Patents Examined by Steve R Young
  • Patent number: 11871444
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to identifying a sidelink priority value of sidelink traffic to be transmitted via a sidelink channel, identifying a type of uplink traffic to be transmitted via an uplink channel, the uplink traffic is scheduled to be transmitted contemporaneously with the sidelink traffic, prioritizing, based at least in part on the identification of the type of uplink traffic being of a first type uplink traffic, the uplink traffic regardless of the sidelink priority value, and transmitting, based on prioritizing the sidelink traffic or prioritizing the uplink traffic, at least one of the sidelink traffic or the uplink traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Hong Cheng, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati, Arjun Bharadwaj
  • Patent number: 11849457
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Tomoya Nunome, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11825485
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for managing uplink resource grants in wireless networks. An exemplary method embodiment includes a mobile terminal: receiving from a base station a first uplink resource grant schedule including a first uplink resource grant and a second uplink resource grant, the first uplink resource grant giving the mobile terminal an exclusive right to use a first set of resource blocks on a recurring basis and the second uplink resource grant giving the mobile terminal a non-exclusive right to use a second set of resource blocks on a recurring basis; and using, by the mobile terminal, the second set of resource blocks to transmit data to the base station during at least a first time interval of the first period of time, said first period of time including multiple time intervals during which the mobile terminal has been granted the right to transmit data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Volkan Sevindik
  • Patent number: 11818661
    Abstract: The disclosure relates in some aspects to an energy-aware architecture that supports a low power scheduling mode. For example, a media access control (MAC) architecture for a base station (e.g., an enhanced Node B) and associated access terminals (e.g., UEs) can take the power needs of the access terminals into account when scheduling the access terminals. In some aspects, an access terminal may support a particular frame structure for a low power mode. Accordingly, scheduling of the access terminal may include use of the particular frame structure during low power mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Pui Lok Ang, Tingfang Ji, Jing Jiang, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, John Edward Smee, Naga Bhushan
  • Patent number: 11818711
    Abstract: Aspects relate to wireless communications utilizing cross carrier scheduling Methods and apparatus include generating at least one slot in a control channel from a scheduling cell, the at least one slot including a plurality of control channel segments such as PDCCH segments, which are arranged at respective times within the at least one slot. Each of the control channel segments includes control information such as DCIs corresponding to respective slots for a scheduled cell. Distributing the control channel information in segments or spans over time affords improved decoding timing in a UE in the scheduled cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Huilin Xu, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11818037
    Abstract: A switch architecture for a data-driven intelligent networking system is provided. The system can accommodate dynamic traffic with fast, effective congestion control. The system can maintain state information of individual packet flows, which can be set up or released dynamically based on injected data. Each flow can be provided with a flow-specific input queue upon arriving at a switch. Packets of a respective flow are acknowledged after reaching the egress point of the network, and the acknowledgement packets are sent back to the ingress point of the flow along the same data path. As a result, each switch can obtain state information of each flow and perform flow control on a per-flow basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Abdulla M. Bataineh, Jonathan P. Beecroft, Thomas L. Court, Anthony M. Ford, Edwin L. Froese, David Charles Hewson, Joseph G. Kopnick, Andrew S. Kopser, Duncan Roweth, Gregory Faanes, Michael Higgins, Timothy J. Johnson, Trevor Jones, James Reinhard, Edward J. Turner, Steven L. Scott, Robert L. Alverson
  • Patent number: 11800533
    Abstract: A method of providing downlink control information (DCI) to a plurality of user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes assigning each of the plurality of UEs to one of a set of groups, each group identified by a group radio network identifier (G-RNTI), and sending to each of the plurality of UEs the G-RNTI, a size of the group, and a position within the group. As such, a group-common DCI (GC-DCI) in which the UE can determine whether or not it has a grant by its assigned position in the group and retrieve the grant from a grant block in the GC-DCI can be sent to the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Huilin Xu, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11778617
