Patents Examined by Raymond S Dean
  • Patent number: 11223415
    Abstract: Technology for a mobile repeater operable to operate in a low power mode is disclosed. The repeater can comprise of detecting an uplink signal from one or more mobile devices for a selected period of time. The repeater can comprise of setting the mobile repeater to the low power mode when the uplink signal is not detected within the selected period of time to reduce a power draw. Wherein setting the mobile repeater to the low power mode comprises turning off one or more signal chain components in one or more signal chains including at least one power amplifier (PA) to reduce a power draw of the mobile repeater. Wherein the one or more signal chain components further comprises a low noise amplifier (LNA); a gain block; or a variable attenuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Wilson Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Ken Ashworth, Nolan J. Bradshaw, Dale Robert Anderson
  • Patent number: 11211957
    Abstract: An Internet-of-things (IoT)/machine-to-machine (MTM) wireless transmitter is obtained that has a semiconductor device including variable-resistance elements each of which is nonvolatile and rewritable and is able to hold each internal state without electric energy, and a modulator for receiving information from the semiconductor device and transmitting the information as a wireless signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Asada
  • Patent number: 11197250
    Abstract: A method by a base station for receiving power headroom reporting from a user equipment (UE) in a Multi-Radio Access Technology (RAT)-Dual Connectivity (MR-DC) scenario, the method includes receiving a DC Power Headroom Report (PHR) Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) from the UE, the DC PHR MAC CE having a fixed number of octets with cell index fields for indicating whether a power headroom (PH) for a serving cell with a corresponding cell index is reported, wherein the fixed number of octets is independent of a highest secondary Cell Index (SCellIndex) for serving cells with configured uplinks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: 5G IP HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Hung-Chen Chen, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Patent number: 11197130
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a bot service is described herein. During operation a bot server will receive a request from a user. An action will be taken by the bot server that is dependent upon a talkgroup associated with the user. Because the action taken by the bot server is dependent upon talkgroup, the action taken can be tailored to specific individuals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Dominik Wojtaszek
  • Patent number: 11194054
    Abstract: A system of architecture, apparatus and calibration method is invented for high-power flexible-polarization payload for satellite communications. The system comprises onboard phase-tracked apparatus, flexible polarization mechanism, and in-orbit calibration method. The power combining and polarization performance of the phase-tracked payload is monitored on ground by measuring the cross-polarization discrimination (XPD) and/or axial ratio (AR). The high performance over the life is achieved by optimization of the XPD or AR on ground and adjusting complex gain of the transponders. The high-power flexible-polarization in-orbit-calibration payload may be applied but not limited to UHF, L, S, C, X, Ku and Ka-band high power satellite systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: MACDONALD, DETTWILER AND ASSOCIATES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haiqing Wu, Jean-François Blain, Claude Gingras, Michel Tremblay
  • Patent number: 11191041
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication scheme for fusing IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4G system and subsequent systems thereafter. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of the 5G communication technology and IoT related technology. A method performed by a transmission terminal for transmitting a device-to-device (D2D) communication data is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunseok Ryu, Seunghoon Park, Sangwon Choi, Jeongho Park, Peng Xue, Hyunkyu Yu
  • Patent number: 11178621
    Abstract: Transmission power for a PTRS (Phase Tracking Reference Signal) is appropriately determined. A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section configured to receive a downlink shared channel (PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel)) and a PTRS (Phase Tracking Reference Signal), and a control section configured to assume that transmission power for the PTRS is scaled based on a ratio between PDSCH EPRE (Energy Per Resource Element) and PTRS EPRE corresponding to a value of a higher layer parameter, in which at least one set of the ratios corresponding to the value of the higher layer parameter includes only a value of the ratio that is equal to or smaller than a given value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11171718
