Patents Examined by Michael Thier
  • Patent number: 12684576
    Abstract: A terminal comprising a control circuit for controlling communications in units of a second symbol, each unit being associated with a plurality of first symbols, and a communication circuit for performing communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi, Xuan Tuong Tran
  • Patent number: 12676724
    Abstract: A method and associated apparatus provide for a management node to send to a terminal node, a negotiation request used to update a receiving/sending switching interval to first switching time. The receiving/sending switching interval includes a first receiving/sending switching interval of the management node and a second receiving/sending switching interval of the terminal node. The terminal node receives the negotiation request, feeds back acknowledgment response information to the management node in response to the negotiation request, and updates the second receiving/sending switching interval to the first switching time. The management node receives the acknowledgment response information. The management node updates the first receiving/sending switching interval to the first switching time based on the acknowledgment response information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zichen Xie, Rong Wang
  • Patent number: 12672015
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for a Base Station (BS) in a communication network is provided. The method includes: obtaining channel quality information sent from a User Equipment (UE), and in response to determining that the UE is in poor coverage according to the channel quality information, configuring the UE to perform downlink measurements on at least one downlink RLM measurement source in accordance with measurement configurations. The corresponding devices, computer readable storage medium, carrier, etc. thereof are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Yanyan Zhu, Huaisong Zhu, Jiyan Liu
  • Patent number: 12672188
    Abstract: A method of avoiding survival time (ST) failure, a user equipment (UE) and a base station (BS) are provided. The method includes being configured with pre-allocated radio resource by a base station (BS); transmitting data on an uplink configured grant; and entering a survival state and activating Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) duplication on the pre-allocated radio resource to retransmit the data. By performing the PDCP duplication, the UE could recover the failed transmission within the requirement of ST and avoid the application shutdown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: Purplevine Innovation Company Limited
    Inventor: Yi-Ting Lin
  • Patent number: 12666289
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support synchronization signal pairing. In a first aspect, a first network node includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: receive, from a second network node, an indication of a first quantity of beams, receive, from the second network node, bitmap information including a first bitmap for a first beam of the first quantity of beams and a second bitmap for a second beam of the first quantity of beams, and generate first measurement information based on the bitmap information. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Jing Jiang, Yongle Wu
  • Patent number: 12665641
    Abstract: Provided are a channel state information (CSI) feedback method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: measuring channel state information; and sending CSI feedback corresponding to a channel state information parameter set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chenchen Zhang, Xing Liu, Peng Hao, Xingguang Wei
  • Patent number: 12660010
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for quickly establishing communication, a device, and a storage medium. The method may include: in a non-standalone formed by a first standard network and a second standard network, a terminal determining whether a communication request to be sent to the first standard network is currently present; in a case where it is determined that the communication request to be sent to the first standard network is currently present, the terminal sending the communication request to the first standard network by using either of a current uplink resource of the first standard network and a current uplink resource of the second standard network; and after the communication request is sent to the first standard network, the terminal receiving, through the first standard network, a communication response sent by the first standard network in response to the communication request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minggang Gao, Xuemei Ding, Ying Xu, Mingye Wei
  • Patent number: 12652610
    Abstract: A method, performed by a terminal, for receiving a downlink signal and channel in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving a synchronization signals and PBCH block (SSB) from a base station; and transmitting an uplink channel to the base station on the basis of the SSB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Minseok Noh, Kyungjun Choi, Geunyoung Seok, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 12647913
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of transmitting a Time Alignment Timer (TAT) status report by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. Especially, the method includes the steps of configuring one or more Timing Advance Groups (TAGs); receiving a Timing Advance Command (TAC) for one of the one or more TAGS; starting a TAT for the one TAG; triggering the TAT status report when a remaining time of the TAT for the one TAG is less than a threshold for the one TAG; and transmitting the TAT status report to a network, wherein the TAT status report includes a first type indication indicating that the remaining time of the TAT for the one TAG is less than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Seungjune Yi
  • Patent number: 12647960
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, for a first cell, first control signaling that indicates one or more bandwidth parts that are usable by the UE for uplink and downlink communication within the first cell. The one or more first bandwidth parts may be within a first carrier for carrier aggregation (CA) at the UE. Additionally, for a second cell, the UE may receive second control signaling that indicates a second bandwidth part that is usable by the UE for uplink communication within the second cell. The second bandwidth part may be within a second carrier for CA. The second control signaling may lack any indication of any bandwidth part that is usable by the UE for downlink communication within the second cell. The UE may monitor the first carrier for third control signaling associated with the second cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Javier Rodriguez Fernandez, Kazuki Takeda
  • Patent number: 12641512
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments that provide multipath connectivity between edge locations and regions in a cloud provider network. In one embodiment, data is received at a provider substrate extension of a cloud provider network, where the data is to be transmitted to a destination in a data center of the cloud provider network. The provider substrate extension is at an edge location of the cloud provider network. The data is transmitted to a destination in the data center of the cloud provider network via a plurality of communication links from the edge location to the data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikolay Krasilnikov, John David Fergerson, Jonathan Mullen, Anirban Gupta, Jake Austin Rullman, Igor A. Kostic
