Patents by Inventor James Francis Geekie

James Francis Geekie 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).

  • Publication number: 20240114497
    Abstract: In some aspects, the present disclosure provides methods, apparatuses, and systems for efficient thermal mitigation while maintaining wireless device performance on a primary component carrier (PCC). Embodiments described may include implementation of target transceiver module configurations, where bandwidth (e.g., PCC bands and secondary component carrier (SCC) bands) may be monitored by a wireless device based on intra-module target configurations and/or inter-module target configurations. An intra-module target configuration may include a target transceiver module monitoring both PCC bands and SCC bands. An inter-module target configuration may include or refer to a plurality of target transceiver modules together monitoring PCC bands and SCC bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Mahbod GHELICHI, James Francis GEEKIE, Raghu Narayan CHALLA, Mihir Vijay LAGHATE, Ruhua HE, Yong LI
  • Publication number: 20240023115
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, via a first carrier associated with a first radio access technology, at least a first uplink grant from a base station. The UE may implement one or more backoff schemes. For example, the UE may transmit, using resources indicated by at least the first uplink grant, an uplink message based on a temperature of one or more components of the UE satisfying a threshold, the uplink message including a transport block (TB) indicating data, a buffer status report (BSR) associated with the data, one or more padding bytes different from the data, or any combination thereof. The UE may monitor for at least a second uplink grant from the base station during a first time period based on transmitting the uplink message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Mahbod GHELICHI, James Francis GEEKIE, Arnaud MEYLAN, Sivaram Srivenkata PALAKODETY, Bao Vinh NGUYEN, Michel CHAUVIN
  • Patent number: 11832244
    Abstract: In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may receive an uplink (UL) grant (e.g., dynamic UL grant, UL configured grant (CG)) from a network, but may decide to skip the UL grant altogether or not transmit any user plane data on the UL grant. In such instances, the UE may maintain or expedite expiration associated with one or more timers (e.g., discontinuous reception (DRX) and bandwidth part (BWP) inactivity timers, secondary cell (SCell) deactivation timer, etc.). The UE may also maintain or expedite expiration associated with one or more timers if it receives downlink (DL) transmission (e.g., DL semi-persistent scheduling (SPS)) from the network that includes no user plane data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Linhai He, Peter Gaal, Leena Zacharias, Mahbod Ghelichi, James Francis Geekie, Brian Clarke Banister, Arnaud Meylan, Michel Evan Chauvin
  • Patent number: 11758555
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, via a first carrier associated with a first radio access technology, at least a first uplink grant from a base station. The UE may implement one or more backoff schemes. For example, the UE may transmit, using resources indicated by at least the first uplink grant, an uplink message based on a temperature of one or more components of the UE satisfying a threshold, the uplink message including a transport block (TB) indicating data, a buffer status report (BSR) associated with the data, one or more padding bytes different from the data, or any combination thereof. The UE may monitor for at least a second uplink grant from the base station during a first time period based on transmitting the uplink message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahbod Ghelichi, James Francis Geekie, Arnaud Meylan, Sivaram Srivenkata Palakodety, Bao Vinh Nguyen, Michel Evan Chauvin
  • Publication number: 20230276522
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may detect that a voltage fails to satisfy a performance threshold while operating in a dual subscriber identity module (SIM)-dual active (DSDA) mode associated with maintaining a first network connection in a first active mode concurrently with maintaining a second network connection in a second active mode. The mobile station may transition the first network connection from the first active mode to a standby mode based at least in part on detecting that the voltage fails to satisfy the performance threshold. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Mahbod GHELICHI, Rishav REJ, James Francis GEEKIE, Cheol Hee PARK, Manisha PRIYADARSHINI, Andres ZACARIAS, Adam HEBEIN, Qingxin CHEN, Uttam PATTANAYAK
  • Publication number: 20230247559
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication in a multi-connectivity user equipment (UE) are described. The UE may communicate with one or more base stations via a first radio access technology (RAT). The UE may determine whether the UE is in a selected state. The selected state may correspond to one or more modes of operation (e.g., a doze mode, a relaxed doze mode, an active WiFi communication mode, a low battery mode). The UE may disable communication via a second RAT in response to determining that the UE is in the selected state. The UE may continue to communicate via the first RAT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Mahbod GHELICHI, James Francis GEEKIE, Jittra JOOTAR, Arvind Vardarajan SANTHANAM, Kuo-Chun LEE, Vanitha Aravamudhan KUMAR
  • Publication number: 20230209461
    Abstract: A UE may, responsive to detecting a power-related condition, send a message to induce the master node to release the secondary node. Such a message can include a message reporting a radio link failure of the secondary node, or, if a channel quality indicator is configured for at least some of the secondary cells of the secondary node, reporting a low CQI value so that the network can cease scheduling on such cells. Alternatively, in a carrier aggregation (CA) mode, with the UE connected to a single node comprising a primary cell and one or more secondary cells, the UE may not control which and how many secondary cells with which it communicates. In such a scenario, if such secondary cells are configured for channel quality indicator reporting, the UE may report a low CQI value so that the node will cease scheduling data on such cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: James Francis GEEKIE, Arvind Vardarajan SANTHANAM, Mahbod GHELICHI, Shanshan WANG, Leena ZACHARIAS
