Patents by Inventor Erik Richard Stauffer

Erik Richard Stauffer 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: 12114394
    Abstract: This document describes aspects of multiple active-coordination-set (ACS) aggregation for mobility management. A master base station coordinates aggregation of control-plane and user-plane communications, generated by a first active-coordination-set for a first joint communication between the first ACS and a user equipment, where the first ACS includes the master base station and at least a second base station. The master base station receives, from a second master base station of a second ACS, control-plane information or user-plane data associated with a second joint communication between the second ACS and the UE, the second ACS including the second master base station and at least a third base station. The master base station aggregates the control-plane and user-plane communications with at least a portion of the control-plane information or the user-plane data to coordinate data throughput to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Publication number: 20240333601
    Abstract: A wireless system employs neural networks to provide for CSI estimate feedback between a transmitting device and a receiving device. A managing component selects neural network architecture configurations for implementation at the transmitting and receiving devices based on capability information. The receiving device determines CSI estimate(s) from CSI pilot signaling from the transmitting device. The CSI estimate(s) are processed by the neural network(s) at the receiving device to generate a CSF output, which can represent, for example, one or more predicted future CSI estimates and which is wirelessly transmitted to the transmitting device. The one or more neural networks at the transmitting device then process the received CSF output along to generate one or more recovered predicted future CSI estimates, which are then used to control one or more MIMO processes at the transmitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Patent number: 12108472
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described for enabling dual connectivity with secondary cell-user equipment. In some aspects, a base station (121) serving as a primary cell forms a base station-user equipment dual connectivity (BUDC) group (410) by configuring a user equipment (UE, 111) as a secondary cell-user equipment (SC-UE, 420) to provide a secondary cell. The base station (121) or SC-UE (420) can then add other UEs (112, 113, 114) to the BUDC group (410) thereby enabling dual connectivity for the UEs through the primary cell or secondary cell provided by the SC-UE (420). In some cases, the SC-UE (420) schedules resources of an air interface (302) by which the other UEs to communicate with the SC-UE (420). By so doing, the SC-UE (420) can communicate data with the other UEs (112, 113, 114) of the BUDC group (410) without communicating through a base station (121, 122), which decreases latency of communications between the UEs (111-114) of the BUDC group (410).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Publication number: 20240320481
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described for enabling base station-user equipment messaging regarding deep neural networks. A network entity (base station 121, core network server 320) determines a neural network formation configuration (architecture and/or parameter configurations 1208) for a deep neural network (deep neural network(s) 604, 608, 612, 616) for processing communications transmitted over the wireless communication system. The network entity (base station 121, core network server 302) communicates the neural network formation configuration to a user equipment (UE 110). The user equipment (UE 110) configures a first neural network (deep neural network(s) 608, 612) based on the neural network formation configuration. In implementations, the user equipment (UE 110) recovers information communicated over the wireless network using the first neural network (deep neural network(s) 608, 612).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Patent number: 12096246
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses for optimizing a cellular network using machine learning. In particular, a network-optimization controller uses machine learning to determine an optimized network-configuration parameter that affects a performance metric of the cellular network. To make this determination, the network-optimization controller requests and analyzes gradients determined by one or more user equipments, one or more base stations, or combinations thereof. By using machine learning, the network-optimization controller identifies different optimized network-configuration parameters associated with different local optima or global optima of an optimization function, and selects a particular optimized network-configuration parameter that is appropriate for a given environment. In this manner, the network-optimization controller dynamically optimizes the cellular network to account for both short-term and long-term environmental changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Publication number: 20240303490
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described for deep neural network (DNN) processing for a user equipment-coordination set (UECS). A network entity selects (910) an end-to-end (E2E) machine-learning (ML) configuration that forms an E2E DNN for processing UECS communications. The network entity directs (915) each device of multiple devices participating in an UECS to form, using at least a portion of the E2E ML configuration, a respective sub-DNN of the E2E DNN that transfers the UECS communications through the E2E communication, where the multiple devices include at least one base station, a coordinating user equipment (UE), and at least one additional UE. The network entity receives (940) feedback associated with the UECS communications and identifies (945) an adjustment to the E2E ML configuration. The network entity then directs at least some of the multiple devices participating in an UECS to update the respective sub-DNN of the E2E DNN based on the adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Patent number: 12089061
