Patents Examined by Sithu Ko
  • Patent number: 11172503
    Abstract: The apparatus identifies a first periodicity for packet generation or packet transmission. A base station provides a UE with a configuration for a Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS), a Configured Scheduling (CS), or a Configured Grant (CG) based on a non-integer relationship between the first periodicity and a duration of a scheduling unit in which the SPS, the CS, or the CG is scheduled. Then, the apparatus transmits or receives communication based on the received configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Junyi Li, Vinay Joseph
  • Patent number: 11172512
    Abstract: A communication device receives a trigger frame that is configured to: trigger a contention-based uplink orthogonal frequency multiple access (OFDMA) transmission by multiple communication devices, and indicate a predetermined length of the contention-based uplink OFDMA transmission, wherein the predetermined length corresponds to contention-based uplink OFDMA transmissions. Responsive to receiving the trigger frame, the communication device generates a data unit having the predetermined length, and responsive to receiving the trigger frame, transmits the data unit as part of a contention-based uplink OFDMA transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Hongyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11172376
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and devices for selecting and accessing a network. In an example, a method includes broadcasting, by a base station, access parameter information, where the access parameter information comprises an offset of a coverage enhancement (CE) level reference signal received power (RSRP) threshold of a cell relative to a minimum reception level threshold for decision of cell residence, and is used for enabling a user equipment (UE) without authorization of CE to determine whether the UE is able to use a network resource of a target cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiubin Sha, Bo Dai, Ting Lu
  • Patent number: 11166238
    Abstract: In an aspect, a UE may determine a set of parameters associated with each of a plurality of different operation modes supported by the UE and transmit UE capability information including the set of parameters to a base station, where at least one operation mode comprises a power efficient mode. The UE may receive configuration information based on the UE capability information including an indication of an operation mode of the plurality of different operation modes. A base station may receive UE capability information including a set of parameters associated with each of a plurality of different operation modes supported by a UE and determine an operation mode of the plurality of different operation modes for the UE based on the UE capability information. The base station may transmit configuration information including an indication of the operation mode of the plurality of different operation modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Jiang, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Ashok Mantravadi, Aamod Khandekar, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Naga Bhushan, Yuanning Yu
  • Patent number: 11158132
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, apparatus, and systems related to media access control (MAC) range extension. A device may cause to append a training field to each of one or more beacon frames. The device may cause to send the one or more beacon frames directionally using a sector sweep to one or more responder devices during a first interval. The device may determine an extended schedule element to be sent to the one or more responder devices, the extended schedule element including one or more directional antenna sectors to be used by the device during a second interval. The device may identify a first frame from a first responder device, during the second interval, wherein the first frame is received on a directional antenna sector of the one or more directional antenna sectors corresponding to an operating sector of the first responder device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng Chen, Carlos Cordeiro, Claudio Da Silva, Solomon Trainin, Alexander Maltsev, Artyom Lomayev
  • Patent number: 11146358
    Abstract: Polar Codes for Downlink Control Channels for Wireless Networks A technique is provided for decoding downlink control information that was encoded using polar encoding, the technique including: attempting, based on an initial assumption by a user device of a segmented downlink control information, to decode a first codeword provided via a user device-specific resource, the first codeword including a first downlink control information segment and a pointer to a second downlink control information segment of a segmented downlink control information; decoding, if the attempting to decode is successful, based on the pointer, a second codeword that includes the second downlink control information segment of the segmented downlink control information; and otherwise, if the attempting to decode is unsuccessful, making an assumption of a non-segmented downlink control information and decoding a third codeword to obtain a non-segmented downlink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu, Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11140426
    Abstract: A method for communicating from one device to a plurality of receiving devices using a media multiplexer with a media proxy is described. A request for a call by the one device is received at the media multiplexer. Communication channels are allocated on the media proxy by the media multiplexer. A communication channel is allocated for each of the plurality of receiving devices. Media from the one device is received by the media multiplexer. The received media is sent to each of the plurality of receiving devices using the allocated communication channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Snap One, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Allen Milligan
