Patents Examined by Siu M. Lee
  • Patent number: 11483718
    Abstract: Provided is a technology capable of securing satisfactory communication quality. A communication system includes a user equipment, and a base station configured to be connected to the user equipment to perform radio communication with the user equipment. The user equipment performs radio communication with a beam. When the user equipment detects a beam disappearance state being a state incapable of maintaining communication quality with the base station, the user equipment transmits a notification of the beam disappearance state with a beam having a wider half width than a half width before detection of the beam disappearance state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kuniyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11483779
    Abstract: A user equipment and a communication method are provided. The user equipment includes a signal transceiver, a first antenna, a second antenna, a third antenna, and a power amplifier module. The signal transceiver applies a conversion between a baseband signal and a radio frequency signal. The first antenna is a primary antenna for receiving and transmitting RF signals. The second antenna is a diversity antenna for receiving RF signals. The third antenna is a low frequency antenna for transmitting signals in a specific low frequency band. The power amplifier module is electrically connected to the signal transceiver, the first antenna, and the third antenna. The power amplifier module amplifies the RF signal output by the signal transceiver and outputs same to either the first or third antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Chung-Tsung Wang, Wen-Yi Kuo
  • Patent number: 11483116
    Abstract: Embodiments of the application provide a signal transmission method and device and a terminal performing the signal transmission method. The method comprises: a first terminal determining a first time point, and the first terminal sending a first signal at the first time point, the first signal being a positioning reference signal, thereby assisting other terminals in positioning, and improving the positioning accuracy between the terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenshan Zhao, Qianxi Lu, Huei-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 11477758
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive, using a set of receive antennas, a first positioning reference signal (PRS). The first UE may transmit, using a set of transmit antennas in response to the received first PRS, a second PRS. The first UE may receive, from a second UE, a control message indicating time and position information for the first PRS transmitted by the second UE and for the second PRS received at the second UE. The first UE may determine a position of the first UE based on the received control message and composite time and position information for the first PRS received at the first UE and for the second PRS transmitted by the first UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chang-Sik Choi, Shuanshuan Wu, Kapil Gulati
  • Patent number: 11470590
    Abstract: Provided are a time-domain resource allocation and determination method, apparatus, base station, terminal and storage medium. The allocation method includes: determining a number of switching time slots required for current bandwidth part resource switching according to an original bandwidth part resource and a target bandwidth part resource, the original bandwidth part resource is a bandwidth part resource used by a terminal before the current bandwidth part resource switching and the target bandwidth part resource is a bandwidth part resource used by the terminal after the current bandwidth part resource switching; and determining a target time slot deviation for performing a data transmission by using the target bandwidth part resource according to the number of switching time slots and a basic time slot deviation, the basic time slot deviation is determined according to time-domain resource allocation indication information carried in transmission indication information sent by a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventors: Yachao Liang, Peng Hao, Jian Li, Junfeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11463491
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating intercom communication for one or more quick-service restaurant drive-throughs are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: capture sound from a customer placing an order; generate order information signals that represent the captured sound; encode signals to form order data packets; transmit the order data packets to a base station through a single pair of wires that is also used to provide power; decode information from the order data packets; and generate order sound based on the decoded information, such that the generated order sound is audible to a staff member of the quick service restaurant through a headset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: H.M. Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: David O'Gwynn
  • Patent number: 11463146
    Abstract: A method for selecting one or more TX beams to identify in a beam report. The method includes a UE obtaining i) a first interference value, 1a, associated with a first antenna arrangement and ii) a second interference value, 1b, associated with a second antenna arrangement. The method also includes the UE obtaining i) a power value, P1a, associated with the first antenna arrangement and with a first TRP TX beam and ii) a power value, P1b, associated with the second antenna arrangement and with the first TRP TX beam. The method further includes the UE determining a first final power value, Pn1, based on 1a and 1b and based on at least one of P1a, and P1b. The method also includes the UE using Pn1 to determine whether or not to include in the beam report an identifier for identifying the first TRP TX beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, Sebastian Faxér
  • Patent number: 11464017
    Abstract: Disaggregated wireless radio access networks can utilize a lower physical split architecture with open fronthaul between the radio unit and distributed baseband units. A split architecture is one in which the analogue radio front-end and the digital baseband processor in a radio are not co-located. Instead, these components are connected via a fronthaul transport network. Therefore, the baseband unit can transmit two beamforming matrices for every contiguous resource block occupied by a user. The radio unit can then interpolate between these two beamforming matrices for each of the RE inside of the resource block based on the baseband unit and the radio unit agreeing upon a method of interpolation to generate beamforming matrices per resource element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Aditya Chopra, Andrew Thornburg, Milap Majmundar
  • Patent number: 11456908
    Abstract: A system and method for orthogonal time frequency space communication and waveform generation. The method includes receiving a plurality of information symbols and encoding an N×M array containing the plurality of information symbols into a two-dimensional array of modulation symbols by spreading each of the plurality of information symbols with respect to both time and frequency. The two-dimensional array of modulation symbols is then transmitted using M mutually orthogonal waveforms included within M frequency sub-bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shlomo Selim Rakib, Ronny Hadani
  • Patent number: 11445418
    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: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Yang, Peng Sun
  • Patent number: 11438869
    Abstract: A method of initiating positioning reference signal exchange includes: determining, at a first user equipment, a null-zone presence of the first user equipment, the null-zone presence of the first user equipment being at least one of a current presence of the first user equipment in a null zone or a future presence of the first user equipment in the null zone; and transmitting, from the first user equipment and in response to determining the null-zone presence of the first user equipment, a request for positioning reference signal exchange between the first user equipment and a second user equipment separate from the first user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Alexandros Manolakos, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11438895
