Patents Examined by Peter P Chau
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Patent number: 12389249Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to receiving multiple synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) from a cell over a measurement time window, identifying, for each SSB in a subset of the multiple SSBs, a repeating beam index, where the identifying, for each SSB, the repeating beam index is based at least in part on a repeat parameter indicating a number of beams in a SSB pattern for the cell, and associating two or more SSBs of the subset of the multiple SSBs having the same repeating beam index as having a same measurement.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Pravjyot Singh Deogun, Ozcan Ozturk, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Kapil Bhattad, Ananta Narayanan Thyagarajan
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Patent number: 12368684Abstract: A network-on-chip (NoC) system includes a default communication path between a master device and a slave device, and a backup communication path between the master device and the slave device. The default communication path is configured to work in a normal operation state of the chip. The backup communication path is configured to replace the default communication path when a fault arises in the default communication path.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2024Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.Inventors: Ravi Venugopalan, Sandeep Kumar Goel, Yun-Han Lee
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Patent number: 12342345Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for scheduling multiple downlink transmissions using a single downlink control transmission in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may determine a beam configuration for use for receiving multiple downlink transport blocks scheduled by a single downlink control transmission. In some instances, the wireless device may be configured to skip one or more control channel monitoring occasions that overlap with the downlink transport blocks. The wireless device may provide hybrid automatic repeat request feedback for the downlink transport blocks.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Chunhai Yao, Yushu Zhang, Oghenekome Oteri, Huaning Niu, Chunxuan Ye, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Weidong Yang, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Sigen Ye
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Patent number: 12317088Abstract: A method for selecting a radio resource management scheme is disclosed. A distance between two wireless access points of two wireless local area networks is received. A calculated signal strength corresponding to the distance is determined. One or more signal strengths associated with communication between the two wireless access points are received. A difference between a first value associated with the received one or more signal strengths and a second value associated with the calculated signal strength is determined. The difference is compared to a threshold difference value to determine an environment assessment result. Based on the environment assessment result, an option among a plurality of radio resource management scheme options is selected for at least the two wireless access points.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Pratheep Bondalapati, Po Han Huang, Haleema Mehmood, Krishna Srikanth Gomadam
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Patent number: 12273885Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for multiplexing high priority uplink control information (UCI) and low priority UCI on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). A method includes determining a total number of resource blocks to transmit encoded UCI bits based on a quantized payload size of a second one or more encoded UCI bits of a second priority and a non-quantized payload size of a first one or more encoded UCI bits of a first priority. The method generally includes mapping the second one or more encoded UCI bits to a first number of resource elements associated with the quantized payload size and the first one or more encoded UCI bits to a second number of REs and transmitting the encoded UCI bits in a PUCCH in accordance with the mapping.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yi Huang, Wei Yang
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Patent number: 12267717Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for invalidating a measurement report are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a message indicating of a set of parameters associated with transmission of a measurement report and may receive one or more reference signals. The UE may transmit, in accordance with the set of parameters, the measurement report indicating a set of measurements associated with the one or more reference signals received by the UE. Additionally, the UE may transmit an invalidation message indicating that at least a portion of the measurement report is invalid based on a subsequent measurement associated with the one or more reference signals differing by a threshold amount from a corresponding measurement of the set of measurements.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12262248Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive information identifying a recovery time associated with packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) communication using a reordering timer, wherein a distribution of recovered PDCP counts associated with the PDCP communication is associated with a configured characteristic for a packet recovery time. The UE may communicate on a link using a communication configuration associated with a correlation between the packet recovery time and a link characteristic. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mohammad Ashraf, Ankur Srivastava, Rahul Maringanti, Anushka Nayse, Vivek Bindal
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Patent number: 12261698Abstract: Systems and methods for determining retransmission configuration(s) are provided herein. Some embodiments relate to configuring one or more timers associated with configured grant configurations. A network node can configure a wireless device with a plurality of different configured grant configurations and associated parameters. The wireless device can use a first configured grant configuration for transmitting data and a second configured grant configuration for retransmitting the data.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Min Wang, Reem Karaki
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Patent number: 12262267Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cell measurement method and apparatus, and a device and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving a first measurement configuration, the first measurement configuration including a frequency point to be measured, first configuration information of a first measurement window corresponding to said frequency point, and a whitelist neighbors list, as well as a first starting time offset corresponding to neighbor cells in the whitelist neighbors list; determining a synchronizing signal block (SSB) receiving window corresponding to the neighbor cells in the whitelist neighbors list according to the first configuration information of the first measurement window corresponding to said frequency point and the first starting time offset corresponding to the neighbor cells in the whitelist neighbors list; and measuring each neighbor cell in the whitelist neighbors list based on the SSB receiving window corresponding to the neighbor cells in the whitelist neighbors list.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Zhe Fu
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Patent number: 12262378Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support sub-slot based Type-1 hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback codebook generation. In aspects, techniques are provided for generating a set of candidate physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) reception occasions for an active bandwidth part (BWP) of a downlink (DL) serving cell. In aspects, a user equipment (UE) obtains a set of UL sub-slots based, at least in part, on a set of K1 values, and then determines, for each UL sub-slot in the set of UL sub-slots, whether the UL sub-slots satisfy a predetermined overlapping condition with a current DL slot. A PDSCH reception occasions set is generated based, at least in part, on a set of time domain resource allocation (TDRA) candidates of the current DL slot and a determination that a current UL sub-slot satisfies the predetermined overlapping condition with the current DL slot.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wei Yang, Yi Huang, Konstantinos Dimou
