Patents Examined by Zewdu A Kassa
  • Patent number: 12231198
    Abstract: The present application is at least directed to an apparatus on a network including a non-transitory memory including instructions stored thereon for beamforming training. The apparatus also includes a processor, operably coupled to the non-transitory memory, capable of executing the instructions of monitoring a first beamforming training reference signal (BT-RS) and physical broadcast channel (PBCH) of a network node to acquire symbol timing and subframe timing, where a common part of the PBCH includes a first beam ID. The processor is also configured to execute the instructions of transmitting, to the network node, a beam ID feedback with a unique training sequence generated based on the first beam ID to establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection The processor is further configured to execute the instructions of receiving, from the network node, a second BT-RS to perform beamforming training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Guodong Zhang, Allan Y. Tsai, Qing Li, Pascal M. Adjakple, Lakshmi R. Iyer, Wei Chen, Joseph M. Murray
  • Patent number: 12224825
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may generate a report indicating a mapping between antenna panels and reference signal beam indications. The UE may transmit the report and apply the mapping to the antenna panels for reference signals. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12224843
    Abstract: Some aspects relate to apparatuses and methods for selecting a receiving beam based on hybrid channel based beamforming and codebook based beamforming. A user equipment (UE) can determine, based on a first measurement related to signal to noise ratio (SNR) and predetermined threshold values, whether the UE is in a low SNR state. If the UE is in a low SRN state, the UE can derive an estimated channel covariance matrix RCH for channels at a set of antenna elements of the UE based on channel based bearmforming (CHBF). Afterwards, a set of test bears {0, . . . Ntest?1} is selected based on the channel covariance matrix RCH, and a set of codebook measurement beams is further selected based on the set of test beams. A receiving beam is selected based on a set of measurements performed on the set of codebook measurement beams at the measurement opportunity for codebook based beamforming (CBBF).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Franz J. Eder, Adrian Carlos Loch Navarro, Andre Janssen, Holger Neuhaus, Kenan Kocagoez
  • Patent number: 12218879
    Abstract: A radio physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) sending method includes: obtaining, a radio physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU), wherein the PPDU includes a high efficiency-signal field A (HE-SIG-A) and a high efficiency-signal field B (HE-SIG-B), the HE-SIG-A includes a field indicating a quantity of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the HE-SIG-B, and wherein a value of the field indicates one of the following: that the quantity of OFDM symbols included in the HE-SIG-B is greater than or equal to 16, or the quantity of OFDM symbols included in the HE-SIG-B; and sending the PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Gan, Shimon Shilo, Leonid Epstein, Oded Redlich, Xun Yang, Tao Wu
  • Patent number: 12218870
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an information feedback method, an apparatus and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving, by a first terminal, N groups of reference signals sent by a second terminal, N being a positive integer, where transmission resources of the reference signals of different groups are in a pattern of time division; selecting, by the first terminal, a target reference signal based on the received N groups of reference signals; and sending, by the first terminal, index information of the target reference signal to the second terminal, where the index information is carried in a feedback channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Hai Tang, Huei-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 12218728
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for joint channel state information (CSI) measurement are described herein. A method may include receiving channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) from first and second transmit/receive points (TRPs), determining CSI, and selecting one of the TRPs as a primary TRP and a remaining one of the first TRP or the second TRP as a secondary TRP. The method may include reporting information indicating a first CSI for the primary TRP and receiving second CSI-RSs from the TRPs. The method may include determining a second CSI and a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) for the primary TRP, and determining channel coding information for the primary TRP. The method may include determining a second CSI for the secondary TRP, determining, based on channel coding information and the second CSI for the secondary TRP and a PMI for the secondary TRP, and reporting information indicating the PMI for the second TRP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Nazli Khan Beigi, Afshin Haghighat, Young Woo Kwak, Moon Il Lee
  • Patent number: 12206484
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method (1) for reception of a satellite downlink signal (31) by a signal processor (22) in communication with a plurality of satellite signal receivers (21). The plurality of satellite signal receivers (21) is arranged in accordance with a macro diversity. The method (1) comprises: digitally sampling (11) a first satellite downlink signal received by a reference receiver (21R) of the plurality of satellite signal receivers (21) and at least one further satellite downlink signal received by at least one further receiver (21F) of the plurality of satellite signal receivers (21); and constructively combining (13) the digitally sampled first satellite downlink signal (31R) and the digitally sampled at least one further satellite downlink signal (31F). A system (2) having corresponding features is also disclosed. The methods and systems especially allow for an improvement of a signal-to-noise ratio and a reduction of an antenna size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Steffen Bittner