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate satellites using a Software-Defined Radio (“SDR”) system. In one example, a geostationary (GEO) satellite includes an antenna system including multiple antennas, each configured to provide a spot beam having an adjustable throughput for a terrestrial coverage area while the antenna is in an active state and the satellite is in orbit above the Earth, a front-end subsystem communicatively coupled to the antenna system having an input side including an input filter and an analog-to-digital converter, and an output side including an output filter and a digital-to-analog converter, and a software defined radio (“SDR”) communicatively coupled to the antenna system via the front-end subsystem. The SDR, in response to a surge modification request, modifies a throughput of each active antenna by increasing or decreasing a share of a satellite power budget allotted to the antenna by deactivating or activating a previously active or previously inactive antenna, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Astranis Space Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: John Gedmark, Siamak Ebadi, Ryan McLinko, Steve Joseph, Robert Kummerer, Adam Bily, Kagan Topalli
  • Patent number: 11166290
    Abstract: A method for determining operational constraints for a first constellation of non-geostationary satellites (CONS_I) transmitting towards a terrestrial station (SV) with respect to a second constellation of non-geostationary satellites (CONS_V) linked with the station, the constraints comprising a maximum transmission power of the satellites of the first constellation, the method includes determining triplets of limit values (?, ?, I/N) of two angles (?, ?) and of an interference-to-noise ratio (I/N), the angles (?, ?) defining a position of a satellite (NGSO_I) of the first constellation relative to the station and to a satellite (NGSO_V) of the second constellation and the interference-to-noise ratio being the ratio between interferences (I) transmitted by the first constellation on a link between the station and the satellite of the second constellation and the noise (N) of the link, the determination of the triplets being performed so that a distribution of signal-to-noise and interference ratios (R) aggre
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe Levy, Arnaud Guerin, Alexandre Guerin
  • Patent number: 11160035
    Abstract: A method for allocating transmission resources to at least one terminal of a set of D2D terminals available for direct communication implemented by a cellular access network having a base station. The base station has knowledge of a statistic relating to the state of the D2D channels. The method includes, for a transmission interval: determination, by the base station, of a subset among different subsets of D2D terminals of the set that statistically minimizes a utility function; determination, by each D2D terminal of subset, of a minimum power and a maximum throughput which minimize its utility metric; and determination, by the base station, of a D2D terminal among the D2D terminals of subset, of which the utility function applied to its minimum power and its maximum throughput is minimal, in order to allocate to the terminal spectral resources for transmission during the transmission interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Rita Ibrahim, Berna Sayrac, Mohamad Assaad
  • Patent number: 11153831
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling uplink transmit power of a UE, for instance on an FDD connection. An example method includes, iteratively for each successive given time interval of a continuum of equal-duration time intervals (i) determining an actual average transmit power of the UE in the given time interval, (ii) using the determined actual average transmit power of the UE in the given time interval as a basis to set a maximum average transmit power of the UE in a respective subsequent time interval of the continuum of time intervals, and (iii) applying the set maximum average transmit power as a limitation on uplink transmit power of the UE in the respective subsequent time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventor: William Shvodian
  • Patent number: 11153142
    Abstract: A communication device includes a measurement engine configured to perform a radio measurement to obtain a reception metric, a power reduction database configured to identify a potential power reduction from a plurality of power reductions, a metric scaler configured to scale the reception metric to compensate for the potential power reduction to obtain a reduced reception metric, and a transmit controller configured to select a transmit power or a transmit repetition count for a radio frequency transceiver based on the reduced reception metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jose Cesares Cano, Goeran Oekvist, Frank Sjoeberg, James Leblanc, Magnus Lundberg Nordenvaad
  • Patent number: 11147028
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a device in a node for wireless communication. A first node receives a first signal and a second signal, and the first node transmits a first information block and a second information block in a first time window. The first information block and the second information block are used for determining whether the first signal and the second signal are correctly received respectively; transmit power values of physical layer channels carrying the first information block and the second information block are both a first power value. Through the design in the disclosure, a transmit power of a feedback channel on a sidelink is associated with a priority; and when multiple feedback channels are transmitted in one same time window, a proper transmit power can be determined to optimize performances of the feedback channels on the sidelink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Qi Jiang, Keying Wu, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11146325
