Patents Examined by Richard Schnell
  • Patent number: 11368963
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate reduced density CSI (Channel State Information)-RS (Reference Signals). One example embodiment can be employed at a UE (User Equipment) and can comprise processing circuitry configured to: process one or more configuration messages that comprise one or more configuration parameters for one or more CSI (Channel State Information)-RS (Reference Signal) APs (Antenna Ports) of a reduced density CSI-RS, wherein the one or more configuration parameters indicate a PRB (Physical Resource Block) decimation and a PRB offset; determine a set of REs (Resource Elements) for the one or more CSI-RS APs of the reduced density CSI-RS based on the one or more configuration parameters; measure the reduced density CSI-RS from the set of REs to determine one or more CSI parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Gregory V. Morozov, Sameer Pawar
  • Patent number: 11337234
    Abstract: Facilitating frequency selective scheduling in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) with multiple transmission points is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise facilitating an activation of a frequency selective scheduling based on identification of control channel elements used for a downlink control channel. The operations also can comprise instructing a user equipment device to report a subband channel quality indicator and a subband precoding matrix index based on a result of an evaluation of a metric determined based on channel conditions. Further, the operations can comprise scheduling the user equipment device with a subband based on the subband channel quality indicator and the subband precoding matrix index reported by the user equipment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Safaa Shabbo, Sairamesh Nammi, Vladimir Gusavac
  • Patent number: 11303759
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer readable memory comprises a voice service interface for allowing user control of a gateway. The voice service interface comprises a voice service module operable to interface with a telephonic communication device to process and receive gateway configuration entries from the user through the telephonic communication device. The voice service module is operable to transmit the gateway configuration entries to a gateway controller. The gateway configuration entries are configured to be parsed and applied to the gateway for control, configuration and/or diagnostic of the gateway. Gateway configuration entries include control function changes such as home gateway device reboot, Wi-Fi, enabling/disabling/configuration, parent control enabling/disabling/configuration, and other intended gateway functionalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventor: Jinghui Wu
  • Patent number: 11284239
    Abstract: The invention relates to a node in a communications network for enabling communication with at least one wireless communication terminal served by the communications network. According to an embodiment, the node stores at least one current User Equipment (UE) context of the at least one communication terminal to be used by a first network entity of the plurality of network entities in the communications network; receives, from a second network entity of the plurality of network entities, a message intended for the first network entity; and delivers at least a part of the received message to the first network entity and at least a part of the stored at least one current UE context to be used by the first network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Yong Yang, Gunnar Rydnell, Anders Fredén
  • Patent number: 11277243
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide procedures for transparent demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) design. According to certain aspects, a method of wireless communication by a base station (BS) is provided. The method generally includes transmitting one or more pilots based on at least one precoder used for transmitting data. The BS transmits the data based on the at least one precoder. A method by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving one or more pilots based on at least one precoder used for transmitting data on a channel. The UE estimates interference based on the one or more pilots and the UE decodes the data transmission based on the interference estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chenxi Hao, Xiaohui Liu, Chao Wei, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11258164
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed in relation to antenna arrays. The method may include transmitting a reference signal to one or more remote user terminals from each of a plurality of sub-arrays of an antenna array, each sub-array including a quantity of radiating elements of the antenna array capable of establishing a backhaul link with a remote communications node. The method may also include receiving measurement signals from the one or more remote user terminals, indicative of one or more characteristics of the received reference signals. The method may also include selecting, based on received measurement signals, a first subset of the sub-arrays for backhaul communications with the remote communications node and a second subset of the sub-arrays, including one or more of the remaining sub-arrays, for access communications with the one or more remote user terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventors: Nidham Ben Rached, Veronique Capdevielle, Patrick Albert Krief, Afef Feki
  • Patent number: 11240053
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for performing bit indexed explicit replication (BIER). For example, one method involves receiving a membership message that was generated by an egress router, where the membership message comprises information identifying a multicast group, and information identifying a plurality of egress routers. The method identifies at least one bit position in the membership message that is associated with the first egress router, where at least one bit position of the plurality of bit positions is associated with the first egress router. The method also records membership of the first egress router in the multicast group, where the membership is recorded in a bit of a group membership table, and the bit corresponds to the bit position identified in the membership message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ijsbrand Wijnands, Gregory J. Shepherd, Christian J. Martin
  • Patent number: 11240790
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for joining an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate than a 4G system, and a system thereof. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, a health care, a digital education, retailing, security and safe-related service, etc.) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT related technology. The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system, and to a method and an apparatus for smoothly providing a service in a communication system. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink and uplink control information within a communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventors: Jinyoung Oh, Seunghoon Choi, Sungjin Park, Jeongho Yeo, Youngbum Kim, Taehyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11229016
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to improving multiplexing capability in a frequency spectrum are provided. A first wireless communication device obtains a configuration for communicating a communication signal in a frequency spectrum. The configuration is based on at least a number of wireless communication devices scheduled to communicate in a time period. The configuration indicates resources in the frequency spectrum over the time period and a frequency distribution mode of the resources. The first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, the communication signal in the frequency spectrum during the time period based on the configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Kapil Bhattad, Jing Sun, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
  • Patent number: 11218236
    Abstract: The apparatus may be a base station. The apparatus sets a first numerology for at least one synchronization signal of one or more synchronization signals to be different from a second numerology for at least one data signal of one or more data signals. The apparatus transmits the one or more synchronization signals to a user equipment (UE) based on the first numerology. The apparatus transmits the one or more data signals to the UE based on the second numerology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo, Sundar Subramanian, Juergen Cezanne, Ashwin Sampath, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Junyi Li, Bilal Sadiq
  • Patent number: 11218574
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that include representing, traversing, and processing directed graphs using one or more content-addressable memory devices. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes presenting query data to one or more ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) devices, wherein the query data includes state data and key data; receiving, from the TCAM devices, information about a matching address identified by the TCAM devices; accessing, based on the information about the matching address, information in one or more storage devices; performing, based on the information in the one or more storage devices, at least one operation on data included within the one or more storage devices to generate processed data; outputting the processed data; determining, based on the information in the one or more storage devices, new state data and a new key value; and presenting new query data to the TCAM devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Fungible, Inc.
