Patents Examined by Phuc H Tran
  • Wireless communication between a tool and a controller
    Patent number: 11229071
    Abstract: A communication method is provided for communicating data between a tool and a controller. The method includes establishing communication between the tool and the controller using a first wireless communication protocol. Once wireless communication has been established, the tool and the controller switch to a new wireless communication protocol that is different from the first protocol. Operational settings are then wirelessly communicated by the controller to the tool using the second protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: INGERSOLL-RAND INDUSTRIAL U.S., INC.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Taylor, Madhusudhana Rao, Vijaya Kumar K S, Javeed Shariff
  • Control channel for new radio
    Patent number: 11224033
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein that may be used to determine one or more control channel operational parameters associated with transmitting first uplink control information (UCI) and second UCI in a same control channel. The parameters may include respective repetition factors and/or spreading factors associated with the first UCI and the second UCI. The parameters may be determined based on respective characteristics of the first UCI and the second UCI. These characteristics may include reliability requirements, usage scenarios, and/or the like. Self-contained subframes may be employed to transmit data and/or control information. The control information may be transmitted using different numerologies than the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: IDAC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar, Oghenekome Oteri, Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni
  • Code block group-based autonomous uplink transmission
    Patent number: 11224056
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, via an autonomous uplink communication, one or more transport blocks to a base station. Each transport block may include a plurality of code block groups (CBGs). The base station may provide CBG-level feedback to the UE based at least in part on the autonomous uplink communication. In some examples, the base station may provide the CBG-level feedback in one or more downlink feedback information (DFI) packets. In some other examples, the base station may provide the CBG-level feedback via one or more uplink transmission grants. The UE may retransmit one or more CBGs from the autonomous uplink communication based at least in part on the DFI packets or uplink transmission grants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kaushik Chakraborty, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Qingjiang Tian
  • Fast adaptation of vectoring in G.Fast
    Patent number: 11218187
    Abstract: A device comprises a memory configured to store, for each one of a plurality of communication lines, an associated relative weight and an associated noise value indicative of a signal-to-noise ratio of transmission on the respective communication line. The device further comprises at least one processor configured to perform an optimization of a transmission precoding parameter for vectored transmission on the plurality of communication lines based on the relative weights and the noise values. The at least one processor is configured to effect the vectored transmission on the plurality of communication lines in accordance with the optimized transmission precoding parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventor: Rainer Strobel
  • Scheduling timelines for multi-transmit receive point operations
    Patent number: 11219050
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine a dropping rule relating to: a first triggering communication, of a first transmit receive point (TRP), that triggers a first timeline for a first subsequent communication of the first TRP, and a second triggering communication, of a second TRP, that triggers a second timeline for a second subsequent communication of the second TRP, wherein the dropping rule indicates one or more communications to be dropped when the first triggering communication starts after a start of the second triggering communication and the first subsequent communication starts before a start of the second subsequent communication; and drop the one or more communications based at least in part on the dropping rule. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Xiaoxia Zhang, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Jing Sun, Tao Luo, Jing Jiang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Systems and methods for robust time division multiplex patterns
    Patent number: 11219040
    Abstract: A system and method for time division multiplexing using different radio access technologies is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first communication node includes: identifying a time division multiplex pattern that associates a plurality of time domain resources with: one of an uplink signal and a downlink signal, and one of at least two radio access technologies; receiving the uplink signal using at least one first associated time domain resource; and transmitting the downlink signal using at least one second associated time domain resource, wherein the plurality of time domain resources are sequential, and wherein at least one first and second associated time domain resources are associated with different radio access technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xincai Li, Yajun Zhao, Hanqing Xu, Ling Yang
  • Terminal state conversion method and apparatus
    Patent number: 11191020
    Abstract: Disclosed are a terminal state conversion method and apparatus. A base station configures and sends a configuration policy for/to a terminal, wherein the configuration policy is a rule for determining that the terminal enters an inactive state; and a terminal in a connected state receives the configuration policy sent by the base station, and according to the configuration policy, enters the inactive state from the connected state. By means of the present invention, a terminal enters an inactive state from a connected state, and thus the terminal can perform rapid data transmission while saving power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Li Chen, Chandrika Kumudinie Worrall
  • Signal transmission method, signal transmission apparatus, electronic device and computer-readable storage medium
    Patent number: 11184878
    Abstract: A signal transmission method is provided. The method includes: determining a target device, and transmitting a 5G signal to the target device, where the 5G signal includes a synchronization block, and the synchronization block is used to carry a PBCH, a PSS, an SSS and a DMRS, and the DMRS and the SSS are used as references for a demodulation result of the PBCH. By further setting the DMRS in the synchronization block, both the SSS and the DMRS are used as the references for the demodulation result of the PBCH, thereby ensuring that an adjusted phase of the demodulation result is as same as possible to a phase of the synchronization block before modulation of a transmission device, which greatly eliminates influence of factors such as the Doppler effect on the phase of the synchronization block during a signal transmission process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yang Liu
  • Method and device for networking
    Patent number: 11178595
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for networking and a corresponding device. The method includes in response to a terminal device accessing network, obtaining configuration information of the terminal device; based on the configuration information, determining a traffic path associated with the terminal device; and configuring an underlying network node of the network based on the traffic path such that the underlying network node routes traffic associated with the terminal device based on the traffic path. A device that can implement the above method is further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Zhi Wang, Yigang Cai
  • Sidelink transmit profile management for 5G new radio (NR)
    Patent number: 11172340
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for supporting V2X communications which may be implemented in various apparatuses, methods, and/or articles of manufacture. In certain aspects an extended transmission profile may be determined to support V2X communications via 5G NR RATs between two or more wireless devices. For example, one or more processing units of a wireless device may determine that a NR RAT is requested for a V2X communication based, at least in part, on service information associated with data to be transmitted, determine an extended Tx Profile for the V2X communication, and initiate transmission of at least a portion of the data via the NR RAT using the transceiver based on the extended Tx Profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hong Cheng, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li, Zhibin Wu
  • Simultaneous transmit and receive operation in WLANs
    Patent number: 11166309
    Abstract: An IEEE 802.11 compatible processor configured to identify, using an indication received from a first station in a network and from among a plurality of further stations within the network, a second station to transmit data to during receipt of a next transmission from the first station using information indicating which stations amongst the further stations data can be transmitted to while receiving data from the first station; and information regarding the duration required to transmit next data scheduled to be transmitted to the second station, wherein the indication is an indication of the duration of the next data transmission scheduled to be transmitted by the first station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Adnan Aijaz, Parag Kulkarni
  • Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving sidelink data
    Patent number: 11160053
    Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses for transmitting/receiving sidelink data. The method of a transmitter UE for transmitting sidelink data includes transmitting a radio resource allocation request message for requesting the allocation of a radio resource used for sidelink data transmission, receiving first radio resource information used for the sidelink data transmission and second radio resource information for sidelink data retransmission, transmitting sidelink data based on the first radio resource information, and when retransmission is triggered according to the reception of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information on sidelink data, retransmitting the sidelink data based on the second radio resource information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ki-tae Kim
  • Communication method and communications device
    Patent number: 11159278
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communications device. The communication method includes: receiving, by a first device, N transport blocks TBs sent by a second device, where each TB includes at least one code block group CBG, and N is a positive integer; determining, by the first device, a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ feedback bit of each CBG in the N TBs; determining, by the first device, a feedback bit stream of the N TBs based on the HARQ feedback bit of each CBG in the N TBs, where a quantity of bits of the feedback bit stream is equal to or less than a total quantity of CBGs in the N TBs; and sending, by the first device, the feedback bit stream to the second device. Compared with that in the prior art, the communication method provided in this application may improve flexibility of transmitting a feedback bit stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yifan Xue, Da Wang, Yun Liu, Jian Wang
  • Efficient and reliable data transfer in 5G systems
    Patent number: 11160137
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide solutions for reliable data transfer in a mobile communication network. A user equipment (UE) may indicate to the mobile communication network a capability of the UE to support a reliable data service protocol. The UE may process non-access stratum (NAS) messages, for both mobile originated (MO) data transfer and mobile terminated (MT) data transfer, using the reliable data service protocol to determine whether protocol data units (PDUs) of the NAS messages require no acknowledgement, require acknowledgment, or include an acknowledgement, and to detect and eliminate duplicate PDUs received at the UE in the NAS messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Puneet Jain, Vivek Gupta, Ching-Yu Liao
  • Partial echo cancellation duplexing
    Patent number: 11146310
    Abstract: Methods, circuitries, and systems for transmitting data upstream between a first device and a second device and downstream between the second device and the first device are disclosed. A method includes determining an upstream crosstalk effect for an upstream channel and determining a downstream crosstalk effect for a downstream channel. The crosstalk effect includes near end crosstalk from a third device that is non-co-located with respect to the first device and the second device. A data rate of an upstream transmission or downstream transmission is adjusted based on the upstream crosstalk effect and the downstream crosstalk effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Vladimir Oksman
  • Apparatus of gNB to enable an inactive mode in dual connectivity
    Patent number: 11140740
    Abstract: Embodiments of a next generation Node-B (gNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication are generally described herein. A gNB may be configurable to operate as a master gNB (MgNB). The MgNB may transmit radio-resource control (RRC) signaling to provide information for dual connectivity to allow the UE to utilize radio resources of both a master cell group (MCG) associated with the MgNB and a secondary cell group (SCG) associated with a secondary gNB (SgNB). The MgNB may transmit, to the SgNB, an SgNB release request message that indicates a partial suspension of the dual connectivity, wherein: a first portion of a configuration for the SCG is to be maintained and a second portion of the configuration for the SCG is to be released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marta Martinez Tarradell, Youn Hyoung Heo, Sudeep K. Palat, Seau S. Lim
  • Reporting early measurement results in the next generation wireless networks
    Patent number: 11129041
    Abstract: Some of the present implementations provide a method for reporting measurement results by a user equipment (UE). The method receives, at the UE, a radio resource control (RRC) release message to transition to an RRC Inactive state. The method of some of the present implementations performs measurements while in the RRC Inactive state. The method then receives an RRC resume message from a base station, the RRC resume message comprising a request for the measurement results. After receiving the RRC resume message, the method transmits the measurement results to the base station in an RRC resume complete message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Hung-Chen Chen, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Communication system
    Patent number: 11122626
    Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which a communications node allocates resources for potential use by any of a plurality of user communication devices, including first type (e.g. legacy) user communication devices and second type (e.g. machine-type) communication devices. Control data is sent, to the user communication devices, defining communication resources for potential use by any of the user communication devices. The control data includes information identifying a first PRACH resource configuration for a first type user communication device and a second PRACH resource configuration for a second type of device such that the user devices can be distinguished by the PRACH configuration used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yassin Aden Awad
  • Network connectable device and a method for monitoring a service-state of a network connected device
    Patent number: 11115303
    Abstract: A network connectable device that is configured to send to a service-state monitor via a network connection service-monitoring protocol information that defines at least one operational parameter for a service-monitoring protocol that comprises sending to the service-state monitor a plurality of service-state messages that each indicate a service-state of the network connectable device when so sent. The network connectable device is configured to send to the service-state monitor via the network connection the plurality of service-state messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: GENESYS ELECTRONICS DESIGN PTY LTD
    Inventors: Geoffrey Sizer, Jonathan Eggins
  • Method and device for processing HARQ feedback in a mobile communication system
    Patent number: 11115159
    Abstract: A device and method for handling HARQ feedback in a mobile communication system are disclosed. The HARQ feedback handling method includes: analyzing a control message from a base station to recognize presence of HARQ feedback relationships between downlink carriers and uplink carriers; determining an uplink carrier (a downlink carrier) to support HARQ feedback in response to downlink traffic (uplink traffic) sent through a downlink carrier (an uplink carrier); and sending (receiving) HARQ feedback through the determined uplink carrier (downlink carrier).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soeng Hun Kim, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Aris Papasakellariou