Patents Examined by Michael J. Moore
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11540340
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for analyzing messages and other information provided in relation to a web communication, a mobile application communication session, a phone communication, or another type of communication. For example, a system and method are provided for initiating a text message communication session between an agent and a user. A two-way communication session may be facilitated between the user and the agent. A mobile telephone number disclosed by the user during the two-way communication session may be detected, and a text message communication session between the user and the agent may be initiated if a mobile telephone number was detected. Availability status associated with a provider of items or services may also be analyzed to determine an agent for communicating with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: LIVEPERSON AUTOMOTIVE, LLC
    Inventor: Marc F. Hayes, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11539565
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for reducing PAPR in wireless communications. Some implementations more specifically relate to suppressing the amplitudes of a data signal that exceed a threshold amplitude level. The data signal may represent transmit (TX) data associated with a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process. In some implementations, a transmitting device may detect one or more peaks associated with the data signal. The transmitting device may reduce the amplitudes of the samples associated with the detected peaks to produce the amplitude-suppressed data signal. The transmitting device may further generate peak suppression information indicating the amplitudes of one or more of the samples associated with the peaks. In response to receiving a NACK message, the transmitting device may transmit, to the receiving device, the peak suppression information, one or more coded bits representing the TX data (associated with the HARQ process), or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ory Eger, Guy Wolf, Assaf Touboul, Noam Zach, Sharon Levy, Ori Ben Shahar, Ran Berliner
  • Patent number: 11540259
    Abstract: One example method includes determining, by a terminal device, that at least two physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources collide in a time unit n, where n is an integer, and the at least two PUCCH resources include a first resource configured for first uplink control information (UCI) and a second resource configured for second UCI; and determining, by the terminal device, the first resource and a third resource in the time unit n, where the third resource is one of M PUCCH resources, the first resource and the third resource do not include a same orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in time domain, and M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, and the first resource is used to carry a part or all of the first UCI, and the third resource is used to carry a part or all of the second UCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xueru Li, Ruiqi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11533086
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a precoding matrix indicator, a user equipment (UE), a base station (e.g., eNB), and a system. The method includes: receiving a reference signal sent by a base station; selecting, based on the reference signal, a precoding matrix from a codebook, where a precoding matrix W included in the codebook is a product of two matrices W1 and W2, where W1 is a block diagonal matrix, where each block matrix is a Kronecker product of a matrix Ai and a matrix Bi; and sending a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) to the base station, where the PMI corresponds to the selected precoding matrix, so that the base station obtains the precoding matrix according to the PMI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianguo Wang, Yongxing Zhou
  • Patent number: 11528171
    Abstract: A method and apparatus include establishing a communication connection with a communication network via an access point. As part of establishing a communication connection, information is received for defining a format of the communication connection. The format to be used as part of the communication connection includes one or more parameters which are received from the communication network when establishing the communication connection. At least one of the one or more received parameters serves to define a control channel transmission structure to be used as part of the format. A control channel including one or more control channel transmissions is then received in support of the established communication connection, based upon the control channel transmission structure defined by the at least one of the one or more received parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Ravikiran Nory, Vijay Nangia, Robert T Love, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 11523414
    Abstract: A base station of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The base station of the wireless communication includes: a communication module; and a processor configured to control the communication module. When a second physical uplink data channel transmission of the UE is scheduled to a time-frequency resource in which uplink control information (UCI) transmission of a first physical uplink data channel of the UE is scheduled, the processor is configured to transmit the UCI to a base station of the wireless communication system in a time-frequency resource except for a time-frequency resource in which a second physical uplink data channel transmission of the UE is scheduled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Kyungjun Choi, Minseok Noh, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 11521482
    Abstract: An apparatus may control the power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load, and may comprise a controllably conductive device. The apparatus may also comprise a controller that may be operatively coupled to a control input of the controllably conductive device. The apparatus may also include a first wireless communication circuit operable to communicate via a first protocol and to join a first wireless communication network operable to communicate via the first protocol. The first wireless communication circuit may be in communication with the controller. The controller may be operative to determine a first condition for communicating via the first protocol. The controller may also be operable to control the first wireless communication circuit to join the first wireless communication network upon the first condition being satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventor: Jeremy Thomas Neyhart
