUR) frequency division multiple access (FDMA) transmission. A device may cause to send a wake up receiver (WUR) beacon frame on a WUR beacon operating channel to one or more station devices. The device may determine a first wake-up frame to be sent on a first WUR operating channel, wherein the first WUR operating channel is associated with one or more frequency division multiple access (FDMA) channels used for transmitting one or more wake-up frames to the one or more station devices. The device may determine to apply padding to the first wake-up frame based on a field included in a header of the first wake-up frame. The device may cause to send the first wake-up frame to a first station device of the one or more station devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Po-Kai Huang, Shahrnaz Azizi, Daniel F. Bravo, Thomas J. Kenney, Vinod Kristem, Noam Ginsburg
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Patent number: 11617079Abstract: A first carrier may support inbound roaming requests for subscribers of a trusted second carrier. For example, the first carrier may receive an inbound roaming request from a UE. The first carrier may determine a second carrier that is a home carrier of the UE is a trusted carrier associated with the first carrier. In response, an IMS procedure associated with the UE may be performed including communicating, by a first CSCF node of the first carrier, with a first HSS of the second carrier, using a same protocol as used by the first CSCF node to communicate with a second HSS of the first carrier and communicating, by the first CSCF node, with a first AS of the second carrier, using a same protocol as used by the first CSCF node to communicate with a second AS of the first carrier.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Saqib Badar, Shujaur Rehman Mufti
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Patent number: 11611986Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A set of user equipments (UEs) may communicate with each other on communication links using data resources from a pool of shared resources. The UEs may be configured to multiplex control resources with data resources of a shared resource pool. In some cases, a UE may communicate, in control resources, control signaling to reserve data resources of a shared resource pool. After transmitting the request, the UE may communicate data in one or more data resources. The UE may communicate the data using transmission components while concurrently processing control signaling using other components.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Jelena Damnjanovic, Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Ling Ding, Kapil Gulati
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Patent number: 11601223Abstract: A user equipment (UE) in communication with a base station may utilize multiple code word (MCW) transmissions within a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process. An original transmission has a first transport block allocated to a first code word and a second transport block allocated to a second code word. Each transport block includes multiple code blocks grouped into code block groups. The UE receives a negative acknowledgement indicating that a subset of the code block groups were not successfully received. The UE retransmits the subset of the code block groups on at least one of the first code word or the second code word in a retransmission in the HARQ process. At least one code block is retransmitted on a different code word in the retransmission than in the original transmission.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Piyush Gupta, Jing Jiang
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Patent number: 11595897Abstract: A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided for wireless communication at a base station. The apparatus configures a UE with wake-up signal (WUS) resources to monitor for receiving a WUS during a WUS occasion associated with a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation. The apparatus determines a conflict with the WUS occasion, and in response to determining the conflict, determines an action associated with a WUS transmission. A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided for wireless communication at a UE. The apparatus receives a configuration for WUS resources to monitor for a WUS during a WUS occasion associated with a DRX operation. The apparatus determines a conflict with the WUS occasion, and in response to determining the conflict, determines an action associated with WUS monitoring during the WUS occasion.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Gabi Sarkis
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Patent number: 11576224Abstract: A method of operating a mobile communication system of a motor vehicle is provided for initiating a voice call with a third party. The system includes an ECU, and the ECU includes a controller and a memory storing computer code. The method includes the steps of: (a) initiating a timer; (b) operating the ECU in a first mode in which the ECU attempts to engage in a VoNR call via a first network; (c) repeating step (b) within a predetermined amount of time until the ECU successfully engages in the VoNR call; and (d) operating the ECU in a second mode to attempt to engage in a VoLTE call via a second network in response to the controller determining that the ECU in the first mode did not successfully engage in the VoNR call within a predetermined amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Jaswanth Krishna Aavula, Charles A Everhart, Sitaram Emani, Vishnu Chikondla
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Patent number: 11553468Abstract: A wireless device may receive at least one radio resource control (RRC) message comprising a field indicating a starting symbol for an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH). The wireless device may receive an ePDCCH signal. The ePDCCH may start from the starting symbol plus an offset value.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
