Patents by Inventor Raghu Narayan

Raghu Narayan 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: 11924770
    Abstract: A UE may calculate an allocation of a transmission power for a first uplink transmission on a first uplink channel and at least one second uplink transmission on at least one second uplink channel, the transmission power being allocated in each symbol of a plurality of symbols in a slot. The UE may detect a transmission power change in the allocation of the transmission power in the slot for at least one of the first uplink transmission or the at least one second uplink transmission. The UE may determine whether to adjust the allocation of the transmission power for the at least one of the first uplink transmission or the at least one second uplink transmission to eliminate the transmission power change in the slot for the at least one of the first uplink transmission or the at least one second uplink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Brahim Saadi, Dinesh Kumar Devineni, Rajeev Malasani, Anoop Ramakrishna, Ruhua He, Enoch Shiao-Kuang Lu, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 11917461
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify, while camped on a first cell associated with a first radio access technology (RAT), a power management level for a communication using a second RAT, wherein the power management level indicates an available power for the communication using the second RAT, and wherein the available power is based at least in part on an exposure rate or an absorption rate. The UE may delay a transmission of a measurement report on the first cell based at least in part on the identification of the power management level. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Raghu Narayan Challa, Brian Clarke Banister, Troy Curtiss, Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt, Ramesh Chandra Chirala, Lin Lu
  • Patent number: 11910327
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be configured to determine a PSD based on a transmission power associated with transmission of an uplink signal. The apparatus may be configured to select one of a first beam or a second beam for the transmission of the uplink signal based on the PSD. The second beam may be wider than the first beam, and may be generated by a single antenna element of the apparatus. The apparatus may be configured to transmit the uplink signal using the selected one of the first beam or the second beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ruhua He, Shrenik Patel, Sang-June Park, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Publication number: 20240057147
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method may include a user equipment (UE) identifying a priority scheme for a set of signals including a first set of synchronization signal block (SSB) signals associated with a first frequency range, a second set of SSB signals associated with a second frequency range, and a paging signal associated with the first frequency range. The UE may then monitor, via a narrowband processor of the UE and based on the priority scheme, a set of time resources for one or more of the first set of SSB signals, the second set of SSB signals, or the paging signal. The narrowband processor may be configured to process signals received via the first frequency range and the second frequency range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Kang Gao, Jun Zhu, Yong Li, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Jun Hu, Heechoon Lee, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Publication number: 20240048221
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first device may select a first beam and a second beam from a set of beams for communicating with a second device. The first device may perform a beam refinement procedure of the first beam to generate a first multicast autonomous beam refinement tree. The first device may determine a trigger for performing the beam refinement procedure of the second beam, and the first device may generate a second multicast autonomous beam refinement tree. The first device may communicate with the second device using the second beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Ting Kong, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Rahul Malik, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 11894907
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to wireless communications in a system are provided. A user equipment (UE) may determine a plurality of antenna configurations for a plurality of channel frequencies. The UE may determine a set of signal strengths for at least one beam received at one or more antenna configurations of the plurality of antenna configurations for at least one of the channel frequencies. The UE may select, based on the set of signal strengths, a first antenna configuration of the plurality of antenna configurations. After selection of the first antenna configuration, the UE may communicate with a base station, in one or more channel frequencies based on the first antenna configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Farhad Meshkati, Jyothi Kiran Vattikonda, Thomas Christol, Raghu Narayan Challa, Mouaffac Ambriss, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Feng Lu, Ting Kong, Uzma Khan Qazi
  • Patent number: 11881922
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify, for each of one or more candidate beams in a set of candidate beams, a downlink throughput, an uplink throughput, a downlink power consumption, and an uplink power consumption. The UE may select a beam based at least in part on: at least one of the downlink throughput or the uplink throughput, at least one of the downlink power consumption or the uplink power consumption, and one or more throughput thresholds. The UE may communicate using the selected beam. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa, Brian Clarke Banister
  • Publication number: 20240022281
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a target mode in which to operate an L-shaped antenna module that includes a first antenna subarray on a first side of the L-shaped antenna module and a second antenna subarray on a second side of the L-shaped antenna module. The UE may configure the L-shaped antenna module to operate in the target mode. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Vasanthan RAGHAVAN, Mohammad Ali TASSOUDJI, Raghu Narayan CHALLA, Tao LUO, Junyi LI
  • Publication number: 20240014877
    Abstract: An apparatus (e.g., a UE) may be configured to configure a plurality of orthogonal scrambling codes corresponding to a plurality of antenna panels of the UE and perform, for a first SSB transmission, a beam sweeping operation over a set of first beams for each antenna panel in the plurality of antenna panels, where, for a transmitted first signal in each symbol of the first SSB transmission, each antenna panel in the plurality of antenna panels receives the transmitted first signal via a beam in the set of first beams using an orthogonal scrambling code in the plurality of orthogonal scrambling codes corresponding to the antenna panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jun ZHU, Kang GAO, Mihir Vijay LAGHATE, Raghu Narayan CHALLA
  • Patent number: 11871395
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may measure a beam, according to a measurement configuration, to determine a channel condition value of the beam, modify the channel condition value based at least in part on at least one of one or more beam characterizations, a derivation of a beamforming gain value, or an estimation of the beamforming gain value, and transmit, to a base station, a measurement report indicating the modified channel condition value. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yongle Wu, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Farhad Meshkati, Raghu Narayan Challa, Jyothi Kiran Vattikonda
  • Patent number: 11871383
