Patents Examined by Justin T Van Roie
  • Patent number: 11973709
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication to operate in a dynamic demodulation reference signal (DMRS) mode, wherein the dynamic DMRS mode includes a use of dynamic DMRS configurations without an explicit indication of DMRS resource locations for the dynamic DMRS configurations. The UE may receive, from the base station based at least in part on receiving the indication to operate in the dynamic DMRS mode, a DMRS using a first dynamic DMRS configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yehonatan Dallal, Shay Landis, Gideon Shlomo Kutz
  • Patent number: 11968697
    Abstract: The described techniques relate to improved methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses that support spatial reuse for sidelink communications. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to reuse resources for receiving sidelink transmissions. The UE may receive a first sidelink control channel that may indicate a set of reserved resources for sidelink communications associated with a second UE. The first UE may decode a second sidelink control channel from the second UE based on the first sidelink control channel. The first UE may determine that the set of resources is available for use based on a result of decoding the second sidelink control channel, a radius of the second sidelink control channel, and the distance between the first UE and the second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaojie Wang, Piyush Gupta, Lik Hang Silas Fong
  • Patent number: 11956033
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for multi-antenna transmission. A first node operates first downlink information. The first field of the first downlink information is used for determining a first radio resource, and the second field of the first downlink information is used for determining a second radio resource. The first radio resource is reserved for a first-type reference signal, and the second radio resource is reserved for a second-type reference signal. A target receiver of the first-type reference signal comprises the first node, a transmitter of the second-type reference signal is the first node. A measurement on the first-type reference signal is used for generating the second-type reference signal. The first node is a UE and the operating action is receiving; or the first node is a base station and the operating action is transmitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: XiaoBo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11949615
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving, from a base station, multiple reference signals, and estimating a channel based on the received reference signals. The channel comprises multiple channel paths. The method also includes quantizing an angle of arrival (AoA) of each channel path into one of a group of quantization levels. The method further includes reporting to the base station the quantized angle of arrival, and also a delay and/or power level for the quantized angle of arrival.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11910414
    Abstract: One embodiment is a method and includes receiving at a termination element of a first network a bandwidth report (“BWR”), in which the BWR includes information regarding a data transmission opportunity over a second network for at least one endpoint data; scheduling a first network transmission opportunity for the at least one endpoint data using information derived from the received BWR; and receiving from a first network forwarding device the at least one endpoint data in accordance with the scheduled first network transmission opportunity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, John T. Chapman
  • Patent number: 11909560
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine an actual power delay profile (PDP) associated with a channel between the UE and a base station, wherein the actual PDP indicates an averaged power level of the channel over a period of time. The UE may determine whether a channel estimation mode switching event is satisfied. The UE may switch, based at least in part on the channel estimation mode switching event being satisfied, between a first channel estimation mode based at least in part on the actual PDP and a second channel estimation mode based at least in part on a template PDP. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhinav Sridhar, Jae Won Yoo, Tae Min Kim, Paolo Minero, Ashok Mantravadi, Hari Sankar, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 11910392
    Abstract: Disclosed are various techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) transmits, to a serving base station, in one or more active bandwidth parts (BWPs) of the UE, a request for a no-downlink-scheduling gap, the request including at least time-domain parameters related to scheduling the no-downlink-scheduling gap, receives, from a neighboring base station, in the one or more active BWPs, a downlink positioning reference signal (DL-PRS) during the no-downlink-scheduling gap, and transmits, in the one or more active BWPs, an uplink positioning reference signal (UL-PRS) during the no-downlink-scheduling gap in response to reception of the DL-PRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Mukesh Kumar, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Srinivas Yerramalli
  • Patent number: 11902190
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a user equipment in a radio access network, wherein the method comprises receiving tracking reference signaling, TRS, in a TRS pattern. The TRS pattern represents a distribution of subcarriers for carrying TRS over a range of subcarriers shifted relative to a reference subcarrier corresponding to a central frequency subcarrier of an LTE carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Håkan Björkegren, Robert Baldemair
  • Patent number: 11895046
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Abdelkader Medles, Gilles Charbit, Chiao Yao Chuang
  • Patent number: 11895679
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) and another device (e.g., another UE) may transmit messages on a shared channel accessed in a half-duplex manner (e.g., within a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) network). The UE and the other device may transmit messages on semi-persistently scheduled (SPS) resources. A message of the UE and a transmission of the other device may collide (e.g., be transmitted in the same subframe). The UE may employ muting and measuring, in which the UE may refrain from transmitting on a SPS resource and may detect the transmission of the other device. Upon detection of other transmissions, the UE may perform resource reselection. During resource selection or resource reselection, the UE may exclude an entire subframe of candidate resources if one of the candidate resources of the subframe is mapped to a resource associated with a transmission from another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ralph Akram Gholmieh, Cheol Hee Park, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Shailesh Patil, Ashish Shankar Iyer, Praveen Kumar Appani, Feng Lu
  • Patent number: 11882066
