Patents Examined by Mewale A Ambaye
  • Patent number: 12160389
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A frame, scheduling instance, scheduling period etc. may include a set of downlink subframes and a set of uplink subframes. At least one control message transmitted in a downlink subframe may schedule a set of data messages in the downlink subframes of the frame. The downlink subframe may also include data messages scheduled by a control message of a previous frame. Further, feedback timings for data messages of the frame may be determined based on the corresponding control messages (e.g., from the current frame and the previous frame). Feedback responses corresponding to the data messages may be transmitted in a bundled manner in the set of uplink subframes. Using this cross-frame scheduling technique, the resources of a frame may be efficiently utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Zaki, Vijayvaradharaj Tirucherai Muralidharan, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Le Liu, Murali Menon, Chao Wei
  • Patent number: 12160861
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a receiving device may receive, via a multi-layer communication link, an indication of one or more parameters for grouping code blocks (CBs) of a transport block (TB) into CB groups (CBGs). The receiving device may receive the TB having multiple CBs mapped to resources of the TB in a frequency first per layer (FFPL) mapping configuration, wherein the CBGs include a CB received on a first layer and a CB received on a second layer of the multi-layer communication link. The receiving device may transmit hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgment (ACK) feedback for the CBGs based at least in part on the grouping of the CBs. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Daniel Paz, Michael Levitsky
  • Patent number: 12155696
    Abstract: A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for a terminal to perform communication related to an IMS. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, by an NAS layer of a terminal, a first request message from an IMS layer of the terminal, wherein the first request message includes information related to IMS signaling for a non-service attempt and information about a first access category among a plurality of access categories related to an IMS service, and the IMS signaling for the non-service attempt is signaling which does not request the IMS service; and transmitting, by the NAS layer of the terminal, a second request message including the information about the first access category to an RRC layer of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangmin Park, Sungduck Chun, Laeyoung Kim, Myungjune Youn
  • Patent number: 12156275
    Abstract: A wireless device receives, from a first base station, non-access stratum information indicating a second session for applying session duplication of downlink packets of a first session and not applying session duplication of uplink packets of the first session. The wireless device receives, based on the non-access stratum information and via the second session, duplication of the downlink packets of the first session, and does not apply the session duplication of the uplink packets of the first session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Weihua Qiao, Jinsook Ryu, Peyman Talebi Fard
  • Patent number: 12155595
    Abstract: Methods to enhance the coverage of NR systems for coverage-limited wireless devices are disclosed. A serving base station may configure a coverage-limited UE with parameters for the UE to operate in a coverage enhancement mode through RRC signaling, DCI, or RAR grant. The UE may use the configuration parameters to determine whether to enter into the coverage enhancement mode when connecting and communicating with the serving base station. The configuration parameters may configure the UE to exploit both time diversity and frequency diversity to extend and enhance coverage when receiving PDSCH and PDCCH channels. The UE may use the configuration parameters to receive PDSCH and PCCCH that are coverage enhanced using time repetitions and frequency hopping. Advantageously, the base station may flexibly and dynamically configure the UE with coverage enhancement parameters to extend the coverage of the UE using time diversity and frequency diversity gains as the UE moves around.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Shu Guo, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12150214
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes configuring a router to act as a BNG and establishing, by the router, a connection between CPE and the BNG. The method also includes receiving, by the router, end-user and access parameters and communicating, by the router, the end-user and access parameters to one or more 5G NFs by interacting with one or more SBIs. The method further includes allowing, by the router, the CPE access to the one or more 5G NFs in response to communicating the end-user and access parameters to the one or more 5G NFs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Raghunadha Reddy Pocha, Sateesh Reddy Mommidi
  • Patent number: 12149993
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cell handover processing method and device and an apparatus. The method includes: obtaining configuration information of a target handover cell and at least one of the following information: valid time of cell configuration information or a quantity of valid access times; performing cell handover according to the configuration information of the target handover cell within the valid time of cell configuration information and/or the quantity of valid access times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng Xu, Jing Liang, Dajun Zhang
  • Patent number: 12150202
    Abstract: In response to a vehicle being switched from an IGN OFF state (non-operating state) to an IGN ON state (operating state) in a state in which a mobile terminal has been activated, the use of wireless communication (Wi-Fi communication) by the mobile terminal via a network using an in-vehicle device as a base station can be started. In response to the vehicle being switched from the IGN ON state (operating state) to the IGN OFF state (non-operating state) in the state in which the mobile terminal has been activated, the use of wireless communication (Wi-Fi communication) by the mobile terminal via the network using the in-vehicle device as the base station is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12150003
    Abstract: A wireless terminal includes processor circuitry configured to establish, using a first master key, a first security context on a first radio connection with a master access node, and receiver circuitry configured to receive a re-configuration message including one or more conditional secondary cell configurations and at least one counter. Each conditional secondary cell configuration may include an identity of a candidate primary secondary cell and at least one triggering condition, the candidate primary secondary cell being used for Dual-Connectivity. The at least one counter and the first master key may be used for derivation of a second master key to be used for an establishment of a second security context with one of candidate primary secondary cells. The processor circuitry is further configured to invalidate the one or more conditional secondary cell configurations upon a change of the first master key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishii
  • Patent number: 12143915
    Abstract: A first wireless node transmits a control signal to be propagated to each of a plurality of wireless links linked up between a plurality of wireless nodes that forms a backhaul network. Each of second wireless nodes that is different from the first wireless node selects, for a transmission route of a data signal, a wireless link corresponding to one of different routes in an upstream direction toward the first wireless node among the linked up wireless links, based on an indicator indicative of a radio wave propagation quality of one or more wireless links through which a plurality of the control signals received from different routes are propagated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: PicoCELA Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Furukawa
