Patents Examined by Michael J. Moore
  • Patent number: 11240855
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for transmitting, to one or more local area network clients of the device, a multicast message indicating an available network slice, receiving, from a first local area network client of the one or more local area network clients based on the multicast message, a request to access the available network slice, establishing, at the device based on receiving the request, a connection associated with the available network slice, and transmitting, to the first local area network client based on establishing the connection, a confirmation to access the available network slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Syam Krishna Babbellapati, Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi, Xiaolong Huang
  • Patent number: 11233607
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) to provide hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information includes transmitting physical sidelink shared channels (PSSCHs), where each of the PSSCH transmissions provides a transport block (TB); receiving physical sidelink feedback channels (PSFCHs); and generating values for HARQ-ACK information bits from the PSFCH receptions. The PSFCH receptions correspond to the PSSCH transmissions and the values of the HARQ-ACK information bits correspond to the TBs in the PSSCH transmissions. The method further includes generating a HARQ-ACK codeword that includes the values of the HARQ-ACK information bits arranged in a predetermined order and transmitting the HARQ-ACK codeword in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao He, Aris Papasakellariou, Hongbo Si
  • Patent number: 11229017
    Abstract: A wireless communication method, including: obtaining, by a network device, at least one of information that is about sharing a local oscillator by a plurality of transceiver units and that is sent by a terminal device, information that is about phase noise errors measured on a plurality of phase tracking reference signal ports and that is sent by the terminal device, isolation between a plurality of channels used to carry phase tracking reference signals, and status information of the channels used to carry the phase tracking reference signals; determining port configuration information of a phase tracking reference signal based on the at least one of the information about sharing a local oscillator, the information about the phase noise errors, the isolation between the plurality of channels used to carry the phase tracking reference signals, and the status information of the channels used to carry the phase tracking reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xi Zhang, Minghui Xu
  • Patent number: 11224074
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for bandwidth part (“BWP”) configuration based on a clear channel assessment (“CCA”). One method includes configuring at least one BWP. Each BWP of the at least one BWP comprises a downlink BWP and an uplink BWP. The method includes indicating a first BWP of the at least one BWP as an active BWP. The method includes performing a CCA prior to transmitting a message. The method includes, in response to the CCA being successful for the active BWP, transmitting the message using the active BWP. The method includes, in response to the CCA being unsuccessful for the active BWP and the CCA being successful for only a second BWP of the at least one BWP: indicating the second BWP as the active BWP; and transmitting the message using the active BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 11224082
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure further provide an apparatus and various methods for wireless communications. The apparatus includes processing circuitry that can receive, from a first based station (BS), a first radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message including a conditional primary secondary cell (PSCell) addition command that indicates one or more candidate PSCells of a second BS. The processing circuitry can transmit, to the first BS, an RRC reconfiguration complete message that indicates completion of the conditional PSCell addition command. The processing circuitry can perform a conditional PSCell addition procedure to add a candidate target PSCell that is one of the one or more candidate PSCells of the second BS according to the conditional PSCell addition command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventor: Chun-Fan Tsai
  • Patent number: 11212825
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application pertain to control information for scheduling a transmission resource for downlink and uplink communications between one or more TRP and one or more UE. One Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) for DL control information transmission is assumed to carry at least one assignment or scheduling information block for at least one Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) for DL data transmission or for at least one Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) for UL data transmission. Embodiments of the present application provide methods of providing configuration information that can be used by a user equipment (UE) to determine transmission mode for the PDSCH and PUSCH as well as information to determine where to monitor for the PDSCH, PUSCH and PUCCH information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhengwei Gong, Amine Maaref, Mohammadhadi Baligh, Usa Vilaipornsawai, Hamidreza Farmanbar, Aman Jassal, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 11206662
