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).

  • Small data transmission method and user equipment using the same
    Patent number: 10680956
    Abstract: A small data transmission method, configured for a User Equipment (UE) to transceive a small data from a control node in a wireless network without establishing a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection, and the method includes but not limited to the step of: monitoring a paging opportunity (PO) sub frame in a paging frame in an idle mode; when an identifier in the PO sub frame corresponding to the UE is detected, receiving a paging message corresponding to the PO sub frame; and analyzing the paging message, and when the paging message includes a small data indicator, extracting a data from an indicating address, in which the data is the small data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Ching-Yao Huang, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Circuit capable of protecting low-voltage devices
    Patent number: 10673427
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a circuit capable of protecting low-voltage devices. The circuit includes: a pin configured to receive a signal of an external device; a control voltage generating circuit configured to generate a first control voltage according to a supply voltage to turn on a protected device when the supply voltage is at a high level, and generate a second control voltage according to a voltage of the pin to turn on the protected device when the supply voltage is at a low level; and the protected device configured to be turned on according to one of the first and the second control voltages and thereby electrically couple the pin with an internal circuit, in which the difference between the voltage of the pin and each of the first and the second control voltages is within a maximum withstanding voltage of the protected device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun-Ming Chou, Ming-Hui Tung, Chien-Wen Chen, Tsung-Yen Liu
  • PORTABLE LIGHTING AND WARNING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200168072
    Abstract: A portable lighting and warning device includes: a housing; a lighting generator unit; a sensor unit sensing shaking of the housing to generate a sense output; a mode selector unit generating a mode indication signal; a warning generator unit; and a controller unit. In a case where the mode indication signal indicates a lighting mode, the controller unit controls the lighting generator unit to emit light. In a case where the mode indication signal indicates a warning mode, the controller unit waits for a predetermined pause time, and then controls the warning generator unit and the lighting generator unit to output sound and emit light when the sense output corresponds to the shaking of the housing not less than a predetermined in intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventor: Tien-Ming CHOU
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PDCCH MONITORING
    Publication number: 20200169991
    Abstract: A method for PDCCH monitoring performed by a UE is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a first PDCCH monitoring configuration and a second PDCCH monitoring configuration, where the second PDCCH monitoring configuration allocates a plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions within a slot. The method also includes performing PDCCH monitoring based on at least one of the first PDCCH monitoring configuration and the second PDCCH monitoring configuration. The maximum number of non-overlapped CCEs in one slot is bound by a slot CCE limit. The slot CCE limit of the first PDCCH monitoring configuration is different from the slot CCE limit of the second PDCCH monitoring configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: WAN-CHEN LIN, CHIE-MING CHOU, TSUNG-HUA TSAI, YU-HSIN CHENG
  • ACCESS CONTROL IN NEW RADIO
    Publication number: 20200162995
    Abstract: A method executed by a wireless device for network access of the wireless device to a network node is disclosed. The method includes initiating an access attempt to the network node; reading a first layer of access control information (ACI) from the network node to determine whether an access control indicator in the first layer for an access category is ON, wherein the access control indicator for the access category is associated with a characteristic/classification of the access attempt by the wireless device to the network node; in response to the access control indicator in the first layer for the access category being ON, reading a second layer of the ACI from the network node to determine whether the access attempt to the network node is allowed based on one or more specific parameters associated with the access category in the second layer of the ACI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Portable lighting and warning device
    Patent number: 10657788
    Abstract: A portable lighting and warning device includes: a housing; a lighting generator unit; a sensor unit sensing shaking of the housing to generate a sense output; a mode selector unit generating a mode indication signal; a warning generator unit; and a controller unit. In a case where the mode indication signal indicates a lighting mode, the controller unit controls the lighting generator unit to emit light. In a case where the mode indication signal indicates a warning mode, the controller unit waits for a predetermined pause time, and then controls the warning generator unit and the lighting generator unit to output sound and emit light when the sense output corresponds to the shaking of the housing not less than a predetermined level in intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Inventor: Tien-Ming Chou
