Patents Examined by Khanh C. Tran
  • Patent number: 11219016
    Abstract: A method and a device in a communication node used for wireless communications is disclosed in the present disclosure. The communication node first receives first information and second information; and transmits a first radio signal in a first time window; and then transmits a second radio signal; the first information is used to determine a target time window, the second radio signal occupies a second time window in time domain, and the second information is used to determine at least one of whether the second time window belongs to the target time window or a relative position relationship between the second time window and the target time window; an end of the first time window is earlier than a start of the target time window. The present disclosure helps improve the utilization ratio of resources in Grant-Free transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zheng Liu, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11212791
    Abstract: A communication method and a communications node includes sending, by a sending node, a first frame to a receiving node on a first channel, and sending at least one second frame to the receiving node on a second channel, where a frequency of the first channel is less than a frequency of the second channel, where each second frame corresponds to a sending direction, and a length of each second frame is less than a preset frame length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao Han, Yunbo Li, Mengyao Ma, Xun Yang, Yuchen Guo
  • Patent number: 11206164
    Abstract: The application provides a short training sequence design method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a short training sequence, where the short training sequence may be obtained based on an existing sequence, and the short training sequence with comparatively good performance may be obtained through simulation calculation, for example, by adjusting a parameter; and sending a short training field on a target channel, where the short training field is obtained by performing inverse fast Fourier transformation IFFT on the short training sequence, and a bandwidth of the target channel is greater than 160 MHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Zuo, Ming Gan, Dandan Liang
  • Patent number: 11206076
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for low-latency beam selection. A method for operating user equipment (UE) includes receiving configuration information on a set of uplink (UL) beams and at least one associated sounding reference signal (SRS) resource. Each of the UL beams is associated with one RS resource. The method further includes detecting that an event occurs; calculating an UL beam reporting associated with at least one of the UL beams; initiating or receiving a request for an SRS transmission; and transmitting the UL beam reporting after the event occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eko Onggosanusi, Md. Saifur Rahman
  • Patent number: 11190235
    Abstract: Systems and methods for differential data transmission using an unterminated transmission line comprise a plurality of switches configured to control a differential voltage output on a pair of output lines, wherein the plurality of switches have a first state in which a high voltage is output on a first of the pair of output lines and a low voltage is output on a second of the pair of output lines, and wherein the plurality of switches have a second state in which the low voltage is output on the first of the pair of output lines and the high voltage is output on the second of the pair of output lines. A transition switch with an output impedance equal to that of the output lines will discharge the lines during a state transition so as to reduce to power consumption associated with changing states of the transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Aswani Tadinada, Venkatasuryam Issa, Jens Kristian Poulsen
  • Patent number: 11184061
    Abstract: For example, an EDMG STA may generate an LDPC coded bit stream for a user based on data bits for the user in an EDMG PPDU, the LDPC coded bit stream for the user including a concatenation of a plurality of LDPC codewords, a count of the plurality of LDPC codewords is based at least on a codeword length for the user and on a code rate for the user; generate encoded and padded bits for the user by concatenating the LDPC coded bit stream with a plurality of coded pad zero bits, a count of the coded pad zero bits is based at least on a count of one or more spatial streams for the user and on the count of the plurality of LDPC codewords for the user; and distribute the encoded and padded bits for the user to the one or more spatial streams for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Artyom Lomayev, Claudio Da Silva, Michael Genossar, Alexander Maltsev, Carlos Cordeiro
  • Patent number: 11177932
    Abstract: A clock generation circuit for generating a plurality of output clocks includes: a differential circuit for receiving a single input clock signal and outputting two differential clock signals, and a DC signal; a first polyphase filter for generating four clock signals from the differential clock signals which are a quadrature phase apart from each other; a plurality of setting buffers for setting a same DC point for the four clock signals and generating four resultant clock signals; coupled polyphase filters for generating four more clock signals which are a quadrature apart from each other, and outputting the resultant eight clock signals; a phase mixer, for generating eight output clock signals 45 degrees apart from each other; and a plurality of restoration buffers for setting a DC point for each of the eight clock signals and generating eight output clock signals all riding on a same DC point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Faraday Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Vinay Suresh Rao, Andrew Chao
