Patents Examined by John D Blanton
  • Patent number: 11979869
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are provided to implement scheduling for device-to-device (D2D). A WTRU (e.g., a D2D WTRU) may determine whether the WTRU has D2D data to transmit. The WTRU may determine a set of allowed SA resources and/or allowed D2D data resources for transmission of the SA. The WTRU may select an SA resource and/or D2D data resources (e.g., from the set of allowed SA resources and/or D2D data resources) for transmission. The WTRU may select one or more transmission parameters. The WTRU may select one or more transmission patterns. The WTRU may transmit D2D data over the set of allowed D2D resources using the selected transmission patterns and according to the selected transmission parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Marinier, Benoit Pelletier, Marian Rudolf, Diana Pani, Gwenael Poitau, Ghyslain Pelletier, Chao-Cheng Tu
  • Patent number: 11979872
    Abstract: A method of transmitting information, applicable to a base station, and comprising: determining a participating terminal group, each participating terminal UE of the participating terminal group sharing a periodic uplink transmission resource in the same grant-free uplink transmission period in an unlicensed spectrum; and determining shared grant-free uplink transmission configuration information for the participating terminal group, wherein the shared grant-free uplink transmission configuration information is configured to instruct each participating terminal of the participating terminal group to perform uplink transmission automatically according to a preset periodic uplink transmission resource in the unlicensed spectrum. A base station is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Juejia Zhou
  • Patent number: 11974257
    Abstract: Provided are a time domain resource allocation method and apparatus. The method includes the following operations. A terminal acquires at least one of first information including search space configuration information, control resource set (CORESET) configuration information, and a bandwidth part type. A PDSCH time domain resource allocation table is subsequently determined according to the first information and a multiplexing pattern between a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB) and a CORESET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xing Liu, Peng Hao, Xianghui Han, Zhisong Zuo
  • Patent number: 11968623
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provide for receiving a discontinuous reception configuration, and receiving a configuration of a physical downlink control channel carrying a power saving downlink control information format, wherein the configuration includes an offset value with respect to a starting time of a discontinuous reception cycle of the discontinuous reception configuration. The power saving downlink control information format is detected at one of one or more monitoring occasions of the physical downlink control channel carrying the power saving downlink control information format. A determination is then made as to whether to start a drx-onDurationTimer its a following discontinuous reception cycle of the discontinuous reception configuration based on a wake-up indication of the power saving downlink control information format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ziad Ahmad, Hyejung Jung, Vijay Nangia
  • Patent number: 11968007
    Abstract: A method of a UE transmitting a codebook based uplink signal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting capability information about UE capability that maintains differences between phase values applied to antenna ports for uplink signal transmission; receiving configuration information for determining a codebook subset related to the uplink signal transmission based on the capability information; receiving DCI for determining a precoding matrix applied to the uplink signal transmission; determining a precoding matrix to be applied for the uplink signal transmission, based on the DCI, from the codebook subset determined based on the configuration information, and transmitting the uplink signal, based on the determined precoding matrix, wherein, based on that the differences between phase values are maintained at some antenna ports, the codebook subset includes at least one specific precoding matrix applying different phase values to the antenna ports included in some or all of som
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Haewook Park, Jonghyun Park
  • Patent number: 11963193
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a UE and a base station used for wireless communications. The UE receives Q control signaling groups respectively in Q time windows; receives a first control signaling that is used for determining Q1 time window(s) out of the Q time windows; and performs energy detection to determine whether to transmit on a first time-frequency resource; herein, any of the Q control signaling groups comprises a first field; any control signaling comprised by the Q control signaling groups comprises a first field; first fields comprised by control signalings in any of the Q control signaling groups are of a same value; among any Q2 adjacent control signaling groups of the Q control signaling groups, any two control signaling groups comprise first fields of different values; the first radio signal comprises first feedback information. The present disclosure not only ensures HARQ-ACK transmission but reduces signaling overhead redundancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11962537
    Abstract: UEs each monitor a search space in multiple CORSETs and appropriately detect a DCI. In a base station (100), a DCI generator (102) selects one of multiple cases each indicating a combination of CORSETs to be monitored by a terminal (200) among multiple control channel regions (CORSETs). A transmitter (106) indicates, by higher-layer signaling, configuration information indicating the multiple cases, and indicates the selected case by dynamic signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 11963184
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may be scheduled by a base station for full-duplex sidelink transmissions. A first UE may receive, from a base station, a first sidelink grant indicating a first set of resources and a second set of resources. The first set of resources may at least partially overlap in time with the second set of resources. Upon receiving the first sidelink, the first UE may transmit, to a second wireless device, a second sidelink grant indicating the second set of resources. The first UE may transmit a first data message to the second UE over the first set of resources and receive a second data message from the second device over the second set of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Qian Zhang, Sony Akkarakaran, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11956802
    Abstract: A method, which is performed by a terminal, for receiving a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, configuration information about a first control resource set (CORESET); receiving, from the base station, configuration information about a second CORESET; receiving, from the base station, a first PDCCH transmitted on the first CORESET; and receiving, from the base station, a second PDCCH transmitted on the second CORESET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Geunyoung Seok, Kyungjun Choi, Minseok Noh, Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 11956780
