Patents Examined by John D Blanton
  • Patent number: 11431458
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting control information and data in an SC-FDMA communication system. The method includes placing a reference signal onto one middle symbol among a plurality of symbols in one slot, wherein the one slot is one of two slots in one subframe; placing CQI information onto at least one symbol of other symbols except for the one middle symbol; placing the data onto the other symbols except for the one middle symbol; placing a HARQ-ACK onto two symbols, wherein the two symbols are directly adjacent to the one middle symbol; and transmitting a signal including the reference signal, the data, the CQI information, and the HARQ-ACK. The HARQ-ACK is placed onto a position of at least part of the data. The symbols are SC-FDMA symbols, the one middle symbol is a 4th symbol, the two symbols are a 3rd symbol and a 5th symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Joon-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 11412533
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for determining a transmission bandwidth, a device and a storage medium. In the method, after configuring an unlicensed carrier for a terminal device, a network device performs channel detection on sub-bands on the unlicensed carrier, then determines, according to the detection result, which sub-bands are used for communication, indicates said sub-bands by means of first indication information, and then sends the first indication information to the terminal device; the terminal device determines, according to the first indication information, the sub-band on the unlicensed carrier for transmitting a downlink channel and/or downlink signal by the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Zuomin Wu
  • Patent number: 11405907
    Abstract: A communication technique and a system thereof for converging an Internet of Things (IoT) technology and a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a high data transmission rate beyond that of a 4th generation (4G) system are provided. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety related services, on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. The disclosure provides a method and device for transmitting or receiving a plurality of dynamic scheduling-based and/or grant-free based data, and reporting feedback information relating to the plurality of data, in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungjin Park, Jinyoung Oh, Hyunseok Ryu, Jonghyun Bang, Cheolkyu Shin, Jeongho Yeo
  • Patent number: 11394438
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method for transmitting and receiving beamforming feedback information in a wireless local access network system and devices supporting the same. Particularly, disclosed herein are a method for transmitting and receiving beamforming feedback information related to feedback subcarrier indices, where the feedback subcarrier indices is determined based on a Ng value of subcarrier groupings and a number NCB of bonded channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunwoong Yun, Jinmin Kim, Eunsung Park, Dongguk Lim, Jinsoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11388744
    Abstract: A base station able to maintain backward compatibility with an LTE mobile station while minimizing the amount of increase in uplink scheduling information reception and demodulation/decoding processing in independent uplink/downlink cell data transmission. A wireless communication system includes a cell #1, a cell #2, and an LTE-A mobile station, and supports independent uplink/downlink cell data transmission. The base station of the cell #2 arranges a PDCCH+, which includes uplink scheduling information from the LTE-A mobile station to the base station of the cell #2, in a downlink data region in the downlink connection of the base station of the cell #1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Atsushi Sumasu, Shozo Okasaka, Shinsuke Takaoka, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 11382005
    Abstract: The one disclosure of the present specification proposes a method for managing session. The method may be performed by a session management function, SMF, node and comprise: generating a packet data unit, PDU, session for a user equipment, UE; receiving, from an access and mobility management function, AMF, node, information about the UE; and determining, based on the information, whether to transmit an indication for notifying a user plane function, UPF, node to discard a downlink data for the PDU session of the UE. The determination may be dependent on whether the PDU session corresponds to a first service provided to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunsook Kim, Jinsook Ryu, Sangmin Park, Myungjune Youn
  • Patent number: 11382085
    Abstract: This application discloses a search space determining method of a wireless apparatus, relates to the field of communications technologies, and is used to resolve a problem that an existing search space determining method cannot be applied to a future evolved network. The method includes: obtaining a second parameter, and a first parameter corresponding to a control resource set, where the first parameter is a positive integer not equal to 39827, 39829, and 65537, and the second parameter is equal to 65537 or is a prime number not equal to 65537; and determining a search space of the control resource set based on the first parameter and the second parameter. This application is applicable to a search space determining process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11375487
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a medium access control layer processing unit configured to manage a HARQ process, and a physical layer processing unit configured to perform processing associated with a PUSCH transmission on a physical layer. A first HARQ process configured for the terminal apparatus determines whether or not to indicate to the physical layer processing unit to generate a transmission of the first HARQ process, based at least on whether or not the transmission of the first HARQ process and a transmission of a second HARQ process occur in the same transmission time. The transmission of the second HARQ process is scheduled so as to use short processing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Tomoki Yoshimura, Wataru Ouchi, Shoichi Suzuki, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 11374707
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a transmitting node for transmitting data to a receiving node is provided. The transmitting node is operable at least in a dynamic bundling size mode and includes a communication interface and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured, when operating in the dynamic bundling size mode, to provide the receiving node with an indication of bundling control information representing at least a number L of slots. The processing circuitry transmits data in L consecutive slots using a constant first precoding setting and transmit data in subsequent L consecutive slots using a constant second precoding setting. The first and second precoding settings are independently assignable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Mattias Frenne, Robert Baldemair, Martin Hessler
  • Patent number: 11375489