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described for enabling a base station to enable peer-to-peer communication among multiple user equipment (UE) over a mmWave link. The techniques described herein overcome challenges that the multiple UEs might otherwise face in trying to establish peer-to-peer links on their own. By relying on the base station to grant air interface resources for the UE to perform peer-to-peer communications with the UE, the UE can communicate directly with the other UE, independent of links that the UE or the other UE maintains with the base station. Furthermore, reliance on the base station may help the UE and the other UE mitigate interference from other nearby mmWave links that are separate from the peer-to-peer wave link. In addition, by relying on the base station to specify the beam sweeping pattern, beam acquisition by the UE and the other UE may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer, Aamir Akram
  • Publication number: 20240292405
    Abstract: Methods, devices, systems, and means for intra-UECS communication by a coordinating user equipment, UE, in a user equipment-coordination set, UECS, are described herein. The coordinating UE allocates first air interface resources to a second UE and second air interface resources to a third UE for intra-UECS communication. The coordinating UE receives, using the allocated first air interface resources, an Internet Protocol, IP, data packet from the second UE in the UECS. The coordinating UE determines that a destination address included in the IP data packet is an address of the third UE and transmits, using the allocated second air interface resources, the IP data packet to the third UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Patent number: 12075346
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and devices for determining a machine-learning architecture for network slicing. A user equipment (UE) and a network-slice manager communicate with each other to determine a machine-learning (ML) architecture, which the UE then employs to wirelessly communicate data for an application. In particular, the UE selects a machine-learning architecture that provides a quality-of-service level requested by an application. The network-slice manager accepts or rejects the request based on one or more available end-to-end machine-learning architectures associated with a network slice that supports the quality-of-service level requested by the application. By working together, the UE and the network-slice manager can determine an appropriate machine-learning architecture that satisfies a quality-of-service level associated with the application and forms a portion of an end-to-end machine-learning architecture that meets the quality-of-service requested by the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Publication number: 20240241214
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement control signaling for monostatic radar sensing. In particular, a base station uses control signaling to configure a user equipment for monostatic radar sensing and control when monostatic radar sensing is performed by the user equipment. With control signaling, the base station can enable monostatic radar sensing to occur using similar frequency resources used for wireless communication, which enables efficient use of a frequency spectrum. The base station can also use control signaling to reduce interference observed by other user equipment as the user equipment performs monostatic radar sensing. By performing monostatic radar sensing, the user equipment compiles explicit information about objects within an operating environment and shares this information with the base station. The base station uses this information to improve wireless communication performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Publication number: 20240241222
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement cooperative bistatic radar sensing using deep neural networks. In particular, a base station (120) operates as a transmitter of the bistatic radar, and the user equipment (110) operates as a receiver of the bistatic radar. During radar sensing, the base station (120) and the user equipment (110) use their respective deep neural networks (460 and 420) for signal generation and signal processing. The deep neural networks (460 and 420) also enable the base station (120) and the user equipment (110) to utilize the same hardware for both radar sensing and wireless communication. With cooperative bistatic radar sensing, the base station (120) and the user equipment (110) can compile explicit information about objects within an operating environment and use this information to improve wireless communication performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Publication number: 20240235618
    Abstract: Techniques described herein describe aspects of signal adjustments in user equipment-coordination set, UECS, joint transmissions. A base station analyzes a first joint transmission from multiple user equipments, UEs, participating in a UECS, where the multiple UEs include a coordinating UE of the UECS and at least one non-coordinating UE participating in the UECS. The base station determines that the first joint transmission fails to meet a performance metric and directs the multiple UEs participating in the UECS to add signal adjustments to a second joint transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Patent number: 12020158
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described for deep neural network (DNN) processing for a user equipment-coordination set (UECS). A network entity selects (910) an end-to-end (E2E) machine-learning (ML) configuration that forms an E2E DNN for processing UECS communications. The network entity directs (915) each device of multiple devices participating in an UECS to form, using at least a portion of the E2E ML configuration, a respective sub-DNN of the E2E DNN that transfers the UECS communications through the E2E communication, where the multiple devices include at least one base station, a coordinating user equipment (UE), and at least one additional UE. The network entity receives (940) feedback associated with the UECS communications and identifies (945) an adjustment to the E2E ML configuration. The network entity then directs at least some of the multiple devices participating in an UECS to update the respective sub-DNN of the E2E DNN based on the adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Publication number: 20240202528
