Patents Examined by Saumit Shah
  • Patent number: 11849439
    Abstract: A sidelink device switches from a first bandwidth part (BWP) for sidelink communication to a second BWP for the sidelink communication and suspends, releases, or continues to use one or more reserved resources in the first BWP based on the switch from the first BWP to the second BWP for the sidelink communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Linhai He, Hung Dinh Ly
  • Patent number: 11838912
    Abstract: Provided is an information transmission method, apparatus and system. The information transmission method includes: obtaining, by a first communication node, a control channel description list which includes description information of N control channels, where N is a positive integer and the description information of each of the control channels includes one or more of: control channel configuration information, reference signal configuration information, link resource configuration information, operating bandwidth configuration information, puncturing configuration information, frequency hopping configuration formation, transmission time interval length configuration information, power control configuration information and beam configuration information; and sending, by the first communication node, the control channel description list to a second communication node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhaohua Lu, Kun Liu, Yijian Chen, Peng Hao, Guanghui Yu
  • Patent number: 11832284
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may receive a frequency domain resource assignment indicator identifying an allocation of a set of resource block groups of a plurality of resource block groups in a bandwidth part, wherein the bandwidth part includes a plurality of disjoint portions of the bandwidth part and the plurality of disjoint portions comprise an uplink bandwidth or a downlink bandwidth separated by another portion of the bandwidth part; identify, based at least in part on the frequency domain resource assignment indicator, the allocation of the set of resource block groups; and communicate using the allocation of the set of resource block groups based at least in part on identifying the allocation of the set of resource block groups. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar
  • Patent number: 11812514
    Abstract: A relay user equipment (UE) device transmits, to a base station, a first Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) Interest Indication message, which includes information indicating that the relay UE device is operating in a relay mode on behalf of a remote UE device. In response to the MBMS Interest Indication message, the base station provides broadcast/multicast information to the remote UE device via the relay UE device. In some cases, control information is provided to the remote UE device via the relay UE device. In other cases, an MBMS service of interest is provided to the remote UE device via the relay device. The manner in which the broadcast/multicast information is delivered can be determined by the remote UE device or the relay UE device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 11804988
    Abstract: In one aspect, A computerized method of a gateway distributing routes learned through routing protocols (RP) into a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) includes the step of providing a first gateway that receives a route over a routing protocol. The method includes the step of with the first gateway, redistributing the route to one or more peer routers as a BGP route based on one or more specified criteria. The method includes the step of setting a gateway precedence based on the redistribution of the route to the one or more peer routers as the BGP route. The method includes the step of, based on the gateway precedence, setting a second gateway to automatically redistribute the route with different priorities to influence steering of traffic to a preferred gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Ajit Ramachandra Mayya, Parag Pritam Thakore, Stephen Craig Connors, Steven Michael Woo, Sunil Mukundan, Thomas Harold Speeter, Vipin Kumar
  • Patent number: 11791882
    Abstract: A first apparatus may communicate with a user equipment (UE) through an active beam. The first apparatus may transmit, to the UE, information indicating a periodicity at which control information is to be communicated on a control channel through a control-information beam. The first apparatus may communicate, with the UE, the control information on the control channel through the control-information beam at the periodicity. Further, the first apparatus may receive a request to change the active beam, which may indicate a beam index corresponding to a second beam, and the first apparatus may change the active beam to the second beam corresponding to the beam index indicated by the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Tao Luo, Juergen Cezanne, Sundar Subramanian, Ashwin Sampath, Bilal Sadiq, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11785142
