Patents Examined by Rahel Guarino
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Patent number: 11411795Abstract: Artificial intelligence procedures are disclosed for localizing faults in corrupted messages in 5G and 6G, and for correcting those faults based on measured parameters such as backgrounds and message signals according to pulse-amplitude modulation. An AI model with multiple adjustable variables may be “trained” using a large number of message events, including faulted messages, to determine which message elements are likely faulted, based on input parameters such as modulation quality, SNR, and other signal properties. The receiving entity can then attempt a grid search to correct the faulted message elements, or request a retransmission. For field use by base stations and user devices, an algorithm may be developed based on the AI model, and configured to predict which message elements are likely faulted. By detecting and correcting message faults, networks may increase reliability and reduce latency while avoiding most retransmission costs and delays, according to some embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: ULTRALOGIC 6G, LLCInventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
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Patent number: 11411787Abstract: A communication system comprises a transmitter and a receiver that communicate differential phase modulated data over a wireline channel pair. The transmitter encodes data symbols by generating first and second data signals with differentially phase shifted signal transitions with respect to one another. The receiver receives the first data signal and the second data signal and samples the first data signal based on a signal transition timing of the second data signal to generate a first output data symbol. The receiver furthermore samples the second data signal based on signal transition timing of the first data signal to generate a second output data symbol.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Rambus Inc.Inventors: Masum Hossain, Richelle L. Smith, Carl W. Werner
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Patent number: 11411794Abstract: A method and apparatus for artificial neural network precoding for massive MIMO systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes processing, by an artificial neural network, ANN, precoding engine, at least one input signal by 5 performing a low peak-to-average-power ratio, PAPR, precoding on the at least one input signal; and transmitting, via at least one antenna array having at least one antenna, at least one precoded output signal processed by the ANN precoding engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Bilel Fehri, Pierre-Andre Laporte, Mark Edward Rollins
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Patent number: 11399301Abstract: Communications apparatuses and methods are provided. The solution comprises receiving (200) from a server a request to perform sensing measurements; allocating (202) transmission resources to one or more wireless terminal devices, where the allocated resources are larger than needed for data transmission of the one or more wireless terminal; transmitting (204) information on resource to the one or more wireless terminal devices; receiving (206) transmission from one or more wireless terminal devices, the transmission comprising an amount of known symbols in addition to data; estimating (208) channel state information utilizing the known symbols; and transmitting (210) channel state information to the server.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Olli Alanen, Enrico Henrik Rantala, Mika Kasslin, Janne Marin, Veli-Matti Kolmonen
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Patent number: 11394591Abstract: A signal transmitter circuit includes an output driver circuit configured to transmit a signal using a multi-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) scheme comprising a plurality of discreet signal levels. During operation, the output driver initiates a first transition of the signal to a first level of the multi-level PAM scheme from a second level of the multi-level PAM scheme, and initiates a second transition of the signal to the first level from a third level of the multi-level PAM scheme. The signal transmitter further includes a control circuit configured to control a slew rate of the signal transmitter circuit to cause the signal to reach a threshold voltage level at a first time, the first time occurring a first duration of time after the first transition is initiated, and to cause the signal to reach the threshold voltage level at a second time, the second time occurring the first duration of time after the second transition is initiated.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Rambus Inc.Inventors: Kamran Farzan, Dongyun Lee
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Patent number: 11387870Abstract: Embodiments can include receiving transmissions over a channel at a receiver of a MIMO communication system; the transmissions are received from a plurality of transmitters in communication with the receiver. Each communication is a separate communication having a modulation and coding scheme. An estimate of the channel is converted into an estimate, for each of a plurality of transmitters, of a bit-metric decoding rate for each of a plurality of MIMO detectors. The estimated bit-metric decoding rate for each of the transmitters for each of the MIMO detectors is converted into an estimated bit error rate for each of the MIMO detectors for each of the transmitters. One of the MIMO detectors is selected for use in generating log-likelihood ratios for bits transmitted from the transmitters to the receiver. The one of the MIMO detectors is selected based on the estimated bit-error rates and a target block error rate.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Pavan Koteshwar Srinath, Jakob Hoydis