    Abstract: Systems and techniques provide for the joint training and implementation of an end-to-end chain of neural networks along the nodes of an at least partially wireless transmission path used to transmit a data stream between a data source device and at least one data sink device. The source-side neural networks of the chain can implement one or both of data encoding and channel encoding of outgoing data blocks, and the sink-side neural networks of the chain conversely can implement one or both of channel decoding and data decoding to provide efficient end-to-end transmission of the data stream without necessitating individual design, test, and implementation of discrete processes for each coding and decoding stage, while also facilitating the adaptation of the end-to-end neural network chaining process to various operational parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Patent number: 12015459
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described for modifying a position of an adaptive phase-changing device, APD. In aspects, a base station receives, from a user equipment, UE, at least one link quality parameter that is indicative of a channel impairment. The base station then identifies, using the at least one link quality parameter, a surface configuration for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) of an adaptive phase-changing device (APD) and transmits a first indication of the surface configuration using an adaptive phase-changing device control channel, APD control channel. In aspects, the base station determines using the at least one link quality parameter, a position configuration for the APD and transmits a second indication of the position configuration to the APD. The base station then communicates with the UE using the APD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Publication number: 20240188031
    Abstract: A UE receives satellite ephemeris information from a server server and calculates one or more satellite parameters for at least one satellite based on the satellite ephemeris information. The UE controls, based on the one or more satellite parameters, operation of a software application that utilizes a data service provided via the at least one satellite. Calculating satellite parameters can include calculating one or more satellite parameters at an API of the UE, and controlling operation of a software application can include receiving, at the API, a request for satellite ephemeris information from the software application, providing, by the API, a representation of the one or more satellite parameters to the software application in response to the request, and adjusting, at the software application, an operation of the software application based on the received representation of the one or more satellite parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Aamir Akram, Erik Richard Stauffer, Sharath Ananth
  • Patent number: 12001943
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described for enabling base station-user equipment messaging regarding deep neural networks. A network entity (base station 121, core network server 320) determines a neural network formation configuration (architecture and/or parameter configurations 1208) for a deep neural network (deep neural network(s) 604, 608, 612, 616) for processing communications transmitted over the wireless communication system. The network entity (base station 121, core network server 302) communicates the neural network formation configuration to a user equipment (UE 110). The user equipment (UE 110) configures a first neural network (deep neural network(s) 608, 612) based on the neural network formation configuration. In implementations, the user equipment (UE 110) recovers information communicated over the wireless network using the first neural network (deep neural network(s) 608, 612).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Patent number: 12003957
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses for distributed network cellular identity management. In particular, a distributed-network cellular-identity-management (DNCIM) server includes a lookup table that stores and relates together a user-equipment (UE) public key associated with a UE private key, a core-network (CN) public key associated with a CN private key, and a subscriber identity. Using the DNCIM server, the UE and an authentication server respectively generate two different (e.g., asymmetric) cipher keys based on the UE private key and the CN public key, and the UE public key and the CN private key. The UE and the authentication server can also authenticate one another by referencing information in the lookup table of the DNCIM server. Using these cipher keys, the UE and the authentication server can establish secure communications with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Erik Richard Stauffer, Jibing Wang
  • Publication number: 20240171239
    Abstract: In aspects, a base station determines to transmit a multi-user-equipment communication, multi-UE communication, to multiple user equipments, UEs. The base station determines to include an adaptive phase-changing device, APD, in a communication path for a wireless signal carrying the multi-UE communication and selects a surface configuration for a surface of the APD based on determining to transmit the multi-UE communication. The base station directs the APD to apply the surface configuration to the surface and transmits the wireless signal carrying the multi-UE communication by transmitting the wireless signal towards the surface of the APD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Publication number: 20240154646
    Abstract: In aspects, a base station establishes a wireless connection with a user equipment, UE. The base station determines to include at least a first adaptive phase-changing device, APD, and a second APD in a wireless communication path with the UE. In response to determining to include multiple APDs in the communication path, the base station determines a first surface configuration for a first surface of the first APD and a second surface configuration for a second surface of the second APD. The base station directs the first APD to apply the first surface configuration to the first surface and directs the second APD to apply the second surface configuration to the second surface. The base station and the UE communicate with the UE using wireless transmissions that travel along a wireless communication path that includes the first surface of the first APD and the second surface of the second APD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer