Patents Examined by Zewdu A Beyen
  • Patent number: 11553506
    Abstract: A mobile computing device is configured to dynamically aggregate wireless communications on a common antenna. The device determines that a WiFi communication in a first frequency band is associated with an antenna, the WiFi communication having a number of assigned transmission time slots. The device determines that a second wireless communication in a second frequency band also is associated with the antenna, and determines a periodicity and/or a media quality of the second wireless communication. Based on the periodicity and/or media quality of the second wireless communication, the device aggregates the WiFi communication and the second wireless communication, the aggregation comprising assigning a number of packets of the second wireless communication to an aggregation frame of a plurality of frames associated with the transmission time slots assigned to the WiFi communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Camille Chen, Nohee Ko, Sanjay Mani, Sudhanshu John, William F. Healey, Yang Yu
  • Patent number: 11553553
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method of wireless communications, including: receiving, at a first user equipment from a network, a sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration; configuring a sidelink DRX cycle at the first user equipment based on the sidelink DRX configuration; receiving, at the first user equipment from the network, data for a second user equipment; and sending, from the first user equipment to the second user equipment on a sidelink in accordance with the sidelink DRX cycle, the data for the second user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kaidong Wang, Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11539422
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a beam management method, a terminal, a network device, and a storage medium. The method includes: when a quantity of reference signals whose RSSIs are greater than a first preset value in reference signals received on a first time-frequency resource on one of one or more beams is less than a second preset value, detecting, by the terminal, a reference signal and/or downlink indication information (used to indicate a sending status of the reference signal on the first time-frequency resource and/or a second time-frequency resource on the beam) from the network device on the second time-frequency resource on the beam. Further, when receiving the downlink indication information on the second time-frequency resource on the beam, the terminal continues to detect a reference signal from the network device on the beam, thereby saving communications system resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Wu, Jun Zhu, Qiong Jia
  • Patent number: 11533156
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for demodulation reference signal (DMRS) and cell specific reference signal (CRS) collision avoidance procedures for wireless communication. Conventional networks and devices may be unable to perform DMRS shifting in some modes. For example, when considering two transmissions of multiple TRP modes, if a DMRS symbol for one transmission is shifted due to a collision with a CRS pattern, the alignment of the transmissions may be altered. If DMRS symbols of the transmissions are not aligned, interference or decoding failure may occur. The disclosure enables procedures for performing DMRS shifting in multiple TRP modes. For example, the DMRS symbols of both transmissions may be shifted responsive to determining an overlap for one transmission. Such shifting may enable the alignment of the DMRS locations for both transmissions to enable decoding of the transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11533152
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a wireless communication method in a wireless network comprising a plurality of access points (APs) sharing a communication channel, each AP is configured to manage stations of a basic service set (BSS), the method comprising at a coordinator AP: signaling to another AP, referred to as coordinated AP, that the coordinator AP has gained access to the communication channel; and sending to the coordinated AP a resource allocation allocating a chunk of the communication channel for stations managed by the coordinated AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Julien Sevin, Patrice Nezou, Pascal Viger, Stéphane Baron
  • Patent number: 11525882
    Abstract: A communication link is established from a motor vehicle to an other vehicle in the vicinity of the motor vehicle by receiving configuration data from the other vehicle, and determining a relative position of the other vehicle relative to the motor vehicle. A virtual display, which indicates the other vehicle as a possible communication partner, is provided for a user of the motor vehicle by at least partially using the relative position of the other vehicle and the configuration data. A communication command is received from the user, by which the other vehicle is selected as the communication partner. A direct communication link is then established with the other vehicle having been selected as the communication partner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Manfred Holzmann
  • Patent number: 11528632
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to perform measurement reporting suitable for an environment in which the on/off state of a cell is switched. [Solution] There is provided a device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating that a serving cell is scheduled to be in an off state; and a control unit configured to perform measurement reporting before the serving cell is in the off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano, Atsushi Yoshizawa, Shinichiro Tsuda, Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11523415
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for uplink transmission in a communication system. An operation method of a terminal includes: receiving, from a base station, first SFI information indicating n flexible symbol(s); receiving, from the base station, second SFI information re-indicating m symbol(s) of the n flexible symbol(s) as uplink (UL) symbol(s); and transmitting an SRS to the base station through the m symbol(s) re-indicated as a UL symbol among the n flexible symbol(s) indicated as a flexible symbol. Therefore, performance of the communication system can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Cheul Soon Kim, Gi Yoon Park, Seung Kwon Baek, Young Jo Ko
  • Patent number: 11523437
    Abstract: A method may be provided to operate a wireless terminal in communication with a network node. The method may include receiving a Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, order from the network node. The PDCCH order may include an identification for a Random Access CHannel RACH occasion to be used for a RACH message 1 preamble transmission. Moreover, the identification may include a first index that indicates a set of RACH occasions and a second index that indicates the RACH occasion associated with the set. The method may also include transmitting a Message 1 preamble to the network node using the RACH occasion responsive to the PDCCH order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jingya Li, Johan Axnäs, Asbjörn Grövlen, Naga Vishnu Kanth Irukulapati, Xingqin Lin, Hongxia Zhao
  • Patent number: 11523397
    Abstract: An information transmission method, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method is applied to a communication system including a network device and a terminal device, and a frequency-domain resource on a carrier used by the communication system is a contention based frequency-domain resource. The method including: the network device determining an available first time-frequency resource and sending first information to the terminal device through the first time-frequency resource; the terminal device receiving first information from the network device through a first time-frequency resource, where the first time-frequency resource is a time-frequency resource in a first downlink transmission burst; and the terminal device determining, according to the first information, that the first time-frequency resource is a downlink time-frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11515913
