Patents Examined by Khanh C. Tran
  • Patent number: 11696264
    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: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zheng Liu, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11677441
    Abstract: A power line communication system (200) comprising a first node (202) and a second node (204). The first node (202) comprises a second-node-connection-terminal (206); a first-node-transmission-module (208) that provides a first-node-output-signal (210) to the second-node-connection-terminal (206); and modulates the voltage level of the first-node-output-signal based on first-node-transmission-data. The second node (204) comprises a second-node-input-voltage-terminal (214) that is connected to the second-node-connection-terminal (206) of the first node (202) in order to receive the first-node-output-voltage-signal (210). The second node (204) is configured to use the first-node-output-voltage-signal (218) as a supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Jens Fleischhacker
  • Patent number: 11677594
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a receiver and an automatic offset cancellation (AOC) method thereof. The receiver includes a receiving channel circuit and an AOC circuit. The receiving channel circuit generates an equalized differential signal including an equalized first-end signal and an equalized second-end signal according to an input differential signal. The AOC circuit detects a peak of the equalized first-end signal to generate a first peak detection result. The AOC circuit detects a peak of the equalized second-end signal to generate a second peak detection result. The AOC circuit compares the first peak detection result with the second peak detection result to generate a comparison result. The AOC circuit compensates a mismatch of an input differential pair in the receiving channel circuit according to the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Tien-Chien Lee, Chao-Kai Tu, Sheng Hao Tseng
  • Patent number: 11671152
    Abstract: An electronic device at a base station end includes a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured to: configure, in response to request signalling from a user equipment, an aperiodic beam-forming reference signal relevant to a first beam group for the user equipment, wherein the first beam group is determined by a base station according to channel state information periodically fed back by the user equipment; generate downlink control information, so as to indicate that the user equipment feeds back beam selection information according to the aperiodic beam-forming reference signal; determine, according to the beam selection information, one or a plurality of candidate beams and one or a plurality of corresponding second pre-coding codebooks; and determine an effective pre-coding codebook based on the one or multiple second pre-coding codebooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Xu, Cheng Gao, Siqi Liu, Chaonan He, Jianfei Cao
  • Patent number: 11662393
    Abstract: It is possible to determine, with a simple configuration, that the connection direction of a cable is the reverse direction. A cable is connected for use between a transmission device and a reception device, and transmits data in one direction. A connection direction determination unit determines whether the connection direction is the reverse direction, on the basis of a result of voltage monitoring at a predetermined position on a power-supply line. When the connection direction is determined to be the reverse direction, the information transmission unit transmits information indicating that the connection direction is the reverse direction, to the transmission device or the reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanari Yamamoto, Kazuaki Toba, Kazuo Yamamoto, Hiroshi Morita
  • Patent number: 11664909
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for measuring residual phase noise of a measurement signal using a phase detector including a mixer. The method includes injecting a phase noise spur in a stimulus signal having a known magnitude at a known offset frequency from the stimulus signal carrier frequency; inputting the stimulus signal to a DUT to output a measurement signal; inputting the measurement signal to RF input of the mixer via RF path; inputting the stimulus signal to LO input of the mixer via LO path; mixing the measurement and stimulus signals to provide a residual phase noise signal; measuring actual rejection of stimulus phase noise at the know offset frequency; determining a relative delay between the measurement and stimulus signals in the RF and LO paths based on the actual rejection; and minimizing relative delay between the measurement and stimulus signals to reduce residual phase noise measurement floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Rishi Mohindra
  • Patent number: 11665042
    Abstract: Included are a demodulation unit 20 that demodulates a received OFDM modulation signal to acquire a demodulated constellation signal, an ideal constellation signal generation unit 312 that generates an ideal constellation signal from the demodulated constellation signal, a data extraction unit 313 that extracts signal data included in some symbol sections including a known reference symbol, among all symbol sections, from the demodulated constellation signal and the ideal constellation signal, a phase error calculation unit 314 that calculates the phase error of the demodulated constellation signal for the ideal constellation signal, with respect to the extracted signal data, a phase error characteristics estimation unit 315 that estimates the frequency characteristics of the phase error, and a phase error correction unit 316 that corrects the phase error of the demodulated constellation signal, based on the frequency characteristics of the phase error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ANRITSU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuki Morita, Mark Joseph Aquino Isip
