Patents Examined by Justin T Van Roie
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Patent number: 12177150Abstract: Various solutions for slot aggregation design in non-terrestrial network (NTN) communications with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may receive a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) time bundling configuration. The apparatus may determine a duration interval of the DMRS time bundling configuration. The apparatus may perform channel estimation cross slots based on the duration interval.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Abdelkader Medles, Gilles Charbit, Chiao Yao Chuang
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Patent number: 12167248Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which wireless nodes may use licensed shared radio frequency spectrum band for communications and one or more neighboring networks may use a same licensed shared radio frequency spectrum band. A second network of the one or more neighboring networks may have priority of use of the licensed shared radio frequency spectrum band within a particular geographic area. Disclosed techniques provide that nodes of each network may indicate an identification of the network, a network priority, or both, in over-the-air signaling. Wireless nodes may determine if another neighboring network is present based on the over-the-air signaling, may determine whether the other network has a higher priority, and may adjust one or more transmissions in the event that a higher priority network is identified, such as through reducing transmission power.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Andrei Dragos Radulescu, Xiaoxia Zhang
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Patent number: 12166541Abstract: According to some aspects of the techniques disclosed herein, a UE adapted to transmit on different antenna subsets transmits an indication that the UE can transmit a number of distinct RS resources, where each of the RS resources comprises at least one RS port. The UE transmits capability information indicating that the UE is capable of transmitting simultaneously on multiple RS resources and/or receives first and second RS configurations, where the first RS configuration is a first list of SRS resources that at least correspond to RS resource indications used for PUSCH transmission, and the second RS configuration is a second list of RS resources that may be used for SRS transmission. The UE receives an indication of at least one RS resource and transmits a physical channel on antennas of the UE associated with the indicated RS resources.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Robert Mark Harrison, Niklas Wernersson, Sebastian Faxer, Andreas Nilsson
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Patent number: 12149479Abstract: A method of performing, by a terminal, a Hybrid Automatic Repeat and Request (HARQ) feedback procedure in a new radio (NR) vehicle-to-everything (V2X) system may include receiving sidelink (SL) data from a transmitting (Tx) terminal, determining a PSFCH resource including feedback information about the received sidelink data, and transmitting a PSFCH to the Tx terminal through the determined PSFCH resource.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.Inventor: Dong Hyun Park
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Patent number: 12149464Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, information indicating at least one of a power amplifier sharing configuration or a phase noise sharing configuration for a plurality of layers of a single-carrier communication. The UE may receive, from the base station, a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) configuration for the plurality of layers based at least in part on at least one of the power amplifier sharing configuration or the phase noise sharing configuration. The UE may perform the single-carrier communication in accordance with the PTRS configuration.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Tianyang Bai, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 12132546Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive channel state information (CSI) measurement resource (CMR) configurations for a first set of reference signals indicated to be associated with a first beam group and a second set of reference signals indicated to be associated with a second beam group. The UE may transmit a CSI report indicating a set of beams that includes a first beam associated with the first beam group and a second beam associated with the second beam group. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 12126490Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, using a beam, a plurality of reference signals associated with a channel for wireless communication. The UE may report, based at least in part on a plurality of measurements associated with the beam, a plurality of beam failure indicators according to a periodic beam failure indicator reporting configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Shanyu Zhou, Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12114252Abstract: A method, at an apparatus, of adapting to repetitive positioning reference signal reception degradation, includes: obtaining positioning reference signal pattern information, indicative of repetitive degradation of reception quality of a positioning reference signal; and transmitting, based on the positioning reference signal pattern information, at least one of: one or more positioning-reference-signal-related configuration parameters to a network entity; or a signal in accordance with the one or more positioning-reference-signal-related configuration parameters to a user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Alexandros Manolakos
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Patent number: 12108322Abstract: A method for enhancing network coverage based on adaptive generation of resource cell. A traditional cell in a network is taken as an initial state of the network. A correlation matrix in a current network state is generated. Whether |?i,jt??i,jt-1|/?i,jt-1>? is determined. Each access point is divided into a plurality of resource cells. A CU-DU network mapping table is generated. A middlehaul link of each of the plurality of resource cells is constructed according to the CU-DU network mapping table.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Xidian UniversityInventors: Junyu Liu, Min Sheng, Ziwen Xie, Jiandong Li, Yu Su, Yan Shi, Xiayu Zhang
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Patent number: 12096488Abstract: An example method for wireless communication includes: receiving, by a user device in a reduced power state, resource information for receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) and tracking reference signal (TRS); exiting the reduced power state to receive the CSI-RS and TRS, based on the resource information; synchronizing with a base station, based on the received CSI-RS and TRS, to receive a downlink control information message; receiving paging information in a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission based on the received downlink control information message; determining whether there is paging information in the first PDSCH transmission for the user device; starting a Random Access Channel (RACH) procedure to make a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection, based on determining that there is paging information for the user device; and returning to the reduced power state, based on determining that there is not paging information for the user device.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Yushu Zhang, Haitong Sun, Sarma V. Vangala, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Yuchul Kim
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Patent number: 12089264Abstract: In order to provide a transmission device and transmission method with which a response signal for random access preamble transmitted from a preamble transmission device is efficiently transmitted, setting unit in base station sets a first resource candidate group, which enables terminal capable of receiving a latch response transmitted by demodulation reference signal (DMRS) transmission to be selected, and a second resource candidate group, which enables terminal incapable of receiving a latch response transmitted by DMRS transmission but capable of receiving a latch response transmitted by cell-specific reference signal (CRS) transmission to be selected. Control unit selects DMRS transmission as the latch response transmission method when a resource in which latch preamble has been received is included in the first candidate group, but selects CRS transmission as the latch response transmission method when the resource is included in the second resource candidate group.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Takashi Iwai