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Patent number: 11540292Abstract: A channel resource allocation method and apparatus, where the method includes: establishing, by a first network device, at least two links between the first network device and a second network device, where each link supports beamforming data transmission; obtaining, by the first network device, a millimeter-wave radio channel resource between the first network device and the second network device; dividing the millimeter-wave radio channel resource into a plurality of slots, where each slot is used for data transmission on one link, and where two adjacent slots correspond to two different links; and transmitting, by the first network device, data on a corresponding link in the plurality of slots.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Han Xu, Yan Zeng
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Patent number: 11533767Abstract: Embodiments include methods and/or procedures for a user equipment (UE) to activate a secondary cell (SCell) for operating with the UE's primary serving cell (PSC). Embodiments include determining a receiver activity rate for the UE. Embodiments also include receiving, from the PSC, an activation request identifying the SCell. Embodiments also include activating the SCell based on the receiver activity rate. Other embodiments include complementary methods and/or procedures performed by a network node arranged to communicate with one or more UEs via a PSC and at least one selectively activated SCell. Other embodiments include UEs and network nodes configured to perform operations corresponding to various ones of the methods and/or procedures, as well as computer-readable media embodying such operations.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Joakim Axmon, Muhammad Kazmi
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Patent number: 11528703Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for identifying one or more bands of a band combination, determining whether the user equipment (UE) is configured with a capability associated with the one or more bands to support a first component carrier for a first priority of service, support a second component carrier for a second priority of service, and process one or more channels associated with the first priority of service and the second priority of service on a component carrier. The UE may transmit the capability to support one or more component carriers for at least one of the first priority of service or the second priority of service and process the one or more channels on the component carrier, and receive a configuration for the one or more component carriers.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Gaal
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Patent number: 11523467Abstract: A group control device includes a central processing system. An output port of the central processing system is electrically connected to an input port of a display unit through a first wire. An output port of the display unit is electrically connected to an input port of a signal feedback module through a second wire. The output port of the signal feedback module is electrically connected to an input port of the central processing system through a third wire. The input port of the central processing system is electrically connected to an input port of the group control host operating terminal. The input port of the group control host operating terminal is electrically connected to an output port of a data sending module. The central processing system is bidirectionally connected with a retrieval and extraction module through wireless connection.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM BLUE SKY(QINGDAO) PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Tao Ding, Shouyuan Zhao, Chuan Yan, Hongming Wang, Hongbo Li, Zhongxian Gao, Zhihao Wei, Faliang Gong, Zhendong Wu, Fanwei Meng
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Patent number: 11503511Abstract: A system and method, for identification of the user equipment with IMS PDN connectivity issues, and proactively recovering the PDN connectivity for said user equipment is disclosed. The disclosure provides triggering the System initiated detach with re-attach required request, to user equipment by checking the current IMS PDN state of said VoLTE user equipment to recover the IMS PDN connectivity. The present disclosure provides a novel automatic method for maintaining IMS PDN connection providing continuous voice call connectivity and improving the overall connectivity and user experience of the wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Inventors: Devesh Chauhan, Mukesh Singh, Veera Sai Satyanarayana Prasad Marni, Abhilash Shrivastava
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Patent number: 11470522Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for RRM measurement in the NR network. In one novel aspect, the RRM measurement is configured with one measurement gap for SS block and CSI-RS. In one embodiment, an extended MGL (eMGL) is configured such that the SS block and CSI-RS is measurement within one measurement gap. In another embodiment, the shorter MGL (sMGL) that is shorter than the standard MGL is configured. In another novel aspect, the CSI-RS is allocated adjacent to the SS blocks such that one measurement gap is configured for both the SS block and CSI-RS measurement. In another novel aspect, the CSI-RS measurement is conditionally configured. In yet another novel aspect, the UE decodes the time index of the SS block conditionally.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Din-Hwa Huang, Hsuan-Li Lin, Tsang-Wei Yu, Yih-Shen Chen, Chiao Yao Chuang
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Patent number: 11470201Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented in a real time manner by an information handling system (the “client system”) to monitor one or more characteristics of a voice over internet protocol (VOIP) discussion, to use these monitored VOIP characteristics to identify one or more condition/s in real time as they are identified to occur during the current VOIP discussion, and to determine to take one or more automatic actions based on the identified VOIP condition/s so as to inform and/or alert a current human user of the client system to the occurrence of the identified VOIP condition/s as they occur.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Chia Hung Shih, Chien Yu Huang, Su Hsuan Chu, Vivek Viswanathan Iyer
