Patents by Inventor Wanshi Chen

Wanshi Chen 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: 11558230
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may identify an uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration that defines subframe configuration options for each subframe of a frame. For example, the UL/DL configuration may establish parameters for time division duplexing (TDD) operation between a base station and a user equipment (UE). The wireless device (e.g., the UE or base station) may determine a constraint for a subframe of the frame based on the UL/DL configuration and then determine an adaptive subframe configuration based on the constraint. The adaptive subframe configuration may include one or several downlink symbol periods and one or several uplink symbol periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Shimman Arvind Patel, Juan Montojo, Hao Xu, Aleksandar Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 11558803
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may select, from a first path and a second path, a path for an uplink communication associated with at least one of a variable payload size for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback or channel state information (CSI) feedback, wherein the first path is on an uplink of the UE and the second path is on a sidelink of the UE; and transmit the uplink communication on the selected path. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Gabi Sarkis, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Karthika Paladugu, Yi Huang, Yeliz Tokgoz, Gokul Sridharan, Gavin Bernard Horn
  • Patent number: 11558735
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for indicating carrier aggregation capabilities. An example method generally includes signaling, to a base station (BS), carrier aggregation capability information indicating a capability for performing separate operations concurrently on a plurality of component carriers; receiving a carrier aggregation configuration indicating component carriers designated for the separate operations; and receiving or transmitting transmissions based on the carrier aggregation configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Xiaoxia Zhang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
  • Patent number: 11558853
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, devices, and systems for techniques related to random access procedures, such as a two-step random access procedure. Generally, the described techniques support physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) occasion (PO) aggregation in random access procedures, including aggregation configurations and communication schemes that support enhanced data transmissions, such as small data transmissions, in random access procedures. In some examples, the described techniques may include aggregating POs in a time domain, or a frequency domain, or both. A device, such as a user equipment (UE) may aggregate, in one or more of a time domain or a frequency domain, multiple POs of a set of POs, and transmit, to a device such as a base station, a random access payload of a random access message on a PUSCH using time and frequency resources of the aggregated multiple POs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly, Jing Lei, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11558814
    Abstract: A UE may enter a dormant state, e.g., for power savings. The systems, methods, and apparatus described herein may provide ways for the UE to transition between an active state and a dormant state, as well as UE behavior in a dormant state. The apparatus may be a UE configured to receive an indication of a bandwidth part (BWP) switch for a secondary cell and to transition between an active state and a dormant state for the secondary cell based on the indication of the BWP switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Pui Lok Ang, Gabi Sarkis, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Heechoon Lee, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Huilin Xu, Wooseok Nam, Hung Dinh Ly
  • Patent number: 11558824
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for controlling transmission power and prioritizing transmission carriers. A method of power distribution for different physical layer channels over one or more carriers in case of power limited user equipment (UE) is proposed. Operation modes of the UE with single and multiple power amplifiers/antennas can be supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jelena Damnjanovic, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11558144
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine that a first set of downlink control information (DCI) formats is associated with a same DCI size as a second set of DCI formats, and perform a padding operation so that the first set of DCI formats and the second set of DCI formats are associated with different DCI sizes. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Wanshi Chen, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Huilin Xu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
  • Patent number: 11558893
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) and a base station may use low latency communications to improve the throughput of a wireless link. To facilitate efficient low latency communication, the UE may send UE-initiated CSI reports in addition to periodic and base station-initiated reports. For example, the UE may, in various examples, send UE-initiated CSI reports using contention based spectrum, using a request-to-transmit, or using a CSI differential (i.e., an indicator of a change in channel conditions). The base station may schedule different UEs for uplink low latency communication by providing resources to each UE for CSI and scheduling requests (SRs) using coherent or non-coherent uplink transmissions. The CSI and SR may also be combined with uplink feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shimman Arvind Patel, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
  • Publication number: 20230010455
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for performing channel estimation for both uplink and downlink channels. Additional reference signals may be allocated or assigned to various resource elements (REs) of a transmission time interval (TTI). The receiving device (e.g., a base station or a user equipment (UE)) may be configured to use the additional reference signals during channel estimation. The use of additional reference signals may improve the accuracy of the channel estimations. In downlink communications, a base station may allocate one or more channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) to a port of a UE. In uplink communications, a UE may transmit several sounding reference signals (SRSs) in a group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11553510
    Abstract: In some aspects, multi-slot transport block (TB) configurations for communicating data between wireless devices, such as between a base station and a user equipment (UE), in a wireless communication system are described. Some examples of multi-slot configurations enable the communication of large payloads. For example, an application of a wireless device may jointly process data from a large file or other large set of packets. In such examples, the wireless device transmitting the large file may utilize a multi-slot TB including multiple TB segments corresponding to respective slots of a transmission. Similarly, a wireless device receiving the large file may utilize the multi-slot TB configuration for receiving the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Prashanth Haridas Hande, Wanshi Chen, Naga Bhushan, Yeliz Tokgoz
  • Patent number: 11553482
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to determining symbols over which to transmit repetitions for certain types of communications. A resource grant can include information for transmitting a number of repetitions over a collection of resources, such as a starting symbol over which to transmit communications, a number of symbols over which to transmit communications, and/or a nominal number of repetitions to transmit. Where time division multiplexing (TDM) communications are configured, a slot format indicator (SFI) can be semi-statically or dynamically configured and can indicate a communication direction of symbols within one or more slots as being uplink, downlink, or flexible. Thus, mapping uplink communications to the symbols may be based on additional considerations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated.
