Patents Examined by Peter G Solinsky
  • Patent number: 11350447
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for configuring a radio device which is operable in a first carrier and a second carrier. The method comprises determining whether the operation in the first carrier is to interfere with the operation in the second carrier. The method further comprises arranging the operation in at least one of the first carrier and the second carrier based at least in part on the determination. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the operations of the radio device in different frequency bands can be arranged adaptively and flexibly, so that system capacity and energy efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Ming Li, Gen Li
  • Patent number: 11343815
    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: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueming Pan, Xiaodong Shen, Lei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11343324
    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: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: IDAC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Shi, Guanzhou Wang, Saad Ahmad
  • Patent number: 11343845
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to channel state reporting in wireless communications. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a first wireless device in a wireless communication system comprises: establishing a PC5 radio resource control (RRC) connection between the first wireless device and a second wireless device; receiving sidelink control information (SCI) from the second wireless device, wherein the SCI instructs the first wireless device to perform sidelink (SL)-channel state information (CSI) reporting for the PC5 RRC connection; triggering the SL-CSI reporting; and based on that a sidelink resource for the SL-CSI reporting is unavailable and the first wireless device is configured with a mode in which sidelink resources are scheduled by a network, transmitting a signal related to the SL CSI reporting for requesting the sidelink resource to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Seungmin Lee, Giwon Park, Hanbyul Seo, Jongyoul Lee
  • Patent number: 11343374
    Abstract: Techniques for detecting spam accounts in a system are described. The system may analyze speech characteristics of communication content (e.g., telephone call content, VoIP content, audio messaging, etc.) to determine whether multiple devices or user profiles are associated with overlapping communications. The system may also analyze text transcriptions of communication content to determine whether multiple devices or user profiles are associated with overlapping communications. If so, the system may mitigate, such as throttling service, disabling accounts, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Alexander Rolia, Brian Alexander Oliver, Vikram Kumar Gundeti, Balraja Subbiah, Tony Roy Hardie
  • Patent number: 11343019
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus and a method that allow for synthesis of information using an original signal and a retransmission signal for retransmitting information of the original signal whose demodulation has failed, in wireless communication with independent physical layer and MAC layer. Information is transmitted regarding a configuration of a retransmission signal for retransmitting information of an original signal whose demodulation has failed to a sender of the retransmission signal, and the retransmission signal transmitted from the sender is received on the basis of the information regarding the configuration of the retransmission signal transmitted. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to a transmission/reception apparatus, a communication apparatus, an information processing apparatus, electronic equipment, a computer, a storage medium, and a system, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Shigeru Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11336398
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with a discontinuous reception (DRX) related timer by a user equipment (UE) configured not to transmit a Hybrid Automatic Repeat and request (HARQ) feedback for the DL HARQ process in a wireless communication system is disclosed. Especially, when the UE processes the data block, a timer for monitoring subsequent PDCCHs related to retransmission of the DL HARQ process is started without transmitting the HARQ feedback upon a first Physical downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) for the DL HARQ process is detected. Then, while the timer is running, the UE monitors subsequent PDCCHs related to retransmission of the DL HARQ process. Further, when decoding of DL data related to the second PDCCH successes, the timer is stopped and monitoring subsequent PDCCHs for the DL HARQ process is skipped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jeonggu Lee, Sunyoung Lee, Seungjune Yi
  • Patent number: 11330597
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method for use in a wireless transmitter of a wireless communication network comprises providing control information relating to a slot. The control information includes an indication of whether the slot is of a first type or a second type. A slot of the first type starts at a slot interval boundary, and a slot of the second type either starts between slot interval boundaries and has arbitrary length or starts at a slot interval boundary and has reduced length. The control information includes an implicit or explicit reference signal timing indication if the slot is of the second type. The method further comprises transmitting the control information to a wireless receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Stefan Parkvall, Robert Baldemair, Daniel Larsson, Erik Dahlman
  • Patent number: 11330617
    Abstract: A configuration is disclosed to enable a UE to determine and/or prepare Rx beams prior to downlink reception in multi-TRP operation. The apparatus sends, to a first TRP, a report indicating a plurality of threshold scheduled offsets. Each threshold scheduled offset associated with a different number of TCI states. The apparatus receives, from the first TRP, DCI including a TCI and a time-offset. The TCI comprising at least one TCI state. Each TCI state indicating a Tx beam for a TRP of a set of TRPs. The set of TRPs including the first TRP. The apparatus determines at least one Rx beam based on at least one of the received TCI, the time-offset, or one or more of the plurality of threshold scheduled offsets. The apparatus receives, based on the received time-offset, a PDSCH from each TRP of the set of TRPs through the determined at least one Rx beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sungwoo Park, Xiaoxia Zhang, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Tao Luo, Jing Sun, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan
  • Patent number: 11324032
