Patents Examined by Prenell P Jones
  • Patent number: 11956743
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatus, and computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for relative timing drift correction for distributed multi-user transmissions. In one aspect, a first access point (AP) may receive a first signal from a second AP. The first signal may be associated with a channel sounding procedure to be performed substantially simultaneously by the second AP and the first AP. The first AP may then receive a second signal from the second AP, and prior to a substantially simultaneous transmission by the second AP and the first AP. The second signal may include timing information relative to the first signal. The first AP may determine a start time of the substantially simultaneous transmission at the first AP based on the timing information, and may initiate the substantially simultaneous transmission according to the determined start time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sameer Vermani, Bin Tian, Lin Yang, Jialing Li Chen
  • Patent number: 11950149
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node may determine a cell configuration of a distributed unit (DU) of the IAB node. The cell configuration may be associated with a second IAB donor. The DU may be one of a set of DUs of the IAB node. The IAB node may have a first signaling connection to a central unit (CU) of a first IAB donor. The IAB node may provide the cell configuration associated with the second TAB donor. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Luca Blessent, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11949624
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a terminal apparatus capable of preventing the degradation of reception quality of control information even in a case of employing SU-MIMO transmission system. A terminal, which uses a plurality of different layers to transmit two code words in which control information is placed, comprises: a resource amount determining unit that determines, based on a lower one of the encoding rates of the two code words or based on the average value of the reciprocals of the encoding rates of the two code words, resource amounts of control information in the respective ones of the plurality of layers; and a transport signal forming unit that places, in the two code words, the control information modulated by use of the resource amounts, thereby forming a transport signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 11949483
    Abstract: Method performed by a UE for providing a channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system including at least the UE and a gNB or a radio network node. The UE is operative to: estimate the MIMO channel between the gNB and the UE based on received DL reference signals for the configured resource blocks. The UE is further operative to calculate, based on a performance metric, a precoder matrix, for a number of antenna ports of the gNB and configured subbands, the precoder matrix being based on two codebooks and a set of combination coefficients for complex scaling/combining one or more of vectors selected from a first codebook and a second codebook, and the UE is operative to report a CSI feedback and/or a PMI and/or a PMI/RI, to the gNB, used to indicate the precoder matrix for the configured antenna ports and resource blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Ramireddy Venkatesh, Marcus Grossmann, Markus Landmann
  • Patent number: 11949633
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE), comprising generating a report indicating a capability of the UE to perform full duplex (FD) communications dependent on transmission power level and transmitting the report to a network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shay Landis, Idan Michael Horn, Ran Berliner
  • Patent number: 11943630
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless communications systems may support dynamic spectrum sharing for multiple radio protocols, such as New Radio and Long Term Evolution. Systems may implement a number of techniques to improve spectrum use by user equipment in dynamically shared frequency spectrums. In some aspects, the network may assign a user equipment to a specific bandwidth part based on a rate matching capability of the user equipment. Additionally or alternatively, the network may activate a specific bandwidth part based on the frequency of handover for a user equipment. In some aspects, the network may support dual registration (e.g., registration in a same frequency spectrum using different radio protocols) for a user equipment operating on a dynamically shared spectrum. To reduce the control overhead for such a user equipment, the network may use a single control channel to schedule data for multiple radio protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Akash Kumar
  • Patent number: 11937215
    Abstract: Aspects relate cross-pool resource reservations of resources for sidelink-positioning reference signals (SL-PRS). A wireless communication device can transmit a first SL-PRS resource reservation message within resources in a SL communication resource pool. The first SL-PRS resource reservation message may identify a first SL-PRS resource within a SL-PRS resource pool. The wireless communication device can also transmit a first SL-PRS in the first SL-PRS resource within the SL-PRS resource pool. The wireless communication device can also receive a second SL-PRS resource reservation message within resources in the SL communication resource pool. The second SL-PRS resource reservation message may identify a second SL-PRS resource within the SL-PRS resource pool. The wireless communication device may then receive a second SL-PRS in second SL-PRS resource within the SL-PRS resource pool. The SL communication resource pool may be different from the SL-PRS resource pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shuanshuan Wu, Kapil Gulati, Gabi Sarkis, Dan Vassilovski
