Patents Examined by Timothy J Weidner
  • Patent number: 11974242
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising determining a first time period during which radio mobility of one or more terminal devices is not expected, determining a second time period during which radio mobility of the one or more terminal devices is expected, determining a first synchronization signal block, SSB, transmission mode that is to be applied during the first time period, and determining a second synchronization signal block, SSB, transmission mode that is to be applied during the second time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jeroen Wigard, Frank Frederiksen, Mads Lauridsen
  • Patent number: 11974238
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for supporting precision timing protocol (PTP) based time sensitive network (TSN) applications are provided. One method includes configuring, by a network node, a user equipment connection and user contexts for an industrial automation and control (IAC) system or configuring at least one time synchronized radio bearer for a user equipment. The method may also include determining synchronization configuration on the at least one time synchronized radio bearer for the industrial automation and control (IAC) system, and distributing the synchronization configuration periodically or on a need basis to one or more serving network nodes for the industrial automation and control (IAC) system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Vinh Van Phan, Jani Moilanen, Ling Yu, Peter Rost, Rakash Sivasiva Ganesan, Vladimir Vukadinovic
  • Patent number: 11974239
    Abstract: Provided are a measurement gap configuration method and device, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: determining, by a first network element, frequency information of a measurement target; and notifying, by the first network element, a second network element of the frequency information through first interface signaling; where the first network element and the second network element are configured on the same node. The problem in the related art of being unable to configure a measurement gap is solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Jiren Han, Jing Liu, Yin Gao, He Huang
  • Patent number: 11963075
    Abstract: A mesh wireless access point (WAP) includes a housing, a first radio assembly, a second radio assembly, and an internal communication link between the first and second radio assemblies. The housing is configured to be affixed to, or integrated with, a feature of a building. The first radio assembly is incorporated with the housing and configured to support a first wireless communication link, and the second radio assembly is incorporated with the housing and configured to support a second wireless communication link. The internal communication link is configured to transfer data packets between the first and second radio assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: John C. Bahr, David Daniel Smith
  • Patent number: 11956637
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatus for managing a message relaying system are described. One technique includes an access point (AP) detecting a first signal and a second signal from a computing device. A validation of the first signal is performed based on parameters of the first signal and the second signal. After the validation, information associated with the first signal is transmitted to a computing system. In another technique, the computing system may designate one of multiple APs reporting information regarding first signals as a primary reporting AP and designate the remaining APs as secondary reporting APs. The computing system may instruct the secondary reporting APs to refrain from reporting information regarding first signals to the computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Henry, Robert E. Barton, Darryl E. Sladden, Thomas Szigeti
  • Patent number: 11956805
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for assisted mmW sidelink beam discovery in non-standalone mode. A UE may transmit, to an AN, a request to access one or more ADs. The request may be based on an absence of at least one BPL that has a threshold QoS for a DRB with a second UE. The UE may receive, from the AN based on the transmitted request, an authorization to access the one or more ADs, and exchange, via an SRB, beam training information with the second UE based on the authorization to access the one or more ADs for performing a beam training procedure via the one or more ADs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sourjya Dutta, Navid Abedini, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li, Shuanshuan Wu, Preeti Kumari, Anantharaman Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 11956666
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present application discloses an HARQ process determination method, a network device and a terminal. The method comprises: the terminal determines HARQ process resource parameters; the terminal determines currently transmitted HARQ process resources on the basis of the HARQ process resource parameters; wherein, the current transmission is a non-dynamic transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing Xu
  • Patent number: 11950258
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit a plurality of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) communications in a same PDCCH monitoring occasion in a first cell, and may transmit a plurality of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) communications in at least one of the first cell or a second cell. Each of the PDCCH communications schedules a respective PDSCH communication of the plurality of PDSCH communications. A PDCCH communication, of the plurality of PDCCH communications, includes an indication of a counter downlink assignment index that is based at least in part on a combination of a starting symbol and a cell in which an associated PDSCH communication is to be transmitted, a cell index of the cell in which the associated PDSCH communication is to be transmitted, and the PDCCH monitoring occasion. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Yi Huang, Peter Gaal, Huilin Xu
  • Patent number: 11937273
    Abstract: An embodiment provides an operation method of a sidelink reception terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a first physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) and a second PSSCH by a sidelink reception terminal; and transmitting feedbacks for the first PSSCH and the second PSSCH through a first physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource and a second PSFCH resource, respectively, by the sidelink reception terminal, wherein the first PSSCH and the second PSSCH are received in different slots, and a first PSFCH related to the first PSSCH and a second PSFCH related to the second PSSCH are transmitted through different frequency resources within an identical time resource area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Uihyun Hong, Daesung Hwang, Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 11937116
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for determining synchronization signal (SS)/physical broadcast channel (PBCH) block (SSB)-based measurement timing configuration (SMTC) for measurement objects for which a user equipment is to measure feedback information in one or more measurement gaps. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Tang, Jie Cui, Rui Huang, Hua Li, Yuhan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11930384
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a next-generation wireless communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate, beyond a 4th generation (4G) wireless communication system. According to various embodiments, a method of transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus supporting the same may be provided, and other various embodiments may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Jaehyung Kim, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 11930466