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an uplink grant that schedules uplink shared channel transmissions of a first length. The UE may then determine the actual lengths of the transmissions, which may differ from each other and the scheduled length (e.g., due to conditions of the communication environment, such as the location of slot boundaries). The UE may also identify uplink control information to be multiplexed on the uplink shared channel (e.g., when the scheduled transmission overlaps with a control channel or based on an uplink grant for the uplink control information). The UE may multiplex the uplink control information on the uplink shared channel so as to maintain the same rate-matching scheme and the same coding scheme for each of the transmissions, and transmit the uplink control information in at least one of the transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 11765732
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to communicate with a base station on different channels or messages with different processing timelines. In order to prevent a collision between processing communications associated with the different length TTIs, the UE may drop one or more communications on corresponding channels with longer processing timelines to receive and/or process the transmission on the channel with a shorter processing timeline. Additionally, the UE may transmit uplink control information (UCI) for the one or more dropped communications, where the UCI may include hybrid access request (HARQ) acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NAK) feedback, channel quality indicator (CQI), precoding matrix indicator (PMI), rank indicator (RI), etc. If a downlink transmission is dropped, the UE may transmit a NAK message. Alternatively, if an uplink transmission is dropped, the UE may transmit at least a portion of the UCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Amir Farajidana, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11764907
    Abstract: A device of a receiver, a method and a machine readable medium to implement the method. The method includes: determining a residual rate to identify a decoding estimate for a first packet sent from a wireless first transmitter; determining a grouping of transmitters including the first transmitter and a wireless second transmitter scheduled to transmit a second packet; performing power optimization by determining lowest necessary transmission powers corresponding, respectively, to transmissions of the first packet from the first transmitter and of the second packet from the second transmitter, wherein the transmissions of the first and second packets are within a same time-frequency resource and together define a signal to be received at the receiver; and encoding for transmission to the first and second transmitters information on the signal based on the residual rate, the grouping and the power optimization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Radoslaw Kotaba, Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas, Tommaso Balercia, Carles Navarro Manchon, Petar Popovski
  • Patent number: 11757576
    Abstract: The present disclosure in some embodiments provides a transmission method and a transmission device. The transmission method includes, in a case that a same first HARQ process is used by a dynamic-grant PUSCH and a configured-grant PUSCH, transmitting one of the configured-grant PUSCH and the dynamic-grant PUSCH using the first HARQ process, or transmitting the configured-grant PUSCH or the dynamic-grant PUSCH using the first HARQ process and then transmitting the dynamic-grant PUSCH or the configured-grant PUSCH using the first HARQ process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaohang Chen, Xueming Pan, Zhi Lu
  • Patent number: 11758421
    Abstract: A mesh network includes domain(s) of multiple nodes interconnected through links and in which there are gateway(s) connecting a domain to another network. The domain(s), their multiple nodes, and their links are part of a topology. A set of primary and backup routing paths, each including an ST that includes the selected gateway and route to that selected gateway for nodes in the domain, for a selected one of the gateway(s) is accessed or determined. Schedule(s) to be used by node(s) in the mesh network over one or more scheduling cycles are accessed or determined. Based on status of link(s) between nodes and on the schedule(s), switching is performed to a selected one of the primary or backup routing paths for the selected gateway. Routing in the mesh network is caused to be modified based on the selected routing path. Information is sent to nodes for the paths and schedules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: David Chen, Pekka Juhani Wainio, Kari Seppanen, Tapio Suihko, Jorma Kilpi, Jori Paananen
  • Patent number: 11758585
    Abstract: A method in a UE comprises: receiving a message from a network node comprising information about one or more sets of dedicated random access channel (RACH) resources, each set of dedicated RACH resources associated with a beam associated with a target cell; obtaining an estimate of beam quality for each beam associated with the sets of dedicated RACH resources; determining, based on the obtained estimate of beam quality, whether any beam associated with the one or more sets of dedicated RACH resources meets one or more criteria of a first set of criteria for performing random access; and performing random access based on whether any beam associated with the one or more sets of dedicated RACH resources meets the one or more criteria of the first set of criteria for performing random access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Icaro L. J. Da Silva, Henrik Sahlin, Mats Folke, Janne Peisa, Jan Christoffersson
  • Patent number: 11743901