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Patent number: 11383389Abstract: A robot includes a robot control apparatus that communicates with a device, wherein a transmission terminal of a clock synchronization serial communication system of the device and a reception terminal of the robot control apparatus are connected by a signal line, and the robot control apparatus receives an asynchronous signal from the device.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Daiki Tokushima, Akitoshi Maeda
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Patent number: 11387922Abstract: A receiver with a power detecting function for a pulsed signal is provided. Said receiver comprises an accumulator for accumulating samples of the respective power of the corresponding signal over time. In this context, the respective accumulation length is a window being based on the pulse length of the corresponding signal. Furthermore, the receiver may additionally comprise an output for outputting several windows and a maximum detector. In this context, the maximum detector is configured to determine a maximum power value of the several windows.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Gregor Feldhaus, Matthias Ruengeler
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Patent number: 11381430Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) transceiver includes a reference signal source to generate a reference signal, a local RF source to generate a local RF signal and a mixed-signal phase/frequency detector to compare the reference signal to the local RF signal, and to generate a difference signal from the comparison, wherein the difference signal comprises a modulation component and an error component. The transceiver also includes a receiver front end to receive and downconverts an angle-modulated RF signal to a baseband signal, a quadrature modulator configured to angle-modulate the reference signal source with the baseband signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor CorporationInventor: Ioannis Syllaios
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Patent number: 11381288Abstract: A communication method, including performing, by a terminal device, in response to a value of a resource bundling granularity being a first-type value, determining at least one resource block bundling group in a scheduling resource corresponding to a terminal device according to the first-type value of the resource bundling granularity, wherein, the first-type value comprises 2 or 4, and receiving, using the at least one resource block bundling group, data transmitted by a network device. The method further includes performing, by the terminal device, in response to the value of the resource bundling granularity being a second-type value, determining a scheduling resource corresponding to the terminal device as a same resource block bundling group, wherein, the second-type value comprises a size of a consecutive scheduling bandwidth of the terminal device, and receiving, using the resource block bundling group, data transmitted by the network device.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yong Liu, Xiang Ren
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Patent number: 11374643Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may 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, a security and safety-related service, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. A communication method of a terminal of a mobile communication system, according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises the steps of: acquiring moving speed information of a terminal; determining a reception beam candidate group on the basis of the moving speed information; and determining a reception beam, in the reception beam candidate group, for receiving a signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daehoon Kim, Bongjin Kim, Taekyoung Kim, Jongho Oh, Hyoungjin Lim, Jungju Kim, Eungkuk Nam, Joosung Park, Wonjun Hwang
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Patent number: 11374799Abstract: A method for estimating a wireless communication channel between a transmitter and a receiver, including a plurality of paths for propagation of a wave, at least one of the transmitter and the receiver being formed of a plurality of antennas. The method includes: for at least one path, determining a characteristic matrix, which depends on a first element representative of at least one propagation direction associated with the path, and a second element representative of a propagation distance associated with the path; and estimating the communication channel from the at least one obtained characteristic matrix.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: FONDATION B-COMInventors: Luc Le Magoarou, Antoine Le Calvez, Stéphane Paquelet
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Patent number: 11374627Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for restricting an uplink Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) assignment based on fading in an mmWave system. The methods and systems receive fading data from one or more user devices. Based on the received fading data, the methods and systems determine that a threshold number of the one or more user devices satisfies a threshold level of fading. In response to the threshold number satisfying the threshold level of fading, the methods and systems dynamically restrict the uplink MIMO assignment for at least one user device satisfying the threshold level of fading. In response to dynamically restricting the uplink MIMO assignment, the methods and systems assign the at least one user device to a lower MIMO layer of available MIMO layers.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLCInventors: Atul Kulkarni, Sreekar Marupaduga, Anurag Thantharate