    Abstract: A communication technique and a system thereof for converging an Internet of Things (IoT) technology and a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a high data transmission rate beyond that of a 4th generation (4G) system are provided. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety related services, on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. The disclosure provides a method and device for transmitting or receiving a plurality of dynamic scheduling-based and/or grant-free based data, and reporting feedback information relating to the plurality of data, in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungjin Park, Jinyoung Oh, Hyunseok Ryu, Jonghyun Bang, Cheolkyu Shin, Jeongho Yeo
  • Patent number: 11375390
    Abstract: A first base station (BS) for handling a measurement configuration and a reporting comprises at least one storage device and at least one processing circuit coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one storage device stores, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute instructions of: transmitting a first measurement configuration to a first communication device, wherein the first measurement configuration configures a first allowed measurement bandwidth (MEAS_BW) and a location of the first allowed MEAS_BW on a first carrier; and receiving a first measurement report from the first communication device, wherein the first measurement report comprises at least one first measurement result which is measured by the first communication device according to at least one first reference signal (RS) within the first allowed MEAS_BW.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 11368537
    Abstract: A wireless mesh network is described. The mesh network uses a plurality of data communications nodes that are organized in a tree-like structure. The network also includes an access server which communicates with the nodes. The mesh network nodes are one or more root access point nodes having a wired connection to an external network; and one or more mesh access point nodes. Both types of nodes communicate with an external network. Each non-root node automatically connects to an associated parent node selected from one or more nodes within a direct wireless communication range of the node. The node selects a parent node based on one or more parent selection criteria from the access server and establishes a connection to the selected parent node. The node then calculates its routing path to the external network. The nodes include unique identifiers and two or more radios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Dynamic Mesh Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis DaCosta, Sriram Dayanandan
  • Patent number: 11363585
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for obtaining downlink channel information are provided. The method includes, at least, receiving a first pilot signal sent by user equipment by using N first antenna ports, and determining, based on the received first pilot signal, a downlink channel gain matrix corresponding to the N first antenna ports, determining, based on the downlink channel gain matrix corresponding to the N first antenna ports, a first weight matrix corresponding to the N first antenna ports, and sending a second pilot signal to the user equipment. The method further includes receiving a precoding matrix indicator PMI fed back by the user equipment, determining a second weight matrix based on the PMI, and determining, based on the first weight matrix and the second weight matrix, downlink channel information that corresponds to the N first antenna ports and that corresponds to the M second antenna ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Zhang, Yingfei Diao, Guangwei Dong
  • Patent number: 11362766
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for obtaining HARQ feedback and transmitting HARQ feedback. The method of obtaining HARQ feedback includes: short TTI scheduling information is configured into a first target long TTI according to service requirements; the short TTI scheduling information is sent to second equipment through the first target long TTI; one or more short TTIs in a second target long TTI is scheduled according to the short TTI scheduling information and the scheduled one or more short TTIs are sent to the second equipment; and HARQ feedback for each of the one or more short TTIs which is sequentially sent by the second equipment within the second target long TTI is received. The method provided in the present disclosure may effectively shorten the HARQ feedback latency of short TTIs and improve the flexibility of data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Juejia Zhou
  • Patent number: 11356992
    Abstract: Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes receiving configuration information of a first control resource set by a terminal device, where the configuration information of the first control resource set includes mapping manner information of the first control resource set. The terminal device determines a mapping manner between a control channel element (CCE) and resource element groups (REGs) in the first control resource set based on the mapping manner information of the first control resource set, wherein a REG in the first control resource set occupies one symbol in time domain and occupies one resource block RB in frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chaojun Li, Yan Cheng
  • Patent number: 11356223
    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: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Propertv Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 11350399
    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: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Haewook Park, Jiwon Kang, Jonghyun Park, Kijun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11343813
    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: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11343029
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, apparatuses and computer program products for improving resource efficiency in a wireless communication system. A method implemented at a network device comprises: setting, for a terminal device, a first number of repetitions to be used for a first transmission from the terminal device; detecting the first transmission from the terminal device based on a second number of repetition; in response to detecting the first transmission correctly based on the second number of repetitions, comparing the second number with the first number; and in response to the second number being less than the first number, identifying a resource for remaining repetitions after the second number of repetitions of the first transmission as being reusable for a further terminal device. Embodiments of the present disclosure may improve resource usage efficiency of the wireless communication system, and at the same time support coverage enhancement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Shenglin Shi, Zhijun Liao, Yaling Qu, Leilei Li
  • Patent number: 11330532
    Abstract: A power control method and apparatus and a communication system. The method includes: a terminal acquires transmission power assistant information when transmission of sidelink information is triggered; and the terminal determines transmission power of the sidelink information according to the transmission power assistant information. With the embodiments of this disclosure, by using a characteristic that an application stratum of the terminal is able to learn a distance between a receiver end and a transmitter end according to a positioning system and/or a map, information related on power setting is provided to an access stratum of the terminal, so as to instruct the terminal or an eNB to set appropriate transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Hua Zhou