  • Patent number: 11134473
    Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to systems, devices, apparatuses, products, and methods for wireless communication. For example, a user equipment (UE) device within a wireless communication system determines one or more performance metrics associated with an operation of the UE. The UE selects, based at least in part on the one or more performance metrics, one or more sets of antenna elements from a plurality of sets of antenna elements available for an inter-band carrier aggregation communication across at least two radio frequency (RF) chains between the UE and one or more base stations. The UE sends an indication of the one or more selected sets of antenna elements from the UE to the one or more base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Joseph Patrick Burke, Juergen Cezanne, Ozge Koymen, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11133899
    Abstract: A method and device for hybrid automatic repeat request feedback are provided. The method includes: a terminal device sends data to be transmitted to a network device; if the terminal device determines that feedback information for the data to be transmitted is not received in a first target time period, the terminal device sends feedback request information to the network device, the feedback request information is used for requesting the network device to send feedback information for the data to be transmitted, a start time point of the first target time period is a time point that the terminal device finishes sending the data to be transmitted, and a time length of the first target time period is a first time length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11115454
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include systems and methods for real-time feedback for online collaboration communication quality. A non-limiting example computer-implemented method includes monitoring a conference between a plurality of participants, wherein each participant accesses the conference via a respective Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) device. The method further includes detecting, by a processor, an indication, by a scoring system that monitors the conference, of a degradation of sound quality of at least one VoIP device being used to access the conference. The processor engages in verifying the indication of the degradation by analyzing a peer-to-peer test between the VoIP device that has an indication of a degradation of sound quality and a VoIP device that does not have an indication of a degradation of sound quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Al Chakra, Ahmad Abdul Wakeel, Kevin Carr, Faisal Ghaffar
  • Patent number: 11088716
    Abstract: Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of full duplex compensation with a self-interference noise calculator that compensates for the self-interference noise generated by power amplifiers at harmonic frequencies of a respective wireless receiver. The self-interference noise calculator may be coupled to antennas of a wireless device and configured to generate the adjusted signals that compensate self-interference. The self-interference noise calculator may include a network of processing elements configured to combine transmission signals into sets of intermediate results. Each set of intermediate results may be summed in the self-interference noise calculator to generate a corresponding adjusted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Jaime Cummins, Tamara Schmitz, Jeremy Chritz
  • Patent number: 11089558
    Abstract: A resynchronization signal (RSS) may extend across multiple physical resource blocks (PRBs) or subframes, which may cause the RRS to be scheduled to overlap with other downlink transmissions. Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for management of RSS and one or more other transmission types that may have overlapping wireless resources with the RSS. If one or more other downlink transmissions are scheduled for resources that overlap with resources scheduled for an RSS transmission, the UE may receive the RSS transmission or the one or more other downlink transmissions, or a combination thereof, based on a prioritization of the transmission types of the one or more other downlink transmissions relative to RSS. The RSS transmission or the one or more other transmissions may be delayed, dropped, punctured, or rate-matched when the RSS transmission and the one or more other downlink transmissions conflict.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Ayan Sengupta, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Le Liu, Gowrisankar Somichetty, Xiao Feng Wang, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11075718
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications in a shared spectrum are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, via an autonomous uplink (AUL) communication, one or more transport blocks to a base station. Each transport block may include a plurality of code block groups (CBGs). The base station may provide CBG-level feedback to the UE based at least in part on the AUL communication. For example, a downlink feedback indication (DFI) bit sequence may be partitioned to include a first partition comprising AUL hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information and a second partition comprising contention window (CW) update information (e.g., for a subsequent AUL clear channel assessment). In some cases, the number of bits in the first partition may be based on a number of AUL HARQ processes of the UE and an AUL HARQ process granularity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Ananta Narayanan Thyagarajan, Jing Sun, Kapil Bhattad
  • Patent number: 11071033
