Patents by Inventor Alberto RICO ALVARINO

Alberto RICO ALVARINO has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240250790
    Abstract: A signal processing method includes: transmitting, to a network entity from a user equipment, a capability indication indicating that the user equipment is capable of processing a plurality of positioning reference signals, of a plurality of different frequencies corresponding to different frequency layers, that at least partially overlap in receipt time at the user equipment; receiving the plurality of positioning reference signals at the user equipment at least partially overlapping in time; and processing the plurality of positioning reference signals at the user equipment in accordance with the capability indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Mukesh KUMAR, Srinivas YERRAMALLI, Alberto RICO ALVARINO
  • Publication number: 20240251437
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for improved sidelink discovery communication. An example method performed by a user equipment (UE) generally includes deciding, when a conflict occurs between a sidelink discovery message and at least one other transmission in a transmission period, whether to transmit the sidelink discovery message or the at least one other transmission based, at least in part, on a priority of the sidelink discovery message; and transmitting the sidelink discovery message or the at least one other transmission in the transmission period, in accordance with the decision. Another example method by a UE generally includes signaling a capability of the UE to simultaneously receive, during a reception period, on a downlink and a sidelink; and receiving on the downlink while also receiving on the sidelink, in accordance with the capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Kianoush HOSSEINI, Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Gabi SARKIS, Hong CHENG, Peng CHENG
  • Patent number: 12047974
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to indicating downlink control information (DCI) for multicast and/or broadcast (MB) communications using DCI formats that may be based on existing DCI formats and/or size for unicast communications, paging signals, system information signals, etc., or may include shortened formats without fields for information that may not be used in MB communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Peter Gaal, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Ayan Sengupta, Kazuki Takeda, Umesh Phuyal
  • Patent number: 12047806
    Abstract: Various embodiments may provide methods, systems, and devices for supporting application level discovery of Radio Access Network (RAN) statistics and/or events. Various embodiments may provide methods, systems, and devices for supporting application level signaling of Quality of Service (QoS) requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Liangping Ma, Nikolai Konrad Leung, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Min Wang, Thomas Stockhammer, Leena Zacharias, Yong He, Imed Bouazizi, Muhammed Zeyd Coban, Umesh Phuyal, Louis Joseph Kerofsky
  • Publication number: 20240243821
    Abstract: Aspects are provided which resolve neighbor beam-wise interference. A UE obtains a plurality of reference signals from each of at least one neighbor base station, where each of the reference signals is obtained in a different beam, and each of the neighbor base station(s) is in a different neighbor cell. The UE then measures a signal strength associated with each of the reference signals, and the UE indicates one or more of the reference signals to a serving base station in a serving cell, where the signal strength of each of the reference signal(s) indicated to the serving base station exceeds a threshold RSRP. After the serving base station obtains the indication from the UE, the serving base station coordinates with the neighbor base station(s) to modify one or more transmission parameters in response to the indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yiqing CAO, Peter GAAL, Bin HAN, Ting WANG, Xiao Feng WANG, Liangping MA, Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Yan LI, Zhimin DU, Lu GAO
  • Patent number: 12041012
    Abstract: Aspects in a wireless network are disclosed. A user equipment (UE) may report, to a base station, a capability of the UE to simultaneously transmit sounding reference signal (SRS) resources between component carriers (CCs) in carrier aggregation (CA) across at least one frequency band using a specified arrangement of antenna ports and antennas. The UE may receive, from the base station, a configuration to simultaneously transmit the SRS resources using antenna switching for the CCs across the at least one frequency band and the specified arrangement of antenna ports and antennas. The UE may transmit the SRS resources simultaneously between at least two of the plurality of CCs in the at least one frequency band using the received configuration. Among other benefits, this dynamic allocation of resources enables the UE to perform at a level commensurate with its intrinsic capabilities, increasing network efficiency and speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Pranay Sudeep Rungta, Enoch Shiao-Kuang Lu
  • Patent number: 12041637
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE or a component thereof configured to receive, from a base station, SPS configuration information for broadcast and/or multicast indicating a set of resources configured for feedback, with each transmit (TX) beam of a set of TX beams corresponding to a respective subset of the set of resources. The apparatus may be further configured to receive SPS signaling from the base station via one or more TX beams of the set of TX beams over each of a set of SPS occasions. The apparatus may be further configured to transmit feedback to the base station on one or more subsets of the set of resources respectively corresponding to the one or more TX beams based on the SPS signaling, the feedback indicating one of acknowledgement (ACK) or non-acknowledgement (NACK).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Liu, Kazuki Takeda, Wanshi Chen, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo
  • Publication number: 20240237036
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some wireless communications systems, a user equipment (UE) may support two or more uplink switching periods for transmit chain switching. The UE may transmit a UE capability message indicating the UE capability to support a first uplink switching period and a second uplink switching period for transmit chain switching. The first uplink switching period and the second uplink switching period may each correspond to different switching periods associated with configuration switches between different transmit chain configurations of the UE. The UE and a base station may select an uplink switching period from among the first uplink switching period and the second uplink switching period. The UE may transmit an uplink data message to the base station after a preparation time that is based on the uplink switching period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yiqing CAO, Peter GAAL, Timo Ville VINTOLA, Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Kazuki TAKEDA, Wanshi CHEN, Bin HAN, Yan LI, Zhimin DU
  • Publication number: 20240237005
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit downlink control information (DCI) to a user equipment (UE) indicating a joint field for at least a first component carrier (CC) and a second CC of a carrier aggregation configuration. For example, the joint field may include a rate matching (RM) indication for the first CC and the second CC, a zero power channel state information reference signal (ZP-CSI-RS) indication for the first CC and the second CC, or both. In some cases, the RM indication may include a common RM resource (RMR) configuration applicable for both the first CC and the second CC or per-CC RMR configurations that indicate separate RMRs for each of the CCs. Additionally, the ZP-CSI-RS indication may include a set identifier that indicates a resource set for ZP-CSI-RS resources for both the first CC and the second CC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuki TAKEDA, Wanshi CHEN, Peter GAAL, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Huilin XU, Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Tao LUO, Alberto RICO ALVARINO
  • Publication number: 20240236843
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A network entity (e.g., a satellite) may receive control signaling indicating a discontinuous service coverage at a user equipment (UE). The network entity may transmit coverage assistance information indicating a discontinuous service coverage pattern to the UE. The UE, the network entity, or both may determine one or more parameters for a power saving mode at the UE, such as a duration of an active time, a duration of an inactive time, a duration of a keep alive time, or a combination thereof based on the coverage assistance information. In some cases, the UE may transmit an indication of the power saving mode parameters to the network entity. The network entity may transmit a control message to the UE in accordance with the parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Amer Catovic, Mungal Singh Dhanda, Stephen William Edge, Umesh Phuyal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Ayan Sengupta, Bharat Shrestha, Haris Zisimopoulos
  • Patent number: 12034520
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling identifying a configuration of a set of uplink slots for the UE to transmit uplink reference signals to a satellite. The UE may transmit, to the satellite, a set of uplink reference signals on the set of uplink slots according to the configuration. The set of uplink reference signals may include sounding reference signals (SRSs), positioning references signals (PRSs), or both. In some implementations, the UE may transmit the set of uplink reference signals in accordance with one or more timing advance values, where the timing advance values are indicated to the satellite by the UE, pre-configured by the satellite, or both. The UE may then, from a network node, an indication of a position of the UE based on the set of uplink reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Liangping Ma, Xiao Feng Wang, Harikumar Krishnamurthy, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Ayan Sengupta, Bharat Shrestha
  • Patent number: 12035182
    Abstract: A user equipment may be configured to perform cell reselection during a gateway or satellite switch. In some aspects, the user equipment may select a current cell of a satellite device in a radio access network (RAN) and receive, from the satellite device, cell reselection information for identifying a destination cell for selection in response to a link modification. Further, the user equipment may select, via a cell reselection process, the destination cell based on the cell reselection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bharat Shrestha, Xiao Feng Wang, Ayan Sengupta, Umesh Phuyal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Mungal Singh Dhanda, Liangping Ma
  • Patent number: 12035334
    Abstract: Embodiments include systems, methods, and devices for radio resource allocation to support multicast services in a network, such as a Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR)(5G NR), etc. In some embodiments, the methods may be performed by a processor of the base station. In some embodiments, the methods may be performed by a processor of a wireless device. Various embodiments may include configuring two or more downlink (DL) frequency resources for multicast communication within a carrier bandwidth. Various embodiments may include selecting a DL frequency resource for multicast communication of the two or more DL frequency resources for multicast communication to monitor for transmission of multicast data from a base station based at least in part on an active DL bandwidth part (BWP) of a wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Kazuki Takeda, Le Liu
  • Patent number: 12035263
