Patents by Inventor Sridhar BANDARU

Sridhar BANDARU 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).

  • Patent number: 11895590
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    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, Brian George, Hemanth Kumar Rayapati, Sunil Kc, Sandeep Ramannavar, Sandeep Rao
  • Publication number: 20240008116
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may establish a first communication link using a first radio access technology (RAT). The UE may establish a second communication link using a second RAT. The UE may determine whether to prioritize antenna selection for the first communication link using the first RAT or the second communication link using the second RAT. The UE may prioritize antenna selection for the first communication link or the second communication link based at least in part on the determination. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Brian Clarke Banister, Sridhar Bandaru, Reza Shahidi
  • Publication number: 20230403053
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus may determine a time-averaged power limit of a set of antennas. The apparatus may modify an antenna switching configuration based at least in part on the time-averaged power limit. The apparatus may transmit a signal using an antenna, from the set of antennas, associated with the modified antenna switching configuration, wherein the antenna is associated with a higher power limit than one or more other antennas. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Thawatt GOPAL, Sridhar BANDARU, Brian Clarke BANISTER, Reza SHAHIDI, Troy CURTISS, Akhil DEODHAR, Lin LU, Jagadish NADAKUDUTI
  • Patent number: 11817926
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus may determine a time-averaged power limit of a set of antennas. The apparatus may modify an antenna switching configuration based at least in part on the time-averaged power limit. The apparatus may transmit a signal using an antenna, from the set of antennas, associated with the modified antenna switching configuration, wherein the antenna is associated with a higher power limit than one or more other antennas. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Sridhar Bandaru, Brian Clarke Banister, Reza Shahidi, Troy Curtiss, Akhil Deodhar, Lin Lu, Jagadish Nadakuduti
  • Patent number: 11750248
    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: February 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Scott Hoover, Defang Chen, Sridhar Bandaru
  • Patent number: 11736990
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may communicate on a primary carrier using a first antenna port. The UE may communicate on a secondary carrier using a second antenna port. The UE may determine whether to switch the secondary carrier from the second antenna port to the first antenna port based on a channel condition associated with the second antenna port. The UE may switch the secondary carrier from the second antenna port to the first antenna port based on a determination to switch the secondary carrier from the second antenna port to the first antenna port. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sachin Jain, Sridhar Bandaru, Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt, Thawatt Gopal
  • Publication number: 20230231603
    Abstract: Wireless communication techniques for antenna-switched diversity and multi-SIM concurrent operation management are discussed. A UE may communicate via a transmission path associated with a first subscriber identification module (SIM). The transmission path may be mapped to one of a first one or more antennas in accordance with a determination as to whether the UE supports at least one of frequency-division duplex (FDD) antenna-switched diversity or time-division duplex (TDD) antenna-switched diversity when concurrently performing wireless communication associated with the first SIM and wireless communication associated with a second SIM. The UE may also communicate via at least one reception path associated with the second SIM. The at least one reception path may be mapped to a second one or more antennas in accordance with the determination as to whether the UE supports at least one of FDD antenna-switched diversity or TDD antenna-switched diversity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Sridhar Bandaru, Mihir Nabar, Qingxin Chen, Reza Shahidi
  • Publication number: 20230117026
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support subscriber identification module (SIM) prioritization based on service priority and quality of service (QoS) parameters. A user equipment (UE) may identify a set of available RF components for communications at the UE that may be shared between a first SIM and a second SIM. The UE may identify multiple resource partitions of the set of available RF components, each resource partition providing resources for contemporaneous communications of both the first SIM and the second SIM. The UE may select one of the resource partitions for the contemporaneous communications based on service level priorities associated with each SIM and which resource partition provides sufficient RF resources to satisfy the QoS parameters associated a highest service level priority of the multiple SIMS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Sridhar Bandaru
  • Patent number: 11596015
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may establish a first communication link using a first radio access technology (RAT). The UE may establish a second communication link using a second RAT. The UE may determine whether to prioritize antenna selection for the first communication link using the first RAT or the second communication link using the second RAT. The UE may prioritize antenna selection for the first communication link or the second communication link based at least in part on the determination. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Brian Clarke Banister, Sridhar Bandaru, Reza Shahidi
  • Patent number: 11539410
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, on a first subscriber identity module (SIM) operating in a connected mode, a signal using a first antenna associated with a first antenna module. The UE may configure, for a second SIM operating in an idle mode, a second antenna associated with the first antenna module for receive operations. The UE may switch a transmit antenna associated with the first SIM from the first antenna to a third antenna associated with a second antenna module based at least in part on configuring the second antenna for receive operations and based at least in part on the first antenna module being unable to support concurrent transmission and reception of signals. The UE may transmit, on the first SIM, a signal using the third antenna. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Sridhar Bandaru, Qingxin Chen, Reza Shahidi
  • Patent number: 11496881
