Patents Examined by Steve R Young
  • Patent number: 11546782
    Abstract: A radio link monitoring method, a radio link monitoring configuration method, a UE and a network device are provided. The radio link monitoring method for the UE includes: receiving configuration information of a reference signal for a radio link monitoring operation, wherein the configuration information comprises configured reference signal or reconfigured reference signal, and/or, radio link monitoring parameter of the configured reference signal reference signal or radio link monitoring parameter of the reconfigured reference signal; and performing the radio link monitoring operation in accordance with the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Yang
  • Patent number: 11540269
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a wireless communication method and device. The method may include: a terminal device determines at least one time domain resource unit occupied by SRS transmission over an SRS resource; the terminal device determines a resource utilization mode used for transmitting the SRS on the at least one time domain resource unit; the terminal device performs, according to the determined resource utilization mode, the SRS transmission on the at least one time domain resource unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenhong Chen
  • Patent number: 11510229
    Abstract: An uplink transmission method and a terminal applied to the field of communications technologies to resolve a signal transmission problem that arises when a short-duration physical uplink control channel carrying only a scheduling request (SR) collides with another uplink channel on a same time domain resource. The method includes transmitting a scheduling request on a first uplink channel using a first time domain resource a first transmit power, where the first uplink channel comprises a first time domain resource and transmitting information on a second uplink channel using a second transmit power, where the second uplink channel comprises the first time domain resource, and where the first time domain resource represents some or all time domain resources in the second uplink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Liu, Jian Wang, Da Wang, Yifan Xue
  • Patent number: 11510075
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communications device. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a cell in which a beam failure occurs; and sending, by the terminal device, first indication information to a network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate the cell in which the beam failure occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bin Xu, Zhenzhen Cao, Haibo Xu, Bingzhao Li, Xuelong Wang
  • Patent number: 11503482
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Wireless devices may communicate over a primary and fallback beam. To support communications over a primary and fallback beam, a preconfiguration procedure may be performed to communicate to a transmitting and receiving device the identity of the primary and fallback beam. A central scheduling node may assist in identifying the primary and fallback beam for the transmitting and receiving device. During communications, the transmitting and receiving device may switch to the fallback beam when an initial communication fails and may perform a retransmission that includes data from the initial communication over the fallback beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Piyush Gupta, Junyi Li, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11489630
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method for transmitting an uplink signal and a terminal device, including: receiving, by a terminal device, uplink grant information transmitted by a network device, where the uplink grant information is used to instruct the terminal device to transmit a first uplink channel in a first sub-slot and to transmit a second uplink channel in a second sub-slot, where the first uplink channel comprises first uplink data and does not comprise a reference signal, the second uplink channel comprises the first reference signal, the first sub-slot and the second sub-slot are adjacent sub-slot on a first carrier, the first sub-slot is located previous to the second sub-slot, and the first reference signal is used to demodulate the first uplink data; determining, by the terminal device, whether to transmit the first uplink channel in the first sub-slot according to a priority of an uplink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11483092
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify one or more slots in which an aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) report communication on a multi-slot physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) overlaps with a second communication on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The UE may select for a slot of the one or more slots, an uplink communication from the A-CSI report communication or the second communication based at least in part on a first priority assigned to the A-CSI report communication and a second priority assigned to the second communication. The UE may determine whether to transmit the uplink communication on the multi-slot PUSCH or the PUCCH in the slot. The UE may transmit the uplink communication in the slot. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Yi Huang, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11470613
    Abstract: Disclosed according to various embodiments are a method for transmitting a sidelink signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting a sidelink and an apparatus therefor. The method for transmitting a sidelink signal comprises the steps of: applying scramble codes to data symbols and a DMRS; performing frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) of the data symbols and the DMRS; and transmitting a sidelink signal including the frequency division multiplexed (FDM) data symbols and DMRS, wherein the transmitted sidelink signal is a single sidelink signal selected from a plurality of sidelink signals which are generated by applying the plurality of scramble codes to the data symbols and the DMRS, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Hyukjin Chae
  • Patent number: 11456823
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a receiver may receive, from a transmitter, a sidelink communication and sidelink control information (SCI), associated with the sidelink communication, that indicates one or more distance parameter and angle parameter combinations for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback. The receiver may determine that the receiver satisfies a distance parameter and angle parameter combination of the one or more distance parameter and angle parameter combinations. The receiver may transmit, based at least in part on determining that the receiver satisfies the distance parameter and angle parameter combination, HARQ feedback for the sidelink communication to the transmitter on a sidelink. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11438931
    Abstract: A wireless device receives radio resource control message(s) from a base station indicating random access resources of an uplink bandwidth part of a cell, that comprise two-step random access resources and four-step random access resources. Determining that the two-step random access resources comprise contention-free two-step random access resources, the wireless device selects from among a two-step random access type and a four-step random access type, the two-step random access type. Based on the two-step random access type, a preamble is transmitted to the base station using the two-step random access resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Nazanin Rastegardoost, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Yunjung Yi, Kyungmin Park, Hua Zhou
  • Patent number: 11419098
    Abstract: Provided is a method for reporting information. The method includes following steps: determining that a beam link failure (BLF) condition is true; generating a first type of report information, where the first type of report information is at least used for notifying a second communication node of BLF; transmitting the first type of report information to the second communication node through an allocated first uplink resource. Provided also are a method for receiving information, apparatus for reporting information, apparatus for receiving information and computer readable storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Yijian Chen, Yu Ngok Li, Zhaohua Lu, Yifei Yuan, Xinhui Wang
  • Patent number: 11412503
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for a data channel-referenced resource allocation for a control channel. In an implementation, a user equipment (UE) may identify, for a transmission time interval (TTI), a first uplink resource allocation to the UE of a first channel. The UE may determine, based at least in part on the first uplink resource allocation of the first channel, a second uplink resource allocation of a second channel to the UE. The UE may transmit, during the TTI, the first channel and the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu, Renqiu Wang, Tingfang Ji, Wei Zeng, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 11405335
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance network traffic management. In one implementation, a first host identifies a packet to be transferred from a first virtual machine on the first host to a second virtual machine on a second host. In response to identifying the packet, the first host identifies a source logical port for the first virtual machine, and transferring a communication to the second host, wherein the communication encapsulates the data packet and the source logical port. Once the packet is received by the second host, the second host may use the source logical port to determine a forwarding action for the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Nicira, Inc.
