Patents Examined by Trang T Nguyen
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Patent number: 11968721Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting random access indication information. The method includes that: indication information about random access is generated, the indication information indicating that 2-step contention-based random access is supported or 4-step contention-based random access is supported; and a system message is broadcast to User Equipment (UE), the system message including the indication information.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Wei Hong
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Patent number: 11943015Abstract: A communications system (300) comprising: an antenna (320) that comprises a plurality of serially connected sub-antenna elements (322); and a signal generator (324) configured to provide a transmission signal to the antenna (320) for propagating along the sub-antenna elements (322). The transmission signal comprises a plurality of serial symbol packets. The signal generator (324) is configured to set the phase of the serial symbol packets such that when they align with predefined ones of the sub-antenna elements (322) the antenna (322) provides a beamformed signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventor: Jan-Peter Schat
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Patent number: 11943145Abstract: An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: identify (702, 704, 706, 708, 710) a stream gate instance associated with a quality of service flow; and determine (712) time sensitive communication assistance information for the quality of service flow based on one or more parameters defining operation of the stream gate instance.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OYInventors: Peter Rost, Borislava Gajic, Christian Mannweiler
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Patent number: 11937084Abstract: A method and apparatus for authenticating a device on a wireless network using a secure attestation package is provided. The method includes receiving, by a processor, information related to a device of an Internet of Thing (IoT) service provider, generating, by the processor, a secure attestation package based on the information, transmitting, by the processor, the secure attestation package to the IoT service provider, receiving, by the processor, a request to access a wireless network of the processor from the device of the IoT service provider, and authorizing, by the processor, the device to access the wireless network based on the secure attestation package.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Richard Zaffino, Arnold Schrider, Yaron Koral
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Patent number: 11924791Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment, a centralized unit device, a wireless communication method and a storage medium. The user equipment of the present disclosure comprises a processing circuit, wherein the processing circuit is configured to receive, from a centralized unit (CU) device, selection information related to a selection made by a distributed unit (DU) device; and determine, according to the selection information, a DU device for providing a service for the user equipment. By using the user equipment, the centralized unit device, the wireless communication method and the storage medium of the present disclosure, the user equipment can quickly and accurately find the most suitable DU device with the help of the CU device.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Kai Li, Mingtuo Zhou, Min Liu
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Patent number: 11924113Abstract: A computer implemented system is provided for improving performance of transmission in real-time or near real-time applications from at least one transmitter unit to at least one receiver unit. The system includes an intelligent data connection manager utility that generates or accesses performance data for two or more data connections associated with the two or more communication networks.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: DEJERO LABS INC.Inventors: David Sze, Bogdan Frusina, Barry Gilhuly, Todd Schneider
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Patent number: 11917706Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for configuring a sidelink radio bearer on a sidelink interface used for vehicle communication and processing radio link failure. The method may include receiving sidelink radio bearer configuration information for configuring a sidelink radio bearer on a sidelink interface used for the vehicle communication from a base station; configuring the sidelink radio bearer based on the sidelink radio bearer configuration information, and transmitting the sidelink radio bearer configuration information to another UE subject to the vehicle communication; detecting a sidelink radio link failure when an acknowledged mode (AM) radio link control (RLC) entity linked to the sidelink radio bearer reaches a maximum number of retransmissions; and indicating the detection of the sidelink radio link failure to a higher layer regardless of a radio resource control (RRC) state of the UE when the sidelink radio link failure is detected.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: KT CORPORATIONInventor: Sung-pyo Hong
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Patent number: 11916634Abstract: Wireless communication systems and methods related to interference prediction and reporting are provided. A user equipment (UE) obtains a sequence of interference measurements, where each interference measurement in the sequence is obtained at a different measurement time instant. The UE may determine, based on an interference predictor associated with the sequence of interference measurements, one or more predicted channel state information (CSI) values at one or more future time instants. The UE may transmit, to a base station (BS), a report including the one or more predicted CSI values.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Yi Huang
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Patent number: 11909464Abstract: Various example embodiments provide a system for transmission of low power signals based on using transmission time as one coding parameter. A code table may be used at a transmitter and receiver to map different data to different transmission times and/or other parameters. Advantageously, large amount of information may be transmitted with short and power efficient signals, for example to report status of a sensor every now and then. A receiver may use the same code table to decode the signals. Apparatuses, methods, and computer programs are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventor: Timo Tero Joonas Hussa
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Patent number: 11901996Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses (UE, network node or gNB) for CSI reporting. The method performed by a UE comprises: receiving from the gNB, a radio signal via a MIMO channel, wherein the radio signal contains at least one DL-RS according to a DL-RS configuration; estimating said MIMO channel based on said received at least one DL reference signal for configured subbands; calculating a precoder matrix or a CSI matrix for a number of antenna ports of the gNB and configured subbands; the precoder matrix based on a first codebook and on a second codebook and a set of combining coefficients for complex scaling/combining one or more of vectors selected from the first codebook and the second codebook; and reporting, to the gNB, a CSI feedback report and/or a PMI/RI, used to indicate the precoder matrix or the CSI matrix for the configured antenna ports and subbands.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Inventors: Venkatesh Ramireddy, Marcus Grossmann, Markus Landmann
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Patent number: 11895510Abstract: A new design for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is proposed for the next generation 5G new radio systems. A UE receives the configuration of a default control resource set (CORESET) in MIB/SIB from its serving base station. The default CORESET contains both common search space and UE-specific search space for candidate PDCCH transmission. A PDCCH in a default CORESET is mapped to physical resource in a distributed or localized manner. Specifically, various REG-to-CCE mapping rules are proposed to improve frequency diversity gain, or frequency selectivity gain, or to reduce latency of PDCCH processing. Further, to facilitate analog beamforming in mmWave systems, the default CORESET is transmitted in a synchronization signal (SS) block associated with a corresponding analog beam direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Inventors: Chien-Hwa Hwang, Chien-Chang Li, Yi-Ju Liao, Pei-Kai Liao, Weidong Yang