    Abstract: Disclosed are various techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives, from a network entity, a positioning reference signal (PRS) configuration. The UE receives, from a serving base station, a measurement gap (MG) configuration. The UE determines that one or more transmission properties of one or more resources should be modified and transmits PRS modification information to the network entity based on the one or more transmission properties of one or more PRS resources to be modified. The network entity may be a location server or location management function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Mukesh Kumar, Srinivas Yerramalli
  • Patent number: 11870720
    Abstract: A channel state information reference signal configuration (CSI-RS configuration) indicates a period and a plurality of offsets. For example, a base station may send a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) to a wireless communication device (e.g., a user equipment) according to the period and at least one of the offsets indicated by the CSI-RS configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11870711
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically changing a network system. A method includes receiving a set of first intents that describe a state of a first switch fabric; receiving a set of second intents that describe a state of a second switch fabric; computing a set of network operations to perform on the first switch fabric to achieve the second switch fabric, the set of operations also defining an order in which the operations are to be executed, and the set of operations determined based on the set of first intents, the set of second intents, and migration logic that defines a ruleset for selecting the operations based on the set of first intents and the second intents; and executing the set of network operations according to the order, to apply changes to elements within the first switch fabric to achieve the state of the second switch fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Horia Vlad Balan, Zengbin Zhang, Amin Vahdat, Vinay Kumar Bannai, Alexander Jinhon Lin, Anvesh Komuravelli, Steven Gribble, Andrew DeBock Ferguson, Muhammad Mukarram Tariq, Joon Ong, Alvaro Martinez Echevarria
  • Patent number: 11864236
    Abstract: A method of performing a random access channel (RACH) procedure by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a physical random access channel (PRACH) and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) via a message A, and receiving a message B related to contention resolution in response to the message A. An index related to a reference signal used for transmission power allocation to the PUSCH is same as an index of a resource used for channel measurement for transmission of the PRACH, based on that the PRACH and the PUSCH are transmitted via the message A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jeongsu Lee, Hyunsoo Ko, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11838923
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method is disclosed for use in a wireless device being affected by pre-emption. The method comprises receiving information from a network node and performing one or more operations based on the received information. The information indicates a portion of a buffer that is affected by pre-emption. Examples of operations that can be performed based on the received information include flushing the portion of the buffer affected by pre-emption or separately handling the portion of the buffer affected by pre-emption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Alexey Shapin, Robert Baldemair, Daniel Larsson, Stefan Parkvall, Gustav Wikström
  • Patent number: 11831575
    Abstract: An electronic device and method for wireless communication system, and a storage medium. In the method, reference signal are carried merely on a part of communication sources for channel estimation, channel states on the communication resources carrying the reference signal are estimated, and conditions of channel paths from a transmitter to a receiver are estimated by using the estimated channel states of the communication resources. Thereby, channel states on other communication resources from the transmitter to the receiver can be obtained from the estimated channel path conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ziyuan Sha, Zhaocheng Wang, Jianfei Cao
  • Patent number: 11818721
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11812450
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a UE capability message to a base station, the UE capability message including an indication of a UE type, wherein the UE type is associated with at least one of a reduced bandwidth, or a reduced number of antennas, or a combination thereof for the UE. The UE may receive, based at least in part on the UE capability message, a downlink grant for downlink resources for a data transmission in accordance with a resource allocation scheme, wherein the resource allocation scheme is associated with the UE type and a supported bandwidth part of the UE. The UE may monitor a wireless channel based at least in part on the downlink grant. The UE may receive the data transmission based at least in part on the monitoring of the wireless channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Huilin Xu, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Tingfang Ji, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 11800376
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for environment sensing. In an aspect, a first network node measures one or more first reference signals on a first carrier frequency, the one or more first reference signals received from a second network node to enable determination of one or more first characteristics associated with one or more target objects, and measures one or more second reference signals on a second carrier frequency, the one or more second reference signals received from the second network node to enable determination of one or more second characteristics associated with the one or more target objects, wherein an accuracy of the one or more second characteristics is higher than an accuracy of the one or more first characteristics based on the one or more first reference signals being measured on the first carrier frequency and the one or more second reference signals being measured on the second carrier frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Peter Gaal, Taesang Yoo, Simone Merlin, Srinivas Yerramalli
  • Patent number: 11765673
    Abstract: A device may selectively listen for a tracking reference signal (TRS) during connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRx) based on whether the device is to switch between repeaters of a base station (such as during travel). A device may determine whether the device is in a high speed train (HST) scenario (such as based on a difference in frequency errors generated using a synchronization signal block (SSB) and generated using a TRS, based on a trajectory of a frequency error or a frequency error difference over time, based on instantaneous frequency errors, etc.). When the device is in a HST scenario, the device listens for a TRS during CDRx, and the device generates a frequency error using the TRS. When the device is not in a HST scenario, the device prevents listening for a TRS during CDRx (with a SSB received during CDRx to be used to generate a frequency error).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chinmay Shankar Vaze, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Yongle Wu, Paolo Minero, Hari Sankar, Ashok Mantravadi, Raghu Narayan Challa, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam