Patents Examined by Mounir Moutaouakil
  • Patent number: 12225549
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for providing hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information. A method includes receiving a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that schedules a transmission of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in a slot and receiving PDCCHs that schedule receptions of first multicast physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), respectively. A first number of the PDCCHs is not received after the first PDCCH, and a second number of the PDCCHs is received after the first PDCCH. The method further includes determining that transmission of a PUCCH to provide the HARQ-ACK information associated with receptions of multicast PDSCHs, that include the first multicast PDSCHs, would overlap in time with the PUSCH transmission in the slot and transmitting the PUSCH. The PUSCH includes first HARQ-ACK information associated with the first number of PDCCHs and does not include second HARQ-ACK information associated with the second number of PDCCHs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 12219480
    Abstract: Disclosed, according to various embodiments, are a method for a UE transmitting a sidelink signal in a wireless communication system supporting a sidelink, and a device therefor. Disclosed is a method for transmitting a sidelink signal and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: measuring state information including mobility information; receiving a first sidelink signal including control information; and determining whether to transmit a second sidelink signal, wherein, on the basis of the control information, including information on a cluster area, and the state information, including information on a location included in the cluster area, a UE monitors the receiving or not of a third sidelink signal transmitted by other UEs during a predetermined duration, and whether to transmit the second sidelink signal is determined on the basis of the result of the monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minsung Kwak, Hanbyul Seo, Seungryul Yang
  • Patent number: 12213120
    Abstract: In a wireless communication base station device, a modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Dch data after coding to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Lch data after coding to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol and Lch data symbol to each sub-carrier composing an OFDM symbol and outputs the allocated sub-carrier to a multiplex unit. In this case, the allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol to a plurality of resource blocks where one Dch is arranged at an interval equal to integral multiples of the number of resource blocks composing a resource block group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Christian Wengerter, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 12200533
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to a method for controlling service flow transmission. One example method includes: a session management network element obtains a first TMBR of a service flow transmitted in a session by using a first access technology and a guaranteed bandwidth of a first GBR service flow, where the TMBR indicates a TMBR of service flows transmitted in the session by using the first access technology. The session management network element sends first information to a data plane network element, where the first information is used by the data plane network element to determine one or more of the following information of the session: a first AMBR, a second AMBR corresponding to the first access technology, and a second TMBR. A second AMBR indicates an AMBR of a non-GBR service flow transmitted in the session by using the first access technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Youyang Yu
  • Patent number: 12193061
    Abstract: A method for a contention-based random access procedure includes: receiving, by a base station, a first scheduled transmission message of a mobile terminal; in response to receiving the first scheduled transmission message, setting up, by the base station, a contention resolution message, wherein the contention resolution message comprises a defined part of a hash value of a mobile terminal contention resolution identity; and transmitting, by the base station, the contention resolution message to the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventor: Thomas Paetzold
  • Patent number: 12192122
    Abstract: A device includes ports, a packet processor, and a memory management circuit. The ports communicate packets over a network. The packet processor processes the packets using queues. The memory management circuit maintains a shared buffer in a memory and adaptively allocates memory resources from the shared buffer to the queues, maintains in the memory, in addition to the shared buffer, a shared-reserve memory pool for use by the queues, identifies, among the queues, a queue that requires additional memory resources, the queue having an occupancy that is (i) above a current value of a dynamic threshold, rendering the queue ineligible for additional allocation from the shared buffer, and (ii) no more than a defined margin above the current value of the dynamic threshold, rendering the queue eligible for allocation from the shared-reserve memory pool, and allocates memory resources to the identified queue from the shared-reserve memory pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Niv Aibester, Barak Gafni
  • Patent number: 12192971
