Patents Examined by Melvin C. Marcelo
  • Patent number: 11963264
    Abstract: A BSS to which a destination wireless communication apparatus of a physical layer frame belongs is identified, and accuracy of preamble detection is improved by changing a reception operation. A wireless communication apparatus includes a reception unit that detects a frame including information for identifying a BSS, and a control unit that switches between a first operation in a case where the frame is a frame which is associated with a BSS to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs and a second operation in a case where the frame is a frame which is not associated with the BSS to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs. Carrier sensing is not performed in the first operation, and the carrier sensing is performed in the second operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Hiromichi Tomeba, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11963239
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for signaling a new data indicator (NDI) and/or redundancy version (RV) for physical uplink/downlink shared channel (PxSCH) transmissions scheduled by a multi-PxSCH downlink control information (DCI) grant. In some cases, these techniques may be used even when a scheduled PxSCH transmission is invalid. In some cases, a number of bits in an NDI field of the DCI corresponds to a number of PxSCHs scheduled by the multi-PxSCH DCI grant. In some cases, a number of bits in an RV field of the DCI corresponds the number of PxSCHs scheduled by the multi-PxSCH DCI grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail, Jing Sun, Jae Ho Ryu, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Qingjiang Tian, Mostafa Khoshnevisan
  • Patent number: 11963138
    Abstract: Provided is an operation method of a first device (100) in a wireless communication system. The method may comprise the steps of: triggering resource selection for sidelink (SL) transmission; determining a selection window for the resource selection; and selecting, as at least one first candidate slot, at least one slot related to at least one first sensing slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woosuk Ko, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 11962453
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a communication node used for wireless communications. A communication node receives first information and second information; and transmits a first radio signal, an SCS of a subcarrier occupied by the first radio signal is equal to a first SCS; a sum of a first timing adjustment and a second timing adjustment is used to determine a transmission timing for the first radio signal, and the first timing adjustment is used to determine a transmission timing for a radio signal transmitted earlier than the first radio signal; the second timing adjustment is equal to a sum of a first sub-adjustment and a second sub-adjustment, the first information is used to determine the first sub-adjustment, and the second information is used to determine the second sub-adjustment. The present disclosure improves scheduling flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zheng Liu, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11956814
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may generate a multiplexed message including first information with a first priority and second information with a second priority, wherein the first priority is higher than the second priority. The UE may transmit the multiplexed message using a particular cyclic shift of a particular cyclic shift set of a plurality of cyclic shift sets, wherein the particular cyclic shift set is based at least in part on the first information and the particular cyclic shift is based at least in part on the second information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 11956176
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5th Generation (5G) or 6th Generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method of operating an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) donor node in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM)-related information or Spatial Division Multiplexing (SDM)-related information to an IAB node, receiving necessary information from the IAB node, and transmitting or receiving backhaul data with respect to the IAB node by applying the FDM or the SMD, based on the FDM-related information or the SMD-related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seunghoon Choi, Youngbum Kim, Hyunseok Ryu, Sungjin Park
  • Patent number: 11956657
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and specifically, to: a method comprising a step in which first PDCCH monitoring is performed in a first SS set group within a cell group configured for an SS set group switching operation, and a step in which, from a 1st slot coming at least P symbols after a reference time, the first PDCCH monitoring is stopped in the first SS set group and second PDCCH monitoring is started in a second SS set group for cells in the cell group, wherein the numerology of the P symbols is determined as a cell group-common value on the basis of the smallest SCS among a plurality of SCSs on the basis of the plurality of SCSs being configured for the cell group; and an apparatus for same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seonwook Kim, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 11949610
    Abstract: One example according to the present specification relates to a technique for forming a midamble in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system. A reception STA may receive an NGV PPDU. The NGV PPDU may include a preamble, a data field, and a midamble. The midamble format may be determined as either a first format or a second format. A midamble symbol of the first format may include an LTF signal and a GI pertaining to the LTF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongguk Lim, Jinsoo Choi, Eunsung Park, Insun Jang
  • Patent number: 11949762
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for tapping serial communications and transforming the serial data into a format appropriate for routable networks are significant for purposes of security and troubleshooting, especially in critical infrastructure networks. Communication taps should be completely passive such that any failure would not interrupt the serial communications. Furthermore, automatic determination of unspecified serial protocol frames allow general implementation across various networks, or across devices within a single network, without the need to customize for each implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Thomas W. Edgar, Sean J. Zabriskie, Eric Y. Choi
  • Patent number: 11950213
    Abstract: Systems, machine-readable media, and methods to control deployment of IoT devices over wireless networks with an adaptive gateway are provided. A gateway device may broadcast on different channels in a first time slot of a time interval. The gateway device may receive a response from a sensor device in a second time slot of the time interval. The gateway device may further communicate to the sensor device in a third time slot of the time interval. The gateway device may receive transmissions from the sensor device in one or more subsequent instances of the fourth time slot of the time interval. Based at least in part on the one or more transmissions from the sensor device, the gateway device may transmit data to one or more computer systems via one or more networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.
