Patents Examined by Shailendra Kumar
  • Patent number: 12034628
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to enable efficient route assignment that guarantees a communication quality for each path between end terminals even if a state of a communication network varies. The present disclosure is a network controller apparatus connected to a communication network that performs data communication between end terminals by using a plurality of paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Erina Takeshita, Hideaki Kimura
  • Patent number: 12028721
    Abstract: Provided are a measurement method and apparatus using a multiple frequency partial band in a wireless communication system, and an operation method of a terminal for measuring quality of a cell in a wireless communication system, may include: receiving a plurality of beams including a reference signal, the plurality of beams transmitted by using one of a first bandwidth part (BWP) and a second BWP from a base station of the cell; determining a first beam quality measurement value representing quality of plurality of beams transmitted by using the first BWP; determining a second beam quality measurement value representing quality of plurality of beams transmitted by using the second BWP; and determining a cell quality measurement value indicating the quality of the cell, based on the first beam quality measurement value and the second beam quality measurement value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byounghoon Jung, Anil Agiwal, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 12016015
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may determine whether to multiplex or prioritize a first communication and a second communication that are scheduled for simultaneous transmissions via a first channel and a second channel, respectively. The mobile station may transmit one or more of the first communication or the second communication based at least in part on the determination of whether to multiplex or prioritize the first communication and the second communication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Wei Yang, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 12015570
    Abstract: Provided are a channel or signal sending method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes: if a transmission direction configuration of the first carrier or the first carrier group indicates that an uplink transmission is sent within the transmission time of the first transmission, sending, by a terminal, the first transmission, and canceling the sending of the second transmission or sending the second transmission with reduced power; otherwise, performing, by a terminal, at least one of the following modes: sending the first transmission, and canceling the sending of the second transmission or sending the second transmission with reduced power; sending the second transmission, and canceling the sending of the first transmission or sending the first transmission with reduced power; determining whether to send the first transmission or the second transmission by the terminal itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chenchen Zhang, Yu Ngok Li, Peng Hao, Xingguang Wei
  • Patent number: 12010684
    Abstract: A method for receiving data by user equipment in a wireless communication system comprises: receiving first control information from a first apparatus and second control information from a second apparatus; obtaining resource allocation information by decoding the first control information and the second control information; and receiving the data from at least one of the first apparatus and the second apparatus, based on the resource allocation information, wherein the resource allocation information comprises information for resource regions comprising (i) a first resource region commonly allocated from the first apparatus and the second apparatus, and (ii) a second resource region allocated from one of the first apparatus and the second apparatus, and the data is mapped to at least one of the first resource region and the second resource region, on the basis of a resource mapping order set according to a transmission unit of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyungtae Kim, Jiwon Kang, Kijun Kim
  • Patent number: 12004121
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to wireless communication devices, network devices, and wireless communication methods. One example wireless communication device selects and reserves a specific resource or a specific transmission pattern for a predetermined time period. The wireless communication device sends, to at least one User Equipment (UE), a sidelink control message using a determined sidelink resource, the sidelink control message indicating the specific resource or the specific transmission pattern. The wireless communication device transmits an uplink or sidelink data message using the specific resource or the specific transmission pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Karthikeyan Ganesan, Ali Ramadan Ali, Ă–mer Bulakci, Dan Hu, Mohamed Gharba, Mate Boban
  • Patent number: 12004154
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for performing uplink transmission in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for transmitting an uplink data channel by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication may comprise the steps of: receiving configuration information related to the uplink data channel; receiving control information for scheduling transmission of the uplink data channel; and transmitting the uplink data channel on the basis of the control information. Here, the configuration information may include one or more configurations including at least one of i) a transmission unit and ii) a beam, which are related to the transmission of the uplink data channel. In addition, on the basis of the one or more configurations, the control information may include information indicating a transmission unit and a beam to be applied to the transmission of the uplink data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jonghyun Park, Jiwon Kang, Seongwon Go
  • Patent number: 12003986
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and device. The method includes: A terminal device receives a reference signal from a network device, wherein the reference signal is not in a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource set, configured with repetition on; and performs radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement or beam failure detection (BFD) measurement on the reference signal. According to the communication method and device provided in this application, the terminal device expects that the resource configured by the network device for performing BFD or RLM is not any resource in the CSI-RS resource set configured with the repetition on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jing Han, Xi Zhang, Hong Li, Meng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11997672
    Abstract: A communication control method includes: receiving, by a relay apparatus, a first scheduling request of requesting allocation of an uplink radio resource to a lower apparatus from the lower apparatus; and after the relay apparatus receives the first scheduling request from the lower apparatus, transmitting, by the relay apparatus, a second scheduling request of requesting allocation of uplink radio resource to the relay apparatus to an upper apparatus before receiving the uplink data from the lower apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 11991706
