Patents by Inventor Stefan Geirhofer

Stefan Geirhofer 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: 20180184411
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a cell identifier is selected based on one or more properties associated with received downlink control information (DCI), where the properties may not be exclusively associated with determining a cell identifier. The cell identifier may be selected from a plurality of cell identifiers received through radio resource control signaling. The properties of the DCI may include a type of download control channel, a type of subframe and a type of DCI format used to provide the DCI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Wanshi CHEN, Stefan GEIRHOFER, Peter GAAL, Tao LUO, Hao XU
  • Publication number: 20180145738
    Abstract: A method for providing multi-hypothesis channel quality indicator (MH-CQI) feedback is described. Hypotheses corresponding to rank indicator (RI) and precoding matrix indicator (PMI) assumptions associated with a dominant interferer are selected. Multi-hypothesis channel quality indicator (MH-CQI) values based on the selected hypotheses are generated. The multi-hypothesis channel quality indicator (MH-CQI) values are encoded. The multi-hypothesis channel quality indicator (MH-CQI) values are sent as feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Stefan Geirhofer, Peter Gaal, Tingfang Ji, Alan Barbieri
  • Patent number: 9961579
    Abstract: Techniques for reporting channel state information (CSI) based on scalable channel feedback are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive data transmission from one or more cells among a plurality of cells and may report CSI for each of the plurality of cells. For scalable channel feedback, the UE may report CSI with different granularity for different cells. The granularity of feedback for each cell may be selected based on the quality of a communication channel between the cell and the UE, which may be determined based on a long-term channel gain for the cell. The granularity of feedback may be defined by a subband size, a reporting interval, granularity of quantization of CSI, etc. The UE may report CSI for each cell based on the granularity of feedback for the cell. The UE may receive data transmission sent by at least one cell based on the reported CSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stefan Geirhofer, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Siddhartha Mallik
  • Patent number: 9936494
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for assigning interference measurement resources. A method includes receiving at least one identifier, which determines, at least in part, at least one interference measurement resource that partially overlaps with another at least one interference measurement resource. The at least one interference measurement resource comprises a number of resource elements out of a set of resource elements. The method also includes measuring interference based at least in part on the at least one interference measurement resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stefan Geirhofer, Peter Gaal, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 9924498
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a cell identifier is selected based on one or more properties associated with received downlink control information (DCI), where the properties may not be exclusively associated with determining a cell identifier. The cell identifier may be selected from a plurality of cell identifiers received through radio resource control signaling. The properties of the DCI may include a type of download control channel, a type of subframe and a type of DCI format used to provide the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Stefan Geirhofer, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 9917629
    Abstract: A method for providing multi-hypothesis channel quality indicator (MH-CQI) feedback is described. Hypotheses corresponding to rank indicator (RI) and precoding matrix indicator (PMI) assumptions associated with a dominant interferer are selected. Multi-hypothesis channel quality indicator (MH-CQI) values based on the selected hypotheses are generated. The multi-hypothesis channel quality indicator (MH-CQI) values are encoded. The multi-hypothesis channel quality indicator (MH-CQI) values are sent as feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incoroporated
    Inventors: Stefan Geirhofer, Peter Gaal, Tingfang Ji, Alan Barbieri
  • Publication number: 20180070347
    Abstract: Certain aspects provide methods and apparatus for wireless communications. One example method generally includes receiving a shared channel within a subframe, determining the same precoding may be used across resource blocks belonging to the same precoding resource block group (PRG) of the shared channel, and processing the shared channel based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Stefan Geirhofer, Hao Xu
  • Publication number: 20180027500
    Abstract: Techniques for performing path loss (PL) compensation in coordinated multipoint (CoMP) systems are provided. A method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE) is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Stefan Geirhofer, Madhavan Srinivasan Vajapeyam
  • Patent number: 9839009
    Abstract: Certain aspects provide methods and apparatus for processing a control channel and/or a shared channel in a subframe based on a determination that one or more channel properties of the two channels are substantially the same. One example method generally includes receiving a control channel and a shared channel within a subframe; determining that one or more channel properties of the control channel and the shared channel in the subframe are substantially the same; and processing the control channel and the shared channel based on the determination. In this manner, estimations determined for a first channel may be assumed for a second channel whose channel properties are substantially the same as the first channel, rather than by separately determining the estimations for the second channel, thereby saving processing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Stefan Geirhofer, Hao Xu
  • Publication number: 20170311299
