Patents Examined by Ronald B Abelson
  • Patent number: 11452134
    Abstract: A channel access method and device, a storage medium, a terminal, a terminal, and a base station are provided. The method comprises: receiving configuration information, the configuration comprising configuration information of at least one available bandwidth configured to perform an LBT operation, and the at least one available bandwidth is a portion of bandwidth of a carrier; performing the LBT operation on the at least one available bandwidth indicated by the configuration information to listen to a channel; and when the LBT operation on any one of the at least one available bandwidth succeeds, performing uplink data transmission on the available bandwidth to access the channel. By providing the method where LBT is achieved based on a portion of bandwidth of a carrier on an unlicensed band, the UE may better meet OCB requirements for transmitted signals on the unlicensed band in the NR system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SPREADRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Meng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11452089
    Abstract: A configuration to configure a UE to activate a subset of configured SRS trigger states. The apparatus receives a configuration activating a subset of configured SRS trigger states. The apparatus receives DCI in a PDCCH triggering an aperiodic SRS transmission based on one or more SRS trigger states of activated SRS trigger states. The apparatus determines an aperiodic SRS resource set based on the configuration and the DCI indicating the one or more SRS trigger states. The apparatus transmits aperiodic SRS within the aperiodic SRS resource set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Venugopal, Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11452087
    Abstract: Provided are a data transmission receiving method, which includes that: a second communication node receives one or more Physical Downlink Control Channels (PDCCHs) from a first communication node, wherein when the second communication node receives multiple PDCCHs, Physical Downlink Shared Channels (PDSCHs) indicated by the multiple PDCCHs are located in the same serving cell, and the indicated PDSCHs have the same time domain end position and different time domain start positions. Also provided are a data transmission sending method and apparatus, a data transmission receiving apparatus, a storage medium and an electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuqiang Xia, Jing Shi, Min Ren, Xianghui Han, Chunli Liang, Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 11451359
    Abstract: A method of activating a secondary cell (SCell) can include receiving on a primary cell (PCell) at a user equipment (UE) a first medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) for activating the SCell, receiving on the PCell a second MAC CE for indicating a first transmission configuration indication (TCI) state for receiving one of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) of the SCell, starting to perform a time-frequency tracking process in the SCell based on a synchronization signal block (SSB) indicated in the first TCI state without waiting for an arrival of a third MAC CE on the PCell for activating a semi-persistent (SP) channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource set of the SCell, and performing a CSI reporting process based on the SP CSI-RS resource set activated by the third MAC CE on the SCell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventor: Hsuan-Li Lin
  • Patent number: 11445441
    Abstract: A PDCCH blind detection method, a terminal and a network side device are provided. The method includes: detecting, by a terminal, an energy saving signal in an energy saving signal window; blindly detecting, by the terminal, the PDCCH within a target time if the energy saving signal is detected, a distance between the target time and a position where the energy saving signal is detected is within a preset time distance range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiaqing Wang, Deshan Miao, Di Zhang, Fangchen Cheng
  • Patent number: 11445491
    Abstract: A configuration to allow a UE to receive a BWP configuration that supports RC NR. The UE sends information to a network indicating a UE capability of the UE. The UE receives, based on the UE capability, information indicating a BWP associated with a first BWP, the second BWP having a frequency range equal to or less than the first BWP. The UE receives at least one of control information or data based on the indicated first BWP and the second BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Hung Dinh Ly, Peter Pui Lok Ang
  • Patent number: 11438116
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for floating-band channel state information (CSI) reference signals (RS). A method that may be performed by an apparatus includes determining a floating band for transmitting one or more CSI-RSs to a wireless device based on a previously scheduled data transmission by the apparatus. The apparatus transmits the one or more CSI-RSs to the wireless device on the floating band. In some aspects, a wireless device receives, from an apparatus, one or more floating-band CSI-RSs. The wireless device generates one or more CSI reports based on the one or more CSI-RSs and transmits the one or more CSI reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo, Kapil Gulati, Sony Akkarakaran, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11432319
