Patents by Inventor Scott Hoover

Scott Hoover 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: 20220326626
    Abstract: Overlay is determined for a device using signals measured from the device and a signal response to overlay determined from a plurality of calibration targets. Each calibration target has the same design as the device, but includes a known overlay shift. The calibration targets may be located in a scribe line, within a product area on the wafer, or on a separate calibration wafer. Each calibration target may have a different overlay shift, including zero overlay shift. The device may serve as a calibration target with zero overlay shift. The overlay shift may be in two orthogonal directions. The signal response to overlay may be determined based on a set of signals obtained from the calibration targets. A second set of signals may then be obtained from the device and the overlay determined based on the second set of signals and the determined signal response to overlay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Nigel P. SMITH, Francis Scott HOOVER, Nicholas James KELLER, Kevin Eduard Heidrich
  • Patent number: 11405864
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may wake up from a sleep mode of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle based on receipt of uplink data. The UE may determine if an elapsed time between a prior receipt of one or more reference signals and an uplink transmission to the base station after waking up from the sleep mode is less than a threshold time value. If the elapsed time is less than the threshold time value, the UE may transmit an uplink transmission associated with the received uplink data prior to receiving one or more reference signals that may be used to update transmission parameters for uplink transmissions. If the elapsed time is at or above the threshold value, the UE may wait to receive the one or more reference signals and update the transmission parameters prior to the uplink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Arnaud Meylan, Paolo Minero, Zae Yong Choi, Scott Hoover, Zhong Fan, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari
  • Publication number: 20220191730
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, based at least in part on a transmit configuration, a first communication associated with a first group of logical channels associated with at least a portion of an ON duration of an uplink transmission interval configuration. The UE may transmit, based at least in part on the transmit configuration, a second communication during at least a portion of an OFF duration of the uplink transmission interval configuration, wherein the transmit configuration indicates a first amount of energy for the first communication based at least in part on the first communication being associated with the first group of logical channels and a second amount of energy for the second communication based at least in part on the second communication being associated with a second group of logical channels. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Arnaud MEYLAN, Reza SHAHIDI, Raghu Narayan CHALLA, Brian Clarke BANISTER, Lin LU, Shanshan WANG, Michel Evan CHAUVIN, Tienyow LIU, Leena ZACHARIAS, Scott HOOVER, Troy CURTISS
  • Patent number: 11357037
    Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to techniques for handling out-of-order grants. For example, upon detection of an out-of-order grant, the best scheduling policy for handling the out-of-order grants may be selected based on at least one traffic condition. In some aspects, a scheduling policy may involve canceling and regenerating out-of-order grants. In some aspects, a scheduling policy may involve reordering data units. In some aspects, a scheduling policy may involve designating a reorder time window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Saket Bathwal, Arvind Santhanam, Gang Xiao, Rudhir Upretee, Scott Hoover, Haiqin Liu, Xing Chen, Xiaojian Long, Peng Wu, Ashwin Raman, Thomas Christol
  • Publication number: 20220166466
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A multi-antenna user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station using a first antenna, determine to switch from the first antenna to a second antenna for communicating with the base station, determine a silence window in which communication with the base station is suspended, schedule the switch from the first antenna to the second antenna to occur during the silence window, and switch from the first antenna to the second antenna during the silence window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Thawatt GOPAL, Scott Hoover, Defang Chen, Sridhar Bandaru
  • Publication number: 20220078820
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting an uplink message to a first base station associated with a first radio access technology (RAT). The method also includes transmitting one or more scheduling requests (SRs) to a second base station associated with a second RAT to trigger a connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRX) ON period. The method further includes receiving a downlink message from the second base station during the CDRX ON period in response to transmitting the uplink message to the first base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Scott HOOVER, Yu HU, Joshua Tennyson MACDONALD, Tom CHIN
  • Patent number: 11271612
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A multi-antenna user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station using a first antenna, determine to switch from the first antenna to a second antenna for communicating with the base station, determine a silence window in which communication with the base station is suspended, schedule the switch from the first antenna to the second antenna to occur during the silence window, and switch from the first antenna to the second antenna during the silence window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Scott Hoover, Defang Chen, Sridhar Bandaru
