Patents by Inventor Pierre Bertrand

Pierre Bertrand 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: 11184905
    Abstract: Wireless communication between a base station and at least one user equipment comprises the following. Each user equipment periodically measures channel quality of communication with the base station and transmits a channel quality indicator to the base station. The base station schedules communication with the at least one user equipment based upon the periodically transmitted channel quality indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pierre Bertrand, Jing Jiang, Michael Livshitz
  • Publication number: 20210307001
    Abstract: A method for communicating over a wireless backhaul channel comprising generating a radio frame comprising a plurality of time slots, wherein each time slot comprises a plurality of symbols in time and a plurality of sub-carriers in a system bandwidth, broadcasting a broadcast channel signal comprising a transmission schedule to a plurality of remote units in a number of consecutive sub-carriers centered about a direct current (DC) sub-carrier in at least one of the time slots in the radio frame regardless of the system bandwidth, and transmitting a downlink (DL) control channel signal and a DL data channel signal to a first of the remote units, wherein the DL data channel signal is transmitted by employing a single carrier block transmission scheme comprising a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) spreading for frequency diversity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: June Chul Roh, Pierre Bertrand, Srinath Hosur, Vijay Pothukuchi, Mohamed Farouk Mansour
  • Publication number: 20210300574
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system including at least first airmover, an electric motor configured to at least partially power the at least first airmover, wherein the first airmover includes a propeller having at least a first position configured to provide thrust to the aircraft and a second position configured to recharge a power source, wherein the second position is a reverse windmilling position, and a heat engine configured to at least partially power the first air mover or a second air mover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Jean Thomassin, Pierre Bertrand, Todd A. Spierling, Chad M. Henze
  • Patent number: 11127102
    Abstract: Systems and methods for describing, simulating and/or optimizing spaceborne systems and missions. Configurations for spaceborne systems are generated and validated based on simulation output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Loft Orbital Technologies S.A.S
    Inventors: Pierre-Damien Vaujour, Lucas Bremond, Pieter van Duijn, Pierre Bertrand
  • Publication number: 20210251017
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a random access method and a terminal. The method of the present disclosure includes: when non-contention random access is initiated and current uplink and downlink Band Width Parts BWPs are inconsistent with uplink and downlink BWPs configured by a base station for non-contention random access, setting, by the terminal, active BWPs as an uplink BWP and a downlink BWP having the same number, and performing contention random access on the active BWPs; or setting, by the terminal, the active BWPs as the uplink BWP and the downlink BWP configured by the base station for non-contention random access, and performing the non-contention random access on the active BWPs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Li CHEN, Pierre BERTRAND
  • Publication number: 20210250976
    Abstract: A method of determining an ambiguous period, a terminal and a network-side device are provided. The method includes: determining, by a terminal, the ambiguous period, where the ambiguous period corresponds to a processing time for a PDCCH, or the ambiguous period corresponds to a processing time for an MAC CE; and determining by the terminal, according to a control message which is received, whether to send an uplink signal at a current time, where a difference between a receiving time of the control message and the current time is greater than or equal to the ambiguous period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yali ZHAO, Pierre BERTRAND, Li CHEN
  • Publication number: 20210242996
    Abstract: A transmission of information from a secondary to a primary node occurs in a plurality of transmission instances which are logical time durations. A secondary node receives an allocation of periodic transmission instances for a scheduling request indicator (SRI) and an allocation if periodic transmission instances for a sounding reference signal (SRS). In a particular transmission instance allocated for the transmission of both SRS and SRI, the secondary node transmits the SRI without transmitting the SRS if the SRI indicates a pending scheduling request; otherwise, the secondary node transmits the SRS without transmitting the SRI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Pierre Bertrand, Zukang Shen, Jing Jiang
  • Publication number: 20210185666
    Abstract: A method for allocating resources for a scheduling request indicator (SRI) is disclosed. An SRI cycle period for use by user equipment (UE) within a cell is transmitted from a NodeB in a cell to UE within the cell. The NodeB transmits a specific SRI subframe offset and an index value to the particular UE within the cell. The specific SRI subframe offset and the index value enable the UE to determine a unique combination of cyclic shift, RS orthogonal cover, data orthogonal cover, and resource block number for the UE to use as a unique physical resource for an SRI in the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Pierre Bertrand, Zukang Shen, Tarik Muharemovic
  • Patent number: 11013021
    Abstract: A system information obtaining method, a UE and a network side device are provided. The method includes: receive first scheduling information of on-demand SI sent by a network side device; obtain the on-demand SI sent by the network side device based on the first scheduling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yuan He, Fangli Xu, Pierre Bertrand
  • Patent number: 11006348
    Abstract: A transmission method of system information, a user equipment, a network side device, a system and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving, by the UE, system information sent by a network side device, the system information is part of system information of the network side device; sending, by the UE, a request message to the network side device, wherein the request message is used to request the system information required by the UE; receiving by the UE, the system information required by the UE in on-demand system information sent by the network side device, wherein the on-demand system information is another part of system information of the network side device other than the part of system information of the network side device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yuan He, Wei Bao, Pierre Bertrand
