Patents by Inventor Chie Ming Chou

Chie Ming Chou 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).

  • REPORTING POWER HEADROOM IN MULTIPLE CONNECTIVITY NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20220078724
    Abstract: A method by a base station for receiving power headroom reporting from a user equipment (UE) in a Multi-Radio Access Technology (RAT)-Dual Connectivity (MR-DC) scenario, the method includes receiving a DC Power Headroom Report (PHR) Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) from the UE, the DC PHR MAC CE having a fixed number of octets with cell index fields for indicating whether a power headroom (PH) for a serving cell with a corresponding cell index is reported, wherein the fixed number of octets is independent of a highest secondary Cell Index (SCellIndex) for serving cells with configured uplinks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: HUNG-CHEN CHEN, CHIE-MING CHOU
  • Conditional handover procedures
    Patent number: 11272417
    Abstract: A method for a conditional handover (CHO) is described in some of the present embodiments. The method may receive from a source base station (e.g., a gNB or an eNB) one or more CHO commands that each is associated with one or more triggering conditions for a CHO to a target cell associated with a target base station (e.g., a target gNB or a target eNB). The method may continuously evaluate the triggering condition(s) associated with each received (and valid) CHO command. When the method determines that at least one of the triggering conditions has been fulfilled, the method may execute the CHO command that is associated with the triggering condition in order to connect to one or more candidate target cells associated with the CHO command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Hung-Chen Chen, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Method and apparatus for LBT failure detection
    Patent number: 11272535
    Abstract: A method for LBT failure detection performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving, by a MAC entity of the UE, an LBT failure indication from a lower layer for all UL transmissions; increasing an LBT failure counter when the MAC entity receives the LBT failure indication; determining an LBT failure event occurs when the LBT failure counter is greater than or equal to a threshold; and resetting the LBT failure counter after the MAC entity has not received the LBT failure indication for a time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hannibal IP LLC
    Inventors: Hung-Chen Chen, Chie-Ming Chou, Chia-Hung Wei, Mei-Ju Shih
  • Methods and apparatuses for beam failure recovery
    Patent number: 11272561
    Abstract: A method performed by a User Equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes performing at least one Beam Failure Recovery (BFR) procedure. The at least one BFR procedure includes transmitting a Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) for BFR to a base station, where the MAC CE for BFR includes a cell information field indicating information of a serving cell in which the BFR procedure is triggered, and a presence indicator field indicating whether an identity of a preferred Reference Signal (RS) for BFR is included in the MAC CE for BFR. The preferred RS is associated with the serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Chia-Hao Yu, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Method and apparatus for performing cell (re)selection in wireless communication system
    Patent number: 11272406
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication is provided. The method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a minimum required received level factor and an offset via system information; obtaining, by the UE, a minimum required received level based on the minimum required received level factor and the offset multiplied by an integer larger than one; determining, by the UE, a cell selection criterion based on the minimum required received level; and performing, by the UE, cell reselection based on the cell selection criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Mei-Ju Shih, Chie-Ming Chou, Hung-Chen Chen
  • Packet data convergence protocol duplication in next generation wireless networks
    Patent number: 11265964
    Abstract: Some of the present implementations provide a method for PDCP PDU duplication for a UE. The method receives, from a base station, through RRC signaling, a PDCP duplication entity and several RLC entities, an RLC entity being a primary path, and one or more of the RLC entities as active RLC entities for transmitting duplicated PDCP PDUs. The method generates one or more duplicated PDCP PDUs when a PDCP duplication function activation indicator is received, transmits the generated one or more duplicated PDCP PDUs to the one or more active RLC entities, and receives a MAC CE comprising a plurality of fields for switching at least one of the one or more active RLC entities, excluding the RLC entity that is the primary path, to an inactive RLC entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Chie-Ming Chou, Hung-Chen Chen
  • Method and apparatus for determining beam direction
    Patent number: 11265829
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) to synchronize with a first transmit-receive point (TRP) is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by the UE, beam information of the first TRP from a second TRP; detecting, by the UE, a synchronization signal in a beam from the first TRP based on the beam information; transmitting, by the UE, a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble to the first TRP to synchronize with the first TRP; where the first TRP operates in a first frequency, and the second TRP operates in a second frequency lower than the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chie-Ming Chou, Yu-Hsin Cheng
