Patents Examined by Prince A Mensah
  • Patent number: 12213159
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuration of resources to determine signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR). A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting, to a base station (BS), an indication that the UE is configured with at least one capability to support a combination of a channel measurement resource (CMR) and at least one interference measurement resource (IMR), if group based beam reporting is configured, receiving a reference signal (RS) resource setting for the CMR to perform channel measurement based, at least in part, on the capability of the UE, receiving at least one RS resource setting for the at least one IMR to perform interference measurement based, at least in part, on the capability of the UE, determining at least one signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) parameter based on results of performing the channel measurement and the interference measurement, and transmitting the SINR parameter to the BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Kiran Venugopal, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12199904
    Abstract: A signal sending method and apparatus, to improve channel estimation performance are provided. A reference signal is sent on one or more consecutive symbols, and modulation data is sent on an adjacent symbol previous to the one or more consecutive symbols in time domain and an adjacent symbol next to the one or more consecutive symbols in time domain. A sum of the modulation data carried in the symbol previous to the one or more consecutive symbols and the modulation data carried in the symbol next to the one or more consecutive symbols is zero or the modulation data is the same. According to the application, after time-domain filtering, the reference signal is not interfered with by the adjacent modulation data, so that channel estimation performance can be ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanzhou Hu, Fan Wang
  • Patent number: 12199886
    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: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinod Mitulal, Krishnan Subramani, Peter Newman, Georges Akis
  • Patent number: 12199897
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive information indicating a timing configuration for candidate positions of a discovery reference signal (DRS) window, wherein the DRS window is within an unlicensed millimeter wave (mmW) band, and wherein the timing configuration provides for repetition of a synchronization signal block (SSB) within the DRS window based at least in part on a wraparound scheme; and scan for the SSB in accordance with the timing configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Zhifei Fan, Srinivas Yerramalli, Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail, Wooseok Nam, Juan Montojo, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12192812
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may transmit or receive a reference signal to or from a base station using a beam pair including a first beam associated with a first polarization and a second beam associated with a second polarization. The UE may select the first beam from a first set of beams associated with the first polarization and may independently select the second beam from a second set of beams associated with the second polarization. In some examples, the UE may select the first beam and the second beam based on the first beam and the second beam each having a greatest beam strength (at the UE or the base station) relative to a remainder of the first set of beams and the second set of beams, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 12184574
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for determining a parameter of a reference signal, a method for transmitting a parameter of a reference signal, a terminal device and a base station. The determination method includes: obtaining a parameter of a first type of reference signal by a first signaling; and determining a parameter of a second type of reference signal according to the obtained parameter of the first type of reference signal, and the first type of reference signal and/or the second type of reference signal include at least one of: reference signal for data demodulation, reference signal for phase noise compensation, reference signal for Doppler shift compensation, or extended reference signal for data demodulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Chuangxin Jiang, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Ngok Li, Hao Wu, Bo Gao, Nan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12176983
    Abstract: A method of transmitting Channel State Information (CSI)-Reference Signals (RSs) in a wireless communication system that includes a base station (BS) and a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting, from the BS to the UE, first multiple CSI-RSs in a CSI-RS resource set that consists of CSI-RS resources. The first multiple CSI-RSs are transmitted using the CSI-RS resources, respectively. The CSI-RS resource set is repeated in a time domain or a frequency domain. The transmitting transmits second multiple CSI-RSs in the repeated CSI-RS resource set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Chongning Na, Min Liu, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 12156062
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to indicating beams for user equipment beam reporting. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication of a plurality of candidate beams on which the base station is able to simultaneously transmit communications to the UE, and determine a first beam and a second beam from among the plurality of candidate beams, based at least in part on one or more measurements of the plurality of candidate beams. The UE may transmit an indication of the first beam and the second beam to the base station, and receive communications simultaneously on the first beam and the second beam. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Venugopal, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12149396
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus is provided. The terminal apparatus obtains synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (PBCH) blocks (SSBs) in a plurality of beams; then determines a target beam in the plurality of beams based on an association relationship between an SSB index and a first random access preamble, where the first random access preamble is determined based on a cyclic shift and/or an order of symbols; and finally sends the random access preamble by using the target beam to initiate a random access request. A communication device receives the first random access preamble in the random access request sent by the terminal apparatus, and then, determines, based on the association relationship, the target beam accessed by the terminal apparatus. The first random access preamble is determined based on the cyclic shift and/or the order of symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianwei Zhou, Chenlei Xu, Hejia Luo, Xiaolu Wang
  • Patent number: 12143325
    Abstract: User equipment (UE) operation in a single frequency network (SFN). The UE may receive one or more transmission configuration indication (TCI) states corresponding to one or more downlink resources, receive a demodulated reference signal (DMRS) wherein the DMRS is quasi co-located (QCLed) with one or more channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) from multiple cells of a SFN and quasi co-location (QCL) information is included in the one or more TCI and determine a time and frequency offset corresponding to each of the multiple cells based on the CSI-RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 12143323
