Patents by Inventor Shyamal Ramachandran

Shyamal Ramachandran 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: 20160119896
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present methods for handling user equipment (UE) pages in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connected mode of the UE. Aspects of the present disclosure may effectively scale a point (in time) until which the UE shall handle pages in the RRC connected mode, and after which the UE detects out-of-sync with the NW, which may allow the UE to performs procedures that may help enhance user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Siva Kumar JUJARAY, Madhusudan KINTHADA VENKATA, Arun Prasanth BALASUBRAMANIAN, Daniel AMERGA, Nitin PANT, Shyamal RAMACHANDRAN, Pankaj Subhash VASANDANI, Arvind Vardarajan SANTHANAM
  • Patent number: 9313711
    Abstract: A system, a method and an apparatus are described. The apparatus comprise a modem that determines frequencies at which a transceiver of a wireless device is susceptible to interference generated by a different transceiver of the wireless device, and that modifies a search for a radio access network based on the one or more frequencies. The first transceiver may be susceptible to the interference by means of transmission of the interference through one or more circuits within the wireless device. A threshold power level may be modified based on an estimate of the power of the interference. The threshold power level may be used to determine presence of a pilot signal. The interference may be modeled based on a list of frequencies associated with one or more subscriptions of the wireless device. An order of searching for pilot signals may be modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Francis M. Ngai, Shyamal Ramachandran, Amit Mahajan
  • Publication number: 20160099788
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose techniques for independently signaling features supported by a user equipment (UE) in different duplexing modes. The UE may be capable of communicating in frequency division duplexing (FDD) and time division duplexing (TDD) modes. The UE may obtain a FDD-specific feature group indicators (FGIs) set and a TDD-specific FGIs set, and signal at least one of the FDD-specific FGIs set or TDD-specific FGIs set. In addition, the UE may take one or more actions to reduce the likelihood of transitioning to a mode of operation that is different from its current mode of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas KLINGENBRUNN, Lorenzo CASACCIA, Bhupesh Manoharlal UMATT, Pradeep SAGANE GOWDA, Daniel AMERGA, Shyamal RAMACHANDRAN, Muralidharan MURUGAN, Swaminathan SURESHCHANDRAN, Dinesh DHARMARAJU, Sudhir S. HALBHAVI, Vitaly DRAPKIN, Raghu Narayan CHALLA
  • Patent number: 9264198
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose techniques for independently signaling features supported by a user equipment (UE) in different duplexing modes. The UE may be capable of communicating in frequency division duplexing (FDD) and time division duplexing (TDD) modes. The UE may obtain a FDD-specific feature group indicators (FGIs) set and a TDD-specific FGIs set, and signal at least one of the FDD-specific FGIs set or TDD-specific FGIs set. In addition, the UE may take one or more actions to reduce the likelihood of transitioning to a mode of operation that is different from its current mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Thomas Klingenbrunn, Lorenzo Casaccia, Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt, Pradeep Sagane Gowda, Daniel Amerga, Shyamal Ramachandran, Muralidharan Murugan, Swaminathan Sureshchandran, Dinesh Dharmaraju, Sudhir S. Halbhavi, Vitaly Drapkin, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 9264945
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for improving Circuit Switched (CS) Fallback performance, such as in an LTE network, are described. In one aspect, a UE may perform a RAU procedure before performing a CS call setup procedure when the UE has camped on a Non-DTM GERAN target after failing to access a redirection target. In another aspect, an MME may determine whether to perform a PS suspension based on an ISR status associated with a user terminal. In another aspect, an eNB may send information associated with a PS suspension to a user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shyamal Ramachandran, Xipeng Zhu
  • Patent number: 9241302
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the disclosure relate generally to search of radio access technologies (RAT). For example, certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for performing higher priority radio access technology (RAT) searches in areas having a plurality of overlapping RATs, such as Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) and Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to certain aspects, a user equipment (UE) may be configured to periodically search for higher priority RATs in neighboring cells. According to certain aspects, upon finding a higher priority RAT cell, the UE may be further configured to evaluate, or “pre-evaluate”, criteria for cell reselection from found cell to the currently camped cell, while still camped on the current cell. The UE may be configured to decide whether or not to switch to the found cell based on the evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shyamal Ramachandran, Thomas Klingenbrunn, Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt
  • Patent number: 9220036
    Abstract: In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, a method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for wireless communication. The method, apparatus, and computer program product may be configured to determine that a device is switching from a first cell and a first location to a second cell and a second location to implement a mobile terminated circuit switched fallback process, generate a routing area update message including a flag indicating a pending data packet for communication, and transmit the generated routing area update message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shyamal Ramachandran, Thomas Klingenbrunn, Miguel Griot
