Patents Examined by Siu M. Lee
  • Patent number: 11877309
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments are related to beam management in cellular communication networks, and in particular, provide a new transmission (Tx) beamforming indication based on the flexible Tx beam-forming assignment on the corresponding reference signal configured in a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state for downlink (DL) or spatial relation information in the uplink (UL). The Tx beam-forming on the reference signal of the TCI state configured for the DL physical channel/reference signal can be updated based on reported Tx beam in the UL or using UL measurements from Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) transmission. Similarly, spatial relation information configuration used to indicate Tx beam-forming in the UL, may be also updated based on the reference signal measurements in DL or by suing Downlink Control Information (DCI) based beam indication in a scheduling request indicator (SRI). Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Avik Sengupta, Bishwarup Mondal
  • Patent number: 11877260
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for a management node to page a terminal device, and a management node for use in wireless communication network. The method for a management node to page a terminal device includes: receiving a first indication about whether the terminal device shares a subscriber number with another terminal device; checking a second indication about whether the terminal device supports a circuit switching call function; receiving a paging request about the terminal device; and determining whether to respond to the paging request, based on the first indication and based on a result of the operation of checking the second indication. The success rate of the circuit switching call in the wireless communication network may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Lei Xia, Yan Du
  • Patent number: 11870621
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method implemented by a control system for communicating with a remote device. In at least some examples, the method includes determining a frequency of operation of the remote device and determining whether the frequency of operation of the remote device varies from a programmed frequency. The method further includes determining a frequency scaling factor based on whether the frequency of operation of the remote device varies from a programmed frequency. The method further includes generating a frequency shift keying (FSK) signal, scaling the FSK signal to generate a frequency scaled shift keying (FSSK) signal, and transmitting the FSSK signal to the remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Faraidoon Pundole
  • Patent number: 11863488
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive an indication of a single reference signal to use for determining timing information for measuring multiple reference signals from multiple cells on a common frequency layer; and measure the multiple reference signals based at least in part on the timing information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qunfeng He, Awlok Singh Josan, Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu
  • Patent number: 11856554
    Abstract: This document discloses a solution for controlling measurements of a terminal device. According to an aspect, a method comprises: determining, on the basis of measurement data measured from a radio link, a distance between an access node and a terminal device and angular motion of the terminal device with respect to the access node; making a decision about a length of a time interval between consecutive radio measurements of the terminal device on the basis of the distance and the angular motion; and communicating the decision over the radio link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Muhammad Tayyab, Satya Krishna Joshi, Rustam Pirmagomedov, Timo Koskela
  • Patent number: 11856552
    Abstract: A device, in a training phase, obtains Channel State Information (CSI) for one or more links between another device and at least one Access Point (AP), and in the training phase, estimates location information of the other device based on at least one geometric localization technique; and generates a database comprising CSI of the one or more links, each CSI being associated with an estimated location information. Further, a device, in a testing phase, obtains a database from another device, wherein the database comprises CSI of one or more links, each CSI being associated with an estimated location information, and in the testing phase, the device estimates CSI for one or more links between the device and at least one AP, and determine location information based on the estimated CSI of the one or more links and the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ganghua Yang, Yun Yaw Chu, Abdellatif Zaidi, Mohamed Kamoun, Mustapha Amara, Sami Mekki, Mejed El Jabri
  • Patent number: 11856439
    Abstract: A method for reporting beam information in a wireless communication system and a device therefor are proposed. In detail, the method, performed by a terminal, may comprise the steps of: transmitting beam-related capability information to a base station; receiving, from the base station, downlink control information for triggering a beam report; receiving a beam report-related resource from the base station; and reporting the beam information to the base station on the basis of the beam report-related resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jiwon Kang
  • Patent number: 11855830