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Patent number: 11470638Abstract: Provided are a terminal apparatus and a communication method that are able to improve communication quality and an acquisition rate of transmission opportunity in a communication system requiring carrier sense. The terminal apparatus of the invention includes a reception unit that receives a frame and changes a CCA method on the basis of information included in the frame. The CCA method includes a method of setting a CCA level as a value other than a predetermined value of the CCA level. The reception unit has a function of performing carrier sense and a method of changing the CCA level includes a method of setting a period in which the carrier sense is performed as a value other than a value of a predetermined carrier sense period.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Tomoki Yoshimura, Takashi Onodera, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
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Patent number: 11463228Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may identify a set of power configurations for a plurality of communications with at least one target device. The set of power configurations may be based at least in part on a type of signal, a type of channel, a parameter of the wireless device, a parameter of the target device, or a combination thereof. The wireless device may then determine a duplexing mode for the plurality of communications based at least in part on the set of power configurations. The duplexing mode may be, for example, a full duplex mode or a half-duplex mode. The wireless device may then transmit the plurality of communications to and/or receive the plurality of communications from the at least one target device according to the set of power configurations and the selected duplexing mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Navid Abedini, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li, Durga Prasad Malladi, Karl Georg Hampel, Muhammad Nazmul Islam
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Patent number: 11443344Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for reducing communications between servers and a mobile device and providing enhanced security and privacy to wireless beacon services. This can involve a broadcast device transmitting a beacon transmission using a short range wireless radio, such a Bluetooth or WiFi, and including a MAC address, a first unique identifier, and a beacon service identifier. The mobile device then selects one or more unique identifiers from received beacon transmissions, by filtering (that is, selecting) those beacon transmissions which include the beacon service identifier. The wireless device then takes further action, if the first unique identifier is present among the selected one or more unique identifiers, using stored information from the server. The stored information may be delivered to the wireless device in response to the wireless device sending the first unique identifier to a server, or the stored information may have been previously downloaded.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Proxicom Wireless LLCInventors: James A. Proctor, Jr., James Arthur Proctor, III
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Patent number: 11398877Abstract: This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and provides a channel state information measurement method and apparatus, so that a receiver can measure CSI without joining a network of a WiFi transmitter. The method includes: sending, by a CSI request apparatus, a first CREQ frame, a group of session parameters used to transmit a CS frame; receiving, by the CSI request apparatus, a CRSP frame sent by a first CSI response apparatus; receiving, by the CSI request apparatus, the CS frame by using the first session parameter; and measuring, by the CSI request apparatus, the CS frame to obtain CSI. The method is applied to a scenario of positioning or a scenario in which CSI measurement needs to be customized.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Zhihao Xing
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Patent number: 11394756Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for improved transitions continuity between wireless protocol states. One embodiment relates to a method including, at a user equipment (“UE”), establishing a connection to a first wireless network in accordance with a first wireless communication protocol, wherein the first wireless communication protocol is used for voice communications and data communications between the UE and the first wireless network, receiving a user request to disable the voice communications with the first wireless network, registering for voice communications with a second wireless network in accordance with a second wireless communication protocol, and maintaining the connection to the first wireless network to continue data communications between the UE and the first wireless network, wherein the UE simultaneously operates in the first wireless communication protocol and the second wireless communication protocol.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Harshit Chuttani, Someet Lal, Kwangho Byun
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Patent number: 11388645Abstract: A network node and a method performed thereby for communicating with a wireless device are provided. The network node is operable in a first communication network, and provides a PCell in a licensed frequency band and a SCell in an unlicensed frequency band. The method comprises determining that a channel quality for the SCell does not meet a predetermined threshold; and when the channel quality for the SCell not meeting the predetermined threshold is due to interference from devices and/or nodes not belonging to the first communication network, triggering a channel switch of the SCell.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Kjell Larsson, Maurice Bergeron