Patents by Inventor Sharon Levy

Sharon Levy 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: 20220038057
    Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to a closed loop control of user equipment (UE) or base station (BS) power amplifier nonlinearity. One aspect provides a method of reporting an out-of-band power measurement by a UE in a wireless communication network. A UE may receive a downlink data traffic signal on a physical downlink channel from a base station. The UE may then measure an out of band (OOB) power of the received downlink data traffic signal, the receive OOB power comprising an average power of the downlink data traffic signal in one or more (OOB) locations of the wireless communication network offset from the physical downlink channel. The UE may then generate an OOB power measurement information element (IE) indicating the measured OOB power and send the OOB power measurement IE to the base station in an uplink control channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Igor GUTMAN, Sharon LEVY, Guy WOLF
  • Publication number: 20220038229
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some systems may support digital post-distortion (DPoD) processing at a base station. In some such systems, a user equipment (UE) may process a data message for transmission, where a resulting signal associated with the data message includes non-linear characteristics that are handled by DPoD on the receiver-side. The non-linear characteristics may cause the signal to leak into out-of-band (OOB) resources, potentially resulting in interference. In some examples, the UE may transmit the data message to the base station in a multi-user system. To support mitigation of non-linear interference on signaling by other UEs, the UE may additionally transmit pilot signals in OOB resources (e.g., in addition to in-band resources) where the non-linearity may be expected to negatively affect other communications. The base station may use the OOB pilot signals to perform channel estimation and interference mitigation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Sharon Levy, Assaf Touboul, Guy Wolf, Igor Gutman
  • Publication number: 20220030515
    Abstract: A method of wireless communications by a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting a wakeup message to awaken a base station from a sleep mode. The method also includes communicating with the base station after the base station awakens. A method of wireless communications by a base station includes entering a sleep mode when no user equipments (UEs) are connected to the base station. The method also includes receiving a signal from a UE to awaken from the sleep mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Peer BERGER, Shay LANDIS, Assaf TOUBOUL, Guy WOLF, David YUNUSOV, Michael LEVITSKY, Sharon LEVY, Noam ZACH, Lior UZIEL
  • Patent number: 11206620
    Abstract: A base station transmits a first transmission using a first directional beam and determines an equivalent isotropic radiated power (EIRP) relationship between the first transmission and a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for a user equipment (UE). The base station transmits, to the UE, an indication of the EIRP relationship between the first transmission and the PDSCH. Then, the base station transmits the PDSCH to the UE using the second directional beam. The UE uses the indication of the EIRP relationship to receive the PDSCH from the base station over the second directional beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sharon Levy, Guy Wolf, Assaf Touboul
  • Patent number: 11201773
    Abstract: A transmitting device may reduce a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) ratio by clipping samples that have an amplitude exceeding a threshold. For a downlink transmission, the transmitting device may transmit an incremental peak suppression information message (PSIM) to multiple user equipments (UEs). A UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) indicating a data and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the UE, and at least a first incremental PSIM. The UE may decode at least the first incremental PSIM that is applicable to a MCS lower than or equal to the MCS for the UE. The UE may determine whether to decode one or more subsequent incremental PSIMs based on the MCS for the UE. The UE may apply peak information from the incremental PSIMs to the data channel. The UE may decode the data channel based on the MCS for the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Noam Zach, Guy Wolf, Ory Eger, Sharon Levy, Assaf Touboul
  • Publication number: 20210385116
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device may reduce a channel overhead of a peak suppression information message (PSIM) by reducing amplitude signaling of clipped peaks of a data signal. To avoid including amplitude information for each clipped peak of a time-domain data signal in a PSIM, the transmitting device may subtract a constant amplitude offset from each peak above a clipping threshold in the time-domain data signal. The transmitting device may indicate the amplitude offset in the PSIM, and a receiving device may reconstruct the data message based on the amplitude offset. In some examples, the transmitting device may indicate a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) in the PSIM, such as a PAPR of a maximum peak in the data signal. Based on the indicated PAPR, the receiving device may perform a calculation to determine the amplitude offset for reconstructing the data message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Noam Zach, Guy Wolf, Ory Eger, Sharon Levy, Assaf Touboul
  • Publication number: 20210377091
