Patents Examined by Tarell Hampton
  • Patent number: 11582713
    Abstract: A configuration to enable a UE to select a new CSS set to use for monitoring for PDCCH based on changing conditions at the UE. The apparatus may receive, from a base station, a first indication of a search space for monitoring for a channel for at least one of system information, paging, or user data. A first set of monitoring occasions based on the search space indicated by the base station. The apparatus may determine a second set of monitoring occasions different than the first set of monitoring occasions based on a condition experienced by the apparatus. The apparatus may monitor for the channel based on the second set of monitoring occasions determined by the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Konstantinos Dimou, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Hamed Pezeshki, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11582727
    Abstract: A method for transmitting control information includes: when a condition of sending the control information is met, interleaving common control information of each user equipment (UE) working on a target bandwidth part (BWP) and interleaving specific control information of each UE; and sending the interleaved common control information by means of a first time-frequency resource, and sending the interleaved specific control information by means of a second time-frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Juejia Zhou
  • Patent number: 11570610
    Abstract: There is a method and system of removing duplicate Visitor Location Register (VLR) records, and updating the VLR's Global Title Address (GTA) in their Home Location Register (HLR) to avoid duplicate VLR impact to customer service, which may result in missed inbound calls and delayed inbound SMS. Duplicate VLR GTA means that one subscriber has more than one VLR record in different Mobile Switching Stations (MSS) or Mobile Switching Centers (MSC). The valid VLR is identified by comparing the “last active timestamp” of the same subscriber identity (IMSI, or MSISDN, or MDN) of VLR records obtained from each MSS/MSC. The VLR that has the most recent “last active timestamp” is used to identify the active/valid VLR which serves the subscriber. Afterwards the non-active VLR records will be deleted, and the VLR's GTA in HLR will be updated as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TELUS Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Zhengyun (Michael) Yin
  • Patent number: 11553475
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a downlink control signaling scheduling one or more uplink transmissions for one or more transmission resources. The method also includes determining, by the UE, to perform superposition transmission operations for at least one transmission resource of the one or more transmission resources. The method further includes transmitting, by the UE, an uplink channel data transmission and a sidelink channel data transmission in a same transmission resource, responsive to determining to perform superposition transmission operations for the least one transmission resource. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shuanshuan Wu, Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Kapil Gulati
  • Patent number: 11539391
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus 20 includes: a first communication unit configured to perform wireless communication that supports a plurality of wireless communication systems with different using frequency bands; a second communication unit configured to perform wired communication that supports a plurality of wired communication systems each with a different basic frequency used in data communication; and a switching unit configured to switch a wired communication system used in the wired communication by the second communication unit so that the basic frequency falls outside a predetermined frequency band including the using frequency bands of the wireless communication by the first communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hajime Shimura, Hirohiko Inohiza
  • Patent number: 11528090
    Abstract: This application provides a parameter determining method, a monitoring method, and a communications apparatus. The method includes: configuring, by a network device, a plurality of serving cells for a terminal, where at least two of the plurality of serving cells have different subcarrier spacings; and determining, by the network device based on at least one of subcarrier spacings of the plurality of serving cells, a maximum number of physical downlink control channel PDCCH candidates monitored by the terminal in a unit time. According to this application, a maximum number of PDCCH candidates monitored by a terminal in one time unit can be determined when carriers for carrier aggregation correspond to different subcarrier spacings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiehua Xiao, Jinlin Peng, Ting Wang
  • Patent number: 11528089
    Abstract: Various solutions for PDCCH monitoring capability determination in CA scenario with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may receive a configuration configuring a first set of cells using a first PDCCH monitoring capability and a second set of cells using a second PDCCH monitoring capability. The apparatus may determine a first monitoring budget corresponding to the first set of cells based on the first PDCCH monitoring capability and a second monitoring budget corresponding to the second set of cells based on the second PDCCH monitoring capability. The apparatus may perform a PDCCH monitoring according to the first monitoring budget and the second monitoring budget.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Abdellatif Salah, Mohammed S Aleabe Al-Imari