  • Patent number: 11664847
    Abstract: An electric filtering device (200) for filtering Repetitive Electrical Impulse Noise (REIN) in a fixed-access telecommunications network (100), the electric filtering device comprising: a REIN filter (210), said REIN filter comprising a first electrical contact (220-1) and a second electrical contact (220-2) for connecting to a telecommunications cable (140) of the fixed-access telecommunications network; an enclosure (230) for enclosing the REIN filter; an input (250-1) and an output (250-2), formed as part of the enclosure, each for receiving a telecommunications cable (140) so as to be connected to the first and the second electrical contacts, thereby to connect the REIN filter to the fixed-access telecommunications network; a coupling formation (260) for coupling the electric filtering device to an external distribution point (130) for a telecommunications cable of the fixed-access telecommunications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
    Inventor: James Vince
  • Patent number: 11658702
    Abstract: Example electric appliance identification methods and apparatuses are provided. One example method includes obtaining, by a power line communication (PLC) device, a first noise signal in a circuit. The PLC device can then obtain first data based on the first noise signal, where the first data is used to describe a time-frequency feature of the first noise signal. The PLC device can then obtain, based on an electric appliance identification model and the first data, an electric appliance identification result corresponding to the first noise signal, where the electric appliance identification model is obtained based on a signal including a second noise signal of at least one known electric appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Biwei Song, Hao Zhang, Yuming Xie
  • Patent number: 11658699
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for generating a frequency hopping arrangement are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes calculating a number of useable frequency channels between a starting frequency channel and a stopping frequency channel for a frequency hopping arrangement for a communication session; calculating a frequency channel step value based at least in part on a predetermined required minimum number of frequency channels for the frequency hopping arrangement; selecting frequency channel values to be used in the communication session by iterating through frequency channel values for the useable frequency channels between the starting frequency channel and the stopping frequency channel at intervals of a random frequency channel selection offset value; and establishing the frequency hopping arrangement based at least in part on the selected frequency channel values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Lynq Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Vishwakarma, Justin Lange, John M. De Cristofaro, Thomas Mwakibinga, Shane Wicks
  • Patent number: 11652675
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to reducing or substantially eliminating an insertion loss caused by isolating a transmit circuit from a receive circuit of an electronic device. To do so, an isolation circuit may be disposed between the transmit circuit and the receive circuit. The isolation circuit may have a first signal path and a second signal path. A first portion of the signal may propagate along the first signal path and a second portion of the signal may propagate along the second signal path. A phase shifter may be disposed on the first signal path to shift a phase of the first portion to match a phase of the second portion. The phase-shifted first portion may be combined with the second portion to reduce or substantially eliminate an insertion loss caused by the isolation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oliver Georg Dorn, Björn Lenhart, Joonhoi Hur, Rastislav Vazny
  • Patent number: 11652507
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for dynamically updating a duration of link training time for a first stage of link training implemented to set up a first characteristic of a link connection between a physical layer transceiver (PHY) and a link partner. A first stage of link training preconfigured to last for a first duration of time is initiated and a metric of link quality that measures a link connection quality is initiated. Based on the determined metric of link quality, updating the first duration of time for the first stage of link training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Seid Alireza Razavi Majomard, Ehab Tahir
  • Patent number: 11641298
    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: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Zuo, Ming Gan, Dandan Liang
  • Patent number: 11641224
    Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving information about a downlink (DL) transmission transmitted from NRRH>1 RRHs, wherein: NRRH=number of remote radio heads (RRHs), RRH r comprises a group of antenna ports, and r=1, . . . , NRRH; receiving the DL transmission; and decoding the information about the DL transmission; wherein the DL transmission is based on a scheme that is a combination of a precoding scheme and a diversity scheme, wherein the precoding scheme corresponds to applying an intra-RRH precoder component to antenna ports within an RRH, and wherein the diversity scheme corresponds to applying an inter-RRH diversity component to antenna ports across RRHs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Md. Saifur Rahman, Eko Onggosanusi, Dalin Zhu
  • Patent number: 11637587
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a transmitter that transmits data over a channel to a receiver. The transmitter operates to transmit a test sequence including a repeating sequence of a number of logic 1's and the number of logic 0's. The receiver operates to detect noise injected onto the channel based upon an output from a data eye sampler in response to the test sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Arun Chada, ChunLin Liao, Bhyrav Mutnury
  • Patent number: 11637729
    Abstract: This application provides a reference signal generation method in which a terminal device or a network device generates a reference signal by using a pseudo-random sequence initial factor cinit provided in the embodiments of this application. Compared with a solution in the current technology, the reference signal generation method can support a relatively large quantity of reference signal sequences, to better meet the requirements of different 5G scenarios. The reference signal generation method may include obtaining a reference signal sequence based on a pseudo-random sequence initial factor cinit, and mapping the sequence to one or more OFDM symbols. The pseudo-random sequence initial factor cinit is related to a parameter d, d=max(log2(nID,max+1)?10,0) or d=max(log2)(nID,max+1)?12,0), max represents that a larger value is selected from two values, and nID,max represents a maximum value of a reference signal sequence ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Shi, Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 11632276
    Abstract: A method for adaptive transmitter symbol arrangement in delay-Doppler domain grids including retrieving one or more current communication relevant parameters; deriving from the one or more current communication relevant parameters at least a maximum expected Doppler frequency shift for a transmitted signal; placing at least one pilot symbol in a delay-Doppler domain grid; placing a minimum number of guard symbols around the at least one pilot symbol in the delay-Doppler domain grid so the guard symbols occupy a guard space around the at least one pilot so any grid position outside the guard space around the at least one pilot has a distance along the first grid direction exceeding the derived first guard space parameter and also has a distance along the second grid direction that exceeds the second guard space parameter; and placing data symbols in the delay-Doppler domain grid outside the guard space for data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventor: Andreas Pfadler
  • Patent number: 11632759
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for uplink multi-beam operation. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, an aperiodic reference signal (RS) trigger and, at a later time instant, an uplink (UL) beam indication. The method further includes decoding the aperiodic RS trigger and decoding the UL beam indication. The method includes determining, from the UL beam indication, a transmit spatial filter applied to a signal to be transmitted on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and transmitting, to the base station, the signal on the PUSCH or the PUCCH. The transmit spatial filter corresponds to a reference RS. The UL beam indication includes a state of a transmit configuration associated with the reference RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eko Onggosanusi, Md. Saifur Rahman
  • Patent number: 11632147
    Abstract: A physical layer transceiver for a data channel includes receiver circuitry configured to receive signals on the data channel, transmit circuitry configured to transmit signals onto the data channel, and adaptive filter circuitry coupled to the receiver circuitry and the transmit circuitry and configured to filter the data channel by operating on input frequency-domain data samples to output filtered data samples. The adaptive filter circuitry includes error sample generation circuitry configured to generate error samples representing a difference between a target response and the filtered data samples, arithmetic-only circuitry configured to approximate a windowing function to operate on the error samples, and output sample generation circuitry configured to operate on windowed error samples to provide the output filtered data samples. The comparison circuitry may be configured for time-domain operation and may further be configured to transform the error signals into frequency-domain error signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventors: KuoRuey Han, Brett McClellan, Leon Yang
  • Patent number: 11626933
    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 that is substantially triangular along an envelope path, and by providing an RF signal 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, 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: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Florinel G. Balteanu, Yu Zhu, Paul T. DiCarlo