Patents Examined by Kevin C. Harper
  • Patent number: 11689940
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described for machine-learning architectures for simultaneous connection to multiple carriers. In implementations, a network entity determines at least one deep neural network (DNN) configuration for processing information exchanged with a user equipment (UE) over a wireless communication system using carrier aggregation that includes at least a first component carrier and a second component carrier. At times, the at least one DNN configuration includes a first portion for forming a first DNN at the network entity, and a second portion for forming a second DNN at the UE. The network entity forms the first DNN based on the first portion and communicates an indication of the second portion to the UE. The network entity directs the UE to form the second DNN based on the second portion, and uses the first DNN to exchange, over the wireless communication system, the information with the UE using the carrier aggregation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Patent number: 11683812
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a user equipment in a radio access network, the user equipment being configured with a set of bandwidth parts, the user equipment being operable for communicating utilising an activated bandwidth part of the set of bandwidth part. The set of bandwidth parts comprises a first bandwidth part and a second bandwidth part, the first bandwidth part of the set being associated to a first set of characteristics, the second bandwidth part of the set being associated to a second set of characteristics. Further, the first set of characteristics and the second set of characteristics comprise at least one characteristic different between the first set and the second set of characteristics. The user equipment (10) further operates with a common search space for control signaling, the common search space being included in the first bandwidth part and the second bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Erik Dahlman, Robert Baldemair, Daniel Chen Larsson, Sorour Falahati, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 11678212
    Abstract: A method performed by a sidelink transmitting user equipment (SL TX UE) for sidelink (SL) vehicle to everything (V2X) unicast transmission to a sidelink receiving user equipment (SL RX UE). The method includes: receiving, a Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration from a base station, the RRC configuration includes at least information for enabling SL Channel State Information (CSI) reporting and first Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) information for SL transmission by the SL TX UE; transmitting, a CSI-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) measurement resource configuration to the SL RX UE for deriving an SL CSI report; transmitting, an aperiodic CSI report trigger to the SL RX UE for triggering the SL CSI report in a sidelink control information (SCI); and receiving, the SL CSI report from the SL RX UE in a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yinan Zhao, Renmao Liu, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 11678336
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive an indication associated with processing a communication, wherein the indication includes at least one of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH)-based indication and a sequence-based indication, and wherein the UE is configured to receive PDCCH-based indications and sequence-based indications; and processing the communication based at least in part on the indication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wanshi Chen, Wei Yang, Chih-Ping Li, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11677506
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless communications systems may support hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) schemes to improve the likelihood that information is received correctly over a wireless communications link. In HARQ, when a transmitting device determines that a receiving device failed to successfully decode a transmission of information, the transmitting device may retransmit the information to the receiving device. In some cases, HARQ techniques may be used for communications associated with different types of services. In such cases, to keep the latency of communications within a latency budget for a particular type of service, wireless devices may utilize the techniques described herein to dynamically terminate HARQ retransmissions. For instance, a transmitting device may avoid retransmitting information when an amount of time that has elapsed since an original transmission of the information has exceeded the latency budget.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Changlong Xu, Hao Xu, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 11658790
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive a communication from a second UE. The UE may transmit, to the second UE, sidelink hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback using a sidelink component carrier based at least in part on the communication received from the second UE, wherein the sidelink component carrier is associated with conveying the sidelink HARQ-ACK feedback when sidelink carrier aggregation is configured for a group of UEs that includes the first UE and the second UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wei Yang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11658779
    Abstract: Disclosed by the present application are a resource mapping method and apparatus and device, comprising: determining to-be-sent data hosted on a data-channel physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH)/physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); mapping said to-be-sent data to a virtual resource block (VRB); mapping the virtual resource block to a physical resource block (PRB) in resource block (RB) bundle units. Using the present application, it is possible to prevent the problem of the size of a virtual resource block bundle being inconsistent with the size of a physical resource block bundle, thus causing it to be impossible to map the virtual resource block to the physical resource block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanping Xing
