Patents Examined by Nicholas Sloms
  • Patent number: 12156144
    Abstract: A method, system, or apparatus may multiplex a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH). The system may apply a power boost to the PSCCH. Additionally, the method, system, or apparatus may power boost a portion of the PSSCH that corresponds to the frequency resources used by the PSSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sergey Panteleev, Alexey Khoryaev, Mikhail Shilov, Kilian Roth, Leondardo Gomes Baltar
  • Patent number: 12143342
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for communicating uplink and downlink transmissions when a semi-statically configured scheduling occasion is overwritten by a slot format indicator. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a control message from a base station (BS) activating a semi-static scheduling configuration, wherein the semi-static scheduling configuration indicates a plurality of configured grant (CG) symbols in which the UE is scheduled to transmit at least one uplink transmission to the BS. The method may further include receiving, from the BS, a slot format indicator (SFI) that overwrites a subset of CG symbols of the plurality of CG symbols to be downlink symbols, and taking one or more actions to communicate at least one downlink transmission in the downlink symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12137425
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node in a radio access network, the IAB node being connected to a first parent IAB node via a first backhaul link, the method including communicating with one or more child nodes based on a downlink timing, the downlink timing being based on a function of one or more values of a first timing parameter, the values of the first timing parameter being indicated by corresponding first timing indicators received from the first parent IAB node and/or one or more values of a second timing parameter, the values of the second timing parameter being indicated by corresponding second timing indicators received from the first parent IAB node. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Boris Dortschy, Erik Dahlman
  • Patent number: 12089256
    Abstract: A random access method includes: when initiating random access, determining a measurement result of channel state information measurement reference signals (CSI-RS) of a plurality of beams; determining a target beam corresponding to a target CSI-RS having a measurement result greater than a preset threshold value; determining a target Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) corresponding to the target CSI-RS; determining a random access preamble and random access timing associated with the target SSB; and initiating random access on the target beam based on the random access preamble and the random access timing. A beam can be determined according to the measurement result of an CSI-RS, without determining the beam according to the measurement result of an SSB, thereby preventing the problem of user equipment (UE) being unable to select a suitable beam for random access due to a measurement result of an SSB not being obtained for a downlink BWP by UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaowei Jiang, Ming Zhang
  • Patent number: 12069557
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provision a mobile mesh network. A mobile mesh network provisioning system includes a wireless communications module configured to be physically coupled to a fleet vehicle and to form at least a part of a mobile mesh network including a plurality of mobile nodes corresponding to a respective plurality of fleet vehicles, and a logic device configured to communicate with the wireless communications module. The logic device is configured to determine a data route through at least a portion of the mobile mesh network based, at least in part, on a target data destination and a mobile node participation variability associated with the mobile mesh network, and to transmit fleet data associated with the fleet vehicle along the determined data route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Steven Chelminski, Jatin Chopra, Romain Clément, Cyril Francis Meyer, III
  • Patent number: 12035261
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting a synchronization signal (SS), the method comprising: performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) operation in a pre-defined window; if the LBT operation succeeds, transmitting an SS block (SSB) in the window, wherein the SSB comprises the SS, or the SSB comprises the SS and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). Compared with the prior art, the present disclosure may significantly improve the efficiency of data transmission and the access performance for the communication system by relaxing the time when the base station implements the LBT, that is, allowing the base station to implement the LBT in the pre-defined window and transmit the SSB after the LBT succeeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Wang, Yingyang Li, Min Wu, Shichang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12015546
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a routing destination evaluation apparatus includes a metrics acquisition unit and a routing destination evaluation unit. The metrics acquisition unit acquires time-series data of types of metrics associated with a candidate. The candidate is one of candidates of a routing destination to which the routing control apparatus routes a request including the first destination data. The routing destination evaluation unit evaluates the candidates based on the time-series data, and generates routing destination evaluation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: NTT Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiko Kisa, Takayuki Kamei
  • Patent number: 12010032
    Abstract: A domain and a mobile device may exchange data via a radio access node included in a mobile network. During a time of peak demand, a data load level of the radio access node may exceed a threshold. To accommodate the peak demand, historical types and volumes of data may be used to manage a data rate related to data associated with the domain. Based on the historical information, the data rate for a mobile device, a radio access node, a range of time, or a data type may be controlled. The data rate may be managed by a network gateway, such as a gateway included in the mobile network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sheldon Meredith, William Cottrill, John Pastore
  • Patent number: 12010698