  • Patent number: 11523377
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for optimizing the allocation of physical resource blocks (PRBs) for user equipment (UE), such as a Narrow-Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) device, within a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) spectrum. More specifically, a resource allocation controller that is configured to select one of at least two resource allocation algorithms that allocate physical resources within an LTE spectrum, based on an identity of the UE and an analysis of real-time or near real-time physical resource utilization and control utilization within the LTE spectrum. In one example, the resource allocation controller may analyze the physical resource utilization and control utilization within a subframe of an LTE spectrum to determine whether to allocate an exact or near-exact number of PRBs for data communications of a UE (i.e. NB-IoT device), or whether to allocate a PRB group (at least four PRBs) for data communications of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: F N U Abin Jose, Ashwini Kumar, Emad Rezk
  • Patent number: 11516781
    Abstract: A method for transmitting control information, a network device, and a terminal device are provided. The method includes determining a cyclic shift value according to a configuration of an uplink control channel sequence; wherein the cyclic shift value is one of at least two cyclic shift values of the uplink control channel sequence and wherein the configuration of the uplink control channel sequence comprises at least one of an initial cyclic shift value, a cyclic shift difference value, or a quantity of cyclic shift values. The method also includes receiving uplink control information (UCI) from a terminal device according to the determined cyclic shift value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanan Lin, Jia Shen
  • Patent number: 11516790
    Abstract: To provide a wireless communication apparatus that makes it possible to perform wireless communication more efficiently by switching setting or the like for transmission or reception in accordance with whether the wireless communication is non-orthogonal multiple access or orthogonal multiple access. [Solution] There is provided a wireless communication apparatus including: a communication section that performs wireless communication; and a control section that selects setting to be used for transmission control or reception control by the communication section in accordance with whether the wireless communication is non-orthogonal multiple access or orthogonal multiple access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima
  • Patent number: 11503602
    Abstract: Efficient downlink transmission is implemented. A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive a sequence of bits in a physical downlink control channel, wherein the sequence of bits is scrambled with a scrambling sequence initialized by cinit, the cinit is given based at least on NID and NRNTI, the NID is given based at least on a higher layer parameter Control-scrambling-Identity in a case that the higher layer parameter Control-scrambling-Identity is configured and the NRNTI is given based at least on a Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI), and the NID is given based at least on a physical layer cell identity in a case that the higher layer parameter Control-scrambling-Identity is configured and the NRNTI is not given based on the C-RNTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shouichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Wataru Ohuchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11483722
    Abstract: A multi-band remote unit is disclosed. The multi-hand remote unit includes a number of radio frequency (RF) front-end circuits configured to generate a number of downlink RF communications signals associated with a number of frequency bands based on a number of downlink digital communications signals, respectively. The multi-band remote unit also includes a digital interface circuit and a digital processing circuit. The digital interface circuit is configured to receive an encapsulated downlink digital communications signal and generate the downlink digital communications signals associated with the frequency bands based on the encapsulated downlink digital communications signal. The digital processing circuit is configured to digitally process the downlink digital communications signals before providing the downlink digital communications signals to the RF front-end circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: Yona Henia, Roi Yosy Ziv
  • Patent number: 11483209
    Abstract: A communication network includes: a plurality of nodes in a topology, with each node having an upstream and a downstream neighboring node in the topology; a separate unidirectional communication link coupled between each node and that node's downstream neighboring node; and a separate unidirectional control link coupled between each node and that node's upstream neighboring node. A controller in each node keeps a count of packets sent by that node via the corresponding unidirectional communication link. The controller uses the count of packets sent to determine whether a given packet is allowed to be sent from that node to the downstream neighboring node and, if so, whether a full rate or a throttled rate is to be used for sending the given packet. Based at least in part on the determining, the controller selectively sends the given packet to the downstream neighboring node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: John Kelley, Kartik Shenoy
  • Patent number: 11483714
