Patents by Inventor Oner Orhan

Oner Orhan 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).

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
    Publication number: 20250113190
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for an application function (AF) direct access to a radio access network (RAN) management function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Arnab Roy, Oner Orhan, Walter Featherstone, Onur Sahin, Krisztian Kiss, Ahmed M. Soliman
  • Reinforcement learning (RL) and graph neural network (GNN)-based resource management for wireless access networks
    Patent number: 12245052
    Abstract: A computing node to implement an RL management entity in an NG wireless network includes a NIC and processing circuitry coupled to the NIC. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of network measurements for a corresponding plurality of network functions. The functions are configured as a plurality of ML models forming a multi-level hierarchy. Control signaling from an ML model of the plurality is decoded, the ML model being at a predetermined level (e.g., a lowest level) in the hierarchy. The control signaling is responsive to a corresponding network measurement and at least second control signaling from a second ML model at a level that is higher than the predetermined level. A plurality of reward functions is generated for training the ML models, based on the control signaling from the MLO model at the predetermined level in the multi-level hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Shilpa Talwar
  • Wireless communication technology, apparatuses, and methods
    Patent number: 12237589
    Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asl, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Brandon Davis, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Yossi Tsfati, Marian Verhelst, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
  • Low power mmWave receiver architecture with spatial compression interface
    Patent number: 12184316
    Abstract: A receiver circuit associated with a communication device is disclosed. The receiver circuit comprises a digital data compression circuit configured to receive a plurality of digital receive signals derived from a plurality of analog receive signals respectively associated with the receiver circuit. The digital data compression circuit is further configured to compress the plurality of digital receive signals to form one or more compressed digital data signals based thereon, to be provided to an input output (I/O) interface associated therewith. In some embodiments, a compressed digital signal dimension associated with the one or more compressed digital data signals is less than a digital signal dimension associated with the plurality of digital receive signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour, Peter Sagazio, Farhana Sheikh, Junyoung Nam, Shilpa Talwar
  • Spatial thermal density reduction for MMWAVE antenna arrays
    Patent number: 12149311
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer readable medium for special thermal density reduction by antenna thinning. A system comprises N transmit/receive (TX/RX) chains, where each TX/RX chain comprises an RFFE and each RFFE comprises one or more thermal sensors configured to measure heat in the RFFE. An antenna array coupled to the plurality of TX/RX chains. A codebook that comprises a plurality of code words configured to respond to real-time heat measurements from the thermal sensors in each TX/RX chain is configured to switch off selected TX/RX chains to reduce thermal density at the antenna array while maintaining M RFFEs switched on, where M<N and the desired beamforming gain is 10 log 10(M).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Brent Elliott, Hosein Nikopour, Eren Sasoglu, Shilpa Talwar
  • Wireless chip to chip communication with selective frequency multiplexing with different modulation schemes
    Patent number: 12088329
    Abstract: A transmitter for chip to chip communication may include a modulator and a transmit frequency converter. The modulator may modulate a first received signal according to a first modulation scheme. The modulator may also modulate a second received signal according to a second modulation scheme. The transmit frequency converter may center the first received signal on a first frequency that does not comprise a phase within a radio frequency (RF) domain to generate a first centered signal. The transmit frequency converter may also center the second received signal on a second frequency that comprises a phase within the frequency band to generate a second centered signal. The second centered signal may be orthogonal to the first centered signal. A frequency gap may be positioned between the first centered signal and the second centered signal within the frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mehnaz Rahman, Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour
  • BEAM MANAGEMENT AND ANTENNA CALIBRATION IN MIMO SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20240297723
    Abstract: Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sub-mmWave technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers and receivers for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include an apparatus of a communication device including an antenna array and processing circuitry coupled to the antenna array. The processing circuitry is configured to initialize a beam tracking algorithm based on received signals received at the antenna array, wherein antenna phases used in the beam tracking are bound by an upper phase limit and a lower phase limit, to generate a beam tracking result. The processing circuitry is further configured to generate a calibration vector based on the beam tracking result and receive subsequent transmissions using a codebook adapted based on the calibration vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour, Shilpa Talwa, Dor Shaviv, Roya Doostnejad, Adesoji J. Sajuyigbe