  • Patent number: 11652600
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, device and system for determining a coding modulation parameter. The method includes: a terminal receives downlink control information from a base station, and determines a coding modulation parameter according to a domain, within the downlink control information, used for determining the coding modulation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Xu, Bo Dai, Jin Xu, Zewei Chen, Huiying Fang
  • Patent number: 11647508
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. A user equipment (UE) may receive a signaling message configuring one or more component carrier groups for joint transmission configuration indication (TCI) state activation. When a beam update command indicates an updated TCI state for an individual component carrier, the UE may apply the beam update command after an action time based at least in part on a format of the beam update command. Furthermore, the UE may be configured with rules for applying the beam update command if the individual component carrier is not included in any of the component carrier groups and/or multiple beam update commands are received within a threshold time. Additionally, the UE may prioritize quasi co-located (QCL) reception for all component carriers that are associated with the same TCI state as another component carrier for which QCL reception is prioritized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11638249
    Abstract: Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example communication method includes receiving signaling on a first carrier by a terminal device. The terminal device determines slot formats of N slots on at least one second carrier, where the slot formats of the N slots are determined based on M slot formats. N and M are positive integers. The M slot formats are obtained based on the received signaling, and the N slots are determined based on at least one of the following: a moment at which the signaling is received, and a relationship between a length of a first slot on the first carrier and a length of a second slot on the at least one second carrier. According to the communication method, the terminal device, and a network device in this application, slot formats of slots on a plurality of carriers can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingwei Zhang, Lili Zhang
  • Patent number: 11637575
    Abstract: A first wireless communication apparatus assigns a pilot signal without an effective signal component at least in an adjacent frequency component to a generated transmit signal, and transmits the transmit signal including the pilot signal. A second wireless communication apparatus converts the received signal or a frequency-converted signal obtained by frequency conversion of the signal into a signal in a frequency domain, sets an approximate value of the distance between the second wireless communication apparatus and the first wireless communication apparatus, calculates a coefficient ?k, based on the approximate value of the distance, the effective bandwidth, the speed of light, the number of FFT points, and the frequency component number, extracts a signal in the frequency domain, generates a phase noise compensated sampling signal, and reproduces data transmitted by the first wireless communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Ota, Kota Ito, Kazuto Goto, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
  • Patent number: 11627562
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides signaling for multi-panel user equipment (MPUE) activation and deactivation status. The MPUE may include a plurality of panels. The MPUE may determine a number of active panels. The MPUE may transmit a status message indicating at least the number of active panels to a base station. The base station may schedule a communication with the UE for at least one panel of the number of active panels. The MPUE may receive from the base station, a downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a communication for at least one of the number of active panels. The MPUE may communicate according to the DCI using the at least one panel scheduled by the DCI. In another aspect, the MPUE may indicate a nominal number of active panels and implicitly manage a mapping of panel identifiers to an actual number of active panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Tianyang Bai, Kiran Venugopal, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11611417
    Abstract: A data unit comprising bits to transmit over one or more frequency segments in a frequency range is obtained. An effective bandwidth in each frequency segment of the frequency range is determined, where the effective bandwidth excludes bandwidth of one or more punctured subchannels in a respective frequency segment. Bits are encoded based on the effective bandwidth of each frequency segment followed by parsing the encoded bits to one or more streams and parsing the encoded bits of a stream to the one or more frequency segments. The parsing of the encoded bits of the stream comprises allocating a first number of consecutive encoded bits to a first frequency segment and allocating a second number of consecutive encoded bits to a second frequency segment, wherein the first number and the second number are based on the effective bandwidth of the first frequency segment and the second frequency segment. The encoded bits are modulated and mapped to subcarriers for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventors: Rui Cao, Hongyuan Zhang, Sudhir Srinivasa
  • Patent number: 11606776
