Patents by Inventor Marco MASO
Marco MASO 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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Publication number: 20220312415Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for differentiating between user equipment, having different capabilities are provided. One method may include transmitting, by a user equipment, a first transmission to a network node. The method may include indicating at least one type of the user equipment. For example, the indicating may include at least one of transmitting the first transmission on a frequency resource that has been modified in frequency domain from an allocated frequency resource by a shifting factor, and/or transmitting the first transmission on the allocated frequency resource and power scaling at least one resource element of the allocated resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Marco MASO, Axel MUELLER, Nhat-Quang NHAN, Karri Markus RANTA-AHO, Amir Mehdi AHMADIAN TEHRANI
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Patent number: 11444736Abstract: The application relates to a communication device comprising: a communication interface configured to transmit a pilot signal via a communication channel to a second communication device and to receive a plurality of data elements representing channel state information (CSI) from the second communication device, wherein the plurality of data elements are a subset of a set of data elements representing the full channel state information (CSI) being available at the second communication device; and a processing unit configured to generate the full channel state information (CSI) on the basis of the plurality of data elements by applying a fitting scheme to the plurality of data elements received from the second communication device.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Van Minh Nguyen, Marco Maso, Merouane Debbah
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Publication number: 20220286324Abstract: A method for predicting channel state information is described. The method includes determining whether or not geodesic prediction is to be performed and transmitting the determination of whether or not geodesic prediction is to be performed in a first part of uplink control signaling. In response to determining that geodesic prediction is not to be performed, the method includes transmitting a current channel estimate in a second part of uplink control signaling, and in response to determining that geodesic prediction is to be performed, the method includes transmitting either a determined current value of a tangent vector, or a determined step size parameter, or both the determined current value of the tangent vector and the determined step size parameter in the second part of uplink control signaling. Channel state information is predicted based on information provided in the first and second parts of uplink control signaling.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2019Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Rana AHMED SALEM, Marco MASO, Filippo TOSATO
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Publication number: 20220279506Abstract: An apparatus (101) comprising means for performing: grouping columns of a linear combination coefficient matrix into a predefined number of clusters; and sending at least one of the clusters in a second part of a uplink control signalling transmission of a channel to an access node, wherein the uplink control signalling transmission comprises a first part and the second part.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2019Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Salah Eddine Hajri, Filippo Tosato, Luca Rose, Axel Mueller, Marco Maso
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Patent number: 11431395Abstract: A UE determines a PMI, by performing at least the following: determining an intermediate set of vectors from a FD codebook; forming a subset of the intermediate set of vectors; mapping the subset of vectors to a combinatorial indicator; and forming the PMI at least from the combinatorial indicator. The UE sends the PMI toward a wireless network. A base station receives the PMI from the UE. The PMI includes a combinatorial indicator that maps to a subset of vectors from the FD codebook. The base station determines, using at least the received PMI, information from at least the FD codebook to apply to data for transmission toward the UE.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Filippo Tosato, Marco Maso, Mihai Enescu
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Patent number: 11424807Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprising: selecting, by a user equipment, a subset of linear combination coefficients from a linearized two-dimensional matrix having columns of frequency domain components and rows of spatial beams components for channel state information determination, wherein the number of linear combination coefficients in the subset is less than all of the linear combination coefficients; determining indication comprising information associated with column indices of the selected subset of linear combination coefficients from the linearized two-dimensional matrix, wherein the indication excludes the index of the column with lowest index of the linearized two-dimensional matrix; determining compressed channel state information comprising locations in the linearized two-dimensional matrix of the subset of linear combination coefficients and corresponding values of the linear combination coefficients at those locations; and reporting, from the useType: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Rana Ahmed Salem, Filippo Tosato, Marco Maso, William Hillery
