Patents by Inventor Niklas Wernersson
Niklas Wernersson 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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Patent number: 12362794Abstract: A network node signals to a wireless communication device which precoders in a codebook are restricted from being used. The network node in this regard generates codebook subset restriction signaling that, for each of one or more groups of precoders, jointly restricts the precoders in the group by restricting a certain component (e.g., a certain beam precoder) that the precoders in the group have in common. This signaling may be for instance rank-agnostic signaling that jointly restricts the precoders in a group without regard to the precoders' transmission rank. Regardless, the network node sends the generated signaling to the wireless communication device.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2024Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Mattias Frenne, Simon Järmyr, George Jöngren, Niklas Wernersson
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Patent number: 12348288Abstract: A method performed by a wireless device (510, 800, 1200) for reporting channel state information (CSI) for a downlink channel is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting (601, 705) a CSI report for the downlink channel to a network node (560, 1100), the CSI report comprising: a set of reported coefficients; an indication of how the network node is to interpret the set of reported coefficients; and an indication of a payload size of the set of the reported coefficients.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2023Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Roy Timo, Niklas Wernersson, Maksym Girnyk, Zhao Wang
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Patent number: 12300897Abstract: There is provided an antenna arrangement having unequally many physical antenna elements for transmission and reception. The antenna arrangement comprises physical antenna elements. All physical antenna elements are configured for signal reception but less than all of the physical antenna elements are configured for both signal transmission and signal reception. A first portion of those physical antenna elements configured for both signal transmission and signal reception and a second portion of those physical antenna elements configured for both signal transmission and signal reception are in the antenna arrangement placed to, during operation of the antenna arrangement, be vertically separated by physical antenna elements configured for only signal reception.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Niklas Wernersson, Bo Göransson
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Publication number: 20250119759Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for a radio network are disclosed. According to an embodiment, the method includes adapting the number of active digital processing components included in a radio network based on an estimate of a required processing capacity for an estimated combined time-averaged traffic volume relating to a plurality of cells of the radio network; and scheduling transmissions relating to the plurality of cells so that processing requirements of the transmissions do not exceed a processing capacity of the active digital processing components.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2021Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Pål FRENGER, Jonas BENGTSSON, Niklas WERNERSSON
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Patent number: 12273821Abstract: A user equipment (UE) being configured to receive a downlink (DL) information, determine a spatial association for an uplink (UL) transmission based on the DL information, and determine UL power control (PC) parameters based on the DL information.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Ravikiran Nory, Stephen Grant, Claes Tidestav, Niklas Wernersson
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Publication number: 20250113298Abstract: Methods, radio node (150; 900) and controller node (250; 700), to support energy saving by the radio node (150; 900). The radio node (150; 900) being controllable by the controller node (250; 700) to operate using radio related settings according to a supported operative set of radio related settings. The controller node (250; 700) sends (305; 604), to the radio node (150; 900), a message identifying first one or more subsets of said supported operative set of radio related settings. Said first one or more subsets being the only of said supported operative set that the radio node (150; 900) temporarily needs to be prepared to operate according to.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Eduardo Lins de Medeiros, Miguel Berg, Pal Frenger, Niklas Wernersson
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Publication number: 20250105894Abstract: An access node (102), which may be limited with respect to its capability of performing downlink wireless transmissions, cooperates with another access node (101) to enable beamformed uplink wireless transmissions from a wireless device (10) to the access node (102) and/or to assist the other access node (101) in performing beamformed downlink wireless transmissions to a UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Niklas Wernersson, Anders Furuskär, Andreas Nilsson
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Patent number: 12237900Abstract: A method performed by a wireless device (510, 700, 1100) is disclosed. The wireless device obtains (601) a configuration for a sub-band channel quality indicator (CQI) granularity and a sub-band precoding matrix indicator (PMI) granularity for the wireless device. The wireless device determines (602) channel state information (CSI) feedback according to the configured sub-band CQI granularity and the sub-band PMI granularity. The sub-band PMI granularity corresponds to a first sub-band size and the sub-band CQI granularity corresponds to a second sub-band size. The first sub-band size is smaller than the second sub-band size. The wireless device transmits (603), to a network node (560, 1000), the determined CSI feedback.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Niklas Wernersson, Sebastian Faxér, Maksym Girnyk