    Inventors: Jayant Jain, Ganesan Chandrashekhar, Anirban Sengupta, Pankaj Thakkar, Alexander Tessmer
  • Patent number: 11405898
    Abstract: A system and method for allocating network resources are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to perform: transmitting a first control signal using at least a first one of one or more communication resources via a first communication channel, wherein the first control signal indicates which of the one or more communication resources can be used for transmitting data via a second communication channel; and responsive to the first control signal indicating that the at least first one of the one or more communication resources can be used for transmitting data via the second communication channel, transmitting the data using at least part of the at least first one of the one or more communication resources via the second communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chenchen Zhang, Peng Hao
  • Patent number: 11399348
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a power headroom report transmission method which can include determining whether there is a trigger event of a power headroom report, and in a case that there is the trigger event of a power headroom report, determining a way for calculating the power headroom of a supplementary uplink carrier and/or other carrier according to the situation that a physical uplink control channel, a physical uplink shared channel and/or a channel sounding reference signal configured for a supplementary uplink carrier and other carriers of a first cell in which a supplementary uplink carrier is configured in service cells of user device, and calculating the power headroom of the supplementary uplink carrier and/or other carrier according to the way. The method can further include transmitting the power headroom report corresponding to the power headroom to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11394516
    Abstract: Provided are a communication apparatus and a communication method that enable ACK/NACK (ACKnowledgement/Negative-ACKnowledgement) transmission without complicated connection settings, to thereby realize high-efficiency and high-quality multicast communication. The communication apparatus includes a communication unit configured to transmit and receive a signal and a control unit configured to control the transmission and reception of the signal. The control unit controls transmission of an induction signal to one or more destination stations to each of which a signal has been transmitted, the induction signal inducing transmission of an ACK/NACK signal with respect to the transmitted signal. The induction signal contains information specifying, of a plurality of continuous frames, frames that are ACK/NACK targets and information associated with a plurality of candidate regions with respect to which the ACK/NACK signal is transmittable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 11387959
    Abstract: A circuit includes a beamform antenna selection circuit coupled to transmit chains. The beamform antenna circuit is to determine a number of possible combinations that the transmit chains may couple to an array of antennas, generate a set of antenna mapping matrices, the number of antenna mapping matrices in the set of antenna mapping matrices being equal to the number of possible combinations, generate, based on the set of antenna mapping matrices, a sounding packet to test the possible combinations, receive sounding feedback, determine a performance for each of the possible combinations based on the sounding feedback, wherein a particular combination has a highest ranked performance; and switchably couple the transmit chain to an antenna of the array of antennas that is associated with the particular combination with the highest ranked performance for transmission of subsequent data communication packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Sigurd Schelstraete
  • Patent number: 11363668
    Abstract: Disclosed by the present application are a discontinuous reception method, a network device and a terminal device, the method comprising: a network device determining a first sequence corresponding to a terminal device according to information of a device group to which the terminal device belongs, the first sequence being used for instructing the terminal device to awaken or sleep within the activation period of a discontinuous reception (DRX) period after the first sequence; the terminal device belongs to a device group from among M device groups, and the first sequence corresponds to the device group to which the terminal device belongs, different device groups from among the M device groups corresponding to different first sequences; the network device sending a DRX instruction signal to the terminal device, the DRX instruction signal comprising the first sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11356798
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing node failures in a mesh network is provided. In an example method for, a trigger is sent to a target node to return test data. The test data received from the target node is analyzed. The target node is classified as valid if the test data is within expected parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Markus Dominik Mueck, Christian Drewes, Eryk Dutkiewicz, Gengfa Fang, Sabine Roessel, Keith Nolan, Pierce Rixon, Srikathyayani Srikanteswara
  • Patent number: 11350450
    Abstract: A wireless device receive, from a base station, one or more messages comprising configuration parameters of a cell. The configuration parameters indicate a plurality of slot groups of the cell. A medium access control control element is received. The medium access control control element comprises a parameter indicating a slot group of the plurality of slot groups. A downlink control information is received. The downlink control information indicates an uplink grant for one or more uplink slots of the slot group. A listen before talk (LBT) procedure is performed based on the uplink grant. In response to the LBT procedure indicating a clear channel, one or more transport blocks are transmitted on the one or more uplink slots of the slot group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Xu, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Kyungmin Park