Patents Examined by Marcus Smith
  • Patent number: 12641602
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may receive, from a network node, one or more semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configurations that configure multiple SPS occasions. The mobile station may receive, from the network node, a retransmission of a data packet in an unused SPS occasion, of the multiple SPS occasions. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Diana Maamari, Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Huilin Xu
  • Patent number: 12641455
    Abstract: An operating method of a first terminal in a wireless communication system may include: receiving at least one configuration information about at least one reference signal transmitted by a second terminal; selecting at least one piece of the at least one configuration information when an uplink bandwidth part of the second terminal and a downlink bandwidth part of the first terminal are different from each other; measuring cross-link interference (CLI) through the reference signal based on the selected configuration information; and reporting a result of the measuring, to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jinhyun Park, Hoondong Noh, Youngrok Jang, Hyoungju Ji, Seungri Jin
  • Patent number: 12641493
    Abstract: A handover method and a communication apparatus are provided. The method includes: A target access network device obtains a first message and information used for transmitting multicast data, where the first message is used for requesting to establish a resource for handing over a terminal device to the target access network device. The target access network device sends a second message, where the second message indicates the established resource on the target access network device; receives a first packet from a user plane network element, where the first packet corresponds to the information used for transmitting the multicast data; and sends the first packet to the terminal device. In this way, the terminal device is handed over from a source access network device to the target access network device when the terminal device receives the multicast data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengyu Zhao, Meng Li, Cuili Ge
  • Patent number: 12634922
    Abstract: A wireless device may receive message(s) comprising configuration parameters of multiple cells. The wireless device may receive a first DCI indicating scheduling information. The wireless device may determine, based at least on one of the first DCI and a second downlink control parameter, whether the first DCI is for scheduling TB(s) via a single cell, in the multiple cells, or for scheduling TBs via the multiple cells. The wireless device may transmit or may receive the TBs via the multiple cells based on the scheduling information and in response to the determining indicating that the first DCI is for scheduling the TBs via the multiple cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: PanPsy Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 12634930
    Abstract: An uplink data transmission method, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method is applied to a user equipment and includes: when grant information from a central office device is received, determining a timeout period of a first timer based on a start time point of a granted time period indicated in the grant information, where the grant information is used to indicate the user equipment to transmit uplink data within the granted time period; and entering a hardware interrupt after the first timer runs for the timeout period, and entering the granted time period after the hardware interrupt ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: RUIJIE NETWORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaibin Mao, Longshun Wang
  • Patent number: 12634093
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a network node, signaling that indicates locations of a bandwidth having capacities that satisfy a threshold. The UE may receive, from the network node and based at least in part on the signaling, an indication of tone reservation signals for application of dynamic location tone reservation for one or more uplink communications. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Idan Michael Horn, Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Shay Landis
  • Patent number: 12628050
    Abstract: A technique for performing a context transfer from a first session management entity to a second session management entity in a mobile communication system is provided, wherein the context transfer concerns a data session associated with a User Equipment, UE, wherein the data session is handled by the first session management entity via a first gateway entity and wherein, after the context transfer, the data session is to be handled by the second session management entity via a second gateway entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Attila Mihály, Maria Cruz Bartolomé Rodrigo
  • Patent number: 12621882
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for enabling effective reuse of a multicast or shared tunnel for a multicast and broadcast service are described. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes receiving, by a network node in a core network, information from a first access node requesting a multicast tunnel associated with a multicast and broadcast service, and transmitting, by the network node to the first access node, information about a shared tunnel associated with the multicast and broadcast service that has been established for a second access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Zijiang Ma
  • Patent number: 12621678
    Abstract: An apparatus, comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions, the at least one memory and the instructions configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to: determine a power angular spectrum characterizing a power distribution associated with an antenna array in a two-dimensional angular range, determine a beam aiming direction estimation and an associated confidence, determine estimates for an azimuthal angular spread, ASD, and an elevation angular spread, ZSD, determine a best beam shape and best beam aiming direction according to a predetermined criterion based on at least one of a) the power angular spectrum, b) the beam aiming direction estimation and the associated confidence, c) the estimate for the azimuthal angular spread, d) the estimate for the elevation angular spread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Jinfeng Du, Silvio Mandelli
  • Patent number: 12615663
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for channel detection, a terminal device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method includes the following. Monitor a channel before a time-unit boundary and/or after the time-unit boundary, and determine, according to a channel monitoring result, whether to perform blind detection in a time unit next to the time-unit boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Ding, Zhenshan Zhao, Shichang Zhang, Huei-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 12615118
