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).

  • Publication number: 20240057206
    Abstract: Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of wireless communication by a user equipment, comprising receiving at least one configuration associated with a plurality of connected mode discontinuous reception (C-DRX) cycles, wherein a first C-DRX cycle of the plurality of C-DRX cycles is associated with a set of user equipment (UE) operations and a second C-DRX cycle of the plurality of C-DRX cycles is associated with a subset of UE operations of the set of UE operations. The implementations further include transmitting data based on performance of one or more UE operations of the subset of UE operations during the second C-DRX cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Iyab Issam SAKHNINI, Diana MAAMARI, Tao LUO, Prashanth Haridas HANDE, Wanshi CHEN, Peter GAAL, Linhai HE, Jelena DAMNJANOVIC
  • Publication number: 20240056259
    Abstract: Techniques related to multi-layer wireless communications are disclosed. Some aspects of the disclosure relate to devices and methods for determining a transmission power boost for a phase-tracking reference signal (PT-RS). A wireless user equipment (UE) may map a multi-layer uplink transmission to a plurality of PT-RS ports by distributing the layers of the multi-layer uplink transmission among the plurality of PT-RS ports. The UE may determine a first transmission power boost for a first PT-RS port, and a second transmission power boost, different from the first transmission power boost, for a second PT-RS port. The UE may transmit a first PT-RS corresponding to the first PT-RS port utilizing the first transmission power boost, and the second PT-RS corresponding to the second PT-RS port, frequency division multiplexed with the first PT-RS, utilizing the second transmission power boost. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Yu Zhang, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen
  • Publication number: 20240057067
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The UE receives signaling scheduling a plurality of transmission resources. The UE receives a configuration for a maximum number of transmissions in the plurality of transmission resources for processing. The UE processes up to the maximum number of transmissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Iyab Issam SAKHNINI, Tao LUO, Peter GAAL, Jelena DAMNJANOVIC
  • Publication number: 20240056978
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may transmit uplink transmission using antenna elements mapped to one or more antenna ports. The UE may transmit a first message to a network entity to indicate antenna ports that are available for wireless communications at the UE. The UE may transmit a second message to the network entity to indicate antenna groups associated with the antenna ports. Each antenna group may include a respective set of one or more antenna elements and may be associated with a respective transmit power threshold. The network entity may select a first antenna group of the one or more antenna groups for the UE to use for uplink transmissions. The UE may transmit, after transmitting the first and second messages, one or more uplink transmissions to the network entity using the first antenna group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Gokul Sridharan, Kazuki Takeda, Tienyow Liu, Peter Gaal
  • Publication number: 20240057103
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for service indication via downlink control information (DCI) in which different services have a same DCI size. Techniques provide also that a DCI format may be indicated by a masking operation on a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the DCI. The DCI may include an indicator field that may indicate the service of the associated operation. The indication may also be provided via different monitoring occasions of the DCI transmissions that are associated with different services. Different DCI search spaces also may be associated with different services and provide the service indication. Additionally or alternatively, different scrambling sequences used on all or a portion of control information or demodulation reference signal transmissions may be associated with different services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Kianoush HOSSEINI, Gabi SARKIS, Wei YANG, Chih-Ping LI, Heechoon LEE, Jing JIANG, Peter GAAL, Wanshi CHEN, Linhai HE, Joseph Binamira Soriaga
  • Publication number: 20240057090
    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, an indication of one of: a quantity of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources in a PUCCH slot for negative acknowledgement (NACK)-only-based multicast feedback, or a quantity of transport blocks (TBs) with the NACK-only-based multicast feedback to be multiplexed in the PUCCH slot. The UE may determine, based at least in part on the indication, the quantity of PUCCH resources in the PUCCH slot for the NACK-only-based multicast feedback. The UE may determine a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) processing timeline. The UE may transmit, to the network node, the NACK-only-based multicast feedback using the quantity of PUCCH resources and based at least in part on the PDSCH processing timeline. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Le LIU, Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Ayan SENGUPTA, Peter GAAL, Kazuki TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20240057098
