Patents by Inventor Robert Mark Harrison
Robert Mark Harrison 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).
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Patent number: 12047883Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for restricting SRS power control configurations. In one embodiment, a method implemented in a wireless device, WD, is provided. The method includes obtaining at least a first sounding reference signal, SRS, resource set configuration for a first SRS resource set, the first SRS resource set configuration corresponding to a first SRS transmission power value; obtaining at least a second SRS resource set configuration for a second SRS resource set, the second SRS resource set configuration corresponding to a second SRS transmission power value; and determining a power level to transmit an SRS on at least one SRS resource associated with at least one of the first SRS resource set and the second SRS resource set.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Niklas Wernersson, Robert Mark Harrison
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Patent number: 12041669Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for random access. A method performed by a terminal device comprises determining a random access procedure to be performed, the random access procedure being one of a two-step random access procedure and a four-step random access procedure, and transmitting a request message for random access in the determined random access procedure.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM EricssonInventors: Zhipeng Lin, Johan Axnäs, Robert Karlsson, Asbjörn Grövlen, Robert Mark Harrison
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Patent number: 12040865Abstract: Systems and methods for low complexity multi-configuration Channel State Information (CSI) reporting are provided. In some embodiments, a method of operating a wireless device in a cellular communications network to provide CSI feedback from multiple CSI reporting configurations is provided. The method includes receiving a first and second CSI reporting configuration and then reporting updated CSI in a CSI report for only one of the first CSI reporting configuration and the second CSI reporting configuration. In this way, rich CSI feedback with many ports, different codebooks, mixed beamformed and non-precoded CSI-RS configurations, etc., can be supported while requiring less computational complexity in the wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Robert Mark Harrison, Mattias Frenne, Shiwei Gao, George Jöngren, Siva Muruganathan
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Publication number: 20240236997Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus and computer program products for transmitting and receiving an uplink signal on physical control channel. A method comprises: determining that a terminal device has a capability of transmitting the uplink signal on physical control channel in at least a first time instant and a second time instant coherently; performing a first transmission of the uplink signal on physical control channel in the first time instant in a first set of subcarriers; and performing a second transmission of the uplink signal on physical control channel in the second time instant in a second set of subcarriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2024Publication date: July 11, 2024Inventors: Ling Su, Zhipeng Lin, Robert Mark Harrison, Andreas Cedergren
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Patent number: 12035371Abstract: Methods, a base station, and a terminal device for two-step random access procedure are disclosed. The base station transmits a signalling message indicating a waveform of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) without including a waveform of a preamble which is to be used for message A in two-step random access procedure, through an air interface. The base station receives the message A using the waveform of the PUSCH through the air interface in two-step random access procedure.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Zhipeng Lin, Robert Mark Harrison, Asbjörn Grövlen
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Publication number: 20240214166Abstract: Embodiments herein show a method performed by a user equipment for handling communication via a set of serving cells comprising a first serving cell and a second serving cell of a communication network. The user equipment receives a grant on a first serving cell, wherein the grant comprises a first identifier identifying Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) resources of the first serving cell. Furthermore, the user equipment calculates a first CSI report for the first serving cell using the CSI-RS resources identified by the first identifier; and calculates a second CSI report for a second serving cell, using CSI-RS resources of the second serving cell identified by a second identifier, the second identifier being received previously in a grant on the second serving cell. The user equipment then transmits the first and second CSI reports to a network node serving the first serving cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2024Publication date: June 27, 2024Inventors: Shiwei GAO, Siva MURUGANATHAN, Robert Mark HARRISON, Stephen GRANT
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Patent number: 12021663Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing cross-link interference in a wireless system are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device in a wireless system comprises receiving, from a serving Access Point (AP), wireless device specific Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) or Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) configuration information for one or more potential aggressor wireless devices. The method further comprises performing one or more measurements on at least one of the one or more potential aggressor wireless devices using the wireless device specific SRS or DMRS configuration information for the at least one of the one or more potential aggressor wireless devices and reporting at least one of the one or more measurements to the serving AP. In this manner, cross-link interference measurement and reporting is enabled.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Du Ho Kang, Sebastian Faxér, Robert Mark Harrison, Sorour Falahati, Havish Koorapaty