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a node for wireless communications. A first node receives a first information block; and monitors a first-type signaling in a first resource pool. The first information block is used for determining the first resource pool, the first resource pool comprises K resource sets, any resource set comprises a positive integer number of resource group(s); a first resource set is one of the K resource sets, a first index is an index of the first resource set in a first resource sub-pool, a number of resource groups comprised in the first resource set is equal to L0, and a number of resource groups comprised in any resource set in the first resource sub-pool is equal to L0. The above method improves reliability of physical layer control channel transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Apogee 5G Global, LLC
    Inventors: Keying Wu, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 12614059
    Abstract: A system and a computer-implemented method using physics-informed neural network (PINN) are provided for data communications. At a transmitter, the method is configured to acquire source data to be transmitted, encode the source data to codewords based on forward error correction (FEC) codes, map the codewords to amplitude symbols, modify the mapped amplitude symbols to pre-equalized symbols including pre-distort channel impairments symbols based on a predetermined physical model, and transmit digital data of the pre-equalized symbols over a channel as channel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Koike Akino, Hubert Dzieciol, Kieran Parsons, Ye Wang
  • Patent number: 12609846
    Abstract: A USB-to-coaxial network bridging system and method includes receiving data frames from a USB or FireWire device via a corresponding USB or FireWire communication interface, wherein the received data frames are intended for transmittal to a predetermined remote device on a coaxial network; combining the received data frames into an aggregated frame and addressing the aggregated frame to allow the aggregated frame to be routed to the predetermined remote device on the coaxial network; and sending the aggregated frame to the remote device over the coaxial network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Inventors: Inderjit Singh, Branislav Petrovic
  • Patent number: 12603926
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method, system and storage medium for a communication session, involving blockchain technology. The present application sends a session request message based on a first terminal blockchain address session state, where the session request message includes a session request message identifier, a first terminal session account, and the first terminal session account includes: the first terminal blockchain address or an address mapped one-in-one to the first terminal blockchain address, and a first terminal home server connection address, the first terminal blockchain address session state is determined based on a transaction record between a visiting server blockchain address and the first terminal blockchain address; receives a session response message corresponding to the session request message identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Inventor: Jun Chen
  • Patent number: 12604238
    Abstract: An operation for supporting a service in a wireless communication system. The operation may include receiving a request for a second service by a terminal/UE performing a first service in a first radio access technology (RAT), identifying at least one RAT capable of supporting the second service from a database including service support information in case that the first RAT is unable to perform the second service, performing handover to a second RAT included in the at least one RAT, and performing the second service in the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hau Truong Van, Nam Ta Phuong, Thinh Nguyen Van, Duc Hoang Minh, Thoi Nguyen The
  • Patent number: 12604355
    Abstract: A link error recovery method applied to a transmitter MLD is provided. Links between the transmitter MLD and a receiver MLD include a first link and a second link, and one of the transmitter MLD and the receiver MLD has an STR capability while the other does not have the STR capability. The method includes: determining that transmission of a first PPDU on the first link fails; and transmitting a second PPDU to the receiver MLD at a first moment by using the first link, the second PPDU being used to retransmit an error part in the first PPDU. The first moment is a moment at which the transmitter MLD obtains transmission status information of the second link. Alternatively, the first moment is a moment for transmitting a next PPDU on the first link if the first PPDU is normally transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Yiqing Li, Yunbo Li, Yuchen Guo, Ming Gan
  • Patent number: 12604165
    Abstract: By a communication control method or a communication device for controlling a vehicle exterior communication performed between an in-vehicle electronic control unit and an outside of a vehicle, connection information necessary for the vehicle exterior communication between the in-vehicle electronic control unit and a specific connection destination is prepared, and the in-vehicle electronic control unit is permitted to perform the vehicle exterior communication limited to the specific connection destination using the connection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke Ikushima
  • Patent number: 12597966
    Abstract: The present invention improves the efficiency of transmissions in a multilink. A communication device according to the present invention comprises: a control circuit that controls multilink transmissions on the basis of control information related to the multilink transmissions; and a transmission circuit that performs the multilink transmissions in accordance with the control of the multilink transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Jun Minotani, Yoshio Urabe, Takashi Iwai, Tomofumi Takata, Hiroyuki Kanaya
  • Patent number: 12593199
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) comprises: identifying a first resource pool for a sidelink (SL) relay discovery operation and a second resource pool for other SL transmission and reception operations; determining whether a signal transmission or reception is for the SL relay discovery operation or for the other SL transmission and reception operations; selecting the first resource pool for the signal transmission or reception based on a determination that the signal transmission or reception is for the SL relay discovery operation; and selecting the second resource pool for the signal transmission or reception based on a determination that the signal transmission or reception is for the other SL transmission and reception operations; and performing the signal transmission or reception using the selected one of the first and second resource pools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyeongin Jeong
  • Patent number: 12592751
    Abstract: Proposed are a method and device for receiving a feedback frame in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a beamformer receives a feedback frame for MIMO beamforming from a beamformee and decodes the feedback frame. The feedback frame includes a first feedback tone for a preset frequency band. When the preset frequency band is the 20 MHz band, the tone index of the first feedback tone is set to [?122, ?116:8:?4, ?2, 2, 4:8:116, 122] when Ng is 8, and [?122, ?116, ?108:32:?12, ?4, ?2, 2, 4, 12:32:108, 116, 122] when Ng is 32. When the preset frequency band is the 40 MHz band, the tone index of the first feedback tone is set to [?244:8:?4, 4:8:244] when Ng is 8, and [?244, ?236:32:?12, ?4, 4, 12:32:236, 244] when Ng is 32.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunsung Park, Jinyoung Chun, Jinsoo Choi, Dongguk Lim