  • Publication number: 20210360530
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may monitor a channel for wireless communication associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) during one or more of a first active duration or a first inactive duration. The UE may operate in a first power mode during the first inactive duration. The UE may monitor the channel for wireless communication associated with a second RAT during one or more of a second active duration or a second inactive duration. The UE may operate during the second inactive duration in one or more of the first power mode or a second power. The UE may operate according to the first mode or the second mode based on the monitoring of the channel associated with the first RAT and the second RAT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Reza Shahidi, Brian Clarke Banister, Vishal Mahajan, Vikram Ramesh Babu, Joshua Tennyson Macdonald, Thawatt Gopal, Udayan Bhawnani, Yu Fu, Bhupesh Manoharial Umatt, Sridhar Bandaru, Scott Hoover, Brain George, Hemanth Kumar Rayapati, Sunil Kc, Sandeep Ramannavar, Sandeep Rao
  • Patent number: 11134364
    Abstract: A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus may be a User Equipment (UE) having a first subscription to a first RAT and a second subscription to a second RAT configured to operate using the first RAT, to change from operating using the first RAT to operating using the second RAT to monitor multiple Synchronization Signal Blocks (SSBs) at multiple times prior to performing at least one of decoding a paging message, receiving system information, searching a neighboring frequency, or measuring the neighboring frequency, to return to using the first RAT during a first period between at least one set of adjacent times of the multiple times that the UE monitors for the SSBs, and to change from using the first RAT to using the second RAT to receive the paging message, receive the system information, search the neighboring frequency, or measure the neighboring frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Hu, Qingxin Chen, Reza Shahidi, Hemanth Kumar Rayapati, Scott Hoover, Chhavi Jain, Subhash Simhambhatla, Padmanabhan Ramakrishnan
  • Publication number: 20210167903
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for time division duplex configuration override. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes detecting a period during which a configuration of a first radio access technology (RAT) conflicts with a configuration of a second RAT for a frequency band; and overriding the configuration of the second RAT with the configuration of the first RAT for the period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Harish VENKATACHARI, Amir AMINZADEH GOHARI, Udayan BHAWNANI, Sandeep RAO, Scott HOOVER, Sundaresan TAMBARAM KAILASAM, Sharad SHAHI
  • Patent number: 11013019
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may perform calibration of a transceiver chain to maintain or improve operation of a device or comply with legal or protocol requirements. The UE may receive one or more wireless signals indicating a first set of resources where the first device is scheduled to transmit or receive communications. The UE may calibrate a wireless transceiver chain of the first device in a second set of resources. The second set of resources excludes the first set of resources and includes at least a portion of a third set of resources. The third set of resources are resource in which the first device has an option to transmit or receive communications based on a protocol configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rahul Malik, Jong Hyeon Park, Udara Fernando, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Nan Zhang, Junsheng Han, Scott Hoover, Ruhua He
  • Publication number: 20210067209
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A multi-antenna user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station using a first antenna, determine to switch from the first antenna to a second antenna for communicating with the base station, determine a silence window in which communication with the base station is suspended, schedule the switch from the first antenna to the second antenna to occur during the silence window, and switch from the first antenna to the second antenna during the silence window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Thawatt GOPAL, Scott HOOVER, Defang CHEN, Sridhar BANDARU
  • Publication number: 20210044336
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein enable updating the codebook configuration upon the changing of the cover or case of the UE. The apparatus applies a first codebook from a plurality of preconfigured codebooks. The apparatus detects a change of a cover state of the UE, wherein the change alters a transmission beam pattern at the UE. The apparatus applies a second codebook from the plurality of preconfigured codebooks based on the change of the cover state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun LEE, Arvind Vardarajan SANTHANAM, Brian Clarke BANISTER, Raghu Narayan CHALLA, Ruhua HE, Daniel AMERGA, Subashini KRISHNAMURTHY, Scott HOOVER, Sandeep RAO, Zhang ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20210029635
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may wake up from a sleep mode of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle based on receipt of uplink data. The UE may determine if an elapsed time between a prior receipt of one or more reference signals and an uplink transmission to the base station after waking up from the sleep mode is less than a threshold time value. If the elapsed time is less than the threshold time value, the UE may transmit an uplink transmission associated with the received uplink data prior to receiving one or more reference signals that may be used to update transmission parameters for uplink transmissions. If the elapsed time is at or above the threshold value, the UE may wait to receive the one or more reference signals and update the transmission parameters prior to the uplink transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Arnaud Meylan, Paolo Minero, Zae Young Choi, Scott Hoover, Zhong Fan, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari
  • Patent number: 10791558
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a limit on a number of resource blocks (RBs) permitted to be used for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) transmission by the UE; may determine, based at least in part on the limit, one or more parameters for the V2X transmission, wherein the one or more parameters include at least one of a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the V2X transmission, a number of transport blocks (TBs) for the V2X transmission, a number of RBs per TB for the V2X transmission, or a retransmission configuration for the V2X transmission; and may transmit the V2X transmission based at least in part on the one or more parameters. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Arvind Santhanam, Scott Hoover, Yunsong Mu, Yuanbo Wang, Gang Xiao, Haiqin Liu, Subramanya Rao, Taoufik Tani, Feng Lu
  • Patent number: 10687196
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus selects a serving cell for connection to a network. The apparatus performs a search for a frequency band on a neighbor cell for use in device-to-device communications. The apparatus performs the device-to-device communications using pre-configured resources associated with the frequency band when the search for the frequency band on the neighbor cell fails. The apparatus performs the device-to-device communications using resources associated with the frequency band of the neighbor cell when the search for the frequency band on the neighbor cell is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Arvind Santhanam, Scott Hoover, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Daniel Amerga, Georgios Tsirtsis
  • Publication number: 20200169858
    Abstract: A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus may be a User Equipment (UE) having a first subscription to a first RAT and a second subscription to a second RAT configured to operate using the first RAT, to change from operating using the first RAT to operating using the second RAT to monitor multiple Synchronization Signal Blocks (SSBs) at multiple times prior to performing at least one of decoding a paging message, receiving system information, searching a neighboring frequency, or measuring the neighboring frequency, to return to using the first RAT during a first period between at least one set of adjacent times of the multiple times that the UE monitors for the SSBs, and to change from using the first RAT to using the second RAT to receive the paging message, receive the system information, search the neighboring frequency, or measure the neighboring frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Jun HU, Qingxin CHEN, Reza SHAHIDI, Hemanth Kumar RAYAPATI, Scott HOOVER, Chhavi JAIN, Subhash SIMHAMBHATLA, Padmanabhan RAMAKRISHNAN
  • Publication number: 20200100280
    Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to techniques for handling out-of-order grants. For example, upon detection of an out-of-order grant, the best scheduling policy for handing the out-of-order grants may be selected based on at least one traffic condition. In some aspects, a scheduling policy may involve canceling and regenerating out-of-order grants. In some aspects, a scheduling policy may involve reordering data units. In some aspects, a scheduling policy may involve designating a reorder time window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Saket BATHWAL, Arvind SANTHANAM, Gang XIAO, Rudhir UPRETEE, Scott HOOVER, Haiqin LIU, Xing CHEN, Xiaojian Long, Peng WU, Ashwin RAMAN, Thomas CHRISTOL
  • Publication number: 20200029345
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may perform calibration of a transceiver chain to maintain or improve operation of a device or comply with legal or protocol requirements. The UE may receive one or more wireless signals indicating a first set of resources where the first device is scheduled to transmit or receive communications. The UE may calibrate a wireless transceiver chain of the first device in a second set of resources. The second set of resources excludes the first set of resources and includes at least a portion of a third set of resources. The third set of resources are resource in which the first device has an option to transmit or receive communications based on a protocol configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Rahul Malik, Jong Hyeon Park, Udara Fernando, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Nan Zhang, Junsheng Han, Scott Hoover, Ruhua He
  • Patent number: 10470143
    Abstract: A method for communication includes obtaining a timing signal from a timing synchronization reference source, computing a system frame number (SFN)—direct frame number (DFN) offset, creating a timing fingerprint using the timing signal and the SFN-DFN offset, the timing fingerprint also comprising additional timing information, entering the timing fingerprint into a database, continually updating the timing fingerprint, determining whether the timing signal remains within a threshold, if the timing signal exceeds the threshold, iterating the timing fingerprint, verifying the timing fingerprint to determine whether there is a timing inconsistency between a most recent timing fingerprint and current time, if the timing fingerprint is verified, using the SFN-DFN offset to derive current DFN timing to decode a sidelink control information (SCI) communication, and if the SCI communication is decoded, using the timing signal for communicating over a sidelink communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Corley, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Scott Hoover, Aamod Khandekar, Subramanya Rao, Prabhu Kandasamy, Alexandre Pierrot