Patents by Inventor Hosein Nikopour

Hosein Nikopour 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).

  • Graph neural network and reinforcement learning techniques for connection management
    Patent number: 12375968
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides connection management techniques based on graph neural networks (GNN) and deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to optimize user association and load balancing. A graph structure of a communication network is considered for the GNN architecture and DRL is used to learn parameters of the GNN algorithm/model. Connection management is defined as a combinatorial graph optimization problem, and the DRL mechanism uses the underlying graph to learn weights of the GNN for an optimal user connections or associations. The connection management techniques can consider local network features to make better decisions to balance network traffic load while network throughput is also maximized. Implementations are provided based on edge computing frameworks include the Open RAN (O-RAN) architecture. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, Marcel Nassar, Hosein Nikopour, Shilpa Talwar
  • LINEAR PACKET NETWORK CODING TO IMPROVE TRANSMISSION RELIABILITY IN MULTIPATH TRANSMISSIONS
    Publication number: 20250219932
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices, methods, and systems for encoding data packets for transmitting over at least two transmission paths, which may include a sub-6 GHz link and multiple high frequency band links. The system may divide an upper layer packet into a predefined number of equal-sized segments, encode the segments with linear packet network coding to generate a set of network coded packets, allocate for transmission to a destination node over two or more transmission paths subsets of the set of network coded packets to corresponding ones of the two or more transmission paths, and transmit to the destination node each subset of the subsets of network coded packets on its corresponding transmission path of the two or more transmission paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Wei MAO, Hosein NIKOPOUR
  • AI/ML-BASED NETWORK ENERGY SAVING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20250212116
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for a comprehensive framework for managing energy consumption to energy cost index mapping rules in next-generation radio access networks (NG-RAN) enables operators to configure unified mapping rules for groups of gNBs to optimize network energy efficiency through artificial intelligence/machine language (AI/ML)-based decisions. The framework includes multiple mapping approaches for both current and future releases, including linear mapping, mapping tables, and enhanced mapping methods that incorporate additional load parameters. The management service architecture supports both standalone and embedded management functions, allowing operators to create, modify, and delete mapping rules while maintaining coordination among gNB groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2025
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Lili Wei, Yizhi Yao, Omid Semiari, Hosein Nikopour
  • Reliability enhancements for multi-access traffic management
    Patent number: 12323319
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to multi-access traffic management in multi-access computing environments. A reliability enhancement engine (REE) operated by a multi-access multipath traffic manager identifies traffic flows that have high reliability requirements (“reliability flows”) and performs admission control for the reliability flows. The REE determines a coding rate (e.g., a redundancy factor) and traffic distribution strategies for the identified reliability flows. The REE applies cross-access network coding (NC) on the reliability flows, and handles multi-access acknowledgements and traffic pacing, which may involve multiplexing traffic of the reliability flows with non-high-reliability traffic. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shu-ping Yeh, Wei Mao, Hosein Nikopour, Shilpa Talwar, Murali Narasimha, Jingwen Bai
  • Reinforcement learning (RL) and graph neural network (GNN)-based resource management for wireless access networks
    Patent number: 12245052
    Abstract: A computing node to implement an RL management entity in an NG wireless network includes a NIC and processing circuitry coupled to the NIC. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of network measurements for a corresponding plurality of network functions. The functions are configured as a plurality of ML models forming a multi-level hierarchy. Control signaling from an ML model of the plurality is decoded, the ML model being at a predetermined level (e.g., a lowest level) in the hierarchy. The control signaling is responsive to a corresponding network measurement and at least second control signaling from a second ML model at a level that is higher than the predetermined level. A plurality of reward functions is generated for training the ML models, based on the control signaling from the MLO model at the predetermined level in the multi-level hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Shilpa Talwar
  • Wireless communication technology, apparatuses, and methods
    Patent number: 12237589
    Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asl, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Brandon Davis, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Yossi Tsfati, Marian Verhelst, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
  • Techniques for integrated access and backhaul (IAB) nodes
    Patent number: 12185163