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine a collision between one or more sounding reference signal (SRS) resources to be used for an SRS antenna switching procedure for a first radio access technology (RAT) and a signal of a second RAT based at least in part on a time domain overlap of transmissions of the one or more SRS resources and an active time of the signal of the second RAT, and modify a configuration of the SRS antenna switching procedure to mitigate the collision, wherein the modified configuration indicates that the one or more SRS resources are configured to be transmitted using antenna elements of the UE that are different than antenna elements of the UE to be used for receiving the signal of the second RAT. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Akash Kumar
  • Patent number: 11510067
    Abstract: An uplink signal transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device, capable of realizing correct transmission, on an unlicensed spectrum, of an uplink demodulation signal used for demodulating an uplink channel. The method comprises: on the first time unit of an unlicensed spectrum, a terminal device transmits a first demodulation signal and uplink data that is obtained by a first transmission block by means of rate matching, wherein the first demodulation signal is used for demodulating the uplink data; the symbols occupied by the first demodulation signal do not comprise a first symbol, and the first symbol comprises at least one of a first symbol in the first time unit and a last symbol in the first time unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11502799
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a processor that identifies a resource for a Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS); and a transmitter that transmits a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) by using a precoder based on the resource that was last transmitted. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Ryosuke Osawa, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11497045
    Abstract: A method comprises constructing, by an access point (AP), a radio frame within a scheduling window, the radio frame including at least a preamble part compatible with an existing IEEE 802.11 preamble legacy preamble, a preamble part used in a next-generation IEEE 802.11 standard (HEW preamble), and the first downlink subframe (DL subframe); sending the Legacy preamble, the HEW preamble and the first DL subframe in the radio frame; receiving at least one uplink subframe (UL subframe) located after the first DL subframe; wherein each of the at least one UL subframes is triggered by one DL subframe located before the UL subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiayin Zhang, Jun Zhu, Yingpei Lin, Xun Yang
  • Patent number: 11489641
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, devices and a computer readable medium for a restriction on a measurement for a neighbor cell. According to a method implemented by a network device in a communication system, the network device determines a neighbor cell on a frequency layer capable of cell reference signal (CRS) muting. A cell reference signal in the neighbor cell is transmitted on a predetermined physical resource if the neighbor cell enables CRS muting. In response to the determination, the network device transmits measurement restriction information to a terminal device in a cell of the network device. The measurement restriction information indicates that a radio resource management (RRM) measurement for any neighbor cell on the frequency layer is restricted to be performed on the predetermined physical resource. The embodiments of the present disclosure improve a measurement for a neighbor cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OY
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Haitao Li
  • Patent number: 11483820
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: the terminal device determining a basic parameter set for transmitting data; the terminal device detecting, according to the basic parameter set, downlink control information DCI sent by the network device for scheduling data; the terminal device detecting, according to the basic parameter set and the detected DCI, data sent by the network device, or sending data to the network device. The data transmission method, the terminal device and the network device of the embodiments of the present invention can realize the scheduling using different DCI formats for the data transmission on the basis of different basic parameter sets, and increase the flexibility of the control signaling design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11470497
    Abstract: A method and device for recording a service in a local network are described. The service includes a set of actions to be carried out on at least one terminal of the network to provide a part of the service. The method includes obtaining a unique identifier, finding capacities of the network terminals, acquiring the found terminal capacities, constructing the service as a sequence of actions on at least one found terminal via a user interface, associating the service with the unique identifier, and recording the service and the associated unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Yoann Vincent, Dimitri Bricheteau, Louis-Xavier Carbonnel
  • Patent number: 11464003
    Abstract: In a control information transmission method according to present disclosure, a user equipment acquires configuration information of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) set. The user equipment determines, according to the configuration information and from the EPDCCH set, at least one EPDCCH set in which an EPDCCH needs to be monitored. The user equipment monitors an EPDCCH on a resource corresponding to the at least one EPDCCH set, to acquire control information sent by a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yan Cheng, Lixia Xue, Brian Classon
  • Patent number: 11463204
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a method performed by a first User equipment (UE) in a wireless system is provided. The method comprises transmitting, to a second UE, a sidelink data through a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH), identifying whether a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information in response to the PSSCH is received through a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) from the second UE, generating HARQ-ACK report information based on the identified result related to the HARQ-ACK information and transmitting, to a base station (BS), the HARQ-ACK report information through a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a first slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miao Zhou, Min Wu, Feifei Sun
  • Patent number: 11445511
    Abstract: A method for information transmission adjustment includes: determining control resource adjustment information for a target UE, the control resource adjustment information being control resource adjustment information based on original scheduling that has been adjusted; sending the control resource adjustment information to the target UE, so that the target UE monitors downlink control information in the time-frequency range to which adjusted control resources belong; based on the control resource adjustment information and the time-frequency resource range of the original scheduling, allocating transmission resources for the target UE, the frequency range of transmission resources including: the frequency range of the adjusted control resources; then performing information transmission between the base station and target UE. The method for information transmission adjustment can therefore enhance scheduling adjustment efficiency and reduce transmission delays caused by scheduling adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Juejia Zhou