Patents Examined by Peter G Solinsky
  • Patent number: 11576193
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving downlink data in a wireless communication system includes the steps of: transmitting a preamble for random access; receiving a response message for the random access corresponding to the preamble, a radio remote control (RRC) connection being established based on the preamble and the response message; receiving configuration information, a repetition scheme based on time division multiplexing being set based on the configuration information; receiving downlink control information (DCI); and receiving a plurality of transmission occasions based on the DCI, wherein a resource allocation in the time domain for the first transmission occasion may be determined based on the time domain resource assignment field of the DCI, and resource allocation in the time domain for the second transmission occasion may be determined based on the resource allocation in the time domain for the first transmission occasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyuseok Kim, Hyungtae Kim, Jiwon Kang
  • Patent number: 11576093
    Abstract: A wireless network may provide system information by either a fixed periodic broadcast or broad-beam transmission or in response to a request by a user equipment (UE). The wireless network may broadcast (or broad-beam transmit) a signal that indicates to the UEs within a cell or zone coverage area that system information is to be transmitted on a fixed periodic schedule or in response to a request sent by one or more UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Keiichi Kubota, Tingfang Ji, Naga Bhushan, Gavin Bernard Horn, John Edward Smee, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 11570752
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a notification of a change to multicast broadcast (MB) control information associated with at least one MB service to which the UE is subscribed, the MB control information being included in an MB control channel (MBCCH) scheduled by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) communication addressed to an MB radio network temporary identifier (MB-RNTI); and monitor one or more resources of the MBCCH to receive updated MB control information based at least in part on receiving the notification of the change to the MB control information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Xipeng Zhu, Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Kazuki Takeda, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Umesh Phuyal, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11569942
    Abstract: A wireless device may receive configuration parameter(s) of a time alignment timer associated with a cell. The wireless device may determine to defer transmission of a HARQ feedback, associated with a transport block, from a first timing to a second timing. The wireless device may transmit, via the cell, the HARQ feedback in the second timing based on the time alignment timer running in the second timing and regardless of whether the time alignment timer is running or is not running in the first timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: PanPsy Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11570632
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving, from an application framework, a set of tasks, a throughput requirement for each task of the set of tasks, and a set of active connections for a radio network comprising a Wi-Fi radio and a Zigbee radio. The computer-implemented method also includes determining, using the set of tasks, the throughput requirement for each task of the set of tasks, and the set of active connections, a target Wi-Fi radio duty cycle and setting the Wi-Fi radio to operate at the target Wi-Fi radio duty cycle. The computer-implemented method further includes monitoring, using a monitoring unit, air time statistics associated with the Wi-Fi radio, determining, using the air time statistics, a measured Wi-Fi duty cycle, and adjusting Wi-Fi radio settings to decrease a difference between the target Wi-Fi duty cycle and the measured Wi-Fi duty cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravi Ichapurapu, Morris Yuanhsiang Hsu, Milos Jorgovanovic, Pratik Kalpesh Patel
  • Patent number: 11563529
    Abstract: Various solutions for supporting out-of-order hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may construct a first HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and construct a second HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to a second PDSCH received later than the first PDSCH. The apparatus may activating an out-of-order HARQ transmission to transmit the first HARQ-ACK codebook and the second HARQ-ACK codebook in an event that the priorities associated with the codebooks are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Mohammed S Aleabe Al-Imari
  • Patent number: 11563544
    Abstract: An example method for transmitting a random access preamble comprises selecting (502) a random access preamble configuration from a plurality of predetermined random access preamble configurations. The method further includes determining (504) a time interval in which to transmit the random access preamble. The method further comprises transmitting (506) the random access preamble according to the selected random access preamble configuration. Each of the plurality of random access preamble configurations comprises a combination of (a) a single root sequence from a predetermined set of one or more root sequences, (b) a single cyclic shift of a predetermined plurality of cyclic shifts for the root sequence, and (c) a single starting position of two or more predetermined starting positions within time intervals allocated for random access preamble transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Andres Reial, Henrik Sahlin, Oskar Mauritz
  • Patent number: 11558816
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to wake-up frame indication. A device may determine a wake up receiver (WUR) wake-up frame to be sent to a first station device of one or more station devices. The device may determine one or more indications associated with the first station device, wherein the one or more indications indicate to the first station device, one or more actions to be taken by the first station device after waking up a primary connectivity radio (PCR) of the first station device. The device may cause a medium access control (MAC) layer to encode the WUR wake-up frame with the one or more indications associated with the first station device. The device may cause to send the WUR wake-up frame to the first station device using a physical layer (PHY).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Noam Ginsburg, Daniel Bravo, Robert Stacey
  • Patent number: 11553531
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a contention window management method applied to an unlicensed band. The method includes sending, by a sending device, one or more data packets to one or more receiving devices in one reference time unit or a plurality of reference time units, where the one or more data packets occupy a first bandwidth. The method further includes receiving, by the sending device from the one or more receiving devices, a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ or HARQs for the one or more data packets. The sending device determines a contention window (CW) size of a second bandwidth with reference to the HARQ or HARQs. The CW update based on HARQ feedback improves communication efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiong Jia, Jun Zhu, Ji Wu
  • Patent number: 11553516
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method in which a user equipment receives downlink control information in a wireless communication system. The user equipment may receive configuration information for reception of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from a base station, and may receive a PDCCH including downlink control information (DCI) on the basis of the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Kyungjun Choi, Minseok Noh, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 11546098
