Patents Examined by Steve R Young
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Patent number: 12219614Abstract: The present invention provides a transmission device, a reception device, a transmission method, and a reception method that implement an appropriate random access procedure in accordance with a propagation delay between a terminal and a base station. A terminal (100) is provided with a wireless transmission unit (103) which transmits a random access channel signal, and a control unit (107) which sets, from among a plurality of preamble sequence candidates, a preamble sequence for use in the random access channel signal. At least one of the plurality of preamble sequence candidates is composed of two or more mutually different code sequences.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Akihiko Nishio, Hidetoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 12219605Abstract: This application provides a transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal sends a random access preamble to a base station at a first transmit power, and sends a PUSCH to the base station at a second transmit power, where power deviation between the first transmit power and the second transmit power is indicated to the base station by indication information; and the terminal receives a random access response or a contention resolution message from the base station. Implementing this application can improve an existing random access procedure, so that the random access procedure is adapted to scenario requirements such as low delay, high reliability, and large-scale terminal access.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Jianqin Liu, Xu Zhang, Lixia Xue, Yongxing Zhou, Yuan Li
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Patent number: 12219619Abstract: Long-term evolution assisted new radio initial access and mobility for 5G or other next generation networks are provided herein. A method can include transmitting, by a first network device of a wireless network and comprising a processor, a first timing synchronization signal and first acquisition information of the first network device to a mobile device. In response to the transmitting and based on a transmission received from the mobile device, a connection between the mobile device and a radio resource control of the wireless network can be facilitated. In addition, in response to the mobile device determining the location of the second timing synchronization signal based on the data indicative of the location of the second timing synchronization signal, the second network device can transmit, to the mobile device, the second timing synchronization signal and second acquisition information of the second network device.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Salam Akoum, Arunabha Ghosh, Milap Majmundar
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Patent number: 12199721Abstract: An access point (AP) may transmit a null data packet announcement (NDPA) with an indication of a resource unit of a bandwidth that feedback is requested. The AP may transmit a null data packet (NDP) for measurement of a channel quality for a resource unit of a bandwidth. The AP may transmit, based on a response, another feedback request for resource units of the bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Hanqing Lou, Rui Yang, Robert L. Olesen, Alphan Sahin, Li-Hsiang Sun
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Patent number: 12167270Abstract: An idle mode measurement method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving measurement configuration information in a radio resource control (RRC) idle mode; performing measurement in the RRC idle mode, based on the measurement configuration information; receiving a UEInformationRequest message for requesting a result of the measurement in the RRC idle mode; and transmitting a UEInformationResponse message including the result of the measurement in the RRC idle mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sangyeob Jung, Soenghun Kim, Himke Van Der Velde
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Patent number: 12150180Abstract: A base station transmits, to a wireless device, one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages indicating two-step random access resources of a two-step random access type. The base station receives, while the two-step random access type and a four-step random access type are available for receiving a preamble and based on the two-step random access resources comprising contention-free two-step random access resources, a preamble via the contention-free two-step random access resources.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Ofinno, LLCInventors: Nazanin Rastegardoost, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Yunjung Yi, Kyungmin Park, Hua Zhou
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Patent number: 12150030Abstract: A communication control apparatus includes: an acquisition section (231) that acquires information concerning a service to be received, using a communication system (1), by a communication apparatus connected to the communication system (1) that includes a relay base station (30) to which the communication apparatus is connectable and a donor base station (20) which provides the relay base station (30) with a wireless backhaul line; and a determination section (232) that determines a path through which data exchanged between the communication apparatus and the donor base station (20) passes on a basis of the information concerning the service.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Shinichiro Tsuda
