Patents by Inventor Alexandros Manolakos

Alexandros Manolakos 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).

  • Patent number: 11848879
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory media for providing signaling consideration for wireless positioning with disjoint bandwidth segments. For instance, one or more indications of a preferred bandwidth configuration can be transmitted by a user equipment. Based on the one or more indications, the user equipment can receive a positioning configuration that indicates disjoint bandwidth segments containing a positioning reference signal based on the preferred bandwidth configuration. In response, the user equipment can then determine one or more positioning measurements based on the positioning reference signal in the disjoint bandwidth segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yih-Hao Lin, Srinivas Yerramalli, Xiaoxia Zhang, Alexandros Manolakos, Lorenzo Ferrari, Sony Akkarakaran, Marwen Zorgui
  • Patent number: 11846721
    Abstract: A radar system may comprise a radar server configured to determine (1) one or more transmit timing parameters and (2) one or more receive timing parameters. The radar server may provide the one or more transmit timing parameters to a first wireless communications system Transmission Reception Point (TRP) configured to use the one or more transmit timing parameters to send a transmit signal. The radar server may provide the one or more receive timing parameters to a second wireless communications system TRP configured to use the one or more receive timing parameters to receive an echo signal corresponding to a reflection of the transmit signal from a target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Seyong Park, Alexandros Manolakos
  • Patent number: 11848882
    Abstract: Techniques are provide for calibrating device timelines for use in passive positioning of user equipment (UE). An example method for passive positioning of a user equipment includes receiving a first positioning reference signal from a first device at a first time, receiving a second positioning reference signal from a second device at a second time, receiving a timeline difference value associated with the first device and the second device, and determining a time difference of arrival between the first positioning reference signal and the second positioning reference signal based at least in part on the timeline difference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Taesang Yoo, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Alexandros Manolakos, Lorenzo Ferrari, Yih-Hao Lin, Rajat Prakash
  • Publication number: 20230403671
    Abstract: In some implementations, a ultra-wideband (UWB) device comprises a Global Anchor for a network of UWB anchors having a plurality of clusters and initiator anchors (Init-Anchors). The Global Anchor may obtain metric information comprising a centrality metric value of each Init-Anchor from information communicated to the Global-Anchor in a first control phase. The Global Anchor may determine a slot schedule for a second control phase, wherein: determining the slot schedule is based on the centrality metric values of the plurality of Init-Anchors; the slot schedule comprises an allocation of time slots of the second control phase among the plurality of Init-Anchors for wireless radio frequency (RF) communication; and the allocation of time slots includes a first set of time slots for upstream communication followed by a second set of time slots for downstream communication. The Global Anchor may send the slot schedule to an Init-Anchor of the plurality of Init-Anchors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Varun Amar REDDY, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Pooria PAKROOH, Krishna Kiran MUKKAVILLI
  • Publication number: 20230403113
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for transmitting and processing channel state information (CSI) reference signals (CSI-RS). An exemplary method includes determining a configuration of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs), wherein the configuration indicates a set of resource elements (REs) to be used for CSI-RSs and a first mapping of CSI-RS ports to the set of REs; sending an indication of the configuration of the CSI-RSs; and transmitting the CSI-RSs according to the determined configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yu ZHANG, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Tao LUO, June NAMGOONG
  • Publication number: 20230400549
    Abstract: Radio frequency (RF) sensing of a target object by a wireless network is supported by a sensing node and a network node using sensing assistance data. The sensing assistance data may include information for Doppler estimation from received RF signals. The information for Doppler estimation, for example, may include an indication of phase coherency of RF signals, such as phase coherence found in positioning reference signal (PRS) resources, resource sets, transmission reception points (TRPs), frequency layer or any combination thereof. The sensing assistance data may include an association of PRS resources and reference point objects (RPOs) so RF signals reflected from the RPOs may be excluded from the sensing measurements. The sensing assistance data may include beam pattern information for PRS resources for beam coordination for RF sensing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Alexandros Manolakos, Hyojin Lee, Seyong Park
  • Publication number: 20230403117
