Patents by Inventor Raju Hormis

Raju Hormis 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: 20200382200
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for wireless communication of a phased array repeater. The apparatus may receive, from a base station, a signal for a user equipment (UE) at a first frequency. The apparatus may also adjust, at the phased array repeater, the first frequency of the signal to a second frequency, where the first frequency may be adjusted by heterodyning. Additionally, the apparatus may transmit the signal to the UE at the second frequency. The present disclosure also relates to methods and apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus may transmit a signal for a UE at a first frequency. Further, the apparatus may determine control information for tuning a frequency adjustment of the signal at a repeater. The apparatus may also transmit, to the repeater, the control information for tuning the frequency adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Raju HORMIS, Junyi LI, Navid ABEDINI, Juergen CEZANNE, Ozge KOYMEN
  • Publication number: 20200366363
    Abstract: In some aspects, a base station may transmit a configuration that indicates a resource set to be used by a millimeter wave repeater for beam management, wherein the resource set includes a first set of resources to be used by the millimeter wave repeater to receive one or more reference signals from a first node and a second set of resources to be used by the millimeter wave repeater to relay the one or more reference signals to a second node. The base station may identify a first beam pair and a second beam pair based at least in part on the one or more reference signals received and/or relayed in accordance with the configuration, wherein the first beam pair is between the millimeter wave repeater and the first node and the second beam pair is between the millimeter wave repeater and the second node. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junyi LI, Navid ABEDINI, Raju HORMIS, Juergen CEZANNE, Ozge KOYMEN
  • Publication number: 20200367257
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A repeater may apply a frequency translation and a phase rotation adjustment to a transmitted signal to avoid radio frequency interference. For instance, wireless repeater may receive a signal from a first device on a first carrier frequency. The wireless repeater may identify one or more interfering signals affecting the reception or transmission of the signal. The wireless repeater may then perform a frequency translation from the first carrier frequency to the second carrier frequency, and may also apply a phase rotation adjustment corresponding to the frequency translation. The wireless repeater may retransmit the signal including the phase rotation adjustment over the second carrier frequency to a second device in the wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Raju Hormis, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini, Juergen Cezanne, Ozge Koymen
  • Publication number: 20200366544
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A phase rotation adjustment may be applied in cases where a transmitted signal is heterodyned. For instance, a device (e.g., a base station, a user equipment (UE), a wireless repeater) may determine that a receiving device may receive a transmitted signal at a carrier frequency that is different from a carrier frequency used by a transmitting device (e.g., such as in the case of a wireless repeater relaying the signal from the transmitting device to the receiving device). A phase rotation adjustment may be applied by the device (e.g., the base station, UE, or wireless repeater) to account for the heterodyning. The phase rotation adjustment may be based on the carrier frequency used by the receiving device to receive the signal. In some cases, a receiving device may also apply the phase rotation adjustment following the demodulation of a received signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Raju Hormis, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini, Juergen Cezanne, Ozge Koymen
  • Publication number: 20200358500
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for changing a beam pair utilized by a user equipment (UE) for communicating over a full-duplex frequency channel. The method includes establishing full-duplex communication with a base station (BS) utilizing a first beam pair comprising a first uplink beam and a first downlink beam utilized by the UE for the full-duplex communication. The method also includes transmitting a first signal to the BS, the first signal comprising a request to change the first beam pair. The method also includes receiving, via the first downlink beam, a second signal responsive to the request, the second signal configured to enable the UE to change from the first beam pair to a second beam pair and maintain full-duplex communication with the BS, wherein the second beam pair includes one or more of a second uplink beam or a second downlink beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Jung RYU, Tianyang BAI, Kiran VENUGOPAL, Makesh Pravin JOHN WILSON, Tao LUO, Raju HORMIS, Junyi LI
  • Publication number: 20200358501
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide a repeater for beamforming a received signal at a millimeter wave (mmW) radio frequency via one or more scan angles or beamforming directions and then retransmitting and beamforming the signal at the mmW radio frequency. Repeaters may include analog and digital components for downconverting on the received signal to reduce a frequency of the signal from the mmW frequency to an intermediate frequency (IF) or baseband frequency, and then filtering the downconverted signal to reduce interference. The filtering may include digital filtering or a combination of analog and digital filtering, in which a set of filter coefficients for the digital filtering is selected based on beamforming parameters used to receive the signal, retransmit the signal, or both. The repeater may then upconvert the filtered signal back to the mmW frequency for the retransmission of the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Raju Hormis, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini, Juergen Cezanne, Ozge Koymen