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Patent number: 11888573Abstract: An apparatus comprises means for: determining that one or more antenna elements of an antenna array are being disrupted; and updating one or more parameters associated with one or more antenna elements in response to determining that one or more antenna elements of said array are being disrupted.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Benny Vejlgaard, Simon Svendsen, Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas
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Patent number: 11888564Abstract: A wireless communication method for a terminal, a terminal, and a wireless communication system receive one or more Channel State Information Reference Signals (CSI-RSs). Further, quantization of combination coefficients of the one or more CSI-RSs corresponding to one or more spatial beams Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) basis vector amplitudes is performed.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Nadisanka Rupasinghe, Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
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Patent number: 11881918Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for modular MIMO system and CSI feedback in a wireless communication system. The methods and apparatuses include: identifying configuration information of an antenna system including antenna modules for a MIMO operation; identifying, based on the configuration information, a number of collocated antenna groups that each includes one or more of the antenna modules; identifying, based on the configuration information, a number of the antenna modules for each type of the antenna modules in each of the collocated antenna groups, wherein each of the collocated antenna groups includes one or more types of the antenna modules; generating a CSI report for one or more of the collocated antenna groups in the antenna system; and transmitting, to a BS, the CSI report.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gilwon Lee, Jeongho Jeon, Ahmed Atef Ibrahim Ibrahim, Jianzhong Zhang
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Patent number: 11870610Abstract: The disclosed technology includes techniques for facilitating the operation of a multi-antenna communication system. The disclosed technology can be implemented to provide a method for wireless communications which includes receiving, by a user device, an indication about an association between multiple reference resources and a target resource at the user device. The association includes properties of a communication channel to and/or from the user device, and wherein at least one property of the communication channel is different among the multiple reference resources, and performing wireless communication using the indication.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Yu Ngok Li, Bo Gao, Yijian Chen, Huahua Xiao, Zhaohua Lu
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Patent number: 11864203Abstract: The invention relates to a method for allocating radio resources to a transmitting terminal for performing direct communication transmission over a direct link connection. The transmitting terminal receives a system information broadcast from the base station, which comprises information on a temporary transmission radio resource pool, indicating radio resources for performing a direct communication transmission, and comprises configuration information on the resource pool to limit the amount of time that the temporary radio resource pool is usable by the transmitting terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Lilei Wang, Sujuan Feng
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Patent number: 11863265Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for precoding for multi-panel uplink transmission. For codebook-based uplink transmission, a user equipment (UE) can determine one or more preferred or selected precoders for uplink transmission. The precoders can be from an expanded UE codebook that maps a first number of transmit layers at the UE to a second number of antenna ports at the UE, the layers and/or antenna ports associated with multiple uplink transmit panels at the UE. The UE sends an indication to a base station (BS) of the determined precoders and/or sends an uplink transmission using the determined precoders. For non-codebook based uplink transmission the UE receives first and second reference signals (RSs), from first and second ports of a BS, with first and second UE antenna panels. The UE computes precoders to use for uplink transmission based on the RSs.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Kiran Venugopal, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Tianyang Bai, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 11855821Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses of synchronization signal transmission and receiving in a wireless communication system. The method of synchronization signal transmission in a wireless communication system may comprise transmitting a signal set containing one or more synchronization signals, wherein the one or more synchronization signals are transmitted in a predetermined signal transmission pattern within a signal transmission period, and wherein the predetermined signal transmission pattern indicates information on synchronization signal transmission. With embodiments of the present disclosure, it may indicate the information on synchronization signal transmission information by means of the signal transmission mode. Thus, especially for an initial access process, it can provide a common frame for both single beam based deployment and multi-beam based deployment.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yukai Gao, Gang Wang
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Patent number: 11855720Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for normalizing Log-Likelihood Ratios for bits of a transport block. For a narrowband channel estimation (NBCE), a normalization factor is selected based on an estimated delay spread, a cyclic prefix, an estimated Doppler spread, a rank, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the transport block, and an input LLRin for the individual bits of the transport block are scaled to respectively form an output LLRout for the individual bits of the transport block using the normalization factor. For a wideband channel estimation, a normalization factor is selected based on the rank/MCS/SNR of the transport block, and the input LLRin for the individual bits of the transport block are scaled to respectively form the output LLRout for the individual bits of the transport block using the normalization factor.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Inventors: Mouna Hajir, Mojtaba Rahmati, Hyukjoon Kwon
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Patent number: 11855732Abstract: The present specification discloses a method for receiving, by a terminal, a machine type communication (MTC) physical downlink control channel (MPDCCH) from a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, from a base station, configuration information related to reception of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) to which one of a plurality of candidate precoders applied to a cell specific reference signal (CRS) is applied; receiving, from the base station, the DMRS and control information through the MPDCCH on the basis of the configuration information; performing channel estimation on the MPDCCH on the basis of at least one of the DMRS or the CRS; and demodulating the control information on the basis of the channel estimation, wherein when a subframe which is not available for the CRS exists in an MPDCCH repetition, the channel estimation is performed using only the DMRS.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2023Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jaehyung Kim, Seonwook Kim, Changhwan Park, Seokmin Shin, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Seunggye Hwang