Patents Examined by Ronald B Abelson
  • Patent number: 11601242
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Weimin Duan, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Pavan Kumar Vitthaladevuni, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 11595179
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deshan Miao, Xin Su, Qiubin Gao, Runhua Chen
  • Patent number: 11588506
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhi Shen, Li Chen, William J. Domino, Stephane Richard Marie Wloczysiak, Xiao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11589343
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Kiran Venugopal, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11582780
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventors: Donghan Kim, Jeongho Yeo, Younsun Kim, Juho Lee, Heedon Gha, Yongjun Kwak, Youngbum Kim, Taehyoung Kim, Sungjin Park, Jinyoung Oh, Seunghoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11582019
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sang-Yuep Kim, Takahiro Suzuki, Junichi Kani
  • Patent number: 11582736
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Guorong Li, Pengyu Ji, Xin Wang
  • Patent number: 11569880
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunho Lee, Daesung Hwang, Seungmin Lee, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11570799
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventors: Donghan Kim, Jeongho Yeo, Younsun Kim, Juho Lee, Heedon Gha, Yongjun Kwak, Youngbum Kim, Taehyoung Kim, Sungjin Park, Jinyoung Oh, Seunghoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11570781
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyungtae Kim, Jiwon Kang
  • Patent number: 11563550
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Kiran Venugopal, Tianyang Bai, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11553473
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11546258
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 11546108
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhe Chen, Lei Song, Lei Zhang, Xin Wang
  • Patent number: 11546109
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhi Yan, Hongmei Liu, Haipeng Lei, Haiming Wang
  • Patent number: 11540264
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11533142
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Santhan Thangarasa, Muhammad Kazmi, Torgny Palenius, Iana Siomina, Kazuyoshi Uesaka
  • Patent number: 11523298
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukai Gao, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11515992
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventor: Amir Keyvan Khandani
  • Patent number: 11516349
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Bernard S. Ku, Lakshminarashimhan Naidu, James W. Forsyth