  • Patent number: 11683761
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may partially disable transmissions on a transmission port based on a temperature condition (e.g., chipset temperature or skin temperature exceeding threshold). In a further aspect, the UE may enable the partially disabled transmissions on the transmission port in response to cessation of the temperature condition. In a further aspect, the UE may transmit a capability indication to a base station that indicates that the UE is capable of supporting a transition from a multi-layer (rank-2) communication mode to a single-layer (rank-1) communication mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: James Francis Geekie, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Raghu Narayan Challa, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Mahbod Ghelichi, Enoch Shiao-Kuang Lu
  • Publication number: 20230180238
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for an adaptive strategy for enhanced thermal mitigation and overheating signaling. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining whether one or more trigger conditions are met and following an overheating assistance (OA) configuration received from a network or switching to an internal thermal mitigation configuration based at least in part on the determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Shanshan WANG, Arvind Vardarajan SANTHANAM, Tian MAI, Reza SHAHIDI, Mahbod GHELICHI, James Francis GEEKIE, Yash PATHAK, Sundaresan TAMBARAM KAILASAM
  • Publication number: 20230118538
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques that may help mitigate service loss for a UE (e.g., in DSDA mode) due to temperature rise. According to certain aspects, a UE detects, while operating in a multi subscriber identity module (SIM) mode with at least a first subscriber (SUB) and a second subscriber (SUB) active on a first radio access technology (RAT), that the UE has reached a first temperature threshold less than a second temperature threshold at which the UE limits service in the first RAT and greater than a third temperature threshold associated with a temperature mitigation level. The UE then takes action to move the first SUB to a second RAT in response to the detecting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Mugdha Sanjay PATIL, Mahbod GHELICHI, Gaurav SINGH, James Francis GEEKIE
  • Patent number: 11601880
    Abstract: A UE may, responsive to detecting a power-related condition, send a message to induce the master node to release the secondary node. Such a message can include a message reporting a radio link failure of the secondary node, or, if a channel quality indicator is configured for at least some of the secondary cells of the secondary node, reporting a low CQI value so that the network can cease scheduling on such cells. Alternatively, in a carrier aggregation (CA) mode, with the UE connected to a single node comprising a primary cell and one or more secondary cells, the UE may not control which and how many secondary cells with which it communicates. In such a scenario, if such secondary cells are configured for channel quality indicator reporting, the UE may report a low CQI value so that the node will cease scheduling data on such cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: James Francis Geekie, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Mahbod Ghelichi, Shanshan Wang, Leena Zacharias
  • Publication number: 20220408436
    Abstract: In some aspects, the present disclosure provides methods, apparatuses, and systems for efficient thermal mitigation while maintaining wireless device performance on a primary component carrier (PCC). Embodiments described may include implementation of target transceiver module configurations, where bandwidth (e.g., PCC bands and secondary component carrier (SCC) bands) may be monitored by a wireless device based on intra-module target configurations and/or inter-module target configurations. An intra-module target configuration may include a target transceiver module monitoring both PCC bands and SCC bands. An inter-module target configuration may include or refer to a plurality of target transceiver modules together monitoring PCC bands and SCC bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Mahbod GHELICHI, James Francis GEEKIE, Raghu Narayan CHALLA, Mihir Vijay LAGHATE, Ruhua HE, Yong LI
  • Publication number: 20220377672
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a UE may partially disable transmissions on a transmission port based on a temperature condition (e.g., chipset temperature or skin temperature exceeding threshold). In a further aspect, the UE may enable the partially disabled transmissions on the transmission port in response to cessation of the temperature condition. In a further aspect, the UE may transmit a capability indication to a base station that indicates that the UE is capable of supporting a transition from a multi-layer (rank-2) communication mode to a single-layer (rank-1) communication mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: James Francis GEEKIE, Alexei Yurievitch GOROKHOV, Raghu Narayan CHALLA, Mihir Vijay LAGHATE, Mahbod GHELICHI, Enoch Shiao-Kuang LU
  • Patent number: 11463216
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to receive a first configuration indicating for the UE to communicate with the base station using a set of receive ports. The UE may transmit, according to the first configuration in a first time interval associated with a first power state of the UE, sounding reference signals (SRSs) on a set of transmit ports corresponding to the set of receive ports. The UE may then communicate using less than all of the set of transmit ports for the SRSs based on determining to operate in a reduced power state. The UE may then receive, based on communicating using less than all of the set of transmit ports for the SRSs, a second configuration indicating for the UE to communicate with the base station using a first subset of receive ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: James Francis Geekie, Mahbod Ghelichi, Chun-Hao Hsu, Zae Yong Choi, Yung-Yih Jian, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 11452043
