Patents Examined by Tesfaldet Bocure
  • Patent number: 10756861
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method, and a related device and system. The method includes: receiving, by a reception point, first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate a time-frequency resource location of a first demodulation reference signal of first data; receiving, by the reception point, second indication information, where the second indication information is used to indicate a time-frequency resource location of a second demodulation reference signal; and determining, by the reception point, a time-frequency resource location of the first data based on the time-frequency resource location of the second demodulation reference signal, and demodulating the first data based on the first demodulation reference signal. Receiving performance of the reception point can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ting Wang, Shengyue Dou, Yuanjie Li, Feng Qian
  • Patent number: 10742287
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for updating beam-based communications are described. A base station may configure a user equipment (UE) with a set of beam management configurations, which may be used to modify (e.g., dynamically or periodically) beam-based communications. For example, the base station may indicate a beam configuration for utilization by the UE and the UE may switch to the indicated beam configuration or update a currently used beam configuration based on the indication. In another example, a set of beam configurations may be sequentially ordered, and the base station may indicate to the UE to use the next beam configuration in the sequence of beam configurations. The update to the beam configuration may be triggered based on a distance change (e.g., UE and base station getting closer or farther apart) or a reference signal measurement between the UE and the base station, among other factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Karl Georg Hampel, Juergen Cezanne, Sundar Subramanian, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Jianghong Luo
  • Patent number: 10735063
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method includes: receiving a reference signal sent by a base station; selecting, based on the reference signal, a precoding matrix from a codebook, where a precoding matrix W included in the codebook is a product of three matrices being W1, Z, and W2, that is, W=W1ZW2, where both W1 and Z are block diagonal matrices, W1=a formula (I), Z=a formula (II), each of W1 and Z includes at least one block matrix, that is, NB?1, and each column of each block matrix Zi in the matrix Z has the following structure formula (III); and sending a precoding matrix indicator PMI to the base station, where the PMI corresponds to the selected precoding matrix, and is used by the base station to obtain the selected precoding matrix W according to the PMI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianguo Wang, Yongxing Zhou, Jianghua Liu
  • Patent number: 10708794
    Abstract: Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Constellation Designs, LLC
    Inventors: Maged F. Barsoum, Christopher R. Jones
  • Patent number: 10700903
    Abstract: A circuit structure for efficiently demodulating an FSK signal in a wireless charging device, comprising a data sampling module, a period point counting module, a data distribution module, and a period point processing module. An input terminal of the period point counting module is connected to an output terminal of the data sampling module; an input terminal of the data distribution module is connected to an output terminal of the period point counting module; and an input terminal of the period point processing module is connected to an output terminal of the data distribution module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: WUXI CHINA RESOURCES SEMICO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenli Shu, Congyin Wang, Qiyi Zhao
  • Patent number: 10700795
    Abstract: This application provides a measurement method, a terminal device, and an access network device. The measurement method includes: measuring, by a terminal device, signal quality of a plurality of beams, where the signal quality of the plurality of beams is obtained by using synchronization signal blocks; the signal quality of the plurality of beams includes signal quality of a same beam at different moments, and the plurality of beams belong to one cell; and obtaining, by the terminal device, signal quality of the cell based on the signal quality of the plurality of beams. In this way, cell measurement based on a synchronization signal is implemented, and the signal quality of the cell obtained based on the signal quality of the plurality of beams at the different moments is more accurate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingzhao Li, Wei Quan, Zhenzhen Cao, Xuelong Wang
  • Patent number: 10701570
    Abstract: Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Constellation Designs, LLC
    Inventors: Maged F. Barsoum, Christopher R. Jones
  • Patent number: 10693700
    Abstract: Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Constellation Designs, LLC
    Inventors: Maged F. Barsoum, Christopher R. Jones
  • Patent number: 10694403
    Abstract: Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Constellation Designs, LLC
    Inventors: Maged F. Barsoum, Christopher R. Jones
  • Patent number: 10673539
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe an underwater optical communication and illumination system employing laser diodes directly encoded with data, including spectrally efficient orthogonal frequency division multiplex quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM-OFDM) data. A broadband light source may be utilized to provide both illumination to an underwater field of interest and underwater optical communication from the field of interest to a remote location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Boon S. Ooi, Bilal Janjua, Chao Shen, Hassan M. Oubei, Tien Khee Ng
  • Patent number: 10673506
    Abstract: Approaches are described for accurate spatial diagnostics data and channel state information (CSI) recording due to dynamic bandwidth selection and other network changes in a wireless local area network (WLAN). Data transmissions such as channel soundings of a network, including data communications between networked computing devices on a communication channel of the network, can be obtained. The data communications can be associated with channel state parameters that can describe characteristics of the channel through which data is transmitted. The channel state parameters can be monitored overtime to detect a trigger event on the network. A type of trigger event can be determined based on channel state parameters before and after the event. Optimization parameters (e.g., operation parameters, calibration parameters, etc.) or other such information can be determined based on the type of trigger event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: QUANTENNA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Debashis Dash, Hossein Dehghan, Georgy Gilyarovskiy
  • Patent number: 10666490