  • Methods and devices for signal demodulation
    Patent number: 12074753
    Abstract: A communication device including one or more processors configured to determine a first signal component of a received modulated signal; determine a second signal component of the received modulated signal; generate a phase shift of the first signal component; generate a phase shift of the second signal component; compare the phase shift of the first signal component and the phase shift of the second signal component with each other; and generate a plurality of constellation points, wherein each of the plurality of constellation point is based on the determination of the first signal component, the determination of the second signal component, and the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour, Mehnaz Rahman
  • WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20240243477
    Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asl, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Marian Verhelst, Yossi Tsfati, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
  • Beam management and antenna calibration in MIMO systems
    Patent number: 12009875
    Abstract: Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sub-mmWave technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers and receivers for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include an apparatus of a communication device including an antenna array and processing circuitry coupled to the antenna array. The processing circuitry is configured to initialize a beam tracking algorithm based on received signals received at the antenna array, wherein antenna phases used in the beam tracking are bound by an upper phase limit and a lower phase limit, to generate a beam tracking result. The processing circuitry is further configured to generate a calibration vector based on the beam tracking result and receive subsequent transmissions using a codebook adapted based on the calibration vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour, Shilpa Talwar, Dor Shaviv, Roya Doostnejad, Adesoji J. Sajuyigbe
  • Millimeter wave (mmWave) system and methods
    Patent number: 11956001
    Abstract: A mobile communication device that is configured to cancel interference within received millimeter wave band signals. The device includes a receiver circuit that is configured to receive a millimeter wave band signal, adjust gain provided to the millimeter wave band signal at a first amplifier, cancel interference in millimeter wave band signal after gain is adjusted by the first amplifier, and adjust gain provided to the millimeter wave band signal at a second amplifier after interference is cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mikhail T. Galeev, Oner Orhan, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Benjamin Grewell, Navid Naderializadeh, Hosein Nikopour, Susruth Sudhakaran, Shilpa Talwar, Liang Xian
  • Equalization and estimation processing in wireless devices
    Patent number: 11956104
    Abstract: Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sub-mmWave technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers and receivers for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include an apparatus of a communication device including one or more antennas configured to receive an RF signal and an ADC system. The ADC system includes a 1-bit ADC configured to receive the RF signal, and an ADC controller circuitry configured to measure a number of positive samples in the received RF signal for a plurality of thresholds of the 1-bit ADC, estimate receive signal power associated with the received RF signal based on the measured number of positive samples, determine a direct current (DC) offset in the received RF signal using the estimated received signal power, and adjust the received RF signal based on the determined DC offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour, Mehnaz Rahman, Ivan Simoes Gaspar, Shilpa Talwar, Stefano Pellerano, Claudio Da Silva, Namyoon Lee, Yo Seb Jeon, Eren Sasoglu
  • Wireless communication technology, apparatuses, and methods
    Patent number: 11955732
    Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asl, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Brandon Davis, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Yossi Tsfati, Marian Verhelst, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
  • Management of MIMO communication systems
    Patent number: 11949474
    Abstract: Apparatuses of a user equipment (UE), a cellular base station, and radio access network (RAN) nodes are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless communication device includes circuitry configured to measure reference signals received from a plurality of antennas of an other wireless communication device, and circuitry configured to cause one or more antennas of the wireless communication device to transmit information regarding the received reference signals back to the other wireless communication device to enable the other wireless communication device to estimate a utility function for different transmit parameter sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jan Schreck, Nageen Himayat, Hosein Nikopour, Feng Xue, Ehsan Aryafar, Oner Orhan, Mustafa R. Akdeniz, Wook Bong Lee, Jing Zhu
  • METHODS AND DEVICES FOR RADIO RESOURCE SCHEDULING IN RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20240049272