    Abstract: An input signal has a desired signal component and an interfering signal component superimposed thereon. Interfering component estimation processing is applied to the input signal, obtaining as a result a filtered signal comprising a sequence of filtered data samples. The filtered signal is subtracted from the input signal obtaining as a result an output signal comprising a sequence of output data samples. The interfering component estimation processing applies conjugating processing to the input signal, providing a conjugated version of the input signal. An adaptive signal processing coefficient is computed and adaptive signal processing is applied to the conjugated version of the input signal using the adaptive processing coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Alessandro Barbieri, Fabio Dell'Orto
  • Patent number: 11848804
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave transmission apparatus of the present invention includes a transmission unit whose voltage-current characteristics have a local maximum value and a local minimum value located on a higher voltage side than the local maximum value and which transmits an electromagnetic wave indicating a modulation signal, an acquisition unit which acquires a digital signal, and a modulation unit which modulates the digital signal into the modulation signal which is a signal using voltage values of three levels or more in an oscillation region which is a voltage region that is equal to or more than a voltage of the local maximum voltage and equal to or less than a voltage of the local minimum voltage. The transmission unit preferably transmits a synchronization signal as at least a part of the modulation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11838157
    Abstract: A signal processing device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire signal waveform data corresponding to a frequency signal, a generation unit configured to generate a sine wave and a cosine wave of demodulation waveform data having a demodulation frequency between the first frequency and the second frequency, a first phase calculation unit configured to calculate a first phase based on a multiplication result of the sine wave and the signal waveform data at a first time and a multiplication result of the cosine wave and the signal waveform data at the first time, a second phase calculation unit configured to calculate a second phase based on a multiplication result of the sine wave and the signal waveform data at a second time advanced from the first time by a specified time interval less than one cycle of the demodulation frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Emoto, Mitsuyuki Shirae
  • Patent number: 11838047
    Abstract: Infrastructure electronics equipment incorporates infrastructure Local-Site Transports (LSTs). LSTs convey payload sampled signals over imperfect electromagnetic (EM) pathways whose physical properties are usually unknown when the equipment (e.g., Cameras, Displays, Set-Top Boxes) is manufactured. Prior LSTs hedge against EM pathway degradation in several ways: requiring high-quality cables (e.g., HDMI); restricting transmission distance, (e.g., HDMI); and/or reducing quality, via compression, to extend transmission distance somewhat (e.g., Ethernet). The subject of this disclosure is an infrastructure LST for sampled signals that causes the physical errors inevitably arising from propagation of sensory payloads over imperfect EM pathways to manifest in a perceptually benign manner, leveraging legacy infrastructure and reducing costs to achieve a favorable ratio of fidelity to transmission distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HYPHY USA INC.
    Inventors: Rob Hannebauer, Todd Rockoff, Dean Rubine
  • Patent number: 11823818
    Abstract: A power and data connectivity micro grid includes a first power sourcing equipment device having first and second power ports and first and second data ports, and configured to deliver DC power signals to the first and second power ports. The micro grid further includes first and second remote distribution nodes, and first and second splice enclosures, each splice enclosure having a power input port, a data input port, a power tap port, a data tap port, a power output port and a data output port. A first composite power-data cable is coupled between the first power port and the first data port of the first power sourcing equipment device and the power input port and the data input port of the first splice enclosure. A second composite power-data cable is coupled between the second power port and the second data port of the first power sourcing equipment device and the power input port and the data input port of the second splice enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Thomas F. Craft, Jr., Rudy Musschebroeck, Jan Jozef Julia Maria Erreygers, David T. Lambert, David J. Mather, David Thomas, Joshua M. Simer
  • Patent number: 11825363
    Abstract: A resource processing method, an apparatus, and a system are disclosed. The resource processing method comprises: receiving, by UE, first signaling from a base station, wherein the first signaling is used to instruct to deactivate a first cell that provides a service for the UE, or used to instruct the UE to switch from a source bandwidth part (BWP) to a target BWP; and processing, by a media access control (MAC) entity in the UE, a first target resource by using a first target processing manner, wherein the first target resource is a resource in the first cell or the source BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Yang, Peng Sun
  • Patent number: 11815616
