Patents by Inventor Ali T. Koc
Ali T. Koc 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).
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Publication number: 20230142206Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate generally to a communication between a user equipment (“UE”) and a plurality of evolved Node Bs (“eNBs”). A UE may be adapted to operate in a dual connected mode on respective wireless cells provided by first and second eNBs. The UE may be adapted to estimate respective power headroom (“PHR”) values associated with simultaneous operation on the first and second wireless cells. The UE may cause the first and second PHR estimates to be transmitted to both the first and second eNBs. The first and second eNBs may use these estimates to compute respective uplink transmission powers for the UE. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Kathiravetpillai SIVANESAN, Ali T. KOC, Satish C. JHA, Rath VANNITHAMBY, Yujian ZHANG
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Publication number: 20230081332Abstract: A 3GPP LTE protocol enhancement realizes the full benefit of discontinuous reception (DRX) in Long Term Evolution networks by coordinating and aligning DRX operations for conserving power and timing overhead. A dual connectivity enabled User Equipment (UE) comprising a processor and transceiver is configured to align DRX configuration between counterpart Evolved Node Bs (eNB)s, wherein counterpart eNBs are a Master eNB (MeNB) and a Secondary eNB (SeNB) simultaneously connected to the UE, communicate system frame timing and system frame number (SFN) information between the counterpart eNBs, align DRX start offset (drxStartOffset) values for the counterpart eNBs according to the communicated system frame timing and SFN information to compensate for offsets in system frame timing, and allow the start of a DRX ON duration at specific frame or sub-frame times determined by the drxStartOffset values, after the expiration of a DRX inactivity timer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Satish Chandra Jha, Ali T. Koc, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Rath Vannithamby
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Patent number: 11564283Abstract: A 3GPP LTE protocol enhancement realizes the full benefit of discontinuous reception (DRX) in Long Term Evolution networks by coordinating and aligning DRX operations for conserving power and timing overhead. A dual connectivity enabled User Equipment (UE) comprising a processor and transceiver is configured to align DRX configuration between counterpart Evolved Node Bs (eNB)s, wherein counterpart eNBs are a Master eNB (MeNB) and a Secondary eNB (SeNB) simultaneously connected to the UE, communicate system frame timing and system frame number (SFN) information between the counterpart eNBs, align DRX start offset (drxStartOffset) values for the counterpart eNBs according to the communicated system frame timing and SFN information to compensate for offsets in system frame timing, and allow the start of a DRX ON duration at specific frame or sub-frame times determined by the drxStartOffset values, after the expiration of a DRX inactivity timer.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Satish Chandra Jha, Ali T. Koc, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Rath Vannithamby
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Patent number: 11564180Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate generally to a communication between a user equipment (“UE”) and a plurality of evolved Node Bs (“eNBs”). A UE may be adapted to operate in a dual connected mode on respective wireless cells provided by first and second eNBs. The UE may be adapted to estimate respective power headroom (“PHR”) values associated with simultaneous operation on the first and second wireless cells. The UE may cause the first and second PHR estimates to be transmitted to both the first and second eNBs. The first and second eNBs may use these estimates to compute respective uplink transmission powers for the UE. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Ali T. Koc, Satish C. Jha, Rath Vannithamby, Yujian Zhang
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Patent number: 11265812Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for managing state transitions of communication circuitries in wireless networks. Embodiments manage radio resource control (RRC) state transitions and/or discontinuous reception (DRX) state transitions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Maruti Gupta, Ali T. Koc, Rath Vannithamby
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Patent number: 11006259Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a fixed device synchronizes with a downlink channel of a network, acquires a master information block including a last system update time; and executes cell selection without acquiring other system information if the last system update time is before the last system access time. Furthermore, the fixed device may listen only for system information block messages that it needs, and ignore other system information blocks. A bitmap may indicate which system information block messages should be listed to for fixed devices, and which may be ignored. In some embodiments, one or more system information blocks may be designated for fixed devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Jing Zhu, Rath Vannithamby, Ali T. Koc, Maruti Gupta
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Publication number: 20210092693Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate generally to a communication between a user equipment (“UE”) and a plurality of evolved Node Bs (“eNBs”). A UE may be adapted to operate in a dual connected mode on respective wireless cells provided by first and second eNBs. The UE may be adapted to estimate respective power headroom (“PHR”) values associated with simultaneous operation on the first and second wireless cells. The UE may cause the first and second PHR estimates to be transmitted to both the first and second eNBs. The first and second eNBs may use these estimates to compute respective uplink transmission powers for the UE. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: KATHIRAVETPILLAI SIVANESAN, ALI T. KOC, SATISH C. JHA, RATH VANNITHAMBY, YUJIAN ZHANG
