Patents by Inventor Masato Kitazoe

Masato Kitazoe 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: 20240137755
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication at a UE is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving a first message including a first IE that indicates a set of first features supported by a first network node. The method includes transmitting, for the first network node, a second message including first UE capability information of the UE based on the first IE included in the first message, where the first UE capability information includes a subset of the set of first features supported by the first network node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Mona AGRAWAL, Arvind Vardarajan SANTHANAM, Masato KITAZOE
  • Patent number: 11963234
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, information that configures multiple random access channel (RACH) partitions, wherein the multiple RACH partitions are each associated with a respective combination of one or more RACH features. The UE may select, from the multiple RACH partitions, a RACH partition based at least in part on the UE satisfying one or more criteria for the combination of one or more RACH features associated with the RACH partition. The UE may transmit, to the base station, a preamble on physical RACH (PRACH) resources associated with the RACH partition to initiate a RACH procedure supporting the combination of one or more RACH features associated with the RACH partition. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Linhai He, Masato Kitazoe, Ruiming Zheng, Peng Cheng, Jianhua Liu, Ozcan Ozturk
  • Patent number: 11956787
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reporting an indication of a PHR when the UE's assigned of UL resources is insufficient to transmit both UL data and a PHR. Additionally, aspects described herein introduce a negative PHR used to indicate the UE requires additional UL resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xipeng Zhu, Linhai He, Mutaz Zuhier Afif Shukair, Xiaoxia Zhang, Gavin Bernard Horn, Masato Kitazoe, Xiao Feng Wang, Tom Chin
  • Publication number: 20240098843
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, via a first cell, multicast radio bearer (MRB) configuration information indicating one or more MRB configurations for receiving multicast communications. The UE may receive, via a second cell, a multicast communication based at least in part on an MRB configuration of the one or more MRB configurations. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Prasad Reddy KADIRI, Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Umesh PHUYAL, Le LIU, Xipeng ZHU, Miguel GRIOT, Haris ZISIMOPOULOS, Masato KITAZOE, Kazuki TAKEDA, Dario Serafino TONESI
  • Patent number: 11937195
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for inserting an offset between a channel resource element of a channel resource block and a synchronization resource element of a synchronization signal block, transmitting a bandwidth value of the offset to a user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Valentin Gheorghiu, Masato Kitazoe, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11937114
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes determining, based on a plurality of network measurements performed by a user equipment (UE), one or more measurement log files associated with the plurality of network measurements. The method further includes receiving, by the UE from a network device, a request associated with the one or more measurement log files. The request indicates at least one measurement filter. The method further includes transmitting, by the UE to the network device, a response to the request. The response includes first measurement results of the one or more measurement log files selected based on the at least one measurement filter and excludes second measurement results of the one or more measurement log files based on the at least one measurement filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajeev Kumar, Xipeng Zhu, Shankar Krishnan, Ozcan Ozturk, Masato Kitazoe, Gavin Bernard Horn
  • Patent number: 11909535
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for a multicast or broadcast radio bearer (MRB) in a radio link control (RLC) acknowledged mode (AM). The UE may determine an adjustment of an RLC AM transmission window of a base station. The RLC AM transmission window may be associated with retransmission of RLC packets associated with the MRB. The UE may synchronize an RLC AM reception window of the UE with the RLC AM transmission window based at least in part on determining the adjustment of the RLC AM transmission window of the base station. The RLC AM reception window may be associated with reassembly of RLC packets associated with the MRB. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi, Gavin Bernard Horn, Umesh Phuyal, Xipeng Zhu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Miguel Griot, Masato Kitazoe
  • Publication number: 20240056862
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information that indicates at least one criterion for refraining from performing a measurement in a measurement gap. The UE may communicate data with a network node during the measurement gap in at least one scheduled measurement gap occasion for the measurement gap based at least in part on the at least one criterion. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Linhai HE, Hyun Yong LEE, Masato KITAZOE
  • Publication number: 20240049062
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a group discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration. The UE may receive, based on the group DRX configuration, a notification communication indicative of group handover information associated with a group of UEs that includes the UE. The UE may perform, based on the group handover information, a group handover operation between a source cell and a target cell. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Bharat SHRESTHA, Jae Ho RYU, Toru UCHINO, Changhwan PARK, Umesh PHUYAL, Prasad Reddy KADIRI, Le LIU, Xiao Feng WANG, Liangping MA, Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Masato KITAZOE, Ayan SENGUPTA
  • Publication number: 20240049340
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing, from a non-access stratum (NAS) layer to an access stratum (AS) layer associated with a user equipment (UE) while the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state, a NAS message to be transmitted to a mobility management entity via a base station; providing, from the NAS layer, a request to resume an RRC connection; and transmitting the NAS message to the base station while the UE is in the RRC inactive state. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Sunghoon Kim, Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere, Amer Catovic, Ruiming Zheng, Masato Kitazoe, Ozcan Ozturk
  • Patent number: 11894914