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Publication number: 20250062872Abstract: A method performed by a network node. The method includes determining to transmit a first reference signal. The method also includes determining whether a second reference signal should be transmitted. The method also includes transmitting the first reference signal using a first precoder. The method also includes transmitting the second reference signal as a result of determining that the second reference signal should be transmitted. The second reference signal is transmitted using a second precoder that is complementary to the first precoder such that the second reference signal occupies a first part of a channel not occupied by the first reference signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: February 20, 2025Inventors: Karl WERNER, David ASTELY, Petter ERSBO, Eric NORDSTRÖM, Niklas WERNERSSON
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Publication number: 20250062796Abstract: According to some aspects of the techniques disclosed herein, a UE adapted to transmit on different antenna subsets transmits an indication that the UE can transmit a number of distinct RS resources, where each of the RS resources comprises at least one RS port. The UE transmits capability information indicating that the UE is capable of transmitting simultaneously on multiple RS resources and/or receives first and second RS configurations, where the first RS configuration is a first list of SRS resources that at least correspond to RS resource indications used for PUSCH transmission, and the second RS configuration is a second list of RS resources that may be used for SRS transmission. The UE receives an indication of at least one RS resource and transmits a physical channel on antennas of the UE associated with the indicated RS resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2024Publication date: February 20, 2025Inventors: Robert Mark Harrison, Sebastian Faxér, Niklas Wernersson, Andreas Nilsson
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Publication number: 20250056537Abstract: A technique for DL scheduling radio devices in a cell of a RAN with different DL transmit power levels is provided. A method (200) comprises a step of grouping (210) radio devices according to different DL transmit power levels. The grouping comprises allocating each radio device to one of the groups. Each group is associated with a different DL transmit power level. The method (200) further comprises a step of transmitting (212-1) data to a first radio device within a first partition of a transmission time interval, TTI. The first partition of the TTI is assigned a first DL transmit power level associated with a first group. The method (200) further comprises a step of transmitting (212-2) data to a second radio device within a second partition of the TTI. The second partition of the TTI is assigned a second DL transmit power level associated with a second group.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: February 13, 2025Inventors: David Astely, Pål Frenger, David Eriksson, Kristofer Björnson, Karl Werner, Niklas Wernersson
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Patent number: 12224966Abstract: Embodiments include methods, performed by a user equipment (UE), for transmitting or receiving a plurality of physical data channels in a wireless network. Such methods include receiving, from the wireless network, an indication of a Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI) state that includes one or more source reference signal (RS) pairs. Each source RS pair has a pair of quasi-colocation (QCL) relations with antenna ports, for demodulation reference signals (DM-RS), that are mapped to a plurality of code-division multiplexing (CDM) groups. Such methods include receiving/transmitting the physical data channels based on the QCL relations for the source RS pairs of the indicated TCI state. Each physical data channel corresponds to a CDM group and is received/transmitted in association with the DM-RS having antenna ports mapped to the corresponding CDM group. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a wireless network, and UEs and wireless networks configured to perform such methods.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Mattias Frenne, Niklas Wernersson, Shiwei Gao, Sebastian Faxér, Simon Järmyr, Siva Muruganathan
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Patent number: 12191951Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a wireless node (100) for transmitting reference symbols, the node comprising an antenna with a plurality of antenna ports, the method comprising configuring channel state information, CSI, measurements of a user equipment, UE (110), by transmitting a downlink message, transmitting a first reference symbol using the plurality of antenna ports, wherein the first reference symbol is transmitted using a first number N of antenna ports, transmitting a second reference symbol using the plurality of antenna ports, wherein the second reference symbol is transmitted using a second number K of antenna ports, wherein the first reference symbol is transmitted using a first port distance smaller than a second port distance used when transmitting the second reference symbol, and wherein the K used antenna ports are less than the N used antenna ports.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Niklas Wernersson, Maksym Girnyk, Roy Timo
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Patent number: 12170555Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining a power to be used for a set of antenna ports for a physical uplink shared channel transmission. In some embodiments, a User Equipment (UE) comprises processing circuitry configured to derive a power P to be used for uplink power control for a physical uplink shared channel transmission and determine a power to be used for a set of antenna ports based on the power P according to a rule that depends on whether the UE is utilizing codebook based transmission or non-codebook based transmission for the physical uplink shared channel transmission. The set of antenna ports is antenna ports on which the physical uplink shared channel transmission is transmitted with non-zero power.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Niklas Wernersson, Robert Mark Harrison
