Patents Examined by Mewale A Ambaye
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Patent number: 11581938Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a narrowband device may communicate in a wireless communications network according to frequency hopping techniques. Devices using narrowband communications and frequency hopping techniques may maintain separate radio link monitoring (RLM) processes, beam failure detection (BFD) processes, beam failure recovery (BFR) processes, or combinations thereof, for multiple bandwidth parts (BWPs) or hop regions of a full channel bandwidth. Such separate processes may provide for enhanced estimates of beam failures per BWP or hop region, which may be used to enhance communications reliability.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Jelena Damnjanovic, Linhai He, Wooseok Nam, Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal, Peter Pui Lok Ang
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Patent number: 11576069Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that enable a user equipment (UE) in a distributed system to transmit measurement reports for layer 1 (L1) or layer 2 (L2) mobility on a per distributed unit (DU) basis such that each measurement report for L1/L2 mobility contains only measurements of cells that are supported by the same DU. The UE may generate and transmit a DU-specific measurement report to the DU (e.g., via L1/L2 signaling) that includes measurements of cells controlled by the DU. The UE may support various reporting configurations for measurement reporting including per cell, per group of activated cells, or per group of deactivated cells, in each case reporting to the corresponding DU. The UE may also perform joint reporting that includes the measurements of both activated and deactivated cell sets transmitted to the corresponding DU.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Ozcan Ozturk
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Patent number: 11570585Abstract: A method and a user equipment as well as a method and a radio network node for multimedia broadcast service are disclosed. The radio network node sends, on a physical downlink control channel of the carrier, downlink control information using a multicast network identifier. The downlink control information includes a bit indicating whether or not at least two emergency notifications are broadcast on the carrier, and a notification relating to a change of a multicast channel of the carrier. The user equipment receives, on a physical downlink control channel of the carrier, downlink control information using a multicast network identifier. The user equipment behaves as if at least two fields relating to indication of said at least two emergency notifications are set to one in a paging message for the user equipment, when the information satisfies a condition.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventor: Helka-Liina Määttanen
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Patent number: 11570637Abstract: Embodiment methods for managing communication with a base station may include a wireless device determining whether a beam received from the base station can be successfully received using analog beamforming, determining whether the beam from the base station can be received using digital beamforming in response to determining that the beam received from the base station cannot be successfully received using analog beamforming, and receiving the beam using the digital beamforming in response to determining that the beam can be received using digital beamforming.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan
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Patent number: 11564104Abstract: Apparatus and methods for coordinating operation of two or more wireless networks operating within a common area or venue. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods provide mechanisms for scheduling access node(s) of one or more of the wireless networks relative to others of the networks so as to minimize interference or contention for common frequency resources (e.g., unlicensed spectrum such as that used by WLAN, NR-U or LTE-U technologies). In one variant, a network coordinator process generates schedule data that is pushed to one or more of the wireless networks that specifies temporal and spatial aspects wherein access nodes of the recipient one or more networks can operate (e.g., transmit) with suitable levels of interference from other wireless network(s) operating within the area or venue. The schedule data is separate from underlying protocol scheduling by the access nodes, thereby preserving all operational aspects of the underlying wireless protocols.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLCInventor: Saran Khalid
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Patent number: 11564232Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for autonomous beamforming configuration change. A method that may be performed by a wireless node includes determining a communication mode to be used for communication by the wireless node, wherein the determining of the communication mode includes determining whether the communication is associated with multiple simultaneous communications with one or multiple other wireless nodes. The method may also include determining a beamforming configuration to be used for the communication based on the communication mode, and communicating in accordance with the communication mode using the beamforming configuration.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Navid Abedini, Kapil Gulati, Andrzej Partyka, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11564245Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an uplink grant via downlink control signaling for a cell group. The UE may determine an uplink error rate for the cell group based on the downlink control signaling. The UE may identify a radio link failure condition for uplink based on the uplink error rate exceeding an uplink error rate threshold. The UE may transmit a radio link failure indication indicating that the radio link failure condition is based on the uplink error rate. The network may send a cell group reconfiguration message to the UE to release the cell group.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ming Yang, Kausik Ray Chaudhuri, Mukesh Kumar Mittal, Long Duan
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Patent number: 11558807Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication method and a 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). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, healthcare, digital education, a smart retail, security and safety services. A method for a user equipment (UE) in a network is provided. The method includes determining one or more of a mode of the UE, a type of data required, and a service requested, and setting a UE behavior for initiating a NAS procedure based on one or more of the mode of the UE, the type of data required, and the service requested.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mahmoud Watfa
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Patent number: 11558871Abstract: Provided is a transmission bandwidth configuration method. The method includes: configuring a first channel bandwidth (CB) of a carrier; and in response to determining that the first CB is greater than a first preset bandwidth, configuring subcarriers in a first TBC according to a preset percentage X of the first TBC in the first CB and the first CB, so as to complete a subcarrier configuration in a transmission bandwidth configuration. The preset percentage X is within a range of [a preset lower limit value, a preset upper limit value], the preset lower limit value is greater than 90% and the preset upper limit value is less than 100%. Also provided is a transmitting node.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Yu Xin, Wubin Zhou
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Patent number: 11558922Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, establishing a first connection with a first network via a first link, establishing a second connection with a second network via a second link subsequent to the establishing of the first connection, obtaining a first threshold value associated with a quality of the second link, measuring a value for a parameter associated with the second link, resulting in a measured value, comparing the measured value to the first threshold value, determining, based on the comparing, that the measured value is less than the first threshold value, and transmitting, based on the determining, a message that signifies that the measured value is less than the first threshold value. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, David Ross Beppler, Slawomir Mikolaj Stawiarski