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Patent number: 10869283Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate generally to a communication between a user equipment (“UE”) and a plurality of evolved Node Bs (“eNBs”). A UE may be adapted to operate in a dual connected mode on respective wireless cells provided by first and second eNBs. The UE may be adapted to estimate respective power headroom (“PHR”) values associated with simultaneous operation on the first and second wireless cells. The UE may cause the first and second PHR estimates to be transmitted to both the first and second eNBs. The first and second eNBs may use these estimates to compute respective uplink transmission powers for the UE. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: APPLE, INC.Inventors: Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Ali T. Koc, Satish C. Jha, Rath Vannithamby, Yujian Zhang
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Publication number: 20200296790Abstract: A 3GPP LTE protocol enhancement realizes the full benefit of discontinuous reception (DRX) in Long Term Evolution networks by coordinating and aligning DRX operations for conserving power and timing overhead. A dual connectivity enabled User Equipment (UE) comprising a processor and transceiver is configured to align DRX configuration between counterpart Evolved Node Bs (eNB)s, wherein counterpart eNBs are a Master eNB (MeNB) and a Secondary eNB (SeNB) simultaneously connected to the UE, communicate system frame timing and system frame number (SFN) information between the counterpart eNBs, align DRX start offset (drxStartOffset) values for the counterpart eNBs according to the communicated system frame timing and SFN information to compensate for offsets in system frame timing, and allow the start of a DRX ON duration at specific frame or sub-frame times determined by the drxStartOffset values, after the expiration of a DRX inactivity timer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Satish Chandra Jha, Ali T. Koc, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Rath Vannithamby
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Publication number: 20200236622Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for managing state transitions of communication circuitries in wireless networks. Embodiments manage radio resource control (RRC) state transitions and/or discontinuous reception (DRX) state transitions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Maruti Gupta, Ali T. Koc, Rath Vannithamby
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Patent number: 10624152Abstract: A 3GPP LTE protocol enhancement realizes the full benefit of discontinuous reception (DRX) in Long Term Evolution networks by coordinating and aligning DRX operations for conserving power and timing overhead. A dual connectivity enabled User Equipment (UE) comprising a processor and transceiver is configured to align DRX configuration between counterpart Evolved Node Bs (eNB)s, wherein counterpart eNBs are a Master eNB (MeNB) and a Secondary eNB (SeNB) simultaneously connected to the UE, communicate system frame timing and system frame number (SFN) information between the counterpart eNBs, align DRX start offset (drxStartOffset) values for the counterpart eNBs according to the communicated system frame timing and SFN information to compensate for offsets in system frame timing, and allow the start of a DRX ON duration at specific frame or sub-frame times determined by the drxStartOffset values, after the expiration of a DRX inactivity timer.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Satish Chandra Jha, Ali T. Koc, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Rath Vannithamby
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Publication number: 20200107278Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate generally to a communication between a user equipment (“UE”) and a plurality of evolved Node Bs (“eNBs”). A UE may be adapted to operate in a dual connected mode on respective wireless cells provided by first and second eNBs. The UE may be adapted to estimate respective power headroom (“PHR”) values associated with simultaneous operation on the first and second wireless cells. The UE may cause the first and second PHR estimates to be transmitted to both the first and second eNBs. The first and second eNBs may use these estimates to compute respective uplink transmission powers for the UE. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2018Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: KATHIRAVETPILLAI SIVANESAN, ALI T. KOC, SATISH C. JHA, RATH VANNITHAMBY, YUJIAN ZHANG
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Patent number: 10548080Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for managing state transitions of communication circuitries in wireless networks. Embodiments manage radio resource control (RRC) state transitions and/or discontinuous reception (DRX) state transitions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Maruti Gupta, Ali T. Koc, Rath Vannithamby
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Patent number: 10469240Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a user equipment or mobile station may provide assistance to the eNB or base station so that eNB or base station can more effectively provide settings to the user equipment. Because the user equipment may have more in depth knowledge about the conditions that exist at the user equipment, efficiencies may be achieved by providing information to the eNB from which the eNB can better set various settings on the user equipment, including those related to power saving and latency.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Ali T. Koc, Satish C. Jha, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Sangeetha L. Bangolae