    Abstract: Method for data transmissions and a user equipment (UE) are provided. A method includes the following. A UE receives first downlink control information (DCI), where the first DCI is used for scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the first DCI includes a first information field, a value of the first information field includes a specific value or a non-specific value, and the specific value indicates that ACK/NACK information corresponding to the first PDSCH is transmitted according to a later trigger signal. A value or a value range of an identity (ID) of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process corresponding to a second PDSCH received after reception of the first PDSCH is determined according to the value of the first information field by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanan Lin, Jing Xu
  • Patent number: 11323213
    Abstract: In wireless device-to-device, D2D, communication data are transmitted directly from a first wireless device to a second wireless device. In response to the direct transmission of data, the second wireless device transmits feedback data indicating at least one quality of the data received in the second wireless device. More precisely, according to the invention, a radio access network node controls the direct transmission of data by means of downlink control information to the first and second wireless devices, and the feedback data are received in the radio access network node. The radio access network node preferably also uses the received feedback to control at least one of the first and second wireless devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Jingya Li, Hieu Do, Mikael Fallgren, Gabor Fodor
  • Patent number: 11323208
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a hybrid automatic retransmission request acknowledgment codebook and a device are provided, and the method includes: sending a semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook, wherein the semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook does not include HARQ-ACK feedback information corresponding to a target downlink transmission, the target downlink transmission includes at least one of the following transmissions: a first downlink transmission that does not meet a processing delay requirement; a second downlink transmission corresponding to a second PDCCH which is transmitted after a first PDCCH, wherein the semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) scheduled by the first PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xuejuan Gao
  • Patent number: 11317432
    Abstract: The method for reception of a signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise a step of monitoring control channel candidates on the basis of information on precoding granularity. Specifically, even if information on the precoding granularity instructs to the terminal to assume that the reference signal with respect to the control channel candidates is mapped to all resource element groups (REGs) included in consecutive resource blocks in the first control resource set, when some of the consecutive resource blocks overlap with a second control resource set set by a physical broadcasting channel (PBCH), the terminal may not assume that the reference signal with respect to the control channel candidates is mapped to the REGs included in some resource blocks which are overlapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11317251
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to improve support for broadcast systems. In some wireless communications systems, such as broadcast systems for a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS), an inter-site distance between transmitters or between a transmitter and a receiver may be relatively large compared to an inter-site distance for other scenarios of a wireless communication system (for example, cellular data or talk scenarios). A transmitter in a broadcast system may adjust one or more characteristics of resources in a frame, such as the subframe structure, slot structure, or symbol structure, in carriers dedicated for MBMS resource transmissions. For instance, the transmitter may adjust durations of one or more symbols in a frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Amer Catovic, Ayan Sengupta
  • Patent number: 11317393
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a slot monitoring method, an information transmission method, a user equipment and a network device. The slot monitoring method includes: monitoring UE group common PDCCH for a slot format indicator (SFI), and getting control information transmitted on the UE group common PDCCH. The SFI indicates to a UE slot formats of a number of consecutive N slots including a slot where the UE group common control information located, where N is positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd Research Institute, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiqing Ni, Wei Zhou, Qi Sun
  • Patent number: 11316652
    Abstract: The present 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 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. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing data in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangbum Kim, Soenghun Kim, Donggun Kim
  • Patent number: 11317294
    Abstract: A radio device (100) receives a radio transmission on a carrier frequency. While receiving the radio transmission, the radio device (100) transmits an indication that the carrier frequency is in use by the radio transmission to the radio device (100). This indication may then be used by a further radio device (10, 11) for controlling a radio transmission to the radio device (100), e.g., by deciding whether, when, or how to use the carrier frequency for this radio transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Gabor Fodor, Osama Al-Saadeh
  • Patent number: 11317431
    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: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Di Su, Miao Zhou, Feifei Sun, Chen Qian
  • Patent number: 11310790
    Abstract: A frequency domain resource adjustment and apparatus, and an indication information sending method and apparatus, and a system relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: determining, by a network device, to adjust a frequency domain resource of a terminal device from a first frequency domain resource to a second frequency domain resource; sending information about a guard time to the terminal device; determining, by the terminal device, the guard time based on the information about the guard time; and adjusting, by the terminal device, the first frequency domain resource to the second frequency domain resource within the guard time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hua Li, Hao Tang, Yi Wang, Zhenfei Tang
  • Patent number: 11304224
    Abstract: A minimum scheduling offset value (Kmin value) between scheduling DCI and a corresponding data communication can be determined based on a control channel configuration. Particular scheduling DCI scheduling a particular corresponding data communication can be received. A determination can be made regarding whether the determined Kmin value is applicable to the particular scheduling DCI and the particular corresponding data communication. The particular corresponding data communication can be communicated with a network such that the offset between the particular scheduling DCI and the particular corresponding data communication is at least the determined Kmin value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hossein Bagheri, Vijay Nangia, Hyejung Jung, Robert T. Love