Patents Examined by Michael K Phillips
  • Patent number: 12389239
    Abstract: A method for uplink communication to be executed by a RAN includes: for each of UEs, establishing connection with one of RUs; host device conducting data transmission with each UE in multiple phase delays through controlling the beamforming antenna of the UE via the RU that is connected to the UE, and calculating an error rate with respect to each of the phase delays; the host device finding one of the phase delays that has the lowest error rate and setting a configuration of beamforming antenna of the UE with the phase delay that has the lowest error rate, such that the UE and the RU connected thereto form a spatially isolated relationship; and within the spatially isolated relationship, the RU receiving uplink data from the UE and transmitting the uplink data to the host device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Tzu-Chung Ke, Yan-Ciao Jao
  • Patent number: 12381759
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods and systems for forward packets received from a SSID at a wireless access point to a VPN. The SSID and VPN are associated. The VPN is created according to a VPN profile. When the VPN is established, the SSID is enabled. When the VPN is not established, the SSID is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Pismo Labs Technology Limited
    Inventors: Alex Wing Hong Chan, Yu Yeung, Patrick Ho Wai Sung, Wan Chun Leung, Ka Yee Tsang
  • Patent number: 12368483
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronic device and method for a wireless communication system, and a storage medium. Various embodiments regarding beam management are described. In one embodiment, an electronic device for a terminal device side in a wireless communication system can comprise a processing circuit system. The processing circuit system can be configured to obtain random access configuration information, and send a random access preamble based on the random access configuration information, so as to indicate one or more transmission beams of a base station side, in a downlink, paired with one or more receiving beams at the terminal device side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jianfei Cao
  • Patent number: 12356405
    Abstract: A method and user equipment (UE) are provided. The method includes transmitting, from a first UE, an assistance request to at least one neighboring UE, receiving, by the first UE and from the at least one neighboring UE, assistance information including an indication of at least one resource for transmission, and transmitting, from the first UE, over the indicated at least one resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yaser Mohamed Mostafa Kamal Fouad, Jung Hyun Bae, Jungwon Lee
  • Patent number: 12356471
    Abstract: Example communication methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, a first entity sends an access request of a terminal to a second entity. The second entity determines whether to allow access of the terminal, and sends an access response to the first entity. In response to the access response indicating that access of the terminal is allowed, the first entity sends a radio bearer (RB) setup request to the second entity. The second entity determines whether to allow setup of an RB to the terminal, and sends an RB setup response to the first entity. In response to the RB setup response indicating that setup of the RB to the terminal is allowed, the first entity triggers setup of the RB to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanglai Shuai, Yu Zhou
  • Patent number: 12336042
    Abstract: A first user equipment (UE) for wireless communication includes a transmitter configured to transmit, to a second UE, a request associated with a sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration of the first UE for sidelink communication between the first UE and one or more UEs that are distinct from the first UE. The first UE further includes a receiver configured to receive, from the second UE based on the request, a message indicating one or more parameters associated with the sidelink DRX configuration. The transmitter is further configured to transmit, to the second UE based on the message, a response indicating one of acceptance of or rejection of at least one parameter of the one or more parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hong Cheng, Qing Li, Junyi Li, Dan Vassilovski
  • Patent number: 12335972
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, systems, and apparatuses for receiving a first type of transmission and a second type of transmission. A WTRU may receive a first downlink control information (DCI) during a first downlink (DL) transmission interval allocating first radio resources in the first DL transmission interval for reception of a first type of transmission. The WTRU may receive data from the first type of transmission in the first radio resources. The WTRU may receive data from a second type of transmission in second radio resources that include one or more predetermined regions within the first radio resources. The WTRU may receive a second DCI during a subsequent second DL transmission interval indicating that the data from the first type of transmission was preempted by the data from the second type of transmission. The WTRU may process the data from the first type of transmission based on the second DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Marian Rudolf, Paul Marinier, Ghyslain Pelletier
  • Patent number: 12289688
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a signal transmission method, a network device and a UE, the method comprising: a network device determining a first instruction message, the first instruction message instructing a UE to use a first power control policy and/or a first transmission mode to send a first signal; and the network device sending the first instruction message to the UE. The problem in the prior art in which a UE cannot be controlled to use full power to send an uplink signal is solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiuping Huang, Runhua Chen, Qiubin Gao
  • Patent number: 12284684
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to 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 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. A method and apparatus for handling sidelink communication according to type of handover are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Hyunjeong Kang
  • Patent number: 12262323
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling a timer are disclosed. In the method, after user equipment activates a first bandwidth part in response to a first message, the user equipment controls a target timer to perform timing based on a unit time length of a second bandwidth part to optimize the timer in a BWP scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junren Chang, Ning Dong, Zhenzhen Cao, Baokun Shan
  • Patent number: 12261700
