Patents by Inventor Sony Akkarakaran

Sony Akkarakaran 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: 20240113823
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A relay user equipment (UE) may have a sidelink connection established with each UE of a group of UEs. The group of UEs may be configured with a periodic set of sidelink resources for a reference signal measurement associated with reference signals. Each UE of the group may be configured with a periodicity for the sidelink resources, an initial offset in a first instance of the sidelink resources, and a time-domain variation associated with the reference signals to change the offset across instances of the reference signal resource. The relay UE and the UEs of the group may communicate reference signals over the periodic set of sidelink resources according to the time-domain variation associated with the reference signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Kianoush HOSSEINI
  • Publication number: 20240114473
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives, from a network entity, beam shape assistance information for one or more downlink transmit beams of a base station, the beam shape assistance information representing a beam shape of each of the one or more downlink transmit beams, the beam shape of each of the one or more downlink transmit beams having a quantization, and determines an angle between the UE and the base station based at least on the beam shape assistance information and signal strength measurements of positioning reference signal resources transmitted on the one or more downlink transmit beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Srinivas YERRAMALLI, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Stephen William EDGE, Sven FISCHER, Peter GAAL
  • Publication number: 20240113828
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a positioning reference signal configuration of a base station. The UE may determine, based on the positioning reference signal configuration, a reference point within a carrier bandwidth of a component carrier and a frequency domain allocation for a positioning reference signal relative to the reference point. The UE may transmit the positioning reference signal or measure the positioning reference signal based on the frequency domain allocation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Joseph Binamira SORIAGA, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Guttorm Ringstad OPSHAUG, Sven FISCHER
  • Patent number: 11950261
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the set-up, activation, and deactivation of sidelink carrier aggregation, and includes a method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving a reference signal to a second UE on a designated sidelink component carrier as part of an initial beam scanning procedure; receiving a configuration message from a network entity indicating one or more additional sidelink component carriers for the first UE and the second UE; and communicating with the second UE via a sidelink corresponding to at least one of the one or more additional sidelink component carriers or the designated sidelink component carrier based on the configuration message on a sidelink beam pairing performed in the designated sidelink component carrier, wherein the first UE and the second UE are configured in coverage with the network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Jung Ho Ryu, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11950201
    Abstract: In an aspect, a UE obtains a plurality of positioning reference signal (PRS) configurations. The UE receives, from a BS, an L1 or L2 message that indicates one of the plurality of PRS configurations, which in turn triggers an aperiodic or semi-periodic PRS procedure in accordance with the indicated PRS configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Alexandros Manolakos
  • Patent number: 11950222
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration that indicates multiple time intervals corresponding to multiple physical sidelink shared channels (PSSCHs) within a slot, wherein at least one PSSCH, of the multiple PSSCHs, starts in a symbol other than an initial data symbol of the slot. The UE may communicate in one or more PSSCHs, of the multiple PSSCHs, within the slot based at least in part on the configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Liu, Yisheng Xue, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Xiaojie Wang, Lik Hang Silas Fong, Piyush Gupta
  • Patent number: 11950235
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a first UE may receive an indication of first resources from a second UE. In some examples, the second UE may be a UE configured to receive a transmission from a third UE over the first resources. In some such examples, the first UE may transmit, to a fourth UE, a sidelink transmission over available resources that exclude the first resources. Additionally, or alternatively, the second UE may be a UE that received sidelink control information from the third UE indicating the resources for transmission by the third UE to a fourth UE. In some such examples, the first UE may transmit, to the second UE, a sidelink transmission over available resources that exclude the first resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Sony Akkarakaran, Junyi Li, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Juan Montojo, Xiaojie Wang
  • Patent number: 11950184
    Abstract: A sidelink user equipment (UE) receives a group wake-up signal (WUS) from a base station and decodes the group WUS based on zone identification (ID) information of the sidelink UE. A base station transmits a wake-up signal to a group of sidelink user equipments (UEs) and transmits zone ID information to the group. A group wake-up signal parameter is a function of the zone ID information. A base station generates a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) sequence, selects a port for a DMRS, and/or scrambles a control channel or a data channel based on a zone ID of a sidelink UE. A sidelink UE compares a zone ID of the sidelink UE with a zone ID of a neighbor UE and initiates a conditional handover to another cell when the zone ID of the sidelink UE differs from the zone ID of the neighbor UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Junyi Li, Jung Ho Ryu
  • Patent number: 11950220
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the cross carrier scheduling of sidelink carrier aggregation, and includes a method and apparatus for determining a component carrier (CC) index for at least one of a first sidelink transmission with a second UE and a Uu transmission with a network entity, the CC index indicating one or more CCs among which at least one of the first sidelink transmission and the Uu transmission occur; and communicating at least one of the first sidelink transmission to the second UE and the Uu transmission to the network entity based on the CC index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Jung Ho Ryu, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Peter Gaal, Jelena Damnjanovic, Juan Montojo, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, John Edward Smee
  • Patent number: 11950264
    Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for wireless communications for configuring a Reference Signal (RS) resource set corresponding to a combination of a plurality of Access Link (AL) RSs and a plurality of Sidelink (SL) RSs; transmitting, jointly by the relay node and a network entity, the RS resource set to trigger a network to configure one or more Quasi-co-location (QCL) parameters for an AL and a relay SL; and communicating, by the relay node and the network entity, a downlink or uplink channel using the configured one or more QCL parameters for the AL and the relay SL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11950262