  • Patent number: 11924654
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a product (MEDIATOR) and a method facilitating unidirectional broadcast or multicast of any kind of data from a source communication device to a plurality of client communication devices, within a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), using a one-to-many communication by using the MEDIATOR that mediate between the source communication device and clients and gives the option of serving a plurality of clients, more than the limitation of the inherent source communication device AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Gabriel Lavi
  • Patent number: 11910439
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a transceiver and a processor. The processor detects a first RF signal of the RF signals received by the transceiver from a first access point (AP), and determines whether an energy level for the first RF signal is above a energy level threshold. If so, the processor determines whether basic service set (BSS) color of the first RF signal is the same as BSS color of a second RF signal from a second AP. If not, the RF signal is coming from a different network. The processor calculates distance to the second AP, determines and configures receive sensitivity energy level threshold based on the calculated distance. If the energy level of the first RF signal is less than the receive sensitivity energy level threshold, the processor continues to receive RF signals from the second AP, and continue to reject RF signals from the interfering network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Harpreet Narula
  • Patent number: 11888732
    Abstract: This application discloses a transmission path fault processing method and apparatus, and a system, to resolve a problem that a packet fails to be forwarded because a previous-hop node of a faulty node cannot process a stitching label. The method includes: receiving, by a first network device, a stitching label and a stitching label stack list corresponding to the stitching label that are sent by a stitching network device; determining, in a process of sending a packet through a primary path, that the stitching network device is faulty, where the packet includes a label stack list, and the stitching network device is a next-hop network device of the first network device; and replacing, by the first network device, the stitching label in the label stack list with the stitching label stack list, and switching, based on the updated label stack list, the packet to a backup path for sending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhibo Hu, Junda Yao
  • Patent number: 11882587
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for identifying User Equipment (“UEs”) associated with relevant users, such as “personal” UEs associated with first responders, based on the occurrence of an event, notifying the UEs of the event, and modifying radio access network (“RAN”) parameters such that the identified UEs are provided with priority access. Further, such modifications may be temporary (e.g., reverted after the event has occurred). In this manner, personal UEs associated with relevant users may be dynamically provided priority access in situations where such access may be beneficial, without needing to permanently provide the priority access to such UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Gregg L. Veinpel, Michael J. Pepe, Walter S. Schaefer, Joseph James Ahrens, Edward Luna, Irv Hilf
  • Patent number: 11877199
    Abstract: A base station information DB (11) of a base station management apparatus (1) stores base station information that indicates wireless schemes that can be implemented by base stations (5), scheduled periods for implementation of the wireless schemes, and coverage areas of the base stations (5) in which wireless terminals can be accommodated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Maiko Naya, Kenji Shimizu, Takahiro Yamazaki, Atsushi Taniguchi, Takayuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11864039
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of wireless communication, and in particular, to individually addressed traffic indication methods and apparatuses applicable to multiple links, for example, in a wireless local area network supporting an 802.11be standard. In an example method, a first access point (AP) of a first access point multi-link device (AP MLD) generates and sends individually addressed traffic indication information. The individually addressed traffic indication information is used to indicate whether a non-AP MLD associated with the first AP MLD has a downlink individually addressed traffic and whether a non-AP MLD associated with a second AP MLD has a downlink individually addressed traffic. The second AP MLD is an AP MLD to which a non-transmitted AP belongs. The non-transmitted AP is in a multiple basic service set identifier (BSSID) set in which the first AP is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Gan, Yiqing Li, Chenchen Liu, Jian Yu, Mengshi Hu, Yunbo Li, Yuchen Guo
  • Patent number: 11864278
