Patents Examined by Peter G Solinsky
  • Patent number: 11979874
    Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that determines, in a case where a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) spans two durations across a boundary in a time domain, a configuration of a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) during each of the two durations, and a transmitting section that transmits the PUSCH. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, even in a case where a signal/channel is transmitted over a plurality of slots, a reference signal can be appropriately transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang
  • Patent number: 11979899
    Abstract: A method of transmitting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system includes: receiving, from a base station, configuration information related to CSI; receiving, from the base station, a CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) on a plurality of CSI-RS resources; and transmitting, to the base station, first CSI based on the configuration information. The plurality of CSI-RS resources corresponding to the configuration information are configured with (i) one or more channel measurement resources (CMRs) configured to be used to derive CSI based on a single CMR and (ii) one or more CMR pairs configured to be used to derive CSI based on a single CMR pair, unless there is a specific configuration by the configuration information, based on the first CSI being CSI derived based on a single CMR, any CMR included in the one or more CMR pairs may be not used to derive the first CSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyuseok Kim, Jiwon Kang, Haewook Park
  • Patent number: 11974262
    Abstract: This specification provides a method of performing a bandwidth part (BWP) operation in a wireless communication system. Specifically, The method performed by a terminal includes receiving a first message including information related to at least one initial BWP configuration from a network, receiving a second message including configuration information for an additional BWP from the network, receiving downlink control information (DCI) related to BWP switching for at least one configured BWP from the network, and transmitting and receiving signals to and from the network in an activated BWP based on the received DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Huayue Song, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11973541
    Abstract: A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided for wireless communication at a user equipment. The UE receives an indication from a base station that a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) activation of a pathloss reference signal is enabled. The UE receives a MAC-CE activating the pathloss reference signal. The UE determines the pathloss reference signal based on the MAC-CE and the indication that indicates that the MAC-CE activation of the pathloss reference signal is enabled. Then, the UE estimates a downlink pathloss based on the pathloss reference signal that is activated by the MAC-CE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11974275
    Abstract: A device of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method and a machine readable medium to implement the method. The device includes a Radio Frequency (RF) interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the RF interface, the processing circuitry to: decode a downlink (DL) communication from a NR evolved NodeB (gNodeB), the DL communication including DL Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) assignments for respective DL SPS transmissions from the gNodeB, the DL communication further including a SPS Configuration (SPS-Config) parameter, the SPS-Config parameter including information on a symbol-level periodicity of the DL SPS transmissions from the gNodeB; determining the symbol-level periodicity of the DL SPS transmissions from the SPS-Config parameter; and decoding the DL SPS transmissions based on a determination of the symbol-level periodicity of the DL SPS assignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Patent number: 11968689
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are described for monitoring downlink control information (DCI). In particular, some embodiments may be directed to monitoring DCI for an indication of channel occupancy time (COT) information. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yongjun Kwak, Bishwarup Mondal, Daewon Lee, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Lopamudra Kundu, Hong He
  • Patent number: 11962420
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE), the UE receives and/or detects a multicast transmission of downlink data on a configured downlink multicast resource, wherein the multicast transmission is associated with a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process. The UE starts a multicast HARQ Round Trip Time (RTT) timer associated with the HARQ process. The UE determines whether to start a unicast HARQ RTT timer associated with the HARQ process based on whether the UE is configured with a Configured Scheduling Radio Network Temporary Identifier (CS-RNTI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ASUS Technology Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Li-Chih Tseng
  • Patent number: 11963146
    Abstract: A method and a device for detecting slot format indication, and a method and a device for configuring slot format indication are provided. The method for detecting slot format indication is applied to a terminal and includes: obtaining a bit length of SFI index information of a target cell or a target carrier and a slot format configuration set corresponding to the bit length; detecting the SFI index information of the target cell or the target carrier; and determining a slot format configuration corresponding to the detected SFI index information based on the detected SFI index information and the slot format configuration set corresponding to the bit length of the detected SFI index information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueming Pan, Xiaodong Shen, Lei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11963168
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure are a method for transmitting and receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a wireless communication system, and a device therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyuseok Kim, Hyungtae Kim, Jiwon Kang
  • Patent number: 11963192
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for receiving scheduling information, comprising steps of: receiving Downlink Control Information (DCI); and determining, according to a mapping relationship between configured transmission resources used for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) and scheduling information in the DCI, scheduling information corresponding to the PUSCH in the DCI. Compared with the prior art, in the present invention, the scheduling information in the DCI is determined by the mapping relationship between the configured transmission resources used for transmitting the PUSCH by a UE and the scheduling information in the DCI, so that a base station can schedule all UEs for which there is a mapping relationship between PUSCH configured transmission resources and the scheduling information in DCI by sending only one piece of DCI. The scheduling overhead is reduced, the resource waste is reduced, and the efficiency of scheduling terminals by a communication system is significantly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Di Su, Miao Zhou, Feifei Sun, Chen Qian