    Abstract: A transmitting device may reduce a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) ratio by clipping samples that have an amplitude exceeding a threshold. For a downlink transmission, the transmitting device may transmit an incremental peak suppression information message (PSIM) to multiple user equipments (UEs). A UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) indicating a data and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the UE, and at least a first incremental PSIM. The UE may decode at least the first incremental PSIM that is applicable to a MCS lower than or equal to the MCS for the UE. The UE may determine whether to decode one or more subsequent incremental PSIMs based on the MCS for the UE. The UE may apply peak information from the incremental PSIMs to the data channel. The UE may decode the data channel based on the MCS for the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Noam ZACH, Guy WOLF, Ory EGER, Sharon LEVY, Assaf TOUBOUL
  • Publication number: 20210376890
    Abstract: Techniques for wireless communications are described. A communication device may support processing digital post distortion using additional references symbols. For example, the communication device may precode a signal including at least two reference symbols for a single-layer transmission using at least two antenna ports. At least one reference symbol of the at least two reference symbols is associated with at least one data symbol of a data stream. The communication device may estimate, based on the at least two reference symbols, a nonlinearity model of at least two power amplifiers associated with the single-layer transmission, and determine an estimate of a nonlinearity factor of the precoded signal based on the estimated nonlinearity model. As a result, the communication device may eliminate or reduce the nonlinear factor of the precoded signal based on the estimated nonlinearity model of the at least two power amplifiers and the estimated channel impulse response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Sharon Levy, Guy Wolf, Igor Gutman, Assaf Touboul, Ory Eger, Noam Zach
  • Publication number: 20210377092
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may reduce a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) ratio for an uplink transmission. The UE may receive an indication of an allowed error vector magnitude (EVM) for each of an uplink data signal, an uplink reference signal, and an uplink control signal from a base station. The base station may determine the allowed EVM based on a signal to noise ratio (SNR) for the UE measured at the base station. The UE may generate one or more uplink signals. The UE may apply a PAPR reduction to the one or more uplink signals based on the allowed EVM corresponding to each of the one or more uplink signals. The UE may transmit the one or more uplink signals to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Noam ZACH, Guy WOLF, Ory EGER, Sharon LEVY, Assaf TOUBOUL
  • Patent number: 11190383
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for reducing PAPR in wireless communications. Some implementations more specifically relate to suppressing the amplitudes of a data signal that exceed a threshold amplitude level. In some implementations, a transmitting device may detect one or more peaks associated with a data signal to be transmitted to a receiving device. A peak may be any sample of a data signal having an amplitude that exceeds a threshold amplitude level. The transmitting device generates peak suppression information indicating the amplitude, a phase and a position of each of the samples associated with the detected peaks. The transmitting device adjusts the data signal by reducing the amplitudes associated with the detected peaks and transmits the adjusted data signal, with the peak suppression information, to the receiving device. In some implementations, the transmitting device may compress the peak suppression information to reduce the overhead of the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ory Eger, Ran Berliner, Assaf Touboul, Noam Zach, Sharon Levy, Guy Wolf, Amit Bar-or Tillinger, Shay Landis, Gideon Kutz
  • Publication number: 20210367686
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless communication device may receive an indication of a power amplifier nonlinearity state to use for transmitting a communication to a second wireless communication device, and transmit the communication based at least in part on the indication of the power amplifier nonlinearity state. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Igor GUTMAN, Sharon LEVY, Guy WOLF
  • Patent number: 11171817
    Abstract: Methods related to wireless communication systems and reducing peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) in MU-MIMO transmissions are provided. A base station (BS) generates a plurality of communication signals including data for a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices in a plurality of serving beam subspaces. The BS may also generate a peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) reduction signal for one or more of the plurality of communication signals. A first portion of the PAPR reduction signal is in a first serving beam subspace of the plurality of serving beam subspaces based on a first error vector magnitude (EVM) associated with a first UE of the plurality of UEs. A second portion of the PAPR reduction signal is in a non-serving beam subspace. The BS may also transmit, to the plurality of UEs, the plurality of communication signals and the PAPR reduction signal. Other features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Noam Zach, Guy Wolf, Sharon Levy, Ory Eger, Assaf Touboul
  • Publication number: 20210344367
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit, to a base station (BS), UE capability information including transmission non-linearity information related to a digital post-distortion processing capability; and transmit, to the BS and after transmitting the UE capability information, signaling for digital post-distortion processing. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Guy WOLF, Igor GUTMAN, Sharon LEVY, Gideon Shlomo KUTZ, Assaf TOUBOUL, Noam ZACH
  • Publication number: 20210345399
