Patents by Inventor Pratheep Bondalapati

Pratheep Bondalapati 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: 20230336258
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for automatic detection of interfering cells are disclosed. One method includes monitoring, by each of a plurality of user equipment, one or more characteristic of received wireless signals, wherein the plurality of user equipment is located within a coverage area of a plurality of macro-cells of a wireless network, collecting the monitored one or more characteristics the of the received wireless signal, and adjusting operation of a macro-cell or at least one sector of a sectorized supercell base station based on the collected monitored one or more characteristics of the received wireless signals, wherein at least one sector of the sectorized supercell base station has a wireless signal coverage area that overlaps with the coverage area of plurality of macro-cells of the wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Mustafa Emin Sahin, Abhishek Tiwari, Pratheep Bondalapati
  • Publication number: 20230328577
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving, by a receiver node of a wireless network, a packet sent by a transmitter node of the wireless network and identifying a packet type of the received packet. The method may also include determining, based on at least the identified packet type, a signal strength threshold and comparing a signal strength of the received packet with the signal strength threshold. The method may further include processing, by the receiver node, the received packet when the signal strength satisfies the signal strength threshold. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Po Han Huang, Ahmed Gamal Helmy Mohamed, Krishna Srikanth Gomadam, Pratheep Bondalapati
  • Patent number: 11758506
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for node selection of wireless networks are disclosed. One method includes obtaining locations available for placing nodes, wherein each of the locations include three dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Po Han Huang, Wuwei Cai, Pratheep Bondalapati
  • Patent number: 11546831
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for closing open loops of a wireless mesh network are disclosed. One method includes determining a representation of a wireless mesh network including nodes, and wireless links between the nodes, identifying end-site nodes of the wireless mesh network, determining open loops of the wireless mesh network that include the identified end-site nodes, generating a list of potential nodes for closing each of the open loops with the identified end-site node, testing one or more of the potential nodes, comprising testing performance of a wireless connection between each end-site node and the one or more potential nodes, wherein the performance includes a number of wireless hops around each closed loop formed including the end-site node and each potential node, selecting a closing node based on the testing, and providing a wireless link connection between one or more of the end-site nodes and the closing node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Po Han Huang, Pratheep Bondalapati, Krishna Srikanth Gomadam
  • Publication number: 20220408343
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for closing open loops of a wireless mesh network are disclosed. One method includes determining a representation of a wireless mesh network including nodes, and wireless links between the nodes, identifying end-site nodes of the wireless mesh network, determining open loops of the wireless mesh network that include the identified end-site nodes, generating a list of potential nodes for closing each of the open loops with the identified end-site node, testing one or more of the potential nodes, comprising testing performance of a wireless connection between each end-site node and the one or more potential nodes, wherein the performance includes a number of wireless hops around each closed loop formed including the end-site node and each potential node, selecting a closing node based on the testing, and providing a wireless link connection between one or more of the end-site nodes and the closing node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Po Han Huang, Pratheep Bondalapati, Krishna Srikanth Gomadam
  • Patent number: 11330445
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for adaptive sectoring of a wireless base station are disclosed. An apparatus includes a base station, wherein the base station includes a communication processing system operative to perform baseband processing of receive or transmit baseband signals. The base station further includes a plurality of antennas, wherein the plurality of antennas are connected to the communication processing system, wherein a plurality of subsets of the plurality of antennas operate to form a plurality of sectors, wherein each sector of each subset of the plurality of antennas is operative to cover a coverage area as determined by a beamforming pattern formed by a subset of the plurality of antennas of the sector, wherein the coverage area of one or more of the sectors is adaptively selected based on an existing cell site located within the coverage area of the one or more sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Tiwari, Pratheep Bondalapati
  • Patent number: 11272377
