Patents by Inventor Alessandro Risso

Alessandro Risso 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: 20260019320
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. Some aspects more specifically provide procedures and configurations used to perform, at a transmitter, probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) communications using non-binary polar coding (NBPC). NBPC differs from binary polar coding (BPC) in that BPC uses a binary-input channel whereas NBPC uses a non-binary input channel. For example, while BPC uses a log likelihood ratio (LLR) with a single value corresponding to a given bit to be shaped, NBPC may use a probability mass function (PMF) to define or represent amplitude shaping target values. As another example, aspects use non-binary transformations, which reduce the number of passes to shape q bits from q passes (for BPC) to 1 pass (for NBPC).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2025
    Publication date: January 15, 2026
    Inventors: Alessandro RISSO, Shravan Kumar Reddy GARLAPATI, Afshin HAFTBARADARAN, Li ZHANG, Wei YANG, Jing JIANG, Hari SANKAR, Harsha ACHARYA, Hobin KIM
  • Publication number: 20260005935
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a receiver may receive a known data indicator (KDI) indicating whether a next control information transmission comprises one or more fields associated with values that are unchanged with respect to a preceding control information transmission. The receiver may receive the next control information transmission. The receiver may decode the next control information transmission in accordance with the KDI. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Inventors: Shravan Kumar Reddy GARLAPATI, Wei YANG, Afshin HAFTBARADARAN, Alessandro RISSO, Li ZHANG, Jing JIANG
  • Publication number: 20250386357
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a UE may receive a format indication of a DCI format that includes one or more changed fields having changed values with respect to a previous DCI and one or more unchanged fields having unchanged values with respect to the previous DCI. The UE may receive DCI having the DCI format. The UE may decode the one or more changed fields and not the one or more unchanged fields. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2024
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: Shravan Kumar Reddy GARLAPATI, Wei YANG, Alessandro RISSO, Afshin HAFTBARADARAN, Li ZHANG, Jing JIANG
  • Patent number: 12500695
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first network entity may receive, from a second network entity, an encoded communication. The first network entity may decode the encoded communication to obtain a communication via a list-based decoding scheme that includes respective parity check operations for each list of decoded information of a set of one or more lists of decoded information, the parity check operations being configured to be performed prior to a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) operation for the one or more lists of decoded information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shravan Kumar Reddy Garlapati, Alessandro Risso, Wei Yang, Afshin Haftbaradaran, Li Zhang, Jing Jiang, Hobin Kim, Hari Sankar
  • Publication number: 20250379678
    Abstract: Some examples of the techniques described herein may provide schemes to organize shaped payload bits, non-shaped payload bits, and parity bits to allow an increased quantity of bits to be shaped for enhanced performance. Interleaving may be utilized in some aspects to enhance robustness to burst errors. For instance, interleaving schemes for enhancing bit orderings and interleaving are provided. In some approaches, permutation and row-column interleaving may be performed with a quantity of rows. Some approaches may utilize circular rotation and row-column interleaving with a quantity of rows. In some examples, permutation with alphabet-based row-column interleaving with fixed rows may be performed. Some aspects may include permutation and row-column interleaving with a quantity of rows when punctured columns are shaped. In some approaches for modulation mapping, each set of bits may be mapped to a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2024
    Publication date: December 11, 2025
    Inventors: Ming Ta LIN, Alessandro RISSO, Li ZHANG, Wei YANG, Jing JIANG, Hari SANKAR, Harsha ACHARYA, Hobin KIM
  • Patent number: 12463857
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. Some aspects more specifically provide procedures and configurations used to perform, at a transmitter, probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) communications using non-binary polar coding (NBPC). NBPC differs from binary polar coding (BPC) in that BPC uses a binary-input channel whereas NBPC uses a non-binary input channel. For example, while BPC uses a log likelihood ratio (LLR) with a single value corresponding to a given bit to be shaped, NBPC may use a probability mass function (PMF) to define or represent amplitude shaping target values. As another example, aspects use non-binary transformations, which reduce the number of passes to shape q bits from q passes (for BPC) to 1 pass (for NBPC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alessandro Risso, Shravan Kumar Reddy Garlapati, Afshin Haftbaradaran, Li Zhang, Wei Yang, Jing Jiang, Hari Sankar, Harsha Acharya, Hobin Kim
  • Publication number: 20250300765
    Abstract: A receiver receives a wireless transmission and decodes the wireless transmission based on a non-binary polar successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder algorithm in which a path metric (PM) computation uses a maximum approximation based on logarithmic normalized values for random variable probabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Inventors: Afshin HAFTBARADARAN, Alessandro RISSO, Shravan Kumar Reddy GARLAPATI, Li ZHANG, Wei YANG, Kirill IVANOV, Jing JIANG, Seyyed Ali HASHEMI, Hobin KIM, Hari SANKAR
  • Publication number: 20250286657
