Patents by Inventor Bala RAMASAMY
Bala RAMASAMY 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: 20240097778Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a wireless communication device detects a trigger to transmit a message via satellite connectivity, determines one or more alignment opportunities associated with one or more satellites, wherein each alignment opportunity of the one or more alignment opportunities is a time period during which a main lobe of an antenna of the wireless communication device is predicted to be aligned with a line-of-sight (LOS) direction to at least one satellite of the one or more satellites, transitions to a sleep state until at least one alignment opportunity of the one or more alignment opportunities, and transmits the message to the at least one satellite of the one or more satellites during the at least one alignment opportunity of the one or more alignment opportunities.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Junsheng HAN, Kannan MUTHURAMAN, Francesco GRILLI, Jonathan KIES, Bala RAMASAMY, Danlu ZHANG
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Patent number: 11909835Abstract: Disclosed are systems and techniques for transferring device content using radio frequency (RF) sensing. For instance, a first wireless device can identify a first user of the first wireless device based on a first radio frequency (RF) signature associated with the first user. The first wireless media device can determine a disengagement of the first user from the first wireless media device. In response to the disengagement, content information associated with usage of the first wireless device by the first user can be captured.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Bala Ramasamy, Xiaoxin Zhang, Edwin Chongwoo Park, Danlu Zhang
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Publication number: 20240045073Abstract: Aspects presented herein may enhance the navigation function of navigation/map applications or systems when GNSS signals are weak or sporadic. In one aspect, a UE monitors a position of the UE based on GNSS communication, where the position of the UE is monitored using at least one first map layer of a plurality of map layers associated with a map. The UE detects that the position of the UE corresponds to a predefined location when the GNSS communication is below a communication threshold. The UE switches to monitoring the position of the UE using at least one second map layer of the plurality of map layers upon detecting that the position of the UE corresponds to the predefined location, where the at least one second map layer is associated with the predefined location.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Danlu ZHANG, Kevin DAO, Arnold Jason GUM, Bala RAMASAMY, Kuirong WANG, Damir DIDJUSTO
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Publication number: 20240040538Abstract: Techniques are provided for determining the location of ultrawideband (UWB) devices in a network. An example method for providing location information associated with a target device in a UWB network includes determining a location of a bridge device, querying the bridge device for location information associated with the target device, receiving location information associated with the target device from the bridge device, and determining a location of the target device based at least in part on the location of the bridge device and the location information associated with the target device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Liang ZHAO, Le Nguyen LUONG, Cheng-Han WANG, Bala RAMASAMY, SANTOSH KUMAR GUPTA, Yi ZENG, Chan Hong PARK, Koorosh AKHAVAN
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Patent number: 11887041Abstract: Embodiments herein provide for efficient delivery of a package or other item to a precise delivery location using beacons transmitted by a beaconing device, which are detected by a delivery device and used to guide the delivery device to the precise delivery location. Different types of events may be used as triggering events to trigger the transmission of the beacons, and beacons may be encoded to include instructions and/or information to the delivery device for identifying the precise delivery location. According to some embodiments, the beacons may be encoded based on a code unique to the package delivery and/or recipient.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Sathiyamoorthy Subramanian, Bala Ramasamy, Arnold Jason Gum
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Publication number: 20240012157Abstract: In some implementations, an apparatus may receive a request for the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) position fix information. The request may include an accuracy requirement. The apparatus may determine a set of GNSS bands to use to determine the GNSS position fix information. The set of GNSS bands may comprise one or more bands from a plurality of available GNSS bands, and determining the set of GNSS bands to use may be based at least in part on the accuracy requirement. The apparatus may determine the GNSS position fix information based at least in part on GNSS signals received via the selected set of GNSS bands. The apparatus may provide the GNSS position fix information (e.g., to an application processor). The GNSS position fix information may comprise a GNSS position fix, pseudorange information, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Arnold Jason GUM, Deepika SRINIVASAN, Bala RAMASAMY, Krishnaranjan RAO, Jeffrey WONG, Jordan COOKMAN
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Publication number: 20230421993Abstract: Techniques are provided for obtaining environmental information using radio frequency sensing by one or more wireless devices. An example method of crowd sensing and/or environmental detection using radio frequency sensing with one or more wireless devices includes providing radio frequency sensing assistance data to one or more wireless devices, receiving radio frequency sensing reports from the one or more wireless devices, determining one or more environmental characteristics based on the radio frequency sensing reports. Environmental characteristics can include a location or movement of one or more target objects, or attributes of one or more target objects (e.g., one or many people, vehicles, animals, drones or other target objects), or any combinations thereof. This may assist with monitoring of a crowd or road traffic and/or with identifying and tracking a particular person or vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Stephen William EDGE, Bapineedu Chowdary GUMMADI, Bala RAMASAMY, Xiaoxin ZHANG, Ravi Shankar KADAMBALA