  • Publication number: 20200344813
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may receive a random access channel (RACH) message. The base station may determine, based at least in part on the RACH message, whether the RACH message was transmitted directly to the base station by a user equipment (UE) or whether the RACH message was relayed from the UE to the base station via a millimeter wave repeater. The base station may perform a beam management procedure based at least in part on the determination. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Junyi LI, Navid ABEDINI, Raju HORMIS, Juergen CEZANNE, Ozge KOYMEN
  • Publication number: 20200336168
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide a repeater for beamforming a received signal at a first radio frequency via one or more scan angles or beamforming directions and then retransmitting and beamforming the transmitted signal at the first radio frequency via one or more scan angles or beamforming directions. Repeaters may perform heterodyning or downconverting on the received signal to reduce a frequency of the signal from the first frequency to an intermediate frequency (IF), and then band-pass filter the IF signal around a desired center frequency. The repeater may then heterodyne or upconvert the filtered IF signal back to the first frequency for the retransmission of the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Raju Hormis, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Juergen Cezanne, Ozge Koymen
  • Publication number: 20200322037
    Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to systems, devices, apparatuses, products, and methods for wireless communication. For example, a communication system may include a repeater having a first communication interface that receives a control message that indicates a measurement configuration for a second communication interface of the repeater that is different than the first communication interface. The repeater receives, via the second communication interface, a first signal at the repeater from a first device. The repeater also measures a power metric associated with the first signal based on the measurement configuration. In some implementations, a base station or another device (e.g., UE), may communicate with the repeater and take one or more actions based on the power metric measured by the repeater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Navid ABEDINI, Raju Hormis, Junyi Li, Juergen Cezanne, Ozge Koymen
  • Publication number: 20200314601
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless repeater may receive a unicast transmission and may relay the unicast transmission as a multicast transmission to a set of user equipments (UEs). Transmitting the multicast transmission may involve retransmitting the unicast transmission or a signal derived from the unicast transmission in each of a set of beamforming directions. The multicast transmission may be transmitted over multiple antenna arrays or a single antenna array associated with a Butler matrix. Additionally or alternatively, the wireless repeater may receive transmissions from multiple UEs; may form an aggregated signal associated with the received transmissions; and may transmit a unicast transmission associated with the aggregated signal, such as to a base station. The multiple UE transmissions may be received over multiple antenna arrays or over a single antenna array associated with a Butler matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Raju Hormis, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini, Juergen Cezanne, Ozge Koymen
  • Publication number: 20200295914
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques leverage user equipment (UE) functionality to repeat wireless signals received from a base station to one or more other UEs and received from one or more other UEs to the base station. The repeating UE receives, during a transmission time interval reserved for one of uplink communication or downlink communication, a signal from a first device. The UE operates in a time division duplex network. The UE routes the signal, via a radio-frequency (RF) transmission path from an RF receive chain of the UE to an RF transmit chain of the UE. The UE retransmits the signal to a second device during the transmission time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Raju Hormis, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini, Juergen Cezanne, Ozge Koymen
  • Publication number: 20200280355
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may receive, via a first interface of a repeater, information associated with a second interface of the repeater. The base station may determine a configuration for the second interface of the repeater based at least in part on the information associated with the second interface, and may communicate the configuration for the second interface of the repeater via the first interface. In some aspects, a repeater may transmit, to a base station via a first interface, information associated with a second interface of the repeater. The repeater may receive, via the first interface, a configuration for the second interface, and may configure the second interface based at least in part on the configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Navid ABEDINI, Raju HORMIS, Junyi LI, Juergen CEZANNE, Ozge KOYMEN
  • Publication number: 20200280127
