Patents Examined by Michael J. Moore
  • Patent number: 11368997
    Abstract: Provided are D2D wireless communication methods and UEs therefor. In one embodiment, the D2D wireless communication method performed by a UE includes continuing D2D transmission by using a resource from a resource pool allocated for mode 2 operation when switching from mode 1 operation to mode 2 operation. In another embodiment, the D2D wireless communication method performed by a UE includes performing D2D transmission by using a resource from a resource pool allocated for mode 2 operation, wherein the resource pool is indicated by a dedicated RRC signaling transmitted by an eNB, a SIB transmitted by an eNB, a PD2DSCH transmitted by other UE(s), and/or pre-configuration, and the dedicated RRC signaling, the SIB, the PD2DSCH and the pre-configuration are in descending order in priority when determining the resource pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Prateek Basu Mallick, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Joachim Loehr, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11362770
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to providing feedback for DL data are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates with a second wireless communication device, a first communication signal. The first wireless communication device communicates the second wireless communication device, a grant for retransmitting a feedback associated with the first communication signal. The first wireless communication device communicates with the second wireless communication device, the feedback based on the grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhifei Fan, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Jing Sun, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Yan Zhou, Wooseok Nam
  • Patent number: 11362768
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a transport block (TB) of data from a network, decode the TB of data, transmit to the network a first acknowledgement based on a result of the decoding, receive a signal from the network that includes an acknowledgement retransmission request and a TB indication that indicates a TB of data to which the acknowledgement retransmission request relates, determine a second acknowledgement based on the acknowledgement retransmission request and the TB indication, and transmit the second acknowledgement to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 11356989
    Abstract: Reporting aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is disclosed. A UE receives a configuration to report aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) using physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The UE can report lightweight A-CSI via short/long PUCCH or may report heavy A-CSI via short/long PUCCH. The UE receives a trigger signal for PUCCH-based A-CSI reporting either by a dedicated downlink grant or by a group common DCI. When triggered via a DCI-based trigger, the PUCCH resource can be either a resource used for HARQ-ACK feedback, e.g., short PUCCH; or a semi-static configured PUCCH resource, e.g., either short PUCCH or long PUCCH. When triggered via a group common DCI-based trigger, the PUCCH resource can be either semi-statically configured, or dynamically indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Chao Wei, Liangming Wu, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11349625
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling network communications between a plurality of devices and a network node. The plurality of devices includes one or more devices of a group. If the network node receives messages from devices of a group, the network node sends a group ACK to the group of devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Kåre Agardh
  • Patent number: 11343807
    Abstract: Disclosed are a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission method, a user equipment and an apparatus, used to solve the technical problem in existing technology wherein there is no specific method or apparatus to support a PUCCH transmission scenario in a new wireless communication system. The PUCCH transmission method comprises: on the basis of an acquired indication signaling, determining an uplink beam used when carrying out PUCCH transmission; and carrying out PUCCH transmission using the determined uplink beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan Gao, Ekpenyong Tony
  • Patent number: 11317418
    Abstract: A communication method and a communication device are provided. The communication method includes: a terminal device transmits a preset uplink sequence, the preset uplink sequence is used for triggering a network device which receives the preset uplink sequence to transmit a first downlink reference signal; and the terminal device receives the first downlink reference signal transmitted by at least one first network device according to the preset uplink sequence, the network device includes the at least one first network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11310866
    Abstract: A communication method according to one embodiment is a communication method in which a first radio terminal executes a layer 2 relay in which a packet of a second radio terminal is transmitted between the second radio terminal and a base station in a layer higher than a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer in Layer 2. The first radio terminal transmits information indicating that the first radio terminal is capable of executing the layer 2 relay. The second radio terminal transmits a request for the layer 2 relay to the first radio terminal in response to receiving the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Adachi, Masato Fujishiro
  • Patent number: 11304039
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for aggregating HARQ feedback and sidelink retransmission procedure. One apparatus includes a transceiver that transmits SL data to a set of receiver V2X UEs and listens for SL feedback from the set of the receiver V2X UEs. Here, the SL feedback indicates whether a receiver V2X UE successfully decoded the SL data transmission. The apparatus also includes a processor that aggregates HARQ feedback and sends an Aggregated Feedback message to a RAN node, the Aggregated Feedback message containing the aggregated HARQ feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Karthikeyan Ganesan, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 11297599
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for communicating through a wireless link are disclosed. A method includes scheduling, by a server, communication between a base station and a plurality of hubs, receiving, by the base station, the scheduled communication, providing, to each hub, a data profile that includes a periodicity, an offset, and a carrier frequency based on the scheduled communication, receiving, by the base station, uplink wireless communication from each of the plurality of hubs according to the data profile of each of the hubs and according to the scheduled communication, and simultaneously broadcasting, by the base station, acknowledgements of reception of uplink wireless communication from each of the plurality of hubs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Meghna Agrawal, Andrew Nuttall, Vijay Lewis
  • Patent number: 11296808
    Abstract: An interference canceller comprises a composite interference vector (CIV) generator configured to produce a CIV by combining soft and/or hard estimates of interference, an interference-cancelling operator configured for generating a soft projection operator, and a soft-projection canceller configured for performing a soft projection of the received baseband signal to output an interference-cancelled signal. Weights used in the soft-projection operator are selected to maximize a post-processing SINR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: III Holdings 1, LLC
