Patents Examined by Kashif Siddiqui
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Patent number: 11943811Abstract: A non-AP MLD or a first STA in the non-AP MLD generates a first frame. The first frame includes indication information for indicating padding duration for a channel switch delay in an initial control frame. The padding duration is determined based on duration of a control response frame. The non-AP MLD or the first STA or another STA in the non-AP MLD transmits the first frame. An AP MLD or a first AP or another AP in the AP MLD receives the first frame. The AP MLD or the first AP determines the padding duration of the initial control frame based on the indication information.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuchen Guo, Ming Gan, Yunbo Li
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Patent number: 11937322Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may establish a sidelink connection with a second UE, where the sidelink connection is associated with a plurality of flows. The first UE may determine, based on monitoring each flow of the plurality of flows, a radio link status of the sidelink connection. The first UE may transmit, based on the determining, a non-access stratum layer message to the second UE based at least on the radio link status of the sidelink connection.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hong Cheng, Dan Vassilovski, Sudhir Kumar Baghel
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Patent number: 11937224Abstract: A data transmission method includes: when data to be transmitted is subjected to resource mapping on a first symbol of a wireless transmission resource distributed to a sending device, selecting target subcarriers on a frequency domain of the wireless transmission resource at equal intervals according to a pre-acquired sequence number interval; mapping said data to each target subcarrier in the frequency domain; respectively modulating each target subcarrier by using said data to obtain a time domain symbol; setting information of a previous preset length of the time domain symbol to be 0 to obtain an output symbol, wherein the preset length is equal to y/x, y is smaller than x, and x is a serial number interval; and transmitting the output symbol.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuanyuan Li
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Patent number: 11930497Abstract: Disclosed are a method whereby user equipment receives a data signal in a wireless communication system, and devices which support same. According to one embodiment applicable to the present disclosure, on the basis of (i) configuration information related to dynamic bundling for a precoding resource block (PRB) and (ii) control information for scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), both pieces of information being received from a base station, user equipment can receive a data signal via the first PDSCH on the basis of an assumption related to the first PDSCH.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Kilbom Lee, Jiwon Kang, Hyungtae Kim
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Patent number: 11930515Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine an inactivity timer associated with a first set of one or more beams used for communicating with a network entity associated with a satellite has expired. The UE may identify location information corresponding to the location of the UE with respect to the network entity. The UE may identify beam geometry information for one or more beams associated with the network entity. For example, the UE may receive the beam geometry information from the network entity. The UE may process the location information and the beam geometry information to identify a second set of one or more beams, the second set different than the first set. The UE and the network entity may communicate according to the second set of one or more beams.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Liangping Ma, Xiao Feng Wang, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Ayan Sengupta, Bharat Shrestha, Jun Ma, Umesh Phuyal
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Patent number: 11924853Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and apparatus for interruption handling for V2X communication are provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Hyunjeong Kang
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Patent number: 11924876Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for handling partial sensing and discontinuous reception for sidelink communication to reduce potential latency due to additional sensing and to improve resource utilization efficiency. Various embodiments can comprise a first device performing sidelink communication to at least a second device, or a second device in a sidelink resource pool, and triggering to perform resource selection for a sidelink data at a timing, wherein the first device (already) receives or monitors sidelink control information for a (contiguous) time duration before the timing. The first device can perform sensing for a contiguous sensing duration after the timing, determine or select a first sidelink resource from a set of sidelink resources, and perform a first sidelink transmission on the first sidelink resource for transmitting the sidelink data to the second device.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.Inventors: Ming-Che Li, Chun-Wei Huang, Li-Chih Tseng
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Patent number: 11924751Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication technique of converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates after a 4th generation (4G) system with Internet of things (IoT), and a system therefor. The disclosure provides a method performed by a first network entity managing a packet data network (PDN) session in a wireless communication system supporting interworking between a first and second networks. The method comprises receiving subscription update information of a user equipment (UE) for which a PDN connection associated with a network slice is established in the second network, the network slice being subscribed in the first network, determining whether to release the PDN connection if the subscription update information includes information notifying that network slice related information of the UE is changed, and performing a release of the PDN connection associated with the network slice if the release of the PDN connection is determined.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dongyeon Kim, Hoyeon Lee, Sangsoo Jeong, Jungshin Park
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Patent number: 11924879Abstract: Techniques for managing multi-mode communications between nodes in a network include initiating, by a first node in a mesh network, a carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) session while the first node is in a first mode. The CSMA/CA session is associated with a request to transmit a data message to a second node in the mesh network. Initiating the CSMA/CA session includes determining availability of a channel associated with a channel schedule of the second node associated with the first mode.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: ITRON, INC.Inventors: Khalid Maallem, Yacine Khaled, Jérôme Bartier
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Patent number: 11917692Abstract: Uplink and downlink synchronization procedures are described for wireless communications. A base station may send a reconfiguration message to a wireless device before a random access procedure. The reconfiguration message may set an active uplink index and an active downlink index to the same value.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei, Kyungmin Park
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Patent number: 11910415Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitting (Tx) user equipment (UE) may receive, from a plurality of receiving (Rx) UEs, indications of channel busy ratios (CBRs) associated with the plurality of Rx UEs, respectively. The Tx UE may combine the CBRs to obtain a combined CBR associated with the Tx UE. The Tx UE may adjust a resource utilization based at least in part on the combined CBR associated with the Tx UE. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Tugcan Aktas, Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