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for utilizing a hybrid of ultra-wideband (UWB) and narrowband (NB) signaling to provide more efficient operating range and operating efficiency. In one example, a first subsystem of a first device may determine parameter data for a ranging round (e.g., UWB and/or NB-assisted (NBA) UWB multi-millisecond (MMS) ranging), and transmit the parameter data to a second subsystem of the first device. The parameter data may indicate a first time associated with a first time domain for performing ranging. The second subsystem may determine a second time based on the first time, whereby the second time is associated with a second time domain for performing NB signaling (e.g., via a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol). The first device may transmit via an NB signal an advertisement packet that indicates the second time. The first device may then initiate the ranging round at the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joachim S. Hammerschmidt, Santhoshkumar Mani, Eren Sasoglu
  • Patent number: 11817919
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for beam steering is disclosed. The apparatus comprises: a beam forming signal generator configured to generate a beam forming signal for applying to at least one of amplitude and phase shift circuitry associated with an antenna array to provide a radiation pattern. A determining means is provided that is configured to determine a signal strength of interfering signals received at the antenna array within a user equipment and to determine a dominant interfering ratio indicative of a strength of a strongest interfering signal relative to a strength of other interfering signals. A comparator is provided that is configured to compare the dominant interfering ratio to a predetermined ratio value and where the dominant interfering ratio exceeds the predetermined ratio value to generate a control signal for controlling the beam forming signal generator to generate a radiation pattern comprising a beam and at least one steered null.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Christian Rom, Benny Vejlgaard, Simon Svendsen, Johannes Harrebek
  • Patent number: 11812404
    Abstract: A method of providing positioning reference signal information includes: transmitting wirelessly, from an apparatus, a positioning reference signal comprising a carrier signal with a carrier phase; and transmitting, from the apparatus, an indication of a reference carrier phase of the positioning reference signal, comprising a phase of the carrier signal of the positioning reference signal at a reference time of transmission of the positioning reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11804860
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program performs initializing parameters of a transmission system. The transmission system comprises a transmitter, a first channel, a relay, a second channel and a receiver. The transmitter includes a transmitter algorithm having trainable weights, the relay includes a relay algorithm having trainable weights and the receiver includes a receiver algorithm having trainable weights. A first training sequence of messages is received, and the first training sequence of messages is sent from the transmitter to the relay using the first channel and is sent from the relay to the receiver using the second channel. A loss function is obtained or generated, and trainable parameters of the transmission system are updated based on the loss function. The trainable parameters include some of the trainable weights of the transmitter, some of the trainable weights of the relay, and some of the trainable weights of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jakob Hoydis, Faycal Ait Aoudia
  • Patent number: 11804879
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus mounted on a movable body is provided to communicate with an external communication apparatus outside the movable body. The terminal apparatus includes an antenna, and a communicator device. The antenna includes a plurality of antenna elements to be arranged along a traveling direction of the movable body. The communicator device is configured to communicate with the external communication apparatus using a communicating antenna element that is at least one of the plurality of antenna elements. The communicating antenna element is selected from the plurality of antenna elements so as to belong to a specified region. The specified region is defined by propagation environment information of an electric wave propagation path of a signal transmitted to and received from the external communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuneo Nakata
  • Patent number: 11800494
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of communications technologies, and provides a state detection method and a configuration method for network communication, a terminal, and a network device. The state detection method for network communication, applied to a terminal, includes: obtaining a monitoring configuration parameter of a reference state, where the monitoring configuration parameter includes at least one set of reference state configuration parameters; and performing, based on the monitoring configuration parameter, a detection process corresponding to the reference state, where the reference state includes radio link monitor RLM and/or beam failure detection BFD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Li Chen
  • Patent number: 11800382
    Abstract: The described technology provides a system and method for identifying cells in a wireless communication network for corrective action to improve coverage and capacity of the network. A coverage analysis tool receives network traffic information, extracts call or data traffic information for a particular radio access technology (RAT), and determines based on radio frequency (RF) information and distances between serving cells and call data, and serving cells and adjacent neighbor cells, whether the serving cells are over-shooter or under-shooter cells. The coverage analysis tool recommends remedial action to improve the network's coverage and capacity including adjusting antenna tilt and/or adjusting transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Nirmal Chandrasekaran