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink control information (DCI) including an antenna port field and a transmission configuration indication (TCI) field for scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The TCI field may indicate that two or more reference signals apply to two or more demodulation reference signal (DMRS) ports across all resource blocks and symbols for the PDSCH for at least one transmission layer of the PDSCH. The antenna port field may indicate a plurality of indicated DMRS ports. The UE may map two or more DMRS ports of the indicated DMRS ports to at least one transmission layer of the PDSCH. The UE may receive the at least one transmission layer of the PDSCH as a single-frequency-network (SFN) transmission based on the two or more reference signals and the two or more DMRS ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Wooseok Nam, Sungwoo Park, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 11424854
    Abstract: A PDCCH sending method and apparatus, and a PDCCH blind detection method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a blind detection capability of the terminal device; performing, by the terminal device, PDCCH blind detection in one time unit based on PDCCH configuration information and the blind detection capability of the terminal device, where the blind detection capability of the terminal device includes N maximum quantities, of blind detection times, corresponding to N subcarrier spacings in the time unit and/or N maximum quantities, of channel estimation control channel elements CCEs, corresponding to the N subcarrier spacings in the time unit, where N is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruixiang Ma, Shengyu Li, Lei Guan
  • Patent number: 11418306
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) for multiple beam transmissions. In an example, a first CSI-RS triggering state of one or more CSI-RS triggering states indicates a CSI-RS resource set and associated transmission configuration indication (TCI) states. The CSI-RS resource set includes a plurality of CSI-RS resources. Each CSI-RS resource of the plurality of CSI-RS resources is associated with one or more corresponding TCI states as indicated by the first CSI-RS triggering state. A first CSI-RS resource of the plurality of CSI-RS resources is associated with a first plurality of TCI states as indicated by the first CSI-RS triggering state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Tao Luo, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Sungwoo Park
  • Patent number: 11419118
    Abstract: A roadside radio device includes a first radio unit which receives a radio data packet from an in-vehicle radio device, and a first application unit which receives application data included in the radio data packet. A first application unit includes a vehicle class information comparison unit which compares vehicle identification information with communication type information. When the vehicle class information comparison unit determines that the vehicle identification information and the communication type information match, the first application unit processes the application data received from the first radio unit. When the vehicle class information comparison unit determines that the vehicle identification information and the communication type information do not match, the first application unit treats, as invalid data, the application data received from the first radio unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru Fujita, Takashi Tono
  • Patent number: 11411642
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive control information indicating resources in a frame to receive a downlink physical control channel in a plurality of time slots. Further, the UE is configured to receive a plurality of power control commands for a plurality of UEs in a first of the plurality of time slots in a first downlink physical control channel. A number of bits carried by the first physical control channel is based on a number of the plurality of UEs, wherein the first of the plurality of time slots has a second downlink physical control channel and a downlink physical shared channel. The UE is configured to transmit an uplink physical channel having a power level based on the received power control command for the UE. The UE is configured to receive in a third of the plurality of time slots a third downlink physical control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES II LLC
    Inventor: Paul Howard
  • Patent number: 11412500
    Abstract: Provided are a method, an apparatus and a device for sending a control channel, a method, an apparatus and a device for detecting a control channel, and a storage medium. The method for sending a control channel includes that a sending end sends a first control channel using a first transmission configuration, the first control channel carrying first control information for indicating transmission configuration information of a data channel and that the sending end sends a second control channel using a second transmission configuration, the second control channel carrying second control information for indicating transmission configuration information of the data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yijian Chen, Zhaohua Lu, Fusheng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11405910
