Patents by Inventor Bill Hillery

Bill Hillery 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: 10917140
    Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a method is provided including: receiving, at a user equipment from a network node, a coherence group configuration, wherein the group coherence group configuration indicates at least: one or more transmit groups, wherein each transmit group includes one or more transmit ports of the user equipment, and wherein the one or more transmit ports in each group are coherent; and one or more receive groups, wherein each receive group includes one or more receive ports of the user equipment, and wherein the one or more receive ports in each group are coherent; determining a change in the coherence group configuration; and transmitting information indicating the change to the network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jun Tan, Dan Park, Bill Hillery
  • Patent number: 10763926
    Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from improved sounding reference symbol sounding techniques. An apparatus may comprise at least one memory comprising computer program code and at least one processor. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to precode at least one uplink sounding reference symbol based upon at least one initial rank indicator and at least one first vector/matrix received from a network entity. The apparatus further transforms the first vector/matrix and a second vector matrix received from the network entity into a third vector/matrix based upon a final rank indicator received from the network entity. The apparatus further transmits data based upon the third vector/matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jun Tan, Eugene Visotsky, Fred Vook, Bill Hillery
  • Publication number: 20200119786
    Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from improved sounding reference symbol sounding techniques. An apparatus may comprise at least one memory comprising computer program code and at least one processor. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to precode at least one uplink sounding reference symbol based upon at least one initial rank indicator and at least one first vector/matrix received from a network entity. The apparatus further transforms the first vector/matrix and a second vector matrix received from the network entity into a third vector/matrix based upon a final rank indicator received from the network entity. The apparatus further transmits data based upon the third vector/matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Jun TAN, Eugene VISOTSKY, Fred VOOK, Bill HILLERY
  • Publication number: 20200112346
    Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a method is provided including: receiving, at a user equipment from a network node, a coherence group configuration, wherein the group coherence group configuration indicates at least: one or more transmit groups, wherein each transmit group includes one or more transmit ports of the user equipment, and wherein the one or more transmit ports in each group are coherent; and one or more receive groups, wherein each receive group includes one or more receive ports of the user equipment, and wherein the one or more receive ports in each group are coherent; determining a change in the coherence group configuration; and transmitting information indicating the change to the network node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Jun TAN, Dan Park, Bill Hillery
  • Publication number: 20200028552
    Abstract: A method includes determining a number of polarizations. The method also includes determining a number of receive antennas that have a same polarization, determining a total number of receive antennas based on the number of polarizations and the number of receive antennas that have the same polarization; and applying singular value decomposition precoding on all the receive antennas with the same polarization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Rana Ahmed Salem, Eugene Visotsky, Frederick Vook, Bill Hillery