Patents by Inventor Keith W. Saints

Keith W. Saints 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: 11979760
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) monitors a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in multiple component carriers (CC). The UE determines if the UE is operating in carrier aggregation (CA) mode having a first CC in a first frequency band and a second CC in a second frequency band. When the UE is operating in CA with a first CC in the first frequency band and the second CC in the second frequency band, the UE determines a span pattern for PDCCH symbols being received on the first and second CC and selects a PDCCH monitoring type based on, at least, the span pattern. A UE also determines if a first CC and a second CC of a CA combination are collocated and selects a PDCCH monitoring type based on, at least, the determination of whether the first and second CC are collocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Amir Farajidana, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Keith W. Saints, Linbo Li, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240107439
    Abstract: A system is configured for reconfiguration of a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) pattern. The system is configured for obtaining data including a configuration for a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) transmission carrying a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), the configuration specifying, for an SSB of the configuration, resource elements (REs) allocated for transmitting a primary synchronization signal (PSS) to a user equipment (UE) and REs allocated for transmitting a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) to the UE. The system is configured for selecting a set of REs that are unused in the configuration for the SSB transmission, specifying a filling sequence for extending a synchronization signal or an SSB to the set of REs that are unused in the configuration of the SSB transmission, generating data including an enhanced configuration for the SSB transmission that includes the extended synchronization signal or the extended SSBs, and transmitting the SSB transmission using the enhanced configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yihong Qi, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Amir Farajidana, Dan Zhang, Herbert R. Dawid, Idan Bar-Sade, Keith W. Saints, Onurcan Iscan, Ruoheng Liu, Sami M. Almalfouh, Sung Eun Lee, Tudor Ninacs, Wenshu Zhang, Yuanye Wang
  • Publication number: 20240107473
    Abstract: A system is configured for reconfiguration of a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) pattern. The system is configured for obtaining data including a configuration for a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) transmission carrying a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), the configuration specifying, for an SSB of the configuration, resource elements (REs) allocated for transmitting a primary synchronization signal (PSS) to a user equipment (UE) and REs allocated for transmitting a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) to the UE. The system is configured for selecting a set of REs that are unused in the configuration for the SSB transmission, specifying a filling sequence for extending a synchronization signal or an SSB to the set of REs that are unused in the configuration of the SSB transmission, generating data including an enhanced configuration for the SSB transmission that includes the extended synchronization signal or the extended SSBs, and transmitting the SSB transmission using the enhanced configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yihong Qi, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Amir Farajidana, Dan Zhang, Herbert R. Dawid, Idan Bar-Sade, Keith W. Saints, Onurcan Iscan, Ruoheng Liu, Sami M. Almalfouh, Sung Eun Lee, Tudor Ninacs, Wenshu Zhang, Yuanye Wang
  • Publication number: 20240032021
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive, from a cell of a network, a system information block (SIB), determine values for scheduling information for the SIB without decoding a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) corresponding to the SIB and decode the SIB using the scheduling information. A UE is also configured to receive, from a cell of a network, a message to be decoded, receive, from a source different from the cell, additional information related to a portion of the message, determine the portion of the message using the additional information and decode the message based at least in part on the determined portion of the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Tudor NINACS, Onurcan ISCAN, Amir FARAJIDANA, Amir Aminzadeh GOHARI, Dan ZHANG, Herbert R. DAWID, Keith W. SAINTS, Ruoheng LIU, Sami M. ALMALFOUH, Sung Eun LEE, Wenshu ZHANG, Yihong QI, Yuanye WANG
  • Publication number: 20240023137
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) configuration information comprising repetitions for PDCCH candidates that comprise Downlink Control Information (DCI), receive PDCCH candidates and decode the PDCCH candidates based on the PDCCH configuration information. A UE is configured to receive semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration information for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), receive a PDSCH comprising Downlink Control Information (DCI) and decode the PDSCH comprising the DCI based on the SPS configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Onurcan ISCAN, Tudor NINACS, Keith W SAINTS, Ruoheng LIU, Wenshu ZHANG, Amir FARAJIDANA, Amir Aminzadeh GOHARI, Dan ZHANG, Herbert R DAWID, Sami M ALMALFOUH, Sung Eun LEE, Yihong QI, Yuanye WANG
  • Publication number: 20230345461
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive, from a cell of a network, a system information block (SIB), determine values for scheduling information for the SIB without decoding a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) corresponding to the SIB and decode the SIB using the scheduling information. A UE is also configured to receive, from a cell of a network, a message to be decoded, receive, from a source different from the cell, additional information related to a portion of the message, determine the portion of the message using the additional information and decode the message based at least in part on the determined portion of the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Tudor NINACS, Onurcan ISCAN, Amir FARAJIDANA, Amir Aminzadeh GOHARI, Dan ZHANG, Herbert R. DAWID, Keith W. SAINTS, Ruoheng LIU, Sami M. ALMALFOUH, Sung Eun LEE, Wenshu ZHANG, Yihong QI, Yuanye WANG
  • Publication number: 20230345506
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) configuration information comprising repetitions for PDCCH candidates that comprise Downlink Control Information (DCI), receive PDCCH candidates and decode the PDCCH candidates based on the PDCCH configuration information. A UE is configured to receive semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration information for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), receive a PDSCH comprising Downlink Control Information (DCI) and decode the PDSCH comprising the DCI based on the SPS configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Onurcan ISCAN, Tudor NINACS, Keith W SAINTS, Ruoheng LIU, Wenshu ZHANG, Amir FARAJIDANA, Amir Aminzadeh GOHARI, Dan ZHANG, Herbert R. DAWID, Sami M ALMALFOUH, Sung Eun LEE, Yihong QI, Yuanye WANG
  • Publication number: 20220312238
    Abstract: A base station of a network provides a user equipment (UE) with information relating to monitoring a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) of multiple component carrier (CCs) in a carrier aggregation (CA) scheme. The base station configures a first CC and a second CC of a CA combination for a user equipment (UE) and provides the UE with information for the CA combination, wherein the information comprises an indication whether the first CC and the second CC are collocated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Weidong YANG, Amir FARAJIDANA, Chunhai YAO, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Jie CUI, Keith W. SAINTS, Linbo LI, Oghenekome OTERI, Sigen YE, Wei ZENG, Wei ZHANG, Yang TANG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220303799
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) monitors a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in multiple component carriers (CC). The UE determines if the UE is operating in carrier aggregation (CA) mode having a first CC in a first frequency band and a second CC in a second frequency band. When the UE is operating in CA with a first CC in the first frequency band and the second CC in the second frequency band, the UE determines a span pattern for PDCCH symbols being received on the first and second CC and selects a PDCCH monitoring type based on, at least, the span pattern. A UE also determines if a first CC and a second CC of a CA combination are collocated and selects a PDCCH monitoring type based on, at least, the determination of whether the first and second CC are collocated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Weidong YANG, Amir FARAJIDANA, Chunhai YAO, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Jie CUI, Keith W. SAINTS, Linbo LI, Oghenekome OTERI, Sigen YE, Wei ZENG, Wei ZHANG, Yang TANG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210321482
    Abstract: An example method for wireless communication includes: receiving, by a wireless station, an uplink transmission from a wireless device of a set of two or more wireless devices; determining, by the wireless station, a need for a higher priority uplink transmission; determining, by the wireless station, a minimum cancellation processing time for the set of two or more wireless devices; and transmitting an uplink cancellation request to the set of two or more wireless devices based on the minimum cancellation processing time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Keith W. Saints, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 8774816
    Abstract: A dynamic shared forward link channel (or “data” channel) is used to send multicast data to a group of wireless devices, e.g., using a common long code mask for the data channel. Reference power control (PC) bits are also sent on the data channel and used for signal quality estimation. A shared forward link control channel is used to send user-specific signaling to individual wireless devices, e.g., using time division multiplexing (TDM) and a unique long code mask for each wireless device. A shared forward link indicator channel is used to send reverse link (RL) PC bits to the wireless devices, e.g., using TDM. The data channel is jointly power controlled by all wireless devices receiving the data channel. The control and indicator channels are individually power controlled by each wireless device such that the signaling and RL PC bits sent on these channels for the wireless device are reliably received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Chen, Baaziz Achour, Brian K. Butler, Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Haitao Zhang, Keith W. Saints, Luca Blessent, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 8085840
    Abstract: An apparatus for reducing interference of a signal over a plurality of stages includes a processor configured to determine at least two equalizer taps based on at least one of a covariance and a channel impulse response of the signal. The processor is further configured to estimate at least one additional equalizer tap based on the at least two equalizer taps. In addition, the processor is configured to reduce, for each of the plurality of stages, the interference of the signal for that stage using an equalizer tap from either the at least two equalizer taps or the at least one additional equalizer tap, so that the signal for the next stage in the plurality of stages has the reduced interference. A method is also provided for reducing interference of a signal over a plurality of stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Keith W. Saints, Peter Gaal, Gilbert Leung
  • Publication number: 20100323747
    Abstract: A forward link power control mechanism measures the reverse link power control bits which are transmitted on the forward traffic channel. At the remote station, the reverse link power control bits from multiples base stations or multiple signal paths are measured, combined, and filtered to yield an improved measurement of the forward link signal quality. The reverse link power control bits which are deemed unreliable are omitted from use in the power control loop. The remote station generates a set of forward link power control bit in accordance with the measurements and transmits these bits to all base stations in communication with the remote station. Each base station adjusts its gain of the forward traffic channel in accordance to its measurement of the forward link power control bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Edward G. Tiedemann, JR., Keith W. Saints
  • Patent number: 7809044