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for surveying a site are disclosed. One method includes transmitting, by a ground unit, wireless signals while a directionally adjustable beam-forming antenna of the ground unit changes a beam direction of the transmission of the wireless signals to N beam directions, wherein the directionally adjustable beam-forming antenna includes a known motion, receiving and measuring, by an elevated unit, a magnitude and phase of the wireless signals transmitted by the ground unit through the N beam directions, determining N complex receive power representations wherein each complex receive power representation includes the measured magnitude and phase of the received wireless signals corresponding with each of the N beam directions, and determining a receive power summation comprising performing a complex summation of the N complex receive power representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Pratheep Bondalapati, Abhishek Tiwari, Rohan Ramakrishnan, Duong Pham, Julius Kusuma, Farbod Tabatabai, Ali Yazdan
  • Patent number: 11223958
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for distributing resource block between interfering cells, are disclosed. One method includes allocating resource blocks to a plurality of macro-cells and a plurality of sectors of a supercell, wherein the supercell includes a wireless communication cell that provides wireless coverage to a larger region than the plurality of macro-cells and includes the plurality of sectors, wherein each of the macro-cells provide wireless coverage that at least partially overlaps with a region of wireless coverage of the supercell, wherein the supercell includes one or more supercell sector coverage areas that are interfered by at least one macro-cell. The allocating the resource blocks includes determining which of the plurality of macro-cells wirelessly interfere with which of the plurality of sectors, and determining, for each interfered sector, a total unmet demand of the interfered sector and interfering macro-cells for a coverage area of the interfered sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mustafa Emin Sahin, Abhishek Tiwari, Pratheep Bondalapati
  • Patent number: 11223402
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for assisted channel approximation wireless communication of a supercell base station are disclosed. One apparatus includes a wireless network, wherein the wireless network includes a supercell base station comprising a plurality of antennas, a plurality of user devices, wherein the plurality of user devices is located too far away to support omnidirectional electromagnetic communication with the supercell base station, and a separate communication device located proximate to the plurality of user devices. The separate communication device operates to receive omnidirectional wireless signals from the supercell base station, characterized a transmission channel between the supercell base station and the separate communication device, and directionally transmit the characterized channel back to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Pratheep Bondalapati, Abhishek Tiwari, Srishti Saraswat, Mustafa Emin Sahin
  • Patent number: 10848984
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for adaptive sectoring of a wireless base station are disclosed. An apparatus includes a base station, wherein the base station includes a communication processing system operative to perform baseband processing of receive or transmit baseband signals. The base station further includes a plurality of antennas, wherein the plurality of antennas are connected to the communication processing system, wherein a plurality of subsets of the plurality of antennas operate to form a plurality of sectors, wherein each sector of each subset of the plurality of antennas is operative to cover a selectable coverage area as determined by a width of a beamforming pattern formed by a subset of the plurality of antennas of the sector, wherein the selectable coverage area of each of the sectors is adaptively selected based on a data demand at different locations within the coverage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Tiwari, Pratheep Bondalapati
  • Patent number: 10750373
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for a site survey tool are disclosed. One site survey tool includes an elevated platform comprising a directionally adjustable beam-forming antenna, and operates to adjust an elevation (z coordinate) of the adjustable beam-forming antenna, a ground unit that operates to adjust to a plurality of locations (x and y coordinates). The elevated platform and the ground unit operate to determine an angular spread boundary of a supercell base station, determine a power azimuth angular spectrum threshold needed in order for the supercell base station to support adaptive sectorization, estimate a power azimuth angular spectrum of a site, and determine that the site supports the supercell base station if the estimated power azimuth angular spectrum of the site is less than the power azimuth angular spectrum threshold at the angular spread boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Pratheep Bondalapati, Abhishek Tiwari, Francesco Marsili, Qi Tang
  • Patent number: 10644766