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a spectrum control system. The system comprises one or more high frequency (HF) antennas, one or more multi-band (MB) antennas, and one or more datalinks. A spectrum management processor is configured to receive signals from the one or more HF and MB antennas and the one or more datalinks, and switch to one or more alternate radio-frequency (RF) channels for communications and/or position, navigation, and timing (PNT) information in response to a failure in a current communication channel and/or a global positioning system (GPS) signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Bradley Landa, Brian C. Rieman, Joshua E. Walworth, Brendan R. Bougher, Laurence B. Finger
  • Patent number: 11477852
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may include a memory and one or more processors. The one or more processors operate to determine one or more of a signal strength or signal quality for each of a plurality of networks available for connection via the communication interface and the antenna assembly. Virtual user equipment (VUE) for two or more of the identified plurality of networks are allocated and the UE device connects to the two or more networks using the respective VUEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Corey J. Christopherson, Donna L. Polehn, Fred Weisbrod
  • Patent number: 11463124
    Abstract: Provided is a full-time duplex system. The system includes: a receiving antenna (107), a transmitting antenna (108), a transmitting channel (109), an LNA (106), a mode determination unit (101), a power detection amplitude phase adjustment unit (102), an RSSI detection amplitude phase adjustment unit (103) and an amplitude phase unit (104); the power detection amplitude phase adjustment unit (102) is electrically connected between the receiving antenna (107) and the low noise amplifier (106) and also between the transmitting antenna (108) and the transmitting channel (109); the mode determination unit (101) notifies, according to a power range which a signal transmitting power of the full-time duplex system belongs to, one of the power detection amplitude phase adjustment unit (102) or the RSSI detection amplitude phase adjustment unit (103) of controlling the amplitude phase unit (104) to adjust an amplitude and a phase of a transmitting cancellation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yibao Luo, Lin Li, Jing Gao
  • Patent number: 11452027
    Abstract: A base station transmits, to a wireless device, configuration parameters of a cells grouped into: a primary control channel group comprising a secondary cell; and a secondary control channel group comprising a control channel secondary cell with a secondary control channel. The base station transmits, during a first subframe, a first indication to activate the secondary cell and the control channel secondary cell. The base station starts reception of channel state information of the secondary cell of the primary control channel group from a second subframe that is eight subframes after the first subframe. The base station starts reception of channel state information of the control channel secondary cell from a third subframe that is a number of subframes after the second subframe, wherein the number is based on when the wireless device successfully detects the control channel secondary cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11445569
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a session establishment method and system, and a device, to meet a low-latency requirement of group communication. The method includes: obtaining, by a mobility management entity, group identification information of a group to which a terminal belongs; determining, by the mobility management entity based on the group identification information, a session management entity that serves the group to which the terminal belongs; and sending, by the mobility management entity, the group identification information to the session management entity, where the group identification information is used to determine a user plane function entity that serves the group to which the terminal belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dekui Sun
  • Patent number: 11438121
    Abstract: Embodiments provide methods, network nodes, and wireless devices for sounding reference signal (SRS) power control in New Radio (NR). According to one aspect, a wireless device (WD) is configured to receive signaling from the network node that identifies a first sounding reference signal, SRS, configuration defining an SRS resource set comprising one or more SRS resources. The WD is further configured to determine a first transmission power intended for SRS transmission, the determining being based at least in part on the first SRS configuration. The WD is also configured to determine a second transmission power for at least one antenna port related to the SRS resource set based on the first transmission power and according to a rule dependent on the first SRS configuration. The WD is also configured to transmit SRS on the at least one antenna port with the second transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Niklas Wernersson, Eleftherios Karipidis
  • Patent number: 11432268
    Abstract: At a base station, a control unit selects one combination from multiple combinations of parameters regarding uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources. A transmission unit indicates a terminal of resource settings (Semi-static resource configuration) including the multiple combinations by higher layer signaling, and indicates the terminal of the one combination that has been selected by dynamic signaling (DCI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Suzuki