Patents Examined by Ronald B Abelson
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Patent number: 11601242Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for fast adaptation of transmission properties of sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information, configuring the UE with one or more SRS resource sets, wherein each of the one or more SRS resource sets comprises one or more SRS resources; receiving signaling comprising a field indicating which of the one or more SRS resources in the one or more SRS resource sets are active and which of the one or more SRS resources in the one or more SRS resources sets are inactive; and transmitting one or more SRSs using only the one or more SRS resources that are active.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Weimin Duan, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Pavan Kumar Vitthaladevuni, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
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Patent number: 11595179Abstract: Disclosed are a method for processing multi-transmission reception point (TRP) data, a base station, a terminal, and a storage medium, used for solving the problem in the prior art of low reliability of data transmission when data is transmitted by using multiple TRPs. The method includes a base station generates a resource allocation instruction and a quasi-co-location (QCL) instruction according to the mapping relations between a transmission coding block of data to be transmitted and multiple TRPs, and the QCL instruction is used for indicating the associations between an allocated resource and the QCL identifiers of the multiple TRPs, and the allocated resource comprises a time-frequency resource or a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) port resource; and sends downlink control information (DCI) to a user terminal, the DCI comprising at least the resource allocation instruction and the QCL instruction as well as a data merging and detection instruction.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Deshan Miao, Xin Su, Qiubin Gao, Runhua Chen
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Patent number: 11588506Abstract: An architecture can include a first group of filters each configured to support a band such that a first frequency range covers the respective bands, and a second group of one or more filters each configured to support a band such that a second frequency range covers the respective one or more bands. Each filter of the first group can be configured to provide an impedance at or near a short circuit impedance for a signal in each band of the second group, and each filter of the second group can be configured to provide an impedance at or near a short circuit impedance for a signal in each band of the first group. The filters of the first and second groups can be implemented as one or more multiplexers. The architecture can further include a coupling circuit having a common node and configured to couple the common node to the one or more multiplexers through a first path and a second path.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Zhi Shen, Li Chen, William J. Domino, Stephane Richard Marie Wloczysiak, Xiao Zhang
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Patent number: 11589343Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for updating beam information across a plurality of component carriers (CCs) via downlink control information (DCI). An exemplary method, performed by a user equipment (UE), generally includes receiving, from a network entity, a downlink control information (DCI) for an update for at least of a beam or path loss (PL) reference signal (RS) activation and applying the update across at least one of a group of component carriers (CCs) or bandwidth parts (BWPs) within the group of CCs.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Kiran Venugopal, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11582780Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for fusing, with an IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate than a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety-related services, on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. Disclosed is a setting method for an efficient uplink signal transmission of a terminal in a case where a plurality of waveforms are supported to efficiently operate an uplink in a next generation mobile communication.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Inventors: Donghan Kim, Jeongho Yeo, Younsun Kim, Juho Lee, Heedon Gha, Yongjun Kwak, Youngbum Kim, Taehyoung Kim, Sungjin Park, Jinyoung Oh, Seunghoon Choi
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Patent number: 11582019Abstract: A reception apparatus includes a detection unit that detects occurrence of a phase slip in phase estimation values of time-series received symbol data, and determines an inclination of the phase slip, a delay processing unit that generates first received signal data obtained by delaying received signal data obtained from the time-series received symbol data by one symbol time interval, a phase shift unit that generates second received signal data by performing phase shift according to the inclination, only in a period in which one symbol time interval elapses, on only the received signal data of a symbol time at which the occurrence of the phase slip is detected among pieces of the received signal data, and a remainder processing unit that derives a remainder of a difference between the second received signal data and the first received signal data.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Sang-Yuep Kim, Takahiro Suzuki, Junichi Kani
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Patent number: 11582736Abstract: A communication method and apparatus and a communication system, the communication apparatus being provided in a terminal equipment, and the communication apparatus comprising: processing circuitry configured to acquire or select communication resources determined based on a mapping between vehicle-to-everything (V2X) services and communication resource parameters; and communication circuitry configured to transmit target V2X services by using the communication resources. The communication resources may be determined according to the mapping between vehicle-to-everything (V2X) services and communication resource parameters. Certain embodiments making the communication resources meet requirements of the V2X services.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Guorong Li, Pengyu Ji, Xin Wang
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Patent number: 11569880Abstract: A method of transmitting an uplink signal for a terminal configured to support multiple TTI (transmission time interval) lengths in a wireless communication system, includes mapping rank indicator (RI) information to elements on a column of an element matrix in a descending order of a row index from a maximum value of row indexes of the column; mapping ACK/NACK (acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement) information to the elements on the column in a descending order of the row index from a maximum value of the row indexes of the column among remaining elements except the elements of the column used for the RI information; and transmitting the uplink signal including the RI information and the ACK/NACK information.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hyunho Lee, Daesung Hwang, Seungmin Lee, Yunjung Yi
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Patent number: 11570799Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for fusing, with an IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate than a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety-related services, on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. Disclosed is a setting method for an efficient uplink signal transmission of a terminal in a case where a plurality of waveforms are supported to efficiently operate an uplink in a next generation mobile communication.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Inventors: Donghan Kim, Jeongho Yeo, Younsun Kim, Juho Lee, Heedon Gha, Yongjun Kwak, Youngbum Kim, Taehyoung Kim, Sungjin Park, Jinyoung Oh, Seunghoon Choi
