Patents by Inventor Martin Warwick Beale
Martin Warwick Beale 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: 20240154678Abstract: A communications device for use in a wireless communications network providing a wireless access interface within a system bandwidth, the system bandwidth comprising a plurality of bandwidth parts, the communications device comprising a transmitter configured to transmit signals using a plurality of activated bandwidth parts, a receiver configured to receive signals using the plurality of activated bandwidth parts, the received signals being signals transmitted using a plurality of activated beams, and a controller configured to control the transmitter and the receiver so that the communications device is operable: to determine that an activated beam associated with a first bandwidth part satisfies beam failure criteria; to select from the plurality of activated bandwidth parts a second bandwidth part; and to transmit using communications resources associated with the selected second bandwidth part a beam failure indication indicating that the activated beam associated with the first bandwidth part satisfiesType: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yassin Aden AWAD, Shin Horng WONG, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Vivek SHARMA, Martin Warwick BEALE
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Patent number: 11979915Abstract: A method for transmitting data by an infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications network to a communications device, the method comprising transmitting by the infrastructure equipment a paging message; receiving by the infrastructure equipment a random access request, the random access request transmitted by the communications device in response to the paging message; in response to receiving the random access request, transmitting by the infrastructure equipment an indication of communications resources allocated for a transmission by the infrastructure equipment and transmitting by the infrastructure equipment an indication that the transmission by the infrastructure equipment comprises data to be transmitted while no radio connection is established between the communications device and the infrastructure equipment; and transmitting by the infrastructure equipment the data using the allocated communications resources.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Vivek Sharma, Yassin Aden Awad
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Patent number: 11979241Abstract: A terminal device comprising: transmitter circuitry configured to transmit a signal to infrastructure equipment of a wireless telecommunications network using a predetermined set of radio resources configured for use by a plurality of unidentified terminal devices; receiver circuitry configured to receive, from the infrastructure equipment, at least one of: a positive response signal indicating that the signal transmitted to the infrastructure equipment was successfully received by the infrastructure equipment and that the identifying feature of the terminal device was successfully determined by the infrastructure equipment using the signal transmitted to the infrastructure equipment; and a negative response signal indicating that the signal transmitted to the infrastructure equipment was not successfully received by the infrastructure equipment or that the identifying feature of the terminal device was not successfully determined by the infrastructure equipment using the signal transmitted to the infrastructType: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale
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Patent number: 11974225Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system comprising the terminal device and a plurality of network access nodes, wherein the method comprises: establishing first wake-up signalling configuration information for a first network access node covering a current location for the terminal device, wherein the first wake-up signalling configuration information comprises an indication of a first wake-up signalling format to be transmitted by the first network access node in advance of transmitting a paging message to indicate the terminal device should seek to decode the paging message, and an indication of an associated first wake-up signalling validity period for the first wake-up signalling format; monitoring for signalling transmitted by one of the plurality of network access nodes in accordance with the first wake-up signalling format during the first wake-up signalling validity period, and seeking to decode a subsequent paging message if wake-up signalling in accordance witType: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Vivek Sharma, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
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Patent number: 11974280Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may receive information indicating time slots in first channels that the UE is to monitor for control messages, the control messages including control messages that are used to allocate physical resources to the UE. The UE may receive a second channel transmission in a time slot prior to at least one of the indicated time slots, the second channel transmission indicating that the UE is not to monitor for at least one first channel in the at least one of the indicated time slots. The UE may receive a third channel transmission in a time slot prior to at least another one of the indicated time slots, the third channel transmission indicating that the UE is to monitor for at least one first channel in the at least another one of the indicated time slots.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLCInventor: Martin Warwick Beale
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Patent number: 11968751Abstract: A base station for transmitting system related information in a mobile telecommunications network. The base station is configured to transmit system information for the cell provided by the base station and to broadcast a version synchronisation signal, wherein the version synchronisation signal provides version information regarding the current version of the system information for the cell.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Brian Alexander Martin, Basuki Priyanto, Nafiseh Mazloum
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Publication number: 20240129872Abstract: A method of operating an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network, the method comprising determining a reference time at which a timing advance estimate is to be valid; estimating, before the reference time, a timing advance which is valid for a transmission by a communications device at the reference time; and transmitting a timing advance indication to the communications device indicating the timing advance which is valid for a transmission by the communications device at the reference time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Vivek SHARMA
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Publication number: 20240106473Abstract: A communications device including a receiver configured to receive a plurality of sub-units of an encoded transport block of data in a plurality of time-divided units within frequency resources of a wireless access interface allocated to the mobile terminal, each of the sub-units being received a repeated number of times within a repetition cycle; and circuitry configured to combine a same sub-unit received the repeated number of times to form a composite sub-unit to recover the transport block.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE
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Publication number: 20240107505Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to perform a transport channel processing chain, the transport channel processing chain comprising a sub-carrier puncturing function, the sub-carrier puncturing function comprising puncturing, in each subframe of a composite transmission time interval, a set of subcarriers from at least one mapped physical resource block.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Martin Warwick BEALE, Shin Horng WONG, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Basuki PRIYANTO
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Patent number: 11943163Abstract: A base station for a mobile telecommunications system has circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to set a first subcarrier spacing for transmission of at least one synchronization signal; and set a second subcarrier spacing for transmission on a physical broadcast channel, wherein the first subcarrier spacing differs from the second subcarrier spacing.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong
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Patent number: 11943774Abstract: A base station for a mobile telecommunications system has circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to: indicate use of a first set of uplink channel transmission parameters and a second set of uplink channel transmission parameter for use the at least one user equipment for a data transmission.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Yassin Aden Awad
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Publication number: 20240098701Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device and a plurality of network access nodes, wherein the method comprises: establishing first wake-up signalling configuration information for a first network access node; establishing second wake-up signalling configuration information for a second network access node; and monitoring for signalling transmitted by the first network access node in accordance with the first wake-up signalling format and monitoring for signalling transmitted by the second network access node in accordance with the second wake-up signalling format, and seeking to decode a subsequent paging message in response to detecting wake-up signalling in accordance with either the first wake-up signalling format or the second wake-up signalling format.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Vivek SHARMA, Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI
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Patent number: 11924817Abstract: A method performed by a communications device, the method comprising allocating a fraction of the data for transmitting to a first infrastructure equipment using a first carrier frequency, allocating a remainder of the data for transmitting to a second infrastructure equipment using a second carrier frequency, transmitting the fraction of data using the first carrier frequency and the remainder of data using the second carrier frequency, determining an attribute associated with communicating the data from the communications device to the first infrastructure equipment using the first carrier frequency based upon signals received from the first infrastructure equipment, modifying the fraction based on at least the determined attribute, and transmitting the data using at least one of the first and second carrier frequencies according to the modified fraction.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Vivek Sharma, Martin Warwick Beale, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
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Publication number: 20240073857Abstract: A method of operating a communications device configured to transmit uplink signals to and/or to receive downlink signals from a non-terrestrial infrastructure equipment forming part of a non-terrestrial network, NTN, the method comprising: determining to not transmit any uplink signal until at least a time after the communications device receives first motion information of the non-terrestrial infrastructure equipment; receiving, from the non-terrestrial infrastructure equipment, first motion information; based on information specific to the communications device and on determining that the communications device has received the first motion information, determining an uplink time to transmit an uplink signal; and transmitting the uplink signal at the uplink time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Martin Warwick BEALE, Shin Horng WONG
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Publication number: 20240073895Abstract: A method of operating a communications device configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a wireless communications network via a wireless radio interface provided by the wireless 5 communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, from the wireless communications network, signals on one or more downlink channels, each of the downlink channels being within one of a plurality of downlink transmission occasions, determining, for each of the downlink channels, whether or not the signals have been successfully received by the communications device, and transmitting, to the wireless communications network, an uplink control channel comprising an acknowledgement number indication, wherein the acknowledgement number indication indicates the number of the downlink transmission occasions within which the communications device determines that the signals were successfully received on one of the downlink channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Yassin Aden AWAD
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Patent number: 11917539Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the terminal device configured to attempt to receive or to transmit a first signal during one or more of a plurality of predetermined time periods in response to determining that one or more second signals indicating, respectively, that the one or more of the plurality of predetermined time periods should be used for the attempted reception or transmission of a first signal have been received by the transceiver; determine a characteristic associated with the one or more second signals; and to control the transceiver to receive a third signal from the infrastructure equipment or to transmit a third signal to the infrastructure equipment, the third signal comprising information on the basis of which it is determinable whether or not a predetermined condition associated with the characteristic associated with the one or more second signals has been met.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong, Brian Alexander Martin, Basuki Priyanto, Nafiseh Mazloum
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Telecommunications apparatus and methods including selecting a TBS based on an indicated maximum TBS
Patent number: 11917659Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device for transmitting a first amount of data, the method comprising receiving an indication of an allocation of communications resources, the allocated communications resources sufficient for transmitting a second amount of data, the second amount of data greater than or equal to the first amount of the data, selecting from a plurality of permitted TBS values a transport block size, TBS, for the transmission of the first amount of data, based on the first amount, determining communications resources for transmitting the first amount of the data based on the selected TBS and the allocated communications resources, and transmitting the first amount of the data using the determined communications resources.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale -
Publication number: 20240064735Abstract: A method for use in a mobile telecommunications system comprising a Non-Terrestrial Network “NTN”, the network comprising a base station and a terminal configured to communicate with the base station via an air interface provided by infrastructure equipment of the NTN. The method comprises the terminal receiving a downlink signal from the base station; determining that a first uplink transmission is to be transmitted; determining that the terminal will obtain, during a first time period, position information; the base station scheduling first uplink resources for the terminal to transmit the first uplink transmission, wherein the first uplink resources are scheduled at a point in time selected after the first time period; in response to the downlink signal and during the first time period, the terminal obtaining position information; and the terminal transmitting, using the obtained position information, the first uplink transmission to the base station using the first uplink resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Martin Warwick BEALE, Shin Horng WONG
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Publication number: 20240056263Abstract: A method of transmitting control information, the method comprising selecting third uplink communication resources for the transmission of first control information having a first priority and second control information having a second priority different from the first priority, selecting a first subset of the third uplink communication resources for the transmission of the first control information, selecting a second subset of the third uplink communication resources for the transmission of the second control information, independently encoding the first control information and the second control information, and transmitting to an infrastructure equipment the encoded first control information using the first subset of the third uplink communication resources and the encoded second control information using the second subset of the third uplink communication resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yassin Aden AWAD, Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Naoki KUSASHIMA
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Patent number: 11902196Abstract: A method of operating a communications device for transmitting data to or receiving data from an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Kazuyuki Shimezawa