Patents by Inventor Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar
Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar 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: 20250119912Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a control message from a base station indicating a configuration of an uplink waveform for full-duplex communications at the UE. The UE may receive an additional control message scheduling a set of uplink resources and a set of downlink resources for the full-duplex communications. The set of uplink resources and the set of downlink resources may at least partially overlap in a time-domain. A frequency-domain gap between the set of uplink resources and the set of downlink resources may be based on the first uplink waveform and a first downlink waveform used by the base station. The UE may communicate with the base station on the set of uplink resources and the set of downlink resources in accordance with the frequency-domain gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Ahmed ELSHAFIE, Hung Dinh LY, Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR
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Patent number: 12273881Abstract: Techniques and apparatus for determining a transport block (TB) configuration and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgment (ACK)/negative acknowledgment (NACK) configuration for full duplex (FD) UE(s) are described. One technique involves receiving channel state information (CSI) report(s) from a UE operating in FD mode. At least one of a TB configuration or feedback type for a communication slot is determined based on the CSI report(s). The communication slot can include half duplex (HD) symbol(s) and FD symbol(s). An indication of at least one of the TB configuration or the feedback type is signaled to the UE. Another technique involves receiving, from a base station (BS), downlink data transmission(s) across a slot(s). A type of duplexing mode associated with each of the slot(s) is determined. The downlink data transmission(s) are acknowledged, based at least in part on the type of duplexing mode associated with each of the slot(s).Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Alexandros Manolakos, Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Huilin Xu, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Wanshi Chen
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Patent number: 12273175Abstract: Aspects relate to measuring downlink beam quality in the presence of self-interference when operating in a full duplex mode configured for concurrent transmission and reception within an overlapping bandwidth. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station over one or more of a plurality of uplink beams and downlink beams. For each uplink beam, the UE may obtain beam quality measurements associated with each of the downlink beams to identify a set of usable downlink beams. The UE may further transmit a report to the base station indicating the set of usable downlink beams for at least one uplink beam.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Huilin Xu, Alexandros Manolakos, Weimin Duan, June Namgoong, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar
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Patent number: 12273864Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, an enhanced reduced capability (eRedCap) downlink and uplink bandwidth part (BWP) configuration associated with a sub-band full duplex (SBFD) slot, wherein the eRedCap downlink and uplink BWP configuration includes a bit indicating an availability of a sub-band in the SBFD slot. The UE may perform, with the network node, a communication based at least in part on the eRedCap downlink and uplink BWP configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Jing Lei
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Patent number: 12273813Abstract: A method for wireless communication by a user equipment includes receiving, from a network node, a first message configuring a group of inactivity timers including indicating a respective timer duration value for each inactivity timer of the group of inactivity timers. Each inactivity timer of the group of inactivity timers may be associated with a respective network power saving mode of a group of network power saving modes. The method also includes initiating a first inactivity timer of the group of inactivity timers with a respective timer duration value based on receiving a first downlink transmission from the network node or transmitting first uplink information to the network node. The method further includes enabling a radio resource control (RRC) state of a group of RRC states based on an expiration of the first inactivity timer.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Marwen Zorgui, Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar
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UPLINK REPETITION FREQUENCY HOPPING IN MIXED SUB-BAND FULL DUPLEX AND NON-SUB-BAND FULL DUPLEX SLOTS
Publication number: 20250112731Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described technique provide for a user equipment (UE) to selectively transmit an uplink repetition configured with intra-slot frequency hopping during a slot including both sub-band full duplex (SBFD) and non-SBFD symbols. For example, the UE may receive a control message scheduling repetitions of an uplink message and indicating a configuration for intra-slot frequency hopping for the repetitions. In some cases, the UE may selectively transmit a repetition during a mixed symbol slot according to whether the slot is considered available, an alignment of a boundary between the SBFD symbols and non-SBFD symbols of the mixed symbol slot with time resources for portions of the repetition, transmission parameters associated with SBFD symbols and non-SBFD symbols, or any combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed IBRAHIM, Gokul SRIDHARAN, Yi HUANG, Peter GAAL -
