Patents Examined by Zewdu Kassa
  • Patent number: 10211896
    Abstract: A system facilitating dynamic layer mapping with multiple downlink control channels wireless communication system is provided herein. In one example, a method, comprises: determining, by a BS device, for a selected mobile device, a type of downlink control channel configuration to transmit to a mobile device; and in response to determining to transmit multiple downlink control channels as the type of downlink control channel configuration, identifying a layer to couple to the downlink control channel configuration. Determining the type of downlink control channel configuration to transmit can comprise: determining to transmit multiple downlink control channels if a rank is higher than a defined value; and determining to transmit a single control channel in lieu of transmitting the multiple control channels if a rank is less than or equal to the defined value. The method can also include scheduling the layer for transmission to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Milap Majmundar, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 10205620
    Abstract: In a transmission circuit that transmits transmission data using an amplitude shift modulation method (ASK modulation method) for changing an amplitude of carrier waves based on the transmission data or a transmission system that uses the transmission circuit, a phase of the carrier waves is changed based on the transmission data to suppress an irradiation of carrier wave components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Norihito Mihota
  • Patent number: 10205496
    Abstract: A transmission device comprising: a weighting circuity which, in operation, generates transmission signals of n streams (n is an integer of 3 or more) by weighting modulated signals of the n streams using a predetermined fixed precoding matrix; a phase changing circuity which, in operation, regularly changes each phase of a symbol series included in each of the transmission signals of the n streams; and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits the transmission signals of the n streams from different antennas, the phases of each of the transmission signals of the n streams being changed in each symbol, wherein the transmission signal of an i-th stream has an mi kind of phase change value yi(t) (i is an integer between 1 and n (inclusive), 0?yi<2?, and mi is set in each stream, t is an integer of 0 or more, and indicates a symbol slot), and the phase changing circuity changes the phase in one or more u (u=m1×m2× . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 10200961
    Abstract: A method and system for facilitating operational adjustment of a User Equipment (UE) to a Long Term Evolution (LTE) cell serviced by an evolved NodeB (eNB). The eNB transmits a burst of multiple signals, each indicative of a Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), and transmitted within a predetermined time frame. The UE, receives at least one signal of the burst, decodes the PSS based on the received at least one signal, and performs the operational adjustment based on the decoded PSS. The operational adjustment can include performing synchronization of the UE to the LTE cell and/or acquiring symbol timing of the LTE cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Sierra Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Gustav Gerald Vos, Naveen Mysore Balasubramanya, Steven John Bennett, Lutz Hans-Joachim Lampe
  • Patent number: 10200099
    Abstract: The present specification relates to a method by which a terminal designs a hierarchical structure precoder in a vehicle-to-vehicle communication system. The method for designing a hierarchical structure precoder can comprise the steps of: receiving group information indicating a terminal group on the basis of a direction of a first-type beam; feeding back preference information on the first-type beam on the basis of the group information; receiving first-type beam information determined on the basis of the preference information; designing a hierarchical structure precoder including a first precoder and a second precoder, on the basis of the received first-type beam information; and feeding back channel information on the basis of the hierarchical structure precoder, wherein the first precoder can be precoder information on the first-type beam direction, and the second precoder can be precoder information on a second-type beam direction in the first-type beam direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Heejin Kim, Jiwon Kang, Kitae Kim, Kilbom Lee, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 10193610
    Abstract: MU-MIMO provides a mechanism for a wireless network device to transmit to multiple client devices at the same time. When employing MU-MIMO, a network device may group two or more associated client devices, and transmit beamformed signals to each group. In some implementations, a network device may initiate channel sounding. Channel sounding may include transmitting sounding frames to client devices associated with two or more basic service sets. Channel sounding may facilitate beamforming transmissions to client devices associated with the two or more basic service sets. The network device may receive feedback frames from client devices associated with the two or more basic service sets. A feedback frame may indicate how a sounding frame was received. In some implementations, the network device may further construct a feedback table from the feedback frames. The feedback table may facilitate grouping of the client devices for beamforming transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Gaurav Patwardhan, Kiran Ashokan, Mohd Shahnawaz Siraj, Satish Damodaran
  • Patent number: 10187096
