Patents by Inventor WEIMIN DUAN

WEIMIN DUAN 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: 12052073
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media for wireless communications. For example, an example of a process may include receiving, at a network device (e.g., a user equipment (UE)) from a network entity via a number of sensing streams based on a maximum of Nt?J sensing streams, a waveform including communications resources and sensing resources. The waveform has a rank Nt and J is a number of layers scheduled for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications that is less than Nt. The process may further include processing at least the communications resources of the waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Hyojin Lee, Seyong Park
  • Publication number: 20240250793
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a first user equipment (UE) may identify a set of positioning peer UEs, the set comprising at least one positioning peer UE. The UE may perform a UE-initiated sidelink positioning reference signal (SL-PRS) configuration process, the process comprising, for each of at least one positioning peer UE in the set of positioning peer UEs, selecting a desired SL-PRS configuration to be used by the respective positioning peer UE, and indicating, to the respective positioning peer UE, the desired SL-PRS configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Mukesh KUMAR, Srinivas YERRAMALLI, Weimin DUAN
  • Patent number: 12047889
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus at a UE in NTN are provided. An example method at a UE may include obtaining an indication of a subset of one or more SSB beams included in a set of SSB beams. The example method may further include outputting for transmission or obtaining a communication independent of using any resources associated with SSB transmission via the subset of one or more SSB beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lianghai Ji, Huilin Xu, Liangping Ma, Qiang Wu, Jun Ma, Mehmet Izzet Gurelli, Weimin Duan, Karthik Anantha Swamy
  • Patent number: 12047935
    Abstract: Methods of reducing the interferences of radar signals with uplink or downlink data communication signals in a wireless system for both data communication and radar sensing may include configuring the transmitters of the radar signals and the data communication signals such that the data communication signals and the radar signals are transmitted using different radio frequency resources, and/or configuring the receivers of the data communication signals to receive the data communication signals using a receive beam that does not collide with radar beams. The methods may also include using a reference signal for both downlink data communication and radar sensing and/or determining a Quasi-Colocation (QCL) configuration for downlink data reception based on information regarding a radar beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Alexandros Manolakos, Seyong Park
  • Publication number: 20240244564
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may obtain configuration information that identifies resources for sounding reference signal (SRS) positioning. The UE may transmit, to a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), a plurality of SRS transmissions at different times according to the configuration information. The UE may receive, from the RIS, a plurality of SRS transmissions comprising reflections of the plurality of SRS transmissions to the RIS, wherein each of the plurality of SRS transmissions from the RIS is transmitted at a different angle of departure (AoD) from the RIS. The UE may measure each of the plurality of SRS transmissions from the RIS to produce a plurality of measurements. The UE may perform a positioning operation based on the plurality of measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Weimin DUAN, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Jing LEI
  • Publication number: 20240241215
    Abstract: In an aspect, a radar controller determines a radar slot format that configures transmission of a reference radar signal on a first symbol over a first link from a first base station to a second base station followed by at least one target radar signal on at least one second symbol over at least one second link from the first base station to the second base station, and transmits an indication of the radar slot format to the first base station and the second base station. The first base station transmits, and the second base station receives, the reference radar signal and the at least one target radar signal in accordance with the radar slot format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Weimin DUAN, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Seyong PARK, Renqiu WANG, Hwan Joon KWON, Krishna Kiran MUKKAVILLI, Taesang YOO
  • Patent number: 12041511
    Abstract: In an aspect, a serving BS of a UE measures ToAs of a DL-PRS from a non-serving base station of the UE and an UL-SRS-P from the UE. The serving BS transmits measurement information based on the ToA measurements of the DL-PRS and the UL-SRS-P to a position estimation entity. The position estimation entity determines a positioning estimate for the UE based in part upon the measurement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Alexandros Manolakos, Jing Lei
  • Publication number: 20240235910
    Abstract: Techniques and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration from a network entity for multiplexing a reference signal with a data signal in time and in frequency or for multiplexing the reference signal in a Doppler domain. The UE may receive an assignment of multiple time-frequency resources from the network entity for transmission of the reference signal. The UE may multiplex the reference signal across the assigned time-frequency resources in accordance with the received configuration. The UE may transmit the multiplexed reference signal to the network entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Jing Jiang, Yu Zhang, Wei Yang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Publication number: 20240235664
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a first network node, a first indication of satellite assistance information that is associated with a second network node, a second indication of first timing information that is associated with the satellite assistance information, and a third indication of second timing information that is associated with the satellite assistance information. The UE may transmit an uplink signal to the second network node based at least in part on validating the satellite assistance information using the second timing information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Lianghai JI, Jun MA, Liangping MA, Mohamad SAYED HASSAN, Weimin DUAN
  • Publication number: 20240230825
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for communication. In an aspect, a network component determines location assistance data comprising information associated with one or more reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The network component transmits, to a user equipment (UE), the location assistance data to facilitate one or more location procedures based on the location assistance data. The UE receives the location assistance data and performs the one or more location procedures based on the location assistance data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Weimin DUAN, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Krishna Kiran MUKKAVILLI, Wanshi CHEN, Naga BHUSHAN, Jay Kumar SUNDARARAJAN, Seyong PARK
  • Publication number: 20240224198