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the communication processes in a wireless communication system based on short TTIs. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, there provide a method for communication by a base station. The method comprise: receiving, from a user equipment, an uplink demodulation reference signal, DMRS, in an uplink transmission time interval, TTI, of an uplink subframe, which supports two or more uplink TTIs. At least one uplink TTI supported by the uplink subframe is configured to only transmit uplink control information and/or uplink data without any uplink DMRS. In the other aspects of the present disclosure, there also provides methods for communication by a user equipment and corresponding apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukai Gao, Chuangxin Jiang, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11984992
    Abstract: A method performed by a User Equipment (UE) for transmitting a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) codebook is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventor: Hai-Han Wang
  • Patent number: 11979236
    Abstract: A device of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method and a machine readable medium to implement the method. The device includes a Radio Frequency (RF) interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the RF interface, the processing circuitry to: determine that the UE is configured with a feature of multiple Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources with HARQ-ACK feedback within a slot; determine a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource to carry Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback in response to a scheduled Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) resource; and encode for transmission to a NR evolved NodeB (gNodeB) the PUCCH resource, the PUCCH resource to carry the HARQ-ACK feedback and: another PUCCH resource carrying Uplink Control Information (UCI) other than HARQ-ACK feedback, and a scheduled Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Debdeep Chatterjee, Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Toufiqul Islam, Sergey Panteleev
  • Patent number: 11974305
    Abstract: A method for transmitting an uplink channel via multi-beams, a terminal device and a network-side device are disclosed. The method includes: receiving configuration information, where the configuration information includes a plurality of pieces of uplink beam information for the uplink channel; and the plurality of pieces of uplink beam information has an association relationship with a related parameter of the uplink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Yang, Peng Sun, Xiaodong Sun
  • Patent number: 11968049
    Abstract: Enhancements to downlink feedback information (DFI) signaling is disclosed. According to the disclosed aspects, indications of DFI presence in downlink control information (DCI) messaging are provided that limit any increase to DCI overhead for uplink grants. In a first aspect, DFI presence may be signaled using unused or disallowed DCI variable states for indication of DFI presence. In another aspect, a separate bit may be added to a DCI message for indicating DFI presence. Additional aspects include repurposing DCI fields which are specific to cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI)-based uplink grants, or may defining a new RNTI (e.g., DFI-RNTI) for indicating DFI presence. Further aspects may provide for radio resource control (RRC) signaling that configures which DCI variable state can be used to indicate DFI presence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Bhattad, Jing Sun, Pravjyot Singh Deogun
  • Patent number: 11968079
    Abstract: A user terminal includes a control section that controls a beam failure recovery based on whether a specific secondary cell for an uplink control channel is configured or not, and a transmitting section that transmits, in the beam failure recovery, a beam failure recovery request to one of a plurality of cells. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a BFR procedure can be appropriately executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11956149
    Abstract: This application provides a peer relationship management method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium, and belongs to the field of network technologies. In this application, when a peer relationship between a first routing device and a second routing device is interrupted, routing entries received from the second routing device are not deleted. Services may be still processed, within a time range from a time at which the peer relationship is interrupted to a time at which the peer relationship is reestablished, by using the routing entries received from the second routing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haibo Wang
  • Patent number: 11943722
    Abstract: Aspects are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for secondary cell group (SCG) addition. A wireless device may establish communication with a first base station that is comprised in a master cell group (MCG) and a second base station that is comprised in the SCG. The wireless device may maintain timing advance (TA) parameters for performing uplink communication with the second base station. The wireless device may perform a plurality of signal quality measurements after receiving an indication to deactivate the SCG. The wireless device may determine whether to reuse the TA parameters for communicating with the second base station after receiving an indication. The determination may be based on comparing one or more signal quality measurements of the second base station to one or more signal quality thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 11937291
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a multiplexing indication indicating that a first high priority channel scheduled in a first set of resources is to be multiplexed with a low priority channel scheduled in a second set of resources. The UE may receive a prioritization indication associated with a second high priority channel scheduled in a third set of resources. The UE may transmit one or more channels, according to a prioritization or a multiplexing, that include the second high priority channel. The prioritization or the multiplexing may be based at least in part on the multiplexing indication or the prioritization indication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 11923948
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving configuration information of at least one frequency resource group, and receiving, by using at least one beam, a downlink signal on a corresponding frequency resource in the at least one frequency resource group, wherein each frequency resource group comprises at least two frequency resources, each frequency resource corresponds to at least one beam, and the configuration information comprises an identifier of each frequency resource group and an identifier of each frequency resource; and when it is detected based on the downlink signal that a beam associated with a first frequency resource in the frequency resource group fails, sending a beam recovery request on a second frequency resource in the frequency resource group. Correspondingly, a corresponding apparatus is further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Guan, Xi Zhang, Ying Sun, Ziming Yu
  • Patent number: 11924843
    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 the 5G communication technology and the 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 method performed by a terminal in a communication system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangkyu Baek, Jaehyuk Jang