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Patent number: 12021779Abstract: A method of transmitting an uplink transmission by a wireless device is disclosed. The method comprises a wireless device receiving signaling configuring the wireless device with a plurality of Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resources. The wireless device subsequently receives an indication, in a physical layer downlink control channel, of a selected plurality of SRS resources selected from among the plurality of configured SRS resources and transmits a plurality of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers of a PUSCH transmission. The selected plurality of SRS resources map to respective ones of the plurality of MIMO layers and the indication of the selected plurality of SRS resources includes SRS resource indexes with a fixed order that corresponds to an order in which the SRS resources of the selected plurality of SRS resources are mapped to the MIMO layers.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Robert Mark Harrison, Sebastian Faxér, Andreas Nilsson, Sven Petersson
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Patent number: 12016025Abstract: Uplink control channel resource allocation for an enhanced downlink control channel is disclosed. A first example method disclosed herein includes receiving, at a user equipment (UE), a downlink control channel carrying a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource indicator, mapping the PUCCH resource indicator to a first offset, mapping a position of the downlink control channel to a second offset, and mapping a linear combination of the first and second offsets to an index identifying a first PUCCH resource. A second example method disclosed herein includes, in response to receiving, at a UE, an indication of a dynamic resource offset in an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) transmitted in a first ePDCCH set, determining a position of the ePDCCH and a subframe offset, and processing the indication of the dynamic resource offset, the position and the subframe offset to determine an allocated uplink control channel resource for the UE.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2023Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Robert Mark Harrison, Shiwei Gao, Yufei Wu Blankenship
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Publication number: 20240188001Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for uplink power control for Transport Block (TB) over Multiple Slots (TBoMS). In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication device comprises determining transmit power for a TBoMS uplink transmission per TBoMS transmission occasion and transmitting the TBoMS uplink transmission. In this manner, power control for TBoMS is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Ling Su, Zhipeng Lin, Robert Mark Harrison
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Publication number: 20240188055Abstract: A wireless device (12, 50) obtains a window of time for bundling of a set of uplink transmissions (20) on a carrier or bandwidth part. The wireless device determines whether or not to apply a timing advance adjustment (16) within the window of time. The timing advance adjustment comprises an adjustment to a transmission timing of an uplink transmission on the carrier or bandwidth part. The wireless device transmits the uplink transmission on the carrier or bandwidth part during the window of time using a transmission timing which is in accordance with the determining. The determining is based on whether the timing advance adjustment is indicated by a received timing advance command (18) or whether the timing advance adjustment is due to a detected error in downlink timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Ling Su, Zhipeng Lin, Johan Axnäs, Robert Mark Harrison
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Publication number: 20240179700Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for multiple slot Transport Block (TB) transmission with configured grant. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication device (WCD) comprises receiving, from a base station, information that configures one or more parameters for an uplink configured grant, determining physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resources for transmission of a multiple slot TB using the uplink configured grant, based on the one or more parameters, and transmitting the multiple slot TB on the determined PUSCH resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Ling Su, Zhipeng Lin, Robert Mark Harrison
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Publication number: 20240171318Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device comprises preparing a multiple-slot transport block (TB) for transmission, determining a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) identifier for the TB based on a slot associated with the multiple-slot TB, and transmitting the multiple-slot TB using a HARQ process associated with the determined HARQ identifier. In some embodiments, a method comprises determining a time to start or restart a timer based on a slot associated with the multiple-slot TB and transmitting the multiple-slot TB and starting or restarting the timer at the determined time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Zhipeng Lin, Ling Su, Robert Mark Harrison
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Publication number: 20240162949Abstract: A method, in a radio network node, comprises identifying, among a predetermined codebook of precoding matrix codewords, a subset of precoding matrix codewords that are not to be reported by the wireless device in channel-state-information, CSI, feedback, and transmitting, to the wireless device, a bitmap identifying the subset of precoding matrix codewords that are not to be reported by the wireless device; where each bit in the bitmap corresponds to only one combination of a first dimension index l?1 and a second dimension index l?2 out of the possible combinations of the first dimension index l?1 and the second dimension index l?2, and where the first dimension index l?1 and the second dimension index l?2 identify a two-dimensional beam, the two-dimensional beam being defined by a vector of complex numbers comprised within at least one column of a precoding matrix codeword in the codebook.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Siva Muruganathan, Mattias Frenne, Shiwei Gao, Robert Mark Harrison