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to monitoring and/or measuring synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) in one or more beam directions based on timing offsets associated with the beam directions are provided. In some aspects, a method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes: receiving, from a wireless communication device, a synchronization signal block (SSB); and measuring, based on timing offsets for each of a plurality of beams of the SSB, one or multiple beams of the SSB. In some instances, the UE determines a number of beams of the SSB to measure based on the timing offsets for each of the plurality of beams of the SSB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kang Gao, Jun Zhu, Yong Li, Nagaraju Gajula, Jyothi Kiran Vattikonda, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 11855739
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may establish a communication link using a first serving beam on a secondary component carrier (SCC). The UE may identify a link failure associated with the first serving beam. The UE may transmit an out-of-range indication associated with the first serving beam in association with the link failure. The UE may report measurement information for one or more candidate serving beams. The UE may receive an indication of a second serving beam from the one or more candidate serving beams. The UE may switch to the second serving beam for the SCC. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yongle Wu, Girish Khandelwal, Srinivasan Mecheri Govindarajan, Priyanka Yenigalla, Shanshan Wang, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 11849397
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communications device may transmit, to a second communications, a request to update a phase shifter configuration. The first communications device may receive, from the second communications device and in response to the request, a response accepting the request to update the phase shifter configuration. The first communications device may then transmit, to the second communications device, an uplink transmission in accordance with the updated phase shifter configuration based on receiving the response. The first communications device may include a first user equipment (UE) and the second communications device may include a second UE or a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Kang Yang, Raghu Narayan Challa, Shrenik Patel
  • Publication number: 20230403089
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication and testing. In some aspects, a device may receive information identifying a mount orientation of a wireless communication device, wherein the mount orientation indicates an orientation of a coordinate system of the wireless communication device relative to a coordinate system of a positioner. The device may capture measurement information at each position of a set of positions of the wireless communication device, wherein the set of positions comprises positions of the wireless communication device as the wireless communication device is rotated around an axis by the positioner, and wherein the measurement information is captured based at least in part on the mount orientation. The device may provide information identifying the measurement information. Some techniques and apparatuses described herein may use the measurement information to generate a codebook for beam generation. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Mingming CAI, Raghu Narayan CHALLA, Revathi SUNDARA RAGHAVAN, Michael BURKE, Abhilash BANGALORE RAVI, Mihir Vijay LAGHATE, Shrenik PATEL, Sang-June PARK, Mohammad Ali TASSOUDJI, Sudarsan KRISHNAN, Vasanthan RAGHAVAN, Siddharth KAMATH
  • Publication number: 20230397023
    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 single rank reference signal. The UE may obtain, for multiple candidate beams, one or more single rank measurements from the single rank reference signal. The UE may identify, for each respective candidate beam included among the multiple candidate beams and based at least in part on the one or more single rank measurements obtained from the single rank reference signal for the respective candidate beam, a multiple rank spectral efficiency metric. The UE may identify, from among the multiple candidate beams and based at least in part on the multiple rank spectral efficiency metric associated with each respective candidate beam, a beam to use to communicate with the network node. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Jun ZHU, Yuan GAO, Raghu Narayan CHALLA
  • Publication number: 20230396309
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, using a first reception port and a second reception port, at least one reference signal. The UE may select, based at least in part on a port selection diversity metric associated with the at least one reference signal, a selected reception port of the first reception port and the second reception port. The UE may receive a communication using the selected reception port. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Jun ZHU, Mihir Vijay LAGHATE, Raghu Narayan CHALLA
  • Patent number: 11838987
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, control signaling indicating a capability of the UE to apply an amplitude control procedure to one or more antenna elements for beamforming and indicating that the UE is applying the amplitude control procedure. The UE may receive a control message scheduling transmission of an uplink message. The UE may generate a signal including the uplink message using the amplitude control procedure, which may adjust one or more amplitudes of the signal. The UE may transmit the signal via the one or more antenna elements. In some cases, UE may indicate an amount of power loss in the signal based on the amplitude control procedure, and the base station may transmit downlink transmissions using a lower order modulation and coding scheme or an applied power boost to compensate for the power loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tao Luo, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Publication number: 20230388001
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify, for each of one or more candidate beams in a set of candidate beams, a downlink throughput, an uplink throughput, a downlink power consumption, and an uplink power consumption. The UE may select a beam based at least in part on: at least one of the downlink throughput or the uplink throughput, at least one of the downlink power consumption or the uplink power consumption, and one or more throughput thresholds. The UE may communicate using the selected beam. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Jun ZHU, Mihir Vijay LAGHATE, Raghu Narayan CHALLA, Brian Clarke BANISTER
  • Patent number: 11825459
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes receiving, by a UE, one or more configuration messages indicating synchronization signals (SS) and physical broadcast channel (PBCH) block measurement timing configuration (SMTC) parameters. The SMTC parameters indicate SMTC windows associated with reception of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) by the UE from a base station. The method further includes, based on detecting one or more trigger conditions, transitioning, by the UE, from an inactive state to an active state to receive, during a time interval distinct from the SMTC windows, one or more SSBs from the base station. The method further includes performing, by the UE, one or more beam management operations based on the one or more SSBs received during the time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Yong Li, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Publication number: 20230362889
    Abstract: Some techniques and apparatuses described herein provide sub-grouping of paging groups of user equipment (UEs) based at least in part on one or more parameters associated with a UE, such as a UE type of the UE or a measured channel condition at the UE. A base station may assign the UE to a paging sub-group based at least in part on the information associated with the one or more parameters. In some aspects, the base station may determine paging transmission parameters for the UE based at least in part on the information associated with the one or more parameters, such as a paging early indication (PEI) location, a beam where a PEI and/or a paging message is to be transmitted, a number of repetitions for a paging occasion, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Huilin XU, Raghu Narayan CHALLA, Peng CHENG, Yuwei REN