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: 11909589
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques related to wireless communications. In an aspect, a network entity determines whether a source reference signal transmitted from a first transmission-reception point (TRP) is a quasi-collocation (QCL) source of a target reference signal transmitted from a second TRP based, at least in part, on a first bandwidth (BW) portion occupied by the source reference signal and a second BW portion occupied by the target reference signal, the first BW portion having a first start frequency and a first BW size and the second BW portion having a second start frequency and a second BW size, and configures a user equipment (UE) with the source reference signal as the QCL source of the target reference signal when it is so determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Sven Fischer, Arash Mirbagheri, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11910365
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described related to a slot format for low latency sidelink communications. A group of user equipments (UEs) may receive an indication of a configuration of a sidelink resource pool. The sidelink resource pool may include one or more slots and one or more subchannels, and a slot of the sidelink resource pool may include a control region allocated for a sidelink control channel and a set of contiguous subslots each allocated for a sidelink data channel. A first UE may transmit sidelink control information (SCI) to a second UE in the control region of a slot to reserve one or more subslot of the same slot or any quantity of different slots for a sidelink message. The first UE may transmit the sidelink message to the second UE in the subslot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wei Yang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11910388
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for wireless communication are described. In some wireless systems (e.g., new radio (NR) systems), a system may employ fixed or variable length uplink burst regions (e.g., in an uplink-centric slot). The base station may semi-statically or dynamically configure a user equipment (UE) or group of UEs for uplink control channel transmissions within an uplink burst region. In semi-static configuration, the UE may determine the uplink control channel transmission based on values transmitted or indicated via higher-layer signaling or based on default values. In dynamic configuration, the UE may receive an indication of actual resources used by the base station in a physical layer message. The UE may transmit using an uplink control channel transmission based on the indication. In some cases, the base station may allocate code division multiplexing (CDM) groups based on which UEs are semi-statically configured and which are dynamically configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Renqiu Wang, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu, Wanshi Chen, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Jing Jiang, Yi Huang, Shimman Arvind Patel
  • Patent number: 11910458
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method may include establishing a connection between the UE and a network node of a non-terrestrial network, identifying, based on a synchronization failure event and while the UE is in a connected mode in accordance with establishing the connection, that a location failure condition has occurred for the connection, and performing, at least in part in response to the location failure condition, one or more actions of a location failure recovery procedure to restore a synchronization associated with the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ayan Sengupta, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Xiao Feng Wang, Jun Ma, Peter Gaal, Le Liu, Mungal Singh Dhanda, Bharat Shrestha, Liangping Ma, Umesh Phuyal
  • Patent number: 11910389
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine whether a collision is to occur between a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission that includes a scheduling request (SR), and multiple physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions in a slot. The UE may transmit, to a base station (BS), the PUCCH transmission or the multiple PUSCH transmissions based at least in part on determining whether the collision is to occur in the slot. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Pranay Sudeep Rungta, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11910416
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, which may be otherwise known as user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The DCI may include one or more of an indication of a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states related to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), one or more receive beams associated with the set of TCI states, or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheme. The UE may decode the DCI and may determine a temporal period associated with the indication of the set of TCI states. The UE may receive, based on the temporal period, the PDSCH according to one or more of the set of TCI states, the one or more receive beams associated with the set of TCI states, the PDSCH scheme, or one or more default receive beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Peter Gaal, Xiaoxia Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Jing Sun, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan
  • Patent number: 11910359
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a first sidelink control information (SCI) message during a mini-slot of a control resource pool which is decoupled from a data resource pool for sidelink communications. The first SCI message may indicate a data message to be transmitted on a subchannel of the data resource pool to a second UE, where resources between the control resource pool and the data resource pool are mapped. The UE may receive a feedback message from the second UE for the first SCI message during a second mini-slot of the control resource pool. The feedback message may indicate whether a collision or strong interference was detected for the first SCI message. The UE may determine whether to transmit the data message or retransmit the first SCI message based on the feedback message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Liu, Yisheng Xue, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Junyi Li, Piyush Gupta, Ozcan Ozturk, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11910385
    Abstract: Mechanisms for cross-carrier scheduling from a first cell to a second cell in a wireless networking scheme are provided. In one aspect, a method for wireless communication includes: receiving, from a base station (BS), a first configuration for scheduling in a first cell, the first configuration comprising at least one of a first monitoring periodicity parameter or a first monitoring offset parameter associated with a search space in a second cell different than the first cell; receiving, from the BS, a second configuration for scheduling in the second cell, the second configuration comprising at least one of a different second monitoring periodicity parameter or a different second monitoring offset parameter associated with the search space in the second cell; and monitoring, in the search space in the second cell based on the first configuration and the second configuration, for downlink control information (DCI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Tao Luo, Jing Sun, Juan Montojo, Mostafa Khoshnevisan
  • Patent number: 11910333
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit maximum permissible exposure related information that indicates at least one of: a transmit power limit corresponding to a specified time interval, an average transmit power limit corresponding to the specified time interval, or a combination thereof; and receive an allocation of transmission resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo, Jelena Damnjanovic, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Wooseok Nam, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11910372
    Abstract: Wireless communication systems and methods related to enhancing initial access for multi-beam operations. A user equipment (UE) selects a synchronization signal block (SSB) that corresponds to a beam and has a reference signal received power (RSRP) above a threshold. The UE receives a system information block (SIB) that includes a plurality of SSB and beam-specific system information pairs. The UE selects beam-specific system information by matching the selected SSB to one of SSBs in the multiple SSB and beam-specific system information pairs. The UE establishes a connection with a base station (BS) using the beam-specific system information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Linhai He, Gavin Bernard Horn, Miguel Griot, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11910360