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for MIMO inter-stream interference cancellation are disclosed. One method includes determining a channel matrix between a plurality of transmitting antennas of a transmitter and a plurality of receiving antennas of a receiver, determining a plurality of channel propagation delays based on a propagation delay between each of the plurality of transmitting antennas and each of the plurality of receiving antennas, determining differences in the plurality of channel propagation delays, preprocessing, by the transmitter, streams of symbols for each transmitting antenna for transmission based on the differences in the plurality of channel propagation delays and based on the channel matrix, and transmitting, by the transmitter, the preprocessed symbol streams through the plurality of transmitting antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Qu, Sam Padinjaremannil Alex, Ali Yazdan, Abhishek Tiwari, Yan Yan, Hongyu Zhou, Pratheep Bondalapati
  • Patent number: 10524134
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for a site survey tool are disclosed. One site survey tool includes an elevated platform, wherein the elevated platform includes a directionally adjustable beam-forming antenna, wherein the elevated platform operates to adjust an elevation of the adjustable beam-forming antenna, and wherein the elevated platform operates to transmit or receive wireless signals while the directionally adjustable beam-forming antenna changes a beam direction. Further, a ground unit transmits wireless signals to the elevated platform or receives wireless signals from the elevated platform while the directionally adjustable beam-forming antenna changes the beam direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Pratheep Bondalapati, Abhishek Tiwari, Francesco Marsili, Qi Tang
  • Publication number: 20190013845
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for MIMO inter-stream interference cancellation are disclosed. One method includes determining a channel matrix between a plurality of transmitting antennas of a transmitter and a plurality of receiving antennas of a receiver, determining a plurality of channel propagation delays based on a propagation delay between each of the plurality of transmitting antennas and each of the plurality of receiving antennas, determining differences in the plurality of channel propagation delays, preprocessing, by the transmitter, streams of symbols for each transmitting antenna for transmission based on the differences in the plurality of channel propagation delays and based on the channel matrix, and transmitting, by the transmitter, the preprocessed symbol streams through the plurality of transmitting antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Qi Qu, Sam Padinjaremannil Alex, Ali YAZDAN, Abhishek Tiwari, Yan Yan, Hongyu Zhou, Pratheep Bondalapati
  • Patent number: 10084518
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for MIMO inter-stream interference cancellation are disclosed. One method includes determining a channel matrix between a plurality of transmitting antennas of a transmitter and a plurality of receiving antennas of a receiver, determining a plurality of channel propagation delays based on a propagation delay between each of the plurality of transmitting antennas and each of the plurality of receiving antennas, preprocessing, by the transmitter, streams of symbols for each transmitting antenna for transmission based on the plurality of channel propagation delays and based on the channel matrix, and transmitting, by the transmitter, the preprocessed symbol streams through the plurality of transmitting antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Qu, Sam Padinjaremannil Alex, Ali Yazdan Panah, Abhishek Tiwari, Yan Yan, Hongyu Zhou, Pratheep Bondalapati
  • Publication number: 20180183501
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for MIMO inter-stream interference cancellation are disclosed. One method includes determining a channel matrix between a plurality of transmitting antennas of a transmitter and a plurality of receiving antennas of a receiver, determining a plurality of channel propagation delays based on a propagation delay between each of the plurality of transmitting antennas and each of the plurality of receiving antennas, preprocessing, by the transmitter, streams of symbols for each transmitting antenna for transmission based on the plurality of channel propagation delays and based on the channel matrix, and transmitting, by the transmitter, the preprocessed symbol streams through the plurality of transmitting antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Qi Qu, Sam Padinjaremannil Alex, Ali YAZDAN PANAH, Abhishek Tiwari, Yan Yan, Hongyu Zhou, Pratheep Bondalapati
  • Patent number: 10009051
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for analog spatial multiplexing are disclosed. One apparatus includes a receiver, wherein the receiver includes a plurality of antennas operative to receive a plurality of wireless signals, a plurality of tunable time delays, and a plurality of frequency response equalizers, wherein a time delay of each of the tunable time delays is adjusted based on a feedback of measurements of one or more pilot tones of more than one output of the plurality of frequency response equalizers. The receiver further includes a plurality of frequency up-converters generating a plurality of frequency up-converted signals, a MIMO processor receiving the plurality of frequency up-converted signals, wherein the MIMO processor adjusts a gain and phase of the of the frequency up-converted signals based on the measurements of the pilot tones, and a plurality of frequency down-converters receiving and frequency down-converting output signals from the MIMO processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Yan Yan, Abhishek Tiwari, Pratheep Bondalapati, Chiyun Xia, Tobias Gerard Tiecke, Qi Tang