    Abstract: Methods related to wireless communication systems and selecting groups of user equipment (UE) devices to multiplex for multi-user multiple input and multiple output (MU-MIMO) communications are presented. A base station transmits a channel state report configuration indicating a set of one or more interference measurement resources and precoding information associated with the set of one or more interference measurement resources to a first UE of a plurality of UEs. The BS receives, from the first UE, a channel state report including interference prediction information based on the set of one or more interference measurement resources and the precoding information. The BS uses the channel state report to determine a group configuration for the plurality of UEs. Other features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Sharon Levy, Guy Wolf, Assaf Touboul, Igor Gutman
  • Publication number: 20210344399
    Abstract: Methods related to wireless communication systems and performing link adaption for multiple user-multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communications using multiple expected channel quality indicators are presented. A base station (BS) transmits, to a first user equipment (UE) of a plurality of UEs, a channel state report configuration indicating a set of one or more measurement resources and at least one of precoding information or rank indications associated with the set of one or more measurement resources. The BS receives, from the first UE, a channel state report including a plurality of expected channel quality indicators (CQIs) over a time period based on the set of one or more measurement resources and the at least one of the precoding information or rank indications. The BS uses the channel state report to determine a link adaptation for the first UE. Other features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Sharon Levy, Guy Wolf
  • Publication number: 20210337484
    Abstract: A base station transmits a first transmission using a first directional beam and determines an equivalent isotropic radiated power (EIRP) relationship between the first transmission and a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for a user equipment (UE). The base station transmits, to the UE, an indication of the EIRP relationship between the first transmission and the PDSCH. Then, the base station transmits the PDSCH to the UE using the second directional beam. The UE uses the indication of the EIRP relationship to receive the PDSCH from the base station over the second directional beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Sharon LEVY, Guy WOLF, Assaf TOUBOUL
  • Publication number: 20210336666
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method of wireless communication includes generating, by a user equipment (UE), a delta precoding value for a precoding matrix update, the delta precoding value relative to a previous precoding matrix. The method also includes generating, by the UE, a delta power loading value for the precoding matrix update, the delta power loading value relative to the previous precoding matrix. The method further includes transmitting, by the UE, a transmission indicating the delta precoding value and the delta power loading value. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Igor Gutman, Michael Levitsky, Guy Wolf, Sharon Levy
  • Patent number: 11159219
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a wireless user equipment (UE) determining a wideband channel quality indicator (CQI) in a wireless communication network. For each of a plurality of CQI hypotheses, a UE divides a bandwidth into a plurality of frequency segments and determines an average spectral efficiency (SPEF) for each of those segments. Further, for each of the plurality of CQI hypotheses, the UE determines the minimum of the average SPEFs. The UE selects the CQI hypothesis corresponding to the maximum from among these determined minimum average SPEFs, and transmits this selected CQI as a wideband CQI. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Parisa Cheraghi, Md Jahidur Rahman, Sharon Levy, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Publication number: 20210328752
    Abstract: A base station may multiplex a peak suppression information message (PSIM) on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) with data for efficient implementation of PSIMs for peak to average power ratio (PAPR) reduction. A base station may clip peaks from a signal to be transmitted and capture information of the clipped peaks into a PSIM. The base station may then multiplex the PSIM on the PDSCH such that a receiving device (for example, a user equipment (UE)) may receive the signal and reconstruct the signal (for example, PDSCH data) using the PSIM. According to some aspects, each PDSCH symbol may include a PSIM for a previous PDSCH symbol, or the PSIM may be for the current symbol. Various aspects of the techniques described herein may further provide for PSIM positioning in frequency, PSIM modulation, PSIM channel coding, PSIM multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configurations, among other examples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Ory Eger, Assaf Touboul, Noam Zach, Sharon Levy, Guy Wolf, Shay Landis, Ran Berliner
  • Publication number: 20210328847
    Abstract: Methods related to wireless communication systems and reducing peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) in MU-MIMO transmissions are provided. A base station (BS) generates a plurality of communication signals including data for a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices in a plurality of serving beam subspaces. The BS may also generate a peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) reduction signal for one or more of the plurality of communication signals. A first portion of the PAPR reduction signal is in a first serving beam subspace of the plurality of serving beam subspaces based on a first error vector magnitude (EVM) associated with a first UE of the plurality of UEs. A second portion of the PAPR reduction signal is in a non-serving beam subspace. The BS may also transmit, to the plurality of UEs, the plurality of communication signals and the PAPR reduction signal. Other features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Noam Zach, Guy Wolf, Sharon Levy, Ory Eger, Assaf Touboul