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for communicating a dynamically scheduled transmission that overwrites a transmission in a semi-static scheduling occasion. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a first control message, activating a first semi-static scheduling configuration and a second semi-static scheduling configuration for full duplex communication, wherein: the first semi-static scheduling configuration comprises a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) occasion and the second semi-static scheduling configuration comprises a configured grant (CG) occasion. The method may further include receiving a second control message dynamically scheduling a transmission that overwrites a downlink transmission in the SPS occasion or an uplink transmission in the CG occasion and taking one or more actions to communicate at least the transmission that overwrites the downlink transmission in the SPS occasion or the uplink transmission in the CG occasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Juan Montojo, Navid Abedini, Jelena Damnjanovic, Peter Gaal, Junyi Li, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11997544
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from at least one second UE, first control information associated with a first reserved set of resources on a sidelink channel. The first UE may attempt to decode additional control information based at least in part on the first control information. The first UE may transmit, based at least in part on failing to decode the additional control information, a message using the first reserved set of resources. In some aspects, the first UE may determine, based on one or more resource dimensions, at least one first distance between the first UE and the at least one second UE, such that the message is transmitted with a first transmit power based at least in part on the first distance. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaojie Wang, Piyush Gupta, Lik Hang Silas Fong
  • Patent number: 11985647
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for sidelink groupcast communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a beam training request to a base station to determine beams for use with other UEs in a sidelink groupcast communications group. The base station may receive the beam training request, identify wireless resources that a group of UEs may use to perform beam training, and may transmit a beam training grant to each UE of the group of UEs. The UE may transmit a number of training beams using the wireless resources provided in the beam training grant, and the other UEs may measure received signals on the wireless resources to identify one or more beams. Each UE may provide a beam training report to the base station. The base station, based on the beam training reports, may determine beams and resources for use in the groupcast sidelink communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Kapil Gulati, Hong Cheng, Juan Montojo, Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11968066
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for uplink multiuser data transmission and a system for uplink multiuser multiple input multiple output. The method includes: sending, by an access point AP, indication information to at least two stations STAs, wherein the indication information is used for indicating that the at least two STAs perform an uplink multiuser data transmission; receiving, by the AP, uplink data sent by the at least two STAs through channels from the at least two STAs to the AP, respectively; and demodulating, by the AP, the uplink data sent by the at least two STAs using receiving beams corresponding to pre-estimated channels from the at least two STAs to the AP, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xun Yang, Yi Luo
  • Patent number: 11949476
    Abstract: The invention relates to safety or control systems for a plurality of sensors. In particular, the invention relates to networks for transmitting measured parameters, control or similar signals by modeling signals at carrier frequencies using a wireless electric communication, preferably, using a radio communication. A method for a radio communication among a plurality of transceivers of a safety or control system comprises broadcasting a radio signal, which comprises at least a preamble and a packet body, and searching for the preamble through a plurality of antennas k1 of one transceiver with an alternate periodical linking of each antenna to search for the preamble followed by evaluating a quality of the radio signal as compared to a given level of the radio signal upon receipt of the preamble and selecting an antenna having a maximum level of the radio signal, through which a synchronization of the transceivers is started to receive the packet body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: AJAX SYSTEMS CYPRUS HOLDINGS LTD
    Inventors: Konotopskyi Oleksandr Volodymyrovych, Tantsiura Oleksandr Mykolayovych, Piannikov Serhii Dmytrovych
  • Patent number: 11943790
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of transmitting a Physical Broadcasting Channel (PBCH) by a base station in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method may include generating a PBCH payload including bits indicating a frame in which the PBCH is transmitted; scrambling at least some of the bits included in the PBCH payload using second and third least significant bits among the bits; and transmitting the bits of the PBCH payload including the at least some scrambled bits to a user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Ko, Kijun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon, Eunsun Kim, Youngsub Kim, Byounghoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11943755
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses providing a visual metric of the efficiency of a network of devices communicating through a wireless access point (AP). These apparatuses and methods may also determine and display pseudo-dynamic error vector magnitude (EVM) information for a network of wireless stations, including displaying a pseudo-dynamic constellation diagrams using EVM information. These methods and apparatuses may transmit a plurality of sounding packets from each of one or more radio devices different modulation types (e.g., BPSK, QPSK, 16 QAM, 64 QAM, 256 QAM and 1024 QAM), and receiving at least some of the sounding packets at a second radio device (e.g., an access point) and determining EVM information from the received sounding packets, and displaying (or providing for display) a constellation diagram including pseudo-dynamic EVM information that is a constrained approximation of actual EVM information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Ubiquiti Inc.
