Patents Examined by Jean A Gelin
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Patent number: 12213074Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive bandwidth part configuration information configuring a dormancy profile for a first bandwidth part of a plurality of bandwidth parts; communicate, on a second bandwidth part, a plurality of types of signaling; and communicate, on the first bandwidth part, a subset of the plurality of types of signaling, such that at least one type of signaling, of the plurality of types of signaling, is suppressed in accordance with the dormancy profile. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Peng Cheng, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Huilin Xu, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Linhai He, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam
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Patent number: 12213053Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a first network node. The first network node determines which UE category a UE belongs to. The UE category is M or non-BL in CE. The first network node provides UE category information about the determined UE category to a second network node.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Xiaoming Li, Bela Rathonyi, Emre Yavuz, Nianshan Shi, Qiong Song
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Patent number: 12213197Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, a communications apparatus, and a storage medium. The communication method includes: sending, by a new master network device, a request to an original master network device, to request context information of a terminal device on the original master network device and an original secondary network device; and receiving the context information of the terminal device on the original master network device and the original secondary network device from the original master network device. This application can effectively simplify implementation steps of resuming a multi-connectivity mode by the terminal device, reduce signaling procedures, and shorten a delay, thereby improving network transmission efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Tingting Geng, Yinghao Jin, Hongping Zhang, Le Yan
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Patent number: 12207335Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for a first device to perform wireless communication is proposed. The method comprises: obtaining a sidelink discontinuous reception (SL DRX) configuration; receiving first sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling a first physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) through a first physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) from a second device; receiving second SCI and first data from the second device through the first PSSCH; and determining a first physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource based on an index of a slot and an index of a subchannel which are related to the first PSSCH, wherein a first timer included in the SL DRX configuration is started based on skipping of a first PSFCH transmission related to the first PSSCH on the first PSFCH resource.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Giwon Park
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Patent number: 12200619Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The communication method includes: detecting that a terminal in an inactive state is in an out-of-service state, and determining a target cell of the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tingting Geng, Hongping Zhang, Jun Chen, Qinghai Zeng
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Patent number: 12200627Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes receiving a group-common downlink control information (GC-DCI) of a format that has multiple blocks that allow for triggering sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions on one or more component carriers (CCs) with transmit power control (TPC) independent of TPC commands for SRS, determining, based on one of the blocks, one or more SRS parameters for transmitting SRS on at least a first CC, and transmitting SRS on at least the first CC in accordance with SRS parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yitao Chen, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang
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Patent number: 12200516Abstract: The disclosed technology teaches testing voice connection routing over 911 circuits as if voice calls originated from an E911 device in coverage areas of cell tower locations, without requiring a physical presence of the E911 device in each coverage area. A remote test agent audio bridge and tester originates a first call to a test user with a first phone number, creates a media bridge, emulates an E911-compliant mobile device to originate a second call to a 911 operator, relays audio over the media bridge as a verbal exchange between the first and the second calls, and logs an evaluation of the verbal exchange. The emulation includes spoofing a call origination from an origination location being tested, the spoofed origination location being within coverage of an originating cell.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Spirent Communications, Inc.Inventors: Mikhail Beylin, Ronald Royer, Dat Phan, Ehab Bahjat, In Seo
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Patent number: 12192919Abstract: A wireless device, a network node and methods are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes receiving an indication of a maximum power level associated with a spatial-domain basis vector. The method includes determining whether a combination of values of the plurality of amplitude coefficients results in exceeding the maximum power level. The method further includes, responsive to determining that a combination of values of the plurality of amplitude coefficients results in exceeding the maximum power level, not reporting the combination of values in a channel state information, CSI, report.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)Inventor: Sebastian Faxér
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Patent number: 12185188Abstract: A wireless communication system, including: a plurality of time variant transmission points for communicating with a user device, UE, wherein the UE is in a tracking region, wherein the UE is configured to receive and store a list including identifiers, IDs, of time variant transmission points for the tracking region, and wherein the list includes IDs of time variant transmission points which are available or visible for the UE in the one tracking region at different times or time periods.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Thi Uyen Ly Dang, Thomas Heyn, Alexander Hofmann, Leszek Raschkowski, Tugce Erkilic Civelek, Roya Ebrahim Rezagah, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl
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Patent number: 12185408Abstract: Disclosed are a Radio Resource Control (RRC) state transition method, a terminal, a Centralized Unit (CU), a Distributed Unit (DU) and a computer-readable storage medium. The RRC state transition method includes: when a terminal changes from a current state to an RRC connected state, the terminal requests to resume an RRC connection by using an existing Signaling Radio Bearer (SRB) configuration; when the terminal receives a response from a Distributed Unit (DU) for request of resuming the RRC connection, if the response comprises a newly allocated SRB configuration, the terminal replaces the existing SRB configuration with the newly allocated SRB configuration to resume the RRC connection.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2024Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventor: Na Liu