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE) including receiving a first reference signal (RS) from a first transmission reception point (TRP); receiving a second RS from a second TRP, wherein the first TRP and the second TRP are both associated with a BS; and transmitting, to the BS, an indication that one of a first shifted carrier frequency at which the first RS is received or a second shifted carrier frequency at which the second RS is received is preferred for use by the UE as a reference carrier frequency for demodulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Venugopal, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11924739
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. During an operation for discovering reconfigurable surfaces, a sensing signal may be transmitted. Based on the sensing signal being transmitted, another signal may be detected at the device that transmitted the sensing signal, another device, or both. The device that detects the signal may combine the detected signal with a modulation sequence that is associated with a reconfigurable surface, where the reconfigurable surface may be assigned a set of unique modulation sequences and configured to apply a modulation sequence to received signals. Based on combining the detected signal with the modulation sequence, the device may determine whether the reconfigurable surface is present within a geographic region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Yucheng Dai, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal, Sony Akkarakaran, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11924682
    Abstract: Provided are a response receiving and sending method, a retransmission method, a communication device, and a storage medium. The method includes: sending a transport block to a first communication device through a pre-configured period resource, and receiving a correct response corresponding to the transport block on a pre-configured correct response resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuqiang Xia, Ting Fu, Peng Hao, Chunli Liang, Min Ren, Wei Gou, Jing Shi, Xianghui Han
  • Patent number: 11924885
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE) from a first base station, on a first carrier, a synchronization sequence (SS) and performing a radio resource management (RRM) measurement in accordance with the SS. The method also includes performing cell selection and mobility support in accordance with the RRM measurement, when the UE is in idle mode and generating an RRM measurement report in accordance with the RRM measurement and transmitting, by the UE to the first base station on the first carrier, the RRM measurement report, when the UE is in connected mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jialing Liu, Qian Cheng, Weimin Xiao
  • Patent number: 11917442
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring data transmission. Aspects relate to determining a data transmission configuration utilizing a machine-learning based algorithm, such as a data transmission configuration for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) applications. A method that may be performed by a base station (BS) includes receiving a feedback report from a user equipment (UE) including an indication of a first state corresponding to a plurality of channel condition parameters and determining one or more actions based, at least in part, on the first state. The BS may determining the one or more actions utilizing a machine learning algorithm that uses a second state, where the second state is based, at least in part, on the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Yi Huang, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Wei Yang
  • Patent number: 11917447
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a computer program product for selecting fronthaul links in a wireless communication system. One or more link delays are determined. The link delays are associated with one or more communication links in the plurality of communication links communicatively coupling a first communication device and a second communication device. Using the determined link delays, a communication link transmission priority of the communication links for transmission of one or more data packets is determined. A listing of prioritized communication links is generated. At least one communication link in the prioritized communication links is selected for transmission of data packets between the first and second communication devices. Using the selected communication link, the data packets are transmitted between the first and second communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Altiostar Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: M Ramana Reddy, Sridhar Bhaskaran
  • Patent number: 11917422
    Abstract: An information handling system executing an intelligent throughput performance analysis and issue detection system may comprise a network interface device to establish a wireless link with a wireless network and a processor to execute a neural network trained to predict wireless link throughput values based on controlled connectivity testing metrics gathered in a controlled laboratory from tested information handling systems. The processor may gather measured throughput of the wireless link and operational connectivity metrics for the information handling system that describe antenna positional information, antenna adaptation controller parameters, signal strength measurements, and wireless link performance metrics. The neural network may output, based on the gathered operational connectivity metrics a predicted throughput value that differs from the measured throughput by a maximum tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Wei-Chia Huang, Chuang-Yueh Chen, YungShun Lin, Alan Eric Sicher, Lars Fredrik Proejts
  • Patent number: 11917440
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a central unit (CU) may receive one or more cross-link interference (CLI) measurement reports that are based at least in part on one or more CLI measurements performed by one or more downstream nodes. The CU may transmit, and a distributed unit (DU) may receive, CLI measurement information based at least in part on the one or more CLI measurement reports. In some aspects, the DU may perform one or more CLI mitigation actions based at least in part on the CLI measurement information received from the CU. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Xipeng Zhu, Qian Zhang, Karl Georg Hampel, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11910228
    Abstract: A method of managing traffic associated with a User Equipment, UE, by a User Plane Function, UPF, in a telecommunication network, said UPF being associated with a Session Management Function, SMF, and a Network Data Analytics Function, NWDAF, wherein said UPF has access to an observation space comprising a list of possible states said network may take and wherein said UPF has access to an action space comprising a list of possible actions that said UPF is allowed to perform, said method comprising the steps of receiving a state of said network, wherein said state is comprised by said list of possible states, receiving a reward, wherein said reward indicates a degree of satisfaction of said network to be in said state, receiving network traffic from said UE and performing, triggered by said received traffic, an action comprised by said list of possible actions based on said received state of said network and based on said received reward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Miguel Angel Puente PestaƱa, Carlos Jimenez Cordon, Rodrigo Alvarez Dominguez, Marc Molla, Carlota Villasante