  • Beam failure detection and recovery
    Patent number: 10659983
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured with at least one bandwidth part (BWP) specific configuration information. The UE receives a configuration information specific to the bandwidth part (BWP). The configuration information configures an initial value of a beam failure detection (BFD) timer and a beam failure indication (BFI) count threshold. The UE starts or re-starts the BFD timer from the initial value when receiving a beam failure indication (BFI) from a lower sublayer, and counts a number of the received BFIs using a BFI counter. The UE resets the BFI counter to zero when receiving a reconfiguration information. The reconfiguration information, that is specific to the BWP, re-configures at least one of the initial value of the BFD timer and the BFI count threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Chie-Ming Chou, Chien-Chun Cheng, Yu-Hsin Cheng, Hung-Chen Chen, Heng-Li Chin
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION
    Publication number: 20200154469
    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: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: HENG-LI CHIN, CHIA-HUNG WEI, WAN-CHEN LIN, YU-HSIN CHENG, CHIE-MING CHOU
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING BWP SWITCHING IN RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE
    Publication number: 20200145089
    Abstract: A method for random access performed by a MAC entity of a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving a first beam failure recovery configuration of a first UL BWP; receiving a second beam failure recovery configuration of a second UL BWP; initiating a first RA procedure on the first UL BWP by applying at least one first RA parameter configured in the first beam failure recovery configuration, when a number of beam failure instances that have been received from lower layers is larger than or equal to a threshold; switching an active UL BWP of the UE from the first UL BWP to a second UL BWP before completion of the first RA procedure; and initiating a second RA procedure on the second UL BWP by applying at least one second RA parameter configured in the second beam failure recovery configuration, after switching to the second UL BWP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: CHIA-HUNG WEI, CHIE-MING CHOU, HENG-LI CHIN
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLE TRANSMIT/RECEIVE POINT (TRP) OPERATIONS
    Publication number: 20200145159
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a User Equipment (UE), Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI) state data in a Physical Download Control Channel (PDCCH) determining multiple Physical Downlink Shared Channels (PDSCHs), where the TCI state data is associated with multiple Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) port groups, and obtaining, by the UE, multiple Quasi Co-Location (QCL) assumptions for receiving the PDSCHs based on the DMRS port groups associated with the TCI state data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: TSUNG-HUA TSAI, CHIE-MING CHOU
  • TWO-STEP RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE IN NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20200146069
    Abstract: Some of the present implementations provide a method for a user equipment (UE) for performing a random access (RA) procedure. The method receives, at the UE, an RA configuration and a reference signal received power (RSRP) threshold. The method then determines whether a detected RSRP exceeds the RSRP threshold once the RA procedure is initiated. If the detected RSRP exceeds the RSRP threshold, the method performs a two-step RA procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: HUNG-CHEN CHEN, CHIE-MING CHOU, MEI-JU SHIH, CHIA-HUNG WEI
  • State transition method of wireless communication system
    Patent number: 10638373
    Abstract: A state transition method of a wireless communication system is provided. A network transition request is transmitted by a wireless electronic device to a first base station of a first network. The network transition request includes an assistance information of the wireless communication device. A handover request including the assistance information is transmitted by the first base station to a second base station of a second network. A handover message is generated and transmitted by the second base station to the first base station in response to the handover request. A state transition message is generated and transmitted by the first base station to the wireless communication device in response to the handover message. The wireless communication device transitions from an RRC inactive state of the first network to a first state of the second network in response to the state transition message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Wei, Chie-Ming Chou, Yung-Lan Tseng
  • BORDETELLA DETECTION ASSAY
    Publication number: 20200123596
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for detecting Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis by detecting the presence of the IS481 and IS1001 genomic insertion sequences, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: Quest Diagnostics Investments LLC
    Inventors: Michelle M. Tabb, Ming-Chou Lee, Lilly I. Kong, Ning Lu, Michael Aye, Fan Chen, Jules Chen