    Abstract: A forward link power control mechanism measures the reverse link power control bits which are transmitted on the forward traffic channel. At the remote station, the reverse link power control bits from multiples base stations or multiple signal paths are measured, combined, and filtered to yield an improved measurement of the forward link signal quality. The reverse link power control bits which are deemed unreliable are omitted from use in the power control loop. The remote station generates a set of forward link power control bit in accordance with the measurements and transmits these bits to all base stations in communication with the remote station. Each base station adjusts its gain of the forward traffic channel in accordance to its measurement of the forward link power control bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Keith W. Saints
  • Publication number: 20100246471
    Abstract: A dynamic shared forward link channel (or “data” channel) is used to send multicast data to a group of wireless devices, e.g., using a common long code mask for the data channel. Reference power control (PC) bits are also sent on the data channel and used for signal quality estimation. A shared forward link control channel is used to send user-specific signaling to individual wireless devices, e.g., using time division multiplexing (TDM) and a unique long code mask for each wireless device. A shared forward link indicator channel is used to send reverse link (RL) PC bits to the wireless devices, e.g., using TDM. The data channel is jointly power controlled by all wireless devices receiving the data channel. The control and indicator channels are individually power controlled by each wireless device such that the signaling and RL PC bits sent on these channels for the wireless device are reliably received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Chen, Baaziz Achour, Brian K. Butler, Edward G. Tiedemann, JR., Haitao Zhang, Keith W. Saints, Luca Blessent, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 7734257
    Abstract: A dynamic shared forward link channel (or “data” channel) is used to send multicast data to a group of wireless devices, e.g., using a common long code mask for the data channel. Reference power control (PC) bits are also sent on the data channel and used for signal quality estimation. A shared forward link control channel is used to send user-specific signaling to individual wireless devices, e.g., using time division multiplexing (TDM) and a unique long code mask for each wireless device. A shared forward link indicator channel is used to send reverse link (RL) PC bits to the wireless devices, e.g., using TDM. The data channel is jointly power controlled by all wireless devices receiving the data channel. The control and indicator channels are individually power controlled by each wireless device such that the signaling and RL PC bits sent on these channels for the wireless device are reliably received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Chen, Baaziz Achour, Brian K. Butler, Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Haitao Zhang, Keith W. Saints, Luca Blessent, Yongbin Wei
  • Publication number: 20100080279
    Abstract: An apparatus for reducing interference of a signal over a plurality of stages includes a processor configured to determine at least two equalizer taps based on at least one of a covariance and a channel impulse response of the signal. The processor is further configured to estimate at least one additional equalizer tap based on the at least two equalizer taps. In addition, the processor is configured to reduce, for each of the plurality of stages, the interference of the signal for that stage using an equalizer tap from either the at least two equalizer taps or the at least one additional equalizer tap, so that the signal for the next stage in the plurality of stages has the reduced interference. A method is also provided for reducing interference of a signal over a plurality of stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Keith W. Saints, Peter Gaal, Gilbert Leung
  • Patent number: 7680174
    Abstract: A forward link power control mechanism measures the reverse link power control bits which are transmitted on the forward traffic channel. At the remote station, the reverse link power control bits from multiples base stations or multiple signal paths are measured, combined, and filtered to yield an improved measurement of the forward link signal quality. The reverse link power control bits which are deemed unreliable are omitted from use in the power control loop. The remote station generates a set of forward link power control bit in accordance with the measurements and transmits these bits to all base stations in communication with the remote station. Each base station adjusts its gain of the forward traffic channel in accordance to its measurement of the forward link power control bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Keith W. Saints
  • Publication number: 20090052573
    Abstract: A forward link power control mechanism measures the reverse link power control bits which are transmitted on the forward traffic channel. At the remote station, the reverse link power control bits from multiples base stations or multiple signal paths are measured, combined, and filtered to yield an improved measurement of the forward link signal quality. The reverse link power control bits which are deemed unreliable are omitted from use in the power control loop. The remote station generates a set of forward link power control bit in accordance with the measurements and transmits these bits to all base stations in communication with the remote station. Each base station adjusts its gain of the forward traffic channel in accordance to its measurement of the forward link power control bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Edward G. Tiedemann, JR., Keith W. Saints
  • Publication number: 20040258024
    Abstract: A forward link power control mechanism measures the reverse link power control bits which are transmitted on the forward traffic channel. At the remote station, the reverse link power control bits from multiples base stations or multiple signal paths are measured, combined, and filtered to yield an improved measurement of the forward link signal quality. The reverse link power control bits which are deemed unreliable are omitted from use in the power control loop. The remote station generates a set of forward link power control bit in accordance with the measurements and transmits these bits to all base stations in communication with the remote station. Each base station adjusts its gain of the forward traffic channel in accordance to its measurement of the forward link power control bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Edward G. Tiedemann, Keith W. Saints