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Patent number: 12170633Abstract: Systems and methods of adaptive bandwidth (BW) management are provided by a control unit of distribution and central units to monitor power and traffic loads at a plurality of network nodes; a BW management unit communicating with the control unit to reassign a set of network slices with a set of smaller bandwidth parts (BWPs); the BW management unit configured to define a smaller BWP from a slice mapping for the slice reassignment during a AC power outage, the slicing mapping includes network slices tied to smaller BWPs in the network; and the BW management unit configured to adapt BW for users at the node by reassigning of at least one network slice with a defined smaller BWP at the node in response to a condition determined by the BW management unit, the condition of at least one of a AC power outage and reduced traffic load.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.Inventors: Dhaval Mehta, Farhad Bassirat, Siddhartha Chenumolu, Amit Pathania
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Patent number: 12171006Abstract: Disclosed are a PUCCH transmission method, and a related apparatus. The method comprises: a terminal determining a target interlace from at least two interlaces, wherein the at least two interlaces are resources configured for the terminal for a PUCCH transmission; and the terminal performing a PUCCH transmission according to the target interlace. In an embodiment of the present invention, a target interlace is determined from at least two interlaces to realize an interlace-based PUCCH transmission.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Zuomin Wu
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Patent number: 12170914Abstract: A method and an apparatus for detecting a downlink transmission, a method and an apparatus for transmitting configuration information, a method and an apparatus for a downlink transmission are provided. The method for detecting a downlink transmission includes: a user equipment (UE) detects a target signal of a downlink transmission within a first detection period; the UE determines whether a detection result satisfies a predetermined adjustment condition in response to detecting no target signal; and the UE extends the first detection period currently used by a physical downlink control channel to a predetermined second detection period in response to determining that the detection result satisfies the predetermined adjustment condition.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Yang Liu
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Patent number: 12167230Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a network node to inter-connect with a first secondary node (SN) within a core network. The network node may be a master node and may serve a UE. The first SN may be a source SN. The network node may initiate a change from the first SN to a second SN, which may be a target SN. The network mode may determine data forwarding from the first SN to the second SN and may request, from the first SN, data forwarding intentions prior to initiating the change from the first SN to a second first SN to the second SN. The network node may send, to the first SN, data forwarding instructions (e.g., based, at least in part, on the data forwarding intentions of the first SN) and the data forwarding instructions may include a requirement for the first SN to follow the data forwarding instructions.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jaemin Han, Feng Yang, Alexander Sirotkin, Sudeep Palat
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Patent number: 12160832Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for determining which of at least two lower layer radio units co-located at a first location, each lower layer radio unit associated with a higher layer radio unit, has a best path to the associated higher layer radio unit and causing the transmit power of the determined one of the at least two lower layer radio units received at a user equipment to be higher relative to the transmit power of any of the other of the at least two lower layer radio units received at the user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Jeroen Wigard, Daniela Laselva, István Zsolt Kovács, Mads Lauridsen
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Patent number: 12156276Abstract: An apparatus of a next generation NodeB (gNB) comprises one or more baseband processors to process a radio resource control (RRC) resume request (RRCResumeRequest) from a user equipment (UE) in an inactive state (RRC_INACTIVE), and to send a UE context request (Retrieve UE Context Request) to a last serving gNB, wherein the UE context request includes a physical cell identifier (PCI) and cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) of the gNB. The apparatus can include a memory to store the RRC resume request at the gNB and the UE context request at the last serving gNB.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jaemin Han, Yi Guo, Alexander Sirotkin
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Patent number: 12149274Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure may include a front plate, a rear plate, a side member surrounding space between the front plate and the rear plate, a support member located in the space and coupled to the side member, a display located between the front plate and the support member, a first adhesive member located between the front plate and the support member, and a second adhesive member located between the rear plate and the support member. The support member may include a first surface coupled to the side member, a second surface on which the display is disposed and which is separated from the first surface with the first adhesive member interposed therebetween, and a third surface located opposite to the second surface and separated from the first surface with the second adhesive member interposed therebetween. Various other embodiments are possible.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Heecheul Moon, Jina Mock, Moohyun Baek
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Patent number: 12150195Abstract: An information reporting method, a receiving method, user equipment, and a network device are provided. The information reporting method comprises: sending a RRC resume request message to a network device; receiving a first RRC message sent by the network device in response to the RRC resume request message; and sending a second RRC message in response to the first RRC message to the network device, wherein in a case that the user equipment is in an inactive mode, when a PLMN reselects to an EPLMN, or when PLMN reselects to EPLMN and RNA update conditions are met, the second RRC message carries the identity of EPLMN.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Qian Zheng, Xiaodong Yang, Xiaowan Ke
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Patent number: 12150087Abstract: Techniques to determine location-related data for a plurality of access points located in an area in communication with a network by determining that a plurality of access points in a network are associated with a same geographical area including identifying, from among the plurality of access points, a first access point associated with the geographical area, determining first location-related data for the first access point, determining second location-related data for a second access point, the second access point being interior to the first access point within the network based at least in part on a determination that the second access point has at least a threshold number of the neighbor access points, and exchanging ranging data indicative of a first relative distance between the first access point and the second access point, the ranging data based at least in part on ranging message exchange measurements.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2024Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Inventors: Jerome Henry, Pooya Monajemi, Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey, Jean-Philippe Marcel Vasseur
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Patent number: 12143988Abstract: A UE may receive multiple signals causing a Quasi co-location TypeD (QCL-TypeD) collision. To determine which of the multiple signals to select, the UE may use a certain option based on a type transmission scheme associated with each of the multiple signals. The options may include one of a priority rule for signal reception, a scheduling restriction, or a priority rule for QCL-TypeD selection.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Qiming Li, Wei Zeng