    Abstract: A physical downlink control channel PDCCH transmission method and apparatus is provided. The method includes: A network device sends first indication information to a terminal device, where the first indication information may include configuration information of a PDCCH, the configuration information of the PDCCH is used to indicate at least one repeated transmission configuration manner, which includes a first repeated transmission configuration manner. The repeated transmission configuration manner includes at least one of a quantity of repetitions of the PDCCH and an aggregation level that is of the PDCCH and that corresponds to the quantity of repetitions. The network device may send the PDCCH to the terminal device based on the first repeated transmission configuration manner. According to this method, a sending effect of a PDCCH at a higher aggregation level can be implemented through repeated sending of a plurality of PDCCHs at lower aggregation levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hailong Hou, Chaojun Li, Liyan Su
  • Patent number: 12166731
    Abstract: A user equipment is configured to operate in a wireless communications network being operated in a TDD scheme, the TDD scheme including a plurality of TDD-frames, each TDD-frame including a guard period arranged between a downlink symbol and an uplink symbol of the TDD-frame. The user equipment is configured to receive a first number of symbols during the guard period or is configured to transmit the uplink symbol and to transmit a second number of symbols previous to transmitting the uplink symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Lars Thiele, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Wirth
  • Patent number: 12160305
    Abstract: Systems and methods for supporting more flexible coverage areas and spatial capacity assignments using satellite communications systems are disclosed. A hub-spoke, bent-pipe satellite communications system includes: terminals; gateways; a controller for specifying data for controlling satellite operations in accordance with a frame definition including timeslots for a frame and defining an allocation of capacity between forward and return traffic. The satellite communications system may employ a satellite with a feed array assembly and may use on-board beamforming or ground-based beamforming. Beam hopping within timeslots of the frame may be used to provide coverage to different cells in different time periods. The flexible coverage areas may be provided using changes in satellite position, antenna patterns, or beam resource allocations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Viasat, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark J. Miller, Charles N. Pateros, Aaron J. Mendelsohn, Donald L. Runyon
  • Patent number: 12160857
    Abstract: Aspects herein relate to wireless devices, circuits, and methods for indicating, by a wireless device, to a wireless station, an ability to support semi-persistent (SP) measurement gap (MG) configuration; receiving, from the wireless station, a SP MG configuration; receiving, from the wireless station, a message to activate the SP MG configuration; performing, in response to receiving the message to activate the SP MG configuration, a target carrier frequency measurement, wherein the target carrier frequency measurement is performed in accordance with the activated SP MG configuration; receiving from the wireless station, a message to deactivate the SP MG configuration; and discontinuing, in response to receiving the message to deactivate the SP MG configuration, the performance of the target carrier frequency measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang, Yuqin Chen, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen
  • Patent number: 12156057
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiver that receives an instruction signal indicating to modify a configuration of a radio link monitoring; and a controller that modifies a parameter used for the configuration of the radio link monitoring in accordance with the instruction signal received by the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Tooru Uchino, Takuma Takada, Xiaolin Hou, Lihui Wang
  • Patent number: 12156242
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for mitigating interference caused by legacy reference signals from neighbor cells (e.g., LTE cell-specific reference signals) to non-legacy downlink transmissions in a serving cell (e.g., NR/5G PDSCH transmissions).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Faris Rassam, Hobin Kim, Hari Sankar, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 12120541
    Abstract: A method for processing communication range information and a terminal are provided. The method includes: receiving the communication range information of a service data unit from an application layer; determining target information according to the communication range information; and transmitting the target information to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianping Zhou, Xiaodong Yang, Qian Zheng
  • Patent number: 12120503
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal including: a reception unit that receives, from a base station, a measurement configuration which associates information indicating an object cell on which given processing is to be performed, with a conditional configuration indicating a condition to initiate the given processing; a measurement unit that measures reception quality of a cell; and a control unit that initiates the given processing corresponding to the conditional configuration when the measured cell is included in the object cell and the reception quality of the measured cell fulfills the condition to initiate the given processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SOFTBANK CORP.