  • Patent number: 12199714
    Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure includes a communication system and a communication method using reconfigurable intelligent surface and a reconfigurable intelligent surface device. The communication system includes at least one base station, a reconfigurable intelligent surface device, and a control at one least device. The at least one base station respectively transmits at least one beam. The reconfigurable intelligent surface device is coupled to the at least one base station, and measures the at least one beam of the at least one base station to obtain signal measurement results associated with each of the at least one base station. The control device is coupled to the at least one base station. The control device groups the at least one base station and the reconfigurable intelligent surface device into at least one group according to the signal measurement results associated with each of the at least one base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Fang, Chiu-Ping Wu, Hung-Fu Wei, Jen-Yuan Hsu
  • Patent number: 12191959
    Abstract: Aspects presented may enable RF sensing to be adaptive to the environment to improve the sensing, performance, and/or the spectrum efficiency of cellular systems and the power efficiency of RF sensing nodes. In one aspect, an RF sensing node extracts one or more features for a set of objects of an area via at least one non-RF sensor. The RF sensing node transmits, to a network entity, the one or more features or at least one non-RF measurement derived from the one or more features. The RF sensing node receives, from the network entity, an RRS transmission configuration derived based on the one or more features or the at least one non-RF measurement transmitted to the network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Fei Huang
  • Patent number: 12191948
    Abstract: A method for realizing rate-splitting multi-access in a mobile cell-free massive MIMO system includes the following steps: splitting, by an access point, the data of each user into two parts with common message and private message, coding all the common message into one super message common message stream, coding each piece of the private message into a private message stream; coding, by the access point, the private message stream using an arbitrary linear pre-coding method, coding the super common message stream using an optimal pre-coding method, and sending the final coded super common message streams to user terminals after superimposing the final coded super common message stream on the private message streams; first decoding, by the user terminals, the super common message stream, removing the super common message stream using successive interference cancellation technology, and then decoding the private message streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jiakang Zheng, Jiayi Zhang, Bo Ai
  • Patent number: 12192034
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a channel impulse response (CIR) based on multiple ultrawide band (UWB) measurements between a mobile device and a target object. The method also includes estimating a first distance between the mobile device and the target object based on an energy of the CIR. The method also includes estimating a second distance between the mobile device and the target object based on a phase of the CIR. The method also includes obtaining an estimated distance between the mobile device and the target object based on at least one of the first distance and the second distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoang Viet Nguyen, Yuming Zhu, Jiho Shin, Qiang Xie
  • Patent number: 12191970
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for determining a beam for communication between a user equipment and a base station. For example, angle of arrival estimates may be utilized for determining the beam for communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Rohit U. Nabar, Mithat C. Dogan, Parvathanathan Subrahmanya, Han Yan, Louay Jalloul
  • Patent number: 12185424
    Abstract: A method and system for secure routing of data packets includes a data stream on a first communication network formed from a plurality of data packets. A source security certificate engine is implemented on a first computerized device. The source security certificate engine: assigns a certificate signature to a data packet of the data stream on a per-packet level; assigns a network route number to the data packet of the data stream to thereby encrypt the data packet; generates at least one encryption key; and selects a carrier network path from available carrier channels, wherein the encrypted data packet is communicated over the selected carrier network path. A destination security certificate engine implemented on a second computerized device, decrypts the encrypted data packet using the at least one encryption key. The data packet may be carried in a transpositional modulation (TM) signal communicated on a TM channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: TM IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Mohan Tammisetti
  • Patent number: 12184469