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device may be configured to support multi-beam, or multi-panel operations, or both which may allow multiple sidelink transmissions to occur simultaneously. In some cases, flexible beam-management for the beamformed sidelink communications is implemented to manage the beams. A transmitting UE may indicate transmission beam information to the base station that the base station may use to schedule sidelink transmissions as part of a beam management procedure. The beam management procedure may allow a transmitting UE to update transmission beam information based on the mobility of the sidelink UEs and other environmental factors. In some cases, beam management includes a beam training procedure that may be implemented to refine the sidelink beams, where support for multi-panel and multi-beam operation may allow for multiple beams to be trained simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Ling Ding, Tao Luo
  • Publication number: 20240107501
    Abstract: Disclosed are various techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) configured to operate in discontinuous reception (DRX) mode receives a configuration of a plurality of first positioning reference signal (PRS) resources, receives a configuration of a plurality of second PRS resources, selects one or more pairs of a first PRS resource of the plurality of first PRS resources and a second PRS resource of the plurality of second PRS resources, each pair of the one or more pairs satisfying one or more DRX pruning rules and one or more bundling conditions, and receives or transmitting the first PRS resource and transmitting or receiving the second PRS resource during one or more DRX cycles of the DRX mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jingchao BAO, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Juan MONTOJO, Tao LUO, Alexandros MANOLAKOS
  • Publication number: 20240107488
    Abstract: A method of reporting positioning measurement reporting capability includes: establishing a positioning session between a telecommunication device and a network entity; and transmitting, from the telecommunication device to the network entity, a capability report indicating a measurement reporting capacity for a batch measurement report of measurements of a plurality of PRS instances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Mukesh KUMAR, Srinivas YERRAMALLI, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Guttorm OPSHAUG
  • Publication number: 20240106602
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, at least one positioning reference signal (PRS) configuration that defines or indicates a plurality of PRS resources having unique identifiers, the plurality of PRS resources comprising a first set of one or more PRS resources, wherein each of the one or more PRS resources in the first set is mapped to an associated identifier used by all UEs served by a location server to identify an associated PRS resource. The UE may perform a positioning operation according to the at least one PRS configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jingchao BAO, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Tao LUO, Juan MONTOJO, Alexandros MANOLAKOS
  • Patent number: 11943769
    Abstract: Aspects relate to mechanisms for wireless communication devices to update transmission configuration indicator states (TCI-states), spatial relation (SR) indicators (SRIs), or pathloss reference signals (PL-RSs) for a group of two or more component carriers (CCs) for multi-component carrier communication. A radio access network (RAN) node may generate a message indicating one or more TCI-states, one or more SRs, or one or more PL-RSs to utilize for multi-CC communication. The message may include an index identifying a group of two or more CCs of a plurality of access CCs or a plurality of sidelink CCs associated with the one or more TCI-states, the one or more SRs, or the one or more PL-RSs. A user equipment (UE) may receive the message and update the one or more TCI-states, the one or more SRs, or the one or more PL-RSs for the group of two or more CC for the multi-CC communication based on the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Jung Ho Ryu, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11943738
    Abstract: In an aspect, a position estimation entity (e.g., LMF) determines at least one shared requirement (e.g., a timing requirement, an RF chain requirement, etc.) for both of a first differential timing (DT) procedure of a double differential timing (DDT) procedure (e.g., TDOA-based or RTT-based) and a second DT procedure of the DDT procedure, the first DT procedure based on timing measurements between a target user equipment (UE) and first and second wireless nodes, and the second DT procedure based on timing measurements between a reference wireless node and the first and second wireless nodes, and transmits, to at least the target UE and the reference wireless node, requests to perform the DDT procedure along with an indication of the at least one shared requirement for the DDT procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11943156
    Abstract: One or more anchor nodes, which may be sidelink devices, may transmit positioning reference signals (PRSs) to a wireless device, such as a user equipment (UE). The UE may select one or more PRSs to process based on respective priorities of the PRSs. At least one anchor node may transmit a priority indication including the respective priorities, or the one or more anchor nodes may transmit the PRSs according to a scrambling sequence or pattern to implicitly indicate the respective priorities. The UE may decode one or more PRSs based on the respective priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Yucheng Dai, Jingchao Bao
  • Patent number: 11937280
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for enabling user equipment (UE) positioning based on angle estimation in millimeter wave (mmW) bands. An example method for determining a location of a mobile device includes transmitting array gain information to a network entity, the array gain information including beam pattern information based at least in part on a sub-band and a state of the mobile device, receiving one or more reference signals in one or more sub-bands, wherein a receive beam for each of the one or more reference signals is based at least in part on the sub-band the one or more reference signals are being received in, and on a current state of the mobile device, determining measurement values based on the one or more reference signals, and determining the location of the mobile device based at least in part on the measurement values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Sony Akkarakaran, Juergen Cezanne
  • Patent number: 11937186
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a federated learning configuration comprising an indication of a power control loop for providing an update associated with a machine learning component, wherein the power control loop facilitates receiving the update at a received power that satisfies a received power condition associated with an over-the-air update aggregation procedure. The UE may transmit the update to the base station based at least in part on the federated learning configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11937213
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A central unit (CU) function of a base station may identify a first set of user equipment (UE) to communicate via sidelink communications with a distributed unit associated with the central unit. The CU function may determine, based at least in part on the distributed unit being an integrated access and backhaul provider to the first set of UE, a first configuration for the distributed unit to use for sidelink communications with the first set of UE, the first configuration different than a second configuration for one or more nodes associated with the base station to use for sidelink communications with a second set of UE in communication with the base station. The CU function may provide an indication of the first configuration to the distributed unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Navid Abedini, Naeem Akl, Tao Luo, Junyi Li