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Publication number: 20220255608Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for Uplink Control Information (UCI) design. The method comprises determining, at a terminal device, a matrix comprising a set of non-zero linear combination coefficients for quantizing a channel between the terminal device and a network device, the matrix having spatial components and frequency components; shifting the frequency components of the matrix circularly, such that a target coefficient of the set of non-zero linear combination coefficients is located in a frequency component with a predetermined index of the frequency components in a shifted matrix; generating a first indication indicating the spatial component associated with the target coefficient in the matrix; and transmitting, to the network device, uplink control information comprising the first indication. In this way, a new solution for designing the UCI may reduce the overhead for reporting the parameters in the UCI.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Filippo TOSATO, Marco MASO, Nhat-Quang NHAN, Hao LIU
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Publication number: 20220232524Abstract: There is provided determining one or more resources on a wireless medium of a wireless communication system for a radar allocation; and transmitting resource allocation information indicating the radar allocation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2019Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Jorma KAIKKONEN, Kari PAJUKOSKI, Benny VEJLGAARD, Marco MASO
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Publication number: 20220200667Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for receiving a multiple input multiple output signal from a network, determining a frequency domain basis subset for each layer of the multiple input multiple output signal, determining from the frequency domain basis subset a number, MC, of frequency domain components common to each layer, determining, from the frequency domain basis subset, a number of layer-specific frequency domain components and providing to the network, in uplink control information, an indication of the frequency domain components common to each layer and the layer-specific frequency domain components.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2019Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Salah Eddine HAJRI, Rana AHMED SALEM, Filippo TOSATO, Marco MASO
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Patent number: 11336356Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for Uplink Control Information (UCI) design. The method comprises determining, at a terminal device, a matrix comprising a set of non-zero linear combination coefficients for quantizing a channel between the terminal device and a network device, the matrix having spatial components and frequency components; shifting the frequency components of the matrix circularly, such that a target coefficient of the set of non-zero linear combination coefficients is located in a frequency component with a predetermined index of the frequency components in a shifted matrix; generating a first indication indicating the spatial component associated with the target coefficient in the matrix; and transmitting, to the network device, uplink control information comprising the first indication. In this way, a new solution for designing the UCI may reduce the overhead for reporting the parameters in the UCI.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Filippo Tosato, Marco Maso, Nhat-Quang Nhan, Hao Liu
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Publication number: 20220046724Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for increasing uplink beamforming gain. In one aspect there is provided a method of identifying user equipment which makes use of the proposed new beam-sweeping random access channel procedure that enables the base station to identify the best uplink transmit beam rather than the first beam that the base station managed to detect. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Marco MASO, Simon SVENDSEN, Axel MUELLER, Matthew BAKER, Karri RANTA-AHO, Jun TAN
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Publication number: 20210385828Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamic and partial sharing of the channel measurement downlink (DL)-reference signal (RS) resources are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Rana Ahmed Salem, Eugene Visotsky, Salah Eddine Hajri, Frederick Vook, Marco Maso, William Hillery, Filippo Tosato
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Publication number: 20210126691Abstract: A UE determines a PMI, by performing at least the following: determining an intermediate set of vectors from a FD codebook; forming a subset of the intermediate set of vectors; mapping the subset of vectors to a combinatorial indicator; and forming the PMI at least from the combinatorial indicator. The UE sends the PMI toward a wireless network. A base station receives the PMI from the UE. The PMI includes a combinatorial indicator that maps to a subset of vectors from the FD codebook. The base station determines, using at least the received PMI, information from at least the FD codebook to apply to data for transmission toward the UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Filippo TOSATO, Marco MASO, Mihai ENESCU
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Publication number: 20210119684Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method, apparatus and software program product for partitioning channel state information into groups of different priority levels, wherein said channel state information comprises non zero coefficients and said partitioning comprises using at least one permutation function to prioritize said non-zero coefficients substantially based on an amplitude distribution of said non zero coefficients to determine mapping of said non zero coefficients to said groups, and further for omitting zero or more non-zero coefficients in accordance with said amplitude distribution based prioritizing from said groups, and for transmitting remaining non zero coefficients in said groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Filippo Tosato, Marco Maso, Salah Eddine Hajri