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may receive a medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC CE) indicating a MAC CE configuration associated with a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource. The mobile station may receive downlink control information (DCI) indicating a DCI configuration associated with the SRS resource. The mobile station may selectively transmit SRS information associated with the SRS resource based at least in part on a time of receipt of the MAC CE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Pinar SEN, Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Runxin WANG, Yu ZHANG, Alexandros MANOLAKOS
  • Patent number: 11843964
    Abstract: Disclosed are various techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) identifies a set of positioning sources, each positioning source comprising a positioning reference signal (PRS) resource, a PRS resource set, a PRS frequency layer, and/or a transmission/reception point (TRP). From the set of positioning sources, the UE identifies a consistency group comprising a collection of positioning sources grouped based on expected values of at least one metric of a reference signal from each positioning source, measured values of the at least one metric for the reference signal from each positioning source, and an error threshold. The UE identifies one or more subsets of positioning sources within the consistency group, each subset having at least one metric error value. The UE reports, to a network entity, information about the consistency group and information about at least one of the subsets of positioning sources within the consistency group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Jingchao Bao, Weimin Duan, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11844044
    Abstract: Techniques for communication by a user equipment (UE) are disclosed. Techniques can include determining a positioning state information (PSI) report to transmit, where the PSI report comprises positioning-related information, and selecting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource with which to transmit the PSI report, where the selected PUCCH resource comprises a number of resource blocks (RBS). Techniques can further include determining whether to transmit the PSI report using the selected PUCCH resource, based on: the number of RBS, a size of uplink control information (UCI) to be transmitted using the selected PUCCH resource, the selected PUCCH resource being configured with a capability to include both the PSI report and a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK), or the selected PUCCH resource being configured to include only one or more PSI reports, and optionally one or more CSI reports, as a payload, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Weimin Duan, Wanshi Chen
  • Publication number: 20230396286
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from abase station, a set of sidelink frequency hopping parameters. The first UE may transmit, to a second UE via a sidelink interface, a frequency hopping configuration for sidelink reference signaling by the second UE, wherein the frequency hopping configuration is based at least in part on the set of sidelink frequency hopping parameters. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Wei YANG, Yi HUANG, Seyedkianoush HOSSEINI
  • Publication number: 20230397239
    Abstract: Certain aspects are directed to a method for wireless communication by a first base station. The method generally includes: assessing expected interference from a second base station to uplink communications on at least a portion of a first slot, the at least the portion of the first slot being configured for downlink; determining whether to convert the configuration of the at least the portion of the first slot from the downlink to uplink based on the assessment of the expected interference; and receiving signaling from a user-equipment (UE) via the at least the portion of the first slot in accordance with the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Krishna Kiran MUKKAVILLI, Marco PAPALEO, Yeliz TOKGOZ, Alexandros MANOLAKOS
  • Patent number: 11838808
    Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. One method for wireless communication includes transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), an indication of a control channel subcarrier spacing to be used by the UE; and transmitting a control message having a subcarrier spacing in accordance with the indication. Another method for wireless communication includes transmitting, to a UE, an indicator channel identifying at least a subcarrier spacing to be used in one or more subsequent control channels. One or more subsequent control channels are then transmitted in accordance with the subcarrier spacing indicated by the indicator channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yang Yang, Jing Jiang, Alexandros Manolakos, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11838236
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a wireless device that communicates with another wireless device utilizing self-contained subframes. The wireless device communicates with a scheduling entity utilizing a plurality of self-contained subframes that include a first subframe and a second subframe. Each of the self-contained subframes includes an uplink (UL) portion and a downlink (DL) portion. The wireless device further receives DL control information from the scheduling entity in the DL portion of the first subframe, and transmits UL data that includes a plurality of reference signal bursts to the scheduling entity in the UL portion of the first subframe. The plurality of reference signal bursts are uniformly spaced in at least a portion of the UL portion of the first subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Jing Jiang, June Namgoong, Tao Luo, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11838232
