Patents by Inventor Hari Sankar
Hari Sankar 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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Patent number: 12719646Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a selection of a set of control channel monitoring skip durations, of multiple candidate sets of control channel monitoring skip durations. The UE may receive an indication of a control channel monitoring skip duration of the set of control channel monitoring skip durations. The UE may refrain from monitoring a control channel during a time period associated with the control channel monitoring skip duration. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: August 25, 2026Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wooseok Nam, Ruhua He, Tao Luo, Hari Sankar, Peter Pui Lok Ang
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Patent number: 12719605Abstract: Some examples of the techniques described herein may provide schemes to organize shaped payload bits, non-shaped payload bits, and parity bits to allow an increased quantity of bits to be shaped for enhanced performance. Interleaving may be utilized in some aspects to enhance robustness to burst errors. For instance, interleaving schemes for enhancing bit orderings and interleaving are provided. In some approaches, permutation and row-column interleaving may be performed with a quantity of rows. Some approaches may utilize circular rotation and row-column interleaving with a quantity of rows. In some examples, permutation with alphabet-based row-column interleaving with fixed rows may be performed. Some aspects may include permutation and row-column interleaving with a quantity of rows when punctured columns are shaped. In some approaches for modulation mapping, each set of bits may be mapped to a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbol.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2024Date of Patent: August 25, 2026Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorproatedInventors: Ming Ta Lin, Alessandro Risso, Li Zhang, Wei Yang, Jing Jiang, Hari Sankar, Harsha Acharya, Hobin Kim
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Patent number: 12719607Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may receive a transmission associated with one or more bits. The wireless communication device may decode the transmission using an average of one or more confidence level values, associated with the one or more bits, over a quantity of the one or more confidence level values and an offset that is based at least in part on the quantity of the one or more confidence level values. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2023Date of Patent: August 25, 2026Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorproatedInventors: Lev Tauz, Seyyed Ali Hashemi, Hobin Kim, Hari Sankar, Tiben Che, Harsha Acharya, Alessandro Risso
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Patent number: 12706779Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications. An example method includes receiving a first transmission comprising a first reference signal and a second transmission comprising a second reference signal, wherein at least one of: the first transmission comprises a first physical resource block group (PRG) and the second transmission comprises a second PRG, or the first transmission is in a first time resource and the second transmission is in a second time resource; estimating, using the first reference signal and the second reference signal, a precoding misalignment between the first transmission and the second transmission; and estimating, based on the precoding misalignment, a first channel for the first transmission and a second channel for the second transmission.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2025Date of Patent: August 11, 2026Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Gabriele Cesa, Kumar Pratik, Arash Behboodi, Yuanning Yu, Jae Won Yoo, Manish Jain, Hari Sankar, Supratik Bhattacharjee, Joseph Binamira Soriaga
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Patent number: 12706705Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a multiple physical uplink shared channel (multi-PUSCH) configuration, assign a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identifier (HPID) and one or more redundant version identifiers (RVIDs) to two or more slots associated with a first transport block, and assign a second HPID and the one or more RVIDs to two or more slots associated with a second transport block. The first transport block and the second transport block may be part of a single configured grant period. Assigning the second HPID may include incrementing the first HPID using one or more of a physical slot count, an available slot count, or a repetition number. The UE may transmit a multi-PUSCH communication in accordance with the multi-PUSCH configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2023Date of Patent: August 11, 2026Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jae Ho Ryu, Huilin Xu, Hari Sankar
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Patent number: 12707463Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) receives physical downlink control channels from transmission and reception points (TRPs). The physical downlink control channels may be jointly decoded to facilitate joint demodulation of physical shared channels. The UE receives a first downlink control information (DCI) over a first downlink control channel associated with a first TRP and a second DCI over a second downlink control channel associated with a second TRP. The first downlink control channel overlaps in time with the second downlink control channel. The first DCI schedules a first downlink shared channel associated with the first TRP and the second DCI schedules a second downlink shared channel associated with the second TRP. The UE receives the first downlink shared channel and the second downlink shared channel that overlap in time. The UE performs joint demodulation of the first and second downlink shared channels.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2023Date of Patent: August 11, 2026Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jae Ho Ryu, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Hobin Kim, Hari Sankar