  • Patent number: 11171734
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices related to applying a spreading code to reference signals are described. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving a message indicating a set of control options available to the mobile device for data transmissions. The method includes selecting a spreading code sequence from a number of spreading code sequences, wherein the spreading code sequence corresponds to a control option in the set of control options, wherein the number of spreading code sequences is greater than a length of each of the spreading code sequence, and wherein the spreading code sequences are generated using a method when the length of each of the spreading code sequences is greater than or equal to a value. The method also includes generating a plurality of reference signal symbols using the spreading code sequence, and transmitting the plurality of reference signal symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Cao, Li Tian, Yifei Yuan, Tao Lu
  • Patent number: 11165614
    Abstract: One example discloses an OFDM wireless communications device, including: a memory configured to support processing of OFDM tones; a controller, coupled to the memory, and configured to set the wireless communication device to a first mode and a second mode; wherein the first mode is configured to transmit or receive a first wireless communication signal having a first set of OFDM tones contained within an OFDM channel bandwidth; wherein the second mode is configured to transmit or receive a second wireless communication signal having a second set of OFDM tones contained within the OFDM channel bandwidth; and wherein the memory used for processing the first set of OFDM tones is same as the memory used for processing the second set of OFDM tones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhir Srinivasa, Yui Lin, Hongyuan Zhang, Mao Yu, Timothy J. Donovan
  • Patent number: 11165514
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for envelope alignment calibration in radio frequency (RF) systems are provided. In certain embodiments, calibration is performed by providing an envelope signal with a peak along an envelope path, and by providing an RF signal with a first peak and a second peak to a power amplifier along an RF signal path. Additionally, an output of the power amplifier is observed to generate an observation signal using an observation receiver. The observation signal includes a first peak and a second peak corresponding to the first peak and the second peak of the RF signal, and a delay between the envelope signal and the RF signal is controlled based on relative size of the peaks of the observation signal to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Florinel G. Balteanu, Yu Zhu, Paul T. DiCarlo
  • Patent number: 11165517
    Abstract: A MIMO transceiver may include a communication chain configured to generate a signal at a first frequency and that includes a pre-distorter configured to accept pre-distortion parameters to pre-distort signals and a PA to amplify the signals. The MIMO transceiver may include a DPD chain configured to receive the signal at the first frequency and that includes a data converter to sample the signal using a sampling rate based on a baseband frequency and to generate a sample signal based on the sampling of the signal. The MIMO transceiver may include a buffer configured to buffer the sample signal. The MIMO transceiver may include a DPD circuit configured to calibrate the pre-distortion parameters based on the buffered sample signal. The MIMO transceiver may include a CTS circuit to transmit a CTS-to-Self signal within an operational environment to reserve a duration of time for the MIMO transceiver to perform DPD calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Abhishek Kumar Agrawal, Hossein Dehghan
  • Patent number: 11159188
    Abstract: Examples described herein include methods, devices, and systems which may compensate input data for non-linear power amplifier noise to generate compensated input data. In compensating the noise, during an uplink transmission time interval (TTI), a switch path is activated to provide amplified input data to a receiver stage including a coefficient calculator. The coefficient calculator may calculate an error representative of the noise based partly on the input signal to be transmitted and a feedback signal to generate coefficient data associated with the power amplifier noise. The feedback signal is provided, after processing through the receiver, to a coefficient calculator. During an uplink TTI, the amplified input data may also be transmitted as the RF wireless transmission via an RF antenna. During a downlink TTI, the switch path may be deactivated and the receiver stage may receive an additional RF wireless transmission to be processed in the receiver stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Jeremy Chritz, Jaime Cummins, Tamara Schmitz
  • Patent number: 11159274
    Abstract: A reception apparatus including a tuner and circuitry is provided. The tuner is configured to receive a transmission frame including a bootstrap portion, a preamble portion, and a payload portion. The circuitry is configured to extract first signaling information from the bootstrap portion to decode the preamble portion, and extract second signaling information from the preamble portion to decode the payload portion. The bootstrap portion includes at least one of a first symbol used for synchronization, a second symbol that signals emergency alert information, or a third symbol that signals the first signaling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Luke Fay, Lachlan Michael, Daniel Schneider, Lothar Stadelmeier, Samuel Atungsiri
  • Patent number: 11158942
    Abstract: An array of antennae includes a monobit transmitter to insert dither into a transmit signal to form a dithered transmit signal. Monobit receivers process received signals that are combined with the dithered transmit signal to form composite received signals. Digital down converters process the composite received signals to form down converted received signals. A beam former circuit processes the down converted received signals to form recovered signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Epirus, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Scott, Harry B. Marr, Michael Borisov, Jason Chaves, Nathan Mintz, Yiu Man So, Daniel G. Thompson, William Dower
  • Patent number: 11128344
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a channel switching processing method, device and system, storage medium, and an electronic device. The channel switching processing method includes: acquiring a signal noise on a first channel corresponding to a first power line, wherein a communication signal is transmitted on the first channel; comparing a magnitude of the signal noise to a predetermined threshold; and in the event that the signal noise of the first channel is greater than a signal noise of a second channel, switching the communication signal from the first channel to the second channel corresponding to a second power line according to a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventors: Quanzhou Liu, Jie Tang, Weiyou Yu, Tieying Ye, Chunwei Yuan, Huantao Ye, Zhongzheng Li, Yufa Li, Chenjie Li, Guo Yao
  • Patent number: 11128322
    Abstract: There is presented mechanisms for providing information for determining beamforming weights or decoding user data for terminal devices. A method is performed by an RE of an access node. The RE has an interface to an REC of the access node. The method comprises obtaining information from the terminal devices to be used by the REC for determining the beamforming weights or decoding the user data. The method comprises selecting, according to a selection criterion, a part of the information to be provided to the REC in order for the REC to determine the beamforming weights or decode the user data based on the selected part of the information. The method comprises providing the selected part of the information to the REC over the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Jacob Österling, Fredrik Huss, Jonas B. Karlsson, Oskar Mauritz, Christer Östberg, Jan Roxbergh, Alex Stephenne
  • Patent number: 11121788
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a channel prediction method and system for a MIMO wireless communication system. The method includes the following steps: obtaining frequency domain channel information of each antenna pair of the MIMO wireless communication system through channel estimation; processing, by inverse Fourier transform, frequency domain channel information of each antenna pair to obtain information of each effective delay path of the MIMO wireless communication system; training the width learning system; utilizing the trained width learning system to predict each effective delay path of each antenna pair, so as to obtain the information of the next moment of each effective delay path of each antenna pair; after summarizing the information of the next moment of each effective delay path of each antenna pair obtained through prediction, the Fourier transform is utilized to convert the information into predicted frequency domain channel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yigang He, Yongbo Sui, Liulu He, Chaolong Zhang, Hui Shao
  • Patent number: 11115250
    Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for calculating coefficients for inputs and corresponding output sequences for a pulse-position modulation encoder using a stored structure; wherein the structure is a subset of the values of Pascal's Triangle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Acacia Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Timo Pfau
  • Patent number: 11115085
    Abstract: A MIMO-OFDM system for increasing reliability includes a transmission terminal that includes Nt transmission antennas and transmits a MIMO signal through relay terminals, and a reception terminal that receives the MIMO signal from the relay terminal through Nr reception antennas, and the transmission terminal extracts a composite channel coefficient from a composite channel generated by matching a channel between the transmission terminal and the reception terminal with a channel between each of a plurality of the relay terminals and the reception terminal, selects the relay terminal corresponding to the composite channel coefficient having a maximized channel capacity from among the plurality of relay terminals by using the extracted composite channel coefficient, and transmits a MIMO signal to the reception terminal through the selected relay terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA COOPERATION GROUP OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hyoung-Kyu Song, Yu-Jin Na, Min-Jae Paek
  • Patent number: 11095427
    Abstract: A transceiver, including a modulation circuit configured to modulate a first digital word into a first modulated time signal; and a demodulation circuit configured to demodulate a second modulated time signal into a second digital word, wherein the modulation and demodulation circuits are operable without an external clock source, and inseparably share one or more same circuit elements. Also, a tunable delay line may be configured to set a time rate of the modulation, wherein the modulation circuit and the demodulation circuit inseparably share the tunable delay line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rotem Banin, Elan Banin, Ofir Degani, Ronen Gernizky, Ashoke Ravi