    Abstract: A system comprises a microwave backhaul outdoor unit having a first resonant circuit, phase error determination circuitry, and phase error compensation circuitry. The first resonant circuit is operable to generate a first signal characterized by a first amount of phase noise and a first amount of temperature stability. The phase error determination circuitry is operable to generate a phase error signal indicative of phase error between the first signal and a second signal, wherein the second signal is characterized by a second amount of phase noise that is greater than the first amount of phase noise, and the second signal is characterized by a second amount of temperature instability that is less than the first amount of temperature instability. The phase error compensation circuitry is operable to adjust the phase of a data signal based on the phase error signal, the adjustment resulting in a phase compensated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Maxlinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Subramanian Anantharaman Chandrasekarapuram, Anand Anandakumar, Stephane Laurent-Michel, Sheng Ye, Raja Pullela, Glenn Chang, Vamsi Paidi
  • Patent number: 10181866
    Abstract: An outphasing transmitter includes a combiner, a decomposition block, first and second power amplifiers, and antennas in a phased array antenna panel. The combiner combines a plurality of beamforming signals into a composite input signal. The decomposition block decomposes the composite input signal into first and second decomposed radio frequency (RF) signals coupled to the first and second power amplifiers. Non-overlapping sub-arrays of the antennas may be uniquely associated with the first and second power amplifiers. Alternatively, groups of interleaved antenna rows may be uniquely associated with the first and second power amplifiers. Alternatively, random pluralities of the antennas may be randomly hard-wired to the first and second power amplifiers. Alternatively, pluralities of the antennas may be dynamically and selectably assigned to the first and second power amplifiers. The phased array antenna panel forms a plurality of RF beams corresponding to the plurality of RF beamforming signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Movandi Corporation
    Inventors: Sam Gharavi, Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran, Farid Shirinfar
  • Patent number: 10177830
    Abstract: An array antenna system 3 includes: a transmission unit 14 to which a plurality of pulse signals are given, the pulse signals being obtained by pulse-modulation of digital transmission signals, and including analog transmission signals corresponding to the digital transmission signals, the transmission unit 14 being configured to transmit, as radio signals, the plurality of analog transmission signals included in the plurality of pulse signals; and a plurality of adjustment units 15 configured to perform, for the plurality of pulse signals to be given to the transmission unit 14, an adjustment process for adjusting the relationship of relative phases of the plurality of analog transmission signals included in the plurality of pulse signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Maehata
  • Patent number: 10171145
    Abstract: The present invention provides a codebook configuration method and user equipment. The UE receives a reference signal that is of an antenna whose quantity of antenna ports is X and that is sent by a base station and configuration information of a codebook subset restriction for the quantity X of antenna ports, where the configuration information of the codebook subset restriction for the quantity X of antenna ports includes first configuration information and second configuration information; determines, according to the configuration information of the codebook subset restriction for the quantity X of antenna ports, a precoding matrix on which channel measurement and feedback need to be performed; and obtains, by means of measurement according to the reference signal, the precoding matrix on which channel measurement and feedback need to be performed and that is of antenna ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunpeng Liu, Jianghua Liu, Leiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 10164740
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for multiplexing signals using layered division multiplexing are disclosed. A signal multiplexing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to combine a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels to generate a multiplexed signal, a power normalizer configured to reduce power of the multiplexed signal to power corresponding to the core layer signal, and a time interleaver configured to perform interleaving applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung-Ik Park, Jae-Young Lee, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Heung-Mook Kim, Nam-Ho Hur
  • Patent number: 10159073
    Abstract: Frequency management methods and communication networks utilizing such frequency management methods are disclosed. More specifically, multiple frequency sets may be utilized to facilitate frequency hopping and a frequency management method may implement various switching schemes to switch between the different frequency sets. Techniques such as synchronization and spectrum harvesting may also be provided to support utilization of multiple frequency sets, all of which may provide improved operation reliabilities and better handling of jamming signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: John Thommana, Naveen Rajanikantha, Lizy Paul
  • Patent number: 10153821
    Abstract: The present invention relates to precoding and feedback channel information in wireless communication system. A method includes receiving a first Precoding Matrix Index (PMI) and a second PMI from a terminal; mapping one or two codewords into layers; precoding symbols mapped into the layers using a first precoding matrix derived from the first PMI and a second precoding matrix derived from the second PMI; and transmitting the precoded symbols to the terminal, wherein the reception of the first PMI is less frequent than the reception of the second PMI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: GOLDPEAK INNOVATIONS INC
