Patents Examined by Phirin Sam
  • Patent number: 11218193
    Abstract: A method and a device are provided in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE receives a first signaling and transmits a first radio signal. The first signaling includes K first field(s) and K second field(s), the K first field(s) is(are) used for determining K first-type vector(s) respectively, and the K first-type vector(s) is(are) one-to-one corresponding to K second-type vector group(s) or K second field(s); a correlation between any one second-type vector in each second-type vector group(s) and a corresponding first-type vector is related to a corresponding second field; the first radio signal includes a second radio signal and a third radio signal; the K first-type vector(s) and the K second-type vector group(s) are used for determining multi-antenna related transmissions of the second radio signal and the third radio signal respectively; the second radio signal and the third radio signal occupy orthogonal frequency-domain resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: KeYing Wu, XiaoBo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11218275
    Abstract: A wireless communication device (alternatively, device, WDEV, etc.) includes at least one processing circuitry configured to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In one example, the circuitry is configured to generate a null data packet (NDP), transmit at least a portion of the NDP to another wireless communication device via fewer than all of a plurality of sub-channels of a communication channel, and receive feedback from the another wireless communication device that is based on the another wireless communication device processing the at least the portion of the NDP that is received via the fewer than all of the plurality of sub-channels of the communication channel. In one example, the generated NDP includes at least one signal field (SIG) therein that includes information to specify a preamble puncturing option or the information is transmitted in a previous packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventors: Ron Porat, Jun Zheng
  • Patent number: 11218244
    Abstract: Disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention are an information transmission method and apparatus, the method comprising: a terminal receives indication information sent by a network device, the indication information being used for the terminal to determine an uplink area in a time unit in which an uplink shared channel is transmitted; the terminal sends the uplink shared channel in the uplink area; hence, the terminal receives the indication information sent by the network device and determines transmission resources for the uplink shared channel on the basis of the indication information, thus ensuring correct transmission of the uplink shared channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan Gao, Xueming Pan
  • Patent number: 11212806
    Abstract: One or more wireless stations operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, e.g., direct communication between the wireless stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. A wireless station may determine a further availability window schedule for a first time period, including specifying availability for particular channels at particular time slots at a first time slot increment. The wireless station may specify availability at a second time slot increment for a subset of the time slots specified at the first time slot increment. The second time slot increment may be less than the first slot time increment. The wireless station may negotiate, with a neighboring wireless station, a peer-to-peer communication schedule for the peer-to-peer communication application based on the further availability window schedule, including specifying a portion of the peer-to-peer schedule using the second time slot increment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Liu, Christiaan A. Hartman, Lawrie Kurian, Tashbeeb Haque
  • Patent number: 11206686
    Abstract: A method of controlling a user equipment (UE) comprises determining an operating environment of the UE, and selectively instructing the UE to perform a first or second listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure or to use a first or second set of LBT parameters, according to the determined operating environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Reem Karaki, Jung-Fu Cheng, Sorour Falahati, Havish Koorapaty
  • Patent number: 11206215
    Abstract: A method for routing a packet in a segment routing network includes extracting a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address from an IP header of the packet received by a routing node wherein the destination IP address includes a network identifier, a node identifier, a function identifier, and an argument; determining whether the network identifier and the node identifier match a routing node identifier; when the network identifier and the node identifier match the routing node identifier, determining a function to be executed based on the function identifier and the argument; when the function to be executed is determined, updating the node identifier, the function identifier, and the argument according to a segment list included in a segment routing header of the packet; and routing the packet according to the updated node identifier, the updated function identifier, and the updated argument in the destination IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: UTStarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Lin Tang, Si-Hai Bao, Feng Liu, Sheng Yu
  • Patent number: 11206293
    Abstract: Non-text content may be exchanged in real time text (RTT) messages over a telecommunications network as part of an enhanced RTT (eRTT) service. A first UE can receive, from a second UE over a telecommunications network, capability information indicating whether the second UE is capable of exchanging text content and/or non-text content via RTT messages. Using this capability information, the first UE may determine whether to enable eRTT functionality on the first UE by determining whether to display a user interface element(s) in a selectable state on the display next to a RTT conversation window. The selectable user interface element(s), upon selection, allows a user of the first UE to create new non-text content, or select particular non-text content from available non-text content, for inclusion in a RTT message. The first UE may thereafter send non-text content in the RTT message to the second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsin-Fu Henry Chiang, Yasmin Karimli
  • Patent number: 11201710
    Abstract: A wireless device monitors search spaces by receiving an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, OFDM, symbol in a downlink slot. The OFDM symbol is included in a control-resource set, CORESET, of resource elements configured to carry control information. The CORESET is associated with at least one property. The wireless device identifies at least one first property of the at least one property of the CORESET. The wireless device monitors at least one particular search space for a control message related to the wireless device based on the identified at least one first property of the CORESET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Stefan Parkvall, Havish Koorapaty, Daniel Chen Larsson
  • Patent number: 11190239
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a receiver configured to receive a plurality of first frames which are transmitted by multiplexing; and a transmitter configured to transmit a second frame containing check results indicating whether the plurality of first frames are successfully received and first information specifying at least one wireless communication device. The receiver is configured to receive a plurality of third frames transmitted by multiplexing in response to the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nabetani, Ryoko Matsuo, Tomoko Adachi, Tsuguhide Aoki
  • Patent number: 11191075
    Abstract: A data transmission method includes: sending, by a network device, first configuration information to a terminal device, where the first configuration information includes first carrier configuration information and first time configuration information, the first carrier configuration information indicates at least one carrier configured by the network device for a bearer or a logical channel for performing hybrid automatic repeat request, and the first time configuration information indicates a first transmission time unit bundling quantity corresponding to each of the at least one carrier; and sending or receiving, by the network device, data corresponding to the bearer or the logical channel based on the first carrier configuration information and/or the first time configuration information. The data transmission method facilitates low-latency and high-reliability transmission and improves resource utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng Yu, Xin Xiong, Haifeng Yu
  • Patent number: 11191069
    Abstract: A base station is disclosed that enables an efficient use of resources even when a TTI length is shortened. In this base station, a PDCCH section (103) generates one piece of downlink control information (DCI) containing control information for a plurality of first transmission time intervals (TTIs) each having a TTI length shorter than a second TTI, and a transmission section (107) transmits the DCI. Control information on retransmission processing for a data signal is configured for each of the plurality of first TTIs while control information other than the control information on the retransmission processing is configured in common among the plurality of first TTIs in the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Lilei Wang, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Masayuki Hoshino, Yasuaki Yuda
  • Patent number: 11184901
    Abstract: An exemplary method provides for a user equipment (UE) receiving a first reference signal (RS) that was transmitted by a base station using a first transmit beam. The UE performs a first RS measurement with respect to the received first RS, producing a first measurement result. The UE receives a second RS that was transmitted by the base station using the first transmit beam. The UE performs a second RS measurement with respect to the received second RS, producing a second measurement result. The UE determines that a condition is satisfied based on determining that the base station has transmitted to the UE a measurement result filtering indicator indicating that the UE may filter its first and second measurement results. The UE derives a filtered measurement result based on the first measurement result and the second measurement result, and selects a beam based on the filtered measurement result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, Sebastian Faxér
  • Patent number: 11178679
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that, even when communication is made using a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs), scheduling requests are transmitted adequately. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a transmitting/receiving section that transmits and/or receives using a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs) of different durations, and a control section that determines a resource to use to transmit a scheduling request (SR) based on at least one of a first TTI and a second TTI having a shorter TTI duration than the first TTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11177922
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for efficient configuration of demodulation reference signals in beamformed wireless communications systems. In an embodiment, the transmitter can signal the location of demodulation reference signals (DMRS) by including an indicator bit in downlink control information indicating which DMRS scheme is used in the transmission. A first DMRS scheme can let the user equipment (UE) device know that the DMRS position for the PDSCH carrying the RMSI is as signaled on the master information block (MIB)—referred to as PDSCH Mapping Type A. A second DMRS scheme can let the UE device know that the DMRS position for the PDSCH carrying the RMSI is the first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of said PDSCH allocation—referred to as PDSCH mapping type B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Thomas Novlan, Xiaoyi Wang, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11171700
    Abstract: Provided are a main beam direction determining device, a main beam direction determining method, and a program which are able to shorten a time required to determine a main beam direction. A secondary candidate sector selection unit selects a second number of primary candidates or a third number of primary candidates as a secondary candidate or candidates in accordance with a communication quality of communication by an HMD, the second number being smaller than a first number, the third number being smaller than the second number. A first sector level sweep process performing unit determines one of the secondary candidate or candidates as the main beam direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Issei Chigusa, Masakazu Tanikawa, Katsuyoshi Onishi
  • Patent number: 11166267
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for signaling enhancements. In one aspect, a User Equipment (UE) can receive a configuration to transmit one or more sounding reference signals (SRSs) based on a downlink control information (DCI). The UE can also receive an indication of a plurality of non-contiguous resource blocks (RBs) based on the DCI. The UE can transmit a first SRS on a first set of one or more RBs of the plurality of non-contiguous RBs. Additionally, the UE can transmit a second SRS on a second set of one or more RBs of the plurality of non-contiguous RBs. The first set of one or more RBs and the second set of one or more RBs may be separated by a distance of at least one RB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vinay Joseph, Junyi Li, Mostafa Khoshnevisan
  • Patent number: 11153834
    Abstract: The present invention contemplates a method and/or system for accurately and accelerated synchronization of communication networks. The method contemplates providing a virtual clock module in which all nodes of a network use the module in an identical manner and wherein the virtual clock module of nodes is generally a data stream whose element is the virtual time with whatever notice made is in communication with at that instant. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the method or system is processed using a finite impulse filter. The virtual clock in each node is responsible for generating a stream of data in which one may consider as virtual time. Each sample of the discrete time stream is constructed by its nearest neighbor of the node concerned communicating the current sample of its own virtual time stream to the node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Ali Al-Shaikhi, Ahmad A Masoud
  • Patent number: 11146371
    Abstract: A method of transmission of Channel State Information Reference Signals (CSI-RSs) includes transmitting, from a base station (BS) to a user equipment (UE), the CSI-RSs using 24 antenna ports (APs) or 32 APs. A first CSI-RS configuration for the APs are configured by aggregating a predetermined number of second CSI-RS configurations. A number of APs per each of the second CSI-RS configurations is 2, 4, or 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Satoshi Nagata, Chongning Na
  • Patent number: 11140704
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus and a system for uplink information transmission relating to the field of communications. The method includes: transmitting, by a first access network device, first configuration information to a second access network device, where the first configuration information is used to indicate a resource in a target carrier, and the second access network device is configured to receive, in the resource, second uplink information transmitted by a terminal device; transmitting on a first carrier, by the first access network device, first downlink information to the terminal device based on a first communication protocol; receiving on the target carrier, by the first access network device, first uplink information transmitted by the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Ya'nan Lin, Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11140701
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to service data transmission methods, network devices, and terminal devices. One example method includes obtaining, by a network device, characteristic information of service data, determining, by the network device based on the characteristic information, scheduling information for transmitting the service data, and transmitting, by the network device, the service data to a terminal device based on the scheduling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lingli Pang, Xiaoxiao Zheng, Min Huang