Patents Examined by Tu X Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11411639
    Abstract: Various arrangements for spectrum sharing among a terrestrial network and a non-terrestrial network are presented herein. A first bandwidth part having a first frequency range for may be assigned use for communication between one or more UE of a plurality of UE and a terrestrial cellular network when a high signal strength is present. A second bandwidth part having a second frequency range may be assigned for use for communication between one or more UE of the plurality of UE and the terrestrial cellular network when a low signal strength is present. A third bandwidth part having a third frequency range can be assigned for use for communication between one or more UE of the plurality of UE and a non-terrestrial network. The third bandwidth part can overlap with the first bandwidth part but not the second bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: DISH WIRELESS L.L.C.
    Inventors: Mariam Sorond, Siddhartha Chenumolu, Mehdi Alasti
  • Patent number: 11405792
    Abstract: The disclosure described herein configures a multi-narrowband transceiver for communication within the television white space (TVWS) frequency spectrum using a log periodic filter, wherein the log periodic filter comprises a plurality of filter elements each having a filter frequency increasing periodically in a same frequency increasing factor (K). Each filter of the plurality of filter elements is configured to filter out second harmonics in a defined frequency range. The disclosure determines a TVWS channel for the communication and switches to a filter element of the plurality of filter elements corresponding to the determined TVWS channel. Data is transmitted and/or received over the TVWS channel using the filter element, thereby allowing narrowband communication over the TVWS channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Heping Shi, Ranveer Chandra, Tusher Chakraborty, Nissanka Arachchige Bodhi Priyantha, Zerina Kapetanovic, Binh Ngoc Vu
  • Patent number: 11399345
    Abstract: A power control method, a network device, and a terminal are provided. The power control method includes configuring a power control parameter for a resource in an uplink beam management resource set used for an uplink beam management procedure; and sending the power control parameter to a terminal, so that the terminal sends the resource in the uplink beam management resource set according to the power control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Sun, Xueming Pan, Peng Sun, Yang Song
  • Patent number: 11382048
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine that uplink communications are to be performed between the UE and a first cell group associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and between the UE and a second cell group associated with a second RAT. The UE may determine that the UE is configured for power sharing for the uplink communications with the first cell group associated with the first RAT and the second cell group associated with the second RAT. The UE may calculate, based at least in part on the power sharing and the uplink communications, a power reduction factor for the uplink communications between the UE and the second cell group. The UE may perform the uplink communications with the first cell group and selectively perform the uplink communications with the second cell group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Gene Fong, Timo Ville Vintola, Xiao Feng Wang, Heechoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11372521
    Abstract: Systems and methods for interaction of satellite and Internet protocol features in content delivery systems are presented. Using such systems and methods, the delivery of some content to the same product by Satellite delivery, other content by IP delivery, and still other content by both Satellite and IP delivery can enhance the utility of both the content and the product for an end user and can further optimize the costs and quality of service associated with delivering the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Sirius XM Radio Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart A. Cox, Gary John Conners, Todd Vanzandt
  • Patent number: 11368915
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for fast uplink power control. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for fast uplink power control comprises receiving a transmit power control command from a network node and determining one of two or more predefined transmit power control mapping tables to be used by the wireless device to interpret the transmit power control command. The method further comprises determining a power adjustment value based on the transmit power control command received from the network node using the one of the two or more predefined transmit power control mapping tables and adjusting a transmit power of the wireless device based on the power adjustment value. In this manner, different transmit power control mapping tables can be used in different scenarios, which allows fast uplink power control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Siva Muruganathan, Shiwei Gao, Xingqin Lin, Vijaya Yajnanarayana
  • Patent number: 11368270
    Abstract: Provided are a data transmission method, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device acquires a plurality of sounding reference signal resource indications (SRIs) from downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling uplink data, each SRI among the plurality of SRIs corresponding to at least one power control parameter; the terminal device determines a target SRI among the plurality of SRIs; the terminal device determines a power control parameter of the uplink data according to the at least one power control parameter corresponding to the target SRI; and the terminal device determines the transmit power of the uplink data according to the power control parameter of the uplink data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS, CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenhong Chen, Zhihua Shi
  • Patent number: 11362703
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure support a head-mounted display (HMD) wirelessly coupled to a console. The HMD includes a positional tracking system, a beam controller and a transceiver. The positional tracking system tracks position of the HMD and generates positional information describing the tracked position of the HMD. The transceiver communicates with a console via a wireless channel, in accordance with communication instructions, the communication instructions causing the transceiver to communicate over one directional beam of a plurality of directional beams. The beam controller determines a change in the positional information. Based on the change to the positional information, the beam controller determines a directional beam of the plurality of directional beams. The beam controller further generates the communication instructions identifying the determined directional beam, and provides the communication instructions to the transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Qi Qu, Ganesh Venkatraman, Hongyu Zhou, Ryan Hamilton Brown, Oskar Linde, Lyle David Bainbridge, Matthew James Devoe, Ali Yazdan, Sam Padinjaremannil Alex, Nirav Rajendra Patel
  • Patent number: 11362718
    Abstract: Sidelink TX power control is disclosed. In a particular implementation, a method of wireless communication includes selecting, by a user equipment (UE), a first access link of multiple access links. Each of the multiple access links available for communication between the UE and a base station. The method also includes determining, by the UE, a sidelink transmission power based on the first access link. The method further includes transmitting, by the UE, data to an electronic device via a sidelink based on the sidelink transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Sony Akkarakaran, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11350479