  • Patent number: 10999702
    Abstract: A method for managing a wireless system area, a terminal and a base station are provided. A new location management area for the terminal in an inactive connection state/RRC idle state is defined. The process of moving among different nodes in the area is simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Ying Wang, Pierre Bertrand, Wei Bao, Jiamin Liu
  • Patent number: 10985887
    Abstract: A transmission of information from a secondary to a primary node occurs in a plurality of transmission instances which are logical time durations. A secondary node receives an allocation of periodic transmission instances for a scheduling request indicator (SRI) and an allocation if periodic transmission instances for a sounding reference signal (SRS). In a particular transmission instance allocated for the transmission of both SRS and SRI, the secondary node transmits the SRI without transmitting the SRS if the SRI indicates a pending scheduling request; otherwise, the secondary node transmits the SRS without transmitting the SRI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pierre Bertrand, Zukang Shen, Jing Jiang
  • Publication number: 20210110502
    Abstract: Systems and methods for describing, simulating and/or optimizing spaceborne systems and missions. Configurations for spaceborne systems are generated and validated based on simulation output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Pierre-Damien Vaujour, Lucas Bremond, Pieter van Duijn, Pierre Bertrand
  • Patent number: 10972923
    Abstract: An information processing method and device are provided. The information processing method includes: obtaining link state information of a target link; determining whether link exception exists in the target link or not according to the link state information; and when the link exception is determined to exist in the target link, transmitting link exception indication information to a primary node, wherein the link exception indication information is used to indicate to the primary node that the link exception exists in the target link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jiamin Liu, Pierre Bertrand
  • Publication number: 20210083746
    Abstract: An information transmission method, an apparatus, a first device, and a second device are provided. The information transmission method includes: transmitting a Beam Failure Recovery (BFR) request to a second device in time slot N, and performing a preset reception scheme on control information on a first Control Resource Set (CORESET) starting from time slot N+K; wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 0, and K is an integer greater than or equal to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Qiuping HUANG, Runhua CHEN, Qiubin GAO, Pierre BERTRAND
  • Patent number: 10925042
    Abstract: A method for allocating resources for a scheduling request indicator (SRI) is disclosed. An SRI cycle period for use by user equipment (UE) within a cell is transmitted from a NodeB in a cell to UE within the cell. The NodeB transmits a specific SRI subframe offset and an index value to the particular UE within the cell. The specific SRI subframe offset and the index value enable the UE to determine a unique combination of cyclic shift, RS orthogonal cover, data orthogonal cover, and resource block number for the UE to use as a unique physical resource for an SRI in the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pierre Bertrand, Zukang Shen, Tarik Muharemovic
  • Publication number: 20210037566
    Abstract: User equipment (UE)-initiated accesses within a cellular network are optimized to account for cell size and to reduce signaling overhead. A fixed set of preamble parameter configurations for use across a complete range of cell sizes within the cellular network is established and stored within each UE. A UE located in a given cell receives a configuration number transmitted from a nodeB serving the cell, the configuration number being indicative of a size of the cell. The UE selects a preamble parameter configuration from the fixed set of preamble parameter configurations in response to the received configuration number and then transmits a preamble from the UE to the nodeB using the preamble parameter configuration indicated by the configuration number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Pierre Bertrand, Jing Jiang
  • Publication number: 20210014920
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a beam failure recovery method and a UE. The beam failure recovery method includes: performing beam failure recovery using non-contention-based random access; and performing the beam failure recovery using contention-based random access in the case that the non-contention-based random access fails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Li CHEN, Pierre BERTRAND
  • Publication number: 20210007133
    Abstract: A transport block size (TBS) of a first uplink message (RACH Msg3) transmitted on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) during a random access procedure in a User Equipment (UE) accessing a radio access network may be determined by receiving a pathloss threshold parameter. A downlink pathloss value indicative of radio link conditions between the UE and a base station (eNB) serving the UE is then determined. A smaller value of TBS is selected from a set of TBS values if the determined pathloss value is greater than an operating power level of the UE minus the pathloss threshold parameter. A larger value of TBS is selected if the pathloss value is less than the operating power level of the UE minus the pathloss threshold parameter and the TBS required to transmit the RACH Msg3 exceeds the smaller TBS value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Pierre Bertrand, Shantanu Kangude, Zukang Shen
  • Patent number: 10880875
    Abstract: A method for communicating over a wireless backhaul channel comprising generating a radio frame comprising a plurality of time slots, wherein each time slot comprises a plurality of symbols in time and a plurality of sub-carriers in a system bandwidth, broadcasting a broadcast channel signal comprising a transmission schedule to a plurality of remote units in a number of consecutive sub-carriers centered about a direct current (DC) sub-carrier in at least one of the time slots in the radio frame regardless of the system bandwidth, and transmitting a downlink (DL) control channel signal and a DL data channel signal to a first of the remote units, wherein the DL data channel signal is transmitted by employing a single carrier block transmission scheme comprising a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) spreading for frequency diversity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: June Chui Roh, Pierre Bertrand, Srinath Hosur, Vijay Pothukuchi, Mohamed Farouk Mansour