Patents by Inventor Tien Viet Nguyen

Tien Viet Nguyen 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: 20250254688
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to sidelink communications in a TDD system are provided. A first user equipment (UE) may receive from a base station (BS), a time-division-duplexing (TDD) configuration. The first UE may select a first TDD configuration from a set of configured TDD configurations based on the TDD configuration. Additionally, the first UE may transmit to a second UE, an indication of the first TDD configuration. The first and the second UEs may communicate a sidelink communication based on the first TDD configuration. Other features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Shuanshuan WU, Sudhir Kumar BAGHEL, Kapil GULATI, Gabi SARKIS, Tien Viet NGUYEN
  • Patent number: 12381691
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may transmit, from the mobile station to an encoding device, acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement (ACK-NACK) feedback based at least in part on a transmission by the encoding device, wherein the ACK-NACK feedback is associated with a feedback bin, and wherein the feedback bin is associated with a location of the mobile station. The mobile station may receive, at the mobile station from the encoding device, a network coding transport block, wherein the network coding transport block is formed based at least in part on the transmission and the ACK-NACK feedback associated with the feedback bin. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Guangyi Liu, Tien Viet Nguyen, Gabi Sarkis, Gene Wesley Marsh, Shuanshuan Wu, Kapil Gulati
  • Publication number: 20250247871
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for indicating and categorizing resources in an inter-CE coordination (IUC) message, triggering a UE to send IUC messages to other UEs. and identifying recipient UE(s) for IUC messages. An example method performed by a user equipment (UE) generally includes: detecting at least one condition is met for triggering transmission of an inter-UE coordination (IUC) message; including, in the IUC message, an indication of at least one second UE that is an intended recipient of the IUC message and an indication of resources for the second UE to consider for its own resource selection; and transmitting the IUC message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Tien Viet NGUYEN, Gabi SARKIS, Sourjya DUTTA, Hui GUO, Shuanshuan WU, Kapil GULATI
  • Publication number: 20250234170
    Abstract: A first wireless device may receive a first indication of a set of first slots associated with a first vehicle-to-everything (V2X) transmission from a second wireless device, wherein the first set of V2X transmissions is associated with a first radio access technology (RAT). The first wireless device may communicate a second indication of a set of second slots associated with second set of V2X transmissions, wherein the second set of V2X transmissions are subsequent to the first set of V2X transmissions, wherein the second set of V2X transmissions are associated with the first RAT, wherein the second indication is based on at least one of: (1) a reference signal received power (RSRP) associated with the first set of V2X transmissions being greater than an RSRP threshold or (2) a distance between the first wireless device and the second wireless device being less than a threshold distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: Tien Viet NGUYEN, Hui GUO, Shuanshuan WU, Gabi SARKIS, Sourjya DUTTA, Kapil GULATI
  • Publication number: 20250220619
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may establish a sidelink with a second UE using at least a set of reference sidelink configuration parameters. The UE may update the sidelink using a set of location-based delta sidelink configuration parameters that are based at least in part on a sidelink location that includes at least one of: a first location of the first UE, or a second location of the second UE. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Tien Viet NGUYEN, Dan VASSILOVSKI, Kapil GULATI
  • Publication number: 20250220503
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may communicate with a second UE using a sidelink and a retransmission feedback process. The first UE may derive, based at least in part on the communicating, that a sidelink congestion metric satisfies a saturation threshold. The first UE may modify the retransmission feedback process based at least in part on the sidelink congestion metric satisfying the saturation threshold. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Tien Viet NGUYEN, Dan VASSILOVSKI, Kapil GULATI
  • Patent number: 12335941
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive a sidelink message via a sidelink transmission resource of a shared sidelink resource pool that is shared between a communications according to a first radio access technology (RAT) and communications according to a second RAT. The UE may map sidelink transmission resource occasions of the shared resource pool to a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) occasion and map subchannels of the sidelink transmission occasions to respective resources of the PSFCH occasion. The UE may transmit a sidelink feedback message corresponding to the sidelink message using a resource of the PSFCH occasion corresponding to a subchannel carrying sidelink control information of the sidelink message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sourjya Dutta, Tien Viet Nguyen, Gabi Sarkis
