Patents by Inventor Ming Chou

Ming Chou 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: 20220116796
    Abstract: A wireless communication system for performing communication and computing includes a plurality of cells configured to perform the communication between at least one user equipment and at least one network; and an Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing platform comprising a plurality of AI slices to perform the computing, wherein the plurality of cells are located in air, space, sea, or land.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: CHIE-MING CHOU, FANG-MING LU, KUO-LIANG HO, YI-CHUAN HUANG
  • Patent number: 11304122
    Abstract: A method of wireless communications performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes performing an on-demand system information (SI) request procedure in a cell; and performing an error handling procedure if the on-demand SI request procedure in the cell is unsuccessful. The error handling procedure includes storing SI request failure information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Hung-Chen Chen, Chie-Ming Chou, Yung-Lan Tseng
  • Publication number: 20220110038
    Abstract: A UE for performing mobility management is disclosed. The UE includes at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions, and at least one processor coupled to the at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium, and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to: transmit, to a first network node, a RRC message indicating a required network slice/service of the UE, the required network slice/service uniquely identified by S-NSSAI; receive, from the first network node, a second RRC message including information of a second network node that supports the required network slice/service of the UE when the required network slice/service identified by the S-NSSAI is not supported by the first network node; and perform a mobility management procedure based on the information of the second network node received from the first network node when the required network slice/service is not supported by the first network node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: MEI-JU SHIH, CHIE-MING CHOU, YUNG-LAN TSENG
  • Patent number: 11297642
    Abstract: A method for uplink transmission performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving a first configured grant configuration that allocates a first PUSCH duration; receiving a second configured grant configuration that allocates a second PUSCH duration, wherein the second PUSCH duration overlaps with the first PUSCH duration; obtaining a first HARQ process ID for the first PUSCH duration, then determining whether a first configured grant timer associated with the first HARQ process ID is running; obtaining a second HARQ process ID for the second PUSCH duration, then determining whether a second configured grant timer associated with the second HARQ process ID is running; and selecting one of the first PUSCH duration and the second PUSCH duration for an uplink transmission based on whether the first configured grant timer is running and whether the second configured grant timer is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Hannibal IP LLC
    Inventors: Heng-Li Chin, Chia-Hung Wei, Wan-Chen Lin, Yu-Hsin Cheng, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Publication number: 20220095270
    Abstract: A method for monitoring paging is provided. The method is performed by a user equipment (UE) and includes actions of receiving a first Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) addressed to a first Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI), and stopping monitoring a second PDCCH addressed to a second RNTI if the first PDCCH includes a paging stop indicator, where the second RNTI is the same as the first RNTI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: MEI-JU SHIH, HUNG-CHEN CHEN, YUNG-LAN TSENG, CHIE-MING CHOU
  • Publication number: 20220086876
    Abstract: A method performed by a BS for handling repetitions of transmissions is provided. The method includes transmitting an RRC configuration including a first parameter configured with a first value and a second parameter configured with at least one second value; and transmitting DCI on a PDCCH scheduling a PUSCH transmission. The DCI enables the UE to select one of the first parameter and the second parameter to determine a number of PUSCH repetitions; determine the number of PUSCH repetitions as the first value when the first parameter is selected; determine the number of PUSCH repetitions as one of the at least one second value indicated by the DCI when the second parameter is selected; and perform the PUSCH transmission for a number of times based on the number of PUSCH repetitions. A BS using the aforementioned method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: CHIA-HUNG WEI, HENG-LI CHIN, WAN-CHEN LIN, CHIE-MING CHOU
  • Publication number: 20220078724
    Abstract: A method by a base station for receiving power headroom reporting from a user equipment (UE) in a Multi-Radio Access Technology (RAT)-Dual Connectivity (MR-DC) scenario, the method includes receiving a DC Power Headroom Report (PHR) Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) from the UE, the DC PHR MAC CE having a fixed number of octets with cell index fields for indicating whether a power headroom (PH) for a serving cell with a corresponding cell index is reported, wherein the fixed number of octets is independent of a highest secondary Cell Index (SCellIndex) for serving cells with configured uplinks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: HUNG-CHEN CHEN, CHIE-MING CHOU