    Abstract: A bit rate estimation apparatus used for estimation of a bit rate, BR, of a digital signal, DS, the bit rate estimation apparatus comprising a data processing unit adapted to determine a regularized cepstrum, CEP, of the digital signal; a peak identification unit adapted to identify a significant peak within the regularized cepstrum, CEP, determined by the data processing unit; and a bit rate determination unit adapted to determine the bit rate of the digital signal, DS, based on the significant peak identified by the peak identification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Bendix Koopmann
  • Patent number: 10659260
    Abstract: The present application disclosed a decision feedback equalization processing device and method. The device comprises: a channel estimator for receiving an input signal, and determining, based on the input signal, an input signal autocorrelation matrix Ryy, an input-output signal cross-correlation matrix Ryx and an input-output signal cross-correlation vector ryx; a tap coefficient calculator for receiving Ryy, Ryx and ryx, and calculating a feed-forward equalizer (FFE) tap coefficient vector g and a feedback equalizer (FBE) tap coefficient vector f, wherein at least one of the FFE tap coefficient vector g and the FBE tap coefficient vector f is calculated using a conjugate gradient descent algorithm. The tap coefficient calculator comprises: a circulant matrix construction unit and a fast Fourier transformation (FFT) calculating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: MONTAGE LZ SEMICONDUCTOR (SHANGHAI) CO., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Hu, Zhen Lu, Xuepeng Wang, Yuanfei Nie
  • Patent number: 10659100
    Abstract: A method of generating a channel hopping sequence for a link in a wireless sensor network is provided that includes receiving performance quality data for respective frequency channels of a plurality of frequency channels in the link in a monitoring system, determining a channel quality indicator (CQI) by the monitoring system for each frequency channel based on the respective performance quality data, and determining a repetition factor by the monitoring system for each frequency channel based on the respective CQI, wherein a repetition factor for a frequency channel indicates a number of times the frequency channel is repeated in the channel hopping sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jyotirmoy Banik, Il Han Kim, Jianwei Zhou, Xiaolin Lu
  • Patent number: 10651627
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including an optical receiver including an optical source, including a substrate; a laser provided on the substrate, the laser having first and second sides and outputting first light from the first side and second light from the second side, the first light output from the first side of the laser has a first power and the second light output from the second side has a second power; and a first modulator that receives the first light and a second modulator that receives the second light, such that the power of the first light at an input of the first modulator is substantially equal to the power of the second light at an input of the second modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Infinera Corporaton
    Inventors: Peter W. Evans, Jeffrey T. Rahn, Vikrant Lal, Miguel Iglesias Olmedo, Amir Hosseini, Parmijit Samra, Scott Corzine, Ryan W. Going
  • Patent number: 10644781
    Abstract: Disclosed are an analog channel measurement method and a base station, for use in implementing measurement of an analog channel in a digital-analog hybrid beamforming system. The method is such that: a base station receives a reference signal, where the base station comprises a digital-analog hybrid beamforming antenna system, and the digital-analog hybrid beamforming antenna system comprises digital channels and analog channels; the base station selects an analog channel group from an analog channel group set on the basis of the reference signal and employs the reference signal in measuring each analog channel of the selected analog channel group, where the number of analog channels that each analog channel group comprises is equal to the number of digital channels in the digital-analog hybrid beamforming antenna system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Xin Su, Yang Song, Chuanjun Li
  • Patent number: 10637578
    Abstract: In a first embodiment, method and apparatus for encoding a first spectral efficiency into a second spectral efficiency; wherein the second spectral efficiency has a higher order than the first spectral efficiency. In a second embodiment, a method and apparatus for achieving at least two spectral efficiencies using a single type of modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Acacia Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Mehmet Aydinlik, Jonas Geyer, Christian Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 10637591
    Abstract: A network device receives first data associated with a first training transmission received at a second antenna from a first antenna, the first data describing characteristics of the first training transmission, characteristics of the first antenna, and characteristics of the second antenna. The network device receives second data associated with a second training transmission received at a third antenna from the first antenna, the second data describing characteristics of the second training transmission, characteristics of the first antenna, and characteristics of the third antenna. The network device stores the first data within a database as a first antenna profile associated with the second antenna, and stores the second data within the database as a second antenna profile associated with the third antenna. The network device retrieves and uses the first antenna profile for determining at least one first transmission characteristic associated with a fourth antenna transmitting to the second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas D. Butcher
  • Patent number: 10630427
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for implementing space frequency block coding (SFBC) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication system. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) including a transceiver and a processor is configured to receive, via the transceiver, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal, wherein the OFDM signal comprises a channel coded data stream that was space frequency block coding (SFBC) encoded such that the SFBC encoding was performed using a plurality of pairs of OFDM sub-carriers. The processor is further configured to decode the OFDM signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jaeyoung Kwak, Robert L. Olesen, Aykut Bultan, Eldad M. Zeira, Chang-Soo Koo, Fatih M. Ozluturk, Yuejin Huang, Kalpendu R. Pasad
  • Patent number: 10630385
    Abstract: A device uses gated retro-reflectors to transmit uplink data in a visible light communication (VLC) system. The gated retro-reflector includes a retro-reflector and a gating shutter between the retro-reflector and a VLC light source. A light sensor receives VLC data at regular intervals in which a light pulse received during one of the intervals represents a first downloaded symbol and absence of a light pulse during another one of the intervals represents a second downloaded symbol. A controller controls the gating shutter to send uplink data from the device responsive to each received VLC light pulse. The controller opens the gating shutter during the reception of a VLC light pulse to upload a first uploaded symbol and closes the gating shutter during the reception of a VLC light pulse to upload a second uploaded symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Jack C. Rains, David P. Ramer