Patents Examined by Rhonda L Murphy
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Patent number: 12369160Abstract: A system and method for providing receiving shared channels during multi TRP transmission are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an example wireless communication method comprises: determining, by a wireless communication node, a plurality of sets of rate matching configurations. The method further comprises: associating, by the wireless communication node, the plurality of sets of rate matching configurations with respective group identifiers, and transmitting, by the wireless communication node to a wireless communication device, a signal indicating the plurality of sets of rate matching configurations and the group identifiers.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Chuangxin Jiang, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Ngok Li, Shujuan Zhang, Huahua Xiao
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Patent number: 12362804Abstract: An electronic device includes a processing circuit, configured to: configure one or multiple CMR and one or multiple IMR, and use a transmission beam corresponding to the one or multiple CMR to send a downlink signal to a user device, such that the user device: uses a receiving beam to receive the downlink signal from the transmission beam; determines the signal power on the basis of the signal quality measured on the CMR and determines the interference power on the basis of the signal quality measured on the IMR; and, on the basis of the signal power and the interference power, determines the signal-to-noise ratio between the transmission beam and the receiving beam. The device and process enables a network side device and the user device can more rationally select a transmission beam and a receiving beam.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Jianfei Cao
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Patent number: 12356442Abstract: Proposed is a method for performing wireless communication by a first device. The method may comprise a step of receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) through a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) from a second device, measuring a channel state through the CSI-RS on the basis of a reference type associated with the PSSCH, and transmitting information about the channel state to the second device. For example, the reference type associated with the PSSCH may be determined on the basis of whether a slot including a resource associated with the PSSCH includes a resource associated with a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH).Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Daesung Hwang, Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo
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Patent number: 12342358Abstract: Provided are a resource selection method and apparatus, a resource indication method and apparatus, and terminals and a storage medium. The method includes: indicating position information of multiple resources, and performing resource reselection based on resource availability information, where the resource availability information is from the second terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Haigang He, Youxiong Lu, Jie Chen
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Patent number: 12342371Abstract: Provided are a user equipment and a wireless communication method for LAA. The user equipment comprises: a receiver operative to receive a UL grant which schedules a subframe for UL transmission; a first circuit operative to perform LBT; a transmitter operative to transmit a PUSCH in the scheduled subframe starting from one available starting position of multiple candidate starting positions in the scheduled subframe if the LBT is successful. According to present disclosure, it is possible to increase the possibility that PUSCH could be sent in the scheduled subframe after LBT.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2024Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Li Wang, Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masayuki Hoshino
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Patent number: 12335924Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for latency handling of sidelink reference signal transmission in a wireless communication system, wherein a method comprises receiving or having a configuration of a first sidelink resource pool for sidelink data transmission and sidelink reference signal transmission, performing a first sensing-based resource selection, triggered or requested in a first timing, for selecting one or more first sidelink resources in the first sidelink resource pool, determining a first set of candidate resources within a first time interval, determining a first subset of candidate resources after excluding some candidate resources from the first set of candidate resources based on one or more sensing results, selecting the one or more first sidelink resources from the first subset of candidate resources according to at least a second remaining packet delay budget and a remaining delay budget associated with a first sidelink reference signal, and performing a first sidelink data tType: GrantFiled: September 25, 2024Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: ASUS Technology Licensing Inc.Inventor: Ming-Che Li
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Patent number: 12335959Abstract: The present disclosure provides a configured grant usage method and apparatus, a network device and a terminal. The method includes transmitting configuration information of logical channel to a terminal. A mapping relationship between the logical channel and a configured grant allocated to the terminal is configured in the configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Yali Zhao
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Patent number: 12328741Abstract: The embodiments of the application relate to a resource scheduling method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes that: a first terminal device receives indication information and resource grant information from a network device, the resource grant information being to indicate a granted resource allocated to the first terminal device by the network device and the indication information being to indicate that the granted resource is configured to transmit data born on a target logical channel; and the first terminal device transmits the data born on the target logical channel to a second terminal device through the granted resource according to the indication information and the resource grant information. According to the resource scheduling method, terminal device and network device of the embodiments of the application, flexible configuration of a transmission resource for a terminal device in a special application scenario may be implemented.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Hai Tang
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Patent number: 12302373Abstract: There are provided a wireless communication apparatus, method and system. The apparatus, at a first node, comprises: a transceiver, operative to transmit and/or receive radio signal; a circuitry, operative to measure one or more channel busy ratios for channel resource pools of the radio signal, and perform congestion control on the channel resource pools based on the measured channel busy ratios.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Joachim Loehr, Sujuan Feng
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Patent number: 12279197Abstract: A method (30) and system (10) for controlling wireless local area network (WLAN) user quality in a multi-access point environment is provided. In order to ensure good quality of service/user experience in a multi-access point Wi-Fi™ setup in which a user roams with a station (14), the access points (11, 12) continuously or at intervals assess the wireless environment's quality and report to a control entity (13). The control entity (13) determines, from the assessment data, alternative target access points (11, 12) that could be used in case the link quality of a current connection between an access point (11) and the station (14) falls below a predefined value. The control entity (13) then instructs the access point (11) to actively disconnect the station (14) and selects a new target access point (12) to accept the stations (14) connection request.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2024Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Koen Van Oost, Bart Vercammen, Kevin Gardner
