Patents Examined by Thai Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11757583
    Abstract: The apparatus may be a UE configured to transmit, to a base station, an indication of a UE capability associated with a contiguous FD pilot; receive, from the base station, an indication of an allocation of one or more frequency sub-bands for a reception of one or more contiguous FD pilots; and receive, from the base station, the one or more contiguous FD pilots via the one or more frequency sub-bands. The apparatus may be a configured to receive, from a UE, an indication of a UE capability associated with a contiguous FD pilot; select one or more frequency sub-bands for a transmission of a contiguous FD pilot; transmit, to the UE, an indication of an allocation of the one or more frequency sub-bands for the transmission of the contiguous FD pilot; and transmit, to the UE, the contiguous FD pilot via the one or more frequency sub-bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Daniel Paz, Michael Levitsky, Ronen Shaked, Yaniv Eistein
  • Patent number: 11743950
    Abstract: A method of operating an infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications system to support first and second random access procedures is provided, wherein a number of subcarriers used for an uplink message of the second random access procedure is smaller than a number of subcarriers used for a corresponding uplink message of the first random access procedure. The method comprises transmitting, to at least one communications device, a scheduling message comprising an indication of a first set of radio resources comprising a plurality of subcarriers to be used for a random access procedure message for the first random access procedure, determining a second set of radio resources to be used for a random access procedure message for the second random access procedure, and monitoring for a random access procedure message from the at least one communications device on the second set of radio resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong
  • Patent number: 11743928
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for autonomously updating a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state associated with a reference signal of a non-serving cell according to a measurement report for the reference signal. In one aspect, a user equipment (UE) may measure the reference signal of the non-serving cell and, in line with the results of the measurement, may apply an update for the TCI state associated with the reference signal upon or after transmitting the measurement report to a serving cell and according to a rule for applying TCI state updates for non-serving cell reference signals. The rule for applying TCI state updates for non-serving cell reference signals may be known to the UE and the serving cell such that the UE and the serving cell maintain same knowledge of the associations between non-serving cell reference signals and TCI states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11743760
    Abstract: The invention refers to a method for a communication device in a radio network, which comprises a step of performing a first transmitting, in a first time slot of a first duration, comprising transmitting a Buffer Status Report, BSR, for a plurality of logical channels, and a step of performing a second transmitting, in a second time slot of a second duration, comprising transmitting a Scheduling Request, SR, for at least a first part of the plurality of logical channels; the invention further refers to corresponding communication devices, to a computer-readable storage, to a computer program and to a carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Min Wang, Jan Christoffersson, Jinhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11736236
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for hybrid ARQ acknowledgement and retransmission requests for decoding failed MPDUs of an A-MPDU received by an STA. The source address and receiver address of a failed MPDU can be verified according to a MAC header CRC that can be included in an A-Control frame, for example. For verifying the source address and the receiver address in MAC header, according to some embodiments, the MAC header CRC is jointly calculated over the first two octets of the MPDU delimiter of an A-MPDU subframe. Moreover, a Hybrid ARQ frame is defined to include Block Ack Bitmap subfield representing the received status of a plurality of MPDUs according to starting sequence control number, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Mediatek Singapore PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Yongho Seok, Jianhan Liu, James Chih-Shi Yee, Thomas Edward Pare, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11728946
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating techniques for phase continuity of sidelink DMRS bundling are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a first UE includes receiving a first sidelink transmission including at least a first DMRS. The example method also includes receiving a second sidelink transmission, the first sidelink transmission and the second sidelink transmission together including at least the first DMRS and a second DMRS. The example method also includes receiving, from a second UE, an indication of a bundling relationship between the first sidelink transmission and the second sidelink transmission, the bundling relationship including at least one of strong bundling, weak bundling, or no bundling. The example method also includes performing channel estimation for a channel associated with the first sidelink transmission and the second sidelink transmission based at least in part on the bundling relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaojie Wang, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Junyi Li, Piyush Gupta, Peter Gaal, Sony Akkarakaran, Jung Ho Ryu, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11729653
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for channel state information (CSI) measurement and report outside an active downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP). A method for a user equipment includes receiving configurations for a first set of DL BWPs, for reference signal (RS) resource sets in a second set of DL BWPs, and for CSI reports corresponding to the second set of DL BWPs; receiving RS resources from the RS resource sets in a third set of DL BWPs; and determining a first number of CSI reports based on the received RS resources. The method further includes determining a second number of CSI reports that have (i) values for a CSI report quantity that are larger those in other CSI reports from the first number of CSI reports and (ii) corresponding DL BWP indexes and transmitting a channel that includes the second number of CSI reports and the indexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiongjie Lin, Aristides Papasakellariou, Carmela Cozzo
  • Patent number: 11729851
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may communicate with another UE over a sidelink according to an inter-band carrier aggregation configuration. The inter-band carrier aggregation configuration may include one or more component carriers associated with a first frequency band and one or more component carriers associated with a second frequency band. The UE may perform beam failure detection for a first beam associated with the first frequency band and/or a second beam associated with the second frequency band based at least in part on independent beam failure detection reference signals that are configured for the first frequency band and the second frequency band. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Sony Akkarakaran, Jung Ho Ryu, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11716739
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods at a terminal device for uplink transmission in a wireless communication system. Such methods include determining a Scheduling Request (SR) transmission mode according to a configuration on SR transmission that is associated with a Logic Channel Group (LCG) that corresponds to a service needing uplink resources. Such methods include transmitting at least one SR signal to a network node according to the determined SR transmission mode, wherein the at least one SR signal indicates a resource request for uplink transmission. Other embodiments include complementary methods for a network node, and terminal devices and network nodes configured to perform such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jinhua Liu, Min Wang
  • Patent number: 11716718