    Inventors: Michael L. McCloud, Vijay Nagarajan
  • Patent number: 11297552
    Abstract: A method for performing seamless relocation of a mobile terminal in a wireless network includes selecting a first serving gateway (SGW) among a plurality of SGWs and a first packet data network gateway (PGW) among a plurality of PGWs, wherein the first SGW connects to the first PGW to setup the first S5 session, establishing a first communication channel between the terminal and the first PGW and assigning an internet protocol (IP) address to the terminal, selecting a second SGW among the plurality of SGWs when the terminal is about to move out of an area being served by the first SGW, connecting the second SGW to the second PGW to setup a new S5 session when a second PGW among the plurality of PGWs is closer to the second SGW than the first PGW or connecting the second SGW to the first PGW to modify the first S5 session when no PGW is closer to the second SGW than the first PGW, establishing a second communication channel between the terminal and the second SGW using the IP address allocated to the terminal,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SmartSky Networks, LLC
    Inventors: David Aaron Claassen, Lei Wang
  • Patent number: 11290245
    Abstract: A receiver bandwidth adaptation for radio access technologies (RATs) may be for a New Radio (NR) or 5G flexible RAT. A WTRU control channel {e.g., receiver) bandwidth may change, for example, based on monitoring a downlink channel for an in indication using a bandwidth (BW) associated with a first BW configuration. The indication may include a signal to change the receiver BW. The WTRU may change the receiver BW associated with the first BW configuration to a second BW configuration when the WTRU receives the indication on a downlink (DL) channel. The WTRU may perform one or more measurements associated with the second BW configuration in response to the change of the receiver BW to the second BW configuration. The WTRU may transmit measurement information to a network entity. The WTRU may receive a DL transmission from the network using the second BW configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: IDAC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Pelletier, Paul Marinier, Marian Rudolf, J. Patrick Tooher, Tao Deng, Ghyslain Pelletier
  • Patent number: 11284450
    Abstract: A system and method includes implementing, by a base station (BS), a reliable ultra-low latency transmission mechanism in a grant-free uplink transmission scheme having defined therein contention transmission unit (CTU) access regions and a plurality of CTUs. Implementing the reliable ultra-low latency transmission mechanism includes defining a reliable ultra-low latency CTU (RULL-CTU) access region from a portion of the CTU access regions of the grant-free transmission scheme, defining an RULL-CTU mapping scheme by mapping at least a portion of plurality of CTUs to the RULL-CTU access region to define a plurality of RULL-CTUs, defining a reliable ultra-low latency user equipment (RULL-UE) mapping scheme by defining rules for mapping a plurality of RULL-UEs to the plurality of RULL-CTUs in an initial pattern for initial transmissions in a first transmission time interval (TTI), and a regrouped pattern for redundant transmissions in a second TTI subsequent to the first TTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kelvin Kar Kin Au, Liqing Zhang, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 11271796
    Abstract: An analytic application may automatically determine a root cause of an issue with a wireless carrier network and generate a solution for the root cause. Initially, a data management platform may receive performance data regarding user device and network components of a wireless carrier network from multiple data sources. Subsequently, the analytic application may receive an indication of an issue affecting one or more user devices that are using the wireless carrier network. The analytic application may analyze the performance data using a trained machine learning model to determine a root cause for the issue affecting the one or more user devices. The trained machine learning model may employ multiple types of machine learning algorithms to analyze the performance data. The analytic application may provide the root cause or the solution that resolves the root cause for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: TUPL INC.
    Inventors: Pablo Tapia, Rafael Sanchez-Mejias
  • Patent number: 11272372
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: DIGITAL GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Armando Montalvo, Dwight Inman
  • Patent number: 11271702
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for receiving information on a number N of a code block group defined for one transport block from a base station through an upper layer signal, receiving a first transport block including a plurality of code blocks from the base station through a physical layer channel, and transmitting HARQ-ACK payload including HARQ-ACK information on the first transport block to the base station. Preferably, a code block-based CRC is attached to each of the code blocks, a transport block-based CRC is attached to the first transport block, and the HARQ-ACK payload includes a plurality of HARQ-ACK bits corresponding to M code block groups for the first transport block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Kijun Kim, Seonwook Kim, Changhwan Park, Joonkui Ahn, Hanjun Park, Seunggye Hwang
  • Patent number: 11265210
    Abstract: This application provides a network slice configuration method, apparatus, and system, and pertains to the field of wireless communications technologies. The method includes: after receiving a management request of a network slice, obtaining or determining, by a network slice manager, network resource information corresponding to a subnet included in the network slice, and then sending, in a form of a subnet management request to a subnet manager, the network resource information corresponding to the subnet, so that the subnet manager configures the corresponding subnet based on the network resource information corresponding to the subnet. In this application, network slice configuration efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruiyue Xu, Kai Zhang, Xiaoqian Jia
  • Patent number: 11265925
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform 2-step random access procedures. The disclosure identifies techniques for transmitting and receiving downlink connection configuration information, such as a radio resource control message, in a 2-step random access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun
  • Patent number: 11258546
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for unambiguous mapping between downlink control channel transmissions, downlink shared channel transmissions, and uplink acknowledgment feedback resources. The uplink acknowledgment feedback resource may be located within a same transmission time interval (TTI). A base station may configure codebook-based acknowledgment resources from a user equipment (UE), and feedback delay values may be associated with time domain resources of the downlink shared channel transmissions. In some examples, feedback delay values may be associated with particular search spaces or monitoring occasions of the downlink control channel transmissions that include resource allocations for the downlink shared channel transmissions. A UE using codebook-based acknowledgment feedback resources may thus unambiguously identify uplink resources that are to be used for transmitting the uplink acknowledgment feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Jiang, Wei Yang