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, a user equipment (UE) may utilize opportunistic cooperative relaying to support exchanging packets between UEs without establishing or maintaining beamforming alignment between the UEs. Specifically, a source UE may invite nearby UEs (e.g., helper UEs) that receive a sidelink transmission (e.g., a packet meant for a different destination UE) to perform a single frequency network (SFN)-type transmission to opportunistically relay the packet to the destination UE. The helper UEs may receive, decode, and transmit the sidelink signaling from the source UE without establishing or configuring a relay agreement with the source UE. The destination UE may receive the sidelink signaling via cascading, SFN-type transmissions by one or more helper UEs. The destination UE may respond to the sidelink signaling with feedback information via one or more helper UEs or directly to the source UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Xiaoxia Zhang, Chih-Hao Liu, Jing Sun, Tao Luo, Piyush Gupta, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11910405
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine an offset value to be used to determine reference uplink resources associated with uplink cancellation indications; receive an uplink cancellation indication; and cancel an uplink communication in a set of reference uplink resources, wherein the set of reference uplink resources are determined based at least in part on the offset value and a time domain resource in which the uplink cancellation indication is received. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Gaal, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
  • Patent number: 11909502
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A serving base station or a serving satellite may transmit a timing configuration to the UE based on a reference unit, such as a location at a beam center for a respective satellite, a threshold distance relative to the beam center for the respective satellite, a reference time, or any combination thereof. In some cases, the UE may monitor for one or more SSBs from the neighboring satellites according to the timing configuration and a respective propagation delay between the UE and each of the neighboring satellites. The UE may measure the SSBs according to the measurement gap and measurement window in the timing configuration. In some examples, the UE may perform a cell handover procedure or a cell reselection procedure based on measuring the SSBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bharat Shrestha, Xiao Feng Wang, Liangping Ma, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Changhwan Park, Ayan Sengupta, Huilin Xu, Jun Ma, Umesh Phuyal, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11910430
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify multiple channel state information (CSI) reports scheduled to be transmitted in a slot on respective physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources. For example, the multiple CSI reports may include one or more CSI reports associated with a first service type and one or more CSI reports associated with a second service type. The UE may select, from the multiple CSI reports, one or more CSI reports to be transmitted in the slot based at least in part on a first priority associated with the first service type and a second priority associated with the second service type. Accordingly, the UE may transmit, in the slot, one or more PUCCH transmissions that include the one or more selected CSI reports. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Peter Gaal, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11910262
    Abstract: Aspects relate to radio link management for a first type of link that is a high reliability, low-latency communication link such as ultra-reliable, low-latency communication (URLLC). Radio link failure (RLF) of the link may be determined in a wireless device that then transmits a link recovery request (LRR) communicating the RLF and a request for link recovery to a network in a reserved resource in an uplink channel using a second type of link that does not have as high priority (e.g., not as high reliability or as low-latency) as the first type of link, such as enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB). The wireless device receives a grant of uplink resources from the network responsive to the LRR, where the uplink resources are used by the wireless device to transmit an RLF report to the network and are also of the second type of link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Yi Huang, Wanshi Chen, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Gaal, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Linhai He
  • Patent number: 11909573
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device (e.g., a base station or a user equipment (UE)) may identify a sequence length corresponding to a number of resource blocks, and select a modulation scheme based on the sequence length. The device may select, from a set of sequences associated with the modulation scheme, a sequence having the sequence length. In some examples, the set of sequences may include at least one of a set of time domain phase shift keying computer-generated sequences or a set of frequency domain phase shift keying computer-generated sequences. The device may generate a reference signal for a data transmission based on the sequence and transmit the reference signal within the number of resource blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Yi Huang, Seyong Park, Gokul Sridharan, Peter Gaal, Alexandros Manolakos, Xiao Feng Wang, Tingfang Ji
  • Publication number: 20240057167
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information indicative of one or more random access channel (RACH) resources for transmitting a RACH message to maintain timing advance (TA) associated with at least one deactivated cell corresponding to a TA group. The UE may transmit a RACH message to a network node corresponding to the at least one deactivated cell, wherein the RACH message is indicative of first TA information associated with the at least one deactivated cell. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Shanyu ZHOU, Jelena DAMNJANOVIC, Tao LUO, Peter GAAL, Aleksandar DAMNJANOVIC
  • Publication number: 20240057096
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, a multi-cell downlink control information (MC-DCI) that indicates scheduling information for co-scheduled component carriers (CCs), wherein the MC-DCI indicates one or more of an antenna port(s) field or a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) field to be commonly applied to one or more of the co-scheduled CCs. The UE may perform a transmission based at least in part on the scheduling information indicated by the MC-DCI. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuki TAKEDA, Peter GAAL, Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Wanshi CHEN, Jae Ho RYU
  • Publication number: 20240056216
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable medium for transmitting at least one capability signal to a network entity, wherein the at least one capability signal indicates whether at least one filter in at least one receive chain of the UE is adaptively switchable between a first configuration and a second configuration, wherein the first configuration supports half-duplex communication with the network entity, wherein the second configuration supports sub-band full duplex communication with the network entity; and exchanging a signal between the UE and the network entity according to the at least one capability signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Peter GAAL, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20240056283
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for transmitting a user equipment (UE) capability indication that identifies an intra-band carrier aggregation capability for a half-duplex operation by the UE. Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for communicating on a sub-band full duplex communication link, wherein the communicating is based at least in part on an evaluation of one or more directional collision handling rules associated with the UE capability indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Qian ZHANG, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed IBRAHIM, Ahmed Attia ABOTABL, Yan ZHOU, Peter GAAL