Patents Examined by Michael J. Moore
  • Patent number: 11632168
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for uplink synchronization in time division multiple access (TDMA) satellite network. In one embodiment, an earth-based satellite terminal is configured to communicate with a satellite hub through a satellite using the TDMA communication protocol. The earth-based satellite terminal is configured to determine its own location, a location of the satellite, estimate a distance between the location of the terminal and the location of the satellite, determine a Coarse Timing Advance based on the distance that is estimated, and transmit data to the satellite based on the Coarse Timing Advance and the TDMA communication protocol. The Coarse Timing Advance may allow uplink TDMA communication without a preamble transmission on a random access channel, the preamble transmission being required in many conventional systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: ATC Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dunmin Zheng, Santanu Dutta, Gary Churan
  • Patent number: 11627168
    Abstract: A method, a related apparatus, and a system for recovering a called service of a terminal are provided. The method includes: when a called request of a user terminal is received, querying an initial proxy-call session control function (P-CSCF) entity with which the user terminal currently registers; if it is detected that the initial P-CSCF is faulty, selecting an available P-CSCF and sending, to the available P-CSCF, a notification message that carries a redundancy identifier, where the redundancy identifier is used to instruct the available P-CSCF to trigger the user terminal to re-register with the P-CSCF; and when a registration complete message sent by the P-CSCF with which the user terminal re-registers is received, delivering the called request to the re-registered P-CSCF to bear a called service of the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: He Li, Jinzhou Ye, Ridong Xu, Biao Zhang, Shufeng Shi, Boqiang Luo
  • Patent number: 11622373
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for confirming uplink semi-persistent scheduling deactivation and a terminal device. In example embodiments, an indication of uplink semi-persistent scheduling deactivation is received from a base station while the terminal device stores data available for uplink transmission. Then, confirmation of the deactivation is sent to the base station. Such confirmation of the deactivation may notify the base station that the terminal device has received the indication of the uplink semi-persistent scheduling deactivation and further that the uplink semi-persistent scheduling will be deactivated at the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Chunli Wu, Esa Mikael Malkamaki, Jari Petteri Lunden, Elena Virtej
  • Patent number: 11611378
    Abstract: Enhanced channel state information (CSI) feedback is disclosed for full dimensional multiple input, multiple output (FD-MIMO) operations. In one aspect, a single CSI process is defined that is configured with an azimuth and elevation CSI-reference signal (RS) ports. A user equipment (UE) will send a precoding matrix indictor (PMI) report including a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) for the azimuth ports and a PMI for the elevation ports. One of the PMIs is assigned a low rank. The base station will use the two PMIs to create a whole channel precoding matrix. In another aspect, a single CSI process is configured having a plurality of CSI-RS resources. The UE generates channel measurement information for each of the CSI-RS resources, but only sets a CSI report to the base station of a subset of the total number of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chao Wei, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11606810
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station (BS) may receive an indication of a sidelink communication queued for communication between a source user equipment (UE) and a target UE. The BS may transmit, via another link, a sidelink resource grant to identify one or more resources for the sidelink communication for the source UE and the target UE on a sidelink. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Junyi Li, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11595993
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes performing, by a user equipment (UE) device, a channel sensing operation during a first window of a frame period associated with a wireless communication network. Performing the channel sensing operation includes performing a direction-based scan of one or more beams associated with the wireless communication network, and the channel sensing operation is included in a joint sensing operation performed with a base station. The method further includes, based at least in part on a result of the channel sensing operation, determining whether to perform, during a second window of the frame period, one or more communication operations with the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Vinay Chande, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11595943
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may configure an outer coded block which a user equipment (UE) may implement to recover an unsuccessfully decoded transmission. The base station may send, to the UE, downlink control information (DCI) indicating an outer coding scheme for the group of data blocks (e.g., a first data block and a second data block). The UE may monitor for the data blocks and the outer coded block. The UE may decode the data blocks based on the outer coded block and the outer coding scheme. In some examples, the outer code block may be made up of a combination of the first and second data blocks. The UE may use the combination of the outer coded block and one of the data blocks to decode an unsuccessfully decode data block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Kazuki Takeda, Amer Catovic, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Umesh Phuyal
  • Patent number: 11588586
    Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for wireless communications for generating, by a network entity for one or more user equipments (UEs), a downlink control information (DCI) for modifying a transmission scheme of the one or more UEs, the DCI including at least one hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number; and transmitting, by the network entity to the one or more UEs, the DCI including the at least one HARQ process number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Kiran Venugopal, Tianyang Bai, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11589367
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure are an electronic device and method for use in a resource management device, an electronic device and method for use in a resource management database, and an electronic device and method for use in a resource management object. The electronic device for use in a resource management device comprises a processing circuit, which is configured to: determine a resource usage behavior pattern of a resource management object within a specific time range and a specific space range; allocate a wireless resource to the resource management object according to the resource usage behavior pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xin Guo, Chen Sun
  • Patent number: 11582634
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring parameters for small data transfer (SDT) transmissions. One example technique provides a method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), involving: obtaining configuration information received from a network entity, the configuration information indicating a plurality of configurations for small data transfer (SDT) transmission, determining at least one of a transport block size (TBS) or data threshold for SDT transmission based on one of the configurations, and outputting for transmission one or more SDT transmissions based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Linhai He, Wanshi Chen, Ruiming Zheng, Alexandros Manolakos
  • Patent number: 11582748