    Abstract: A communications device configured to transmit signals representing data to a first in-coverage communications device acting as source relay node for the communications device, the first in-coverage communications device configured to transmit signals to the infrastructure equipment of the mobile communications network, and to receive signals representing the data from the first in-coverage communications device acting as the source relay node. The source relay node is within a coverage area of the infrastructure equipment of the mobile communications network, the source relay node being configured to transmit the signals representing the data received from the communications device to the infrastructure equipment and to transmit the signals representing the data to the communications device which are received from the infrastructure equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11349580
    Abstract: During transmission of data by radio transmissions from a first radio device to a second radio device, a third radio device is controlled to transmit an interference signal on radio resources used by the radio transmissions from the first radio device to the second radio device. The transmission of the data is coordinated with transmission of the interference signal, and an effect of the interference signal on the radio transmissions is monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Luis Felipe Del Carpio Vega, Guido Roland Hiertz, Anna Larmo, Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 11343779
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for providing dynamic power sharing at a user equipment (UE). A first uplink transmission is configured. An offset is determined from a starting symbol of the first uplink transmission. Based on the offset, a group of overlapping uplink transmissions on one or more component carriers (CCs) is defined. The group of overlapping uplink transmission include at least the first uplink transmission. A total power is shared among uplink transmissions in the group of overlapping uplink transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Hamid Saber, Yuan-Sheng Cheng, Jung Hyun Bae
  • Patent number: 11330600
    Abstract: A system and method for optimizing access points (APs) within a network comprises receiving, at a first AP, parameters corresponding to a second AP, and determining that the first AP and the second AP are part a first and a second wireless local area network (WLAN), respectively. The first and second WLANs support client credential sharing allowing seamlessly transitioning of a client device between the first and second WLANs using common credentials. Further, co-channel interference between the first AP and the second AP is detected based on the parameters corresponding to the second AP and parameters of the first AP, and at least one of a channel and transmission power of one or more of the first AP and the second AP is changed in response to the detection of the interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vishal S. Desai, Robert E. Barton, Bart A. Brinckman, Jerome Henry
  • Patent number: 11330530
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose are a power control method and a terminal apparatus. The method comprises: a terminal apparatus receiving downlink control information (DCI) sent by a network apparatus and used for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), the DCI comprising a first sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indication; the terminal apparatus determining, according to the DCI, an uplink power control parameter value corresponding to the first SRS resource indication; and the terminal apparatus controlling, according to the uplink power parameter value corresponding to the first SRS resource indication, actual transmit power of first uplink data carried by the PUSCH and corresponding to the first SRS resource indication. The method, the terminal apparatus, and the network apparatus of the embodiments of the present application facilitate an improvement in spectral efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenhong Chen, Zhihua Shi
  • Patent number: 11317353
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) being configured to receive a downlink, DL, information; determine a spatial association for an uplink, UL, transmission based on the DL information; and determine UL power control, PC, parameters based on the DL information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Ravikiran Nory, Stephen Grant, Claes Tidestav, Niklas Wernersson
  • Patent number: 11310746
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method is performed by a wireless device configured with multiple power control closed loops for a serving cell. The method comprises receiving a transmit power control (TPC) command in a downlink control message that comprises a plurality of TPC commands. The method comprises determining a particular power control closed loop of the plurality of power control closed loops to which the TPC command should be applied. The particular power control closed loop is determined using the downlink control message. The method further comprises updating the particular power control closed loop using the TPC command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Ravikiran Nory, Niklas Wernersson
  • Patent number: 11297690
    Abstract: The reconfigurable radio remote unit for distributed antenna systems comprises a plurality of integrated radio frequency boards each dedicated to a respective frequency band, and configuration means for remotely selecting the frequency bands and/or for setting the power level of the frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: TEKO TELECOM S.R.L.
    Inventors: Roberto Orlandini, Gilberto Brizzi, Massimo Notargiacomo, Paolo Francia, Isabella Liporesi
  • Patent number: 11277757
    Abstract: In a terminal, a transmission power calculation unit calculates a transmission power of an uplink signal by using transmission power control information indicating one value from among a plurality of candidate values respectively associated with correction values that correct a control value to use in a closed loop control of the transmission power. A wireless transmission unit transmits the uplink signal with the above transmission power. A first correction value and a second correction value having a larger step size than the first correction value are associated with each of the plurality of candidate values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomohumi Takata, Takashi Iwai, Shotaro Maki, Yihui Li
  • Patent number: 11272458
    Abstract: Provided are a data transmission method, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device receiving indicator information, said indicator information being used for the terminal device to determine a first transmission power for uplink data in a target time unit; the terminal device determining the first transmission power according to the indicator information; the terminal device sending uplink data to a first network device in accordance with the first transmission power in the target time unit. A data transmission method embodied in the present invention can effectively increase a data transmission success rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Yang, Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11265057
    Abstract: A method for transmitting physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) includes: receiving, by a terminal device, downlink control information (DCI) sent by a network device, the DCI including trigger information of aperiodic channel state information (CSI) and configuration information of a PUCCH carrying the aperiodic CSI; and transmitting, by the terminal device, the aperiodic CSI on the PUCCH according to the configuration information of the PUCCH when the trigger information triggers the terminal device to report the aperiodic CSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenhong Chen, Zhihua Shi