Publication number: 20250112752Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. More particularly, various aspects relate generally to power boosting a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) in a CSI-RS resource occasion occurring in a sub-band full duplex (SBFD) set of symbols and/or in a CSI-RS resource occasion that overlaps with an uplink sub-band and/or a guard band of the SBFD set of symbols. In some aspects, a network node may configure a UE with a CSI-RS resource associated with SBFD sets of symbols and non-SBFD sets of symbols. The network node may transmit, and the UE may receive, in an instance of the CSI-RS resource that occurs in an SBFD set of symbols, a CSI-RS. The CSI-RS may be associated with a power-boosted energy per resource element (EPRE) as compared to an EPRE of a CSI-RS transmitted in a CSI-RS occasion occurring in a non-SBFD set of symbols.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed IBRAHIM, Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Ahmed Attia ABOTABL
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Publication number: 20250112744Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of resource parameters for performing sounding reference signal transmissions during a slot comprising at least one subband full-duplex symbol and at least one non-subband full-duplex symbol. The UE may perform multi-symbol sounding reference signal transmissions during the slot according to a transmission scheme associated with the resource parameters, the transmission scheme defining a transmit or drop rule based on a first subset of sounding reference signal transmissions being scheduled in the at least one subband full-duplex symbol of the slot and a second subset of sounding reference signal transmissions being scheduled in the at least one non-subband full-duplex symbol of the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed IBRAHIM, Yi HUANG, Gokul SRIDHARAN, Peter GAAL
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Publication number: 20250112680Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for line of sight (LOS) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) signaling aspects are described. In some examples, a wireless device may transmit, to a network device, a capability message indicating that the wireless device supports a LOS mode. In such examples, the wireless device may receive, from the network device in response to the capability message, a control message indicating activation of the LOS mode and at least one LOS mode parameter based at least in part on a channel measurement associated with a wireless channel between the wireless device and the network device indicating that the wireless channel satisfies a LOS path criterion. In some examples, the wireless device may communicate a message with the network device in accordance with the LOS mode parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2022Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Pinar Sen, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim, Seyong Park, Renqiu Wang, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Yu Zhang, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji
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Publication number: 20250113304Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may apply an uplink muting maximum power reduction (UM-MPR) to uplink transmissions based on receiving an activation for uplink muting (e.g., activation of a muting pattern). The UE may apply the UM-MPR to an uplink transmission associated with a first muting pattern based on the first muting pattern being from a set of muting patterns, or from a subset of the set of muting patterns. In some examples, the UE may identify a value of the UM-MPR for the uplink transmission based on the first uplink muting pattern applied to the uplink transmission, a waveform type of the uplink transmission, a modulation scheme of the uplink transmission, a type of uplink resource allocation of the uplink transmission, or any combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed IBRAHIM, Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Qian ZHANG
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Publication number: 20250113337Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to obtaining a duplex mode of a scheduled entity, selecting a downlink-uplink (DU) slot interpretation to be applied by the scheduled entity to a slot including a DU symbol based on the duplex mode of the scheduled entity, and transmitting the DU slot interpretation to the scheduled entity. The DU symbol may be configured to include a downlink transmission and an uplink transmission within a same carrier bandwidth. Other aspects relate to receiving a message, indicating that the slot is formatted with a DU symbol, selecting a DU slot interpretation to be applied to the slot including the DU symbol based on a duplex mode of the scheduled entity, and applying the DU slot interpretation to the slot. Other aspects, examples, and features are also claimed and described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Ahmed Attia ABOTABL, Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Wanshi CHEN, Hwan Joon KWON
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Patent number: 12267791Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be capable of operating according to a first transmission efficiency operating mode and a second transmission efficiency operating mode that is less power efficient than the first transmission efficiency operating mode. The first transmission efficiency operating mode may be associated with a first undesired emission level that is greater than a second undesired emission level associated with the second transmission efficiency operating mode. The UE may select to operate in one of the two transmission efficiency operating modes based on one or more communication parameters (e.g., indicated by control signaling received from a base station). For example, the UE may select to operate in the first transmission efficiency operating mode based on determining that one or more of the communication parameters satisfies at least one parameter criterion for operating in the first transmission efficiency operating mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Peter Pui Lok Ang, Joseph Patrick Burke, Cong Nguyen, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Yi Huang, Wanshi Chen, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
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Patent number: 12267854Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for wireless communications for transmitting, by a UE to a network entity, a radio resource control (RRC) configuration message indicating a full-duplex capability of the UE; receiving, by the UE from the network entity, a downlink control information (DCI) message, wherein the DCI message enables concurrent transmission on an uplink channel and reception on a downlink channel by the UE; and communicating, between the UE and the network entity, based on the DCI message.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Wanshi Chen, Tingfang Ji