  • Patent number: 11272561
    Abstract: A method performed by a User Equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes performing at least one Beam Failure Recovery (BFR) procedure. The at least one BFR procedure includes transmitting a Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) for BFR to a base station, where the MAC CE for BFR includes a cell information field indicating information of a serving cell in which the BFR procedure is triggered, and a presence indicator field indicating whether an identity of a preferred Reference Signal (RS) for BFR is included in the MAC CE for BFR. The preferred RS is associated with the serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Chia-Hao Yu, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Patent number: 11272406
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication is provided. The method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a minimum required received level factor and an offset via system information; obtaining, by the UE, a minimum required received level based on the minimum required received level factor and the offset multiplied by an integer larger than one; determining, by the UE, a cell selection criterion based on the minimum required received level; and performing, by the UE, cell reselection based on the cell selection criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Mei-Ju Shih, Chie-Ming Chou, Hung-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 11272417
    Abstract: A method for a conditional handover (CHO) is described in some of the present embodiments. The method may receive from a source base station (e.g., a gNB or an eNB) one or more CHO commands that each is associated with one or more triggering conditions for a CHO to a target cell associated with a target base station (e.g., a target gNB or a target eNB). The method may continuously evaluate the triggering condition(s) associated with each received (and valid) CHO command. When the method determines that at least one of the triggering conditions has been fulfilled, the method may execute the CHO command that is associated with the triggering condition in order to connect to one or more candidate target cells associated with the CHO command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Hung-Chen Chen, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Patent number: 11272535
    Abstract: A method for LBT failure detection performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving, by a MAC entity of the UE, an LBT failure indication from a lower layer for all UL transmissions; increasing an LBT failure counter when the MAC entity receives the LBT failure indication; determining an LBT failure event occurs when the LBT failure counter is greater than or equal to a threshold; and resetting the LBT failure counter after the MAC entity has not received the LBT failure indication for a time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hannibal IP LLC
    Inventors: Hung-Chen Chen, Chie-Ming Chou, Chia-Hung Wei, Mei-Ju Shih
  • Patent number: 11265964
    Abstract: Some of the present implementations provide a method for PDCP PDU duplication for a UE. The method receives, from a base station, through RRC signaling, a PDCP duplication entity and several RLC entities, an RLC entity being a primary path, and one or more of the RLC entities as active RLC entities for transmitting duplicated PDCP PDUs. The method generates one or more duplicated PDCP PDUs when a PDCP duplication function activation indicator is received, transmits the generated one or more duplicated PDCP PDUs to the one or more active RLC entities, and receives a MAC CE comprising a plurality of fields for switching at least one of the one or more active RLC entities, excluding the RLC entity that is the primary path, to an inactive RLC entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Chie-Ming Chou, Hung-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 11265829
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) to synchronize with a first transmit-receive point (TRP) is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by the UE, beam information of the first TRP from a second TRP; detecting, by the UE, a synchronization signal in a beam from the first TRP based on the beam information; transmitting, by the UE, a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble to the first TRP to synchronize with the first TRP; where the first TRP operates in a first frequency, and the second TRP operates in a second frequency lower than the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chie-Ming Chou, Yu-Hsin Cheng
  • Patent number: 11265915
    Abstract: A method performed by a User Equipment (UE) includes a Medium Access Control (MAC) entity triggering a first Scheduling Request (SR) procedure for a first logical channel, triggering a second SR procedure for a second logical channel, and in response to triggering the first SR procedure, initiating a Random Access (RA) procedure and canceling the first SR procedure without cancelling the second SR procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Heng-Li Chin, Chie-Ming Chou, Hung-Chen Chen