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support configuration of aperiodic sounding reference signal transmission and triggering. A base station may transmit, within a first transmission time interval (TTI), a grant triggering a user equipment (UE) to transmit an aperiodic sounding reference signal (A-SRS), and may identify offset information indicating a TTI offset relative to the grant. The base station may determine a second TTI for the A-SRS based on the TTI offset. A UE may detect, within a first TTI, the grant triggering the UE to transmit the A-SRS, identify the offset information indicating the TTI offset relative to the grant, and determine the second TTI for transmitting the A-SRS based on the TTI offset. The UE may transmit the A-SRS in an SRS resource of the second TTI, and the base station may monitor the SRS resource of the second TTI for the A-SRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal
  • Publication number: 20230387991
    Abstract: The techniques described herein provide procedures at user equipment (UEs) for performing channel state information (CSI) reporting and sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions based on an ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) block error rate (BLER) target and for reliably receiving PDCCH transmissions. For CSI reporting, a UE may be configured to generate a CSI report based on a BLER target and on received CSI reference signals (CSI-RSs), where the CSI-RSs may be transmitted on one or more groups of quasi co-located antenna ports. For SRS transmissions, a UE may be configured to transmit SRS based on an SRS configuration determined based on a BLER target. For receiving PDCCH transmissions, a UE may be configured to receive and combine DCI received from multiple base stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Gabi SARKIS, Wanshi CHEN, Alexandros MANOLAKOS
  • Publication number: 20230384443
    Abstract: Position determination for a target user equipment (UE) uses a single base station and a plurality of sidelink UEs with known locations. The base station sends a reference signal to the target UE and sidelink UEs, and the target UE sends sidelink signals to each sidelink UEs. A range-sum for the range between the target UE and sidelink UE and the range between the sidelink UE and the base station can be determined for each sidelink UE, based on the time differences between the reception and transmissions of the reference signals measured by the target UE, and the time difference between reception of the reference signals measured by the sidelink UE. A differential in the range-sums can be determined and used to determine the position of the target UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Weimin DUAN, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Seyedkianoush HOSSEINI
  • Publication number: 20230388961
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication, and specifically for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided positioning. In some aspects, a base station (BS) may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a first positioning reference signal (PRS). The BS may transmit, to RIS configured to reflect a received signal towards the UE, a second PRS. The BS may receive, from the UE, a downlink reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement for the first PRS and the second PRS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Weimin DUAN, Jing LEI, Alexandros MANOLAKOS
  • Patent number: 11832295
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a serving BS of a UE may transmit a PDCCH communication to the UE. The PDCCH communication triggers a partial RACH procedure, whereby a RACH transmission is performed. In some designs, the RACH transmission is for positioning, and positioning measurements are performed at the serving BS and (optionally) at one or more non-serving BSs. In some designs, measurement data based on the positioning measurements are conveyed to a position estimation entity (e.g., LMF), which performs a positioning estimate of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Lorenzo Ferrari, Yih-Hao Lin
  • Publication number: 20230379736
    Abstract: Frequency-dependent changes in beam shapes of transmitted RF signals can be provided to a receiving device. Beam shape information can include, for example, gain of a beam and a plurality of azimuth and elevation directions, boresight and width of a main lobe (and optionally side lobes) of the beam, information regarding a pattern of antenna elements of an antenna panel used to transmit the beam, and/or similar information. The type of information provided can dictate the amount of overhead required, and we therefore vary depending on the means by which the information is conveyed. Additional detail is provided in the embodiments described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Sony AKKARAKARAN, Tao LUO, Jingchao BAO, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Juan MONTOJO
  • Publication number: 20230379861
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives a set of antenna parameters for a plurality of antenna ports of a transmission-reception point (TRP), obtains positioning measurements of a plurality of positioning reference signal (PRS) resources transmitted on the plurality of antenna ports, reconstructs an underlying physical channel between the TRP and the UE based on the positioning measurements of the plurality of PRS resources, and determines a downlink angle of arrival (DL-AoD) measurement from the TRP to the UE based on the reconstructed underlying physical channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Srinivas YERRAMALLI, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Mohammad Tarek FAHIM, Mukesh KUMAR