Patents Examined by Willie J. Daniel, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11968622
    Abstract: A device comprising: a transceiver operable in a first or second mode and configured to receive packets from a remote device, each packet comprising an indication of whether or not the remote device has a further packet to transmit, wherein: in the first mode the transceiver: (i) sends a polling message in response to receiving the indication of a further packet for transmission; and (ii) listens for that further packet; and in the second mode the transceiver: (i) does not send a polling message in response to receiving the indication of a further packet for transmission; and (ii) listens for packets regardless of whether a received packet indicates that there is a further packet to transmit or not; and a controller configured to monitor an activity level for the transceiver and cause the transceiver to operate in the first or second mode in dependence on the activity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
    Inventor: Chaitanya Tata
  • Patent number: 11962392
    Abstract: Synchronized satellite communications can include receiving, at a computer having a processor, a data request that identifies a requesting device, data to be received by the requesting device, and a time at which the data is to be received by the requesting device. The processor can determine a geographic location of the requesting device and locations of a plurality of satellites; identify, based on the geographic location of the requesting device and the locations of the plurality of satellites, satellites that are to provide the data to the requesting device; generate instructions for loading network requirements to the satellites; and provide, to at least one of the satellites, the instructions. Additionally, embodiments of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein can be used to provide the same data and/or different data to multiple devices at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, James Pratt, Nigel Bradley
  • Patent number: 11956064
    Abstract: Doppler pre-compensated control and data signal(s) generated using first and second Doppler pre-compensation patterns, respectively, are transmitted. A signal indicating the Doppler pre-compensation patterns is transmitted. The Doppler pre-compensated control signals comprise synchronization signals, system information blocks (SIBs), a radio resource control (RRC) message, or a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and the Doppler pre-compensated data signals comprise a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The signal indicating the Doppler pre-compensation patterns comprises one of an RRC message or a PDCCH, and may indicate absolute Doppler values or a difference between Doppler values. The PDCCH may indicate a time offset between the PDCCH PDSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuang Tian, Qiaoyang Ye, Jeongho Jeon, Joonyoung Cho
  • Patent number: 11956771
    Abstract: Inter-alia, a method is disclosed comprising: receiving data transmissions indicative of data to be transmitted via the wireless communication network; obtaining physical channel information indicative of one or more parameters representing channel information and/or quality information associated with at least one physical channel that can be used for transmitting the data transmissions to one or more mobile devices of the wireless communication network; scheduling the data transmissions based at least partially on the physical channel information, wherein a tentative scheduling grant is determined for at least a part of the data transmissions to be encoded tentatively; encoding at least a part of the data transmissions, wherein the encoding is performed and/or controlled in a tentative fashion upon reception of the data transmissions, wherein the data transmissions are encoded based on the tentative scheduling grant; and outputting the encoded data transmissions upon completion of the encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Volker Braun, Bernd Haberland
  • Patent number: 11937134
    Abstract: A wireless access node indicates available Radio Access Technology (RAT) types to a User Equipment (UE). The UE selects from the available RAT types and indicates the UE-selected RAT types to the wireless access node. The wireless access node transfers the UE-selected RAT types to a network controller. The network controller selects from the UE-selected RAT types and indicates the network-selected RAT types for the UE to the wireless access node. The wireless access node indicates the network-selected RAT types to the UE. In response, the UE and the wireless access node simultaneously exchange user data using the network-selected RAT types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Zheng Fang
  • Patent number: 11917709
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) for operation in a fifth-generation new radio (5G NR) network may be configured with two or more secondary cells (SCells) of a group of SCells. In these embodiments, the UE may monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for detection of a downlink control information (DCI) format 1_1. The UE may interpret the DCI format 1_1 as indicating SCell dormancy, rather than scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) reception, if the UE is configured with resourceAllocationType1 and if all bits of a frequency domain resource assignment field in the DCI format 1_1 are equal to 1. For SCell dormancy, the UE may interpret fields of the DCI format 1_1 as a bitmap for SCell dormancy indication and either activate or deactivate a downlink bandwidth part (DL BWP) for an SCell of the group of configured SCells when indicated by the bitmap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Toufiqul Islam, Dae Won Lee, Yingyang Li, Seunghee Han