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Publication number: 20260231019Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate, via a first connection and a second connection, with one or more network entities, where communications via the second connection are in accordance with an energy-saving mode. The UE may further transmit, to at least one network entity of the one or more network entities, control signaling to align respective communications modes for the first connection and the second connection, where alignment of the respective communications modes includes communications via the first connection and the communications via the second connection both being in accordance or not being in accordance with the energy-saving mode. The UE may then communicate, via the first connection and the second connection, with the one or more network entities in accordance with the alignment of the respective communications modes for the first connection and the second connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2025Publication date: August 6, 2026Inventors: Diana MAAMARI, Gabi SARKIS, Kianoush HOSSEINI, Hari SANKAR, Jing JIANG
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Publication number: 20260231061Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. The method may include receiving first information indicative of a set of multiple measurement timing configuration windows (SMTC windows) for measurement of neighbor cell synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), where the neighbor cell SSBs are associated with a set of multiple SSB groups, and where the set of multiple SSB groups is associated with one or more non-terrestrial network (NTN) network entities. The method may include measuring, during a first SMTC window, a first SSB, where the first SSB is associated with a first SSB group of the set of multiple SSB groups, and measuring, during a second SMTC window, a second SSB, where the second SMTC window is temporally offset from the first SMTC window, and where the second SSB is associated with a second SSB group of the set of multiple SSB groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2025Publication date: August 6, 2026Inventors: Jae Ho RYU, Changhwan PARK, Hari SANKAR
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Publication number: 20260223109Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information associated with a band prioritization scheme for identifying at least one dropping band, of a plurality of uplink frequency bands, to be used for a switching period associated with a switch from a first uplink frequency band to a second uplink frequency band, the plurality of uplink frequency bands comprising the first uplink frequency band and the second uplink frequency band. The UE may transmit, based on the configuration information, an uplink communication via the second uplink frequency band, and refrain from transmitting a dropped communication associated with the at least one dropping band. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2023Publication date: July 30, 2026Inventors: Yiqing CAO, Peter GAAL, Jae Ho RYU, Rebecca Wen-Ling YUAN, Hari SANKAR, Timo Ville VINTOLA
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Publication number: 20260222158Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for communication of a receiver configuration in association with channel state feedback. An example method includes obtaining an indication to report channel state information (CSI); sending, after the indication to report the CSI, a first CSI report that includes an explicit indication of an association between the first CSI report and a first receiver configuration; and sending a second CSI report that includes an explicit indication of an association between the second CSI report and a second receiver configuration, wherein the first receiver configuration is different from the second receiver configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2025Publication date: July 30, 2026Inventors: Weimin DUAN, Hyojin LEE, Gabi SARKIS, Jing JIANG, Hari SANKAR
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Patent number: 12695541Abstract: A receiver receives a wireless transmission and decodes the wireless transmission based on a non-binary polar successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder algorithm in which a path metric (PM) computation uses a maximum approximation based on logarithmic normalized values for random variable probabilities.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2024Date of Patent: July 28, 2026Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Afshin Haftbaradaran, Alessandro Risso, Shravan Kumar Reddy Garlapati, Li Zhang, Wei Yang, Kirill Ivanov, Jing Jiang, Seyyed Ali Hashemi, Hobin Kim, Hari Sankar
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Patent number: 12696275Abstract: The present disclosure provides solutions to sidelink transmission/reception problems by preparing waveforms for multiple resource blocks (RBs) in a given bandwidth. Upon determining the availability of RBs or sets of RBs the apparatuses and methods of the present disclosure allow for dynamic determination and use of available sidelink frequencies. An apparatus may comprise a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to transmit and/or receive sidelink data in at least one contiguous set of RBs within a bandwidth part (BWP) of an unlicensed frequency band, the BWP including a plurality of RB sets, wherein the SL data is transmitted and/or received in a waveform generated for at least one of the plurality of RB sets prior to a listen-before-talk procedure indicating an availability of the at least one contiguous set of RBs for transmission.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: July 28, 2026Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jae Ho Ryu, Chih-Hao Liu, Sanghoon Kim, Hari Sankar
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Publication number: 20260213824Abstract: This disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for beam switching operations in wireless communication networks. In various examples, a user equipment (UE) obtains, from a network entity, a configuration indicating whether a user equipment (UE) autonomous beam switch is enabled or disabled. The UE obtains a reference signal in a first transmission beam. The UE obtains a measurement of the reference signal, the measurement triggering an update to a second transmission beam based on the UE autonomous beam switch being enabled. The methods and apparatuses provide lower memory requirements, reduced signaling overhead, and avoids misalignment between the network entity and UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2025Publication date: July 23, 2026Inventors: Yan ZHOU, Yongle Wu, Kiran Venugopal, Jing Jiang, Raghu Narayan Challa, Hari Sankar, Tao Luo, Jelena M. Damnjanovic, Alberto Rico Alvarino
