Patents Examined by Nicholas Sloms
  • Patent number: 11638290
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing downlink control for multi-TRP transmission. A cellular base station may provide a downlink control information transmission to a wireless device scheduling downlink transmissions to the wireless device from multiple transmission reception points. The downlink control information may include information that can be used by the wireless device to determine any or all of physical resource block bundling sizes, frequency domain resource allocations, modulation and coding schemes, redundancy versions, phase tracking reference signal configurations, and any of various other possible types of configuration information for the downlink transmissions. The wireless device may receive the downlink transmissions from the plurality of transmission reception points in accordance with the downlink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Hong He, Yuchul Kim, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Yakun Sun
  • Patent number: 11638228
    Abstract: [Problem] An object is to obtain a time quality of another GM with high accuracy on the basis of a GM a time quality of which is known already. [Solution] A first TC 20 includes a time comparison unit 23 that calculates time difference information by comparing first time information of a first PTP processing unit 12 and second time information of a second PTP processing unit 22 with each other. In addition, a quality calculation device 5 measures time difference information until time difference information obtained by a time comparison unit 23 of the first TC 20 and time difference information obtained by a time comparison unit 43 of a second TC 40 match each other, and obtains a GM time quality of a second GM 30 on the basis of a transmission time error of the time transmission network 2 at a timing when both of pieces of the time difference information match each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kaoru Arai, Hiroki Sakuma, Masahiro Nakagawa, Shunichi Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11638287
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data transmitting device, data receiving device and the corresponding data transmitting method and data receiving method for transmitting/receiving data over a wireless channel in a communication system. In particular, a first resource grant is received for a data transmission in a subframe and a second resource grant for a data transmission of data in said subframe. Then, it is determined, according to which of the first resource grant and the second resource grant data are to be transmitted in the subframe; and the data is transmitted in the subframe according to the selected first grant or second grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 11627531
    Abstract: A wireless local area network (WLAN) station receiver has a center frequency offset (CFO) estimator and an CFO table with an association between a CFO value from a recently received access point packet for which the station is associated according to 802.11. The receiver performs a comparison between the CFO estimate of the received packet and the CFO value from the CFO database, and powers the receiver down if the comparison exceeds a threshold. The threshold may be an absolute value in parts per million, or may include a time drift compensation component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventor: Sriram Mudulodu
  • Patent number: 11617133
    Abstract: A power control method of a base station in a wireless communication system based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is provided for reducing power consumption by turning off the bias of the power amplifier for the duration of a symbol carrying no user data. The method includes checking scheduling information of radio resources, detecting a symbol carrying no user data, based on the scheduling information, and turning off a bias of the power amplifier for a symbol duration of the symbol carrying no user data. The transmission power control method is capable of reducing power consumption of the base station by turning off the bias of the power amplifier of the base station for the symbol duration in which no user data is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Geun Lee, Young Bae Park, Young Kyu Choi, Ki Back Kim
  • Patent number: 11617194
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a node for wireless communications. A first node receives a first signaling and a first signal in a first time-frequency resource pool; the first signaling comprises scheduling information of the first signal; the first signal carries a first bit block, the first bit block comprising a positive integer number of binary bits; a first value is used for determining a number of binary bits comprised in the first bit block, and the first value is related to the first time-frequency resource pool. The above method helps prevent both sides of communications from different interpretations of Transport Block Size in V2X communications, thus ensuring communication quality and avoiding extra signaling overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Keying Wu, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11617134
    Abstract: A power control method of a base station in a wireless communication system based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is provided for reducing power consumption by turning off the bias of the power amplifier for the duration of a symbol carrying no user data. The method includes checking scheduling information of radio resources, detecting a symbol carrying no user data, based on the scheduling information, and turning off a bias of the power amplifier for a symbol duration of the symbol carrying no user data. The transmission power control method is capable of reducing power consumption of the base station by turning off the bias of the power amplifier of the base station for the symbol duration in which no user data is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Geun Lee, Young Bae Park, Young Kyu Choi, Ki Back Kim
  • Patent number: 11606672
    Abstract: An information transmission method includes: receiving, by a network element selector from a user equipment (UE), a first message including identification information of the UE; determining, based on the identification information of the UE, a user group to which the UE belongs; determining a controller corresponding to the user group; and receiving and sending a further message to the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoqiang Qiao, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 11606721
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may receive, from a repeater having a first interface and a second interface, information associated with one or more capabilities of the repeater, the second interface being different from the first interface. The base station may determine an operation mode for the repeater based at least in part on the information associated with the one or more capabilities of the repeater, and may communicate with the repeater via the first interface or the second interface. In some aspects, a repeater may transmit, to a base station via a first interface, information associated with one or more capabilities of the repeater, and may communicate via the first interface or via a second interface in accordance with an indicated operation mode, the second interface being different from the first interface. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Raju Hormis, Junyi Li, Juergen Cezanne, Ozge Koymen
  • Patent number: 11601454
    Abstract: The invention relates to a work machine and a method for monitoring a control system at a work machine (1a). According to the method, in-parameters (32, 34, 36, 38) are obtained in the form of signals from the control system, wherein the control system generates actual values on one or more out-parameters (42, 44) in the form of signals based on said in-parameters. A characteristic of the invention is that a digital flow of data, comprising both said in-parameters and out-parameters via a control bus (5a, 5b), is addressed to a RAM buffer memory (3b,3c), which is included in a personal computer (3a) onboard the work machine, which buffer memory in FIFO mode writes a data file (id:1.1-id1:n) of a predetermined size, which is saved in a non-volatile data support memory (3d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Komatsu Forest AB
