Patents by Inventor Peter Gaal

Peter Gaal 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).

  • Patent number: 11956649
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for remote interference mitigation between base stations using reference signals. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a first base station (BS). The method includes receiving a reference signal (RS) from a second BS. The method further includes performing interference measurement corresponding to interference from the second BS based on the RS being associated with the second BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly, Huilin Xu, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tingfang Ji, Peter Gaal, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Yeliz Tokgoz, Naga Bhushan, Yuwei Ren
  • Patent number: 11956788
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device may transmit an expiration indication to a receiving device as part of a scheduling message for a transport block. The expiration indication may provide information related to an expiration time for the transport block. If the expiration time is reached prior to successful reception by a receiving device, the receiving device may assume that the transport block has expired and may refrain from transmitting a retransmission grant, or may empty a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARM) buffer associated with the transport block. If the transmitting device fails to successfully receive an indication from the receiving device of a successful reception of the transport block prior to the expiration period, the transmitting device may also assume that the transport block has expired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Jing Jiang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Tingfang Ji, Chih-Ping Li, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11956779
    Abstract: Aspects relate to wireless communications utilizing cross carrier scheduling Methods and apparatus include generating at least one slot in a control channel from a scheduling cell, the at least one slot including a plurality of control channel segments such as PDCCH segments, which are arranged at respective times within the at least one slot. Each of the control channel segments includes control information such as DCIs corresponding to respective slots for a scheduled cell. Distributing the control channel information in segments or spans over time affords improved decoding timing in a UE in the scheduled cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Huilin Xu, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11956733
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine at least one of a downlink path loss value or an uplink path loss value associated with a base station; receive system information, a semi-persistently configured grant via RRC or a dynamic uplink grant via DCI from the base station, wherein the RRC signaling or the dynamic uplink grant identifies a power control value associated with one user or a plurality of users associated with the base station; and determine a transmit power for a data or control transmission based at least in part on at least one of the downlink path loss value or the uplink path loss value and the power control value. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Tingfang Ji, Peter Gaal, Xiao Feng Wang, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Seyong Park, Gabi Sarkis, Wanshi Chen, Naga Bhushan, Ying Wang, Jay Kumar Sundararajan
  • Patent number: 11956697
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication that indicates whether a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by downlink control information (DCI) is associated with a second PDSCH processing capability, wherein the second PDSCH processing capability has a shorter duration than a first PDSCH processing capability. The UE may receive, from the base station, the MBS PDSCH scheduled by the DCI. The UE may transmit, to the base station and based at least in part on the indication, hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback in accordance with the first PDSCH processing capability or the second PDSCH processing capability. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Ayan Sengupta, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Umesh Phuyal, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11956082
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein may enhance a HARQ feedback operation to improve data retransmissions by using tri-state HARQ feedback, and may enable a UE to construct a codebook for tri-state HARQ feedback. In one aspect, a UE determines whether tri-state HARQ feedback or bi-state HARQ feedback is configured based on a DL carrier. The UE generates HARQ feedback for at least one of a received PDCCH or a received PDSCH on the DL carrier based on the determination whether the DL carrier is configured with the tri-state HARQ feedback. The UE transmits the generated HARQ feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Yi Huang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11956717
    Abstract: Techniques for wireless communications are described. A mode for reporting uplink control information may be selected when a first serving cell and a second serving cell are both configured with uplink control resources. The reporting modes may include a mode for transmitting uplink control information over one uplink control resource or over multiple uplink control resources. Multiple sets of uplink control information may be separately generated for different sets of component carriers or different transmission/reception points. After selecting the reporting mode, the multiple sets of uplink control information may be transmitted over one or multiple uplink control resources in accordance with the selected reporting mode. Communication devices may switch between the reporting modes based on obtained information or calculations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11956074
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for identifying physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) parameters, such as a PDCCH blind decode limit and a PDCCH control channel element limit, for implementations where a user equipment (UE) is configured with two or more cell groups. The techniques described herein permit the UE or a base station to determine the quantity of cell groups that is to be considered when determining the PDCCH parameters, permit the UE to indicate PDCCH capability values across multiple frequency ranges, and permit the base station to schedule a quantity of PDCCHs for the UE that results in a quantity of blind decodes that exceeds a PDCCH blind decode limit or a quantity of control channel elements that exceeds a PDCCH control channel element limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Huilin Xu, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11953578
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for single sided beam management in a millimeter wave (mmW) communication system for use in bistatic radio frequency (RF) sensing. An example method of tracking targets with bistatic radio frequency sensing includes receiving a scanning reference signal, generating a scanning signal report indicating one or more target groups associated with the scanning reference signal, transmitting the scanning signal report, receiving tracking signal configuration information indicating a tracking reference signal associated with the one or more target groups, receiving the tracking reference signal identified in the tracking signal configuration information, and tracking the one or more target groups associated with the tracking reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Peter Gaal, Taesang Yoo, Simone Merlin, Srinivas Yerramalli, John Edward Smee
  • Publication number: 20240114449
    Abstract: A network node may transmit a first signal to a first radio at a user equipment (UE). The UE may receive the first signal from the network node. The first signal may include a first configuration for a second radio at the UE. The UE may operate the second radio in a first mode based on the first configuration received via the first radio. The first radio may have a lower power consumption than the second radio or the second radio may have the lower power consumption than the first radio. For example, one radio may be a low-power wake-up radio (LP-WUR) having a lower power consumption than a main radio (MR) at the UE. The network node and the UE may communicate with one another via the second radio at the UE based on the first configuration transmitted to the first radio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ahmed ELSHAFIE, Hung Dinh LY, Huilin XU, Wanshi CHEN, Changhwan PARK, Linhai HE, Yuchul KIM, Wei YANG, Peter GAAL, Le LIU, Diana MAAMARI