  • Patent number: 11916999
    Abstract: At a radio-based application pipeline processing server at which a portion of a distributed unit (DU) of a radio-based application is implemented, a particular networking hardware device is selected from among several devices (which include least one device incorporated within a network function accelerator card and at least one device which is not part of an accelerator card) for transmission of at least a portion of mid-haul traffic to a centralized unit (CU). The mid-haul traffic is transmitted to the CU via the selected device. At least a portion of front-haul traffic is transmitted to a radio unit (RU) via a networking hardware device incorporated within a network function accelerator card of the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Diwakar Gupta, Benjamin Wojtowicz, Upendra Bhalchandra Shevade, Ximeng Simon Yang
  • Patent number: 11910438
    Abstract: An apparatus for wireless communication of a UE determines to transmit data in a set of RBs to at least one other UE in at least one subframe. The at least one subframe includes a first subset of symbols configured for use for transmission collision avoidance signaling and a second subset of symbols configured for transmitting the data. The apparatus determines a subset of symbols of the first set of symbols within the set of RBs of the at least one subframe for transmitting at least one concatenated sequence. The apparatus transmits the at least one concatenated sequence in each symbol of the determined subset of symbols within the set of RBs of the at least one subframe to indicate that the data will be transmitted in the second set of symbols within the set of RBs of the at least one subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tien Viet Nguyen, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati, Libin Jiang, Zhibin Wu, Shailesh Patil
  • Patent number: 11900011
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium for providing an audio file interface. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes, while playing an audio file on a mobile device and displaying a current view in a user interface of the mobile device, receiving first user input requesting that an audio interface be displayed, and displaying the audio interface as an overlay in the user interface, where the audio interface includes information associated with the audio file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Scott M. Herz, Sean Boland Kelly, Scott Forstall, Gregory N. Christie, Kevin Tiene, Steven P. Jobs
  • Patent number: 11903069
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media, are provided for indicating beam failure detection (BFD) and/or beam failure recovery (BFR) information for secondary cells (SCells). Disclosed embodiments enable BFD/BFR reporting for SCells with only downlink or with both downlink and uplink to recover from link failure and/or beam failure. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Avik Sengupta, Alexei Davydov, Bishwarup Mondal
  • Patent number: 11902803
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are described for physical-layer cell identifier (PCI) configuration and Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO). In particular, some embodiments may be directed to fifth-generation self-organizing network (5G SON) solutions such as the management of distributed physical-layer cell identifier (PCI) configuration, centralized PCI configuration, and MRO. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joey Chou, Yizhi Yao
  • Patent number: 11901978
    Abstract: Allocating resources in a wireless network utilizing SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO modes of operation includes determining an increase in a resource usage of MU-MIMO wireless devices and responsive to the determining, reducing an allocation of resources for one or more SU-MIMO wireless devices. These operations may be performed based on determining that a load level associated with a serving access node rises to meet a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum LP
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Rajveen Narendran
  • Patent number: 11895625
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to 5G (5th generation) or pre-5G communication systems to support the higher data rate after 4G (4th generation) communication systems such as LTE (Long Term Evolution). The present disclosure provides an apparatus and a method for effectively selecting a transmission carrier in a wireless communication system. The present disclosure relates to an operating method of a terminal in a wireless communication system, which including receiving configuration information from a base station and selecting a transmission carrier and a resource pool on the basis of the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngjoong Mok, Hyunjeong Kang
  • Patent number: 11888589