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Patent number: 12149383Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an SRS sending method, an SRS receiving method, and a device. A manner of determining an antenna used to send an SRS is provided. In addition, a case in which one subframe includes a plurality of symbols is considered by using a quantity of first time units that are used by a terminal device to send an SRS in one uplink subframe and a case in which one antenna is enabled to implement continuous sending as much as possible is also considered by using a quantity of first time units that are consecutively used to send the SRS in one subframe by using a same antenna.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ruiqi Zhang
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Patent number: 12127197Abstract: Example aspects include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication network, comprising receiving, from a base station, configuration information indicating that physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) joint channel estimation (JCE) is enabled for a plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions. The aspects further include receiving, from the base station, a plurality of PDCCH transmissions. At least one PDCCH transmission comprises a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARD) acknowledgement (ACK) request without a corresponding physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) grant. Additionally, the aspects further include identifying a base offset according to the at least one PDCCH transmission. Additionally, the aspects further include selecting an additional offset according to a processing time capability of the UE.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hung Dinh Ly, Mostafa Khoshnevisan
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Patent number: 12127207Abstract: Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication methods related to multiplexing of UCI in PUSCH in NR. A user equipment comprises: circuitry operative to process UCI bits to be transmitted according to the comparison of the number M of UCI bits generated based on DL assignment(s) before an UL grant from a base station and the number N of UCI bits generated based on DL assignment(s) after the UL grant with the number P of UCI bits indicated in the UL grant and/or the maximum number Q of bits determined based on at least a configured coding rate, wherein each of M, N, P, Q is an integer equal to or larger than 0; and a transmitter operative to transmit the processed UCI bits in PUSCH at a TTI indicated in the UL grant to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Tomoya Nunome, Tetsuya Yamamoto
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Patent number: 12120728Abstract: A system and method for optimizing power consumption of energy harvesting nodes in a wireless sensor network. In one embodiment, a system includes a network coordinator. The network coordinator includes a wireless transceiver and a controller. The wireless transceiver is configured to provide access to the wireless sensor network. The controller is configured to determine whether a wireless device that is wirelessly communicating with the network coordinator is powered via energy harvesting. The controller is also configured to schedule, based on a determination that the wireless device is powered via energy harvesting, the wireless device to communicate via the wireless sensor network using a priority timeslot of a superframe of the wireless sensor network. The priority timeslot is a timeslot occurring in an initial portion of the superframe.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Bradford James Campbell, Ariton E. Xhafa, Anuj Batra
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Patent number: 12096460Abstract: A communication method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a first command sent by a network device, wherein the first command carries a first identifier, and is used to activate a first bandwidth part (BWP) indicated by the first identifier, and the first BWP is a BWP on a first component carrier (CC); and ignoring the first command when the terminal device does not support the first BWP and a second BWP being in an active state at the same time, wherein the second BWP is a BWP in the active state on a second CC, and the second CC is different from the first CC. According to the application, the terminal device may determine, based on a capability of the terminal device, to ignore an improper command, to optimize a problem of switching an active BWP in a carrier aggregation scenario.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bingzhao Li, Zhenzhen Cao, Lei Chen, Xuelong Wang
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Patent number: 12096357Abstract: A system and method for reducing energy consumption in a wireless network. In one embodiment, a system includes a network coordinator configured to manage access to a wireless network. The network coordinator includes a controller. The controller is configured to define a channel hopping list that specifies on which channel a beacon signal is transmitted in each slot frame of the wireless network. The controller is also configured to set a number of time slots in each slot frame based on a length of the channel hopping list. The controller is further configured to transmit a first beacon signal in each slot frame on a channel specified by the channel hopping list. The number of slots in each slot frame causes the first beacon signal to be transmitted on a same channel in each slot frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Ariton E. Xhafa, Bradford James Campbell, Anuj Batra, Srinath Hosur
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Patent number: 12089253Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for a shared channel occupancy time (COT) procedure in a wireless channel of unlicensed spectrum. The shared COT can be utilized among one or more user equipment (UE) and a 5G Node B (gNB). A UE contends for access to the channel to acquire the COT, and transmits in the uplink (UL) according to the UEs time-domain configuration. When the UL transmission does not utilize the entire COT, the UE can signal to the gNB that the COT can be shared. In particular, the UE transmits an indication of a COT boundary that the gNB can use to determine when to transmit DL data in the shared COT. The COT can also be shared between two or more UEs in addition to the gNB.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jose Armando Oviedo, Yingyang Li, Salvatore Talarico, Yongjun Kwak
