Patents Examined by Salvador E. Rivas
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Patent number: 12200594Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: transmitting a signaling message to a first node on a backup backhaul route, the signaling message comprising an indication of a failure in a backhaul link including a second node different from the first node.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventors: Lianhai Wu, Haiming Wang, Jing Han
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Patent number: 12200671Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may receive, from a base station, an indication of a time domain resource allocation, wherein the indication is associated with a starting symbol and a length and includes symbols across at least two slots. Accordingly, the mobile station may communicate, with the base station, using the time domain resource allocation. In some aspects, a mobile station may receive, from a base station, an indication of at least two slots to be merged, wherein the at least two slots are associated with a periodicity. Accordingly, the mobile station may communicate, with the base station and within the at least two slots. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Gokul Sridharan, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Hung Dinh Ly, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
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Patent number: 12185274Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may transmit a paging indicator message to one or more user equipment (UEs) in a group of UEs. The base station may receive, based at least in part on the paging indicator message, a first response message from the one or more UEs. The first response message may be received using a resource that is shared with a random access channel message for the group of UEs. The base station may transmit, based at least in part on the first response message, a second response message to the one or more UEs.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Karl Georg Hampel, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 12184578Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for supporting a narrow serving beam in a hierarchical beam configuration. For example, certain embodiments may provide a UE that may receive, from a network node, information of a quasi co-location (QCL) configuration of self-contained, aperiodic, and/or semi-persistent tracking reference signals (TRSs) for sub-beams, where a source for one or more TRSs may be channel state information (CSI-RS) without repetition. In addition, the UE may determine these TRSs as self-contained, for which there are no associated periodic TRSs, if there is a TRS configured for an SSB sub-beam.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Sami Hakola, Timo Koskela, Juha Karjalainen, Mihai Enescu
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Patent number: 12170576Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving data channels in a communication system. An operation method of a terminal in a communication system may comprise receiving, from a base station, resource allocation information of a plurality of physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs) used for repetitive transmission of a same transport block (TB); identifying a position of each of the plurality of PUSCHs in a time domain based on the resource allocation information; and repeatedly transmitting the same TB to the base station at the position of each of the plurality of PUSCHs. Therefore, performance of the communication system can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Sung Hyun Moon, Cheul Soon Kim, Seung Kwon Baek, Gi Yoon Park, Ok Sun Park, Jae Su Song
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Patent number: 12156281Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit that executes sensing for a part of candidate resources to be used for transmission of inter-terminal direct communication, a control unit that determines a resource to be used for transmission based on a result of the sensing, and a transmitting unit that transmits a message to another units of user equipment using the determined resource.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Huan Wang, Xufei Zheng, Xiaolin Hou
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Patent number: 12143868Abstract: A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for performing sidelink communication by a UE. The method may comprise the steps of: performing sidelink communication on the basis of a first RAT; switching an RAT for the sidelink communication from the first RAT to a second RAT; and performing the sidelink communication on the basis of the second RAT.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Yoonoh Yang, Suhwan Lim, Jinyup Hwang, Sangwook Lee, Jongkeun Park
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Patent number: 12127170Abstract: This disclosure provides a transmission method, a terminal device, and a network-side device. The method is applied to a terminal device and includes: receiving first indication information from a network-side device, where the first indication information is used to indicate a first resource usable for configured grant transmission within a configured grant resource period; and transmitting first to-be-transmitted data on the first resource for consecutively K times, where K is a positive integer.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Can Li, Xiaodong Shen
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Patent number: 12120649Abstract: A terminal device includes: a higher layer processing unit configured to set at least one first RAT and at least one second RAT by signaling of a higher layer from the base station device; and a receiving unit configured to receive a transmission signal in the first RAT and a transmission signal in the second RAT. The transmission signal in the first RAT is mapped to a resource element configured on a basis of one physical parameter for each sub frame. The transmission signal in the second RAT is mapped to a resource element configured on a basis of one or more physical parameters for each sub frame and is mapped to a resource element configured on a basis of one physical parameter in a predetermined resource included in each of the sub frames.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuyuki Shimezawa
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Patent number: 12120376Abstract: The present disclosure includes techniques for providing timing for outputting audio from two or more devices. An example method includes determining, at a first device, timing for outputting audio from a second device and a third device in an attempt to have the audio from the second and third devices play in a synchronized manner. The example method further includes communicating from the first device to the second device, using a first wireless communication technology (e.g., Wi-Fi), the timing for outputting the audio. The example method further includes communicating from the first device to the third device, using a second wireless communication technology (e.g., Bluetooth) that is different from the first wireless communication technology, the timing for outputting the audio.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Michael William Elliot, Debasmit Banerjee
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Patent number: 12101727Abstract: Disclosed is a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Taehyoung Kim, Youngbum Kim, Jinyoung Oh, Hyojin Lee, Seunghoon Choi