    Abstract: Simultaneous transmission on a shared channel by a plurality of collocated radios is provided herein. The two or more radios are collocated with one another and are communicating with two far radios over a pair of long range wireless links. The two or more radios are configured to transmit and receive in synchronization with one another on a same channel. An off-axis response for each of the two or more radios is reduced compared to their on-axis response for improved signal to noise ratio, and the on-axis response the two or more radios are substantially equal to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mimosa Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian L. Hinman, Jaime Fink
  • Patent number: 11889293
    Abstract: A network node (500, 600) in a home network, HN, of a wireless device (10, 300, 400) assigns a different priority to each of one or more parameter sets in a priority list. Each parameter set comprises one or more parameters used for calculating the subscription identifier. The network node (500, 600) provides the wireless device (10, 300, 400) with the priority list to facilitate the calculation of the subscription identifier by the wireless device (10, 300, 400). The wireless device (10, 300, 400) obtains the priority list, and calculates the subscription identifier using a null parameter set or one of the one or more parameter sets in the priority list selected responsive to the defined priorities. The wireless device (10, 300, 400) then informs the HN of the subscription of the wireless device (10, 300, 400) by sending the calculated subscription identifier to the network node (500, 600).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi, David Castellanos Zamora, John Mattsson
  • Patent number: 11876597
    Abstract: An enhanced L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications System (LDACS) may include cellular telephone ground stations, and LDACS ground stations. In addition, the enhanced LDACS may also include a plurality of LDACS airborne stations, each configured to selectively communicate with either a corresponding LDACS ground station or a corresponding cellular telephone ground station based upon an altitude of the LDACS airborne station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SKYSTREAM LLC
    Inventors: Shawn H. Gallagher, Eric J. Salyers, Timothy Huggins, Ivica Kostanic, Edward Paulsen, Daniel Schwinn
  • Patent number: 11871292
    Abstract: A method and a system of maintaining data connectivity between a mobile device during traversal of a pedestrian facility and a server computing device via a set of intermediary communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MAPSTED CORP.
    Inventors: Sean Huberman, Majid Bavand
  • Patent number: 11864115
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that asynchronous carrier aggregation, including between high frequency band and lower frequency band transmissions. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to monitor transmissions in a first frequency band and a second frequency band. The UE may measure a timing difference between transmissions in the first frequency band and one or more of the transmissions in the second frequency band, and transmit an indication of the timing difference to a base station. The base station may use the timing difference to determine whether the UE is to use asynchronous carrier aggregation. If the base station determines that the UE is to use asynchronous carrier aggregation, the base station may configure the UE to observe at least a minimum amount of delay when conducting uplink signaling via one of the frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Rahul Malik, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 11864167
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that a first quantity of physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) transmissions to be transmitted in a slot fails to satisfy a condition that is based at least in part on a maximum quantity of PSFCH transmissions the UE can concurrently detect. The UE may identify, among the PSFCH transmissions to be transmitted in the slot, a subset of the PSFCH transmissions to be detected. For example, the subset of the PSFCH transmissions to be detected may include a second quantity of the PSFCH transmissions that satisfies the condition. Accordingly, the UE may monitor, during the slot, a PSFCH for the subset of the PSFCH transmissions. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tien Viet Nguyen, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati, Gabi Sarkis, Shuanshuan Wu
  • Patent number: 11855746
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein may improve the precision and performance of a TDOA-based UE positioning scheme that is associated with an NTN. In one aspect, a UE receives, from a first satellite, a first PRS at a first reception time. The UE receives, from a second satellite, a second PRS at a second reception time and an indication of a transmission-reception time difference, the transmission-reception time difference being a difference between a time the second satellite transmits the second PRS to the UE and a time the second satellite receives an RS from the first satellite. The UE calculates an RSTD for the first PRS and the second PRS based at least in part on the first reception time of the first PRS, the second reception time of the second PRS, and the transmission-reception time difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Jun Ma, Mehmet Izzet Gurelli, Huilin Xu, Qiang Wu