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Patent number: 12082022Abstract: Provided herein are apparatus and method for user equipment (UE) panel selection. The disclosure provides an apparatus for a UE, comprising: a radio frequency (RF) interface to receive one or more reference signal resources from a next generation NodeB (gNB); and processor circuitry coupled with the RF interface, the processor circuitry to: determine a beam quality for each of the one or more reference signal resources received at each panel of the UE; and report beam information to the gNB, the beam information to indicate the beam quality of each of the one or more reference signal resources and corresponding panel for receiving each of the one or more reference signal resources. Other embodiments may also be disclosed and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Yushu Zhang, Guotong Wang, Alexei Davydov, Gang Xiong, Bishwarup Mondal, Hong He
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Patent number: 12081490Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to transmitting sidelink channel state information (CSI) from one user equipment (UE) to another UE using a L1 signal. A first UE requests a CSI report from a second UE. The first UE sends a reference signal which the second UE measures to determine channel characteristics. The second UE forms a CSI report which includes a rank indicator, a channel quality indicator, and potentially a precoding matrix index indicator. The second UE forms the CSI report at the PHY level. The CSI report is included in reserved field(s) of a second stage sidelink control information (SCI-2). The first UE receives and processes the CSI report at a PHY level.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yi Huang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wei Yang, Tugcan Aktas
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Patent number: 12063699Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for D2D signal transmission of a first terminal in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a resource pool configuration indicating a D2D resource pool; and transmitting a D2D data channel on the basis of a D2D slot number which is re-indexed within the D2D resource pool.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Youngtae Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Inkwon Seo, Hyukjin Chae, Seungmin Lee
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Patent number: 12063663Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE), a network node, and communication methods respectively for a UE and a network node. The UE comprises a transceiver which, in operation, receives, on a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, downlink control information, DCI, for scheduling a plurality of transmissions or receptions between the UE and a plurality of transmission and reception points, TRPs, on a plurality of channels, the DCI including one or more indicators indicating one or more respective transmission parameters, and circuitry which, in operation, obtains, based on the one or more indicators and on a configuration, a plurality of values respectively of the one or more transmission parameters. The transceiver, in operation, performs the plurality of transmissions or receptions using a respective one of the plurality of values of the one or more transmission parameters for each of the plurality of transmissions or receptions.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 12058713Abstract: A method of managing positioning reference signal transmission includes: instructing a transmission point to apply a muting pattern regarding transmission of a reference signal including first and second reference signal resources, where a first instance of the first reference signal resource includes one or more first resource elements across one or more first OFDM symbols within a slot, and a second instance of the second reference signal resource includes one or more second resource elements across one or more second OFDM symbols within the slot; and instructing the transmission point to transmit, unmuted, at least one of the one or more second resource elements, of at least one of the one or more second OFDM symbols, despite the muting pattern indicating to mute transmission of the at least one of the one or more second resource elements of the at least one of the one or more second OFDM symbols.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Mukesh Kumar, Srinivas Yerramalli
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Patent number: 12052747Abstract: A method of selecting data for transmission in a wireless communications network by a communications device, the method includes receiving by the communications device an allocation message, the allocation message including an indication of first communications resources for transmitting of data from a first group of one or more of a plurality of logical channels and the allocation message is received in response to a second scheduling request message requesting the first communications resources for transmitting the data from the first group of the one or more logical channels which was transmitted after a first scheduling request message requesting second communications resources for transmitting data from a second group of the one or more of the plurality of logical channels, in response to receiving the allocation message.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Yassin Aden Awad, Vivek Sharma, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Martin Warwick Beale
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Patent number: 12047276Abstract: A method for transmitting multiple data streams of different communication services over a multipath transmission system includes: providing data to be transmitted, wherein the data to be transmitted comprises first data and second data; detecting, out of a plurality of communication services, a first communication service the first data belongs to and a second communication service the second data belongs to; mapping the first data to a first data stream and the second data to a second data stream based on the first and second detected communication services; scheduling transfer of the first data stream and the second data stream based on the first classification parameter assigned to the first and second communication services; and scheduling transmission of the first data and the second data to the destination communication device based on the at least one second classification parameter assigned to the first and second communication services.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AGInventors: Markus Amend, Eckard Bogenfeld
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Patent number: 12047960Abstract: To prevent a communication throughput and/or communication quality from lowering even when one or more partial bands are configured in a carrier, one aspect of a user terminal according to the present invention includes: a receiving section that receives a downlink signal in one of a plurality of partial bands that are configurable in a carrier; and a control section that controls reception of a reference signal for radio link monitoring configured per the plurality of partial bands.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventor: Hiroki Harada
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Patent number: 12047794Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For example, the described techniques provide for configuring sidelink beam failure detection reference signals for determining beam failures on a sidelink between a first sidelink user equipment (UE) and a second sidelink UE. The first UE may determine a first set of sidelink beam failure detection reference signals to transmit to the second UE and a second set of sidelink beam failure detection reference signals to receive from the second UE. The first UE may transmit the first set to the second UE using a set of sidelink transmit beams. The first UE may further monitor for the determined second set using a set of sidelink receive beams. Based on the first and second set of sidelink beam failure detection reference signals, the first and second UE may communicate over the sidelink.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Sony Akkarakaran, Jelena Damnjanovic, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Ling Ding, Juan Montojo