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a transmission method and an apparatus thereof. The method includes the following operations: performing, by a terminal device, idle state sensing on one or more candidate transmission frequency domain resources, where the one or more candidate transmission frequency domain resources are configured for PUCCH information transmission; determining, by the terminal device based on a sensing result of the one or more candidate transmission frequency domain resources, a transmission frequency domain resource from the one or more candidate transmission frequency domain resources for PUCCH information transmission; and transmitting, by the terminal device, the PUCCH information by using the determined transmission frequency domain resource. By using the embodiments of this application, uplink transmission can be implemented by using an unlicensed frequency spectrum, and transmission efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Qiong Jia, Weiwei Fan
  • Patent number: 11601248
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a configuration message from a network device, where the configuration message is used to configure a plurality of uplink BWPs and a plurality of downlink BWPs; determining, by the terminal device, a first BWP in the plurality of uplink BWPs, where the first BWP is used to transmit feedback information of downlink information that is on a second BWP, and the second BWP is any one of the plurality of downlink BWPs; receiving, by the terminal device, the downlink information on the second BWP; and sending, by the terminal device, the feedback information of the downlink information by using the first BWP, so that a BWP on which the feedback information is sent can be determined in a scenario in which a plurality of BWPs are activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiang Fan, Chong Lou, Xing Liu
  • Patent number: 11601297
    Abstract: A wireless audio output device includes a plurality of audio output units, first and second audio output units among the audio output units being set as first and second roles, respectively. The first role is to establish a multicast link with a source device, to receive one or more media packets from the source device on the multicast link, and to perform bidirectional communication with the source device. The second role is to join the multicast link, to receive the one or more media packets from the source device on the multicast link, to perform unidirectional communication with the source device, and to perform unidirectional and/or bidirectional communication with the first role. An extended packet time slot is divided and each of the first role and the second role transmits or receives one or more extended packets during the extended packet time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Ming-Yi Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11589348
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may receive an indication of whether a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) communication is to be punctured in a set of resources in which a second PDSCH communication at least partially overlaps with the first PDSCH communication, or both the first PDSCH communication and the second PDSCH communication are to be transmitted in the set of resources. The mobile station may decode the first PDSCH communication based at least in part on the indication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Aamod Khandekar, James Beckman, Enoch Shiao-Kuang Lu
  • Patent number: 11589206
    Abstract: For acquiring system information instances, a method determines if one or more system information instances requested in a request message are received in a reply message from a base station. The request message includes a request bitmap indicating the requested system information instances. The reply message includes a reply bitmap indicating the system information instances in the reply message. The method acquires the system information instances indicated in the request bitmap and the reply bitmap from the reply message. In addition, the method requests the system information instances from the base station that are indicated in the request bitmap and not indicated in the reply bitmap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 11582779
    Abstract: Provided are a method, device and storage medium for configuring a starting symbol position of an uplink data channel. The method includes: determining a configuration value of a first type parameter set, where the first type parameter set is a set of uplink data parameters; determining a configuration range of a starting symbol position of an uplink data channel according to the configuration value of the first type parameter set; and selecting a starting symbol position of the uplink data channel from the configuration range of the starting symbol position of the uplink data channel, and notifying a receiving end of the selected starting symbol position of the uplink data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yijian Chen, Zhaohua Lu, Chuangxin Jiang, YuNgok Li, Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 11582670
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, terminal apparatus, system and method are provided for performing wireless communication. The communication apparatus supports a plurality of component carriers, wherein one of the plurality of component carriers is designated as a current primary component and at least one of the plurality of component carriers is designated as a current secondary component carrier providing at least downlink communication. The communication apparatus comprises control circuitry for controlling a component carrier testing procedure for one or more component carriers. The testing procedure comprises, for each component carrier: establishing an uplink connection from the terminal apparatus to the communication apparatus using the component carrier; and determining a quality of the uplink connection for the component carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: AIRSPAN IP HOLDCO LLC
    Inventors: Venkateswarlu Katepalli, Andrew Logothetis, Marlon Peter Persaud, Krzysztof Dudzinski, Ashvtosh Goel