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a maximum supported code block (CB) size for a data channel. The UE may process a data channel communication based at least in part on the maximum supported CB size. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Publication date: September 11, 2025
    Inventors: Ashutosh Vinod AGRAWAL, Murali KOLLENGODE RAMACHANDRAN, Harsha ACHARYA, Shashidhar VUMMINTALA, Alessandro RISSO, Tiben CHE, Jaeyoung KWAK
  • Publication number: 20250286768
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. Some aspects more specifically provide procedures and configurations used to perform, at a transmitter, probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) communications using non-binary polar coding (NBPC). NBPC differs from binary polar coding (BPC) in that BPC uses a binary-input channel whereas NBPC uses a non-binary input channel. For example, while BPC uses a log likelihood ratio (LLR) with a single value corresponding to a given bit to be shaped, NBPC may use a probability mass function (PMF) to define or represent amplitude shaping target values. As another example, aspects use non-binary transformations, which reduce the number of passes to shape q bits from q passes (for BPC) to 1 pass (for NBPC).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Publication date: September 11, 2025
    Inventors: Alessandro RISSO, Shravan Kumar Reddy GARLAPATI, Afshin HAFTBARADARAN, Li ZHANG, Wei YANG, Jing JIANG, Hari SANKAR, Harsha ACHARYA, Hobin KIM
  • Publication number: 20250279851
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first network entity may receive, from a second network entity, an encoded communication. The first network entity may decode the encoded communication to obtain a communication via a list-based decoding scheme that includes respective parity check operations for each list of decoded information of a set of one or more lists of decoded information, the parity check operations being configured to be performed prior to a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) operation for the one or more lists of decoded information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: September 4, 2025
    Inventors: Shravan Kumar Reddy GARLAPATI, Alessandro RISSO, Wei YANG, Afshin HAFTBARADARAN, Li ZHANG, Jing JIANG, Hobin KIM, Hari SANKAR
  • Publication number: 20250202619
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may receive a transmission associated with one or more bits. The wireless communication device may decode the transmission using an average of one or more confidence level values, associated with the one or more bits, over a quantity of the one or more confidence level values and an offset that is based at least in part on the quantity of the one or more confidence level values. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Lev TAUZ, Seyyed Ali HASHEMI, Hari SANKAR, Hobin KIM, Tiben CHE, Harsha ACHARYA, Alessandro RISSO
  • Patent number: 11870576
    Abstract: An apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus may be a receiver device that includes an error correction decoder, such as a low-density parity check (LDPC) decoder. The apparatus may achieve power savings and/or operation cycle savings by disabling the error correction decoder in scenarios where bits of a codeword in a signal transmission are received without errors. The apparatus obtains a first set of bits of a codeword, wherein the codeword includes the first set of bits and a second set of bits, and wherein the second set of bits is punctured. The apparatus recovers the second set of bits based on at least the first set of bits and determines whether to operate an error correction decoder based on a result of an error detection operation performed on the codeword using the first set of bits and the second set of bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hobin Kim, Hari Sankar, Alessandro Risso, Harsha Acharya, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Li Zhang
  • Patent number: 11784749
    Abstract: An apparatus may be configured to receive a polar-encoded transmission comprising at least one intermediate node associated with a first configuration of frozen leaf nodes and information leaf nodes. The apparatus may further be configured to apply an FHT to a first set of values associated with a first intermediate node of the at least one intermediate node to generate a second set of values associated with the first intermediate node. The apparatus may also be configured to select, based on the second set of values, one or more paths associated with the first intermediate node for a SSCL decoding. The apparatus may further be configured to calculate a path metric for each of the selected one or more paths associated with the first intermediate node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Erman Koken, Gabi Sarkis, Hobin Kim, Hari Sankar, Omar Mehanna, Shravan Kumar Reddy Garlapati, Alessandro Risso, Afshin Haftbaradaran
  • Publication number: 20230318741
    Abstract: An apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus may be a receiver device that includes an error correction decoder, such as a low-density parity check (LDPC) decoder. The apparatus may achieve power savings and/or operation cycle savings by disabling the error correction decoder in scenarios where bits of a codeword in a signal transmission are received without errors. The apparatus obtains a first set of bits of a codeword, wherein the codeword includes the first set of bits and a second set of bits, and wherein the second set of bits is punctured. The apparatus recovers the second set of bits based on at least the first set of bits and determines whether to operate an error correction decoder based on a result of an error detection operation performed on the codeword using the first set of bits and the second set of bits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hobin KIM, Hari SANKAR, Alessandro RISSO, Harsha ACHARYA, Alexei Yurievitch GOROKHOV, Li ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230261785