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Patent number: 12081382Abstract: Systems and methods relating to frequency-selective Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) precoding and uplink transmission are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device comprises transmitting SRS on a first set of frequency-domain resources, and receiving an uplink scheduling assignment for an uplink physical channel comprising a resource allocation of a second set of frequency-domain resources comprising: (a) one or more frequency-domain resources that are also included in the first set and (b) one or more frequency-domain resources that are not included in the first set. In order to form a precoded uplink channel, the method further comprises: for each frequency-domain resource in (a), applying a same precoding as applied to the SRS on the frequency-domain resource; and, for each frequency-domain resource in (b), applying a same precoding as applied to the SRS on a different frequency-domain resource. The method further comprises transmitting the precoded uplink channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Andreas Nilsson, Robert Mark Harrison
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Patent number: 12075425Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication technique for convergence of a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4th generation (4G) system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, etc.) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. The disclosure relates to a method and device for transmitting or receiving uplink control information in a wireless communication system. The disclosure relates to a method for configuring and generating uplink control information in an unlicensed band. The disclosure proposes a method for adding generated uplink control information to an uplink data channel.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jonghyun Bang, Jinyoung Oh, Sungjin Park, Cheolkyu Shin
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Patent number: 12063176Abstract: In some circumstances, a URLLC may preempt resource. An apparatus may be configured to receive a set of resource blocks from a base station including at least one of eMBB data or URLLC data in a PDSCH. The apparatus may receive a URLLC indicator from the base station. The URLLC indicator may be received embedded within the URLLC data or received separate from the URLLC data within DCI of a PDCCH. The URLLC indicator indicates whether the set of resource blocks includes at least part of the URLLC data. The apparatus may determine, based on the URLLC indicator, whether the set of resource blocks includes the URLLC data and processing the set of resource blocks based on a result of determining whether the set of resource blocks includes the URLLC data.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Renqiu Wang, Jing Jiang, Hao Xu, Chong Li
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Patent number: 12063135Abstract: The method may include: determining a third frequency-domain data stream, which includes a first frequency-domain data stream and a second frequency-domain data stream, a length of the third frequency-domain data stream is 2N, lengths of both the first frequency-domain data stream and the second frequency-domain data stream are N, data in the first frequency-domain data stream and data in the second frequency-domain data stream are separately mapped to different locations in the third frequency-domain data stream, the first frequency-domain data stream is obtained by performing zero adding processing and Fourier transform processing on a first source data stream, the second frequency-domain data stream is obtained by performing cyclic extension processing on a second source data stream; converting the third frequency-domain data stream into time-domain data and sending the time-domain data to a base station.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuanzhou Hu, Mengying Ding, Shuri Liao, Fan Wang
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Patent number: 12052723Abstract: A method of wireless communication performed by a first user equipment (UE) includes receiving second data from a remote UE and receiving an uplink transmission grant from a base station. The method also includes generating a payload comprising the second data from the second UE or first data from the first UE. The method additionally transmits the payload to the base station via an uplink resource identified in the uplink transmission grant.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12041597Abstract: Aspects relate to technologies and techniques for sequence-based, non-coherent wireless channel transmission of a payload on a physical uplink channel. A transmitter converts information bits of a payload to be transmitted to a decimal integer value that is, in turn, used to generate a modified maximum sequence (m-sequence) based on one or more predetermined parameters such as an m-sequence generating polynomial, a starting location in the sequence, and an initialization. The generated modified m-sequences are modulated using modulation schemes such as ?/2 binary phase-shift keying and quadrature phase-shift keying for transmission on the physical uplink channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wei Yang, Peter Gaal, Yi Huang, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Gokul Sridharan, Tingfang Ji, Juan Montojo