    Abstract: A method of transmitting uplink data is provided. The method includes establishing connections with a first serving cell and a second serving cell, determining, by a user equipment (UE), a time period for a device-to-device (D2D) discovery signal communication via the second serving cell, determining, by the UE and based on an uplink grant received via the first serving cell, a first subframe associated with an uplink signal to an evolved NodeB (eNB) associated with the first serving cell, and in response to determining that the first subframe overlaps in time with the time period, refraining from transmitting the uplink signal in the first subframe, and transmitting, based on a retransmission timing, the uplink signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 11570815
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may rate match an uplink transmission around a set of resources reserved by a base station. The base station may indicate a set of reserved resources which overlaps an uplink resource allocation to the UE. The base station may transmit an indicator of the reserved resources, and the UE may identify a location of a clear channel assessment (CCA) gap in a symbol period relative to the reserved resources. By rate matching around the reserved resources and one or more CCA gaps, the UE may transmit uplink information despite the allocated uplink resources colliding with the reserved resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Bhattad, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Ananta Narayanan Thyagarajan, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 11570695
    Abstract: There are provided mechanisms for monitoring search spaces. A first method performed by a wireless device comprises receiving an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in a downlink slot. At least part of the OFDM symbol is included in a device-specific search space and in a common search space. The first method comprises monitoring the device-specific search space for at least one device-specific reference signal (RS) and monitoring the common search space for at least one non-device-specific RS. In a second method, a radio access network node transmits an OFDM symbol included in a device-specific search space and in a common search space. The device-specific search space contains a device-specific RS, or the non-device specific search space contains a non-device-specific RS, or both of these apply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Sorour Falahati, Daniel Larsson, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 11564215
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In detail, the invention relates to a method for a terminal to transmit a UCI in a carrier aggregation-based wireless communication system, and to an apparatus therefor, wherein the method involves the steps of: forming a first cell group having a PCell; forming a second cell group having one or more SCells; receiving one or more data in the second cell group; and transmitting HARQ-ACK information on the one or more data through a PUCCH, wherein, when the first and second cell groups are managed by an identical base station, the HARQ-ACK information is transmitted in the PCell, and, when the first and second cell groups are managed by different base stations, the HARQ-ACK information is transmitted in the second cell group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Joonkui Ahn, Bonghoe Kim
  • Patent number: 11564226
    Abstract: A resource indication method and apparatus and a computer storage medium are provided. The method includes that: a terminal device receives first indication information from a network device, the first indication information indicating an active transmission resource and/or an inactive transmission resource; and based on the first indication information, the terminal device detects a downlink control channel on the active transmission resource and/or does not detect a downlink control channel on the inactive transmission resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihua Shi, Zhi Zhang, Wenhong Chen
  • Patent number: 11564105
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, and apparatus for enabling UE attached to a mobile network via a mid-band CBSD node to continue transmitting upload data to the mid-band CBSD node even in the event of a loss of Physical Downlink Control Channels (PDCCH) coverage of the CBSD node resulting in a failure of the UE to receive uplink grant schedule updates. Various embodiments contemplate that the UE responsively attaches to a low-band node which, based on physical cell ID (PCI) of the CBSD node, retrieves updated uplink grant schedules from the CBSD node via a backhaul network and provides the uplink grant schedules to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventor: Volkan Sevindik
  • Patent number: 11558214
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for sending a message about a new video to a group of related users are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, the method comprises: determining that a new video associated with a content creator has been uploaded to a video sharing service; identifying a group of candidate users to receive a message indicating that the new video is available; identifying a sub-group of users within the group of candidate users based on relationships of users within the group to each other; determining a time to send the message; transmitting the message to the sub-group of users at the determined time; determining that the message has been selected by a user device associated with a user of the sub-group of users; and causing the new video to be presented in a user interface including a communication interface associated with the sub-group of users on the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Ruxandra Georgiana Davies
  • Patent number: 11546836
    Abstract: A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications system comprises a transceiver to perform wireless communication with a base station and to obtain system information defining communication parameters from system information data received from that base station; system information storage; and a controller to detect whether the system information storage already holds at least some of the system information applicable to a newly communicating base station and to control the transceiver to obtain any portions of the system information not already held by the terminal device, in which: the system information comprises a plurality of system information blocks; and the controller is configured to detect parts of a system information block stored by the system information storage which are applicable to the newly communicating base station and to obtain other parts of that system information block as a partial system information block from the newly communicating base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11546911
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for supporting multiple semi-persistent resource allocations per serving cell. Embodiments include determining an association between one or more semi-persistent resource allocations and one or more identifiers. Embodiments include receiving signaling indicating activation or deactivation of at least one of the one or more semi-persistent resource allocations. Embodiments include determining an identifier of the at least one of the one or more semi-persistent resource allocations based on the association. Embodiments include sending an acknowledgment of the activation or deactivation. The acknowledgment may indicate the identifier of the at least one of the one or more semi-persistent resource allocations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vinay Joseph, Linhai He, Rajat Prakash
  • Patent number: 11540293
    Abstract: A method in a node is disclosed. The method comprises generating a tag for an associated data packet at a first layer, the generated tag indicating one or more parameters related to transmission of the associated data packet. The method comprises signaling the tag from the first layer to another layer. The method comprises mapping, at the another layer, the associated data packet to a logical channel based on the one or more parameters indicated by the tag, and selecting one or more resources for transmission of the associated data packet based on the mapping of the associated data packet to the logical channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Qianxi Lu, Marco Belleschi, Johnny Karout, Stefano Sorrentino, Pontus Wallentin