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) selects or reselects a target cell of a non-terrestrial network or resumes connectivity with the target cell after a satellite handover for a permanently fixed low Earth orbit (LEO) cell. The target cell is a serving or non-serving cell. The UE determines a cell type of the target cell. The cell type may be a LEO cell type, a geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) cell type, a moving cell type, a fixed cell type, a temporarily fixed LEO cell type, or a permanently fixed LEO cell type. The UE completes selection or reselection of the target cell or completes the connectivity with the target cell, based on the cell type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bharat Shrestha, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Xiao Feng Wang, Masato Kitazoe, Ayan Sengupta, Amer Catovic, Umesh Phuyal, Liangping Ma, Le Liu
  • Patent number: 11889364
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may detect that a timer has expired prior to completing a handover of the UE from a source base station (BS) to a target BS. In some aspects, the UE may selectively declare, based at least in part on detecting that the timer has expired, a radio link failure. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Amer Catovic, Umesh Phuyal, Karthika Paladugu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Masato Kitazoe
  • Patent number: 11889427
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, signaling that indicates a relative power difference between a first cell and a second cell. The UE may apply the relative power difference in a transmission occasion that includes at least a first uplink transmission on the first cell and a second uplink transmission on the second cell, wherein applying the relative power difference causes the first uplink transmission on the first cell to be transmitted at a lower power level than the second uplink transmission on the second cell. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Timo Ville Vintola, Peter Gaal, Hemish Parikh, Masato Kitazoe, Kazuki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20240031977
    Abstract: Aspects include systems and methods for compressed direct current (DC) location reporting, such as DC location reporting in uplink (UL) carrier aggregation (CA) deployments in a wireless network. Various aspects may include a UE computing device determining and indicating DC locations only for a subset of a plurality of component carriers (CCs) in a channel bandwidth to a base station and/or a UE computing device determining and indicating DC locations for a subset of activation permutations for bandwidth parts (BWPs) of a plurality of CCs in a channel bandwidth that is less than all possible activation permutations of the BWPs of the plurality of CCs in the channel bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Timo Ville VINTOLA, Peter GAAL, Masato KITAZOE
  • Publication number: 20240019518
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. An aerial UE may receive control signaling that indicates a plurality of beam measurement configurations that the aerial UE is to use for beam measurement and reporting associated with a plurality of beams. The aerial UE may monitor a set of beams of the plurality of beams in accordance with a subset of beam measurement configurations of the plurality of beam measurement configurations based on a current time, a current location of the aerial UE, or both, for example. The aerial UE may transmit a measurement report indicating one or more measurements of a subset of beams of the set of beams in accordance with the subset of beam measurement configurations. In some examples, the subset of beam measurement configurations may be associated with an altitude threshold, a three-dimensional zone, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Umesh Phuyal, Le Liu, Chiranjib Saha, Wanshi Chen, Masato Kitazoe, Bharat Shrestha, Xiao Feng Wang, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Changhwan Park
  • Publication number: 20240007203
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may perform one or more measurements associated with an altitude of the UE. The UE may obtain an indication of an antenna condition or a flight path condition associated with the UE. The UE may transmit, based at least in part on the altitude of the UE being greater than an altitude threshold and at least one of the antenna condition or the flight path condition being satisfied, a measurement report that includes an indication of at least one of a location of the UE or a velocity of the UE. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Le LIU, Umesh PHUYAL, Chiranjib SAHA, Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Masato KITAZOE, Changhwan PARK, Peter GAAL, Wanshi CHEN, Xiao Feng WANG, Bharat SHRESTHA, Sitaramanjaneyulu KANAMARLAPUDI
  • Publication number: 20230403616
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration of one or more conditional handover conditions associated with one or more candidate cells, wherein each of the one or more conditional handover conditions is based at least in part on a height of the UE. The UE may trigger a conditional handover procedure based at least in part on the height of the UE. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Chiranjib SAHA, Umesh PHUYAL, Le LIU, Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Xiao Feng WANG, Changhwan PARK, Masato KITAZOE, Bharat SHRESTHA, Wanshi CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230362765
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, in an inactive state, that uplink data is to be transmitted. The UE may determine a measurement gap configuration for a cell reselection procedure to be performed during a transmission of the uplink data in the inactive state. The UE may perform the cell reselection procedure in accordance with the measurement gap configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Ruiming ZHENG, Ozcan OZTURK, Masato KITAZOE, Linhai HE
  • Publication number: 20230354125
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), generally including receiving signaling configuring the UE with a first serving cell measurement object (MO) and a second serving cell MO, performing serving cell measurement according to the first serving cell MO, when operating in a first bandwidth part (BWP), performing a BWP switch from the first BWP to a second BWP, and performing serving cell measurement according to the second serving cell MO after the BWP switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Linhai HE, Masato KITAZOE, Ozcan OZTURK
  • Patent number: 11805493
    Abstract: Aspects include systems and methods for compressed direct current (DC) location reporting, such as DC location reporting in uplink (UL) carrier aggregation (CA) deployments in a wireless network. Various aspects may include a UE computing device determining and indicating DC locations only for a subset of a plurality of component carriers (CCs) in a channel bandwidth to a base station and/or a UE computing device determining and indicating DC locations for a subset of activation permutations for bandwidth parts (BWPs) of a plurality of CCs in a channel bandwidth that is less than all possible activation permutations of the BWPs of the plurality of CCs in the channel bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Timo Ville Vintola, Peter Gaal, Masato Kitazoe