    Inventors: David Andresky, Richard Reisbick
  • Patent number: 11943759
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to dynamically adapt its bandwidth use using network scheduling information in a cellular communication system. A radio resource control connection between a cellular base station and a wireless device may be established. The wireless device may receive network scheduling information from the cellular base station. The wireless device may dynamically select a receive bandwidth for receiving transmissions from the cellular base station based at least in part on the network scheduling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuchul Kim, Jia Tang, Yang Li, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Yu Zhang, Zhu Ji, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11943748
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, configuration information regarding one or more available slots associated with transmitting sounding reference signal (SRS) information. The UE may receive, from the base station, dynamic downlink communication including slot information for determining a select available slot from among the one or more available slots. The UE may transmit, to the base station, the SRS information during the select available slot, determined based at least in part on the slot information and the configuration information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Runxin Wang, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11943798
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for a first device carrying out Long-Term Evolution (LTE) sidelink (SL) communication via downlink control information (DCI). The method comprises the steps of: receiving DCI from a NR base station via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); on the basis of the DCI, acquiring a first timing offset, and a second timing offset which is associated with LTE SL communication; and carrying out LTE SL communication from the time point of the very first LTE SL communication determined on the basis of the first timing offset and the second timing offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 11936570
    Abstract: A modular switch and a method that includes (a) first tier switching elements that comprise input output (IO) ports; and (b) second tier switching elements that are coupled to the first tier switching elements in a non-blocking manner. The first tier switching elements are configured to perform traffic management of traffic, and perform substantially all egress processing and ingress processing of the traffic; wherein the traffic management comprises load balancing, traffic shaping and flow-based reordering. The second tier switching elements are configured to (a) provide a shared memory space to the first tier switching elements, (b) perform substantially all of the queuing of traffic and (c) send, to the first tier switching elements, status information related to the status of shared memory resources. The first tier switching elements are configured to perform the traffic management based, at least in part, on the status information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: XSIGHT LABS LTD.
    Inventors: Guy Koren, Gal Malach, Erez Shaizaf
  • Patent number: 11937285
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for interference discovery for simultaneous transmission and reception are provided. In an embodiment, a station (STA) receives a STR request message from an access point (AP). The STA transmits a first STR response message to the AP based on the received STR request message. The STA receives a second STR response message transmitted from a second STA to the AP. The STA determines a received power of the received second STR response message. The STA receives a first trigger message from the AP. The first trigger message indicates a STA role field. The STA transmits interference information to the AP. The interference information is based on the determined received power. The STA role field comprises an indication of at least one or more of a primary STA and a secondary STA. The STA aggregates the interference report with a data transmission to the AP in response to the first trigger message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Hanqing Lou, Alphan Sahin, Oghenekome Oteri, Li-Hsiang Sun, Xiaofei Wang, Rui Yang
  • Patent number: 11937207
    Abstract: 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) are provided. The t 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. The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for determining paging occasions (PO).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Anil Agiwal
  • Patent number: 11930528
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to uplink (UL) null data packet (NDP) format for passive location. A device may cause to send a trigger frame that solicits poll response to one or more anchor stations involved in a passive ranging measurement. The device may identify one or more polling response frames received from the one or more anchor stations. The device may cause to send a trigger frame that solicits uplink null data packet (NDP) to the one or more anchor stations, wherein the uplink NDP comprises an indication of a high efficiency (HE) single user (SU) frame type. The device may identify one or more uplink NDPs received from the one or more anchor stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Jiang, Dibakar Das, Xiaogang Chen, Chittabrata Ghosh, Qinghua Li, Jonathan Segev, Robert Stacey, Ganesh Venkatesan
  • Patent number: 11924760
    Abstract: A method and a device for monitoring a downlink control channel of a terminal are provided. The method comprises: receiving a first setting message that indicates the direction of resources of a slot and a second setting message that indicates a monitoring occasion for detecting a wake up signal (WUS); and monitoring a second downlink control channel in the next DRX-on section, if a resource constituting the monitoring occasion overlaps a resource designated as an uplink by the first setting message so that first downlink control channel monitoring for detecting the wake up signal is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Joonkui Ahn, Changhwan Park
  • Patent number: 11917637
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine a downlink configuration including a set of resources for receiving downlink transmissions. The UE may determine a grant for performing uplink transmissions based on a radio resource control (RRC) message. The UE may determine, based on the downlink configuration, the grant, or both, an uplink configuration including a set of resources for transmitting the uplink transmissions at a set of uplink transmission occasions. In some aspects, the set of uplink transmission occasions may be arranged according to a non-uniform spacing pattern in a time domain. The UE may transmit, to a base station, one or more uplink transmissions based on the uplink configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yuchul Kim, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Linhai He, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Yeliz Tokgoz, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Huilin Xu, Jing Lei
  • Patent number: 11917444
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to wireless communication using channel state information (CSI) correlation information for determining the validity of a CSI report. A user equipment (UE) can determine the CSI correlation information based on reference signal resources scheduled for measuring CSI and interference on a channel between the UE and a network entity. In some aspects, the CSI correlation information can be determined based on channel correlation information and/or interference correlation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Hwan Joon Kwon