  • Methods and devices for data transmission without grant during measurement gap
    Patent number: 10631308
    Abstract: A method includes transmitting, by transmitting circuitry of a base station, data to a user equipment (UE) in one of a plurality of measurement objects in a bandwidth part (BWP) of a first carrier during one of a plurality of measurement gap periods of the UE, and transmitting, by the transmitting circuitry, a preemption indication to the UE in a second carrier after the one of the plurality of measurement gap periods. The preemption indication contains at least one of time resource allocation information or frequency resource allocation information of the data contained in the one of the plurality of measurement objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yu-Hsin Cheng, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Methods and related devices for secondary node addition
    Patent number: 10631353
    Abstract: A method for secondary node addition is provided. The method includes receiving, by a UE, a first RRC connection reconfiguration message from a master node, adding, by the UE, a secondary node in response to the first RRC connection reconfiguration message; and transmitting, by the UE, an RRC connection reconfiguration complete message to the secondary node via SRB3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Mei-Ju Shih, Chie-Ming Chou, Yung-Lan Tseng
  • Systems and methods for high-reliability ultra-reliable low latency communication transmissions
    Patent number: 10623209
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication involving high-reliability ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) control and data channel transmissions is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), first downlink control information (DCI) in a first control resource set (CORESET), the first DCI providing scheduling information for transmission of first data over a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), receiving, by the UE, second DCI in a second CORESET, the second DCI providing scheduling information for transmission of second data over a second PDSCH. The method also includes receiving, by the UE, the first data over the first PDSCH, and receiving, by the UE, the second data over the second PDSCH, where the first data and the second data are repetition data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yu-Hsin Cheng, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Radio resource control connection resume method of wireless communication system
    Patent number: 10624150
    Abstract: An RRC connection resume method of a wireless communication system is provided. An RRC suspend message is received by a UE from a first base station. An RRC resume procedure is performed by the UE with a second base station in response to the RRC suspend message. An RRC resume response is received by the UE from the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yung-Lan Tseng, Mei-Ju Shih, Chie-Ming Chou, Chia-Hung Wei
  • TWO-STAGE DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION CONFIGURATIONS FOR BEAM OPERATION
    Publication number: 20200107305
    Abstract: A method of communicating downlink control information (DCI) from a transmit/receipt point (TRP) to a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a first stage DCI and a reference signal (RS) by a coarse beam; transmitting a second stage DCI by a refine beam; where the first stage DCI includes information of the second stage DCI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Chie-Ming Chou, Yu-Hsin Cheng
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANDOM ACCESS
    Publication number: 20200107370
    Abstract: A method for random access performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving, by a MAC entity of the UE, a UL grant in an RAR from a base station during an ongoing random access procedure, wherein the MAC entity includes a Msg3 buffer, an M&A entity, and a HARQ entity; obtaining, by the HARQ entity, a first MAC PDU from the Msg3 buffer after determining that at least one MAC PDU is in the Msg3 buffer, wherein the first MAC PDU includes a first type of MAC subPDU carrying a MAC SDU and a second type of MAC subPDU carrying a MAC CE; and indicating to the M&A entity, by the HARQ entity, to discard a specific type of MAC subPDU from the first MAC PDU, when a size of the UL grant is different from a size of the first MAC PDU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: CHIA-HUNG WEI, HENG-LI CHIN, CHIE-MING CHOU
  • METHOD FOR SIGNALING RAN PROFILE INDEX AND RADIO COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20200107251
    Abstract: A method includes transmitting a RAN profile indexing message from a cell to a user equipment (UE) within the cell's radio coverage, the RAN profile indexing message comprising a plurality of sets of RAN parameters corresponding to a plurality of physical layer configurations, and a plurality of indices corresponding to the plurality of sets of RAN parameters. The method also includes transmitting a downlink control information message to the UE indicating a resource block allocated for the UE, and an index corresponding to one of the plurality of sets of RAN parameters. The method further includes performing a RAN profile indexing operation to define the plurality of sets of RAN parameters corresponding to a plurality of physical layer configurations, and assigning the plurality of indices to the plurality of sets of RAN parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Chie-Ming Chou, Yung-Lan Tseng