    Abstract: An apparatus may be configured to receive a polar-encoded transmission comprising at least one intermediate node associated with a first configuration of frozen leaf nodes and information leaf nodes. The apparatus may further be configured to apply an FHT to a first set of values associated with a first intermediate node of the at least one intermediate node to generate a second set of values associated with the first intermediate node. The apparatus may also be configured to select, based on the second set of values, one or more paths associated with the first intermediate node for a SSCL decoding. The apparatus may further be configured to calculate a path metric for each of the selected one or more paths associated with the first intermediate node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Erman KOKEN, Gabi SARKIS, Hobin KIM, Hari SANKAR, Omar MEHANNA, Shravan Kumar Reddy GARLAPATI, Alessandro RISSO, Afshin HAFTBARADARAN
  • Patent number: 11595177
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A shared channel may include a set of tones carrying multiple types of control information multiplexed together. A wireless device may perform a tone classification method to determine individual subsets of tones from the set of tones for each type of control information to extract each type of control information. The wireless device may determine multiple subsets of tones correspond to multiple types of control information simultaneously based on different extraction parameters. For example, the wireless device may determine a total number of tones in a set of tones, a distance between any given two tones in the set of tones, an offset value, or any combination thereof for the extraction parameters. The wireless device may then use these extraction parameters to determine or extract two or more subsets of tones for two or more corresponding types of control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ming Ta Lin, Afshin Haftbaradaran, Shravan Kumar Reddy Garlapati, Cunzhen Liu, Alessandro Risso, Li Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220360365
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a receiving node may determine a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) based at least in part on log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) associated with downlink control information (DCI) received from a transmitting node. The receiving node may perform a full unmasking of the CRC using a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) based at least in part on a descrambling of the CRC with the RNTI, wherein a number of bits associated with the RNTI is associated with a number of bits associated with the CRC. The receiving node may initiate an early termination of a decoding of the LLRs based at least in part on the full unmasking of the CRC. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Shravan Kumar Reddy GARLAPATI, Afshin HAFTBARADARAN, Alessandro RISSO, Li ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11496243
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a receiving node may determine a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) based at least in part on log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) associated with downlink control information (DCI) received from a transmitting node. The receiving node may perform a full unmasking of the CRC using a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) based at least in part on a descrambling of the CRC with the RNTI, wherein a number of bits associated with the RNTI is associated with a number of bits associated with the CRC. The receiving node may initiate an early termination of a decoding of the LLRs based at least in part on the full unmasking of the CRC. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shravan Kumar Reddy Garlapati, Afshin Haftbaradaran, Alessandro Risso, Li Zhang
  • Patent number: 11418294
    Abstract: An apparatus (e.g., receive chain) for wireless communications may perform de-interleaving, de-rate matching, and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) combining in a single step. The apparatus may include a data pool configured to store HARQ log likelihood ratio (LLR) data from previous transmissions. The apparatus may include a HARQ onload controller configured to load HARQ LLR data from the HARQ data pool into a HARQ buffer. The apparatus may include an LLR buffer configured to store received demodulated, interleaved, and rate matched LLR data. The apparatus may include a plurality of processing engines configured to, starting at different locations of the LLR buffer: receive new input data from the LLR buffer; combine the HARQ LLR data from the HARQ buffer with the new input data to generate de-interleaved, de-rate matched, and HARQ combined data; and write the de-interleaved, de-rate matched, and HARQ combined data into the HARQ buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Cunzhen Liu, Alessandro Risso, Li Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220140976
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A shared channel may include a set of tones carrying multiple types of control information multiplexed together. A wireless device may perform a tone classification method to determine individual subsets of tones from the set of tones for each type of control information to extract each type of control information. The wireless device may determine multiple subsets of tones correspond to multiple types of control information simultaneously based on different extraction parameters. For example, the wireless device may determine a total number of tones in a set of tones, a distance between any given two tones in the set of tones, an offset value, or any combination thereof for the extraction parameters. The wireless device may then use these extraction parameters to determine or extract two or more subsets of tones for two or more corresponding types of control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Ming Ta Lin, Afshin Haftbaradaran, Shravan Kumar Reddy Garlapati, Cunzhen Liu, Alessandro Risso, Li Zhang