  • Publication number: 20150334617
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for managing mobility in a multi-radio device are provided. One example method generally includes detecting that a first channel is not usable for communicating via a first radio access technology (RAT); receiving a message to redirect from a second channel to the first channel; determining the first channel is in a set of one or more blocked channels not usable for the first RAT; and in response to the determination, taking one or more actions. Another example method generally includes detecting that a first channel is not usable for communicating via a first RAT and providing an indication to a network that a user equipment (UE) no longer supports the first channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Shyamal Ramachandran, Thomas Klingenbrunn, Aziz Gholmieh, Amit Mahajan
  • Patent number: 9179358
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for reducing congestion in a wireless communications system. A second connection failure is detected, and a difference between a timestamp of the second connection failure and a timestamp of a first connection failure is calculated. Upon determining that the difference satisfies a first time threshold, information relating to one or more previous connection failures is cleared. A time period is identified. A number of connection failures from a cell that occur during the time period is identified. A determination is made as to whether the number of connection failures satisfies a threshold. Upon determining that the number of connection failures satisfies the threshold, a future connection request may be withheld for a time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Patil, Shyamal Ramachandran, Nitin Pant, Arun Prasanth Balasubramanian, Venkata Sampath Kumar Mummadi, Daniel Amerga, Srivatsa V. Chivukula
  • Publication number: 20150296472
    Abstract: An access terminal pre-registers with a second access network via a first access network to ensure a quick handover in the future. Frequent pre-registration attempts are avoided by implementing a hysteresis timer that restricts when a pre-registration process can be initiated. The hysteresis timer is started when pre-registration is initiated by the access terminal. No new pre-registration attempts are permitted if the hysteresis timer has not expired. An abort condition can cause the hysteresis timer to be aborted early, and a new pre-registration can be initiated. Access points in the first access network may be grouped into one or more pre-registration zones. If the access terminal moves from a first access point to a second access point, a new pre-registration is skipped if the first and second access points have the same pre-registration zone or the second access point is aware of the pre-registration zone for the first access point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Shyamal Ramachandran, Thomas Klingenbrunn, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Arvind Swaminathan
  • Patent number: 9131416
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for managing mobility in a multi-radio device are provided. One example method generally includes detecting that a first channel is not usable for communicating via a first radio access technology (RAT); receiving a message to redirect from a second channel to the first channel; determining the first channel is in a set of one or more blocked channels not usable for the first RAT; and in response to the determination, taking one or more actions. Another example method generally includes detecting that a first channel is not usable for communicating via a first RAT and providing an indication to a network that a user equipment (UE) no longer supports the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shyamal Ramachandran, Thomas Klingenbrunn, Aziz Gholmieh, Amit Mahajan
  • Patent number: 9131418
    Abstract: Techniques for reading and caching system information of non-serving systems in order to shorten call setup delay are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a serving system, e.g., in an idle mode or a connected mode. The UE may periodically read system information of at least one non-serving system, e.g., as a background task. The UE may cache (i.e., store) the system information of the at least one non-serving system at the UE. The UE may thereafter access a particular non-serving system among the at least one non-serving system based on access parameters in the cached system information. By caching the system information, the UE can avoid reading the system information of the particular non-serving system at the time of system access, which may then reduce call setup delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Klingenbrunn, Shyamal Ramachandran, Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt
  • Patent number: 9119119
    Abstract: Devices and methods are provided for supporting single carrier Radio Transmission Technology (1×RTT) and High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) neighbor lists over LTE, thereby enabling efficient scans for 3GPP2 neighbors with minimal interruption to the LTE operations both when idle or when in-traffic. In one embodiment, the method may involve accessing a neighbor list, each neighboring system in the list being prioritized based at least in part on whether the access terminal (AT) supports a hybrid mode. For example, the method may involve selecting the 3GPP2 system to handin to based at least in part on the neighbor list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Thomas Klingenbrunn, Shyamal Ramachandran, Arvind Swaminathan
  • Patent number: 9094943
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate avoidance of duplicative resource allocation and/or erroneous service charges via unambiguously indicating an entity responsible for quality of service (QoS) initiation. In one example, an indication is provided to a mobile device to indicate a preference for network-initiated QoS or a preference for device-initiated QoS. QoS for a data flow can be established in accordance with the indication. For instance, the mobile device initiates QoS when the indication specifies a preference for device-initiated QoS while a network establishes QoS when the indication specifies a preference for network-initiated QoS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Klingenbrunn, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Shyamal Ramachandran, Arvind Swaminathan