    Abstract: A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE). The apparatus determines that a first subscriber identity module (SIM) and a second SIM of the UE share a cross switch and determines whether to modify concurrent operation of the first SIM or the second SIM based, at least in part, on a determination that the first SIM and the second SIM of the UE share the cross-switch. The concurrent operation of the first SIM and the second SIM may include the first SIM performing SRS antenna switching and the second SIM performing an idle mode activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Qingxin Chen, Sridhar Bandaru, Sunil K C
  • Publication number: 20220345987
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for a UE to determine whether to maintain or remove a radio frequency (RF) path from a set of candidate paths considered for transmit antenna switch diversity (ASDIV). The determination allows the UE to avoid signal loss or degradation in coexisting networks at similar frequency ranges. For example, ASDIV allows two or more antennas to form different input and output ports to establish different RF paths. Coexistent networks, such as wireless wide-area-network (WWAN) and wireless local-area-network (WLAN) may utilize different RF paths to optimize reliability and efficiency. The overlapping of the bands may cause signal attenuation or degradation from at least one of the networks. The present disclosure provides techniques for detecting signal attenuation at least partially caused by overlapping bands and removing an associated RF path to avoid such signal loss or attenuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Thawatt GOPAL, Michael Lee MCCLOUD, David MALDONADO, Joseph David PAULINO, Sridhar BANDARU, Shriram GURUMOORTHY
  • Publication number: 20220337360
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to communicating with multiple cells based on two separate subscriptions stored at the UE in a dual subscription dual standby (DSDS) mode, switching to communicate with the multiple cells in a dual subscription dual active (DSDA) mode, transmitting, to at least one of the multiple cells and based on a number of component carriers allowed for a subscription being exceeded by switching to communicate in the DSDA mode, assistance information to indicate a threshold amount of component carriers for the UE, and transmitting, to at least one of the multiple cells and based on the number of component carriers allowed for the subscription being exceeded by switching to communicate in the DSDA mode, a channel quality indicator (CQI) value for one or more cells of the multiple cells to request deactivation of one or more component carriers with, or release of, the one or more cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun LEE, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Reza Shahidi, Qingxin Chen, Liangchi Hsu, Cheol Hee Park, Mona Agrawal, Hemanth Kumar Rayapati, Sridhar Bandaru
  • Publication number: 20220311485
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, on a first subscriber identity module (SIM) operating in a connected mode, a signal using a first antenna associated with a first antenna module. The UE may configure, for a second SIM operating in an idle mode, a second antenna associated with the first antenna module for receive operations. The UE may switch a transmit antenna associated with the first SIM from the first antenna to a third antenna associated with a second antenna module based at least in part on configuring the second antenna for receive operations and based at least in part on the first antenna module being unable to support concurrent transmission and reception of signals. The UE may transmit, on the first SIM, a signal using the third antenna. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Thawatt GOPAL, Sridhar BANDARU, Qingxin CHEN, Reza SHAHIDI
  • Publication number: 20220295262
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may initiate a first service, having a first priority during a time interval, associated with a first subscriber identification module (SIM), and a second service, having a second priority during the time interval, associated with a second SIM of the UE, the first priority having a higher priority than the second priority. The UE may identify a first type of communication associated with the second SIM. The UE may adjust, based at least in part on the first type of communication, at least one of the first priority or the second priority during the time interval. The UE may perform a communication in accordance with the adjusted at least one of the first priority or the second priority. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Reza SHAHIDI, Qingxin CHEN, Lan LAN, Cheol Hee PARK, James BECKMAN, Leena ZACHARIAS, Arnaud MEYLAN, Krishna Chaitanya MUKKERA, Ambarish TRIPATHI, Zhibin DANG, Ashwin MADHUR COMANDUR, Sivaram Srivenkata PALAKODETY, Sridhar BANDARU
  • Publication number: 20220248206
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may establish, using a first frequency band, a first communication connection on a first subscriber identity module (SIM). The UE may establish, using a second frequency band, a second communication connection on a second SIM in a multi-SIM dual receive mode that includes the first SIM and the second SIM having concurrent activity. The UE may switch from a first antenna to a second antenna for the first SIM in accordance with an antenna switching capability that is based at least in part on whether the first communication connection and the second communication connection are time division duplex (TDD) synchronized. The UE may transmit one or more communications associated with the first SIM using the second antenna. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Thawatt GOPAL, Sridhar BANDARU, Vishal MAHAJAN
  • Publication number: 20220232367
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may detect a first communication, associated with a first subscriber identity module (SIM) operating in a connected mode, that is at least partially overlapping in a time domain with a second communication associated with a second SIM operating in an idle mode. The UE may detect that a transmit chain associated with the first SIM and a receive chain associated with the second SIM are sharing an antenna switch. The UE may perform a preventive action based at least in part on the first communication associated with the first SIM overlapping in the time domain with the second communication associated with the second SIM while the transmit chain associated with the first SIM and the receive chain associated with the second SIM are sharing the antenna switch. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Thawatt GOPAL, Sridhar BANDARU, Vishal MAHAJAN
  • 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: 20220103214
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus may determine a time-averaged power limit of a set of antennas. The apparatus may modify an antenna switching configuration based at least in part on the time-averaged power limit. The apparatus may transmit a signal using an antenna, from the set of antennas, associated with the modified antenna switching configuration, wherein the antenna is associated with a higher power limit than one or more other antennas. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Thawatt GOPAL, Sridhar BANDARU, Brian Clarke BANISTER, Reza SHAHIDI, Troy CURTISS, Akhil DEODHAR, Lin LU, Jagadish NADAKUDUTI
  • 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