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Patent number: 12279297Abstract: A method for performing wireless communication by a first device, and a device for supporting same are provided. The method may comprise: selecting a synchronization reference based on a sidelink (SL) synchronization priority; obtaining synchronization based on the synchronization reference; transmitting, to a second device, a first physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and a first physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) related to the first PSCCH; transmitting, to the second device, a second PSCCH and a second PSSCH related to the second PSCCH; receiving, from the second device, first SL hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information through a first physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) related to the first PSSCH; and receiving, from the second device, second SL HARQ feedback information through a second PSFCH related to the second PSSCH.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Seungmin Lee
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Patent number: 12267859Abstract: Embodiments of a method in a network node for resource allocation are disclosed. The method includes selecting a user set of wireless devices from available predefined user sets; estimating expected data rates for the wireless devices in the selected user set for a selected radio resource; computing a weighted sum of the expected rates of the wireless devices in the user set; and assigning a given the selected radio resource to the user set with the highest weighted sum. A criterion for dynamic resource allocation that can opportunistically exploit the channel variations towards achieving the optimal trade-off between the network capacity and wireless device-fairness is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PublInventors: Chandra Bontu, Jagadish Ghimire, Amr El-Keyi
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Patent number: 12267898Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to techniques for determining an appropriate aggregation level for a control channel resource set (CORESET). In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises determining, by a first device operatively coupled to a processor, an aggregation level for application by a second device to decode candidate downlink control channels associated with a CORESET. The method further comprises transmitting, by the first device, aggregation level information to the second device indicating the aggregation level. As a result of the transmitting, the second device becomes configured to apply the aggregation level in association with attempting to decode the candidate control downlink control channels. In various embodiments, the aggregation level is determined based one or more criteria, including an aggregation level capability of the second device, a location of the second device relative to the first device, and a geometry associated with the second device.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: SaiRamesh Nammi
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Patent number: 12267856Abstract: The present application provides a method for communication and a terminal device. An example method includes: performing resource allocation for a first resource set based on first information, wherein the first resource set is shared by the first radio access technology (RAT) sidelink (SL) and the second RAT SL, and the first information is associated with a resource of the first RAT SL.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2024Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ling Lyu, Zheng Zhao, Zhongzhi Yang
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Patent number: 12267810Abstract: The present disclosure relates to direct link management wireless communications. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a first wireless device in a wireless communication system comprises: allocating a link identifier (ID) to a second wireless device for a link between the first wireless device and the second wireless device; generating a data unit from one or more logical channels associated with the link ID; transmitting, to the second wireless device, sidelink control information (SCI) scheduling the data unit, wherein the SCI includes at least part of the link ID; and transmitting, to the second wireless device, the data unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Giwon Park, Laeyoung Kim, Jongyoul Lee
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Patent number: 12256438Abstract: A terminal includes a receiver that receives an index specifying configuration information for transmitting a random access preamble; and a controller that configures, in response to the receiver receiving additional information that specifies a time domain resource for transmitting the random access preamble, the time domain resource specified by the additional information, the time domain resource being configured by replacing a time domain resource for transmitting the random access preamble included in the configuration information specified by the index with the time domain resource specified by the additional information.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Akihito Hanaki, Hiroki Harada, Tomoya Ohara
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Patent number: 12245176Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a device for fronthaul communication between a baseband unit (BBU) and a remote unit (RU). A processor of the device is configured to receive, using a first fronthaul interface of the device, fronthaul data originating from said first one of the BBU and the RU. The fronthaul data is formatted according to a first fronthaul protocol when received using the first fronthaul interface. The processor is further configured to format at least some of the fronthaul data received using the first fronthaul interface so as to be formatted according to a second fronthaul protocol thereby producing reformatted fronthaul data and forward, using a second fronthaul interface of the device, the reformatted fronthaul data towards said second one of the BBU and the RU.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Dario Fertonani, Alan Barbieri
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Patent number: 12238680Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to sidelink-assisted virtual multi-link. In one aspect, for example, a relay node may serve as an additional virtual antenna panel for a UE by receiving downlink data from a base station via an access link, or receiving uplink data from the UE via a sidelink. The relay node may forward the downlink data to the UE via sidelink, or the uplink data to the base station via the access link. In another aspect, a base station may determine, for a UE, quasi-colocation (QCL) information and a grant for one or both of one or more access link resources or one or more sidelink resources. The base station may further transmit, to the UE, the QCL information and the grant on a downlink communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran
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Patent number: 12238746Abstract: Reliability monitoring and indication may be provided for multicast and broadcast services (MBS). A WTRU may receive an MBS configuration for an INACTIVE state (e.g., suspend PTP and maintain PTM for split MRB). MBS configuration and suspend configuration may be associated with different areas (e.g. MBS area versus RAN area). Configurations may indicate reliability indication triggers (e.g., polling, event-based, periodic), a reliability metric configuration, and/or a reliability indication configuration. A WTRU (e.g., in INACTIVE) may receive an MBS transmission (e.g., on MRB(s)), receive an MCCH (e.g., with trigger(s) for reliability indication during MCCH modification period), determine reliability metric(s) associated with MBS TB reception, monitor reliability metric(s) during time interval(s) for MCCH modification period(s), select RA resources (e.g., per mapping between resources and reliability metric value/range), indicate a reliability metric (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Yugeswar Deenoo Narayanan Thangaraj, Oumer Teyeb
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Patent number: 12232085Abstract: A method by which a first device performs wireless communication and an apparatus for supporting same are provided. The method comprises the steps of: determining a selection window; selecting Y candidate slots within the selection window; determining at least one slot related to the Y candidate slots, on the basis of a resource reservation period value set for a resource pool; selecting at least one sidelink (SL) resource from among SL resources included in the Y candidate slots, on the basis of sensing the at least one slot; and performing SL communication on the basis of the at least one SL resource, wherein the value of Y may be a positive integer.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Daesung Hwang, Hanbyul Seo