    Inventors: Hariharan Lakshminarayanan Thantry, Rohit Sunkam Ramanujam, John David Huber, Deepak Goel, Vikas Minglani
  • Patent number: 11212737
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for managing system information (SI) window in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes determining a plurality of SI messages to be transmitted at a time point, identifying a SI window number at the time point, and determining at least one of SI message among the plurality of SI messages, the at least one of SI message being included in a SI window corresponding to the SI window number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Himke Van Der Velde, Mangesh Abhimanyu Ingale, Youngbin Chang
  • Patent number: 11197246
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for power control system in a multi-hop integrated access and backhaul network. In a multi-hop integrated access and backhaul network a donor node can communicate with user equipment devices and relay nodes that have varying power levels, and to avoid receiving uplink transmissions with varying power levels which can impact automatic gain control systems and lower overall throughput, the power control system disclosed herein can manage the power levels of the relay node in order to reduce the difference in power levels. In one embodiment, the power control system can schedule relay node devices to transmit uplink transmissions alongside UE devices that have a high signal strength. In another embodiment, the power control system can schedule relay nodes and UE devices to separate symbols within a time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Aditya Chopra, Arunabha Ghosh, Thomas Novlan, Andrew Thornburg, Xiaoyi Wang, Ralf Bendlin
  • Patent number: 11191099
    Abstract: The present invention provides a data transmission method, comprising: sending scheduling information to a terminal on a downlink subframe, wherein the scheduling information is used for scheduling the terminal to transmit uplink data on one or more uplink subframes of an unlicensed carrier; and receiving the uplink data transmitted by the terminal. The present invention provides a technical solution of multi-subframe scheduling in the unlicensed carrier which does not exist in the prior art. The present invention also provides a data transmission device and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xincai Li, Yajun Zhao, Wei Gou, Feng Bi
  • Patent number: 11184925
    Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more messages comprising a parameter indicating a first value of a listen before talk (LBT) counter. The LBT counter is incremented based on an LBT procedure indicating an LBT failure for an uplink transmission via a first bandwidth part. Based on the LBT counter reaching the first value, a switch is made from the first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part as an active bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Hua Zhou, Kyungmin Park, Ali Cagatay Cirik
  • Patent number: 11177997
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transport link quality measurement in a distributed antenna system. A link quality indicator associated with the functional performance of a digital transport link in the distributed antenna system can be determined by a component of the distributed antenna system. An indication of a potential fault condition can be determined based on the link quality indicator before a fault condition associated with the potential fault condition occurs. The indication of the potential fault condition can be presented, for example, via a graphical user interface, a table, or an email alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Van E. Hanson, Michael J. Williamson
  • Patent number: 11166218
    Abstract: When a serving base station encounters a trigger for handover of a UE to a target base station, the serving base station will responsively predict whether, before the serving base station would direct the UE to handover to the target base station, an inactivity timer for the UE will expire, and the serving base station will then control the handover based on that prediction. For instance, responsive to the predicting being that the inactivity timer will expire before the serving base station would send a handover command message to the UE, the serving base station could forgo engaging in handover-preparation signaling with the target base station for the handover, instead allowing the UE to transition to idle mode upon expiration of the timer, at which point the UE could then engage in idle-mode handover to the target base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Jasinder P. Singh, Siddharth S. Oroskar
  • Patent number: 11160102
    Abstract: Techniques for full duplex operation of base stations and/or user equipments (UEs) are discussed. One example embodiment comprises one or more processors of a UE configured to: process control messages that comprise a downlink assignment for the UE and an uplink grant for the UE during a subframe in a frequency band, wherein the downlink assignment indicates a first set of UE subarrays, and wherein the uplink grant indicates a second set of UE subarrays; process downlink data received via transceiver circuitry via the first set of UE subarrays, wherein the downlink data is received from a first base station during the subframe via the frequency band; and output uplink data to the transceiver circuitry for transmission via the second set of UE subarrays, wherein the uplink data is output for transmission to a second base station during the subframe via the frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Gregory V. Morozov, Victor Sergeev, Hong He
  • Patent number: 11153722
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method by which a terminal receives an MBMS service and an apparatus for supporting the same. The method comprises the steps of: determining a coverage enhancement (CE) level of the terminal in a frequency at which an MBMS service of interest is provided; receiving a CE level of the MBMS service supported by a network; determining whether the MBMS service can be received by comparing the CE level of the terminal with the CE level of the MBMS service; and reporting, to the network, the CE level of the terminal or the number of iterations, which is indicated by the CE level of the terminal, required for the terminal when it is determined that the MBMS service cannot be received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Youngdae Lee
  • Patent number: 11133896
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are described for configuring Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) simultaneous transmissions, which can be used to enhance network performance and/or to enhance procedures within the UE to achieve more efficient operations. For example, techniques are described for determining which modulation coding scheme (MCS) table to apply based on various factors. Different techniques are also described for configuring user equipment (UE) with an RNTI based on different considerations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Chie-Ming Chou, Hung-Chen Chen