  • Patent number: 12328710
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) sense sidelink transmissions to determine a set of resources that may be reserved by one or more other UEs. The set of resources may include a first subset of resources associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second subset of resources associated with a second, different RAT. The first UE may transmit a message to a second UE indicating resource information for transmissions by the second UE, and the resource information may indicate that the first subset of resources is associated with the first RAT and that the second subset of resources is associated with the second RAT. Additionally, or alternatively, the first UE may transmit an indication of collisions between resources reserved for transmissions associated with the first RAT and resources reserved for transmissions associated with the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sourjya Dutta, Tien Viet Nguyen, Gabi Sarkis, Junyi Li
  • Publication number: 20250184988
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may reserve, during a first semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) period of a plurality of SPS periods, a plurality of resources in the plurality of SPS periods. The UE may skip a first resource of the plurality of resources in a second SPS period of the plurality of SPS periods. The UE may perform an initial transmission in the second SPS period using a second resource of the plurality of resources in the second SPS period. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Hui GUO, Tien Viet NGUYEN, Shuanshuan WU, Sourjya DUTTA, Kapil GULATI, Gabi SARKIS
  • Patent number: 12323947
    Abstract: A first user equipment (UE) receives, via first sidelink resources from a second UE, a reservation message that includes an indication of second sidelink resources via which the first UE will subsequently receive a data packet. The first UE may at least one of: determine if the first UE is an intended recipient of the data packet, or compare a reference signal received power (RSRP) value of the reservation message to a threshold value. The first UE may transmit a first reservation forwarding message, via one or more third sidelink resources, including at least the indication of the second sidelink resources to at least a third UE in response to at least one of: determining that the first UE is the intended recipient of the data packet, or determining that the RSRP value is less than the threshold value. The first UE subsequently receives the data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tien Viet Nguyen, Sourjya Dutta, Gabi Sarkis, Gene Wesley Marsh, Kapil Gulati, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 12316452
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may reserve a transmission resource for transmitting a transmission block (TB) via a sidelink communication; reserve a retransmission resource for retransmitting the TB, wherein the retransmission resource is reserved such that at least one hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback occasion occurs between transmission of the TB and a first retransmission of the TB; and communicate with another UE via the sidelink communication based at least in part on the transmission and retransmission resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hui Guo, Tien Viet Nguyen, Kapil Gulati, Sudhir Kumar Baghel
  • Patent number: 12316462
    Abstract: Some aspects described herein relate to determining, by a transmitter user equipment (UE) in sidelink communications with a receiver UE, a feedback forwarding timing capability based at least in part on a first timing for receiving and processing feedback from the receiver UE, and receiving, from an access point and based on the feedback forwarding timing capability, at least an uplink resource grant for transmitting feedback for at least one of sidelink communications or downlink communications. Other aspects relate to determining, by a transmitter UE in sidelink communications with a receiver UE, a timing capability for the receiver UE to at least one of receive sidelink communications from the transmitter UE or report feedback for the sidelink communications to the transmitter UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hui Guo, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati, Shuanshuan Wu, Tien Viet Nguyen, Gabi Sarkis
  • Publication number: 20250168710
    Abstract: To facilitate coexistence of a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided. An example method of a first wireless device operating based on a RAT includes receiving a sidelink resource reservation from a second wireless device based on a second RAT, the sidelink resource reservation indicating a first set of resources. The example method further includes determining whether to exclude, from a candidate resource set for the first RAT within a sidelink resource pool for the first RAT, resources that overlap with the set of reserved resources for the second RAT. The example method further includes transmitting a sidelink transmission using one or more sidelink transmission resources selected from the candidate resource set in the sidelink resource pool for the first RAT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Tien Viet NGUYEN, Sourjya DUTTA, Kapil GULATI, Gabi SARKIS, Shailesh PATIL