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Patent number: 11553346Abstract: A first roadway system receives a communication from a second roadway system over a wireless channel, where the communication includes a description of a physical object within a driving environment. Characteristics of the physical object are determined based on sensors of the first roadway system. The communication is determined to contain an anomaly based on a comparison of the description of the physical object with the characteristics determined based on the sensors of the first roadway system. Misbehavior data is generated to describe the anomaly. A remedial action is initiated based on the anomaly.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Liuyang Lily Yang, Manoj R. Sastry, Xiruo Liu, Moreno Ambrosin
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Patent number: 11552686Abstract: An information processing method and apparatus, a terminal, and a communications device are provided. The method includes: determining, based on detection of a reporting trigger event, whether to report an event-based beam report and/or an event-based channel state information (CSI) report to a network-side device.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventor: Yu Yang
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Patent number: 11552908Abstract: The present invention relates to a data transmission system including a data exchange unit; wherein, to transmit a data frame, it passes successively at least through an interface module that is configured to receive said data frame from outside the transmission system; an analysis and filtering module responsible for processing said data frame which is received from the interface module before encapsulation; and an encapsulation module responsible for encapsulating said data frame processed by the analysis and filtering module, wherein two successive modules through which said data frame passes are connected to one another by an interconnection device each including a temporary memory for storing said frame and the read and write accesses to said memory being frequency-independent.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: CETRAC TECHNOLOGIESInventors: Serge Delwasse, Vincent Laporte
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Patent number: 11539538Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for utilizing an asynchronous report feature when a time or volume reporting trigger is unavailable. The systems and method can include receiving node level capabilities from at least one of a plurality of user plane functions, receiving an asynchronous report from the at least one of the plurality of user plane functions, determining an absence of a reporting trigger based on charging information associated with a policy control function and trigger information associated with a charging function, selecting a user plane function from the plurality of user plane functions based on the asynchronous report, and generating a usage reporting rule without the reporting trigger to be provided to the user plane function from the plurality of user plane functions.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mukesh Yadav, Ravi Shankar Mantha, Sandeep Dasgupta
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Patent number: 11533266Abstract: The disclosed techniques enable communication nodes to perform rate adjustments. As an example, a communication node may receive a control information from a network node. Based on the received control information, the control node may determine that the network node supports codec adaptation or that the communication node is allowed to enable the codec adaptation.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Qian Dai, He Huang, Fei Dong, Zijiang Ma, Jianxun Ai
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Patent number: 11528631Abstract: An interference metric at a specific time instance may differ from interference metrics at different time instances. As a result, any actions based on the interference metric may unduly be influenced by such difference. In some implementations, an apparatus or device reports an overall interference metric that accounts for temporal variations in interference metrics at different time instances. An example method includes measuring, by a user equipment, an interference metric at two or more time instances for wireless signals transmitted by a base station, generating an overall interference metric based on the interference metrics at the two or more time instances, and transmitting, by the user equipment, the overall interference metric to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 11523327Abstract: There is described a system for restricting access to a mobile communications network for mobile communication devices within a restricted area. The system includes at least one transmitter operable to transmit a beacon signal for reception by mobile communication devices within the restricted area and an access control entity, communicable with the mobile communication device via a base station. The access control entity instructs a mobile communication device to perform at least one measurement of the beacon signal from each transmitter and then to provide measurement data corresponding to the performed measurement to the access control entity. The access control entity then analyses the measurement data provided by the mobile communication device and based on that analysis decides whether or not to provide the mobile communication device with access to a service of the mobile communications network.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: CELLXION LIMITEDInventors: Anthony Timson, Michael Mcternan
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Patent number: 11515925Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method that includes receiving at a user equipment configuration for M active transmission configuration indication states; selecting, according to one or more pre-defined rules, based on the configured M active transmission configuration indication states, a subset of N of the set of M transmission configuration indication states, where N<M; and determining by the user equipment beam failure detection resources based on the selected N transmission configuration indication states.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Timo Koskela, Samuli Turtinen, Mihai Enescu, Sami-Jukka Hakola, Jorma Kaikkonen
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Patent number: 11516684Abstract: A sensing indication method, a terminal and a network device are provided. A sensing indication method is applied to a terminal and includes: acquiring a target object for channel sensing or uplink transmission; performing a channel sensing on the target object; where the target object includes at least one of: at least one candidate spatial domain transmission filter, at least one candidate uplink Bandwidth Part (BWP) and at least one candidate unlicensed component carrier.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei Jiang, Xueming Pan
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Patent number: 11510175Abstract: This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a communication method and a communication apparatus, to reduce service delay due to uplink data cannot be directly sent by a terminal when the terminal is in an inactive state. The method in this application includes: receiving a first message from a first access network device; then releasing or suspending a configured dedicated signaling radio bearer SRB and resetting protocol entities corresponding to a configured data radio bearer DRB. The first message is used to indicate to a terminal to enter a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state, and the first message carries an identifier of the terminal in the radio resource control (RRC) inactive state and radio access network notification area (RNA) information.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Qinghai Zeng, Xiaoying Xu, Tingting Geng