    Inventors: Sriram Dayanandan, Vish Ponnampalam, Robert J. Pera
  • Patent number: 11910373
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a UE (e.g., an initiator UE) transmits sidelink discovery messages for beam training on a bandwidth associated with DMRS. One or more UEs (e.g., candidate responder UEs) select a beam to pair with a beam associated with one of the sidelink discovery messages, and transmit a sidelink discovery message on the selected beam. In another aspect, a UE (e.g., initiator UE) transmits a sidelink discovery message, which is forwarded to a UE, which may be a lead UE of a sidelink UE group. The lead UE adds the initiator UE to the sidelink UE group, and responds with a sidelink discovery response message and a group indication that at least indicates that the initiator UE now belongs to the sidelink UE group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kaidong Wang, Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11895652
    Abstract: A wireless device, such as a user equipment (UE), may receive first scheduling information with first resources for periodic transmissions with a first beam based on a half-duplex mode. The wireless device may receive second scheduling information for second resources associated with a second beam that is incompatible with the first beam for full duplex communication including downlink reception and uplink transmission that overlaps in time. The wireless device may adjust communication in response to the first beam being incompatible with the second beam for the full duplex communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11895543
    Abstract: A method and system to provide Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO) in a NR network are described. The MRO parameters, use case, management services and information definition and procedures are described. A distributed self-organized network (D-SON) management function requests a producer of provisioning management service (MnS) to set targets, handover parameter ranges, and control information for an MRO function and then enables the MRO function for a non-enabled NR cell. The MRO function receives and analyses information from UEs to determine actions to optimize MRO performance. The D-SON management function collects and analyses MRO related performance measurements to evaluate the MRO performance, and updates the targets, handover parameter ranges, and/or control information when the MRO performance does not meet the targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yizhi Yao, Joey Chou
  • Patent number: 11889334
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for measurement information. The method, which may be implemented at a terminal device, comprises obtaining measurement information based at least in part on configurations of a master network node and a secondary network node. The terminal device is connected to the master network node and the secondary network node. The method further comprises transmitting a report including the measurement information that comprises frequency information to the master network node, in response to a failure related to the secondary network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Rui Fan, Oumer Teyeb, Icaro Leonardo J. Da Silva
  • Patent number: 11855914
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe a group of APs that uses a shared radar cache to select a new channel after vacating a current channel when performing dynamic frequency selection (DFS). The group of APs can set aside memory to store status information about the DFS channels in the frequency band. For example, when one AP detects a radar event (and has to vacate a DFS channel), the AP updates an entry for that channel in the shared radar cache. The APs can also query the cache to determine a new channel after vacating its current channel. That is, the shared radar cache may store the most recent radar events occurring in a channel. In this manner, the APs can select a new channel that has little or no recent radar events, which reduces the likelihood the AP will have to vacate the new channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Santosh B. Kulkarni, Vishal S. Desai, Pooya Monajemi, Young Il Choi, Matthew A. Silverman