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Patent number: 10972170Abstract: There is provided a method at a user equipment, comprising: receiving transmission on two different polarizations over a wireless channel from net-work; determining a plurality of coefficients associated with a precoding matrix based on channel measurements of the reception, wherein the coefficients at least partially define a combination matrix; selecting a coefficient among the coefficients of the weaker polarization, the selected coefficient being a reference coefficient for the weaker polarization; determining a first indicator and a second indicator for the reference coefficient, wherein the first indicator indicates a position of the reference coefficient in the combination matrix and the second indicator comprises an amplitude value associated with the reference coefficient; reporting the first and second indicators to the network.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Filippo Tosato, Marco Maso, Nhat-Quang Nhan
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Publication number: 20210028846Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for Uplink Control Information (UCI) design. The method comprises determining, at a terminal device, a matrix comprising a set of non-zero linear combination coefficients for quantizing a channel between the terminal device and a network device, the matrix having spatial components and frequency components; shifting the frequency components of the matrix circularly, such that a target coefficient of the set of non-zero linear combination coefficients is located in a frequency component with a predetermined index of the frequency components in a shifted matrix; generating a first indication indicating the spatial component associated with the target coefficient in the matrix; and transmitting, to the network device, uplink control information comprising the first indication. In this way, a new solution for designing the UCI may reduce the overhead for reporting the parameters in the UCI.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Filippo TOSATO, Marco MASO, Nhat-Quang NHAN, Hao LIU
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Patent number: 10848229Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for Uplink Control Information (UCI) design. The method comprises determining, at a terminal device, a matrix comprising a set of non-zero linear combination coefficients for quantizing a channel between the terminal device and a network device, the matrix having spatial components and frequency components; shifting the frequency components of the matrix circularly, such that a target coefficient of the set of non-zero linear combination coefficients is located in a frequency component with a predetermined index of the frequency components in a shifted matrix; generating a first indication indicating the spatial component associated with the target coefficient in the matrix; and transmitting, to the network device, uplink control information comprising the first indication. In this way, a new solution for designing the UCI may reduce the overhead for reporting the parameters in the UCI.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Filippo Tosato, Marco Maso, Nhat-Quang Nhan, Hao Liu
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Patent number: 10848290Abstract: An apparatus reports feedback messages for channel state information estimation with respect to a channel between a first antenna of a first device and a second antenna of a second device. The apparatus is configured to determine a frequency response across a predetermined bandwidth of the channel between the first antenna and the second antenna, sample a phase of the determined frequency response in order to obtain a number of samples of the phase of the determined frequency response, and send to a further apparatus at least a first feedback message including information of at least a subset of the obtained samples.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Van Minh Nguyen, Merouane Debbah, Marco Maso
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Publication number: 20200322027Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for Uplink Control Information (UCI) design. The method comprises determining, at a terminal device, a matrix comprising a set of non-zero linear combination coefficients for quantizing a channel between the terminal device and a network device, the matrix having spatial components and frequency components; shifting the frequency components of the matrix circularly, such that a target coefficient of the set of non-zero linear combination coefficients is located in a frequency component with a predetermined index of the frequency components in a shifted matrix; generating a first indication indicating the spatial component associated with the target coefficient in the matrix; and transmitting, to the network device, uplink control information comprising the first indication. In this way, a new solution for designing the UCI may reduce the overhead for reporting the parameters in the UCI.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Filippo TOSATO, Marco MASO, Nhat-Quang NHAN, Hao LIU
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Publication number: 20200322028Abstract: There is provided a method at a user equipment, comprising: receiving transmission on two different polarizations over a wireless channel from net-work; determining a plurality of coefficients associated with a precoding matrix based on channel measurements of the reception, wherein the coefficients at least partially define a combination matrix; selecting a coefficient among the coefficients of the weaker polarization, the selected coefficient being a reference coefficient for the weaker polarization; determining a first indicator and a second indicator for the reference coefficient, wherein the first indicator indicates a position of the reference coefficient in the combination matrix and the second indicator comprises an amplitude value associated with the reference coefficient; reporting the first and second indicators to the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Filippo Tosato, Marco Maso, Nhat-Quang Nhan