    Abstract: An information bridge device, IBD (10, 20), comprising: —an API interface (application programming interface) (300) comprising: —an API input (301), for receipt of user input or request via an application (APP) (30) arranged located on a user device (1100) associated with a user (1000), and, an API output (302), for facilitating transfer of data (300F) relating to at least one Enterprise (2000) to the application (APP) (30), the information bridge device further comprising: —a metadata store (310), for storing metadata specific to the at least one Enterprise (2000), said metadata comprising, access information arranged to facilitate access to the at least one Enterprise (2000) by the information bridge device (IBD) (1020), an Enterprise data collector (330), arranged capable of receiving or collecting (300G 300H) Enterprise data from at least one contact option (2100) arranged in association with the at least one Enterprise (2000), and further arranged in co-operation with the metadata store (310) for identif
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: WEBTEXT HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Colm Keating, Aj Cahill, Carl Fleming, Eoghan Moylan, Garrett Jordan
  • Patent number: 11777560
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to partitioning slots in wireless communications into virtual mini-slots at least for the purpose of transmitting multiple feedback transmissions within the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Jing Jiang, Chih-Ping Li, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 11777857
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a service forwarding method and a network device that performs such method. The method includes: forwarding, by a first network device, a data packet of a first service to a second network device in a period (T1); and if the data volume of the forwarded first service reaches a threshold, forwarding, by the first network device, a data packet of a second service to the second network device. The first service is a low-latency service, and the second service is a non-low-latency service. In addition, the period (T1) is determined based on a delay allowed by a device for forwarding the data packet of the first service, and the threshold is a value determined based on a maximum transmission rate of the first service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanlong Jiang, Hengjun Zhu, Hongguang Guan
  • Patent number: 11778517
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from one or more additional UEs, one or more indicators corresponding to one or more resource reservations. Accordingly, the UE may transmit data, to a second UE, on a sidelink channel, with at least one resource reservation, of the one or more resource reservations, indicated within a control element transmitted with the data. For example, the control element may include a list or a bitmap indicating the at least one resource reservation. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sourjya Dutta, Tien Viet Nguyen, Gabi Sarkis, Shuanshuan Wu, Kapil Gulati, Shailesh Patil, Gene Wesley Marsh
  • Patent number: 11770821
    Abstract: Current approaches to transmitting uplink data in a network often require resources to be granted. In an example, a node or apparatus may configure a plurality of devices to operate in a grant-less mode in accordance with a respective grant-less access allocation, such that, when the plurality of devices transmit messages uplink in the network, the messages are transmitted using frequency resources defined by the respective grant-less access allocation, and the plurality of devices transmit the messages without being granted access to transmit the messages, so as to operate in the grant-less mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Qing Li, Guodong Zhang, Pascal M. Adjakple, Lakshmi R. Iyer, Allan Y. Tsai, Qian Zhang, Wei Chen, Joseph M. Murray, Tianyi Xu
  • Patent number: 11765734
    Abstract: Wireless communication systems and methods related to utilizing two-stage grants for uplink communications with discontinuous reception (DRX) operations are provided. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) receive, from a base station (BS), a first downlink control information (DCI) message scheduling an uplink (UL) data transmission, the first DCI message indicating a first value for an UL schedule timing indicator. The UE activates a timer based at least in part on the first value of the UL schedule timing indicator. The UE monitors a downlink control channel based at least in part on the timer. The UE receives, from the BS, a second DCI message indicating UL schedule timing for the UL data transmission based at least in part on the monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Mostafa Khoshnevisan
  • Patent number: 11765744
    Abstract: The present application provides a method for receiving a downlink signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a downlink control signal, a first downlink data signal, a first downlink demodulation reference signal for the first downlink data signal in a first time unit; and receiving a second downlink data signal and a second downlink demodulation reference signal for the second downlink data signal in a second time unit, wherein the downlink control signal includes information on a first antenna port for a reference signal, the first antenna port being quasi-co-located (QCL) with an antenna port for the first downlink demodulation reference signal, and information on a second antenna port for a reference signal, the second antenna port being quasi-co-located (QCL) with an antenna port for the second downlink demodulation reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jiwon Kang, Heejeong Cho, Genebeck Hahn, Ilmu Byun, Heejin Kim, Hyunjin Shim
  • Patent number: 11758434