    Abstract: The present application is related to a method and apparatus for semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook determination. A method for semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook determination includes: receiving downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a data transmission in a set of candidate data transmission occasions; transmitting a HARQ-ACK codebook for the set of candidate data transmission occasions; receiving another DCI scheduling another data transmission in another set of candidate data transmission occasions; and transmitting another HARQ-ACK codebook for the abovementioned another set of candidate data transmission occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 12245304
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices related to related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to the power saving mechanism for multi-link operation. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transmitting a link wakeup indication message to a wireless device over a first link of multiple links between the network node and the wireless device. The link wakeup indication message may indicate a request to transition at least one link of the multiple links between an active state and a power saving state. The method may also include, responsive to transmitting the link wakeup indication message, obtaining, by the network node, a link wakeup notification message from the wireless device indicating that at least one link of the multiple links has transitioned between the active state and the power saving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yonggang Fang, Bo Sun, Zhiqiang Han
  • Patent number: 12245082
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that may allow a device participating in a setup procedure to efficiently propose a range of values for a negotiated parameter. The techniques may reduce setup time, for example, allowing a responder to accept a value within the proposed range which may eliminate overhead associated with some of the back and forth message exchange of typical negotiations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Yongchun Xiao, Srinivas Katar, Sandip Homchaudhuri
  • Patent number: 12238530
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided. In an example aspect, a method in a network node is provided, the method comprising monitoring unlicensed spectrum access attempts for transmissions to and/or from at least one User Equipment, UE, in a first group of UEs configured to use unlicensed spectrum to send uplink transmissions and/or receive downlink transmissions and, in response to the monitoring, causing the UEs in the first group to use licensed spectrum to send uplink transmissions and/or receive downlink transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Dhruvin Patel, Guido Roland Hiertz, Mai-Anh Phan, Hubertus Andreas Munz, Alexandros Palaios, Reem Karaki, Torsten Dudda
  • Patent number: 12238600
    Abstract: Embodiments herein achieve a method for handling a RLF in a wireless communication system by a UE. The method includes detecting the RLF at the UE associated with a first cell that is associated with a first RAT. Further, the method includes selecting a second cell, associated with a second RAT, by performing a cell selection procedure. Further, the method includes detecting that a 5GC is connected. Further, the method includes determining whether a timer is running in the UE. Further, the method includes performing an IRAT RRC re-establishment procedure on the second cell when the RLF is occurred on the first cell associated with the first RAT in response to determining that the timer is running in the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mangesh Abhimanyu Ingale, Fasil Abdul Latheef
  • Patent number: 12213156
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may support both unicast and multicast downlink signaling, such as on a single component carrier (CC). A UE may receive a unicast message over a first CC during a transmission time interval (TTI) using a first set of processing resources. The UE may simultaneously receive a multicast message over the first CC during the same TTI using a second set of processing resources. The first and second sets of processing resources may be associated with first and second hybrid automatic repeat request (HARM) soft buffers, first and second CCs, or first and second transmit/receive points (TRPs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Le Liu, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Ayan Sengupta, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Tao Luo, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Juan Montojo, Umesh Phuyal, Wooseok Nam
  • Patent number: 12192804
    Abstract: A cell measurement method and cell measurement apparatus, the method including receiving, by a terminal device, first information from a network device, where the first information indicates a measurement parameter used by the terminal device to perform cell measurement in an idle state or an inactive state, and a detection signal for the cell measurement includes at least a synchronization sequence or physical broadcast channel block (SSB) or a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), and sending, by the terminal device, a measurement result of the cell measurement to the network device based on the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Han, Yinghao Jin, Wei Tan, Chunhua You
  • Patent number: 12192987
    Abstract: Disclosed are an information transmission method, a terminal apparatus, a chip, a computer readable storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program. The method comprises: if a sidelink (SL) Buffer Status Report (BSR) is triggered by an event, and if a first condition is met, executing at least one of the following: triggering a scheduling request (SR); transmitting a first uplink channel comprising the SR; packeting a BSR, wherein the BSR at least comprises the SL BSR; or performing transmission of a second uplink channel comprising the packeted BSR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Qianxi Lu, Zhenshan Zhao, Huei-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 12184426
    Abstract: In a wireless local area network (LAN) system, a transmission station (STA) may transmit, to a receiving STA, a PHY protocol data unit (PPDU) including a first redundancy version of transmission data. On the basis of whether an acknowledgement (ACK) or negative ACK (NACK) frame is received within a threshold time, the transmission STA may determine a second redundancy version of the transmission data to be retransmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Taewon Song, Kiseon Ryu, Jeongki Kim, Jinsoo Choi, Suhwook Kim, Insun Jang
  • Patent number: 12184549
    Abstract: Methods and systems for dynamically re-routing layer traffic between different servers with little user-visible disruption and without modifications to the vRAN software stack are provided. This approach enables operators to initiate a PHY migration either on demand (e.g., during planned maintenances) or to set up automatic migration on unexpected events (e.g., server failures). It is recognized that PHY processing in cellular networks has no hard state that must be migrated. As a result, layer traffic such as the PHY-L2 traffic or L2-PHY traffic can be simply re-routed to a different server. This re-routing mechanism is realized by interposing one or more message controllers (e.g., middlebox) in a communication channel between the PHY and L2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Anuj Kalia, Daehyeok Kim, Ilias Marinos, Tao Ji, Nikita Lazarev, Paramvir Bahl