  • Publication number: 20250150997
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first device may activate an independent synchronization source mode based on one or more conditions associated with the first device. The independent synchronization source mode may correspond to the first device operating as reference for synchronization. The first device may transmit one or more synchronization signals indicating a device type of the first device and indicating that the first device is operating as the reference for synchronization. For example, the first device may select one or more bits or an identifier corresponding to the device type to include in the one or more synchronization signals. A second device receiving the one or more synchronization signals may select the first device as a reference for synchronization based on the device type. The second device may synchronize with the first device using the synchronization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Hui GUO, Tien Viet NGUYEN, Kapil GULATI, Shijun WU, Gabi SARKIS
  • Publication number: 20250150240
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a sidelink communication on a sidelink between the UE and another UE. The UE may transmit, on the sidelink, one or more feedback communications associated with the sidelink communication in a reporting period having a configurable periodicity and/or being configured to occupy an entire bandwidth of a resource pool configured for the sidelink. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Sudhir Kumar BAGHEL, Arjun BHARADWAJ, Kapil GULATI, Tien Viet NGUYEN, Shailesh PATIL, Wanshi CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250142496
    Abstract: Some aspects described herein relate configuring resources in one or more slots for communicating a sidelink synchronization signal (SLSS) while maintaining a logical numbering of multiple consecutive slots including the one or more slots. Based on configuring the at least one slot a SLSS can be received from a node or transmitted to one or more nodes during at least one slot of the one or more slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Tien Viet NGUYEN, Kapil GULATI, Shijun WU, Hui GUO, Shailesh PATIL, Gene Wesley MARSH
  • Publication number: 20250142600
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a sidelink transmission associated with a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index. The UE may monitor a quantity of retransmissions associated with the sidelink transmission within a time window. The UE may selectively retransmit the sidelink transmission based at least in part on the MCS index and the quantity of retransmissions. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Tien Viet NGUYEN, Dan VASSILOVSKI, Sourjya DUTTA, Kapil GULATI
  • Patent number: 12284644
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may be configured to trigger a sidelink message to one or more UE of set of multiple other UEs. The first UE may then generate the sidelink message based at least in part on the triggering. In some cases, the sidelink message may include time and frequency resource information associated with sidelink control information received and processed by the first UE. The first UE may multiplex the sidelink message with a sidelink data message. The first UE may then transmit the sidelink message multiplexed with the sidelink data message to the one or more UE of the set of multiple other UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sourjya Dutta, Tien Viet Nguyen, Gabi Sarkis, Kapil Gulati
  • Publication number: 20250125941
    Abstract: An apparatus may comprise a component for communicating using a first RAT and another component for communicating using a second RAT. Overlapping communication using the two RATs may cause problems for proper reception at the apparatus. The apparatus may detect that transmission or reception of a first packet using a first RAT will overlap in time with reception of a second packet using a second RAT. The apparatus prioritizes the first packet or the second packet based at least on a relative priority of the first packet and the second packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Tien Viet NGUYEN, Arjun BHARADWAJ, Kapil GULATI, Sudhir Kumar BAGHEL, Shailesh PATIL
  • Publication number: 20250113349
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may identify a set of resources for exchanging, with a second UE, resource availability information associated with a sidelink channel. The set of resources are not allocated to a legacy UE. Accordingly, the first UE may exchange, with the second UE and using the set of resources, the resource availability information associated with the sidelink channel. Alternatively, the legacy UE may receive, from the second UE, a communication on a sidelink channel and determine that the communication is associated with resource availability information for the sidelink channel Accordingly, the first UE may discard the communication based at least in part on the communication being associated with resource availability information for the sidelink channel. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Wei YANG, Seyedkianoush HOSSEINI, Tien Viet NGUYEN, Gabi SARKIS