Patents by Inventor Anantharaman Balasubramanian

Anantharaman Balasubramanian 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).

  • Superposition transmission of sidelink and uplink
    Patent number: 11553475
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a downlink control signaling scheduling one or more uplink transmissions for one or more transmission resources. The method also includes determining, by the UE, to perform superposition transmission operations for at least one transmission resource of the one or more transmission resources. The method further includes transmitting, by the UE, an uplink channel data transmission and a sidelink channel data transmission in a same transmission resource, responsive to determining to perform superposition transmission operations for the least one transmission resource. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shuanshuan Wu, Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Kapil Gulati
  • MEASUREMENT REPORTS BASED ON SENSING CAPABILITIES
    Publication number: 20230007503
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit a request for a first user equipment (UE) to provide sensing capability information associated with UEs other than the first UE (e.g., an indication of one or more sensors associated with the corresponding UE, an orientation of the corresponding UE, a field of view associated with the corresponding UE). Additionally, the first UE may receive, from each of a set of second UEs, indications of the sensing capability information associated with the corresponding second UEs. Based on the sensing capability information indicated for each of the set of second UEs, the first UE select a subset of second UEs and transmit an indication of the sensing capability information associated with the subset of second UEs to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Kyle Chi Guan, Kapil Gulati, Himaja Kesavareddigari, Chang-Sik Choi
  • POSITION MESSAGE UPDATE RATE ADAPTATION FOR VEHICLE-TO-PEDESTRIAN COMMUNICATIONS
    Publication number: 20230007440
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to at least one vehicle UE, in accordance with a first update rate, a first set of position messages indicating position information associated with the UE. The apparatus may transmit a second set of position messages in accordance with a second update rate. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Saadallah KASSIR, Anantharaman BALASUBRAMANIAN, Kapil GULATI
  • ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION AND TRANSMISSION PATH SELECTION BASED ON PREDICTED CHANNEL STATE
    Publication number: 20230007564
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter node may predict a future state associated with a wireless channel at a future time instance using a machine learning model, wherein the future state is predicted based at least in part on one or more of weights associated with the machine learning model, a current state associated with the wireless channel, or one or more previous states associated with the wireless channel. The transmitter node may select one or more parameters for a transmission to occur at the future time instance based at least in part on the future state associated with the wireless channel. The transmitter node may perform the transmission using the one or more parameters. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Anantharaman BALASUBRAMANIAN, Shuanshuan WU, Kapil GULATI, Kyle Chi GUAN, Himaja KESAVAREDDIGARI
  • RESOURCE SELECTION METHODS FOR UNALIGNED FEEDBACK TRANSMISSIONS FOR SIDELINK CARRIER AGGREGATION
    Publication number: 20220417926
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling indicating a plurality of component carriers of a sidelink channel and a plurality of feedback channel configurations for the plurality of component carriers. The UE may select, based at least in part on the plurality of feedback channel configurations, a subset of the plurality of component carriers for transmission of a first sidelink message and a second sidelink message using a feedback channel alignment rule indicating to select component carriers having feedback channels aligned in time for at least a subset of a plurality of transmission time intervals. The UE may transmit the first sidelink message on a first component carrier of the subset and the second sidelink message on a second component carrier of the subset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Shuanshuan Wu, Kapil Gulati
  • Reconfigurable intelligent surface enabled sidelink positioning
    Patent number: 11540089
    Abstract: In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may control one or more reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in accordance with one or more RIS schedules that indicate times when the one or more RIS are in an enabled state and times when the one or more RIS are in a disabled state. The UE may request at least one participating UE of one or more participating UEs to transmit at least one positioning reference signal (PRS) in a PRS resource. The UE may measure the at least one PRS from the at least one participating UE in accordance with the RIS schedule to make one or more measurements of the at least one PRS when the one or more RIS are in the disabled state and to make one or more measurements of the at least one PRS when the one or more RIS are in the enabled state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Kapil Gulati, Dan Vassilovski, Shuanshuan Wu, Junyi Li, Sourjya Dutta, Preeti Kumari
  • Vehicle-to-pedestrian positioning with user equipment and network assistance
    Patent number: 11533586