  • Methods and devices for adaptive scheduling request procedure
    Patent number: 11265915
    Abstract: A method performed by a User Equipment (UE) includes a Medium Access Control (MAC) entity triggering a first Scheduling Request (SR) procedure for a first logical channel, triggering a second SR procedure for a second logical channel, and in response to triggering the first SR procedure, initiating a Random Access (RA) procedure and canceling the first SR procedure without cancelling the second SR procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Heng-Li Chin, Chie-Ming Chou, Hung-Chen Chen
  • METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR NETWORK ASSISTED TRANSMISSION WITH MULTIPLE COMPONENT CARRIERS
    Publication number: 20220061061
    Abstract: A method performed by a serving cell of a base station (BS) is provided. The method receives a measurement report from a user equipment (UE). The measurement report includes measurements associated with another cell. The method then transmits, to the UE, beam information based on the received measurements via a two-stage indication. The beam information includes at least a synchronization signal (SS) block bitmap having one or more SS block bits corresponding to one or more SS block indices for the another cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: YU-HSIN CHENG, HUNG-CHEN CHEN, CHIE-MING CHOU
  • Method and apparatus for receiving system information
    Patent number: 11259236
    Abstract: A method for a system information (SI) request procedure performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes: receiving a system information block type 1 (SIB1) from a cell; transmitting, to the cell, a first message including a common control channel (CCCH) service data unit (SDU), the CCCH SDU including a radio resource control (RRC) SI request message; receiving, from the cell, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) including a UE contention resolution identity; and indicating, by a MAC entity of the UE, reception of an acknowledgment for the RRC SI request message to an RRC entity of the UE after determining that the UE contention resolution identity matches a portion of the CCCH SDU. The SIB1 does not include information related to a Random Access (RA) resource specific to SI requested by the RRC SI request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Mei-Ju Shih, Chie-Ming Chou, Hung-Chen Chen, Yung-Lan Tseng
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PDCCH MONITORING
    Publication number: 20220046616
    Abstract: A method for PDCCH monitoring performed by a UE is provided. The method includes performing the PDCCH monitoring in a first group associated with at least one first PDCCH monitoring configuration; receiving, from a base station, DCI comprising an indicator; performing the PDCCH monitoring in a second group associated with at least one second PDCCH monitoring configuration; and stopping the PDCCH monitoring in the first group after receiving the indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: WAN-CHEN LIN, CHIE-MING CHOU, TSUNG-HUA TSAI, YU-HSIN CHENG
  • Methods and apparatuses for performing cell (re)selection in non-public network
    Patent number: 11246067
    Abstract: A method performed by a User Equipment (UE) for cell (re)selection includes the UE storing allowed Non-Public Network (NPN) information that is in a form of a Cell Access Group (CAG) Identity (ID) list or in a form of a Stand-alone Non-Public Network (SNPN) ID list, receiving NPN information and area information associated with the NPN information via a System Information Block (SIB) Type 1 (SIB1) broadcast by a cell, the NPN information including an NPN ID list, performing a first procedure according to the allowed NPN information when the allowed NPN information is in the form of the CAG ID list, and performing a second procedure according to the allowed NPN information when the allowed NPN information is in the form of the SNPN ID list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Mei-Ju Shih, Hung-Chen Chen, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Methods and apparatuses for scheduling request resource prioritization for beam failure recovery
    Patent number: 11240829
    Abstract: A method for Scheduling Request (SR) resource prioritization for Beam Failure Recovery (BFR) includes a User Equipment (UE) receiving a first SR configuration from a Base Station (BS), receiving a second SR configuration from the BS, triggering a first SR procedure for a BFR procedure based on the first SR configuration, triggering a second SR procedure for a Buffer Status Report (BSR) procedure based on the second SR configuration, in a case that the first SR procedure and the second SR procedure are triggered and not cancelled and the first SR resource overlaps the second SR resource in the time domain, prioritizing the first SR resource over the second SR resource, and transmitting an SR on the first SR resource after prioritizing the first SR resource over the second SR resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hannibal IP LLC
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Heng-Li Chin, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Methods, devices, and systems for service-driven mobility management
    Patent number: 11240720
