Patents by Inventor Wook Bong Lee

Wook Bong Lee 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).

  • Wireless communication technology, apparatuses, and methods
    Patent number: 11955732
    Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asl, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Brandon Davis, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Yossi Tsfati, Marian Verhelst, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
  • Management of MIMO communication systems
    Patent number: 11949474
    Abstract: Apparatuses of a user equipment (UE), a cellular base station, and radio access network (RAN) nodes are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless communication device includes circuitry configured to measure reference signals received from a plurality of antennas of an other wireless communication device, and circuitry configured to cause one or more antennas of the wireless communication device to transmit information regarding the received reference signals back to the other wireless communication device to enable the other wireless communication device to estimate a utility function for different transmit parameter sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jan Schreck, Nageen Himayat, Hosein Nikopour, Feng Xue, Ehsan Aryafar, Oner Orhan, Mustafa R. Akdeniz, Wook Bong Lee, Jing Zhu
  • Method and system for dynamic access point selection in coordinated access point group
    Patent number: 11943709
    Abstract: A method and device are provided for dynamic access point (AP) selection by a coordinator in a coordinated AP group. The coordinator of the coordinated AP group receives one or more link quality metrics for each link between a station (STA) and each of a plurality of member APs in the coordinated AP group, from the plurality of member APs. The coordinator selects an anchor AP for the STA from the plurality of member APs based on the one or more link quality metrics for each link. The anchor AP is used to relay transmissions between the STA and the coordinator. Authentication of the STA with the anchor AP is shared with all APs in the coordinated AP group, allowing the STA to utilize any subsequently selected anchor AP to relay transmissions without re-authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tianyu Wu, Wook Bong Lee, Ashok Ranganath, Srinivas Kandala
  • CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION CONCATENATION AND ANTENNA PORT MEASUREMENT
    Publication number: 20240097767
    Abstract: Herein described are apparatuses, systems, and methods for measurement and reporting of channel state information within wireless network systems. In embodiments, an apparatus for a user equipment (UE) may include memory to store a rank indicator (RI), a precoding matrix index (PMI), and a channel quality indicator (CQI) of channel state information (CSI) for the UE. The apparatus may further include circuitry to concatenate the RI, the PMI, and the CQI to produce a concatenated CSI element, generate a CSI report that includes the concatenated CSI element, and cause the CSI report to be transmitted to a base station within a single slot. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexei DAVYDOV, Sameer PAWAR, Wook Bong LEE, Yushu ZHANG, Victor SERGEEV, Joonyoung CHO, Dmitry DIKAREV
  • TWO-DIMENSIONAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION
    Publication number: 20240064714
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided in which an access point (AP) transmits a trigger frame to one or more user equipments (UEs). The trigger frame includes an indication of allocated resource units (RUs) for random access (RA). A UE allocates respective data to a sets of RUs for RA that are consecutive in a single frequency segment over a time domain of a physical protocol data unit (PPDU), based on the trigger frame. The UE transmits the PPDU to the AP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Srinivas KANDALA, Wook Bong LEE, Ruchen DUAN, Vamadevan NAMBOODIRI, Mark RISON
  • System and method for dynamic adjustment of target wake time service period intervals
    Patent number: 11910313
    Abstract: A method for communicating over a WiFi channel. In some embodiments, the method includes determining, by a non-access point station, that a first skipping criterion is met; in response to determining that the first skipping criterion is met, skipping N1 target wait time service periods, N1 being a positive integer; after skipping N1 target wait time service periods, determining, by the non-access point station, whether a second skipping criterion is met; and in response to determining that the second skipping criterion is met, skipping N2 subsequent target wait time service periods, N2 being a positive integer greater than N1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Md Majharul Islam Rajib, Tianyu Wu, Wook Bong Lee, Ashok Ranganath
  • System and method for providing sub-band whitening in the presence of partial-band interference
    Patent number: 11901933