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication device and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication device according to one embodiment comprises one or more processors, wherein the processor(s) is/are configured to acquire the type of information to be transmitted via device-to-device communication, wherein the type is one of a plurality of types at least including a first type and a second type; and the processor(s) is/are also configured to determine a resource use manner and a power control manner which are used for transmitting information at least according to the type of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yanzhao Hou, Qimei Cui, Shiwei Cao, Hui Liang, Qinyan Jiang, Shiyu Zhang, Xin Guo, Chen Sun
  • Patent number: 11711129
    Abstract: A method by which a terminal reports channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: measuring interference through an interference measurement resource (IMR) set in a control area; and reporting, to a base station, CSI for the control area on the basis of the result of the interference measurement, wherein the CSI for the control area includes information on quality of a downlink control channel set through at least one control channel element (CCE) aggregation, and the information on the quality of the downlink control channel can include information on at least one CCE aggregation level preferred by the terminal in order to receive the downlink control channel. A UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11705954
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication to apply, for one or more uplink communications of a spatial division multiplexing (SDM) configuration, a group indication associated with downlink beams. The UE may transmit the one or more uplink communications based at least in part on the group indication associated with the downlink beams. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Amit Bar-Or Tillinger, Shay Landis, Idan Michael Horn
  • Patent number: 11696342
    Abstract: Generating, by a user equipment (UE) of a wireless access network, for a set of contention-based random access occasions of a base station of the network, a random number over an interval. For the generated random number meeting a threshold value within the interval, transmitting, by the UE and to the base station, a random access preamble within one of the random access occasions of the set. For the generated random number not meeting the threshold value, attempting, by the UE, contention-based access to the network within a subsequent set of random access occasions of the base station, the subsequent set of random access occasions occurring after the set of contention-based random access occasions of the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo, Wanshi Chen, Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal, Qiang Wu, Yuchul Kim, Linhai He, Junyi Li, Wooseok Nam
  • Patent number: 11671221
    Abstract: Provided are a control channel sending method and apparatus, and receiving method and apparatus. The sending method comprises: a first device acquiring resource information about a first type of sending resources of a control channel; the first device determining a second type of sending resources of the control channel according to the resource information about the first type of sending resources, wherein the second type of sending resources are sending resources different from the first type of sending resources; and the first device sending, on the first type of sending resources and the second type of sending resources, the control channel to a second device. The invention solves the technical problem in the related art that the transmission efficiency of a control channel is relatively low due to the fact that a terminal applies a blind detection method to the control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yuhong Gong, Zhaohua Lu, Shujuan Zhang, Feng Bi
  • Patent number: 11671940
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for a first user equipment (UE) establishing a sidelink connection with a second UE. The first UE may identify a frame structure for the first UE to communicate with a base station. The frame structure may include one or more downlink slots and one or more uplink slots. The base station may indicate a set of resources for the sidelink connection with the second UE. The set of resources may include at least one downlink slot of the one or more downlink slots. In accordance with the indication, the first UE may communicate with the second UE on the sidelink connection and using at least one beam and the indicated set of resources. The communication with the second UE may utilize at least the resources in the at least one downlink slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Junyi Li, Tianyang Bai, Kiran Venugopal, Ling Ding, Qian Zhang, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11665571
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a reference signal measurement method and a user terminal. The method includes: obtaining configuration information, where the configuration information is configured to configure a specific reference signal; measuring the specific reference signal according to the configuration information in an idle state or an inactive state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Li Chen
  • Patent number: 11663093
    Abstract: An automated system monitors network traffic to determine dependencies between different machines. These dependencies can be used to automatically develop a recovery plan for the machines, for example restoring servers in a certain order. This approach can also automatically adjust the recovery plan for changes in system configuration, for example as different servers come online or are taken offline or change their roles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Rubrik, Inc.
    Inventor: Di Wu
  • Patent number: 11664954
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. UE transmits first information, the first information being used for determining a first reference signal, then the UE receives second information in a first frequency subband in a first time window and detects third information in a second frequency subband in a second time window; the first time window is related to time-domain resources occupied by the first information; a first antenna port is used for transmitting the first reference signal, each antenna port used for transmitting the second information is spatially related to the first antenna port, and each antenna port used for transmitting the third information is spatially related to the first antenna port. The disclosure simplifies the processes of beam link failure judgement and beam management for a UE, thereby improving the overall performance of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Qi Jiang, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11659539
    Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment comprises receiving configuration information including information on a beam indication indicating N uplink (UL) transmit beams, where N>1; receiving the beam indication; determining whether an event is detected; selecting a beam from the N UL transmit beams based on whether the event is detected or not; and transmitting an UL transmission using the selected beam, wherein the beam refers to a spatial property used to receive or transmit a source reference signal (RS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Md. Saifur Rahman, Eko Onggosanusi, Emad N. Farag
  • Patent number: 11638306
    Abstract: User equipments (UEs) with reduced capabilities may need a relaxed processing timeline relative to standard UEs. The relaxed processing timeline may provide UEs with reduced capabilities an appropriate amount of time (e.g., during a random access procedure) to decode messages from a base station (BS) and/or to prepare uplink messages. Aspects of the disclosure relate to a UE configured to transmit a message to a serving BS, the message including a request for timeline relaxation for transmission of a subsequent message, the message and the subsequent message being associated with a random access procedure. The UE may receive a response message associated with the random access procedure and indicating one or more timing offsets corresponding to the timeline relaxation. The UE may transmit the subsequent message to the serving BS based on the one or more timing offsets indicated by the serving BS. The subsequent message acknowledges the response message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Huilin Xu, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Wanshi Chen