    Inventor: Katsunari Uemura
  • Patent number: 12114296
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication technique and a system for fusing a 5G communication system with IoT technology to support a higher data rate after a 4G system. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, etc.), based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyoungju Ji, Jinhyun Park, Hoondong Noh, Youngrok Jang
  • Patent number: 12113722
    Abstract: In an example embodiment a data transmission device for transmitting data packets comprises at least one receive interface configured to receive data packets from a respective data source; a respective receive buffer configured to buffer the data packets received via the respective receive interface; a transfer device configured to transfer the data packets from the respective receive buffer to a transmit buffer, the transmit buffer selected for the respective data packet from a plurality of existing transmit buffers; and a respective transmit interface configured to transmit the data packets stored in the respective transmit buffer to a receiving device, wherein the transfer device is configured to transfer the respective data packet from the respective receive buffer into the selected transmit buffer only when an enable condition exists, the enable condition being based on a fill level of one of the transmit buffers other than the selected transmit buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AG
    Inventors: Andreas Urban, Jutta Kiesel, Harald Karl, Bing Liu
  • Patent number: 12101806
    Abstract: An apparatus, for wideband communication with one or more transceivers in a wireless communication system using one or more subbands of a predefined wideband, is configured to perform initial Listen-Before-Talk, LBT, for each subband of the predefined wideband so as to determine from the predefined wideband one or more non-occupied subbands on which the wideband communication is allowed during a certain transmission time, and during the certain transmission time, transmit to and/or receive from the transceiver using the non-occupied subbands. During the certain transmission time and in case the initial LBT indicted that one or more of the subbands are occupied, the apparatus is configured to perform a further LBT for the one or more occupied subbands so as to determine one or more of the initially occupied subbands being no longer occupied, and transmit to and/or receive from the transceiver using, in addition to the initially non-occupied subbands, the one or more no longer occupied subbands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Baris Goektepe, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Martin Leyh, Thomas Heyn, Bernhard Niemann, Julian Popp
  • Patent number: 12089196
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may receive a transmission including a set of spatial layers. The set of spatial layers may include at least a first spatial layer and a second spatial layer subsequent to the first spatial layer. The device may determine a first number of search points of the first spatial layer based on a modulation order of the first spatial layer, and a second number of search points of the second spatial layer based on the first number of search points and a modulation order of the second spatial layer. The device may compute a quantity of distance metrics based on the first and second numbers of search points. The device may demap symbols of the received transmission based on the quantity of distance metrics. In some examples, demapping the symbols may be based on a per-stream recursive demapping process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hong Zhang, Jyotish Robin, Yuksel Ozan Basciftci
  • Patent number: 12082165
    Abstract: To configure an IAB node for DU function and MT function resource transition within an IAB network, the processing circuitry is to decode configuration signaling from a DU function of an IAB parent node, which provides allocated resources for a parent backhaul link. A resource transition is detected in adjacent slots between transmission or reception of data on the parent backhaul link and a child link. A number of desired guard symbols is determined for insertion during the transmission or reception of the data to avoid overlapping of the allocated resources for the parent backhaul link and allocated resources for the DU function during the resource transition in the adjacent slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Qian Li, Lili Wei, Geng Wu
  • Patent number: 12074683
    Abstract: A modem is configurable on a satellite, user terminal or gateway generates a radio frequency (RF) signal using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) protocol including a radio frame including one or more bursts. A burst of the one or more bursts includes a first portion including burst detection data, a second portion including channel characteristic estimation data, a third portion including payload data, and fourth and fifth portions including pilot data. The first portion in a time domain is included in the burst prior to the second, third, fourth, and fifth portions. The first portion can include a pseudo-random noise sequence inserted in the time domain. The same physical modem can be configured to transmit signals on an uplink or downlink between a user terminal and a satellite or on the uplink or downlink between the satellite and the gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Martin S. McCormick, Torbjorn Larsson, Alazar Tamrat, Jeffrey C. Strait, Chen Chen, Philip J. Treigherman, Stephan O. Roche, Ronald Gottula