Patents Examined by Tan H Trinh
  • Patent number: 11012949
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for power control in New Radio (NR) systems are described. In one example, a user equipment (UE) may determine a transmit power for a control channel based on an effective code rate of control information to be transmitted in the control channel. In another example, the UE may be configured to use a different transmit power for repeated transmissions of control information in a control channel. In yet another example, the UE may be configured to determine a transmit power for a transmission in a time interval or scale a transmission in a time interval based on a priority of the transmission relative to other transmissions scheduled in the time interval. In yet another example, the UE may be configured to determine respective transmit powers for uplink transmissions multiplexed differently using different open-loop parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Yi Huang, Peter Gaal, Xiao Feng Wang, Tao Luo, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 11005538
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a millimeter wave repeater may communicate with a base station using a first set of antennas and a first beamforming configuration for the first set of antennas, the first beamforming configuration being selected from a beamforming codebook that includes multiple beamforming configurations; and communicate with one or more user equipments (UEs) using a second set of antennas and a second beamforming configuration for the second set of antennas, the second beamforming configuration being a fixed configuration that does not change for different communications between the second set of antennas and the one or more UEs. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Raju Hormis, Juergen Cezanne
  • Patent number: 10998984
    Abstract: An underwater transmitter may generate underwater pressure waves that encode bits of data. The pressure waves may travel to, and created minute vibrations in, the water's surface. An airborne radar may detect radar signals that reflect from the water's surface. The surface vibrations may modulate the phase of the reflected radar signal. The radar receiver may, based on the variation in the phase of the reflected radar signal, decode the data that was initially encoded in the underwater pressure waves. The underwater pressure waves may be frequency modulated, such as by orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing. Alternatively, the surface vibrations may be detected by a camera, interferometer or other light sensor. Alternatively, the pressure waves may propagate through a media other than water. For instance, the pressure waves may propagate through bodily tissue, or may propagate through oil or a liquid fracking mixture in an oil or gas well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Massachuusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Francesco Tonolini, Fadel Adib
  • Patent number: 10999804
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control part. The control part performs control to transmit a frame for requesting the transmission of data to an information processing apparatus as a destination of the data and for requesting information processing apparatuses other than the information processing apparatus as the destination to set a transmission inhibition time, the frame being transmitted with transmitting power determined on the basis of surrounding environment information regarding an environment surrounding the information processing apparatus transmitting the frame. Transmission of the frame causes the transmission inhibition time to be set over an appropriate range of information processing apparatuses. Efficiency of utilization of communication resources is improved by suitably setting a transmission inhibition time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Shigeru Sugaya, Yuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 10992333
    Abstract: A holder for holding a mobile device may include a back plate. A strut is operatively associated with the back plate so that the strut can be moved with respect to the back plate. A strut lock operatively associated with the back plate and the strut holds the back plate and strut in a desired position. A first jaw operatively associated with the back plate is sized to engage a portion of the mobile device. A second jaw sized to engage a portion of the mobile device is operatively associated with the back plate so that the second jaw can be moved toward and away from the first jaw to hold a mobile device therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: AATC, LLC
    Inventors: Walter A. Jackson, Sean W. Flickinger
  • Patent number: 10992431
    Abstract: A device that comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central processor and a network management engine may be configured to function as relay device, relaying an input data stream from a source device to at least one other device. The relaying may include configuring one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers to particular mode of relay operation and receiving the input data stream from the source device via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. The relaying may also include transmitting at least one relay data stream corresponding to the input data stream to the at least one other device, via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: GOLBA LLC
    Inventor: Mehran Moshfeghi
  • Patent number: 10992401
    Abstract: Methods and systems are employed for selectively controlling the presentation of broadcast content item in which a unique set of broadcast content items are presented based on the selection of a content type and a selection of a geography for each content type to control the manner in which broadcast content types are recorded and/or presented for the vehicle. In some embodiments, methods and systems are employed for providing relevant information to a vehicle based on receiving multiple broadcast streams, and separating the broadcast content items into segments based on a variety of content types along a predicted path of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Jason Calvert, Christopher Lidaka
  • Patent number: 10986559
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing the amount of messages transmitted in large-scale distributed mesh networks are disclosed. Network components include transceivers and memory storing instructions which, when executed by a processing unit, reduce transmissions made by the transceiver within the network. The instructions executed by processing unit could (1) create an expiration parameter to limit the number of times a signal is retransmitted, (2) form groups of network components from which one or a few of the group network components are designated to respond on behalf of the group, (3) keep advertising transmissions dormant by default until called upon, (4) employ a time delay parameter for a time interval in which no transmission may be made, and (5) include message IDs in control signals that are transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: AVI-On Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Miller, James Hawkins, Sebastian R. Borda, Federico Pfaffendorf, Keenan McCall
  • Patent number: 10986651
    Abstract: An information transmission method and an apparatus, such that the method includes: a terminal device sending first information and a time indication of the first information to a network device, where the first information includes a buffer status report (BSR) and/or a power headroom report (PHR), and the time indication is used to indicate a generation time and/or an initial transmission time of the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunhua You, Li Zhao
  • Patent number: 10979984