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Patent number: 11910450Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more configuration parameters indicating a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource for transmission of a message A (MsgA) payload of a contention-free two-step random-access procedure. The wireless device receives, from a radio resource control (RRC) layer of the wireless device, a request to reset a medium access control (MAC) layer of the wireless device. In response to the request and based on the configuration parameter indicating the PUSCH resource, the PUSCH resource for the MsgA transmission of the contention-free two-step random-access procedure is cleared.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., LtdInventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei, Kyungmin Park, Kai Xu
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Patent number: 11910448Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for managing random access for devices seeking access to dual connectivity. Both master nodes and secondary nodes in dual connectivity have 64 available preambles that can be used for random access. By reserving preambles for devices that are requesting access to dual connectivity, a radio access network can assign random access preambles to said devices, enabling them to use contention free random access to gain access to both a master node and a secondary node. In some aspects random access preambles will only be assigned to devices requesting access to dual connectivity if they have a sufficiently high priority level.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLCInventors: Reman Pezhumkad Balakrishna, Michael Chanicka
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Patent number: 11902032Abstract: Method, apparatus, and systems for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) enhancement in wireless communications are disclosed. In one representative embodiment, a method implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for wireless communications includes identifying a codebook process from a set of codebook processes based on a first indication, associating a set of bits of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback with the identified codebook process, maintaining the set of bits associated with the identified codebook process based on a condition, receiving a second indication to transmit the set of bits associated with the identified codebook process, and transmitting the set of bits based on the second indication.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Aata El Hamss, Paul Marinier, J. Patrick Tooher, Faris Alfarhan, Ghyslain Pelletier
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Patent number: 11895179Abstract: The invention relates to systems and methods to enable a mobile device to be used as a remote control, in order to control one or more remotely controllable objects. In possible embodiments of the invention, proximity-based (or other) remote controls include control authorization to enable the transfer or sharing of control between different remote controls being implemented on different mobile devices, in order to permit different users to transfer or share control of a same remotely controllable object, for example. In other possible embodiments of the invention, a proximity-based (or other) remote control uses control authentication to enable the pairing of a remote control implemented on a device and a remotely controllable object, for example. Various embodiments of control authority and control authentication are possible and anticipated by the invention to address a wide range of practical remote control applications and provide many benefits to users.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: N99 LLCInventor: Steven K. Gold
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Patent number: 11895629Abstract: A multiple access method includes: obtaining, by a user equipment (UE), first source information; extracting a semantic feature of the first source information to obtain a first semantic feature sequence; performing a joint source-channel coding on the first semantic feature sequence to obtain a first semantic information sequence; mapping the first semantic information sequence into preset time-frequency resources of an uplink multiple access channel; and transmitting the first semantic information sequence through the uplink multiple access channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsInventors: Kai Niu, Zijian Liang, Ping Zhang, Jincheng Dai, Chao Dong, Xiaodong Xu, Chen Dong
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Patent number: 11889551Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for operating in an unlicensed band are disclosed herein. In one example, a device may receive configuration information that includes a maximum channel occupancy time (MCOT) and a plurality of parameters including a plurality of transmission opportunity windows (TOWs). Based on the configuration information, the device may split a transmission into a plurality of bursts that may be grouped into sets of bursts based on how many bursts fit within a TOW. The number of bursts in a set of bursts may be less than or equal to the MCOT. The device may perform a clear channel assessment (CCA) to determine if the channel is busy and to determine a start time within the TOW for the bursts. The device may then transmit the set of bursts for that TOW, where each burst may have a burst indicator (BI).Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Muhammad Fazili, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Arnab Roy, Kevin T. Wanuga, Moon-il Lee, Mihaela C. Beluri
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Patent number: 11889565Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Accordingly the embodiments herein provides a method for handling a RAR in a wireless communication system (300).Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Pravjyot Singh Deogun, Anil Agiwal, Abhishek Kumar Singh
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Patent number: 11889564Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiving section that receives information indicating a first number of preamble transmission, the information being a condition for switching from a 2-step random access procedure to a 4-step random access procedure, and information indicating a second number which is a maximum number of preamble transmission; and a control section that when a number of preamble transmission is the first number, controls to switch from a 2-step random access procedure to a 4-step random access procedure, and when the number of preamble transmission is the second number, determines a failure of the 4-step random access procedure. In other aspects a radio communication method and a system are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Shaozhen Guo, Xiaolin Hou
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Patent number: 11871451Abstract: Sub-band (SB) indications and listen-before-talk (LBT) outcomes may be used to adjust communications between devices such as wireless terminals and base stations. For example, a wireless terminal may receive SB indications including SB configurations and/or LBT outcomes of a base station, and other information such as a remapped CORESET. Similarly, a terminal may determine that a physical resource block (PRB) is invalid based at least in part on whether the PRB overlaps with a guard band. The terminal may be arranged to adjust its searches and transmissions based on received SB indications, and to provide the base station with LBT outcomes of the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Mohamed Awadin, Lakshmi R. Iyer, Qing Li, Pascal M. Adjakple, Joseph M. Murray, Yifan Li, Guodong Zhang