  • Publication number: 20220061061
    Abstract: A method performed by a serving cell of a base station (BS) is provided. The method receives a measurement report from a user equipment (UE). The measurement report includes measurements associated with another cell. The method then transmits, to the UE, beam information based on the received measurements via a two-stage indication. The beam information includes at least a synchronization signal (SS) block bitmap having one or more SS block bits corresponding to one or more SS block indices for the another cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: YU-HSIN CHENG, HUNG-CHEN CHEN, CHIE-MING CHOU
  • Patent number: 11259236
    Abstract: A method for a system information (SI) request procedure performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes: receiving a system information block type 1 (SIB1) from a cell; transmitting, to the cell, a first message including a common control channel (CCCH) service data unit (SDU), the CCCH SDU including a radio resource control (RRC) SI request message; receiving, from the cell, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) including a UE contention resolution identity; and indicating, by a MAC entity of the UE, reception of an acknowledgment for the RRC SI request message to an RRC entity of the UE after determining that the UE contention resolution identity matches a portion of the CCCH SDU. The SIB1 does not include information related to a Random Access (RA) resource specific to SI requested by the RRC SI request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Mei-Ju Shih, Chie-Ming Chou, Hung-Chen Chen, Yung-Lan Tseng
  • Publication number: 20220046616
    Abstract: A method for PDCCH monitoring performed by a UE is provided. The method includes performing the PDCCH monitoring in a first group associated with at least one first PDCCH monitoring configuration; receiving, from a base station, DCI comprising an indicator; performing the PDCCH monitoring in a second group associated with at least one second PDCCH monitoring configuration; and stopping the PDCCH monitoring in the first group after receiving the indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: WAN-CHEN LIN, CHIE-MING CHOU, TSUNG-HUA TSAI, YU-HSIN CHENG
  • Patent number: 11246067
    Abstract: A method performed by a User Equipment (UE) for cell (re)selection includes the UE storing allowed Non-Public Network (NPN) information that is in a form of a Cell Access Group (CAG) Identity (ID) list or in a form of a Stand-alone Non-Public Network (SNPN) ID list, receiving NPN information and area information associated with the NPN information via a System Information Block (SIB) Type 1 (SIB1) broadcast by a cell, the NPN information including an NPN ID list, performing a first procedure according to the allowed NPN information when the allowed NPN information is in the form of the CAG ID list, and performing a second procedure according to the allowed NPN information when the allowed NPN information is in the form of the SNPN ID list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Mei-Ju Shih, Hung-Chen Chen, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Publication number: 20220035751
    Abstract: The invention provides method and system for improving efficiency of protecting multi-content process. The system may cooperate with a memory, and may comprise one or more hardware IPs (intellectual properties) for content processing, one of the one or more IPs may be associated with multiple access identities. The memory may comprise multiple different ranges, each range may register an access of one of the multiple access identities as a permissible access. The method may comprise: selecting one of the access identities for processing a first content, and using the selected access identity when said IP accesses the memory during processing of the first content; selecting a different one of the access identities for processing a second content, and using the selected different access identity when said IP accesses the memory during processing of the second content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yu-Tien CHANG, Lin-Ming HSU, Chun-Ming CHOU
  • Patent number: 11240829
    Abstract: A method for Scheduling Request (SR) resource prioritization for Beam Failure Recovery (BFR) includes a User Equipment (UE) receiving a first SR configuration from a Base Station (BS), receiving a second SR configuration from the BS, triggering a first SR procedure for a BFR procedure based on the first SR configuration, triggering a second SR procedure for a Buffer Status Report (BSR) procedure based on the second SR configuration, in a case that the first SR procedure and the second SR procedure are triggered and not cancelled and the first SR resource overlaps the second SR resource in the time domain, prioritizing the first SR resource over the second SR resource, and transmitting an SR on the first SR resource after prioritizing the first SR resource over the second SR resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hannibal IP LLC
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Heng-Li Chin, Chie-Ming Chou