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Publication number: 20260205326Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications. An example method includes receiving a first transmission comprising a first reference signal and a second transmission comprising a second reference signal, wherein at least one of: the first transmission comprises a first physical resource block group (PRG) and the second transmission comprises a second PRG, or the first transmission is in a first time resource and the second transmission is in a second time resource; estimating, using the first reference signal and the second reference signal, a precoding misalignment between the first transmission and the second transmission; and estimating, based on the precoding misalignment, a first channel for the first transmission and a second channel for the second transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2025Publication date: July 16, 2026Inventors: Gabriele CESA, Kumar PRATIK, Arash BEHBOODI, Yuanning YU, Jae Won YOO, Manish JAIN, Hari SANKAR, Supratik BHATTACHARJEE, Joseph Binamira SORIAGA
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Patent number: 12684533Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communication, including: receiving a capability report from a user equipment defining at least a first processing timeline and a second processing timeline for the user equipment; transmitting data to the user equipment for processing by the user equipment; and processing an acknowledgement from the user equipment in accordance with one of the first processing timeline or second processing timeline for the user equipment defined in the capability report.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wooseok Nam, Jing Sun, Jae Ho Ryu, Hari Sankar, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail
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Publication number: 20260181435Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may support mobility between a non-terrestrial network (NTN) cell and a terrestrial network (TN) cell. If the UE is connected to an NTN cell, the UE may determine timing for a neighboring TN cell using a reference timestamp. A first network entity supporting the NTN cell may request the reference timestamp from a second network entity supporting the TN cell. The second network entity may output the timestamp in response to the request. The first network entity may obtain the timestamp and output an indication of the timestamp to the UE in a measurement gap configuration. The UE may use the reference timestamp to determine timing for a measurement gap and may monitor for a signal (e.g., a synchronization signal) from the second network entity supporting the TN cell during the measurement gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2026Publication date: June 25, 2026Inventors: Jae Ho RYU, Changhwan PARK, Liangping MA, Bharat SHRESTHA, Hari SANKAR
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Patent number: 12666377Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive ephemeris information associated with a satellite and a timing advance parameter associated with the satellite. The UE may modify, based at least in part on the ephemeris information, at least one of: a downlink frequency tracking loop (FTL), or a downlink time tracking loop (TTL). The UE may receive a downlink signal from the satellite based at least in part on modifying the downlink FTL or the downlink TTL. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: June 23, 2026Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jae Ho Ryu, Hari Sankar, Paolo Minero, Changhwan Park
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Patent number: 12666422Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node associated with a first carrier, a downlink control information (DCI) transmission indicative of synchronization information corresponding to a second carrier, wherein the second carrier comprises a synchronization-signal-block-less (SSB-less) carrier. The UE may communicate via the second carrier based on the synchronization information. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2023Date of Patent: June 23, 2026Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Konstantinos Dimou, Rebecca Wen-Ling Yuan, Hung Dinh Ly, Hari Sankar, Peter Zillmann
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Publication number: 20260172373Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE) are described. The UE may transmit an indication of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) memory capability of the wireless device to support a variable limited buffer rate matching (LBRM) coding rate parameter that is inversely proportional to a scaling factor associated with a HARQ memory capacity of the wireless device. The UE may receive, based on the indication of the HARQ memory capability, control signaling configuring a first value for the variable LBRM coding rate parameter. The UE may communicate in accordance with the variable LBRM coding rate parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2024Publication date: June 18, 2026Inventors: Hobin KIM, Jae Ho RYU, Hari SANKAR, Yi HUANG
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Patent number: 12659092Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a capability of the UE to receive downlink transmissions over a plurality of component carriers with a first quantity of antennas. The UE may receive, in accordance with the indication of the capability of the UE, the downlink transmissions with at least a subset of the first quantity of antennas and over at least a subset of the plurality of component carriers.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2023Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kianoush Hosseini, Jing Jiang, Peter Gaal, Kazuki Takeda, Jing Lei, Hari Sankar, Li Zhang