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for Fifth Generation New Radio (5G NR) frequency range two (FR2) based communications beam management. The UE may configure, via communications with a base station, serving the UE, a group ID for PUCCH resources within a group of PUCCHs, e.g., for FR2 based communications. The UE may receive, from the base station, an update to one or more PUCCH resources within the group of PUCCHs via a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) that may include one of a resource ID indicating an update to a PUCCH resource or the group ID to update the group of PUCCH resources. The UE may update, based on the MAC-CE, the one or more PUCCH resources within the group of PUCCHs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Jia Tang, Pengkai Zhao, Tianyan Pu, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11849483
    Abstract: A dynamic configuration of crest factor reduction in a licensed assisted access radio system. A processing device comprises a detecting block, a clipping pulse generator, a first storage block, a selecting block, a full clipping block and a simplified clipping block. The detecting block performs a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure on a plurality of carriers in parallel and generates a trigger signal in response to LBT success on one or more carriers. The clipping pulse generator generates, for the carrier(s) with LBT success, a clipping pulse within a time period from the receipt of the trigger signal to the start of user traffic transmission. The first storage block stores the clipping pulse for use by the full clipping block. The selecting block selects the full clipping block when there is user traffic on the carrier(s) and selects the simplified clipping block when there is no user traffic on the carrier(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Gan Wen, Jinsong Yang
  • Patent number: 11832277
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for paging for multicast and broadcast service in a wireless communication system is provided. A Distributed Unit (DU) of a Radio Access Network (RAN) node may receive, from a central unit (CU) of the RAN node, a service identity for a Multicast and/or Broadcast (MB) service. A MB session may be set for the MB service. A DU of a RAN node may transmit, to multiple User Equipments (UEs) in Connection Management (CM)-IDLE state, the service identity of the MB service. The multiple UEs may have joined to the MB session. A DU of a RAN node may receive, from at least one UE among the multiple UEs, an RRC message to request the MB service. A DU of a RAN node may forward the RRC message to the CU of the RAN node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Daewook Byun, Jian Xu, Seokjung Kim
  • Patent number: 11812277
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for silencing signal transmissions by a user equipment (UE). Silencing signals may be transmitted periodically during shared spectrum downlink communications from a serving base station to the UE to prevent an interfering node from passing a listen before talk (LBT) procedure. The silencing signal transmissions may be configured by the base station and enabled in cases where potential interfering nodes are detected. An interfering node may be notified that silencing signals are being used, and may adjust a periodicity or wait time of its LBT procedures based on the silencing signal periodicity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Tao Luo, Vinay Chande, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11800428
    Abstract: A method performed by a first node includes determining a routing metric for individual nodes in a set of nodes, receiving a network packet from a second node, selecting a third node in the set of nodes based on the routing metrics, and transmitting the network packet to the third node. The routing metric for a respective one of the set of nodes being based on at least one of a power storage status of the respective one of the set of nodes or a solar power generation status of the respective one of the set of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: ITRON, INC.
    Inventors: Bruce Edwards, Kunal Pankaj Shah
  • Patent number: 11785645
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for aggregating random access requests across two or more physical random access channel (PRACH) occasions. Poor channel quality may inhibit the receipt of random access requests, and for user equipments (UEs) located in areas with relatively poor coverage, such aggregated random access requests may have an increased likelihood of successful receipt at a base station. The base station may configure a number of PRACH occasions to be available for aggregation of random access requests. A UE may receive PRACH configuration information from the base station, may aggregate a random access request across two or more PRACH occasions using the PRACH configuration information, and may transmit the aggregated random access request via the PRACH occasions. The base station may also configure one or more PRACH occasions to have a smaller subcarrier spacing for transmission of a random access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Zhifei Fan, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11785632
    Abstract: A wireless device receives, from a base station, a first system information block. The first system information block comprises a broadcast status parameter indicating that a second system information block for a sidelink communication is provided on-demand. A radio resource control (RRC) request to establish an RRC connection for the sidelink communication is transmitted based on the broadcast status parameter. Based on the RRC connection, a sidelink request for a sidelink resource for the sidelink communication is transmitted. An RRC message indicating the sidelink resource is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Taehun Kim, Esmael Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Jinsook Ryu