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Patent number: 12266949Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support mechanisms for signaling resources available for energy harvesting (EH) to a UE in a wireless communication system. In aspects, a base station transmits an indication to an UE of resources (e.g., time and/or frequency resources) available to the UE for EH. The resources may include resources over which uplink transmissions are transmitted from one or more UEs and/or resources over which downlink transmission are transmitted from the base station to the one or more UEs. The base station may include additional information in the indication to the UE. In aspects, the indication from the base station to the UE of the resources available for EH and/or the additional information may enable the EH UE to more efficiently harvest energy from the uplink transmissions from neighboring UEs and/or downlink transmissions from the base station.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Ahmed Elshafie, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar
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Patent number: 12262373Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for inter-slot and intra-slot frequency hopping in full duplex. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving scheduling information from a network entity, wherein the scheduling information schedules transmission of a plurality of uplink data channel repetitions in a plurality of slots according to a frequency hopping scheme that configures frequency hops between transmissions of repetitions of the plurality of uplink data channel repetitions. The method also includes taking one or more actions related to transmitting, according to the frequency hopping scheme, the plurality of uplink data channel repetitions in the plurality of slots based on the scheduling information.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim, Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Gokul Sridharan, Hung Dinh Ly, Hwan Joon Kwon, Ahmed Elshafie
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Publication number: 20250097949Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information that schedules a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) communication associated with a common search space (CSS) in a sub-band full duplex (SBFD) set of symbols. The UE may receive an indication of whether the SBFD set of symbols is to be treated as a non-SBFD set of symbols. The UE may perform one of receiving the PDCCH communication or refraining from receiving the PDCCH communication based on whether the SBFD set of symbols is to be treated as the non-SBFD set of symbols. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Jae Ho RYU, Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, James BECKMAN
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Publication number: 20250097076Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate a signal using a first duplexing mode in accordance with a sub-band full-duplex (SBFD) capability of the UE. The UE may perform one or more measurements on the signal to obtain a channel impulse response (CIR) associated with communication of the signal. The UE may transmit a message that includes information indicative of an update pertaining to the SBFD capability of the UE. The update may be based on the channel impulse response and may identify a second duplexing mode for wireless communication by the UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2023Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Ahmed Attia ABOTABL, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed IBRAHIM, Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR
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Publication number: 20250096995Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for full duplex (FD) operation under cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and discontinuous reception (DRX). An example method, performed at a user equipment (UE), includes receiving configuration information indicating, for a network entity operating in a subband full duplex (SBFD) mode, DRX cycles and DTX cycles, wherein each DRX cycle has an inactive DRX period and an active DRX period and each DTX cycle has an inactive DTX period and an active DTX period, determining that an SBFD slot occurs during an overlap of 1) an active DRX period and an inactive DTX period or 2) an inactive DRX period and an active DTX period, and performing one or more actions during the SBFD slot, based on the determination and whether the UE is configured to communicate on an uplink subband or a downlink subband in the SBFD slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2023Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Ahmed Attia ABOTABL, Diana MAAMARI, Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Wanshi CHEN
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Patent number: 12256389Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a downlink transmission in a downlink resource of a first bandwidth part (BWP) associated with a first time division duplexing (TDD) pattern. The UE may transmit, to the base station based at least in part on the downlink transmission, hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource of the first BWP or of a second BWP associated with a second TDD pattern. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim, Yi Huang
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Patent number: 12255849Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a channel state information report in a subband full duplex slot using a first guard band. The UE may receive a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) communication. The UE may transmit an indication of an adjustment, based at least in part on the PDSCH communication, to use for a second guard band with respect to the first guard band. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim, Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Qian Zhang, Wanshi Chen