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Patent number: 11362763Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a plurality of communications from a corresponding plurality of transmission/reception points (TRPs) included in a coordinated multipoint network. At least two communications, of the plurality of communications, may have different redundancy versions from a common codebook, and may be received in a same transmission time interval (TTI). The UE may decode the plurality of communications using joint decoding. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Piyush Gupta, Junyi Li, Chong Li, Hua Wang, Karl Georg Hampel
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Patent number: 11362724Abstract: A method of receiving data transmitted by a plurality of communications devices includes receiving at each of a plurality of M antennas reference signals transmitted by each of a plurality of K communications devices, and processing by each of a plurality of antenna modules the reference signals. The processing by each of the antenna module includes estimating for each of the K detected reference signals received from the K communications devices a sample of a radio channel through which the received signals have passed, generating for each of the K samples of the radio channel a K×K partial matrix forming a part of a signal processing matrix for performing zero forcing equalisation of the received signals, and transmitting the partial matrix K×K from each of the M antenna modules to a central processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Juan Vidal Alegría, Jesús Rodríguez Sánchez, Fredrik Rusek
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Patent number: 11349697Abstract: An apparatus for wireless communication includes a receiver configured to receive control information associated with a non-coherent transmission to a base station. The apparatus further includes a transmitter configured to perform the non-coherent transmission based on the control information. The non-coherent transmission includes transmission of a codepoint to the base station, and the codepoint is determined based a diagonalized base sequence parameter matrix, a first discrete Fourier transform (DFT) matrix of a first size, and a second DFT matrix of a second size.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Yi Huang, Hwan Joon Kwon
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Patent number: 11341679Abstract: The present invention provides methods, apparatus and systems for improving a systems-level data rate on a communications link such as the orthogonal frequency division multiplexed multiple access (OFDMA) downlink used in WiFi and LTE cellular/wireless mobile data applications. The present invention preferably uses a form of multilevel coding and decoding known as tiled-building-block encoding/decoding. With the present invention, different receivers coupled to different parallel downlink channels with different channel qualities decode different received signal constellations at different levels of resolution. This allows the downlink of the OFDMA system to operate with a significantly higher data rate, thus eliminating existing inefficiencies in the downlink and significantly increasing system level bandwidth efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Inventors: Muhammad Ahsan Naim, John P. Fonseka
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Patent number: 11336338Abstract: Systems and methods for selecting a communication mode in a wireless network (10) include a communication mode selection procedure that may be carried out by the respective devices in an automated manner to identify a mode for communication between an electronic device (14) and a network node (12). The selection may be between P-MIMO Mode A, P-MIMO Mode B, B-MIMO Mode A, or B-MIMO Mode B. Determining the desired mode for communication is based on the ability and/or desirability of the network node (12) to efficiently process a maximum threshold number of electronic devices using the P-Mimo Mode A or B-MIMO Mode A and, thereafter, granting MIMO Mode B communication access to any subsequent electronic devices joining the communication network. Communication mode selection may occur dynamically based on changing channel conditions caused by mobility of the electronic user equipment devices and what overlapping and/or non-overlapping beams are needed to be used.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Fredrik Rusek, Olof Zander, Erik Bengtsson
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Patent number: 11336344Abstract: Design of precoding and feedback for user equipment (UE)-specific reference signals (UE-RS)-based open-loop and semi-open-loop multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) systems is discussed. Aspects of the present disclosure provide for sub-resource block (RB) random precoding that allows for greater diversity gain in a lower bandwidth. In addition, the recoding may be performed using resource element (RE)-level layer shifting that provides for a number of precoders to be assigned to a number of layers for every such continuous subcarrier. As such, two codewords may experience the same effective channel quality with channel quality indicators (CQI) being averaged across all of the layers.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Chao Wei, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu, Neng Wang, Xiaohui Liu, Jilei Hou
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Patent number: 11329855Abstract: There are provided an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) demodulator, a demodulation method and a receiver. The OFDM demodulator includes a phase analog-to-digital converter and a determiner, wherein the phase analog-to-digital converter is configured to acquire an OFDM analog signal, extract and quantize phase information of a modulated signal on each subcarrier in the OFDM analog signal, and output a phase quantified value corresponding to the phase information of the each subcarrier; and the determiner is configured to perform determination according to the phase quantified value, to obtain modulation information corresponding to the each subcarrier.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: SANECHIPS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jingjing Dong