    Abstract: In a terminal (100), a PH calculator (105) calculates one or more power headrooms, each of which being calculated for each beam, and a radio transmitter (108) transmits the one or more power headrooms for a number of beams, the number being determined in accordance with a type of power headroom, or a trigger condition serving as a trigger for power headroom reporting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Tomofumi Takata, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 10972206
    Abstract: Methods and systems are employed for selectively controlling the presentation of broadcast content item in which a unique set of broadcast content items are presented based on the selection of a content type and a selection of a geography for each content type to control the manner in which broadcast content types are recorded and/or presented for the vehicle. In some embodiments, methods and systems are employed for providing relevant information to a vehicle based on receiving multiple broadcast streams, and separating the broadcast content items into segments based on a variety of content types along a predicted path of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Jason Calvert, Christopher Lidaka
  • Patent number: 10966164
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to, during a physical random access channel (PRACH) procedure, select a first synchronization signal (SS) block from a plurality of SS blocks within a received SS burst set, the SS block selected based on signal quality measurements of the plurality of SS blocks. A PRACH preamble is encoded for transmission to a base station using a PRACH resource subset corresponding to the selected SS block, the transmission using a UE transmit (Tx) beam of a plurality of available Tx beams and transmit power indicated by a power ramping counter. Upon failing to detect a random access response (RAR) from the base station, a second SS block is selected, the power ramping counter is reset, and the PRACH preamble is encoded for re-transmission using a second PRACH resource subset and transmit power indicated by the reset power ramping counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joonyoung Cho, Debdeep Chatterjee, Gang Xiong, Jeongho Jeon, Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov, Younjun Kwak, Dae Won Lee, Gregory Vladimirovich Morozov, Seunghee Han
  • Patent number: 10965411
    Abstract: A device that comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central processor and a network management engine may be configured to function as relay device, relaying an input data stream from a source device to at least one other device. The relaying may include configuring one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers to particular mode of relay operation and receiving the input data stream from the source device via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. The relaying may also include transmitting at least one relay data stream corresponding to the input data stream to the at least one other device, via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: GOLBA LLC
    Inventor: Mehran Moshfeghi
  • Patent number: 10958390
    Abstract: A device that comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central processor and a network management engine may be configured to function as relay device, relaying an input data stream from a source device to at least one other device. The relaying may include configuring one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers to particular mode of relay operation and receiving the input data stream from the source device via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. The relaying may also include transmitting at least one relay data stream corresponding to the input data stream to the at least one other device, via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: GOLBA LLC
    Inventor: Mehran Moshfeghi
  • Patent number: 10951194
    Abstract: A filter body includes a serial arm and one or more parallel resonators in a state where they are connected in a ladder shape. The serial arm includes a plurality of serial resonators connected in series to each other. A difference of resonance frequencies among the plurality of serial resonators is smaller than a half of a difference between the resonance frequency and an antiresonance frequency of each serial resonator. The serial arm includes a first divided arm which extends from one side toward the other side in a predetermined direction on the piezoelectric substrate, and a second divided arm which is folded back from the other side of the first divided arm and extends toward the one side. The shield conductor includes a portion which is located between at least one of the serial resonators included in the first divided arm and at least one of the serial resonators included in the second divided arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki Ito, Shigehiko Nagamine, Tomofumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10948528
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing radio-frequency antenna elements are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cagdas Varel, Ryan Stevenson, Steven Linn, Michael Severson, Colin Stuart Short, Mohsen Sazegar
  • Patent number: 10952152
    Abstract: A path loss determining method and apparatus are provided to satisfy a path loss measurement requirement when there are different transmit powers. The method includes: measuring receive power of a signal sent by a network device; determining transmit power of the signal based on pre-configuration information, where the pre-configuration information is used to indicate correspondences between a plurality of signals and transmit powers, transmit powers of some or all of the plurality of signals are different, and the signal is one of the plurality of signals; and determining a path loss based on the receive power of the signal and the transmit power of the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiqi Mao, Shitong Yuan, Xiaoyong Tang, Huang Huang
  • Patent number: 10945215
    Abstract: A wireless communication method and device are provided. The method comprises: a terminal device determining a reference uplink signal of a target uplink signal; the terminal device determining the transmission power of the target uplink signal according to the transmission power of the reference uplink signal; and the terminal device transmitting the target uplink signal by using the determined transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenhong Chen
  • Patent number: 10944468
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a high gain active relay antenna system. The active relay antenna system comprises a first antenna pair having a first receive antenna and a first transmit antenna to communicate wireless signals in a forward link from a base station to a plurality of users; and a second antenna pair having a second receive antenna and a second transmit antenna to communicate wireless signals in a return link from the plurality of users to the base station. The active relay antenna system further comprises a first active relay section and a second active relay section to provide for adjustable power gain in the wireless signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventor: Jun Fang
  • Patent number: 10945222
    Abstract: A power control method and a terminal device are disclosed. The method includes: sending, by a first terminal device, first data and first sidelink control information corresponding to the first data to at least one second terminal device; receiving, by the first terminal device, at least one piece of power adjustment information from the at least one second terminal device, where the at least one piece of power adjustment information is determined by the at least one second terminal device based on at least one of the first data and the first sidelink control information; determining, by the first terminal device, a transmit power for second data based on the at least one piece of power adjustment information; and sending, by the first terminal device, the second data to the at least one second terminal device at the transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenwei Lu, Deping Liu, Lei Gao