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Patent number: 10470122Abstract: Embodiments of wireless communication devices and method for discontinuous reception (DRX) mode in RRC_IDLE state of wireless communication are generally described herein. Some of these embodiments describe a wireless communication device having processing circuitry arranged to determine to use an extended paging discontinuous reception (DRX) value to increase a paging cycle length. The wireless communication device may transmit a non-access stratum (NAS) message to the network, indicating that the wireless communication device desires to use the extended paging DRX value. The wireless communication device may receive a message from the network that includes an information element (IE) indicating whether the network supports the extended paging DRX value. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Hyung-Nam Choi, Sangeetha L. Bangolae, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Puneet Jain, Ana Lucia Pinheiro, Maruti Gupta Hyde, Ali T. Koc, Rath Vannithamby, Satish Chandra Jha
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Patent number: 10285113Abstract: Fixed devices may be distinguished from mobile devices in a broadband wireless network. Fixed devices may be given an identifier that identifies the device as a fixed device.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2011Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Rath Vannithamby, Maruti Gupta, Ali T. Koc, Jing Zhu
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Patent number: 10231149Abstract: A 3GPP LTE protocol enhancement may realize the full benefit of dual connectivity in Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks by providing a mechanism to carry Radio Resource Control (RRC) messages and/or Information Elements (IE)s from a Secondary Evolved Node B (SeNB) to User Equipment (UE) via Master Evolved Node B (MeNB) RRC messages. Novel downlink (DL) Common Control Channel (CCCH) and Dedicated Control Channel (DCCH) messages, and augmented messages having Information Elements (IE)s for relaying RRC messages from a SeNB to a UE via a MeNB, are defined. Modifications to ASN.1 program coding of LTE 3rd Generation Partnership Project specifications to enable RRC messages from the MeNB to relay RRC information from the SeNB to the UE are provided. In one embodiment, the UE receives, from a MeNB, an RRC message comprising information relayed from a SeNB and interprets the RRC message for control channel and radio resource configuration information from the SeNB.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Intel UniversityInventors: Satish Chandra Jha, Ali T. Koc, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Rath Vannithamby
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Patent number: 10231263Abstract: Coordination techniques for discontinuous reception (DRX) operations in dual-connectivity architectures are described. In one embodiment, for example, user equipment (UE) may comprise logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to receive a radio resource control (RRC) configuration message during operation in a dually-connected UE state, determine whether UE assistance information reporting is enabled for the UE based on the RRC configuration message, and in response to a determination that UE assistance information reporting is enabled for the UE, send one or more UE assistance information messages to report a macro cell power preference and a small cell power preference. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ali T. Koc, Satish C. Jha, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Rath Vannithamby
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Patent number: 10225880Abstract: Discontinuous reception (DRX) alignment techniques for dual-connectivity architectures are described. In one embodiment, for example, user equipment (UE) may comprise one or more radio frequency (RF) transceivers, one or more RF antennas, and logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to receive a radio resource control (RRC) configuration information message containing a small cell RRC configuration information element (IE), the small cell RRC configuration IE to contain a small cell discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration IE comprising one or more inter-cell-coordinated small cell DRX parameters, the logic to determine a start time for a small cell DRX cycle based on at least one of the one or more inter-cell-coordinated small cell DRX parameters and initiate the small cell DRX cycle at the determined start time. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATIONInventors: Ali T. Koc, Satish C. Jha, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Rath Vannithamby, Yujian Zhang
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Patent number: 10206226Abstract: Coordination techniques for radio resource control state management in dual-connectivity architectures are described. In one embodiment, for example, a master evolved node B (MeNB) may comprise logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to send an inactivity notification message to indicate an expiration of an RRC_Inactivity_Timer for a dually-connected user equipment (UE), receive a state decision message in response to the inactivity notification message, and determine whether to transition the dually-connected UE to an RRC_Idle state based on the state decision message. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Satish C. Jha, Ali T. Koc, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Rath Vannithamby