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Patent number: 12096233Abstract: An apparatus and a method of processing collision between synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB) transmission and periodic transmission, applied in a shared spectrum are provided. The method includes obtaining, by a terminal device, a first candidate SSB position within a discovery burst transmission (DRS) window and obtaining, by the terminal device, a first resource for the periodic channel or signal transmission, wherein when the first resource is overlapped with the first candidate SSB position, determining, by the terminal device, whether the first resource is available for the periodic channel or signal transmission. This can solve issues in the prior art, provide a technical solution of handling a possible collision between an SSB and the periodic channel or signal, provide a simple implementation, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventors: Zuomin Wu, Hao Lin
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Patent number: 12089247Abstract: A method of a first user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a second UE via a sidelink, signals including information to select resources for at least one of aperiodic traffic or periodic traffic; decoding sidelink control information (SCI) from the information included in the signals; performing, over a sensing window, a signal measurement of the received signals; identifying a resource selection window based on a latency requirement; reserving the resources for the at least one of aperiodic traffic or periodic traffic in a frequency domain and a time domain based on the decoded SCI and a result of the signal measurement, the resources being identified within a resource selection window; and transmitting, to the second UE via the sidelink, the at least one of aperiodic traffic or periodic traffic using the reserved resources.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chao He, Aris Papasakellariou, Li Guo
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Patent number: 12068898Abstract: An integrated access and backhaul (IAB) apparatus receives, from a child IAB node, a signal identifying a set of transition instances for the child IAB node, including a transition time for each transition instance, and provides guard symbols for a first transition instance of the set of transition instances at the transition time for the first transition instance.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jianghong Luo, Navid Abedini, Luca Blessent, Karl Georg Hampel, Naeem Akl, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 12063604Abstract: Methods related to wireless communication systems and transmission and/or reception of synchronization signal block (SSB) transmissions (e.g., in full-duplex slots) are provided. For example, a wireless communication device receives a synchronization signal block (SSB) transmission schedule. The SSB transmission schedule is at least partially overlapping with an uplink (UL) frequency portion of a full-duplex slot. The wireless communication device receives a first portion of a SSB in a downlink (DL) frequency portion of the full-duplex slot; and receiving a second portion of the SSB in the UL frequency portion of the full-duplex slot based on the SSB being scheduled in the full-duplex slot and at least partially overlapping with the UL frequency portion of the full-duplex slot. Other features are also claimed and described.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Chih-Ping Li, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
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Patent number: 12058723Abstract: Disclosed herein includes a system, a method, and a device for providing enhanced distribution channel access (EDCA). A wireless device can receive, from a wireless node, an advertisement message comprising a first plurality of parameters for a plurality of time slots available for prioritized access in a wireless local area network (WLAN) to communicate data. The wireless device can send to the wireless node, a request to assign a first time slot of the plurality of time slots to the wireless device for prioritized access. The wireless device can receive, from the wireless node, a response granting access to a first time slot of the plurality of time slots. The response can indicate one or more parameters of the first plurality of parameters for the first time slot. The wireless device can access the first time slot according to the first plurality of parameters.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventor: Chunyu Hu
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Patent number: 12057980Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may identify, for an initial slot of a periodic interval, a number of symbols included in the initial slot and a length of cyclic prefixes used for the symbols included in the initial slot based on a subcarrier spacing that is configured for wireless communication. The length of a first set of cyclic prefixes may be based on a length of a cyclic prefix calculated for an initial symbol of the initial slot at the configured subcarrier spacing. The wireless device may perform communications based on the determined number of symbols and length of cyclic prefixes included in the initial slot. Performing communications may include allocating resources based on a length of the cyclic prefixes used for the symbols included in the initial slot.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Srinivas Yerramalli, Zhifei Fan, Wooseok Nam, Sungwoo Park, Akula Reddy
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Patent number: 12058716Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a group identifier of the UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, an indication of one or more group identifiers associated with scheduled communications with the base station during a time period. The UE may contend, based at least in part on the group identifier of the UE and the one or more group identifiers received from the base station, for access to a set of autonomous uplink (AUL) resources during the time period. The UE may perform, based at least in part on the contending, an AUL transmission to the base station using the set of autonomous uplink resources.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Kapil Bhattad
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Patent number: 12052695Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a communication node for wireless communications. The communication node in the present disclosure first receives first information, and then transmits a first radio signal; a length of a time interval between a start time for transmitting the first radio signal and a first reference time is equal to a sum of a first timing adjustment and a second timing adjustment, the first timing adjustment being one of X candidate timing adjustments, the X being a positive integer greater than 1; the second timing adjustment is used for determining a transmission timing of a radio signal transmitted before the first radio signal in time domain; a transmitter of the first radio signal determines the first timing adjustment out of the X candidate timing adjustments by itself. The present disclosure can improve uplink synchronization performance.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Zheng Liu, Xiaobo Zhang, Lin Yang
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Patent number: 12052697Abstract: A method and a device in a communication node for wireless communications are disclosed in the present disclosure. The communication node first receives a first signaling; and then receives a first radio signal in K1 slots and receives a second radio signal in K2 slots; the first signaling is used to determine the K1 and the K2; a first TB is used to generate the first radio signal, while a second TB is used to generate the second radio signal, the first TB comprising a positive integer number of bit(s), and the second TB comprising a positive integer number of bit(s); the K1 slots are divided into X1 slot groups, while the K2 slots are divided into X2 slot groups, and positions of the X1 slot groups and the X2 slot groups are interleaved in time domain. The present disclosure can reduce power consumption and improve coverage performance.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Zheng Liu, Xiaobo Zhang, Lin Yang