    Abstract: A user equipment in a radio communication system including a base station and the user equipment, the user equipment including: a resource management unit that retains configuration information of a resource capable of transmitting uplink data without receiving uplink data transmission permission from the base station; and a transmission unit that transmits a signal indicating that uplink data transmission using the resource is performed to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Kazuaki Takeda, Yousuke Sano
  • Patent number: 11743964
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for recovering a beam failure in a wireless communication system. The method performed by an user equipment (UE) according to the present disclosure includes receiving a resource configuration in relation to a beam failure recovery request from a base station (BS); receiving a beam reference signal (BRS) used for beam management from the BS; transmitting the beam failure recovery request to the BS using a first resource based on the resource configuration, when a beam failure even is detected; and reporting a measurement result by the beam reference signal to the BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Minki Ahn, Jiwon Kang, Kijun Kim, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 11743886
    Abstract: Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a user-equipment (UE). The method generally includes receiving first downlink (DL) control information (DCI) for scheduling resources in time in a system frame for transmission of one or more uplink (UL) data channels and hybrid automatic request (HARQ) signaling for acknowledging whether one or more downlink data channels have been successfully decoded, the one or more UL data channels and the HARQ signaling being configured based on a UL to DL resource ratio associated with a time-division duplex (TDD) subframe configuration. In certain aspects, the UE generates the one or more UL data channels and the HARQ signaling, and transmits the UL data channels and the HARQ signaling using the scheduled resources and in accordance with the TDD subframe configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11728949
    Abstract: In wireless communications for multi-users, an access point may generate a first frame for allocating resources to a plurality of stations. The first frame may contain an indication as to whether a station(s) is allocated at least one of a set of resource units (RUs) of a plurality of RUs, such as a center 26-tone RU. The set of resource units may be based on a channel bandwidth of the wireless communications. The indication may be contained in a common block field of signal fields, such as a common block field of high efficiency (HE) signal content channel(s) of an HE signal field. The station(s) may receive the first frame and determine whether the one of the set of RUs is allocated. The station(s) may transmit a second frame to the access point based on resource allocation information in the first frame. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Atlas Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Yujin Noh, Daewon Lee, Sungho Moon, Young Hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11729774
    Abstract: To appropriately notify UL control information in a future radio communication system, a user terminal includes: a transmitting section that transmits an uplink signal by using a code resource associated with a value of uplink control information; and a control section that controls determination of at least one transmission resource of a time resource, a frequency resource and the code resource used for the uplink signal based on indication information that is notified from a radio base station and indicates at least one resource of the time resource, the frequency resource and the code resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11723080
    Abstract: A method and a base station thereof are provided. In the method, the base station transmits one or more messages including configuration parameters of a cell to a wireless device to a wireless device. The configuration parameters indicate a plurality of slot format combinations and a number of repetitions for a slot format combination. Further, the base station transmits a downlink control information indicating a first slot format combination of the plurality of slot format combinations and receives, based on one or more slot formats of one or more slots in a channel occupancy time of the cell, transport blocks on uplink resources of the cell, where the one or more slot formats are determined based on applying the number of repetitions of the first slot format combination across the one or more slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Xu, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11716187
    Abstract: Described are mechanisms and methods for supporting Channel State Information (CSI) measurement and reporting, and for supporting Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurement and reporting, under License Assisted Access (LAA) with dynamic power sharing. An eNB may comprise one or more processors to generate a maximum number of Component Carriers (CCs) and a number of active CCs to a UE. The eNB may then be operable to process a reported quality rating from the UE and generate a scaled quality rating based upon the reported quality rating, the maximum number of CCs, and the number of active CCs. A UE may comprise one or more processors to process a reference signal transmission from an eNB, to generate an unfiltered reference signal transmission based upon the reference signal transmission, and to calculate a quality rating based upon the unfiltered reference signal transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Abhijeet Bhorkar, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Hong He