Patents Examined by Thai D Hoang
  • Patent number: 12081497
    Abstract: This application relates to a communication method and a communications device. The communication method includes: determining, a first signal to be sent on a first uplink carrier; determining a second signal to be sent on a second uplink carrier, where the first uplink carrier corresponds to a first radio access technology, and the second uplink carrier corresponds to a second radio access technology; and when a first transmission timing corresponding to the first signal is different from a second transmission timing corresponding to the second signal, and if the first signal and the second signal overlap in time domain, sending, a third signal, where the third signal is the second signal, or is the second signal or a part of the first signal, where the part of the first signal is carried on a symbol that does not overlap with a symbol corresponding the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xinqian Xie, Zhiheng Guo, Yi Long, Yongqiang Fei, Wenping Bi
  • Patent number: 12082241
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to transmission of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission to acknowledge a second message of a two-step random access channel (RACH) procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly, Jing Lei
  • Patent number: 12081486
    Abstract: For flexible radio resource allocation, a processor receives a numerology scheme. The numerology scheme specifies one or more of at least frequency region definition and a sub-carrier spacing for the at least one frequency region. The method configures sub-carriers for at least one frequency region based on the numerology scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Vijay Nangia, Robert Tristan Love, Ravi Kuchibhotla, Ravikiran Nory
  • Patent number: 12075399
    Abstract: Systems and apparatuses providing history augmented synchronization signal based antenna beam selection are described. History augmented synchronization signal based antenna beam selection of an antenna beam may be based on receive metrics and beam historical information. Receive metrics may include a measured aspect for synchronization signal transmitted via a respective antenna beam. Beam historical information may include information regarding a previous random access channel (RACH) procedure attempt using an antenna beam of the plurality of antenna beams, information regarding physical broadcast channel (PBCH) decode history for an antenna beam of the plurality of antenna beams, information regarding recency of a measurement of an aspect of the synchronization signal corresponding to an antenna beam of the plurality of antenna beams as received when scanning the antenna beam, etc. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vishwesh Pratap Rege, Jyothi Kiran Vattikonda, Mihir Vijay Laghate
  • Patent number: 12068889
    Abstract: Template-driven locally calculated policy updates for virtualized machines in a datacenter environment are described. A central control and monitoring node calculates and pushes down policy templates to local control and monitoring nodes. The templates provide boundaries and/or a pool of networking resources, from which the local control and monitoring node is enabled to calculate policy updates for locally instantiated virtual machines and containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Poornananda R. Gaddehosur, Benjamin M. Schultz
  • Patent number: 12063556
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for low latency handover between secondary nodes (SNs). In one aspect, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for a plurality of SNs, receive a command to communicate via an SN of the plurality of the SNs, and determine a handover procedure that is to be used to establish a connection with the SN. The handover procedure may be a random access channel (RACH)-less or a two-step RACH procedure and is determined to be used based on a determination that uplink time synchronization is established with the SN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peng Cheng, Karthika Paladugu, Gavin Bernard Horn, Punyaslok Purkayastha, Ozcan Ozturk, Masato Kitazoe, Huichun Liu
  • Patent number: 12063675
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus notifies, when transmitting an uplink second signal to a base station apparatus using a wireless resource that is used when receiving a downlink first signal transmitted from the base station apparatus, the base station apparatus of information indicating whether or not the terminal apparatus has a capability of suppressing influence of interference of the second signal on the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Issei Kanno, Ryochi Kataoka, Yutaro Kurita
  • Patent number: 12052760
    Abstract: Wireless communications for access procedures are described. One or more control messages may indicate a report request associated with an access procedure. One or more reports associated with the access procedure may indicate one or more results associated with one or more access channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Ali Cirik, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Kai Xu
  • Patent number: 12047929
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe managing beams in wireless communications. A beam management event configuration indicating a type of at least one beam to measure in determining occurrence of a trigger condition for a beam management event can be received. A parameter of a signal received from one or more nodes can be measured, where the signal corresponds to the type of the at least one beam. The occurrence of the trigger condition for the beam management event can be determined based on the parameter of the signal. An indication of the occurrence of the trigger condition can be reported to the one or more nodes or a different node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peng Cheng, Masato Kitazoe, Tao Luo, Keiichi Kubota, Sumeeth Nagaraja
  • Patent number: 12041657
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a first downlink control information (DCI) message indicating a first listen-before-talk (LBT) grant for accessing a sidelink channel, the first DCI being associated with a first search space of the UE. The UE may then receive a second DCI message indicating a second LBT grant for accessing the channel or an uplink channel, the second DCI being associated with a second search space of the UE and including an activation trigger for the first LBT grant of the first DCI. The UE may then perform a first LBT procedure to access the sidelink channel in accordance with the first LBT grant during a first channel occupancy time (COT). The UE may further perform a second LBT procedure to access the uplink channel during the first COT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Chih-Hao Liu
  • Patent number: 12035388
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, disclosed are a method by which a device-to-device (D2D) terminal (UE) forms a communication link in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for the same. Disclosed are a method by which a D2D UE forms a communication link in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for the same, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring load information on the load measured according to beam direction; selecting, on the basis of the load information, any one communication device among at least one communication device corresponding according to beam direction; and forming a communication link with the selected communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 12015970