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a device in a communication node for wireless communication. The communication node performs signaling monitoring in a first time window, X1 signaling(s) being detected in the signaling monitoring process, determines Y1 candidate resource set(s) from a first candidate resource pool, transmits a first signaling, and receives first feedback information in a target resource set, the target resource set being one of the Y1 candidate resource set(s); the X1 signaling(s) is(are) used for determining Y2 candidate resource set(s), any one of the Y2 candidate resource set(s) belongs to the first candidate resource pool, any one of the Y1 candidate resource set(s) is one candidate resource set in the first candidate resource pool other than the Y2 candidate resource set(s); and the first signaling is used for indicating the target resource set. The disclosure avoids or reduces feedback collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zheng Liu, XiaoBo Zhang, Lin Yang
  • Patent number: 11201713
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus receives a transport block in a primary cell, selects a first transmission method in a case that a scheduling request is a negative scheduling request, HARQ-ACK is transmitted in a subframe n, and a subframe q in a secondary cell does not correspond to any of first prescribed subframes, selects a second transmission method in a case that the subframe q corresponds to one of the first prescribed subframes, and transmits the HARQ-ACK in a PUCCH resource for the HARQ-ACK, wherein the subframe q is given by n?4 in a case that a first higher layer parameter for the secondary cell is not configured, and the subframe q is given by n?3 in a case that the first higher layer parameter for the secondary cell is configured for the terminal apparatus 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11196655
    Abstract: Described are embodiments of a method for performance measurement of a communication device. The method comprises: executing active probing by a communication device coupled to another communication device via a network forming a communication link; reading operational data associated with the communication link in response to executing active probing; and measuring performance, by the communication device, of the communication link with reference to the communication link, the performance measured according to the read operational data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: ASSIA SPE, LLC
    Inventors: Sungho Yun, Carlos Garcia Hernandez, Manikanden Balakrishnan, Wonjong Rhee
  • Patent number: 11197273
    Abstract: A base station central unit receives an indication that one or more cells are associated with a first closed access group. Based on the indication, the base station central unit cell configuration parameters of the one or more cells for a wireless device that is allowed to access the first closed access group. The base station central unit sends, to the base station distributed unit, a context configuration message comprising the cell configuration parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Jinsook Ryu, Peyman Talebi Fard, Weihua Qiao
  • Patent number: 11196672
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a policy mapping method and device and user equipment (UE). The method includes that: UE maps all policies or part of policies used in a first mobile communication system to a policy used in a second mobile communication system, the policies used in the first system including at least one of an access network discovery and selection policy (ANDSP) and a UE route selection policy (URSP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Xu, Haorui Yang
  • Patent number: 11191080
    Abstract: A communication method and 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 method and system 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 in an a system information (SI) transmission in a cell supporting multiple uplink (UL) carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11191068
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for per transmission configuration channel sensing. A method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) generally includes monitoring a plurality of dummy physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmissions from at least one base station (BS). The dummy PDCCH transmissions use a different transmission configuration. The UE sends acknowledgment feedback for the plurality of dummy PDCCH transmission. The ACK feedback for the dummy PDCCH transmissions may be multiplexed with ACK feedback to the at least one BS for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions. A UE may receive a configuration reserving one or more bits in a UE codebook for providing the ACK feedback. Each reserved bit may be for control resource sets associated with a transmission configuration. The UE monitors PDDCH transmissions using different transmission configurations and uses the reserved bits to transmit ACK feedback for the PDCCH transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Mostafa Khoshnevisan
  • Patent number: 11184880
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of providing feedback from a plurality of base stations of a single frequency network to a user equipment device to indicate if a data transmission has been received successfully, wherein a positive acknowledgement of successful receipt is transmitted using a first feedback resource and a negative acknowledgement of unsuccessful receipt is transmitted using a second feedback resource, the first and second feedback resources being mutually orthogonal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: IPCOM GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Maik Bienas, Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans, Achim Luft