    Abstract: Implementations of a sensing headroom report (HR), generating the sensing HR, and adjusting transmit powers and other parameters are described. A device transmits a radar wireless signal at a first transmit power from one or more transmit chains. The device also senses the radar wireless signal. The device generates a sensing HR based on sensing the radar wireless signal. The sensing HR may include one or more indications of metrics associated with a received power, such as a transmit power headroom, a sensing headroom, or a combination of a self-interference power, noise, and received power. The device provides the sensing HR to another device in the wireless network (such as via a base station and/or core network to a radar server), and another device may determine a transmit power or other device parameters to be used for sensing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Weimin DUAN, Xiaoxin ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12025722
    Abstract: During positioning of a user equipment (UE), downlink (DL) positioning reference signals (PRS) transmitted by one or more transmission reception point (TRP) in a wireless communication system may be preempted or punctured by higher priority transmissions, such as ultra-reliable low-latency traffic (URLLC). A PRS preemption indication (PI) may be provided to a UE by a serving TRP identifying one or more TRPs affected by preemption. The PRS PI may further identify the time domain and frequency domain of the preempted DL PRS transmissions. The PRS PI may identify the time domain, e.g., based on a number of PRS symbols between two monitoring occasions, wherein only PRS symbols that contain downlink positioning reference signals associated with the group of TRPs are counted. The PRS PI may identify the frequency domain by identifying at least one of four or more frequency sub-bands of the preempted DL PRS transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Weimin Duan, Gokul Sridharan, Wanshi Chen
  • Publication number: 20240214970
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a serving base station, a first round-trip time (RTT) measurement signal. The UE may send, to the serving base station, a second RTT measurement signal. The UE may send, to at least one other UE, a third RTT measurement signal. The UE may send, to the serving base station or to a location server, an indication of a first delay between receiving the first RTT measurement signal and sending the second RTT measurement signal and an indication of a second delay between sending the second RTT measurement signal and sending the third RTT measurement signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Weimin DUAN, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Naga BHUSHAN, Jay Kumar SUNDARARAJAN, Krishna Kiran MUKKAVILLI
  • Patent number: 12022354
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a reduced-capability user equipment (UE) receives, from each of one or more premium UEs, one or more parameters indicating a quality of a location estimate of the premium UE, selects at least one premium UE based on the quality of the location estimate of the at least one premium UE, and derives a location estimate of the reduced-capability UE based on the location estimate of the at least one premium UE. In another aspect, a reduced-capability UE transmits, to at least one premium UE, a request to perform one or more positioning measurements of one or more downlink reference signals, receives, from the at least one premium UE, a measurement report comprising the one or more positioning measurements, and determines a location estimate of the reduced-capability UE based on the one or more positioning measurements in the measurement report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Alexandros Manolakos, Huilin Xu, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Pui Lok Ang
  • Publication number: 20240204942
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for communication. In an aspect, a location server transmits, to a base station serving a user equipment (UE), a positioning information request message including a request for partial frequency sounding (PFS) configuration parameters supported by the UE for frequency hopping sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission, and receives, from the base station, a positioning information response message including the PFS configuration parameters supported by the UE, the PFS configuration parameters indicating at least one or more types of PFS patterns the UE is capable of applying to the frequency hopping SRS transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Weimin DUAN, Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR
  • Publication number: 20240205849
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating SSBs for reduced capability UEs in an NTN are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a UE includes monitoring in a first resource for at least a part of a first portion of a first SSB of a non-terrestrial network and a second portion of the first SSB, the first resource being associated with a first beam. The example method also includes monitoring for a second SSB of the non-terrestrial network on a second beam in a second resource that overlaps at least in part with the second portion of the first SSB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Lianghai JI, Huilin XU, Jing LEI, Jun MA, Qiang WU, Mohamad SAYED HASSAN, Mehmet Izzet GURELLI, Weimin DUAN, Karthik ANANTHA SWAMY
  • Publication number: 20240205827
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may determine to change a power mode of the UE to a new power mode. The UE may change the power mode of the UE to the new power mode, wherein if the new power mode comprises a power saving mode, the UE measures positioning reference signals (PRSs) from one transmission/reception point (TRP), and wherein if the new power mode is a normal power mode, the UE measures PRSs from two or more TRPs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Weimin DUAN, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Jay Kumar SUNDARARAJAN, Krishna Kiran MUKKAVILLI, Naga BHUSHAN
  • Publication number: 20240196357
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) transmits, to a base station, a first message of a random access procedure, the first message indicating that the UE is a positioning-only UE, receives, from the base station, in response to transmission of the first message, a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration for the UE, the SRS configuration indicating one or more time and frequency resources on which the UE is expected to transmit SRS for an uplink-only positioning session, and transmits the SRS on the one or more time and frequency resources based on the SRS configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Jing LEI, Hung Dinh LY, Weimin DUAN, Tingfang JI
  • Publication number: 20240183927
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for using reference signals that enable accurate measurements of a moving UE. To this end, techniques can include a location server obtaining an indication that the velocity of the UE exceeds a threshold and, in response, configuring the UE to measure a reference signal using a selected Tracking Reference Signal (TRS) as a Quasi-Collocation (QCL) reference. In particular, a periodic TRS (P-TRS) or an aperiodic TRS (AP-TRS) can be used as the QCL reference. A reference signal may be configured based on an existing TRS configuration, or a TRS may be configured based on a reference signal configuration. According to some embodiments, a UE may provide velocity information to the location server. Additionally or alternatively, a measurement period for the reference signal may be based on a velocity of the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Weimin DUAN, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Yi HUANG
  • Publication number: 20240183925
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for communication. In an aspect, a UE reports a combination pattern for a combined measurement associated with samples across PRS occasions of a PRS measurement procedure. In another aspect, a UE reports a combined calibration error of a combined measurement associated with samples across PRS occasions of a PRS measurement procedure. The reported combination pattern and/or combined calibration error may be used by a position estimation entity for derivation of a position estimate of the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Jingchao BAO, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Weimin DUAN