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a wake up time period corresponding to a wake up cycle, transmit a message that includes an identifier of the UE within a first resource pool during a first portion of the wake up time period based on the wake up cycle, and monitor for a paging signal from a vehicle UE during a paging occasion of the wake up time period based on transmitting the message. A vehicle UE may identify a wake up configuration for a wake up time period, receive, within a first portion of the wake up time period, a message within a resource pool that includes the identifier of the UE. The vehicle UE may transmit a paging signal within a paging occasion of the wake up time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Shailesh Patil, James Francis Geekie, Farrukh Rashid, Cheol Hee Park
  • Publication number: 20220217042
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may transmit assistance information to a base station to request an update or a modification to one or more communication parameters configured at the UE. Such communication parameters may include a quantity of uplink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers, a quantity of downlink MIMO layers, a minimum scheduling offset, a maximum quantity of component carriers, or a maximum aggregated bandwidth for a secondary cell group (SCG). In some implementations, the UE may transmit the assistance information requesting the update or modification to one or more of such communication parameters based on detecting that the UE satisfies one or more triggering conditions or thresholds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Brian Clarke Banister, Kuo-Chun Lee, Aamod Khandekar, Enoch Shiao-Kuang Lu, Satashu Goel, Daniel Amerga, Karthik Venkatram, Subashini Krishnamurthy, Xuepan Guan, Mouaffac Ambriss, Peter Pui Lok Ang, James Francis Geekie, Sasikanth Reddy Adapata, Sundaresan Tambaram Kailasam
  • Publication number: 20220182198
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to receive a first configuration indicating for the UE to communicate with the base station using a set of receive ports. The UE may transmit, according to the first configuration in a first time interval associated with a first power state of the UE, sounding reference signals (SRSs) on a set of transmit ports corresponding to the set of receive ports. The UE may then communicate using less than all of the set of transmit ports for the SRSs based on determining to operate in a reduced power state. The UE may then receive, based on communicating using less than all of the set of transmit ports for the SRSs, a second configuration indicating for the UE to communicate with the base station using a first subset of receive ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: James Francis Geekie, Mahbod Ghelichi, Chun-Hao Hsu, Zae Yong Choi, Yung-Yih Jian, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 11252720
    Abstract: User equipment (UE) may benefit from power management techniques, for example, in the context of cellular vehicle-to-everything (CV2X) communication. In various aspects of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE configured to determine whether a first subframe includes at least one sub-channel carrying information intended for the UE, receive the information via at least one receive (Rx) chain associated with the at least one sub-channel when the information intended for the UE is carried on the at least one sub-channel included in the first subframe, and deactivate the at least one Rx chain associated with the at least one sub-channel based on whether the information intended for the UE is absent from the at least one sub-channel included in the first subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shay Landis, Soumya Das, David Yunusov, Hee Jun Park, James Francis Geekie, Moshe Ben-Ari
  • Publication number: 20220015119
    Abstract: In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may receive an uplink (UL) grant (e.g., dynamic UL grant, UL configured grant (CG)) from a network, but may decide to skip the UL grant altogether or not transmit any user plane data on the UL grant. In such instances, the UE may maintain or expedite expiration associated with one or more timers (e.g., discontinuous reception (DRX) and bandwidth part (BWP) inactivity timers, secondary cell (SCell) deactivation timer, etc.). The UE may also maintain or expedite expiration associated with one or more timers if it receives downlink (DL) transmission (e.g., DL semi-persistent scheduling (SPS)) from the network that includes no user plane data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Linhai HE, Peter GAAL, Leena ZACHARIAS, Mahbod GHELICHI, James Francis GEEKIE, Brian Clarke BANISTER, Arnaud MEYLAN, Michel Evan CHAUVIN
  • Publication number: 20210368535
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, via a first carrier associated with a first radio access technology, at least a first uplink grant from a base station. The UE may implement one or more backoff schemes. For example, the UE may transmit, using resources indicated by at least the first uplink grant, an uplink message based on a temperature of one or more components of the UE satisfying a threshold, the uplink message including a transport block (TB) indicating data, a buffer status report (BSR) associated with the data, one or more padding bytes different from the data, or any combination thereof. The UE may monitor for at least a second uplink grant from the base station during a first time period based on transmitting the uplink message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Mahbod Ghelichi, James Francis Geekie, Amaud Meylan, Sivaram Sriventaka Palakodety, Bao Vinh Nguyen, Michel Evan Chauvin