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein provide techniques for integrated access and backhaul (IAB) nodes. For example, embodiments include techniques associated with: rate-proportional routing for network coding; utilizing multiple routes in IAB networks; user equipment (UE) and parent selection for efficient topology in IAB networks; establishing efficient IAB topologies; and/or adaptive coded-forwarding for network coding. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Mao, Murali Narasimha, Jaemin Han, Meryem Simsek, Hosein Nikopour, Sudeep Palat, Navid Naderializadeh
  • Low power mmWave receiver architecture with spatial compression interface
    Patent number: 12184316
    Abstract: A receiver circuit associated with a communication device is disclosed. The receiver circuit comprises a digital data compression circuit configured to receive a plurality of digital receive signals derived from a plurality of analog receive signals respectively associated with the receiver circuit. The digital data compression circuit is further configured to compress the plurality of digital receive signals to form one or more compressed digital data signals based thereon, to be provided to an input output (I/O) interface associated therewith. In some embodiments, a compressed digital signal dimension associated with the one or more compressed digital data signals is less than a digital signal dimension associated with the plurality of digital receive signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour, Peter Sagazio, Farhana Sheikh, Junyoung Nam, Shilpa Talwar
  • Spatial thermal density reduction for MMWAVE antenna arrays
    Patent number: 12149311
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer readable medium for special thermal density reduction by antenna thinning. A system comprises N transmit/receive (TX/RX) chains, where each TX/RX chain comprises an RFFE and each RFFE comprises one or more thermal sensors configured to measure heat in the RFFE. An antenna array coupled to the plurality of TX/RX chains. A codebook that comprises a plurality of code words configured to respond to real-time heat measurements from the thermal sensors in each TX/RX chain is configured to switch off selected TX/RX chains to reduce thermal density at the antenna array while maintaining M RFFEs switched on, where M<N and the desired beamforming gain is 10 log 10(M).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Brent Elliott, Hosein Nikopour, Eren Sasoglu, Shilpa Talwar
  • METHODS AND DEVICES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
    Publication number: 20240373418
    Abstract: A local server includes a controller configured to select a processing function for processing offload, and receive, from a traffic filter, target data that originates from a local network; and a processing platform comprising one or more processors and configured to apply the processing function to the target data to obtain processed data; and wherein the controller is further configured to send the processed data to a remote server for remote processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Biljana BADIC, Steven A. BOWERS, Yang-Seok CHOI, Miltiadis FILIPPOU, Bertram GUNZELMAN, Nageen HIMAYAT, Ingolf KARLS, Nirlesh Kumar KOSHTA, Rajkumar KRISHNAPERUMAL, Markus Dominik MUECK, Hosein NIKOPOUR, Pradeep PANGI, Jerome PARRON, Bernhard RAAF, Sabine ROESSEL, Dario SABELLA, Bernd SCHALLER, Domagoj SIPRAK, Christopher STOBART, Shashanka TOTADAMANE RAMAPPA, Sudeep MANITHARA VAMANAN, Zhibin YU, Jing ZHU
  • Wireless chip to chip communication with selective frequency multiplexing with different modulation schemes
    Patent number: 12088329
    Abstract: A transmitter for chip to chip communication may include a modulator and a transmit frequency converter. The modulator may modulate a first received signal according to a first modulation scheme. The modulator may also modulate a second received signal according to a second modulation scheme. The transmit frequency converter may center the first received signal on a first frequency that does not comprise a phase within a radio frequency (RF) domain to generate a first centered signal. The transmit frequency converter may also center the second received signal on a second frequency that comprises a phase within the frequency band to generate a second centered signal. The second centered signal may be orthogonal to the first centered signal. A frequency gap may be positioned between the first centered signal and the second centered signal within the frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mehnaz Rahman, Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour
  • BEAM MANAGEMENT AND ANTENNA CALIBRATION IN MIMO SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20240297723
    Abstract: Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sub-mmWave technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers and receivers for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include an apparatus of a communication device including an antenna array and processing circuitry coupled to the antenna array. The processing circuitry is configured to initialize a beam tracking algorithm based on received signals received at the antenna array, wherein antenna phases used in the beam tracking are bound by an upper phase limit and a lower phase limit, to generate a beam tracking result. The processing circuitry is further configured to generate a calibration vector based on the beam tracking result and receive subsequent transmissions using a codebook adapted based on the calibration vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour, Shilpa Talwa, Dor Shaviv, Roya Doostnejad, Adesoji J. Sajuyigbe
  • Methods and devices for signal demodulation
    Patent number: 12074753