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for increasing channel diversity in a MIMO system, e.g. a massive MIMO system, are described. Some selected sounding reference signal values are applied to control base station transmission for antennas, e.g., randomly or semi-randomly selected antennas, to which they do not actually correspond. The wireless terminal perceives this change as a change in channel conditions, which is subsequently reported in channel status information (CSI) to the base station. This results in increased channel diversity, which is beneficial to the base station scheduler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Volkan Sevindik
  • Patent number: 12144004
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication technique for convergence of an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, etc.) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. A method for communicating by a base station according to the present invention comprises transmitting control information relating to at least two services to a terminal; and transmitting data relating to the at least two services to the terminal, wherein at least one of a control region for transmitting the control information and a data region for transmitting the data may include at least two frequency bandwidths corresponding to each of the at least two services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sungjin Park, Jeongho Yeo, Younsun Kim, Jinyoung Oh
  • Patent number: 12132547
    Abstract: A system and method for user selection in distributed multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO). The system performs a method that includes configuring a first channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource set for a serving transmission point (TRP) and a second CSI-RS resource for a concatenated channel, wherein the concatenated channel is between a virtual panel and the apparatus, the virtual panel comprising distributed panels from a serving TRP and a helping TRP. The method also includes computing a metric as a function of one or more quantities included in one or more measurement reports, received from a user equipment (UE), for the concatenated channel and at least one of the serving TRP channel or the helping TRP channel. The method also includes configuring, based on the metric, the UE for one of: a legacy transmission or a distributed MIMO transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiyang Leng, Ahmed Atef Ibrahim Ibrahim, Hao Chen, Rebal Al Jurdi, Jianzhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 12127047
    Abstract: Techniques for secure control plane communications between a User Equipment (UE) and a gNB are provided. A RAN network entity decides to handover a UE from a source base station (BS) to a target BS, wherein the RAN network entity controls a plurality of BSs including at least one of the source BS or the target BS, and wherein at least a portion of a control plane (CP) protocol layer is implemented at the target BS. The network entity generates at least one key specific to the target BS, based on a master key and a freshness parameter, the master key associated with the network entity. The network entity transmits an indication of the at least one key to the target BS, wherein the target BS exchanges control signaling with the UE based on the CP protocol layer using the at least one key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Inventors: Soo Bum Lee, Gavin Bernard Horn
  • Patent number: 12120573
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to perform cell reselection. In an example, timing requirements for synchronization signal processing are defined based on a beam sweeping capability of the device. Synchronization signals are received and processed according to the timing requirements to complete a cell reselection procedure. In another example, location data of the device is used to look up a database of cell identifiers. A cell identifier is determined based on the look-up and a cell reselection procedure is performed using the cell identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12114343
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting signaling information, a communication node and a storage medium. The method for transmitting signaling information includes the following steps: signaling information is received; and channel state information of M physical uplink channels is determined based on the signaling information, where M is a positive integer greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Huahua Xiao, Chuangxin Jiang, Zhaohua Lu, Shujuan Zhang, Yu Ngok Li, Hao Wu, Xinquan Ye, Shijia Shao, Yu Pan
  • Patent number: 12107728
    Abstract: Embodiments of a virtualized radio-access network (RAN) node configured to implement functions including an O-RAN Distributed Unit (DU), an O-RAN Radio Unit (RU), an O-RAN Central Unit-Control Plane (CU-CP), and an O-RAN Central Unit-User Plane (CU-UP), are described herein. In some embodiments, a reliability enhancement strategy is determined according to measurement reports collected from user equipment (UEs), the DU and the CU-UP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shu-ping Yeh, Jaemin Han, Wei Mao, Jingwen Bai, Murali Narasimha
  • Patent number: 12089195
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for UL reference signal-based beam management. A method of operating a UE includes receiving configuration information for UL reference signals for beam management, source reference signals for spatial relation, and a beam report; receiving the source reference signals; and measuring a signal quality metric for the source reference signals for spatial relation. The method further includes transmitting a beam report based on measured signal quality metric and receiving, in response to the beam report, updated configuration information for the UL reference signals for beam management. The method further includes determining a time for update of the UL reference signals for beam management and transmitting the UL reference signals for beam management based on the updated configuration information at the determined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Emad N. Farag, Eko Onggosanusi, Md. Saifur Rahman, Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 12052794
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for detecting the presence of a hidden camera on a network. When video is encoded and transmitted over/across a network, the data packet carrying the video tend to exhibit certain characteristics or features specific to video traffic from a hidden camera. A machine learning model for detecting the presence of a hidden camera can be trained based on these characteristics and features. Once trained, the machine learning model can be operationalized on an access point that can analyze real-time network traffic to determine whether a hidden camera(s) is operating on the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Jianpo Han, Liao Xu
  • Patent number: 12052297
    Abstract: A system and method for a resilient and self-recovery IP multimedia subsystem. In response to a subscriber who is registered with a first S-CSCF, a second S-CSCF is established as well and a flag is provided to a database. The database stores data for the session. The second S-CSCF is concurrent and separate from the first S-CSCF. In addition, the restoration data element in the first S-CSCF is deactivated. When the first S-CSCF is timed-out or fail to respond, instead of sending a restoration data, the second S-CSCF activates the flag with the database so that the second S-CSCF may establish with the database to continue with the session for the subscriber. The database identifies the session and restores the session data for the second S-CSCF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Sabuhi Kiran Zaifuddin, Shujaur Mufti