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) and a network entity may support one or more signaling-based mechanisms according to which the network entity may inform the UE of which time and frequency resources may be used for full-duplex communication. The network entity transmit a first message to configure multiple resource block (RB) sets for the UE, where each RB set is associated with unique identifying information. To inform the UE of which time and frequency resources may be used for full-duplex communication, the network entity may transmit a second message that indicates one or more slot formats on a per RB set basis. As such, the network entity may schedule the UE for full-duplex communication in accordance with indicating that overlapping symbols of a first RB set and a second RB set are allocated for uplink and downlink, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Navid Abedini, Yan Zhou, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Peter Gaal, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Publication number: 20240056246
    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 scheduling channels on multiple component carriers (CCs). The UE may transmit, to the network node, channel state information (CSI) feedback for a set of cells scheduled by the MC-DCI based at least in part on a radio resource control (RRC) configuration. 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
  • Patent number: 11902800
    Abstract: Example aspects include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of wireless communication at a base station of a mobile network, comprising transmitting system information corresponding to an aerial cell of the mobile network or a cell having at least one aerial sector being formed by one or more uptilt beams of the base station. The aspects further include performing, according to the system information, a random access channel (RACH) procedure with an aerial user equipment (UE). Additionally, the aspects include establishing, via the aerial cell or the at least one aerial sector, a communications link with the aerial UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Peter Gaal, Chiranjib Saha, Umesh Phuyal, Xiao Feng Wang, Juan Montojo, Vishnu Vardhan Chetlur Ravi
  • Patent number: 11901985
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for beam selection based on user pose information provided by an extended reality (XR) application. The pose information may be used to determine a position of the UE, and one or more beam parameters may be requested based on the position of the UE. The position information of the UE may include position information for a current time period, predictive position information for one or more future time periods, or any combinations thereof. The UE may transmit a beam request to a base station for one or more beams for the current time period, for one or more future time periods, or any combinations thereof. The UE may request a switch between beams of differing beamwidths or having the same beamwidth, or request a change of a beamwidth of an existing beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Wanshi Chen, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11902002
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some networks, a user equipment (UE) may switch between serving beams of a transmitting device that are associated with different bandwidth parts of a radio frequency spectrum. To improve aspects of beam measurement and selection, a UE may be configured to support various techniques for beam measurement according to the different bandwidth parts. For example, a UE may receive a beam measurement configuration associated with one or more beams, and may monitor for reference signals associated with the beams using the different bandwidth parts. The UE may determine a channel quality of one or more of the beams based on the monitoring, and transmit a beam measurement report to the network in accordance with the beam measurement configuration. In some examples, such a report may be transmitted based on the UE determining that an event condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Liangping Ma, Bharat Shrestha, Xiao Feng Wang, Ayan Sengupta, Peter Gaal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Umesh Phuyal, Jun Ma, Dan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11902998
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The methods, systems, and devices may enable a base station to determine an operation state for a user equipment (UE) that corresponds to how the UE applies a preemption indication. The base station may indicate the operation state to the UE using a parameter of a configuration message. The base station may transmit a grant indicating time-frequency resources scheduled for the UE. The UE may identify a priority of a channel associated with the scheduled resources. The base station may determine a number of scheduled resources to be preempted or canceled and may indicate these resources to the UE using a preemption indication. The UE may determine remaining time-frequency resources based on the preemption indication, the priority of the channels, the operation state, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wei Yang, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Yi Huang
  • Publication number: 20240049275
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to collision resolution for overlapping uplink transmissions, and includes a method and apparatus for identifying a plurality of scheduled uplink transmissions that overlap in at least a first slot and a second slot, wherein the plurality of uplink transmissions comprises a high priority uplink transmission scheduled for repetitive transmission across at least a first slot and a second slot and further comprises one or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the first slot and two or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the second slot, wherein the two or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the second slot comprise at least a first low priority uplink transmission and a second high priority uplink transmission; and performing a first collision resolution procedure in the first slot and performing a second collision resolution procedure in the second slot, the second collision resolution procedure being independent of the first collision resolution procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Wei YANG, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Gaal, Yi Huang