    Abstract: Even if the channel reciprocity established between the uplink and the downlink is deteriorated, control the transmission in the downlink is performed properly. A base station 100 includes: an information obtaining unit 143 configured to obtain downlink channel information based on a downlink channel estimate, and uplink channel information based on an uplink channel estimate; and a control unit 145 configured to perform control related to transmission in downlink channel based on a correlation between the downlink channel information and the uplink channel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Nose, Yasushi Maruta
  • Patent number: 11399365
    Abstract: Downlink Control Information (DCI) may be expanded, or enhanced, to allow nodes such as UEs, eNBs, NR-nodes, gNBs, and TRPs in M2M, IoT, WoT networks to coordinate activities on PHY, MAC, and RRC layers. For example, DCI fields may be added or enhanced to include, for example, information regarding time resource allocation, frequency resource allocation, mini-slot allocation, and or Code Block Group (CBG) transmission. Such information, or similar information, may be used in operations such as mini-slot operations, Code Block Group (CBG) transmission, group common Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), grant-free and grant-less operations, response to Beam Failure Recovery Request (BFRR), UL Transmit (TX) beam change, Quasi-Co-Location (QCL) operations, aperiodic CSI-RS transmission and interference measurement, Band Width Part (BWP) operations, and Multi-Transmission and Reception Point (TRP)/Multi-Panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: IPLA HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Qing Li, Guodong Zhang, Yifan Li, Allan Y. Tsai, Lakshmi R. Iyer
  • Patent number: 11388638
    Abstract: To configure a UT for handover between a source evolved Node-B (eNB) and a target eNB using aerial communications in a cellular network, the UE processing circuitry is to decode measurement configuration information from the source eNB. The measurement configuration information includes a plurality of height thresholds associated with aerial height of the UE. A measurement report is encoded for transmission to the source eNB. The measurement report includes the aerial height of the UE and the measurement report generation triggered based on one or more triggering events associated with the plurality of height thresholds. RRC signaling from the source eNB is decoded, the RRC signaling including a handover command. The handover command is based on a handover decision by the source eNB using the measurement report. A handover from the source eNB to the target eNB is performed based on the handover command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shu-ping Yeh, Jingwen Bai, Feng Xue, Candy Yiu
  • Patent number: 11388617
    Abstract: RRM measurement is conducted appropriately. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives information about a measurement gap pattern for use in measurement of a plurality of synchronization signal blocks, and a measurement section that measures the synchronization signal blocks in a measurement gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Liu Liu, Weiqi Sun, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 11374717
    Abstract: A method and device for determining resources for a control channel, and a computer storage medium are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11368875
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless communications systems may support improved assignment techniques for dynamic group common physical control channels. In some cases, a user equipment (UE) may receive a control message via a group common control channel. The control message may be monitored by a plurality of UEs, and the control message may include one or more control information segments for a set of UEs of the plurality. The control message may include one or more integer values associated with respective control information segments and a prime number. The integer values and the prime number may be configured to address each UE of the set of UEs. The UE may process the prime number, the integer values, and an integer value that corresponds to an identifier (ID) of the UE to determine applicability of the control message to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Rajat Prakash, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Chih-Hao Liu
  • Patent number: 11367024
    Abstract: A method for generating a schedule for the transmission of time-triggered, TT, messages in a network, wherein said network communicates TT messages according to said schedule and based on a global, network-wide time, wherein said network communicates rate-constrained, RC messages, wherein for each of said RC messages real-time requirements are provided, wherein the method comprises: Step 1: setting the transmission time of all TT messages which are communicated in the network, and Step 2: executing a search function to find a set of TT transmission times so that the real-time requirements of all RC messages are fulfilled, and when all real-time requirements or at least real-time requirements for defined RC messages are fulfilled, generating in Step 3: the schedule based on the transmission times retrieved in Step 2, or executing Step 2 again when not all real-time requirements or not all real-time requirements for the defined RC messages are fulfilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: TTTECH COMPUTERTECHNIK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Anaïs Finzi, Silviu S. Craciunas, Ramon Serna Oliver