  • Patent number: 11956700
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wireless communication system capable of performing communication between wireless communication apparatuses respectively mounted on vehicles performing platooning is characterized in that a frequency channel used in data transmission and reception between an own vehicle and a preceding vehicle adjacent to the own vehicle, and a frequency channel used in data transmission and reception between the own vehicle and a succeeding vehicle adjacent to the own vehicle are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Tamaki
  • Patent number: 11956087
    Abstract: Provided are a method for performing wireless communication by a first device, and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise: determining one or more logical channels of interest from among a plurality of logical channels; based on sidelink (SL) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback being enabled for at least one logical channel among the one or more logical channels of interest, allocating N SL processes, from among a plurality of SL processes for transmitting a plurality of medium access control protocol data units (MAC PDUs), to a SL resource in which a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource is configured; and performing HARQ feedback-based SL communication based on the N SL processes, wherein N is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Giwon Park, Youngdae Lee, Seungmin Lee, Seoyoung Back, Jongwoo Hong
  • Patent number: 11956319
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may establish one or more protocol data unit (PDU) sessions via a radio access network (RAN) node. The WTRU may transition to an inactive state. The WTRU may send a connection resume message to a RAN node that indicates a request to resume the established plurality of PDU sessions via the RAN node. The WTRU may receive a message from the RAN node. For example, the RAN node may send a message indicating a subset of the plurality of PDU sessions that are available upon resuming a connection with the RAN node. The WTRU may deactivate at least one established PDU session of the plurality of PDU sessions based on the received message from the RAN node that indicates at least one established PDU session not being included in the subset of the plurality of PDU sessions that are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Shi, Guanzhou Wang, Saad Ahmad
  • Patent number: 11950277
    Abstract: An implementation of the present disclosure relates to a resource configuration method and an access network device, wherein the method comprises: the access network device receives a plurality of time-sensitive communication assistance information (TSCAI) sent by a core network device, the plurality of TSCAI correspond to traffic attributes of a plurality of traffic flows; and the access network device configures semi-continuous scheduling resources for each traffic flow in the plurality of traffic flows according to the plurality of TSCAI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianhua Liu, Zhe Fu
  • Patent number: 11943746
    Abstract: Provided are a method for a first device to perform wireless communication, and a device for supporting same. The method may include: receiving, from a second device, a first sidelink control information (SCI) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH); receiving, from the second device, a second SCI through a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) related to the PSCCH; determining a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource, based on an index of a slot and an index of a subchannel related to the PSSCH; and determining whether or not to transmit hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information for the PSSCH to the second device on the PSFCH resource, wherein a format of the second SCI is a first format which does not include location information of the second device or a second format which includes location information of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Daesung Hwang, Woosuk Ko
  • Patent number: 11930508
    Abstract: An embodiment of this application provides a downlink control information transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving first downlink control information DCI in search space of a first carrier bandwidth part BWP, where if a frequency domain resource allocation type of the first BWP is a type 0, an Lf-bit frequency domain resource allocation indication in the first DCI is an Lf-bit bitmap, and bits in the Lf-bit bitmap in descending order are respectively corresponding to resource block groups RBG 0 to RBG (Lf?1) in a second BWP; and for one bit in the Lf-bit bitmap, when a value of the bit is t1, an allocated resource includes one RBG corresponding to the bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junchao Li, Hao Tang, Zhenfei Tang
  • Patent number: 11930498
    Abstract: Some aspects described herein relate transmitting, to a receiving UE, a sidelink control information (SCI) that schedules multiple transport blocks (TBs) of shared channel communications in multiple time divisions, and transmitting, to the receiving UE and based on the SCI, the multiple TBs of shared channel communications in the multiple time divisions. Other aspects relate to receiving, from a transmitting UE, a SCI that schedules multiple TBs of shared channel communications in multiple time divisions, and receiving, from the transmitting UE and based on the SCI, the multiple TBs of shared channel communications in the multiple time divisions. Additional aspects relate to configuring the UEs in this regard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Liu, Yisheng Xue, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11930509
    Abstract: A wireless device receives, from a base station, one or more radio resource control messages indicating: a first value of a first bandwidth part (BWP) inactivity timer for a first cell, and a second value of a second BWP inactivity timer for a second cell. A downlink control information (DCI) is received, via the first cell, indicating a set of sidelink resources for sidelink transmission via the second cell. In response to the DCI, the first BWP inactivity timer is restarted based on the first value. A transport block, of the sidelink transmission, is transmitted via a sidelink resource of the set of sidelink resources. In response to transmitting via the sidelink resource, the second BWP inactivity timer is restarted based on the second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hyukjin Chae, Bing Hui
  • Patent number: 11930506
    Abstract: A method of a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from at least one of transmission and reception points (TRPs), downlink control information (DCI) including first information on transmission configuration indication (TCI) states and second information for antenna ports, identifying whether each of the TRPs repeatedly transmits same data via a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) based on a number of code division multiplex (CDM) group indicated by the second information for antenna ports, and receiving data from the TRPs based on a result of the identifying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinhyun Park, Hoondong Noh, Jeongho Yeo, Heecheol Yang, Hyoungju Ji
  • Patent number: 11924842
    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 of a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinhyun Park, Taehyoung Kim, Hoondong Noh, Youngrok Jang, Hyoungju Ji