Patents Examined by Prince A Mensah
  • Patent number: 11665655
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Sidelink UEs may be configured with a synchronization reference signal that may be used by the UEs to synchronize time and frequency resources. A first and second UE may perform a beam sweeping procedure to identify transmit and receive beams to use for communications between the UEs. A synchronization reference signal procedure may be initiated and the first UE may receive a sidelink synchronization reference signal from the second UE using the established receive beam. The UEs may align time and frequency resources for communications between the UEs and the UEs may communicate via the sidelink channel based on the time synchronization, frequency synchronization, or both, determined using the sidelink synchronization signal. In some cases, a sidelink UE may receive multiple synchronization reference signals from multiple sidelink UEs simultaneously, where each synchronization reference signal may include a UE identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Junyi Li, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Tianyang Bai, Kiran Venugopal, Ling Ding, Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11652523
    Abstract: The application provides a beam training method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: generating, by a terminal device, capability indication information, where the capability indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device can support simultaneous beam training in a maximum of N frequency bands, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; and sending, by the terminal device, the capability indication information. In this way, the network device may select a plurality of frequency bands at a time based on a capability of the terminal device to simultaneously perform beam training. Therefore, in an embodiments of this application, when the quantity N, of frequency bands for simultaneous training, supported by the terminal device is greater than 1, beam training may be simultaneously performed between the network device and the terminal device in a plurality of frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye Wu, Hongzhe Shi, Huang Huang, Huangping Jin
  • Patent number: 11647530
    Abstract: Aspects relate to transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state configuration in multi-stream communication between a radio access network (RAN) entity and a user equipment (UE). The UE may obtain a respective beam quality metric for each transmit beam of a plurality of transmit beams associated with the RAN entity and transmit a beam report to the RAN entity including a respective beam quality metric for each of the transmit beams. The RAN entity may then group the plurality of transmit beams into a plurality of beam groups based on the beam report and transmit a plurality of TCI state groups, each corresponding to a respective one of the beam groups, to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shay Landis, Ran Berliner, Yehonatan Dallal
  • Patent number: 11641260
    Abstract: Provided are a switching method, a base station and a terminal. The method includes that: a base station configures a switching message for a narrow-bandwidth receiving mode, the switching message including time when a terminal is indicated to enter the narrow-bandwidth receiving mode and a position of a narrow bandwidth on a frequency band when the narrow-bandwidth receiving mode is entered; and the switching message is sent to the terminal to indicate the terminal to switch to the narrow bandwidth specified in the switching message for information reception, the narrow bandwidth being smaller than a system bandwidth. With adoption of the embodiments, the terminal may receive a signal on the narrow bandwidth, and reduction in power consumption of the terminal is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Wenhong Chen, Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 11616662
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fractal tree structure-based data transmit device and method, a control device, and an intelligent chip. The device comprises: a central node that is as a communication data center of a network-on-chip and used for broadcasting or multicasting communication data to a plurality of leaf nodes; the plurality of leaf nodes that are as communication data nodes of the network-on-chip and for transmitting the communication data to a central leaf node; and forwarder modules for connecting the central node with the plurality of leaf nodes and forwarding the communication data; the central node, the forwarder modules and the plurality of leaf nodes are connected in the fractal tree network structure, and the central node is directly connected to M the forwarder modules and/or leaf nodes, any the forwarder module is directly connected to M the next level forwarder modules and/or leaf nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Jinhua Tao, Tao Luo, Shaoli Liu, Shijin Zhang, Yunji Chen
  • Patent number: 11595912
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently performing and reporting reference signal received power (RSRP) measurements. In particular, the techniques described herein may allow a user equipment (UE) to efficiently identify reference signals on which to perform RSRP measurements (e.g., based on signaling from a base station), identify when to report RSRP measurements (e.g., aperiodically, periodically, or semi-persistently), and identify a channel on which to report RSRP measurements (e.g., a sidelink channel or an uplink channel). In addition, the techniques described herein may also allow a UE to efficiently identify open loop parameters to use to determine an appropriate transmit power for transmitting to another UE over a sidelink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Piyush Gupta, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li, Xiaoxia Zhang, Aleksandar Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 11595919