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Patent number: 11570781Abstract: A method and an apparatus of transmitting and receiving a downlink signal in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A method of receiving a downlink signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: transmitting capability information of the terminal to a base station, wherein the capability information includes information related to a number of second type quasi-colocation reference signal (QCL RS) supported by the terminal based on a number of activated receiving means of the terminal, receiving, from the base station, configuration information for a plurality of first type QCL RSs and at least one second type QCL RS and receiving the downlink signal based on the configuration information, and based on the number of second type QCL RS being 1, the downlink signal may be received based on one specific second type QCL RS among the at least one second type QCL RS.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hyungtae Kim, Jiwon Kang
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Patent number: 11563550Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an activation status message identifying one or more transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states or one or more spatial relationships, the activation status message being configured to alter one or more activation statuses for the one or more TCI states or the one or more spatial relationships in a single bandwidth part associated with a single component carrier; and selectively alter the one or more activation statuses of the one or more TCI states or the one or more spatial relationships in a plurality of bandwidth parts associated with a plurality of component carriers based at least in part on receiving the activation status message. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Kiran Venugopal, Tianyang Bai, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11553473Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives information comprising a first indicator regarding a search space set categorization and a second indicator regarding a search space set index, the first indicator and the second indicator corresponding to each of one or more search space sets; and a processor that controls a monitoring of downlink control channel candidates allocated to each of the search space sets based on the search space set categorization and the search space set index. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
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Patent number: 11546258Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a first waveguide system that receives first electromagnetic waves that propagate along a transmission medium where the transmission medium comprises an external surface where the first electromagnetic waves propagate along the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path, and where the first electromagnetic waves convey data. The first waveguide system can generate, according to the first electromagnetic waves, first signals, where the first signals convey the data. The first waveguide system can provide the first signals to a switching device that facilitates generating and providing, according to the first signals and routing information conveyed by the first signals, second signals to a second waveguide system selected from among a group of waveguide systems communicatively coupled to the switching device, where the second signals convey at least a first portion of the data. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Farhad Barzegar, Giovanni Vannucci, Irwin Gerszberg, Paul Shala Henry, Thomas M. Willis, III, Donald J. Barnickel, Robert Bennett
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Downlink signal monitoring and transmitting method, and parameter configuration method and apparatus
Patent number: 11546108Abstract: Downlink signal monitoring and transmitting method, and parameter configuration method and apparatus. The method includes: monitoring a downlink signal by a terminal equipment according to an antenna port quasi-co-location parameter; wherein the antenna port quasi-co-location parameter is related to a first cell and/or a second cell, or is related to a first reference signal index and a second reference signal index. Hence, even though a network device configures multiple carriers for the terminal equipment, the terminal equipment may be able to accurately determine an antenna port quasi-co-location parameter for receiving a downlink signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Zhe Chen, Lei Song, Lei Zhang, Xin Wang -
Patent number: 11546109Abstract: The present application relates to a method and apparatus for MPDCCH performance enhancement. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides an apparatus comprising: a receiver that receives a first reference signal, a second reference signal and a control signal; and a processer that decodes the control signal based on at least one of: the first reference signal and the second reference signal, wherein the second reference signal on an antenna port is associated with a precoder, and the antenna port of the second reference signal and the precoder for the antenna port of the second reference signal are adopted within a time duration and a frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITEDInventors: Zhi Yan, Hongmei Liu, Haipeng Lei, Haiming Wang
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Patent number: 11540264Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method for configuring physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) detection and a terminal device. The method includes: receiving a first indication signal sent from a network side, and obtaining a parameter for PDCCH detection based on the first indication signal; and detecting a PDCCH based on the parameter for PDCCH detection.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Hai Tang
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Patent number: 11533142Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for lean carrier operation comprises obtaining lean carrier assistance information (LCAI). The LCAI comprises one or more of the following sets of information for a carrier frequency: reference signal (RS) muting pattern information, wherein the RS muting pattern information provides a RS muting pattern used in one or more cells on the carrier frequency; and coverage area information, wherein the coverage area information indicates a coverage area where the RS muting is applied or is expected to be applied on one or more cells operating on the carrier frequency. The method further comprises performing one or more radio operational tasks using the LCAI.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Santhan Thangarasa, Muhammad Kazmi, Torgny Palenius, Iana Siomina, Kazuyoshi Uesaka
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Patent number: 11523298Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for Control State Information (CSI) transmission. In example embodiments, a method implemented in a terminal device is provided. According to the method, in response to receiving DCI from a network device, a configuration for transmitting CSI to the network device is determined at least based on the DCI. The DCI indicates a CSI-RS for determining the CSI and timing information associated with the CSI. The CSI is determined by measuring the CSI-RS in response to receiving the CSI-RS from the network device. The CSI is transmitted to the network device based on the configuration.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yukai Gao, Gang Wang
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Patent number: 11515992Abstract: A method and apparatus for (a) operating a first full-duplex transceiver to exchange radio-frequency signals with a second full-duplex transceiver, (b) determining at the first full-duplex transceiver that a residual self-interference signal exceeds a threshold, (c) in response to the determination that the residual self-interference signal exceeds the threshold, performing a self-training operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Inventor: Amir Keyvan Khandani
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Patent number: 11516349Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method and system to interconnect a first communications carrier to a second communications carrier by receiving a request to connect a communication from a first carrier to a second carrier; filtering the request to identify a specific name authority pointer (NPA-NXX) number from a plurality of specific name authority pointer (NPA-NXX) numbers; when the filter identifies the specific name authority pointer (NPA-NXX) number, modifying a private ENUM (tElephone NUmber Mapping) domain of the request to include an intercarrier ENUM apex based domain with a DNS (domain name server) recursion zone; retrieving a routing record using a domain name server (DNS) indicated by the intercarrier ENUM apex based domain; and routing the communication to the second carrier using the routing record. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Bernard S. Ku, Lakshminarashimhan Naidu, James W. Forsyth