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Patent number: 12225454Abstract: A method comprising: obtaining, at a user equipment, information on a cell network slice support; determining, for the user equipment a network slice; and selecting one cell supporting the determined network slice based on the information.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Philippe Godin, Alessio Casati
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Patent number: 12206625Abstract: A terminal device and a method for measuring cross-link interference. The method includes receiving time-frequency resource configuration information from a base station, wherein the time-frequency resource configuration information includes configuration information of measurement time-frequency resources for measuring the cross-link interference. The method also includes determining measurement time-frequency resources for measuring the cross-link interference according to the time-frequency resource configuration information. The method further includes measuring the cross-link interference on the measured time-frequency resources and feeding back the measurement result of the cross-link interference to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chen Qian, Peng Lin, Chuang Zhang, Di Su, Bin Yu
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Patent number: 12185145Abstract: A method and a network node for enabling configuration of at least two patterns for a cell are provided. The patterns are transmission patterns or measurement patterns. The network node obtains the at least two patterns. Each of the at least two patterns is associated with information about a respective restricted area such that each pattern is used when a user equipment served by the cell is located in the respective restricted area. Each respective restricted area is smaller than an entire area of the cell. Moreover, a method and a user equipment for configuring measurements are provided. The user equipment is served by a cell of a radio base station. The user equipment receives at least two measurement patterns from the radio base station. Each measurement pattern is associated with a respective restricted area. Each respective restricted area is smaller than an entire area of the cell. The user equipment obtains information about the respective restricted area.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Iana Siomina, Elena Myhre
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Patent number: 12184363Abstract: Disclosed is a method performed by a BBU system of a wireless communication network, comprising a distributed base station system (100), which comprises a BBU (110) and an RRU (120) connected over a fronthaul link (140). The method comprises determining first and second parts of beamforming weights based on a determined downlink channel estimate, and compressing the second part of the beamforming weights. The first part of the beamforming weights is determined for performing interference cancellation between user-layer signals, and the second part is determined for expanding the user-layer signals to antenna signals. The BBU then sends the first part and the compressed second part of the beamforming weights to the RRU, as well as the user-layer signals, over the fronthaul link (140). The RRU (120) then beamforms the user-layer signals according to the first and the second parts of the beamforming weights before sending the signals to a number of UEs (131, 132, 133).Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Chenguang Lu, Yezi Huang, Miguel Berg
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Patent number: 12185269Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system wherein a network indicates to a UE that the UE is allowed to send SMS over NAS in a network initiated procedure in a case for SMS subscription change wherein when the UE has been registered to the 5GS after successful Registration procedure with the status that the UE cannot have the SMS over NAS service, as the UE has subscription data “SMS service is not allowed” in the UDM.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kundan Tiwari, Toshiyuki Tamura
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Patent number: 12177873Abstract: Provided by the embodiments of the present invention are a determination method, a terminal, and a network device, relating to the technical field of communications, and intended to solve the problem of uplink transmission delay in the related art when a UE uses semi-static scheduling for uplink transmission on an unlicensed band. The method include: receiving first information from a network device; the first information is used to indicate M candidate transmission opportunities for an uplink data channel in a first period, the first period is a period of semi-static scheduling resources on an unlicensed band, and M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and determining M candidate transmission opportunities for the uplink data channel in the first period according to the first information.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaohang Chen, Xueming Pan
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Patent number: 12167272Abstract: Techniques are provided for reducing signaling latency in multi-link devices (MLDs). An example method of providing latency sensitive information with a MLD includes receiving downlink data packets from a station via a first radio link, performing radio frequency sensing with a second radio link, detecting a latency sensitive event, and transmitting an indication of the latency sensitive event.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Xiaoxin Zhang, Parthiban Ellappan
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Patent number: 12167379Abstract: A method and apparatus for indicating slot format information is disclosed. The method comprising: t receiving a RRC (radio resource control) signaling indicating a time domain starting position of a slot format information and determining the time domain starting position based on the RRC signaling.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventors: Hongmei Liu, Lianhai Wu, Haipeng Lei, Haiming Wang
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Patent number: 12156279Abstract: Methods, devices, and system related to identifying the causes for call drops or call session failures are disclosed. In particular, Radio Frequency (RF) measurements can be included in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messages to enable further analysis of the failures. In one example aspect, a method for wireless communication includes determining, by a user device, one or more indicators indicating a channel condition or a signal condition for performing wireless communications. The method also includes transmitting, by the user device, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message to an SIP server indicating a termination of a communication session. The SIP message includes the one or more indicators to enable to SIP server to determine a cause for the termination of the communication session.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventor: Muhammad Tawhidur Rahman
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Patent number: 12149303Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for signal processing and wireless communication are described. For example, a device may include a plurality of antennas operable to transmit and receive communication packets via a plurality of communication protocols and an integrated circuit chip coupled to the plurality of antennas. The integrated circuit chip may comprise a first and a second plurality of processing elements. The first plurality of processing elements may be operable to receive communication packets via a first one of a plurality of communication protocols and process an optimal route. The second plurality of processing elements may be communicatively coupled to the first plurality of processing elements and operable to determine the optimal route to transmit the communication packets from a source device to a destination device based, at least in part, on transmission characteristics associated with at least one of the source or destination devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Inventor: Jeremy Chritz