    Abstract: Mechanisms and methods are provided for improving wireless audio transmission and synchronization for multi-channel Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) systems. In various embodiments, mechanisms and methods may include generating transmissions having a plurality of Protocol Data Units (PDUs) to BLE-compliant slave devices. The plurality of PDUs may be stored in a buffer. When an error is determined to have occurred in transmitting one of the PDUs, a re-transmission to the slave device may be generated, which may include the PDU in error and any subsequent PDUs of the plurality of PDUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventor: Mien Chen
  • Patent number: 11758555
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, via a first carrier associated with a first radio access technology, at least a first uplink grant from a base station. The UE may implement one or more backoff schemes. For example, the UE may transmit, using resources indicated by at least the first uplink grant, an uplink message based on a temperature of one or more components of the UE satisfying a threshold, the uplink message including a transport block (TB) indicating data, a buffer status report (BSR) associated with the data, one or more padding bytes different from the data, or any combination thereof. The UE may monitor for at least a second uplink grant from the base station during a first time period based on transmitting the uplink message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahbod Ghelichi, James Francis Geekie, Arnaud Meylan, Sivaram Srivenkata Palakodety, Bao Vinh Nguyen, Michel Evan Chauvin
  • Patent number: 11758413
    Abstract: A roadside apparatus and a communication beam pointing direction adjusting method thereof are provided. A first radio frequency identification reader detects a first response signal of a wireless identification tag of a first mobile vehicle to obtain first signal strength information. The first signal strength information corresponds to strength of the first response signal. A first roadside unit determines a position of the first mobile vehicle according to the first signal strength information, and directs a communication beam of the first roadside unit to the first mobile vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fangming Wu, Li-Kang Yen
  • Patent number: 11750266
    Abstract: Provided is a beam recovery method in a wireless communication system. A beam recovery method performed by a user terminal (UE) may include receiving a beam reference signal (BRS) used for beam management from an enhanced Node B (eNB), when a beam failure event is detected, transmitting a control signal for a beam failure recovery request to the eNB; and, when beam reporting is triggered, reporting a beam measurement result to the eNB in a specific resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jiwon Kang, Minki Ahn, Kilbom Lee
  • Patent number: 11743827
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a method, equipment and an apparatus for indicator and downlink control channel detection, comprising: determining data which must be transmitted to a terminal in one or more transmission time intervals by means of a downlink control channel; a base station sending a command to the terminal, used to indicate that the terminal determine according to the command whether it is necessary to detect a downlink control channel in the one or more transmission time intervals. On the terminal, determining according to the command whether it is necessary to detect a downlink control channel in the one or more transmission time intervals. After using the present invention, when a base station has not scheduled a terminal, this objectively causes a terminal side to not have excess power consumption, and lowers terminal-side power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Fang-Chen Cheng
  • Patent number: 11736988
    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 5G communication technology and 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 handover method of a terminal in a mobile communication system according to the present disclosure includes transmitting UE capability information including a random access-free handover indicator to a first base station, receiving a handover command message from the first base station, and transmitting, when the handover command message includes uplink resource information, a handover complete message to a second base station based on the uplink resource information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangbum Kim, Donggun Kim, Alexander Sayenko, Jaehyuk Jang, Soenghun Kim, Gert Jan Van Lieshout
  • Patent number: 11728924
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for enhanced bandwidth puncturing. Some implementations more specifically relate to punctured channel indications that support channel puncturing over a range of bandwidths achievable in accordance with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11be amendment, and future generations, of the IEEE 802.11 standard. In some implementations, an access point (AP) may communicate static punctured channel information to each associated wireless station (STA) in its BSS. In some other implementations, a transmit opportunity (TXOP) holder may communicate dynamic punctured channel information to a TXOP responder with which it intends to communicate. Still further, in some implementations, the TXOP responder may communicate additional punctured channel information to the TXOP holder responsive to the dynamic punctured channel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yanjun Sun, Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Sai Yiu Duncan Ho