  • Patent number: 9066309
    Abstract: An access terminal pre-registers with a second access network via a first access network to ensure a quick handover in the future. Frequent pre-registration attempts are avoided by implementing a hysteresis timer that restricts when a pre-registration process can be initiated. The hysteresis timer is started when pre-registration is initiated by the access terminal. No new pre-registration attempts are permitted if the hysteresis timer has not expired. An abort condition can cause the hysteresis timer to be aborted early, and a new pre-registration can be initiated. Access points in the first access network may be grouped into one or more pre-registration zones. If the access terminal moves from a first access point to a second access point, a new pre-registration is skipped if the first and second access points have the same pre-registration zone or the second access point is aware of the pre-registration zone for the first access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shyamal Ramachandran, Thomas Klingenbrunn, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Arvind Swaminathan
  • Patent number: 9026112
    Abstract: Network re-selection by an idle mobile device between multiple radio access technologies (RATs) is provided for communication networks without a network-based solution. When a user equipment (UE) enters idle mode while camped to a first RAT network, it initiates an out of service search procedure that causes the UE to search for other RATs within a same public land mobile network (PLMN). If another RAT network is detected, the UE determines whether the priority of the detected RAT is higher than the priority of the first RAT. When the detected RAT has a higher priority than the first RAT, the UE re-selects and camps to that detected RAT network. If the detected RAT does not have a higher priority or no other RAT is detected within the PLMN, the UE re-camps to the first RAT network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Klingenbrunn, Shyamal Ramachandran, Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt
  • Patent number: 9001784
    Abstract: A communication system that employs Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWAN) of different Radio Access Technologies (RATs) ensures that simultaneous handover to 1×RTT and 1×EVDO is attempted only when warranted. The User Equipment (UE) that has multiple transceivers and is actively involved in a packet data session can be transferred from LTE to 1×EVDO. A criterion (e.g., cost, subscriber preference, operator preference, or network data traffic) can be used to determine when it is warranted to incur the setup delay time to perform simultaneous handover of both a voice connection and a packet data session. Conversely, if there is no active data session, generally the UE can be handed over only to 1×RTT for the voice/Short Message Service (SMS) call. In an aspect, the criterion can still dictate setting up simultaneously even for an active packet data session, such as for maintaining a time critical function of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Shyamal Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 8989742
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the disclosure relate generally to search of radio access technologies (RAT). For example, certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for facilitating higher priority radio access technology (RAT) search and cell reselection in areas having a plurality of overlapping RATs, such as GSM and LTE. According to certain aspects, a user equipment (UE) may generate a local set of cell reselection parameters based on one or more default cell reselection parameters and/or stored system information received during previous connects with found cells. According to certain aspects, the UE may perform cell reselection based on the local set of cell reselection parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shyamal Ramachandran, Thomas Klingenbrunn
  • Publication number: 20150063216
    Abstract: A system, a method and an apparatus are described. The apparatus comprise a modem that determines frequencies at which a transceiver of a wireless device is susceptible to interference generated by a different transceiver of the wireless device, and that modifies a search for a radio access network based on the one or more frequencies. The first transceiver may be susceptible to the interference by means of transmission of the interference through one or more circuits within the wireless device. A threshold power level may be modified based on an estimate of the power of the interference. The threshold power level may be used to determine presence of a pilot signal. The interference may be modeled based on a list of frequencies associated with one or more subscriptions of the wireless device. An order of searching for pilot signals may be modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Francis M. NGAI, Shyamal RAMACHANDRAN, Amit MAHAJAN
  • Publication number: 20150065143
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses and devices are described for managing a call during radio link failure. In one embodiment, radio link failure over a radio access technology may be detected during or after a call setup procedure. A public land mobile network and an equivalent public land mobile network may be selected. An initial search for cells of the radio access technology may be performed over the selected public land mobile network and the equivalent public land mobile network. The initial search may be performed once or twice based on a configurable parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Cherng-Shung Hsu, Zhong Ren, Shyamal Ramachandran, Anisha Elizabeth Jonas, Vitaly Drapkin, Kanuganti Rajeswar Reddy, Abhishek Bhatnagar