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) includes a processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions to: determine whether a required network slice/service of the UE is supported by a network node; perform at least one of a plurality of mobility management procedures, when the required network slice/service of the UE is not supported by the network node; where the plurality of mobility management procedures includes: selecting another master node (MN), or intra-MN handover or inter-MN handover to another MN; selecting or reselecting a secondary node (SN), intra-SN handover to another SN, modifying an existing SN, or adding a new SN; changing the UE's anchor node to a target new radio (NR) next generation node B (gNB) or a target evolved long term evolution (eLTE) evolved node B (eNB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Mei-Ju Shih, Chie-Ming Chou, Yung-Lan Tseng
  • Method for monitoring paging and apparatus using the same
    Patent number: 11229003
    Abstract: A method for monitoring paging is provided. The method is performed by a user equipment (UE) and includes actions of receiving a first Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) addressed to a first Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI), and stopping monitoring a second PDCCH addressed to a second RNTI if the first PDCCH includes a paging stop indicator, where the second RNTI is the same as the first RNTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Mei-Ju Shih, Hung-Chen Chen, Yung-Lan Tseng, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Method and apparatus for handling repetitions of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in wireless communication system
    Patent number: 11224059
    Abstract: A method performed by a User Equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes the UE receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration including a first parameter configured with a first value and a second parameter configured with at least one second value. Each of the first value and the at least one second value indicates a number of PUSCH repetitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Heng-Li Chin, Wan-Chen Lin, Chie-Ming Chou
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDOVER IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20210410151
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for handover in a wireless communication system are provided. The method is performed by a UE and includes receiving an RRC message from a source base station; and performing a handover procedure to handover from the source base station to a target base station in response to the RRC message, wherein: the RRC message comprises one of a first dedicated random access configuration associated with a CSI-RS of the target base station and a second dedicated random access configuration associated with a first SSB of the target base station, the CSI-RS is configured with a first dedicated random access resource by the first dedicated random access configuration, and the first SSB is configured with a second dedicated random access resource by the second dedicated random access configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: HUNG-CHEN CHEN, CHIE-MING CHOU, YU-HSIN CHENG, MEI-JU SHIH
  • METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT FOR SIGNALING A PHYSICAL LAYER PROFILE
    Publication number: 20210410053
    Abstract: A method for a serving cell for signaling a communicating with a user equipment (UE) is described. The method may include transmitting, by the serving cell, a radio resource control (RRC) message to the UE. The RRC message may include a plurality of sets of parameters and a plurality of indices corresponding to the plurality of sets of parameters. The method may also include transmitting, by the serving cell, downlink control information (DCI) to the UE indicating an allocated resource block (RB) in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for the UE and an index corresponding to one of the plurality of sets of parameters to decode the allocated RB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: CHIE-MING CHOU, YUNG-LAN TSENG
  • Systems, methods, and devices for ultra-reliable low latency communication quality-of-service guarantee
    Patent number: 11212701
    Abstract: A method for packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data unit (PDU) duplication and transport block (TB) repetition is provided. The method includes providing a radio access network (RAN) configuration having at least one of a PDCP PDU duplication configuration or a TB repetition configuration, performing at least one of PDCP PDU duplication or TB repetition based on one or more triggering events in the RAN configuration, where the PDCP PDU duplication includes providing at least one duplicated PDCP PDU to a radio link control (RLC) bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yung-Lan Tseng, Chie-Ming Chou
  • CONFIGURATION OF ULTRA RELIABLE LOW LATENCY COMMUNICATION
    Publication number: 20210391942
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are described for configuring Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) simultaneous transmissions, which can be used to enhance network performance and/or to enhance procedures within the UE to achieve more efficient operations. For example, techniques are described for determining which modulation coding scheme (MCS) table to apply based on various factors. Different techniques are also described for configuring user equipment (UE) with an RNTI based on different considerations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Chie-Ming Chou, Hung-Chen Chen