  • Patent number: 12133089
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and techniques for wireless communications. In one example, an apparatus for wireless communication at a first user equipment (UE) can send a first sidelink communication to a second UE using a first beam pair of a unicast link with the second UE, wherein the first beam pair includes a first transmission beam and a first reception beam. In some aspects, the apparatus can determine a fault associated with at least one of the first transmission beam and the first reception beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Xiaoxia Zhang, Chih-Hao Liu, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 12126444
    Abstract: A data unit sending or receiving method and a related apparatus that belong to the field of communication technologies are provided. In this solution, a transmit end sends a first aggregated media access control protocol data unit (A-MPDU) and determines an MPDU that needs to be retransmitted in the first A-MPDU. The MPDU that needs to be retransmitted is included in a first A-MPDU subframe in the first A-MPDU. The first A-MPDU subframe includes a first MPDU delimiter, and the first MPDU delimiter includes a first end of frame (EOF) field and a first MPDU length field. The transmit end sends a second A-MPDU, where the second A-MPDU includes a second A-MPDU subframe, the second A-MPDU subframe includes the MPDU that needs to be retransmitted and a second MPDU delimiter, and the second MPDU delimiter includes a second EOF field and a second MPDU length field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming Gan
  • Patent number: 12126568
    Abstract: Methods of operating a network node in a communication network are provided. Operations according to such methods include receiving a transmission that is sent by a user equipment, UE, and that is received over a preconfigured uplink resource, PUR and selecting one or more transmission types for indicating feedback corresponding to the received transmission conditioned to having been successfully received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Andreas Höglund, Gerardo Agni Medina Acosta, Sandeep Narayanan Kadan Veedu, Emre Yavuz, Tuomas Tirronen
  • Patent number: 12113623
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may transmit hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback when part of a group of UEs. The UE receives a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) associated with a group of UEs that includes the UE. The UE monitors for a signal from one of a cell on which the UE is currently camped or a cell to which the UE is currently connected that is scrambled by the RNTI and includes control information. The UE transmits HARQ feedback to the one of the currently camped cell or currently connected cell, the HARQ feedback associated with the signal and, when the signal is received, performs an operation in response to the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12113737
    Abstract: Methods to enhance the coverage of NR systems for coverage-limited wireless devices are disclosed. A serving base station may configure a coverage-limited UE with parameters for the UE to operate in a coverage enhancement mode through RRC signaling, DCI, or RAR grant. The UE may use the configuration parameters to determine whether to enter into the coverage enhancement mode when connecting and communicating with the serving base station. The configuration parameters may configure the UE to exploit both time diversity and frequency diversity to extend and enhance coverage when receiving the PDSCH and PDCCH channels, when transmitting the PUSCH and PUCCH channel, and when transmitting PUSCH Msg3 during random access. Advantageously, the base station may flexibly and dynamically configure the UE with coverage enhancement parameters to extend the coverage of the UE using time diversity and frequency diversity gains as the UE moves around.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Shu Guo, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12114304
    Abstract: A method, wireless device and network node are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a network node is configured to transmit within a medium access control, MAC, control element, CE, message, an indication of a plurality KJ of Transmission Configuration Indication, TCI, states that are mapped to a single codepoint, j, in a downlink control information, DCI, Transmission Configuration Indication, TCI, field, Kj and j being integers, and transmit within the MAC CE message, the number Kj of TCI states being mapped to the codepoint j. In another embodiment, a wireless device is configured to receive within a MAC CE message from the network node, an indication of a plurality Kj of TCI states that are mapped to a single codepoint, j, in a DCI TCI field, and receive within the MAC CE message, the number Kj of TCI states mapped to the codepoint j.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Siva Muruganathan, Helka-Liina Määttanen, Mattias Frenne, Shiwei Gao
  • Patent number: 12108479
    Abstract: A method and device are disclosed from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE). In one embodiment, the UE initiates a Small Data Transmission (SDT) procedure in RRC_INACTIVE state. Furthermore, the UE transmits a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message to network in response to arrival of a first data, to be transmitted to the network, during the SDT procedure, wherein the first data is not allowed to be transmitted via the SDT procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Tun-Huai Shih, Meng-Hui Ou, Yu-Hsuan Guo
  • Patent number: 12108350
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for logical time sensitive network (TSN) bridge are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a session management node receives, from a mobility management node in a mobile network, a first request for establishing a protocol data unit (PDU) session for a terminal device which is associated with a port of a logical TSN bridge. The session management node obtains a first port number of the logical TSN bridge at the side of the terminal device. The session management node obtains configuration information of the logical TSN bridge at a side of a user plane node corresponding to the PDU session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Kefeng Zhang, Kun Wang, Marilet De Andrade Jardim
  • Patent number: 12101771
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives a plurality of pieces of first control information to indicate activation of TCI states respectively corresponding to transmission and reception points and second control information to designate a specific TCI state from activated TCI states, and a control section that determines, based on a value of a specific field included in the first control information, a transmission and reception point to which a TCI state to be activated corresponds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 12101664
    Abstract: A device for transmitting data in a wireless AV system, and a device for receiving data in a wireless AV system. The device includes: a transceiver configured to receive, from an initiator, a forward direction data frame and reverse direction grant information, instructing that reverse direction transmission be allowed, within a transmission opportunity acquired by the initiator, generate and transmit to the initiator, a block ACK frame pertaining to the forward direction data frame, and buffer a reverse direction data frame to be transmitted to the initiator; and a processor connected to the transceiver and configured to acquire AV data from the forward direction data frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seongyeon Kim, Jinmin Kim, Jaewook Song, Jinsoo Choi