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Jing Sun, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wei Yang, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11552763
    Abstract: Techniques for wireless communication are described. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) includes identifying a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) to transmit in an uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS) of a subframe, determining whether to transmit uplink control information (UCI) on the PUSCH in the UpPTS, and transmitting the PUSCH in the UpPTS based at least in part on the determining. A method for wireless communication at a network access device includes determining whether to schedule a transmission of UCI on a PUSCH in a UpPTS of a subframe, scheduling the PUSCH in the UpPTS based at least in part on the determining, and transmitting, to a UE, scheduling information for the PUSCH in the UpPTS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Jing Sun, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Srinivas Yerramalli
  • Patent number: 11553374
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communications device may receive a downlink control message that supports indicating multiple modes for reporting hybrid automatic repeat request feedback, including a first mode for reporting hybrid automatic repeat request feedback and channel information according to a bundled configuration and a second mode for reporting hybrid automatic repeat request feedback according to a standalone configuration. The communications device may use the downlink control message to determine a mode for transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request feedback. The communications device may also transmit either bundled hybrid automatic repeat request feedback and channel information or standalone hybrid automatic repeat request according to the determined mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 11552768
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatus for transmitting control information to maintain hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes for multiple carriers in different frequency ranges, such as frequency range 1 (FR1) and frequency range 2 (FR2), in carrier aggregation scenarios are described. A first numerology of a first component carrier (CC) in FR1 and a second numerology of a second CC in FR2 are determined. A HARQ configuration that includes an indication of a set of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources is determined. A number of symbols of the set of PUCCH resources is based on the first numerology and the second numerology. The HARQ configuration is transmitted to a user equipment (UE). HARQ feedback is transmitted on the first CC for data received on the second CC, using the set of PUCCH resources of the HARQ configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Yi Huang, Tingfang Ji, Wanshi Chen, Joseph Binamira Soriaga
  • Publication number: 20230006801
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for controlling multiplexing of a reference signal on an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH). In an implementation, a user equipment (UE) may time division multiplex (TDM) a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) with other signaling across symbol periods of one or more allocated resource blocks. The UE may map the DMRS to resource elements of one or more symbol periods within the allocated resource blocks. The UE may then map uplink control information (UCI) to one or more symbol periods different than the symbol periods of the DMRS mapping. In some cases, the DMRS, UCI, or both may be frequency interleaved with UL-SCH data for the allocated resource blocks. The UE may generate and transmit an uplink waveform for transmission within the allocated resources of the uplink shared channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Renqiu Wang, Wei Yang
  • Publication number: 20230007683
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a primary user equipment (UE) may transmit, on a sidelink, information indicating a set of sidelink random access configurations corresponding to a set of uplink random access configurations; receive, on the sidelink and from a secondary UE, a random access signal based at least in part on a selected sidelink random access configuration of the set of sidelink random access configurations, wherein the selected sidelink random access configuration corresponds to a selected uplink random access configuration of the set of uplink random access configurations; and selectively performing a random access procedure in accordance with the selected uplink random access configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Qiaoyu LI, Chao WEI, Wanshi CHEN, Huilin XU, Jing LEI, Peter Pui Lok ANG, Min HUANG, Yu ZHANG, Chenxi HAO, Hao XU
  • Patent number: 11546120
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may determine channel state information (CSI) feedback based at least in part on a channel quality information (CQI) table and a CSI reference resource size of the apparatus, wherein at least one of the CSI feedback or the CQI table is modified based at least in part on a modulation configuration of the apparatus; and report the CSI feedback. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Kapil Bhattad, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11546933
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques are described herein for cross component carrier (CC) shared channel repetition. The method for wireless communications may include identifying a set of CCs supported by a user equipment (UE) for communications with a base station. A UE may receive a downlink control message from the base station that schedules multiple repetitions of a transport block for the UE, where a first repetition of the multiple repetitions is scheduled on a first CC of the set of CCs and a second repetition of the multiple repetitions is scheduled on a second CC of the set of CCs. The method may also include transmitting or receiving the first repetition via the first CC and the second repetition via the second CC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wanshi Chen, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11546117
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a first hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) payload for a first component carrier (CC) set based at least in part on a first downlink assignment index (DAI). The UE may determine a second HARQ-ACK payload for a second CC set based at least in part on a second DAI. The UE may transmit the first HARQ-ACK payload for the first CC set and the second HARQ-ACK payload for the second CC set. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Peter Pui Lok Ang, Wanshi Chen, Heechoon Lee, Jing Sun, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Yang Yang
  • Patent number: 11546935
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink control message from a base station scheduling multiple downlink messages and indicating a first offset for communicating a first feedback message of multiple feedback messages including feedback information for the multiple downlink messages. The UE may additionally receive, from the base station, a second offset for communicating the remaining feedback messages of the multiple feedback messages after communicating the first feedback message. The UE may transmit the first feedback message a quantity of resources equal to the first offset after receiving a first downlink message. The UE may then transmit the remaining feedback messages a quantity of resources equal to the second offset after transmitting the first feedback message. Each of the feedback messages may include feedback information for one downlink message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Jing Lei, Huilin Xu, Hwan Joon Kwon, Wanshi Chen