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a handover apparatus and method capable of voiding in-device coexistence interference. In order to prevent handover failure due to in-device coexistence interference, an SeNB provides TDM information (including TDM pattern s information or TDM activation information) to a UE during a handover procedure, and the UE performs the handover with a TeNB according to the provided TDM information. By the disclosure, the UE can perform ISM signal transmission/reception and LTE signal transmission/reception with the TeNB in a discriminated manner according to a particular TDM pattern, so as to prevent handover failure due to the in-UE coexistence interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventors: Jae Hyun Ahn, Kibum Kwon, Myungcheul Jung
  • Patent number: 11070260
    Abstract: A wireless communication method and a wireless communication device. The method includes: a sending side device generating a common sequence to send to a plurality of receiving side devices; each of the plurality of receiving side devices determining a first analog weight parameter according to a receiving situation of the common sequence, and determining an antenna configuration for sending a pre-determined pilot frequency signal corresponding to the receiving side device according to the determined first analog weight parameter to send the pre-determined pilot frequency signal to the sending side device; and the sending side device determining a second analog weight parameter regarding the receiving side device according to a receiving situation of the pre-determined pilot frequency signal, and determining an antenna configuration for sending data regarding the receiving side device according to the determined second analog weight parameter to send the data to the receiving side device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peiyao Zhao, Zhaocheng Wang, Xudong Zhu, Jinhui Chen
  • Patent number: 11064381
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fifth generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system to be provided to support a higher data transmission rate since fourth generation (4G) communication systems like long term evolution (LTE). A method for generating cell measurement information is provided. The method includes receiving measurement configuration information associated with a beam reference signal that is a beamformed reference signal, receiving beam reference signals per a plurality of beam pairs consisting of a base station's (5G-NB's) beam and a user equipment's (UE's) beam, generating beam measurement information based on the beam reference signals received per the plurality of beam pairs, and generating cell measurement information on a cell based on the beam measurement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungmin Moon, Seunghoon Park, Byounghoon Jung, Jungsoo Jung
  • Patent number: 11057281
    Abstract: In some examples, an example method to measure quality of service (QoS) of a network tunnel may include configuring a network tunnel from a tunnel source endpoint to a tunnel destination endpoint, transmitting multiple status packets to the tunnel destination endpoint, receiving multiple forwarded status packets from the tunnel destination endpoint, determining a time of receipt of each of the forwarded status packets, and determining a QoS measure of the network tunnel based on a time of transmission of each of the multiple status packets and the time of receipt of each of the forwarded status packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Murtuza S. Attarwala
  • Patent number: 11057893
    Abstract: A base station may determine an SS block index associated with an SS block for transmission, and may scramble information based on at least a portion of the determined SS block index. The information may include at least one of a reference signal, data, paging information, control information, broadcast information, or a CRC associated with control information. The base station may transmit the SS block and scrambled information to a UE. A UE may receive an SS block and information scrambled based on at least a portion of an SS block index associated with the SS block. The information may include at least one of a reference signal, data, paging information, control information, broadcast information, or a CRC associated with control information. The UE may descramble the scrambled information based on the at least the portion of the SS block index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11050507
    Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented, particularly for use in a system according to IEEE 802.11. The apparatus comprises an encoder configured to encode input data into cell words according to an LDPC code and a modulator configured to modulate said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation and to assign bit combinations to constellation values of the used non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use a non-uniform constellation and bit labeling from one of the several groups of constellations, which constellation show quadrant and octant symmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas Handte, Dana Ciochina, Nabil Sven Loghin
  • Patent number: 11051219
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling mobility for a cell having a small cell service area in a mobile communication system. A method for controlling mobility of a terminal in a mobile communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, can comprise the steps of: performing, by the terminal, a measurement operation; transmitting a measurement result to a base station; determining whether or not a target cell for handover is a cell for which handover is allowed; and skipping the handover if the target cell for handover is the cell for which handover is not allowed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, when the small cells are arranged sparsely or in the form of a cluster within a service area of a macro cell, the possibility of a handover failure can be reduced, and if a radio link failure occurs when handover is omitted, re-connection can be performed quickly by the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangbum Kim, Soenghun Kim, Kyeongin Jeong