    Abstract: A first modem performs a first communication service in a first frequency band. A second modem performs a second communication service in a second frequency band. The first modem and the second modem are in a first operating mode. The first modem receives, from an access network device, a switching instruction for the first communication service, where the switching instruction is used to instruct the first modem to switch from the first frequency band to a third frequency band. The first modem indicates to an arbitration apparatus that the first modem needs to be switched to the third frequency band. The arbitration apparatus determines whether the third frequency band conflicts with the second frequency band, to perform: maintaining the first operating mode, or switching the first operating mode to a second operating mode for the first modem and the second modem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jifeng Li
  • Patent number: 11438870
    Abstract: This application provides a paging message transmission method and apparatus, where the method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from a network device, where one or more types of first indication information, second indication information, a short message, and scheduling information of a paging message are carried on the PDCCH, the first indication information is used to indicate that the PDCCH carries the short message and/or the scheduling information, and the second indication information is used to indicate whether the scheduling information of the paging message is valid and/or whether the terminal device needs to receive a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and obtaining, by the terminal device based on the PDCCH, one or more types of the information carried on the PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuandong Gao, Huang Huang, Hua Shao, Mao Yan
  • Patent number: 11438868
    Abstract: A communication device comprising: a plurality of wireless communication units configured to perform wireless communication with another communication device; and a control unit configured to estimate positional information indicating a position at which the other communication device is located based on at least one distance measurement value indicating a distance between the other communication device and at least one wireless communication unit and obtained through the wireless communication of each of the plurality of wireless communication units, wherein the control unit corrects first positional information among a plurality of pieces of positional information estimated at different times based on second positional information different from the first positional information among the plurality of pieces of positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke Ohashi, Masateru Furuta, Yuki Kono, Shigenori Nitta
  • Patent number: 11425718
    Abstract: A method for determining a carrier center frequency in a wireless communications system and apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining, a carrier center frequency used by a base station and UE to communicate, according to a frequency band starting frequency, and absolute radio frequency channel number, a frequency band offset, and a relative radio frequency channel number. According to this application, a time for searching for a cell by a terminal can be reduced, power consumption of the terminal can be reduced, and a battery life can be extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhe Jin, Qian Wu
  • Patent number: 11425680
    Abstract: Disclosed is a positioning system. The positioning system includes a positioning signal generation server and a positioning station. The positioning signal generation server is configured to generate a time domain positioning oversampled signal according to a positioning signal parameter and send the time domain positioning oversampled signal to the positioning station. The positioning station is configured to receive the time domain positioning oversampled signal generated by the positioning signal generation server and send the time domain positioning oversampled signal according to sending time information of a positioning signal. Further provided are a positioning signal generation and sending method and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shijun Chen, Dawei Chen, Yuanyuan Wang, Cheng Bi
  • Patent number: 11424971
    Abstract: A control unit generates pulse width modulation (PWM) pulses for an inverter. The control unit has a noise reducer configured to generate an opposing signal for active noise reduction. The noise reducer is configured to set a phase angle of the opposing signal based upon a predefined PWM frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert Nelles, Jan Naegelkraemer
  • Patent number: 11405256
    Abstract: Techniques are presented for receiving Quadrature Amplitude Modulated (QAM) symbols from a transmitter via a transmission path. In one example, a demodulator is configured to down-convert an incoming Radio Frequency (RF) signal to a baseband signal and convert the baseband signal to digital samples, and output the digital samples. A demapper is configured to receive the digital samples output from the demodulator and output data encoded in QAM symbols. The demapper is further configured to: determine from a constellation of QAM symbols a subset of QAM symbols that a digital sample from the demodulator may represent; apply an offset to each QAM symbol in the subset of QAM symbols of the constellation to result in a subset of offset QAM symbols; determine which QAM symbol in the subset of offset QAM symbols the digital sample most likely represents; and output data representing a determined QAM symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Andreas Bernhard Bisplinghoff, Stefan Helmut Müller-Weinfurtner
  • Patent number: 11405089
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing interference in a communication network include transmitting a first downlink signal from a first transmit/receive point (TRP) to an electronic device using a beam. The electronic device can also receive a second downlink signal from a second TRP, where a portion of the first downlink signal from the first TRP interferes with the second downlink signal. The first TRP then receives a series of uplink pilot signals from the electronic device. Using the received uplink pilot signals, the first TRP can then estimate the angle of departure (AoD) for the intended signal (first downlink signal), and the AoD for the interference signal. The first TRP can then reconfigure the beam used to transmit the first downlink signal based on the estimated AoDs for the intended signal and interference signal to manage the interference effect that the first leakage signal has on the second downlink signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Fredrik Rusek, Olof Zander, Zuleita Ho, Erik Bengtsson, Kun Zhao, Torgny Palenius
  • Patent number: 11395301
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives, from a transmission point, a first positioning reference signal (PRS) muting pattern for a first subgroup of PRS resources of a first PRS resource set, wherein the first PRS muting pattern comprises a plurality of N bits representing a plurality of N PRS occasions of the first subgroup of PRS resources, wherein each bit of the plurality of N bits represents a corresponding PRS occasion of the plurality of N PRS occasions of each PRS resource of the first subgroup of PRS resources, and wherein the plurality of N PRS occasions comprises a plurality of active PRS occasions of the first subgroup of PRS resources, and measures, during at least one of the plurality of active PRS occasions of the first subgroup of PRS resources, PRS received from the transmission point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Sven Fischer