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may receive a first set of ranging measurements based at least in part on a first one or more positioning reference signals communicated over a sidelink between a pedestrian user equipment (P-UE) and a vehicle UE (V-UE). The network node may receive a second set of ranging measurements based at least in part on a second one or more positioning reference signals communicated over an access link between the P-UE and one or more base stations. The network node may transmit, to the P-UE, an estimated position of the P-UE. For example, in some aspects, the estimated position of the P-UE may be based at least in part on the first set of ranging measurements and the second set of ranging measurements. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Kapil Gulati, Chang-Sik Choi
  • Roadside unit relay for sidelink communications
    Patent number: 11523258
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to roadside unit relay for sidelink communications. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a resource in which to monitor for a message from a wireless communication device, where the message is based at least in part on information from one or more vehicle to everything (V2X) messages received by the wireless communication device. The UE may monitor for the message only in the resource and receive the message in the resource. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shuanshuan Wu, Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati
  • NETWORK EDGE CENTRALIZED LOCATION DETERMINATION
    Publication number: 20220377634
    Abstract: A method for centralized device tracking includes: obtaining, at a first UE from multiple sources, first multi-source position information corresponding to a second UE; determining, based on the first multi-source position information, second multi-source position information corresponding to the second UE; identifying a third UE, separate from the first UE, to which the second multi-source position information is relevant; and sending migration information to the third UE, the migration information comprising an identifier of the second UE and comprising the first multi-source position information, or the second multi-source position information, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Anantharaman BALASUBRAMANIAN, Kapil GULATI, Saadallah KASSIR
  • Sidelink resource selection assistance and paging
    Patent number: 11510147
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may obtain one or more measurements associated with a sidelink resource pool that includes one or more time and frequency resources allocated to sidelink transmissions to or from the UE. The UE may transmit, to an assisted UE, sidelink signaling that includes signaling to wake up the assisted UE and resource assistance information indicating the one or more measurements associated with the sidelink resource pool. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Shuanshuan Wu, Kapil Gulati, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Wooseok Nam
  • Techniques for multi-user superposition transmission sidelink feedback
    Patent number: 11503573
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, on a sidelink, a groupcast communication and a unicast communication concurrently from a transmitter. The UE may determine a feedback sequence to be transmitted to indicate joint acknowledgment or negative acknowledgement feedback for the groupcast communication and the unicast communication based at least in part on a decoding of the groupcast communication. The UE may transmit the feedback sequence in one or more sidelink feedback resources associated with a sidelink subchannel via which at least one of the groupcast communication or the unicast communication is received. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Shuanshuan Wu, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati, Sony Akkarakaran
  • ASSISTANCE INFORMATION METHODS FOR SIDELINK CARRIER AGGREGATION
    Publication number: 20220361048
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a first UE. The method generally includes obtaining carrier assistance information indicating information for a future channel busy ratio (FCBR) one or more carriers on which at least a second UE is operating and performing carrier selection for sidelink transmissions, based on the carrier assistance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Anantharaman BALASUBRAMANIAN, Shuanshuan WU, Kapil GULATI
  • Cooperative event warning system
    Patent number: 11496858
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may receive situational information for a second wireless device over a first communication link between the first wireless device and the second wireless device and situational information for a third wireless device over a second communication link between the first wireless device and the third wireless device. The first wireless device may transmit message with guidance information to the second wireless device on behalf of the third wireless device and based on the second wireless device and the third wireless device having an event likelihood above a threshold. The event likelihood may be based on the situational information for the second wireless device and the situational information for the third wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Kapil Gulati, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Taesang Yoo, Shailesh Patil, Dan Vassilovski
  • Passive vehicle-to-pedestrian system
    Patent number: 11488480
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein may enable vehicle UE(s) to transmit warning message(s) to one or more pedestrian UEs without receiving P2V transmissions from the one or more pedestrian UEs. In one aspect, a first UE determines one or more configuration parameters for a plurality of second UEs, the one or more configuration parameters including an identification parameter, the identification parameter being associated with a time period. The first UE determines, based on the identification parameter for at least one second UE of the plurality of second UEs, whether to transmit a warning message to the at least one second UE. The first UE transmits, based on determining to transmit the warning message, the warning message to the at least one second UE, the warning message including an ID for the at least one second UE, the ID for the at least one second UE being based on the identification parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Kapil Gulati, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Shailesh Patil