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. In an aspect, the apparatus may configure at least a first resource set and a second resource set for a control channel. The first and second resource sets may be configured with a common reference signal configuration. The apparatus also configures first rate-matching parameters for the first resource set and second rate-matching parameters for the second resource set. Then, the apparatus transmits the first rate-matching parameters and the second rate-matching parameters and transmits the control channel using the first resource set and the second resource set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Wanshi CHEN, Stefan GEIRHOFER, Peter GAAL, Hao XU, Tao LUO
  • Patent number: 9788310
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. In an aspect, the apparatus may determine at least a first and second resource set configured for a control channel and may determine a common set of aggregation levels for the first and second resource sets. The apparatus may further determine first rate-matching parameters for the first resource set and second rate-matching parameters for the second resource set, and may process the control channel using the common set of aggregation levels and the first and second rate-matching parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Stefan Geirhofer, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu, Tao Luo
  • Publication number: 20170279513
    Abstract: A method for channel state information (CSI) reporting by a wireless communication device is described. The method includes determining a codebook for a CSI report corresponding to four transmit antenna (4Tx) transmissions from a base station. The codebook has a dual codebook structure. The method also includes generating the CSI report using the codebook. The method further includes transmitting the CSI report to a base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Stefan Geirhofer, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 9768943
    Abstract: A method of wireless communications includes adapting to downlink/uplink resource allocations. In particular, the downlink/uplink communications may be adjusted according to time division duplexed (TDD) configurations of serving and neighbor cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Stefan Geirhofer
  • Patent number: 9755706
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for joint support of coordinated multipoint (CoMP) operations and carrier aggregation (CA). One method generally includes receiving signaling indicating a configuration, from a set of possible configurations, that defines how the UE is to communicate with one or more base stations (BSs) using coordinated multipoint (CoMP) operations on one or more component carriers (CCs) and communicating in accordance with the configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stefan Geirhofer, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 9756627
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. In an aspect, the apparatus may determine whether a starting symbol of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) is an initial symbol in a subframe based on an EPDCCH configuration. Based on the determination, the apparatus may refrain from decoding a subset of legacy control channels in the subframe when the starting symbol of the EPDCCH is the initial symbol in the subframe. The legacy control channel may comprise at least one of a physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH), a physical hybrid-ARQ indicator channel (PHICH), or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Stefan Geirhofer, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu, Tao Luo
  • Publication number: 20170250787
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for implicitly linking aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) reports to CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) resources. In an aspect, the UE may be instructed to report on specific CSI-RS resource(s) via explicit signaling in the UE grant. Other aspects disclose techniques for implicit CSI-RS resource selection by the UE that require fewer signaling resources. Instead of explicitly signaling CSI-RS resources to the UE, the UE may implicitly select CSI-RS resource for CSI feedback reporting based on information known to the UE, e.g. a subframe on which a reporting request is received. This may reduce the impact of the additional signaling in the UE grant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Stefan GEIRHOFER, Tao LUO, Wanshi CHEN, Peter GAAL, Hao XU, Kapil BHATTAD, Tingfang JI
  • Patent number: 9730164
    Abstract: Techniques for performing path loss (PL) compensation in coordinated multipoint (CoMP) systems are provided. A method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method generally includes selecting, from a plurality of transmission points involved in uplink (UL) coordinated multipoint (CoMP) operations with the UE, a transmission point to associate with for path loss (PL) compensation, and adjusting power of one or more transmissions based on path loss measured based on the selected transmission point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Stefan Geirhofer, Madhavan Srinivasan Vajapeyam
  • Patent number: 9698887
    Abstract: A method for channel state information (CSI) reporting by a wireless communication device is described. The method includes determining a codebook for a CSI report corresponding to four transmit antenna (4Tx) transmissions from a base station. The codebook has a dual codebook structure. The method also includes generating the CSI report using the codebook. The method further includes transmitting the CSI report to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stefan Geirhofer, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 9692495
    Abstract: Determination of channel state information (CSI) feedback by mobile devices is disclosed in which the mobile device receives one or more configuration parameters, that may include one or more control channel parameters for configuring a mobile device control channel. The UE uses the configuration parameters to determine an assumption of overhead resources. Using this overhead assumption, the mobile device derives the CSI index and transmits the CSI index to a serving base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stefan Geirhofer, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 9686772
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) communications. Certain aspects relate to methods and apparatus for determining resource mapping and/or rate matching for CoMP operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo, Stefan Geirhofer, Aleksandar Damnjanovic