    Abstract: A device may include a processor configured to provide input data that is based on channel information representative of attributes associated with one or more established communication channels of a plurality of communication devices to a trained machine learning model configured to determine a score for each of the plurality of communication devices based on the input data, wherein the score represents a likelihood of the respective communication device to be scheduled for a communication resource to perform a communication, determine, for the communication resource, one or more communication devices from the plurality of communication devices based on the determined score for each of the plurality of communication devices, and provide an output to schedule the communication resource for the one or more communication devices
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Oner ORHAN, Hosein NIKOPOUR
  • WIRELESS CHIP-TO-CHIP HIGH-SPEED DATA TRANSPORT
    Publication number: 20240021522
    Abstract: Various devices, systems, and/or methods perform wireless chip to chip high speed data transmission. Strategies for such transmission include use of improved microbump antennas, wireless chip to chip interconnects, precoding and decoding strategies, channel design to achieve spatial multiplexing gain in line of sight transmissions, open cavity chip design for improved transmission, and/or mixed signal channel equalization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Tolga ACIKALIN, Tae Young YANG, Debabani CHOUDHURY, Shuhei YAMADA, Roya DOOSTNEJAD, Hosein NIKOPOUR, Issy KIPNIS, Oner ORHAN, Mehnaz RAHMAN, Kenneth P. FOUST, Christopher D. HULL, Telesphor KAMGAING, Omkar KARHADE, Stefano PELLERANO, Peter SAGAZIO, Sai VADLAMANI
  • WIRELESS NETWORK ENERGY SAVING WITH GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20240023028
    Abstract: The present disclosure discusses network energy savings (NES) machine learning (ML) models that predict NES parameters used to adjust control parameters of respective network nodes in a wireless network, wherein the NES parameters can be used by the respective network nodes to adjust their control parameters, such that the wireless network realizes or achieves NES as a whole. The wireless network is represented as a graph with heterogeneous vertices that represent corresponding network nodes and edges that represent connections between the network nodes. The NES ML model comprises a graph neural network (GNN) and a fully connected neural network (FCNN). The GNN may be a graph convolutional neural network or a graph attention network. The FCNN may be a multi-layer perceptron, a deep neural network, and/or some other type of neural network. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Vasuki Narasimha Swamy
  • Millimeter wave (MMWAVE) system and methods
    Patent number: 11811439
    Abstract: A mobile communication device that is configured to cancel interference within received millimeter wave band signals. The device includes a receiver circuit that is configured to receive a millimeter wave band signal, adjust gain provided to the millimeter wave band signal at a first amplifier, cancel interference in millimeter wave band signal after gain is adjusted by the first amplifier, and adjust gain provided to the millimeter wave band signal at a second amplifier after interference is cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mikhail T. Galeev, Oner Orhan, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Benjamin Grewell, Navid Naderi, Hosein Nikopour, Susruth Sudhakaran, Shilpa Talwar, Liang Xian
  • Millimeter wave beam tracking and beam sweeping
    Patent number: 11770174
    Abstract: Aspects of mmWave beam tracking and beam sweeping are described, for example, spatial searching operations, directional beam forming, complex channel measurement operations, and adaptive power savings. Some aspects include using priori information for mmWave beam tracking and beam sweeping. Some aspects include using priori information to modify a superset of beam criteria to obtain a subset of beam criteria, select a spatial region according to the subset of beam criteria, and initiate a spatial searching operation within the spatial region for establishing a communication link. Some aspects include obtaining complex channel measurements of beams and combining the measurements with priori information to determine a beam for use in a communication link. Some aspects include providing signals from Nr over K1 input/output (IO) links and receiving signals over K1 IO links, and combining signals received over the K1 IO links, using a compression matrix, to generate signals over K IO links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Brent Elliott, Benjamin Grewell, Tom Harel, Junyoung Nam, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Susruth Sudhakaran, Shilpa Talwar, Ping Wang, Liang Xian, Xiaodi Zhang
  • USER SCHEDULING USING A GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK
    Publication number: 20230189317
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for use in a wireless network, the device including: a processor configured to: provide input data to a trained graph neural network model, the input data being indicative of a graph representation of a plurality of wireless communication devices, wherein the trained graph neural network model is configured to provide output data being indicative of a scheduled user set including the plurality of wireless communication devices; and instruct user scheduling of the plurality of wireless communication devices based on the output data of the trained graph neural network model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Vasuki NARASIMHA SWAMY, Oner ORHAN, Hosein NIKOPOUR, Shilpa TALWAR