  • Publication number: 20240114468
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may configure, based on a precoder and a total power scaling factor, a total transmission power of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) communication, the total power scaling factor comprising a summation of a plurality of power scaling factors associated with a set of transmission ports of the UE, each transmission port of the set of transmission ports corresponding to a power amplifier (PA) of a set of PAs. The UE may transmit, to a network node, the PUSCH communication based on the total transmission power. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yi HUANG, Peter GAAL
  • Publication number: 20240114499
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support determination of a UE beam for Msg3 transmission. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes transmitting, to a network node, a first physical random access channel (PRACH) transmission and one or more repetitions of the first PRACH transmission using a plurality of beams, receiving, from the network node, a response to the first PRACH transmission comprising an indication of a selected beam of the plurality of beams, determining the selected beam based on the indication of the selected beam and based on transmission of the first PRACH transmission and one or more repetitions of the first PRACH transmission using the plurality of beams, and transmitting one or more message three (Msg3) transmissions to the network node using the selected beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Wooseok Nam, Xiaoxia Zhang, Peter Gaal, Yan Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240114473
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives, from a network entity, beam shape assistance information for one or more downlink transmit beams of a base station, the beam shape assistance information representing a beam shape of each of the one or more downlink transmit beams, the beam shape of each of the one or more downlink transmit beams having a quantization, and determines an angle between the UE and the base station based at least on the beam shape assistance information and signal strength measurements of positioning reference signal resources transmitted on the one or more downlink transmit beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Srinivas YERRAMALLI, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Stephen William EDGE, Sven FISCHER, Peter GAAL
  • Publication number: 20240114427
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. During an operation for discovering reconfigurable surfaces, a sensing signal may be transmitted. Based on the sensing signal being transmitted, another signal may be detected at the device that transmitted the sensing signal, another device, or both. The device that detects the signal may combine the detected signal with a modulation sequence that is associated with a reconfigurable surface, where the reconfigurable surface may be assigned a set of unique modulation sequences and configured to apply a modulation sequence to received signals. Based on combining the detected signal with the modulation sequence, the device may determine whether the reconfigurable surface is present within a geographic region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Wooseok NAM, Yucheng DAI, Tao LUO, Peter GAAL, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Junyi LI
  • Publication number: 20240114453
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) and related apparatus are provided. The apparatus is configured to receive a configuration for a wake-up signal associated with a second radio having a lower power consumption than a first radio at the UE. The configuration includes a starting time for an operation of the first radio based on a reception of the wake-up signal. The apparatus is further configured to receive the wake-up signal via the second radio, and start the operation of the first radio at the starting time following the reception of the wake-up signal via the second radio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Huilin XU, Ahmed ELSHAFIE, Wanshi CHEN, Diana MAAMARI, Peter GAAL, Nicolas CORNILLET
  • Publication number: 20240114558
    Abstract: 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 random access channel (RACH) occasion (RO) configuration that includes information related to ordered preamble resources. The UE may generate a preamble resource index according to various parameters selected based on the RO configuration information that relates to the ordered preamble resources. The UE may generate an uplink RACH message that includes a preamble based at least in part on the preamble resource index and a payload associated with a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource unit (PRU) mapped to the preamble resource index. After decoding the uplink RACH message, the base station may send a response message including scrambled downlink control information (e.g., based on a scrambling identifier or payload information associated with the uplink RACH message). Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Jing LEI, Wanshi CHEN, Peter GAAL
  • Publication number: 20240113761
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a UE capability for using one or more transmit antenna configuration sets for uplink beams. The UE may receive a radio resource control configuration associated with uplink transmission with an uplink beam. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Le LIU, Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Peter GAAL, Chiranjib SAHA, Xiao Feng WANG, Wanshi CHEN, Umesh PHUYAL, Kazuki TAKEDA, Changhwan PARK
  • Publication number: 20240114575
    Abstract: Techniques described provide dependent procedure operation configured for avoiding or mitigating one or more aspect of the impact on the dependent procedure of cancelling an uplink transmission. One or more attributes (e.g., a transmission indication attribute) associated with a cancelled uplink transmission may be designated for dependent procedure operation, such as for indicating whether the cancelled uplink transmission is considered either as having been transmitted or not having been transmitted. The one or more attributes associated with a cancelled uplink transmission designated for dependent procedure operation may be based upon whether the cancelling the first uplink transmission is a fast cancellation or is a slow cancellation. The designation of a transmission indication attribute for dependent procedure operation may correspond to the dependent procedure and/or its operation. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Peter Gaal, Linhai He
  • Patent number: 11950241
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a self-contained subframe structure for time division duplex (TDD) carriers. Information transmitted on a TDD carrier may be grouped into subframes, and each subframe can provide communications in both directions (e.g., uplink and downlink) to enable such communications without needing further information in another subframe. In one aspect of the disclosure, a single subframe may include scheduling information, data transmission corresponding to the scheduling information, and acknowledgment packets corresponding to the data transmission. Furthermore, the subframe may additionally include a header and/or a trailer to provide certain bi-directional communications functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Naga Bhushan, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Peter Gaal, John Edward Smee, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 11949504
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit control signaling indicating a capability of the UE for supporting a first duplex mode and indicating a mode switching latency of the UE for switching between the first duplex mode and a second duplex mode. In some cases, the UE may transmit an indication of a set of supported full-duplex channel combinations, where each channel combination of the set of supported full-duplex channel combinations may include an uplink channel and a downlink channel. In some cases, the UE may transmit an indication of a duration for which the capability of the UE for supporting the first duplex mode is applicable. The UE may receive scheduling information based on the capability of the UE for supporting the first duplex mode and the mode switching latency, and communicate with a base station based on the scheduling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo, Junyi Li