    Abstract: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) based vehicle-mounted system may include a first plurality of antennas and a second plurality of antennas, with an antenna of the first plurality having different polarization than an antenna of the second plurality, an antenna of the first plurality and an antenna of the second plurality having antenna patterns in a different direction relative to at least another antenna of the first plurality and another antenna of the second plurality, and an antenna pattern of one antenna of the first plurality and an antenna pattern of one antenna of the second plurality being directed at least approximately parallel to the path. A corresponding MIMO-based stationary system may include at least a first plurality of antennas and a second plurality of antennas, with radiation patterns of the first and second pluralities being configured to overlap within an area between the first and second pluralities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventor: Nima Jamaly
  • Patent number: 11140639
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling application of MU-MIMO. The disclosure provides for considering a device's power class as a basis to decide whether to provide the device with MU-MIMO service. For instance, a base station could determine which of the base station's served devices that are threshold distant from the base station are each a high power device rather than a lower power device. And on at least that basis, the base station could select each such device to receive MU-MIMO service. Or faced with a choice between devices to receive MU-MIMO service, the base station could compare the devices' power classes and could select the devices that have higher power class to receive MU-MIMO service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Rajveen Narendran
  • Patent number: 11133861
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for adaptively coordinating among satellite communication channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SPIRE GLOBAL, INC.
    Inventors: Jeroen Cappaert, Bryan Wong, Robert Deaton, Jonathan Rosenblatt, William Joel Spark
  • Patent number: 11129116
    Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to systems, devices, apparatuses, products, and methods for wireless communication. For example, a user equipment (UE) device within a wireless communication system may generate an uplink signal. The uplink signal comprises at least one of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), a physical random access channel (PRACH), or a sounding reference signal (SRS). The UE transmits the uplink signal from the UE, and receives a signal at the UE. The UE performs a correlation between the transmitted uplink signal and the received signal, and determines whether an object is present within a transmission path from the UE based on the correlation. The UE may set a transmission parameter at the UE based on the determination of whether the object is present within the transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shay Landis, Guy Wolf, Assaf Touboul
  • Patent number: 11128991
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system for floor control on multiple mission critical push to talk MCPTT systems are disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes receiving, by a first floor control server, a first message from N network element devices, wherein the first message is used to request a floor from the first floor control server, and wherein the N network element devices belong to N MCPTT systems respectively, determining according to the first message, that an MCPTT user in an MCPTT group belonging to a first MCPTT system occupies the floor, wherein the first MCPTT system is an MCPTT system to which a first network element device belongs, and sending a second message to the first network element device, wherein the second message is used to indicate that the MCPTT user in the MCPTT group belonging to the first MCPTT system occupies the floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanmei Yang, Cuili Ge, Niranth Amogh
  • Patent number: 11115938
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method in which a terminal transmits a device-to-device (D2D) signal in a wireless communication system. The D2D signal transmission method includes: transmitting D2D control information; and transmitting D2D data corresponding to the D2D control information, wherein the D2D control information and the D2D data are transmitted in the same subframe, and the D2D control information and the D2D data are always adjacent to each other in the frequency axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Hanbyul Seo, Inkwon Seo, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 11095361
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, computer-readable mediums for storing software, and systems for dynamic geographical spectrum sharing (DGSS) by Earth exploration satellite services (EESS) are described herein. Using DGSS mechanisms described herein, electromagnetic spectrum may be shared by sensors onboard Earth exploration satellites and wireless networks, such as 5G networks. The DGSS mechanisms may include mechanisms for determining an instantaneous field of view (IFOV) and mechanisms for modifying transmission characteristics while network antennas and power radiated by such antennas are within a window encompassing the IFOV. For example, when the IFOV of a satellite sensor for measuring atmospheric water includes a 5G antenna, the power of the 5G antenna may be reduced, the 5G antenna may be prevented from utilizing a segment of the electromagnetic spectrum, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Inventor: Elliot Eichen