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless repeater beamforms a receive signal, at a first antenna array. The repeater retransmits, via a second antenna array, a beamformed signal. The repeater may adjust the receive and/or transmit beam in order to avoid signal interference caused by the retransmission. The repeater may monitor an output of a power amplifier (PA) in a signal processing chain and adjust a gain to a PA driver to the PA and/or a gain to one or more low noise amplifiers (LNAs) in the signal processing chain in order to improve or maintain transmission stability in the repeater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Raju Hormis, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini, Juergen Cezanne, Ozge Koymen
  • Publication number: 20200280365
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a repeater may transmit, via a first interface, information associated with a capability of the repeater to provide a wideband signal on a second interface. The repeater may receive via the first interface, a configuration for transmitting the wideband signal on the second interface, and may transmit the wideband signal on the second interface based at least in part on the configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Navid ABEDINI, Raju HORMIS, Junyi LI, Juergen CEZANNE, Ozge KOYMEN
  • Publication number: 20200280887
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may receive, from a repeater having a first interface and a second interface, information associated with one or more capabilities of the repeater, the second interface being different from the first interface. The base station may determine an operation mode for the repeater based at least in part on the information associated with the one or more capabilities of the repeater, and may communicate with the repeater via the first interface or the second interface. In some aspects, a repeater may transmit, to a base station via a first interface, information associated with one or more capabilities of the repeater, and may communicate via the first interface or via a second interface in accordance with an indicated operation mode, the second interface being different from the first interface. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Navid ABEDINI, Raju HORMIS, Junyi LI, Juergen CEZANNE, Ozge KOYMEN
  • Patent number: 10728015
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine at least one of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) parameter associated with the UE or a modem function associated with a modem of the UE. The UE may control a loop bandwidth of a phase-locked loop (PLL), used to generate a tunable radio frequency (RF) carrier frequency used by the UE to communicate synchronously with a base station, based at least in part on at least one of the OFDM parameter or the modem function. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Raju Hormis, Pavel Monat, Robert Douglas
  • Publication number: 20200195310
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a millimeter wave repeater may communicate with a base station using a first set of antennas and a first beamforming configuration for the first set of antennas, the first beamforming configuration being selected from a beamforming codebook that includes multiple beamforming configurations; and communicate with one or more user equipments (UEs) using a second set of antennas and a second beamforming configuration for the second set of antennas, the second beamforming configuration being a fixed configuration that does not change for different communications between the second set of antennas and the one or more UEs. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Navid ABEDINI, Junyi LI, Raju HORMIS, Juergen CEZANNE
  • Patent number: 10608678
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A bidirectional wireless repeater may receive a first waveform during a first time domain duplexing period via a first antenna array and may transmit the first waveform at a second antenna array during the first time domain duplexing period. A di-pole di-throw (DPDT) switch may be coupled to the first and second antenna arrays and may switch the arrays during a guard period between the first time domain duplexing period and a second time domain duplexing period. The DPDT switch may toggle the first and second antenna arrays between transmit and receive modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Raju Hormis, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Juergen Cezanne, Ozge Koymen
  • Patent number: 9300444
    Abstract: A transmission module is provided that includes a transmitter, a loopback receiver, and a QEC controller. In a first state, the QEC controller calibrates the loopback receiver to remove quadrature imbalance in the loopback receiver. In a second state, a communication pathway is provided between the transmitter and the loopback receiver, and the QEC controller identifies quadrature imbalance in the transmitter based at least one a comparison of the data signals at the output of the loopback receiver with data signals at the input of the transmitter. Based on the comparison, the QEC controller can adjust one or more characteristics of the transmitter to correct quadrature errors in the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Raju Hormis, Steven R. Bal, Kevin Glenn Gard, Jianxun Fan, David J. McLaurin, Antonio Montalvo
  • Publication number: 20150030103
    Abstract: A transmission module is provided that includes a transmitter, a loopback receiver, and a QEC controller. The QEC controller identifies quadrature imbalance in the transmitter based at least one a comparison of the data signals at the output of the loopback receiver with data signals at the input of the transmitter. Based on the comparison, the QEC controller can adjust one or more characteristics of the transmitter to correct quadrature errors in the transmitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Raju Hormis, Steven R. Bal, Antonio Montalvo, David J. McLaurin, Martin McCormick