  • Publication number: 20240049255
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit capability information indicating a capability of the UE to receive multicast communications while operating in an inactive state. The UE may receive, from a first cell, configuration information that indicates a common frequency resource (CFR) associated with receiving multicast communications from the first cell while operating in the inactive state. The UE may receive, from the first cell, multicast mobility information associated with receiving multicast communications from one or more neighboring cells while operating in the inactive state. The UE may receive, while operating in the inactive state, one or more multicast communications from at least one of the first cell or a second cell based at least in part on at least one of the configuration information or the multicast mobility information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Le LIU, Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Prasad Reddy KADIRI, Peter GAAL, Kazuki TAKEDA, Ayan SENGUPTA, Umesh PHUYAL
  • Publication number: 20240049254
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit capability information regarding at least one of a multicast physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) communication for an inactive mode or a multicast physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) communication for the inactive mode. The UE may receive a configuration associated with the multicast PDCCH communication. The UE may receive the multicast PDCCH communication in accordance with the configuration. The UE may receive the multicast PDSCH communication in the inactive mode based at least in part on the multicast PDCCH communication, wherein at least one of the configuration, or the multicast PDSCH communication is based at least in part on the capability information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Le LIU, Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Prasad Reddy KADIRI, Peter GAAL, Kazuki TAKEDA, Wanshi CHEN, Umesh PHUYAL
  • Publication number: 20240049011
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may monitor a configured set of control channel elements (CCEs) for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) decoding for a scheduled cell of a set of scheduled cells, wherein the configured set of CCEs is on a per scheduled cell basis or a per carrier indicator field value basis. The UE may decode downlink control information (DCI) in one or more CCEs of the monitored configured set of CCEs. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuki TAKEDA, Peter GAAL, Jae Ho RYU, Heechoon LEE
  • Publication number: 20240048348
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, control signaling indicating a configuration for use by the UE to select one or more of a plurality of resource sets for a bandwidth part (BWP) for the UE, where each of the resource sets comprise reference signal resources that correspond to one or more antenna ports of the UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, an activation message instructing the UE to activate at least one resource set of the plurality of resource sets for reference signal transmission using the BWP. The UE may transmit a reference signal over the activated resource set using the BWP and at least one antenna port of the one or more antenna ports based at least in part on the activation message, the antenna port corresponding to the activated resource set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Kexin XIAO, Ruiming ZHENG, Runxin WANG, Peter GAAL, Yu ZHANG, Krishna Kiran MUKKAVILLI
  • Publication number: 20240049283
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided. A method of wireless communication performed by a first sidelink user equipment (UE) may include performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure, acquiring, based on the LBT procedure being successful, a channel occupancy time (COT), and transmitting, to a second sidelink UE during the COT, COT sharing information for sharing the COT with the second sidelink UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Sherif ELAZZOUNI, Giovanni CHISCI, Qing LI, Ozcan OZTURK, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Junyi LI, Jing SUN, Chih-Hao LIU, Yisheng XUE, Aleksandar DAMNJANOVIC, Peter GAAL
  • Publication number: 20240049302
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive RACH configuration information on a downlink carrier of a first set of carriers, wherein the RACH configuration information pertains to the first set of carriers and to a second set of carriers; and selectively perform a RACH procedure with regard to the first set of carriers or the second set of carriers based at least in part on the RACH configuration information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Haitong SUN, Heechoon LEE, Peter GAAL, Wanshi CHEN, Tingfang JI
  • Publication number: 20240049198
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that provide for reduced timing between certain downlink communications and responsive uplink communications relative to certain legacy systems (e.g., legacy LTE systems). A user equipment (UE) or base station may be capable of operating using two or more timing configurations that each include an associated time period between receipt of a downlink communication (e.g., a grant of uplink resources or shared channel data) and a responsive uplink communication (e.g., an uplink transmission using the granted uplink resources or feedback of successful reception of the shared channel data). In cases where a UE or base station are capable of two or more timing configurations, a timing configuration for a transmission may be determined and the responsive uplink communication transmitted according to the determined timing configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Wanshi CHEN, Kianoush HOSSEINI, Peter GAAL, Srinivas YERRAMALLI, Hao XU, Jing SUN, Shimman Arvind PATEL, Aamod KHANDEKAR