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Publication number: 20240154650Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-beam Channel State Information (CSI) reporting are provided. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a second node connected to a first node in a wireless communication network for reporting multi-beam CSI includes reporting a rank indicator and a beam count indicator in a first transmission to the first node. The method also includes reporting a cophasing indicator in a second transmission to the first node. The cophasing indicator identifies a selected entry of a codebook of cophasing coefficients where the number of bits in the cophasing indicator is identified by at least one of the beam count indicator and the rank indicator. In this way, feedback for both a rank indicator and a beam count indicator may be possible which may allow robust feedback and variably sized cophasing and beam index indicators.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Shiwei Gao, Robert Mark Harrison, Siva Muruganathan
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Patent number: 11979214Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a downlink message, wherein the downlink message includes a first control channel element; determining a first index using the location of the first control channel element; determining a second index; determining a first orthogonal resource using the first index; determining a second orthogonal resource using the second index; spreading an uplink message using the first orthogonal resource to form a first spread signal; spreading the uplink message using a second orthogonal resource to form a second spread signal; transmitting the first spread signal using a first antenna; and transmitting the second spread signal using a second antenna.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Malikie Innovations LimitedInventors: Hua Xu, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Sean Michael McBeath, Robert Mark Harrison
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Publication number: 20240137911Abstract: A user equipment, base station and method for transmitting semi-persistent channel state information (SP-CSI) on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) are provided. The user equipment includes processing circuitry configured to receive a control signaling message the control signaling message configuring the user equipment with at least one SP CSI report configuration on the PUSCH, and the message identifying a SP CSI reporting periodicity. The user equipment also receives physical layer control signaling identifying and activating the at least one SP CSI report configuration. Transmitter circuitry is configured to transmit a plurality of SP CSI reports, the reports being transmitted with the periodicity and according to the physical layer control signaling and the control signaling message.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Robert Mark HARRISON, Shiwei GAO, Mattias FRENNE, Siva MURUGANATHAN, Sebastian FAXÉR
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Patent number: 11968542Abstract: A wireless device (WD), network node and methods are provided for rate matching using dynamically indicated reference signals in a co-carrier co-existence scenario. According to one aspect, a method in a network node includes determining a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) resource element (RE) mapping for a plurality of aperiodic zero power reference signal (ZP-RS) resources. The method also includes transmitting to a first wireless device (WD) configured to operate according to a first radio access technology (RAT), a first indication of first aperiodic ZP-RS resources of the plurality of aperiodic ZP-RS resources to be excluded during a PDSCH RE mapping by the first WD to avoid a conflict with second aperiodic ZP-RS resources indicated to a second WD configured to operate according to a second RAT.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Siva Muruganathan, Sebastian Faxér, Mattias Frenne, Shiwei Gao, Stephen Grant, Robert Mark Harrison
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Publication number: 20240107552Abstract: A method and system to signal transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports to be used in a multiple input multiple output system, the method including providing a downlink control signal containing information for transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports utilized, the dedicated reference signal ports being associated with the transmission layers; and using the information to demodulate data on each transmission layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Hua XU, Yongkang JIA, Zhijun CAI, Youn Hyoung HEO, Andrew Mark EARNSHAW, Mo-Han FONG, Sean Michael McBEATH, Robert Mark HARRISON
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Patent number: 11929957Abstract: Embodiments herein show a method performed by a user equipment for handling communication via a set of serving cells comprising a first serving cell and a second serving cell of a communication network. The user equipment receives a grant on a first serving cell, wherein the grant comprises a first identifier identifying Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) resources of the first serving cell. Furthermore, the user equipment calculates a first CSI report for the first serving cell using the CSI-RS resources identified by the first identifier; and calculates a second CSI report for a second serving cell, using CSI-RS resources of the second serving cell identified by a second identifier, the second identifier being received previously in a grant on the second serving cell. The user equipment then transmits the first and second CSI reports to a network node serving the first serving cell.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Shiwei Gao, Siva Muruganathan, Robert Mark Harrison, Stephen Grant