  • Patent number: 11177918
    Abstract: Method and device for notifying reference signal configuration information are disclosed. Channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration information is coded, to obtain one or more CSI-RS configuration codes. The CSI-RS configuration codes are sent to a terminal device. The terminal device determines, based on CSI-RS configuration codes, CSI-RS configuration information such as a quantity of antenna ports for transmitting a CSI-RS, a CSI-RS pattern, a CSI-RS period and an offset corresponding to the CSI-RS period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: David Mazzarese, Yuan Xia, Liang Xia
  • Patent number: 11178591
    Abstract: A network entity and a method of the network entity in a wireless communication system supporting ranging capability are provided. The network entity and the method comprise: identifying, by a higher layer of the network entity, a ranging reply time node list (RrtiNodeList) indicating a list of neighbor network entities for which ranging reply time instantaneous information elements (RRTI IEs) are requested along with receive ranging counter values; generating, by the higher layer of the network entity, a MCPS-DATA.request primitive including the RrtiNodeList; transmitting, to a MAC layer of the network entity, the generated MCPS-DATA.request primitive; and transmitting, to another network entity in the list of neighboring network entities, MAC data including ranging information, the RRTI, and ranging measurement information IEs (RMI IEs), wherein the MAC layer of the network entity is further configured to transmit, to the higher layer of the network entity, an MCPS-DATA.confirm primitive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zheda Li, Aditya V. Padaki, Boon Loong Ng
  • Patent number: 11159224
    Abstract: A system and method for performing beam management is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes: determining a relationship between a first reference signal and a second reference signal, wherein the first and second reference signals share a same or similar one or more of the following properties: a channel property, a transmission property and a reception property; and transmitting the first and second reference signals to a wireless communication node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Yijian Chen, Yu Ngok Li, Zhaohua Lu, Yifei Yuan, Xinhui Wang
  • Patent number: 11153850
    Abstract: In some aspects, a channel hopping sequence for communication on a mesh network is generated. The hopping sequence may include multiple channels assigned to respective positions in the hopping sequence. In some cases, a first channel is assigned to a first position such that the first channel may transmit communications in a first transmission mode, such as a low-bandwidth transmission mode. In addition, an additional channels adjacent to the first channel is also assigned to the first position such that the combination of the first channel and additional channel may transmit communications in a second transmission mode, such as a high-bandwidth transmission mode. In some cases, a whitelist is determined based on the assigned channels. The whitelist may indicate channels that do not conflict with the assigned channels during transmission of a communication. In addition, channels may be assigned to the hopping sequence based on the whitelist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Landis+Gyr Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Clifford Matthews, Matthew Donald Karlgaard, Govind Kharangate, Michael Sean Holcombe
  • Patent number: 11146375
    Abstract: HARQ feedback configuration techniques for broadband wireless communication networks are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a memory and logic for user equipment (UE), at least a portion of the logic implemented in circuitry coupled to the memory, the logic to identify a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) bundling window associated with a received downlink (DL) scheduling command, identify one or more HARQ feedback configuration parameters based on HARQ feedback configuration information comprised in the DL scheduling command, the one or more identified HARQ feedback configuration parameters to include a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format for use in transmission of HARQ feedback for the HARQ feedback bundling window, the logic to generate the HARQ feedback for transmission to an evolved node B (eNB) according to the PUCCH format. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Alexei Davydov, Seunghee Han, Gang Xiong, Hwan-Joon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11140540
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE) and through Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, information of a resource pool for a D2D communication, wherein the information of the resource pool comprises information of a discovery subframe in which a D2D discovery signal is to be communicated, determining that in the discovery subframe, the D2D discovery signal is prioritized over a communication with an evolved NodeB (eNB) unless the communication with the eNB is associated with a random access (RA) procedure, transmitting a RA preamble through a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH), determining whether the discovery subframe corresponds to a RA subframe in which a RA response for the UE is to be monitored, and in response to determining that the discovery subframe corresponds to the RA subframe, monitoring, by the UE, the RA response during the discovery subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Hyun Park