    Abstract: A communication device including one or more processors configured to determine a first signal component of a received modulated signal; determine a second signal component of the received modulated signal; generate a phase shift of the first signal component; generate a phase shift of the second signal component; compare the phase shift of the first signal component and the phase shift of the second signal component with each other; and generate a plurality of constellation points, wherein each of the plurality of constellation point is based on the determination of the first signal component, the determination of the second signal component, and the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour, Mehnaz Rahman
  • RADIO ACCESS NETWORK INTELLIGENT APPLICATION MANAGER
    Publication number: 20240259879
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to edge and cloud computing frameworks, telemetry and telemetering systems, telemetry awareness and intelligence in managing telemetering systems, and Radio Access Network (RAN) and RAN intelligent controller (RIC) implementations. In particular, the present disclosure provides RIC-based resource management for individual RIC applications, which is based on the collection and analysis of platform telemetry data as well as measurements collected by user equipment and access network infrastructure elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Sunku RANGANATH, Hassnaa MOUSTAFA, Hosein NIKOPOUR, John BROWNE, Stephen T. PALERMO, Valerie J. PARKER
  • WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20240243477
    Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asl, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Marian Verhelst, Yossi Tsfati, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
  • Beam management and antenna calibration in MIMO systems
    Patent number: 12009875
    Abstract: Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sub-mmWave technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers and receivers for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include an apparatus of a communication device including an antenna array and processing circuitry coupled to the antenna array. The processing circuitry is configured to initialize a beam tracking algorithm based on received signals received at the antenna array, wherein antenna phases used in the beam tracking are bound by an upper phase limit and a lower phase limit, to generate a beam tracking result. The processing circuitry is further configured to generate a calibration vector based on the beam tracking result and receive subsequent transmissions using a codebook adapted based on the calibration vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour, Shilpa Talwar, Dor Shaviv, Roya Doostnejad, Adesoji J. Sajuyigbe
  • Wireless communication technology, apparatuses, and methods
    Patent number: 11955732
    Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asl, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Brandon Davis, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Yossi Tsfati, Marian Verhelst, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
  • Equalization and estimation processing in wireless devices
    Patent number: 11956104
    Abstract: Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sub-mmWave technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers and receivers for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include an apparatus of a communication device including one or more antennas configured to receive an RF signal and an ADC system. The ADC system includes a 1-bit ADC configured to receive the RF signal, and an ADC controller circuitry configured to measure a number of positive samples in the received RF signal for a plurality of thresholds of the 1-bit ADC, estimate receive signal power associated with the received RF signal based on the measured number of positive samples, determine a direct current (DC) offset in the received RF signal using the estimated received signal power, and adjust the received RF signal based on the determined DC offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour, Mehnaz Rahman, Ivan Simoes Gaspar, Shilpa Talwar, Stefano Pellerano, Claudio Da Silva, Namyoon Lee, Yo Seb Jeon, Eren Sasoglu
  • Millimeter wave (mmWave) system and methods
    Patent number: 11956001
    Abstract: A mobile communication device that is configured to cancel interference within received millimeter wave band signals. The device includes a receiver circuit that is configured to receive a millimeter wave band signal, adjust gain provided to the millimeter wave band signal at a first amplifier, cancel interference in millimeter wave band signal after gain is adjusted by the first amplifier, and adjust gain provided to the millimeter wave band signal at a second amplifier after interference is cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mikhail T. Galeev, Oner Orhan, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Benjamin Grewell, Navid Naderializadeh, Hosein Nikopour, Susruth Sudhakaran, Shilpa Talwar, Liang Xian
  • Management of MIMO communication systems
    Patent number: 11949474
    Abstract: Apparatuses of a user equipment (UE), a cellular base station, and radio access network (RAN) nodes are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless communication device includes circuitry configured to measure reference signals received from a plurality of antennas of an other wireless communication device, and circuitry configured to cause one or more antennas of the wireless communication device to transmit information regarding the received reference signals back to the other wireless communication device to enable the other wireless communication device to estimate a utility function for different transmit parameter sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jan Schreck, Nageen Himayat, Hosein Nikopour, Feng Xue, Ehsan Aryafar, Oner Orhan, Mustafa R. Akdeniz, Wook Bong Lee, Jing Zhu