    Abstract: A synchronization signal block (SSB) transmitted by a neighbor base station may interfere with a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmitted by a serving base station. A user equipment (UE) that receives both the SSB and PDSCH may mitigate the interference to improve an error rate of decoding the PDSCH. The UE may receive a first SSB including a first broadcast channel (BCH) from a second base station other than a serving base station. The UE may decode the first SSB. The UE may determine, based on the first SSB and the first BCH, that the PDSCH scheduled by the serving base station will overlap with a second SSB from the second base station. The UE may estimate a channel of the second SSB based on the decoded first SSB. The UE may remove a reconstructed second SSB from the PDSCH. The UE may decode the PDSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Guy Wolf, Sharon Levy, Igor Gutman, Yehonatan Dallal
  • Patent number: 11582001
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for band scanning in lean carrier operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for a network node includes identifying at least one time period for transmitting a reference signal over a full cell bandwidth in lean earner operation, and transmitting a reference signal according to a bandwidth pattern. The bandwidth pattern is based at least in part on the identified at least one time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Santhan Thangarasa, Muhammad Kazmi, Torgny Palenius, Kazuyoshi Uesaka
  • Patent number: 11575598
    Abstract: A communication system includes multiple Point-of-Presence (POP) interfaces distributed in a Wide-Area Network (WAN), and one or more processors coupled to the POP interfaces. The processors are configured to assign to an initiator in the communication system a client Internet Protocol (IP) address, including embedding in the client IP address an affiliation of the initiator with a group of initiators, to assign to a responder in the communication system a service IP address, including embedding in the service IP address an affiliation of the service with a group of responders, and to route traffic between the initiator and the responder, over the WAN via one or more of the POP interfaces, in a stateless manner, based on the affiliation of the initiator and the affiliation of the service, as embedded in the client and service IP addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Proofpoint, Inc.
    Inventors: Etay Bogner, Eduardo Warszawski
  • Patent number: 11575419
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for sending a signal, a method and apparatus for reporting channel state information, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method for sending the signal includes: a first-type reference signal is sent to a terminal, where the first-type reference signal is associated with a number N of channel feature hypotheses, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; and channel state information sent by the terminal is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Zhaohua Lu, Hao Wu, Chuangxin Jiang, Ke Yao
  • Patent number: 11575420
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for beamformed communications. In some aspects, when using beamformed communications, a first communications node and a second communications node may establish a beam pair link using a first beam. The first communications node may use a first set of beamforming weights at each antenna element of a set of antenna elements for transmissions of the first beam. After the beam pair is established, the first communications node may transmit multiple sounding signals using different subsets of the first set of antenna elements. A second communications node may measure the multiple sounding signals and use the measurements in scheduling one or more transmissions at the first communications node (e.g., to determine a modulation and coding scheme or coding rate), using one or more of the subsets of antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Luo, Wooseok Nam, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11569957
    Abstract: A method of receiving a downlink control channel in a user equipment may include receiving, using two or more antenna ports, a shortened physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmitted using a space-frequency block code (SFBC), by using at least one shortened control channel element (SCCE) for shortened transmission time interval (STTI) transmission; and monitoring the shortened PDCCH. The at least one SCCE may include at least one shortened resource element group (REG) including a number of resource elements (REs), where the number is unequal to an integer multiple of the number of antenna ports allocated to the shortened PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yangsoo Kwon, Joonsung Kim, Yongin Choi
  • Patent number: 11570021
    Abstract: A packet processing method and a network device in a hybrid access network. The method comprises sending, by a first network device, a first data packet in a first sending window to a second network device by using a first tunnel. In response to receiving a first acknowledgement response sent by the second network device, increasing, by the first network device, a size of the first sending window based on a first proportion. In response to not receiving, within a first predetermined time, the first acknowledgement response, decreasing the size of the first sending window based on a second proportion; and in response to determining that the size of the first sending window is greater than or equal to a first threshold, sending a second data packet to a second receiving window of the second network device by using a second sending window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingui Zhang, Lianshu Zheng
  • Patent number: 11570782