  • Power efficient iterative sensor fusion
    Patent number: 11483687
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may select, based at least in part on a sensor selection criteria, a first subset of sensors from a set of available sensors of the UE, each sensor in the set of available sensors associated with a sensor type. The UE may perform, using the first subset of sensors, sensing operations to obtain a first sensing data, the first sensing data comprising sensing data measured by the UE during the sensing operations. The UE may transmit a first sensing report indicating the first sensing data. The UE may receive, based at least in part on the first sensing report, a second sensing report indicating a second sensing data, the second sensing data comprising a unified sensing report based on the first sensing report from the UE and one or more additional sensing reports from other UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Junyi Li, Kapil Gulati, Dan Zhang, Chang-Sik Choi
  • Position message update rate adaptation for vehicle-to-pedestrian communications
    Patent number: 11470449
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to at least one vehicle UE, in accordance with a first update rate, a first set of position messages indicating position information associated with the UE. The apparatus may transmit a second set of position messages in accordance with a second update rate. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Saadallah Kassir, Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Kapil Gulati
  • Network initiated on-demand zero-energy paging method and apparatus
    Patent number: 11470553
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include one or more antennas and a first transceiver operatively coupled to the antennas. The one or more antennas and the first transceiver may be configured to receive a first signal from a network using zero energy from the WTRU. The one or more antennas and the first transceiver may be further configured to extract energy from the first signal. The first transceiver may be further configured to examine a separation between energy threshold events to decode an energy signature of the first signal. The first transceiver may be further configured to activate a second transceiver operatively coupled to the one or more antennas if the decoded energy signature matches a stored energy signature, wherein the second transceiver is powered by the WTRU. The one or more antennas and the second transceiver may be configured to receive a second signal from the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Tanbir Haque, Ravikumar V. Pragada, Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Alpaslan Demir
  • Position estimation using inter-PUE signaling
    Patent number: 11463984
    Abstract: Methods, devices, systems, and computer-readable media for supporting position estimation are disclosed. A method at a first user equipment (UE) device may comprise sending or receiving, via a sidelink channel, a ranging signal between the first UE device and a second UE device. The method may further comprise obtaining at least one ranging measurement based on the sending or receiving the ranging signal between the first UE device and a second UE device. The method may further comprise broadcasting, via the sidelink channel, (1) the at least one ranging measurement with a reference to the second UE device or (2) a position estimate for the first UE device based on the at least one ranging measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Kapil Gulati, Taesang Yoo, Junyi Li
  • RANGING ASSISTED PEDESTRIAN LOCALIZATION
    Publication number: 20220303721
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a method of wireless communication performed by a first pedestrian user equipment (PUE) includes performing a ranging operation to a set of UEs, the set including at least a second PUE, and providing ranging data to a third entity, the third entity comprising a vehicle user equipment (VUE) or a road-side unit (RSU). The set of UEs may be randomly selected or selected using a selection algorithm. The set of UEs may be selected by the PUE or by the third entity. The ranging data may include the location of the first PUE, and may include a report on the battery status of the first PUE. The third entity may use the ranging data to update estimated positions of the first PUE and the set of UEs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Saadallah KASSIR, Anantharaman BALASUBRAMANIAN, Kapil GULATI
  • SIGNALING TECHNIQUES FOR SENSOR FUSION SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20220301428
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for a vehicle user equipment (VUE) to obtain extrinsic information about an object or location. The VUE may transmit a request for information about the object or the location to a road side unit (RSU). The RSU may receive the request and determine a set of extrinsic information for the first UE regarding the object or the location based on a set of information from one or more other UEs. The extrinsic information includes information that is not provided by the VUE. The RSU may transmit the set of extrinsic information to the VUE. The VUE may determine whether to accept a feature of the object or the location in the extrinsic information based on the set of extrinsic information and a set of intrinsic information detected by the VUE, The VUE may select an autonomous driving action based on the accepted feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Anantharaman BALASUBRAMANIAN, Junyi LI, Kapil GULATI, Chang-Sik CHOI