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a band pass filter and a peak detector configured to detect a peak of a communication signal using a second communication protocol among the communication signals received by the antenna. A subtractor connected to the band pass filter and configured to subtract the communication signal using the second communication protocol from the communication signals received by the antenna. A switch is provided between the subtractor and the peak detector. A denoise filter configured to remove a noise from the communication signals received by the antenna, increase a sensitivity of a communication signal using a first communication protocol, and remove the communication signal using the second communication protocol among the communication signals received by the antenna by treating the communication signal using the second communication protocol as a noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Jungnam Bae
  • Patent number: 12003608
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for repurposing one or more software configurable layer 2 switches in an IP (Internet Protocal) computer network to function as a layer 1 switch. Ternary Content-Addressable Memory (TCAM) is reconfigured in each of the one or more layer 2 switches and one or more pipeline engines are routed to emulate layer 1 switching functionality in each of the one or more layer 2 switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Netscout Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry Cantwell, Diego Warszawski, David L. Sclarsky
  • Patent number: 12004224
    Abstract: There is provided a method comprising: determining channel condition for each of the plurality of beams; selecting, based on the channel conditions, a predetermined number of beams suitable for beam failure recovery; and determining the periodicity preference for each of the predetermined number of beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Ali Karimidehkordi, Samantha Caporal del Barrio, Sami-Jukka Hakola, Timo Koskela
  • Patent number: 11997715
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a radio frame transmission method, including: receiving a radio frame, and determining that the radio frame is a radio frame of a specified type and/or that the radio frame carries indication information indicating that reusing of the radio frame by a third party is disallowed, and maintaining a physical carrier channel detection state to be busy until the radio frame ends. Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a wireless transmission apparatus and a computer storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Zhang, Kaiying Lv, Bo Sun, Chen Lu
  • Patent number: 11991753
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for performing a random access procedure in a wireless communication system. The method for performing a random access procedure according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, configuration information related to random access, wherein the configuration information includes a scaling factor for a back-off indicator (BI) for a specific type of terminal; transmitting a first random access preamble to the base station; receiving, from the base station, a random access response (RAR) in response to the first random access preamble, wherein the RAR includes the BI; and on the basis of the RAR not including a random access preamble identifier (RAPID) associated with the first random access preamble, transmitting a second random access preamble to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Jaehyung Kim, Seunggye Hwang
  • Patent number: 11985648
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for secondary cell activation using temporary reference signals and beam selection are provided. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication is performed by a UE and includes receiving, from a base station (BS) via a first cell, an activation command to activate a second cell different from the first cell. The method further includes receiving, from the BS via the second cell during a cell activation period, a first reference signal different from a synchronization signal block (SSB) based on beam information. The method further includes performing a first measurement of the first reference signal, and operating in the second cell based on the first measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Changhwan Park, Heechoon Lee, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo, Wanshi Chen, Tao Luo, Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri
  • Patent number: 11985696
    Abstract: The present specification relates to an apparatus and method for performing random access. This specification discloses a method for performing random access by a terminal in a non-terrestrial network system, the method comprising the steps of: performing a search for a cell of a non-terrestrial network on the basis of a synchronization signal block transmitted from a non-terrestrial network node; after the search for the cell is completed, receiving, from the non-terrestrial network node, random access-related information about the cell of the non-terrestrial network; generating a random access preamble on the basis of a frequency resource area of a random access channel related to the cell of the non-terrestrial network; and transmitting the generated random access preamble to the non-terrestrial network node. Performance degradation can be reduced when random access is performed in a non-terrestrial network system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: UUCOM CO., LTD
    Inventor: Su Han Choi
  • Patent number: 11979205
    Abstract: A method for configuring and updating random access resources in a multi-antenna multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) environment is provided, including: initializing a base station; broadcasting, by the base station, the available RACH resources using an SIB2; initiating, by users who have data to be sent in an uplink, random access processes on the RACH resources configured by the base station; and redefining an S state, an I state, and a C state. Configuration of the RACH resources may be gradually and dynamically optimized according to the quantity of antennas of the base station and a utilization rate threshold of the RACH resources, so that waste of random access RACH resources is reduced provided that an MIMO system meets a required user/service access success probability; a utilization of the resources is improved by fully utilizing spatial diversity characteristics of the MIMO system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY CITY COLLEGE
    Inventors: Jiantao Yuan, Rui Yin, Anping Wan, Tao Fang, Jinglin Wang, Tianmin Shan
  • Patent number: 11968151
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication by a first network device includes predicting spatial inter-cell downlink interference experienced by a UE. The method also includes communicating with a second network device to reduce the spatial inter-cell downlink interference in a direction of the UE by protecting resources across selected resource sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yeliz Tokgoz, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Hwan Joon Kwon, Naga Bhushan, Taesang Yoo, Tingfang Ji