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving HARQ-ACK information in a wireless communication system and a device therefor are disclosed. Specifically, a method of transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), HARQ-ACK information in a wireless communication system, the method comprising receiving configuration information related to a plurality of control resource sets; receiving first downlink control information (DCI) based on the first control resource set and second DCI based on the second control resource set via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and transmitting the HARQ-ACK information based on the determined PUCCH resource, wherein an order of the first DCI and the second DCI is determined based on (i) an index of a monitoring occasion related to the PDCCH, (ii) a cell index, and (iii) an index of each control resource set pool, wherein the PUCCH resource is determined based on a last DCI among the first DCI and the second DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyuseok Kim, Hyungtae Kim, Suckchel Yang, Jiwon Kang, Seonwook Kim, Hyunho Lee
  • Patent number: 11546939
    Abstract: A signal is queued (150) for transmission on a spectrum. An energy level of interference on the spectrum is sensed and, depending on a signal type of the signal (150), a threshold is determined. Then, a threshold comparison between the sensed energy level and the determined threshold is performed, and depending on the threshold comparison, the signal is selectively transmitted on the spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Rickard Ljung
  • Patent number: 11546879
    Abstract: A wireless device may receive system information indicating a number of paging sub-groups. The wireless device may determine to be associated with a first paging sub-group based on the number and a wireless device identifier. The wireless device may receive a DCI indicating paging sub-group(s) for a paging occasion. The wireless device may monitor a control channel in the paging occasion in response to the paging sub-group(s) comprising the first paging sub-group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: PanPsy Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11540268
    Abstract: A configuration for a single transport block spanning over multiple slots and having a noncontiguous time domain allocation. The apparatus configures DCI that schedules a plurality of PDSCH symbols or a plurality of PUSCH symbols with a single transport block that spans more than one slot and at least one gap between two adjacent PDSCH symbols or PUSCH symbols. Each of the plurality of PDSCH symbols or PUSCH symbols are contiguous and have a respective SLIV. The apparatus transmits the DCI to at least one UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail, Jing Sun, Yan Zhou, Zhifei Fan, Wooseok Nam, Qingjiang Tian, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11539476
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving HARQ-ACK information in a wireless communication system and a device therefor are disclosed. Specifically, a method of transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), HARQ-ACK information in a wireless communication system comprises receiving first downlink control information (DCI) based on a first control resource set group and second DCI based on a second control resource set group; determining a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for a transmission of the HARQ-ACK information; and transmitting the HARQ-ACK information based on the determined PUCCH resource, wherein the first DCI and the second DCI are indexed based on (i) an index of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) related monitoring occasion, (ii) a cell index, and (iii) an index associated with each control resource set group, and wherein the PUCCH resource is determined based on a last DCI among the first DCI and the second DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyuseok Kim, Hyungtae Kim, Suckchel Yang, Jiwon Kang, Seonwook Kim, Hyunho Lee
  • Patent number: 11540352
    Abstract: A closed loop carrier sense multiple access multiuser request to send and clear to send handshaking system is provided to efficiently allocate licensed and unlicensed spectrum for a plurality of mobile devices and across different base stations and mobile network operators. A user equipment device can be connected to a base station device via a first frequency in licensed spectrum, and a second frequency in unlicensed spectrum. The air interface on the first frequency can then be used to coordinate physical and virtual carrier sensing on a second frequency among a plurality of user equipment devices. Moreover, carrier sensing results from a plurality of UEs can be reported a base station device via the first frequency in licensed spectrum. The base station device can then schedule multiple user multiple input, multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmissions to a plurality of UEs on the second frequency in unlicensed spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh, Abdulrauf Hafeez
  • Patent number: 11540241
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5G or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4G communication system such as LTE. A method of transmitting a synchronization signal for device-to-device (D2D) communication in an asynchronous network is provided. The method includes transmitting, at the first cell, a system information block (SIB) including resource allocation information of a first cell and at least one neighboring cell, determining whether a first terminal is in a first mode and whether the first terminal is scheduled to perform one of a D2D communication and a D2D discovery, determining, when the first terminal is in the first mode, whether the first terminal is required to transmit a D2D synchronization signal (D2DSS), and transmitting, when the first terminal is required to transmit the D2DSS, scheduling information including a transmission time point and transmission reference timing information to the first terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunseok Ryu, Peng Xue, Seunghoon Park, Sangwon Choi
  • Patent number: 11539475
    Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses for transmitting sidelink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information. The method of a receiver user equipment (UE) includes: receiving configuration information on a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource set, receiving a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) from a transmitter UE, determining a PSFCH resource used for transmitting the HARQ feedback information in response to the PSSCH in the PSFCH resource set based on pre-configured identification information, and transmitting the HARQ feedback information using the PSFCH resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kyujin Park
  • Patent number: 11533691
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiver configured to receive a synchronization signal block (SS/PBCH block) including information that indicates a configuration of a control resource set; and a processor configured to determine a position of the control resource set relative to the SS/PBCH block based on the information. In other aspects, another terminal, a radio communication method for a terminal, and a base station are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daiki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Daisuke Murayama, Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 11533213
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a first synchronization signal for synchronizing with a cell, the first synchronization signal transmitted at a first periodicity by a base station serving the cell. The UE may then receive, subsequent to the synchronizing, a second synchronization signal for resynchronizing with the cell. In some cases, the second synchronization signal may be transmitted by the base station according to a second periodicity that is different from the first periodicity. In some cases, the second synchronization signal may include a plurality of repetitions of a first sequence that is based at least in part on a cell identifier of the cell. The UE may communicate over the cell with the base station based at least in part on the resynchronizing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ayan Sengupta, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Le Liu