  • Patent number: 12634712
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or a 6th generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as LTE. An operating method of a BS in a wireless communication system includes broadcasting a power signal of an IRS, broadcasting an SSB, and requesting receive beam reporting from a control unit of the IRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Seunghyun Lee, Byonghyo Shim, Seungnyun Kim, Hyunsoo Kim, Yosub Park
  • Patent number: 12634896
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless communications may support frequency hopping in full-duplex communications. For example, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of one or more resource block (RB) sets over which the UE is to perform one or more uplink transmissions during a slot, where each RB set of the one or more RB sets is associated with a set of one or more frequency hopping parameters. The UE may select, for a first RB set of the one or more RB sets, a frequency hopping enablement status or a frequency hopping pattern based on a full-duplex classification of the slot and the set of one or more frequency hopping parameters for the first RB set. Additionally, the UE may perform the one or more uplink transmissions in accordance with the selected frequency hopping enablement status or the selected frequency hopping pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Marwen Zorgui, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim
  • Patent number: 12634061
    Abstract: Provided are an indication method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The indication method includes: configuring a spatial parameter information set, wherein the spatial parameter information set is used for updating at least one of a spatial parameter of a physical channel or a spatial parameter of a physical signal at different transmission times, and the spatial parameter information set comprises a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state set or a spatial relation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Pan, Chuangxin Jiang, Zhaohua Lu, Bo Gao, Shujuan Zhang, Zhen He
  • Patent number: 12634046
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication terminal, which performs a hybrid automatic repeat request process for a plurality of subscriber identity modules (SIMs), includes: setting up communication with a plurality of base stations that respectively correspond to the plurality of SIMS; allocating a radio frequency resource to receive data from each base station corresponding to each SIM in an SIM allocation duration, wherein the SIM allocation duration is set corresponding to each of the plurality of SIMS in a multi-SIM allocation period, and wherein the multi-SIM allocation period corresponds to a data round trip time (RTT) of a base station of the plurality of base stations; and transmitting, with respect to the received data, one of an acknowledged (ACK) signal and a negative-ACK (NACK) signal to each base station corresponding to each SIM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyungjae Jun, Youngtaek Kim, Youngju Yoon
  • Patent number: 12628186
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques described herein relate to transmission of a multicast message via a common frequency resource (CFR) in a full duplex slot. The CFR may be positioned within the downlink bandwidth parts (BWP)s configured for a group of user equipments (UE)s such that each UE in the group may monitor for and receive the multicast message. The network may indicate the frequency position of the CFR to the group of UEs. The frequency resources (e.g., the resource blocks) configured for downlink for a UE may be different between half duplex slots and full duplex slots. The network and the UE may determine the active CFR for a full duplex slot based on the resources configured for the full duplex slot. The UE may monitor for and receive a multicast transmission in the active CFR in the full duplex slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino
  • Patent number: 12628214
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes establishing, by a device, a first wireless audio link between a phone and a Bluetooth speaker via the device and establishing, by the device, a second wireless audio link between the Bluetooth speaker and the phone via the device. The Bluetooth speaker includes a local speaker and a microphone. The method also includes receiving, by the device, first audio data from the phone, and transmitting, by the device, the first audio data to the Bluetooth speaker. The method further includes receiving, by the device, second audio data from the microphone of the Bluetooth speaker and transmitting, by the device, the second audio data to the phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuangqing Yuan, Hans Edward Birch-Jensen
  • Patent number: 12628216
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an operating method of a first communication node in a communication system, comprising the steps of: negotiating with a second communication node with respect to a parameter for multi-link transmission; determining, on the basis of the parameter, a plurality of links for performing the multi-link transmission, and the transmission method by which the multi-link transmission is performed; and transmitting, in the plurality of links, a data frame to the second communication node by means of the transmission method. Therefore, the communication node can efficiently set and change links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea National University of Transportation Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Sung Hyun Hwang, Kyu Min Kang, Jae Cheol Park, Jin Hyung Oh, Su Na Choi, Yong Ho Kim, Han Seul Hong
  • Patent number: 12621119
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for configuring time synchronization in a network. The system includes a time signal source to provide a common time signal to multiple configurable communication devices and a network controller in a control plane, in communication with the multiple configurable communication devices. The network controller is configured to receive time signal source information and to receive device configuration information for a first configurable communication device. The network controller is also configured to determine settings for time signal distribution and to transmit the settings to the multiple configurable communication devices to cause the first configurable communication device to transmit the time signal from the time signal source in a data plane for consumption by the multiple configurable communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Rhett Smith, Lance G. Dice, Jason A. Dearien, Robert Meine, Daniel B. Rippon
  • Patent number: 12621900
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a vehicle communication method and apparatus, a computer-readable medium, and an electronic device. The vehicle communication method includes: obtaining at least two discontinuous reception cycles for a vehicle communication data; selecting a target discontinuous reception cycle from the at least two discontinuous reception cycles; receiving the vehicle communication data based on the target discontinuous reception cycle; and adjusting the target discontinuous reception cycle for receiving the vehicle communication data based on the at least two discontinuous reception cycles according to a volume of the vehicle communication data received within a set time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Yixue Lei