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Publication number: 20230396958Abstract: Aspects presented herein may improve the performance of mobile/computer applications. Aspects presented herein may enable mobile/computer applications to differentiate entities that are associated with UEs or entities running the navigations applications, thereby enabling the mobile/computer applications (or their associated servers) to have a more accurate understanding of the conditions surrounding the UEs and their users. In one aspect, a network node obtains first information including at least one feature associated with a plurality of devices. The network node selects a first subset of the plurality of devices for a measurement based on the at least one feature associated with the plurality of devices (or the network node may exclude a second subset of the plurality of devices from the measurement).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2022Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Benjamin LUND, Bala RAMASAMY, Edwin Chongwoo PARK, Daniel BAKER, Dan VASSILOVSKI, Xiaoxin ZHANG, Soumya DAS, Garrett SHRIVER
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Publication number: 20230366976Abstract: Disclosed are various techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) determines one or more angle-based measurements of one or more reference signal resources transmitted by or received at the UE on one or more antennas of the UE and reports, to a positioning entity, the one or more angle-based measurements, a beam pattern associated with the one or more reference signal resources, a type of the one or more antennas, locations of the one or more antennas on the UE, an orientation of the one or more antennas, or any combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Xiaoxin ZHANG, Peyman SIYARI, Bala RAMASAMY
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Publication number: 20230354261Abstract: Techniques are provided for utilizing wireless devices to detect and classify barriers between devices. An example method performed by a user equipment for authorizing a device-to-device request includes receiving a request from a wireless node, determining a first range measurement to the wireless node using a first positioning technique, determining a second range measurement to the wireless node using a second positioning technique that is different from the first positioning technique, and allowing or denying the request based on the first range measurement and the second range measurement.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Xiaoxin ZHANG, Edwin Chongwoo PARK, Bala RAMASAMY
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Publication number: 20230353260Abstract: Techniques are provided for utilizing wireless devices to detect and classify barriers between devices. An example method for detecting a change in state of a physical environment includes determining a first state of the physical environment based on one or more round trip time measurements and one or more received signal strength measurements associated with a first plurality of radio frequency signals exchanged with one or more wireless nodes; determining a second state of the physical environment based on one or more round trip time measurements and one or more received signal strength measurements associated with a second plurality of radio frequency signals exchanged with the one or more wireless nodes; and providing an indication of a state change in the physical environment based at least in part on a comparison of the first state and the second state.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Xiaoxin ZHANG, Edwin Chongwoo PARK, Bala RAMASAMY
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Publication number: 20230331235Abstract: Collaborative enhanced sensing systems and techniques are described. A system obtains sensor data of an environment from one or more sensors. The sensor data includes different representations of one or more portions of the environment from multiple perspectives. The system identifies a subset of the different representations of the one or more portions of the environment based on context corresponding to a vehicle in the environment. The context can include, for example, a position, a direction of travel, a speed, and/or a planned movement of the vehicle. The system causes an enhanced representation of the environment for the vehicle to be generated at least in part based on consolidating and/or fusing together the subset of the different representations. The system can cause an indication of the enhanced representation of the environment to be output at the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2022Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Mohammed Ataur Rahman SHUMAN, Bala RAMASAMY, Amit GOEL
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Publication number: 20230314584Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for environment sensing. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) performs a monostatic sensing operation to detect one or more characteristics of one or more objects in an environment of the UE, transmits, to a network entity, based on detection of the one or more characteristics of the one or more objects, a request for one or more network nodes to transmit one or more wireless sensing signals to assist the UE to perform a bistatic sensing operation, and performs the bistatic sensing operation based on reception of the one or more wireless sensing signals to detect additional characteristics of the one or more objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Bapineedu Chowdary GUMMADI, Stephen William EDGE, Bala RAMASAMY