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Patent number: 12166541Abstract: According to some aspects of the techniques disclosed herein, a UE adapted to transmit on different antenna subsets transmits an indication that the UE can transmit a number of distinct RS resources, where each of the RS resources comprises at least one RS port. The UE transmits capability information indicating that the UE is capable of transmitting simultaneously on multiple RS resources and/or receives first and second RS configurations, where the first RS configuration is a first list of SRS resources that at least correspond to RS resource indications used for PUSCH transmission, and the second RS configuration is a second list of RS resources that may be used for SRS transmission. The UE receives an indication of at least one RS resource and transmits a physical channel on antennas of the UE associated with the indicated RS resources.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Robert Mark Harrison, Niklas Wernersson, Sebastian Faxer, Andreas Nilsson
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Patent number: 12156139Abstract: A method performed by a wireless device (110, 500, 791, 792) for determining whether the wireless device is power limited is disclosed. The method comprises receiving (1301), from a network node (160, 712), a transmit power control (TPC) command for one or more of a plurality of power control loops configured at the wireless device. The method comprises obtaining (1302) an indication of the one or more of the plurality of power control loops to which the received TPC command applies. The method comprises determining (1303), based on the obtained indication, whether one or more conditions related to power control at the wireless device are fulfilled. The method comprises determining (1304) whether the wireless device is power limited based on whether the one or more conditions are fulfilled.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Niklas Wernersson, Ravikiran Nory
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Patent number: 12156142Abstract: Methods and apparatus for communicating power information to a base station (160) from a wireless device (110) having multiple transmission entities. An example method performed by the base station comprises receiving (310) a plurality of indications of power reporting parameters from the wireless device, each of the power reporting parameters corresponding to a respective uplink transmission entity (UTE) of the wireless device. The power reporting parameters corresponding to respective UTEs include power headroom values and/or maximum carrier power values.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Claes Tidestav, Niklas Wernersson
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Patent number: 12149308Abstract: A method performed by a wireless device for transmitting a channel state information (CSI) report for a downlink channel comprises obtaining a first set of candidate frequency-domain components and determining a set of spatial-domain components. The method comprises determining a second set of candidate frequency-domain components as a subset of the first set of candidate frequency-domain components. The method comprises determining, for each spatial-domain component of the set of spatial-domain components, a spatial-domain component-specific set of frequency-domain components as a subset of the second set of candidate frequency-domain components. The method comprises transmitting, to a network node, the CSI report.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2024Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Niklas Wernersson, Sebastian Faxér, Maksym Girnyk
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Publication number: 20240313835Abstract: A method performed by a wireless device for transmitting a channel state information (CSI) report for a downlink channel comprises obtaining a first set of candidate frequency-domain components and determining a set of spatial-domain components. The method comprises determining a second set of candidate frequency-domain components as a subset of the first set of candidate frequency-domain components. The method comprises determining, for each spatial-domain component of the set of spatial-domain components, a spatial-domain component-specific set of frequency-domain components as a subset of the second set of candidate frequency-domain components. The method comprises transmitting, to a network node, the CSI report.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Niklas Wernersson, Sebastian Faxér, Maksym Girnyk
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Patent number: 12068892Abstract: Embodiments include methods for operating a network node in a wireless network. Such embodiments include applying non-linear precoding to a first data stream to remove a representation of expected inter-stream interference due to a second data stream, thereby generating a corrected first data stream. Such embodiments also include applying linear precoding to the corrected first data stream and to a first reference signal (RS) stream to generate a first signal layer. The first RS stream is not corrected for the expected inter-stream interference prior to applying the linear precoding. Such embodiments also include transmitting the first signal layer to a user equipment (UE). Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a UE, as well as network nodes and UEs configured to perform operations corresponding to such methods.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Zhao Wang, Maksym Girnyk, Roy Timo, Niklas Wernersson, Simon Järmyr