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which UEs may communicate with satellites or base stations, or both in a non-terrestrial network. Due to large distances between transmitting devices and receiving devices in a non-terrestrial network, the UE may account for propagation delay and frequency shift of communications with a satellite based on location information of the satellite. The UE may receive first satellite location information from a base station or a satellite, via a broadcast message. The UE may receive second satellite location information from the wireless network node via a unicast message, where both the first satellite location information and the second satellite location information relate to a same satellite. The UE may transmit an uplink communication via the satellite based on at least one of the first satellite location information or the second satellite location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ayan Sengupta, Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Xiao Feng Wang, Mungal Singh Dhanda, Jun Ma, Peter Gaal, Bharat Shrestha, Liangping Ma, Umesh Phuyal
  • Publication number: 20240224339
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support configuring associations between system information of at least one downlink (DL) anchor carrier and at least one random access channel (RACH) occasion (RO) of an uplink (UL) anchor carrier for initial access in flexible multicarrier operations. System information may be transmitted by a base station to a UE over the DL anchor carrier. In aspects, the at least one DL anchor carrier may be mapped to an UL anchor carrier, or to one or more candidate UL anchor carriers from which the UE may configurably select the UL anchor carrier, for initial access operations. In aspects, the UL anchor carrier and/or the one or more candidate UL anchor carriers may be respectively associated with one or more ROs. The UE may perform initial access operations over the UL anchor carrier using the associated one or more ROs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yiqing Cao, Jing Lei, Peter Gaal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Kazuki Takeda, Juan Montojo, Wanshi Chen, Bin Han, Ting Wang, Yan Li, Zhimin Du, Kefeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240223314
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive information indicating whether hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback is disabled for one or more HARQ processes. The UE may receive a downlink communication. The downlink communication may include a HARQ process identifier that indicates a HARQ process to be used for the downlink communication. The UE may selectively provide HARQ feedback for the downlink communication based at least in part on the HARQ identifier and information indicating whether HARQ feedback is disabled for the HARQ process. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Bharat SHRESTHA, Umesh PHUYAL, Xiao Feng WANG, Alberto RICO ALVARINO
  • Publication number: 20240224058
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine an antenna switching capability for the UE that relates to a capability of the UE to switch an antenna for a plurality of bands that are included in a band combination of a set of band combinations supported by the UE, wherein at least two bands of the plurality of bands correspond to a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT respectively. The UE may signal the set of band combinations and the antenna switching capability to a base station. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Masato KITAZOE, Peter GAAL, Le LIU, Aziz GHOLMIEH, Umesh PHUYAL, Amir FARAJIDANA, Seyedkianoush HOSSEINI
  • Publication number: 20240224206
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network entity may cause a first transmission reception point (TRP) to transmit a first communication using a first time value derived from a first transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state including a set of first quasi co-location (QCL) parameters of the first TRP. The network entity may cause a second TRP to transmit a second communication using a timing pre-compensation value relative to the first time value. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Le LIU, Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Xiao Feng WANG, Peter GAAL, Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Chiranjib SAHA, Harikumar KRISHNAMURTHY, Ayan SENGUPTA, Bharat SHRESTHA, Umesh PHUYAL
  • Patent number: 12028157
    Abstract: Aspects relate to techniques for MCS selection of a packet to be network coded for sidelink communication. A transmitting UE may encode a packet using an MCS that is greater than a normal MCS that may be used for encoding the packet without network coding. The transmitting UE may then transmit the encoded packet to one or more receiving UEs and a network coding device over a sidelink data channel. The transmitting UE may further transmit a network coding request flag associated with the packet to initiate one or more retransmissions of the packet by the network coding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gabi Sarkis, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Guangyi Liu
  • Publication number: 20240215013
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station. UE capability information including a first indication of a first capability of the UE for downlink reception in a plurality of frequency spectrum bands using a first radio frequency receive chain and a second indication of a second capability of the UE for uplink transmission in the plurality of frequency spectrum bands using a second radio frequency transmit chain. The UE may receive at least one of a measurement configuration associated with downlink reference signals for the plurality of frequency spectrum bands or a transmission configuration associated with uplink reference signals for the plurality of frequency spectrum bands. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Yiqing CAO, Peter GAAL, Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Juan MONTOJO, Wanshi CHEN, Kazuki TAKEDA, Bin HAN, Yan LI, Zhimin DU, Kefeng ZHANG