    Inventor: Fredrik Tjernberg
  • Patent number: 11558833
    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: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Wang, Yingyang Li, Min Wu, Shichang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11546787
    Abstract: A method and apparatus report channel state information (CSI) feedback of a user equipment (UE) in a coordinated multipoint communication system. The method includes identifying, when downlink transmissions to the UE are configured with at least two CSI subframe subsets, an interference measurement resource within one of the CSI subframe subsets belonging to a CSI reference resource. The method also includes using the identified interference measurement resource to derive an interference measurement. The apparatus includes a controller configured to, when downlink transmissions to the UE are configured with at least two CSI subframe subsets, identify an interference measurement resource within one of the CSI subframe subsets belonging to a CSI reference resource. The controller is configured to use the identified interference measurement resource to derive an interference measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Krishna Sayana, Young-Han Nam, Jin-Kyu Han, Boon Loong Ng
  • Patent number: 11546888
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) transmits a first transmission comprising first sidelink control information (SCI) using a first cyclic shift, where the first SCI includes information about a second cyclic shift of second SCI for a second transmission from the UE. The UE then transmits the second transmission comprising the second SCI using the second cyclic shift. A receiving UE receives, from a second UE, a first transmission comprising first SCI having a first cyclic shift and uses information in the first SCI to determine cyclic shift information about a second cyclic shift of second SCI for a second transmission from the UE. The receiving UE may exclude the second cyclic shift from selection using the information received in the first SCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lior Uziel, Shailesh Patil
  • Patent number: 11540237
    Abstract: A synchronization method includes: determining a data signal, where a target sequence in the data signal is mapped to at least one symbol that includes the first symbol within a time unit, data in the data signal is mapped to at least one another symbol in the time unit other than the at least one symbol, the first symbol includes a cyclic prefix, and the target sequence is used by a second device to synchronize the data signal; and sending the data signal to the second device in the time unit. In the present disclosure, a sequence used to synchronize a data signal for each transmission is mapped at an equal spacing to at least one symbol that includes the first symbol within a time unit for the current transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Gao, Deping Liu, Zhenwei Lu
  • Patent number: 11533741
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an uplink transmission method, a terminal, and a network side device. The method includes: pre-allocating, by a network side device, an uplink transmission time-frequency resource to a terminal, and storing, by the terminal, the uplink transmission resource; and when the terminal needs to send a data packet, sending, by the terminal, the data packet to the network side device by using the uplink transmission resource, where the data packet includes indication information, the indication information is used to indicate whether the data packet is initially transmitted by the terminal or the data packet is retransmitted by the terminal, and the network side device can correctly receive the data packet and perform combination processing on the data packet based on the indication information. According to embodiments of the disclosure, reliability of grant-free transmission can be ensured, and communication performance can be effectively improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yiqun Wu, Xiuqiang Xu, Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 11528223
    Abstract: A network apparatus comprising a trunk end point associated with an Ethernet-tree (E-Tree) service in a network domain and configured to forward a frame that comprises a tag according to the tag in the frame, wherein the tag in the frame is a root tag that indicates a root source of the frame or a leaf tag that indicates a leaf source of the frame, and wherein the trunk end point is coupled to a second end point associated with the E-tree service outside the network domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lucy Yong
  • Patent number: 11523285
    Abstract: This document discloses a solution for performing channel selection for a wireless network. According to an aspect, a method comprises: detecting, by a first network node, at least a second network node; determining, by the first network node, a primary channel of the second network node and a set of channel bonding configurations supported by the second network node, wherein the set of channel bonding configurations defines one or more configurations for combining the primary channel with auxiliary channels; determining, by the first network node, channel utilisation factors of the second network node for a set of frequency channels by using the set of channel bonding configurations; and selecting, by the first network node, a primary channel on the basis of the channel utilisation factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OY
    Inventors: Anna Zakrzewska, Lester Ho
  • Patent number: 11503510
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 4th-Generation (4G) communication system or 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 present 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. The disclosure discloses a method by a first base station in a wireless communication system, the method including transmitting, to a second base station, a handover (HO) request message including conditional handover (CHO) information; and receiving, from the second base station, a HO request acknowledge message including identifier information on at least one cells associated with the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventors: June Hwang, Himke Van Der Velde
  • Patent number: 11490400
    Abstract: A method by an end node (102) operating in a Mesh communications network (100) is described herein. The end node (102) monitors (601), a first channel, for transmissions of first information from one or more relay nodes (103) operating in the network. The first information indicates transmission, from the one or more relay nodes (103), of second information on a second channel associated with the first channel. The second information indicates transmission, from the one or more relay nodes (103), of third information on a third channel. The third channel is associated with the second channel and the first channel. The end node (102) then determines (603), based on the second information, time periods during which no transmission of the third information is predicted to be performed by the one or more relay nodes (103) on the third channel. The end node (102) then schedules (604) a transmission of fourth information in a fourth channel during the determined time periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Per Skillermark, Pontus Arvidson, Roman Chirikov, Piergiuseppe di Marco
  • Patent number: 11477849
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for cooperation of two or more devices to improve the transmissions over a Uu interface. A source receives or transmits an indicator indicating a first mode of two modes of cooperation between the source apparatus and at least a first cooperating device. The two modes of cooperation includes a joint communication mode and a relay mode of cooperation. If the first mode is the joint communication mode, at least a portion of the data, intended for the intended recipient, is transmitted to at least the first cooperating device to be further transmitted by the first cooperating device to the intended recipient. A same or different portion of the data is transmitted to the intended recipient or to a second cooperating device to be further transmitted by the second cooperating device to the intended recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hua Xu, Jianglei Ma, Liqing Zhang