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) transmits concurrent channel state information (CSI) processing capability information to a base station. The capability information can take various forms, and is intended to constrain the base station in the types of CSI requests that can be made to the UE. For example, the UE may indicate different CSI processing capabilities for intra-CC and inter-CC cases and/or for different codebook types. The UE may also specify supported combinations of codebook types for concurrent CSI reporting. The UE may also specify maximum resources or weighting factors for different codebook types. The UE may further restrict the rank information it provides and use a priority rule for “dropping” CSI report data due to payload size restrictions. The base station may direct, or the UE may implement, improved utilization of CSI resources that are shared for multiple concurrent CSI reports. Minimum time requirements for CSI reporting may also be relaxed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Ghaith N Hattab, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11563619
    Abstract: An operating method for an electronic device and a signal processor included in the electronic device are provided. The operating method for an electronic device comprises a descrambling a synchronization signal received from a cell, acquiring a time domain average signal on the descrambled synchronization signal, executing a differential correlation on the time domain average signal by a predetermined reference, and measuring a power of the synchronization signal provided from the cell, using the differential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hae Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 11563695
    Abstract: The subject technology relates to the management of a shared buffer memory in a network switch. Systems, methods, and machine readable media are provided for receiving a data packet at a first network queue from among a plurality of network queues, determining if a fill level of a queue in a shared buffer of the network switch exceeds a dynamic queue threshold, and in an event that the fill level of the shared buffer exceeds the dynamic queue threshold, determining if a fill level of the first network queue is less than a static queue minimum threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinod Mitulal, Krishnan Subramani, Peter Newman, Georges Akis
  • Patent number: 11558437
    Abstract: A communication system can include terminal devices that communicate with a social network or a computer server device for scheduling use of conference resources and/or for using conference appliances that may be located in a conference room being used for a video conference or teleconference. The communication system can be configured to permit a user to use such resources without having to have a user's device be physically and directly connected by wiring to a conference appliance or communication device. The communication system can also be configured to validate participants to help ensure that only authorized personnel are properly attending a scheduled conference based on audio and/or video input received for the different participants and can also be configured to allow screen sharing to be performed during a video conference or teleconference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: RINGCENTRAL, INC.
    Inventors: Johannes Ruetschi, Luiz Domingos, Christian Garbin, Thomas Lederer
  • Patent number: 11552695
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE). In some aspects, the UE receives, from a base station, configuration information for performing beam pair selection measurements with respect to a subset of candidate beams at the UE. The beam pair selection measurements may include at least self-interference measurements at the UE between one or more transmit (Tx) beams and one or more receive (Rx) beams in the subset of candidate beams. The configuration information indicates measurement gaps between the self-interference measurements. The UE performs the beam pair selection measurements based on the configuration information and selects at least one pair of Tx/Rx beams based on the performed beam pair selection measurements. The UE transmits a report including the selected at least one pair of Tx/Rx beams to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11509594
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a packet in a communication system, the method comprising: generating drop information indicating at least one source packet to be dropped among source packets to be transmitted and whether or not to drop each of the other source packets except the at least one source packet; performing forward error correction (FEC) encoding on the drop information and the other source packets except the at least one source packet; generating a repair packet comprising repair data for restoring the drop information and a repair symbol for restoring the other source packets except the at least one source packet; and transmitting the other source packets except the at least one source packet and the repair packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Hee Hwang, Hyun-Koo Yang
  • Patent number: 11490283
    Abstract: A user equipment terminal (UE) in a wireless network calculates a measurement period for measuring the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) for a serving cell within a frequency range. The calculation is based on a channel measurement resource (CMR) and an interference measurement resource (IMR). The calculation includes evaluation of a sharing factor P, which is a maximum of PCMR of the CMR and PIMR of the IMR. The PCMR and the PIMR are evaluated, at least in part, based on periodicity of the CMR and the IMR in relation to other periodic measurements performed by the UE. The UE performs a channel measurement and an interference measurement using the CMR and the IMR, respectively, over the measurement period. The UE calculates the SINR based on the channel measurement and the interference measurement; and transmits an SINR measurement report indicating the calculated SINR to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Chih-Kai Yang, Hsuan-Li Lin, Tsang-Wei Yu