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Publication number: 20230306832Abstract: A method of vehicle-to-vehicle monitoring includes: receiving, at a monitor vehicle, a trigger to provide a report relating to a target vehicle, the trigger including identifying information of the target vehicle; obtaining, at the monitor vehicle, first information wirelessly that at least partially identifies the target vehicle; determining, at the monitor vehicle, that the first information corresponds to the identifying information of the target vehicle; and reporting, from the monitor vehicle based on receipt of the trigger and determining that the first information corresponds to the identifying information of the target vehicle, second information indicating presence of the target vehicle and a location associated with the target vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Abha KHOSLA, Soumya DAS, Srujith Reddy KATAMREDDY, Phani Kumar DASAM, Bala RAMASAMY
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Publication number: 20230300568Abstract: Disclosed are systems and techniques for wireless communications. For example, a first user equipment (UE) can receive positioning data corresponding to a second UE. In some cases, the first UE can determine a relative position between the first UE and the second UE. In some aspects, the first UE can determine a first location estimate of the first UE based on the positioning data corresponding to the second UE and the relative position between the first UE and the second UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Liang ZHAO, Le Nguyen LUONG, Rayman Wai PON, Cheng-Han WANG, Bala RAMASAMY, Santosh Kumar GUPTA, Michael KOHLMANN
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Publication number: 20230291468Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for wireless communications performed at a network entity. For example, the systems and techniques can include obtaining, at the network entity, a target relative time difference (RTD). A transmission timing pre-compensation can be determined at the network entity between a first reference signal and a second reference signal, wherein the transmission timing pre-compensation is determined based on the target RTD and one or more network delay components. The first reference signal and the second reference signal can be transmitted using the transmission timing pre-compensation to offset the first reference signal from the second reference signal by the target RTD.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Weimin DUAN, Huilin XU, Lianghai JI, Mehmet Izzet GURELLI, Jun MA, Qiang WU, Bala RAMASAMY, Karthik ANANTHA SWAMY
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Patent number: 11758483Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a first wireless device transmits a request to participate in a coordination and detection procedure to determine whether a human is present in an environment of the first wireless device, receives an acknowledgment from at least a second wireless device, transmits a first set of at least two consecutive wireless signals to the second wireless device, receives a second set of at least two consecutive wireless signals from the second wireless device, determines whether the human is present in the environment based at least in part on a first time of flight (ToF) and a second ToF between the first wireless device and the second wireless device, and sets a transmit power of the first wireless device based on the determination of whether the human is present in the environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Ahmad Bassil Zoubi, Danlu Zhang, Bala Ramasamy
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Patent number: 11741704Abstract: Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses to provide augmented reality assistance. An example method includes obtaining a location of the mobile device, and obtaining local rules based on the location of the mobile device. The method also includes obtaining one or more images of an environment in proximity to the mobile device, identifying one or more areas of the environment in the one or more images based on the local rules, and displaying augmented reality (AR) assistance at the mobile device, wherein the AR assistance is based on the identified one or more areas of the environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Bala Ramasamy, Arnold Jason Gum
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Publication number: 20230239707Abstract: A method for wireless communication performed by a head-mounted user equipment (UE), the method includes determining a first spatial relationship between an eye of a human user of the head-mounted UE and physical transmission and reception ports of the head-mounted UE; based on the first spatial relationship, determining a second spatial relationship between a plurality of radio frequency (RF) beam directions of the head-mounted UE and the eye of the human user; selecting a first RF beam direction from among the plurality of RF beam directions based at least in part on the second spatial relationship with respect to the first RF beam direction; and transmitting or receiving RF radiation using a first RF beam conforming to the first RF beam direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Danlu ZHANG, Brian MOMEYER, Brian Clarke BANISTER, Udara FERNANDO, Eyosias Yoseph IMANA, Raghu Narayan CHALLA, Jiaying PAN, Xiaoxin ZHANG, Bala RAMASAMY
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Patent number: 11659040Abstract: A user device and transportation entity, such as a transport vehicle or transport server, perform information exchanges for a transportation service using Device-to-Device (D2D) communications, such as dedicated short-range communication (DSRC), a cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X), or a 5G New Radio (NR). The information exchanges, for example, are related to, e.g., logistics and delivery of transportation services. For example, the user device may transmit a transportation request message that includes information elements, such as an identifier, a type of transport device requested, a number of users, requested destination, etc. The transportation entity may transmit a transportation response message accepting or rejecting the request. Additional messages, such as a status request and status of the transportation, as well as messages related to completing the transportation service may be exchanged.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Dan Vassilovski, Bala Ramasamy, Benjamin Lund, Soumya Das, Garrett Shriver