  • Patent number: 11490413
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. More particularly, certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to early termination of a downlink channel repetition transmission, early termination of an uplink channel repetition, and/or determination of a plurality of beams for a repetition transmission. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Hao Xu, Chao Wei, Peng Cheng, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Durga Prasad Malladi
  • Patent number: 11489587
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated access to a wireless link through data profiles are disclosed. One method includes receiving through the wireless link, by each hub associated with a base station, one or more data profiles from a network management element, receiving, by each hub, data from data sources associated with the hub, controlling, by each hub, a timing of communication of the data for each of the data sources from the hub to the base station through the wireless satellite link based on the one or more data profiles, monitoring reporting times of different data sources of different hubs over time, allocating preamble codes to each of the data sources, wherein different preamble codes are allocated to different data sources of different hubs that report within a margin of time of each other, and inserting the allocated preamble codes into packets of each of the data sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Vijay Lewis, Sreedhar Sambangi, Meghna Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11489632
    Abstract: A method for providing ACK and/or NACK information in a WLAN system is proposed. The method proposes configuring a second PPDU in response to receiving a first PPDU. The second PPDU includes a legacy part, a control signal field, and a training field. The training field of the second PPDU may be configured based on whether the data field of the first PPDU is successfully received. The training field may be configured based on a first LTF sequence for indicating a successful reception of the first PPDU. The training field may be configured based on a second LTF sequence for indicating an error of the first PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jeongki Kim, Kiseon Ryu, Jinyoung Chun, Jinsoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11483868
    Abstract: An access method, a network device, and a mobile communication terminal are provided. The access method applied to the network device includes transmitting frequency information of a downlink frequency range and at least two uplink frequency ranges and a physical random access channel parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd Research Institute, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoran Zhang, Nan Li, Guang Yang
  • Patent number: 11477621
    Abstract: One embodiment according to the present specification relates to a technique for transmitting a midamble in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system. A transmitting STA may configure an NGV PPDU. The NGV PPDU may include a preamble, a data field, and a midamble. The preamble may include an NGV signal field. The NGV signal field may include information on a transmission period of the midamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongguk Lim, Jinsoo Choi, Eunsung Park, Insun Jang
  • Patent number: 11477831
    Abstract: One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for operating in relay user equipment (UE). The method may comprise the steps of: receiving a communication request message directly from a first remote UE; performing a procedure for establishing an access and mobility management function (AMF) entity and a protocol data unit (PDU) session; and storing mapping information between an identifier of a PC5 link with the first remote UE and an identifier of the PDU session on the basis of the PDU session being established for an unstructured PDU session type for unstructured traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Laeyoung Kim, Myungjune Youn
  • Patent number: 11477768
    Abstract: Repetitions of a control signal across a plurality of first subframes and a data signal allocated to a resource indicated by the control signal are received. Repetition of a response signal for the data signal across a plurality of second subframes is performed, and a transmission signal is generated by multiplying the response signals in the second subframes by, among a plurality of first sequences orthogonal to one another, components of one of the first sequences which is associated with the first subframes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Seigo Nakao, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11477769
    Abstract: In future radio communication systems, an uplink control channel will be transmitted properly. A user terminal comprising, a receiving section that receives at least one downlink assignment, and receives at least one downlink shared channel scheduled by the at least one downlink assignment, and a control section that controls transmission of a delivery acknowledgment signal, by using at least one of an uplink control channel format and mapping of the delivery acknowledgment signal, associated with at least one of whether or not configuration for using a dynamic delivery acknowledgment signal codebook for the at least one downlink shared channel is configured, the number of bits of the delivery acknowledgment signal in response to the at least one downlink shared channel, whether or not the at least one downlink assignment is transmitted by one frequency resource, and the number of codewords for each downlink shared channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11463846
    Abstract: A communication method and system are provided for converging a 5G communication system with technology for IoT. The 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventors: Hong Wang, Lixiang Xu, Xiaowan Ke
  • Patent number: 11451360
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may utilize priority levels associated with packets or transmissions to determine whether to transmit feedback for a received transmission. The UE may compare priority levels between a transmission subject to a feedback condition and a transmission scheduled to be received when the feedback is scheduled to be transmitted to determine whether to send the feedback. The UE may communicate with the transmitting device according to the comparison and the determining. The UE may determine signal conditions causing a NAK and determine to send the NAK based on the signal conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tien Viet Nguyen, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati, Arjun Bharadwaj, Shailesh Patil