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for transmitting and receiving HARQ-ACK information in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim
  • Patent number: 11943634
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method and apparatus comprises: receiving a synchronization signals and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block; determining whether a shared spectrum channel access is enabled; determining a first index of the SS/PBCH block as a candidate SS/PBCH block index (ISSB1) based on a number of candidate SS/PBCH blocks in a half frame; and determining a second index of the SS/PBCH block as an SS/PBCH block index (ISSB2) based on a quasi-co-location (QCL) parameter (Q) indicated by a PBCH in the SS/PBCH block, wherein the SS/PBCH block index (ISSB2) is determined as: ISSB2=ISSB1 mod Q based on a determination that the shared spectrum channel access is enabled, where mod is a modular operation; or ISSB2=ISSB1 based on the determination that the shared spectrum channel access is not enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongbo Si, Yingzhe Li
  • Patent number: 11943029
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for reporting channel state information (CSI) of a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method includes: measuring a CSI-RS (reference signal) transmitted from a base station through multiple panels; and reporting CSI generated based on the CSI-RS measurement to the base station, wherein, when the terminal reports a WB (Wideband) panel corrector and SB (Subband) panel corrector for the multiple panels as the CSI, the WB panel corrector and the SB panel corrector are reported with different bit widths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Haewook Park, Hyungtae Kim, Jiwon Kang, Kijun Kim
  • Patent number: 11943090
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for multiplexing signals using layered division multiplexing are disclosed. A signal multiplexing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to combine a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels, and a time interleaver configured to perform interleaving applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung-Ik Park, Jae-Young Lee, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Heung-Mook Kim, Nam-Ho Hur
  • Patent number: 11930372
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus (40) acquires, from a second wireless system that performs wireless communication by using a radio wave of a frequency band used by a first wireless system or from a proxy system that acts on behalf of the second wireless system, a request for the second wireless system to start or continue radio wave transmission. Then, the communication control apparatus (40) determines a transmission interval of the request to be transmitted from a predetermined second wireless system out of a plurality of the second wireless systems or a predetermined proxy system out of a plurality of the proxy systems. Then, the communication control apparatus (40) notifies the predetermined second wireless system or the predetermined proxy system of the determined transmission interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11929955
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting control information and data in a DFT based communication system. The method includes placing a reference signal onto a first symbol among a plurality of symbols in one slot; placing a HARQ-ACK onto a second symbol first placed after the first symbol in the one slot; placing the data onto other symbols except for the first symbol; and transmitting a signal including the reference signal, the HARQ-ACK and the data. A part of CQI information is further placed onto at least one symbol, except for the first symbol, in case that the CQI information is present for transmission in the one slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Joon-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 11924675
    Abstract: Technology for an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node in an IAB network is disclosed. The IAB node can decode, at a distributed unit (DU) of the IAB node, a first resource request received from one of a user equipment (UE) or a child IAB node, wherein the first resource request is associated with the UE. The IAB node can encode, at a mobile terminal (MT) of the IAB node, a second resource request for transmission to the parent IAB node or the IAB donor triggered by receipt of the first resource request, wherein the second resource request is transmitted prior to a receipt of a protocol data unit (PDU) at the DU of the IAB node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Murali Narasimha, Bharat Shrestha
  • Patent number: 11917647
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and a device for transmitting and receiving uplink data in a wireless communication system. According to the present disclosure, a UE may transmit to a base station information related to a capability of the UE and the information may include a subset including at least one transmit precoding matrix indicator (TPMI) supported by the UE. The UE may receive Downlink Control Information (DCI) for transmitting the uplink data from the base station and the DCI may include a TPMI used for the UE to transmit the uplink data. Thereafter, the UE may transmit to the base station the uplink data by using transmission power determined based on the TPMI and the transmission power may be determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Haewook Park, Jiwon Kang, Jonghyun Park, Kijun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11910199
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DIGITAL GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Armando Montalvo, Jeremy Levin, Dwight Inman, Edward Hummel
  • Patent number: 11902984
    Abstract: A method for determining a bundling size, user equipment and a network-side device are provided The method includes: reporting, by user equipment, capability information to a network-side device, where the capability information is used to indicate whether the user equipment supports one-physical resource block bundling, and receiving a bundling size set configured by the network-side device for the user equipment according to the capability information, where supporting the one-physical resource block bundling indicates that a turn-off of a physical resource block bundling function is supported; and/or using, by the user equipment, a default bundling size or a bundling size configured via a higher-layer signaling to transmit data if the network-side device turns off a function of dynamic bundling size adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Su, Runhua Chen, Rakesh Tamrakar, Qiubin Gao
  • Patent number: 11888570
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a transmitter that transmits a beam recovery request signal and a processor that controls the transmission of the beam recovery request signal. The transmission of the beam recovery request signal is controlled by the processor based on a received power that is measured using a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource or a synchronization signal (SS) block that is quasi co-located (QCL) with a demodulation reference signal of a downlink control channel. In other aspects, a radio communication method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Hiroki Harada, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Yuichi Kakishima, Chongning Na