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a feedback oscillator configured to output a first oscillation signal and a second oscillation signal, the second oscillation signal having a defined phase difference from the first oscillation signal, the feedback oscillator including a phase shifter configured to receive the first oscillation signal and output the second oscillation signal, an up-conversion mixer configured to output a first loopback signal obtained by mixing the first oscillation signal with a reference tone signal, and output a second loopback signal obtained by mixing the second oscillation signal with the reference tone signal, and a receiver configured to generate a first reference IQ signal from the first loopback signal, generate a second reference IQ signal from the second loopback signal, and compare an actual phase difference between the first reference IQ signal and the second reference IQ signal with the defined phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Han Kim, Sung Soo Kim, Wan Kim
  • Patent number: 12184453
    Abstract: A receiver device includes circuitry to measure an error vector of a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) sequence in a signal received from a transmitter and control logic coupled to the circuitry. The control logic removes estimated linear components from the measured error vector to generate a non-linear error vector. The control logic further determines, with reference to a set of lookup table (LUT) values, one or more tuning parameters for the PAM sequence based on the non-linear error vector and modifies the set of LUT values according to the one or more tuning parameters. The control logic further provides the modified set of LUT values to the transmitter, which when used by the transmitter to add digital pre-distortion to the PAM sequence, causes the non-linear error to be at least partially removed from the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Bjarke Vad-Miller, Johan Jacob Mohr
  • Patent number: 12184372
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE), or other network component can operate to configure channel state information (CSI) feedback in response to receiving a CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) according to a hierarchical precoding scheme that selectively reduces a feedback overhead associated with the CSI feedback. The UE can operate to divide and further sub-divide a frequency band (e.g., a wideband, or particular frequency part) into a precoding hierarchy to generate precoders for conveyance to a base station, eNodeB (eNB), or next generation NodeB (gNB) via the CSI feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12184357
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless communications systems may support methods for selection of antenna arrays and beamforming feedback. In some cases, a user equipment (UE) may monitor for an antenna blockage condition at the UE and may select a set of antenna arrays for the UE for communications between the UE and a network entity based at least in part on whether the antenna blockage condition is detected, the set of antenna arrays selected from a multiple predetermined sets of antenna arrays of the UE. Additionally, the UE may transmit, to the network entity, a message indicative of whether the antenna blockage condition is detected and may communicate with the network entity using the set of antenna arrays in accordance with whether the antenna blockage condition is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12177044
    Abstract: A data receiving device may include a dummy stage block. The dummy stage block may include m dummy stages, wherein m is a natural number greater than or equal to two. Each of the m dummy stages may be configured to remove inter-symbol interference (ISI) from a dummy input signal using dummy coefficient information to generate a dummy output signal free of the ISI. Each of the m dummy stages may be further configured to output the dummy output signal. A normal stage block may include n normal stages, wherein n is a natural number greater than or equal to two. Each of the n normal stages may be configured to remove ISI from an input signal using coefficient information to generate an output signal free of the ISI and may be further configured to output the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Ook Jung, Jae Woo Park, Myoung Bo Kwak, Young Min Ku, Kyoung Jun Roh, Jung Hwan Choi
  • Patent number: 12176977
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may transmit an indication of supported types of signaling hardware of the mobile station. The mobile station may receive an indication of a selection of a type of signaling hardware, of the supported types of signaling hardware, to use in communication with a network node. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Idan Michael Horn, Yehonatan Dallal, Shay Landis, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger
  • Patent number: 12155436
    Abstract: This application relates to a method of performing wireless communications between a hub station and a plurality of user terminals. The method comprises transmitting radio signals to subsets of user terminals among the plurality of user terminals with sets of active beams, wherein the active beams have beam centers that are determined based on locations of the user terminals. The method further comprises, for each of a plurality of radio resource blocks: selecting a subset of user terminals among the plurality of user terminals; for each user terminal among the subset of user terminals, determining a beam center based on a location of the respective user terminal; and transmitting, using the respective radio resource block, radio signals to the user terminals among the selected subset of user terminals, in beams corresponding to the determined beam centers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
    Inventors: Riccardo De Gaudenzi, Piero Angeletti