    Inventors: Jianjun Li, Kyoungmin Park
  • Patent number: 10142095
    Abstract: A integrated circuit (IC) chip can include a root timer that generates a frame pulse based on a start trigger signal. The IC chip can also include a hardware clock control that provides a clock signal based on a selected one of the frame pulse and the synchronization signal provided from one of the root timer and another IC chip. The IC chip can further include a plurality of analog to digital converters (ADCs). Each of the plurality of ADCs being configured to sample an output of a respective one of a plurality of radio frequency (RF) receivers based on the clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jasbir Singh Nayyar, Brian Ginsburg, Karthik Subburaj
  • Patent number: 10135658
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provide reception of control signaling in a wireless communication network. A preamble transmission can be detected from a second device in a first set of at least one Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol starting with a first OFDM symbol in a subframe received on a secondary serving cell operating on an unlicensed carrier, the first OFDM symbol having a first Cyclic Prefix (CP). A second OFDM symbol in the subframe can be determined such that the second OFDM symbol immediately follows the first set of OFDM symbols. Downlink Control Information (DCI) containing a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) resource assignment can be decoded in a second set of OFDM symbols beginning with the second OFDM symbol, the second set of OFDM symbols having a second CP. The duration of the first CP is larger than the duration of the second CP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Ravikiran Nory, Vijay Nangia, Ajit Nimbalker
  • Patent number: 10128892
    Abstract: Systems and methods of tuning SerDes links between transmitter SerDes channels and receiver SerDes channels are described. Generally, the SerDes links may be tuned using a generic SerDes tuner implementation and a tuning algorithm. The tuning algorithm may have a first tuner interface specific to the transmitter SerDes device and a second tuner interface specific to the receiver SerDes device. The tuning algorithm may define a sequence of operations from the first tuner interface and the second tuner interface that when executed result in calibration of the SerDes link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventor: John Moghaddas
  • Patent number: 10128925
    Abstract: In the present invention, disclosed is a method for uplink multi-user transmission in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for performing, by a station (STA), uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmission in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from an access point (AP), a trigger frame including information for UL MU transmission; and transmitting an UL MU PPDU on the basis of the information for UL MU transmission, wherein the trigger frame is a medium access control (MAC) frame, a MAC header of the trigger frame includes a type field and a subtype field, and the type of the trigger frame may be indicated by the type field and the subtype field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinyoung Chun, Kiseon Ryu, Wookbong Lee, Jinsoo Choi, Hangyu Cho, Suhwook Kim
  • Patent number: 10128924
    Abstract: A state of a detection signal received from a proximity detector is determined. The first proximity detector is incorporated with a primary antenna at an information handling system. The proximity detector can assert the detection signal in response to detecting that an object external to the information handling system is located close to the proximity detector. A second antenna is coupled to a wireless communication circuit at the information handling system if the detection signal is asserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
    Inventors: Ching-Wei Chang, I-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10122528
    Abstract: In order to address the needs of narrow band communication, eNB-based processing and/or UE-based processing is provided to achieve robust detection of cell ID and SFN timing location using NB-SSS. A base station constructs a NB-SSS signal using a root index of a Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence, a scrambling code, a cyclic shift or phase ramping sequence, and an interleaving sequence, wherein a combination of the ZC root index, the scrambling code index, the cyclic shift or phase ramping sequence index, and the interleaving sequence index signals information for a cell identifier (e.g., PCID) and frame timing. The ZC sequence used may be a long ZC sequence constructed to span a total number of tones allocated to an SSS sequence or may be a concatenation of multiple ZC sequences, wherein the concatenated ZC sequences span a total number of tones allocated to an SSS sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu, Wanshi Chen, Xiao feng Wang
  • Patent number: 10122558
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provide reception of control signaling in a wireless communication network. Downlink Control Information (DCI) containing PDSCH resource assignments can be received in one of two types of control channels in a subframe. A type of truncation of the subframe can be determined based on the type of control channel on which the DCI is received. The PDSCH can be decoded based on at least the determined type of truncation of the subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Ravikiran Nory, Vijay Nangia, Ajit Nimbalker