    Abstract: A method and system for providing sub-band whitening are herein provided. According to one embodiment, a method includes deriving an estimated noise plus interference variance (NIVar) based on at least one legacy-long training field (LLTF) symbol from an LLTF signal; and updating an interference whitening (IW) factor by using a sub-band NIVar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Mostafa Sayed Roshdy Ibrahim, Ruchen Duan, Wook Bong Lee, Minki Ahn, Hyun Bae Jeon
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ENABLING VIRTUAL BSS AND MULTI-AP TRANSMISSIONS
    Publication number: 20240008057
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for controlling a coordinating network entity in a virtual network including a plurality of access points (APs) and at least one wireless station (STA), including receiving one or more parameters from at least one AP included in the plurality of APs; identifying a first multi-AP coordination scheme based on the one or more parameters; and assigning the first multi-AP coordination scheme to a first dynamic group of network entities included in the virtual network, wherein the first dynamic group of network entities performs wireless communication based on the first multi-AP coordination scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Vamadevan NAMBOODIRI, Wook Bong LEE, Srinivas KANDALA, Ruchen DUAN
  • SHARED TRANSMISSION OPPORTUNITY OPERATION IN MULTI-ACCESS POINT COORDINATION
    Publication number: 20230413255
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of setting conditions for an access point (AP) to be included in an AP candidate set of a coordinating AP for a transmission opportunity (TXOP), including setting a first primary channel of the AP as part of the AP candidate set of the coordinating AP within a basic service set (BSS) operating bandwidth of the coordinating AP, and coordinating AP updates in the AP candidate set when a coordinated AP that is part of the AP candidate set performs a channel switch to a second primary channel operating on a different bandwidth stream than a bandwidth stream of the first primary channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Sharan NARIBOLE, Srinivas KANDALA, Wook Bong LEE, Ashok RANGANATH
  • Channel state information concatenation and antenna port measurement
    Patent number: 11848736
    Abstract: Herein described are apparatuses, systems, and methods for measurement and reporting of channel state information within wireless network systems. In embodiments, an apparatus for a user equipment (UE) may include memory to store a rank indicator (RI), a precoding matrix index (PMI), and a channel quality indicator (CQI) of channel state information (CSI) for the UE. The apparatus may further include circuitry to concatenate the RI, the PMI, and the CQI to produce a concatenated CSI element, generate a CSI report that includes the concatenated CSI element, and cause the CSI report to be transmitted to a base station within a single slot. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Sameer Pawar, Wook Bong Lee, Yushu Zhang, Victor Sergeev, Joonyoung Cho, Dmitry Dikarev
  • System and method of establishing communication for exchanging ranging information
    Patent number: 11832256
    Abstract: A method of establishing communication between a first device and a second device to exchange ranging information is provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes: sending, by the first device to the second device via a first channel, or receiving, by the first device from the second device via the first channel, a first control message indicating a start time; sending, by the first device to the second device via a second channel, a second control message including one or more ranging parameter values for exchanging the ranging information, the second control message being sent at the start time; and exchanging, by the first device with the second device via the second channel, the ranging information over one or more ranging rounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wook Bong Lee, Ashok Ranganath
  • Method and system for simultaneous multi-channel downlink operation in wireless local area network
    Patent number: 11818759
    Abstract: Methods and a devices are provided is for receiving simultaneous downlink transmissions at a mobile station (STA). Information regarding whether endings of simultaneous data transmissions to the mobile station are to be aligned is transmitted to an access point (AP). The simultaneous data transmissions are between the AP and the STA over a pair of channels. Reception begins of a first data transmission, from the AP, on a first channel of the pair of channels. Reception begins of a second data transmission, from the AP, on a second channel of the pair of channels. The second data transmission overlaps at least a portion of the first data transmission. Reception of the second data transmission ends upon an end of the first data transmission when the information indicates that the endings of simultaneous downlink data transmissions are to be aligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventors: Sharan Naribole, Srinivas Kandala, Wook Bong Lee, Ashok Ranganath
  • Systems and methods for providing high data throughput in 6 GHz Wi-Fi network
    Patent number: 11811687
    Abstract: A method for allowing wireless communication between an access point and a wireless station in a wireless communication network includes: providing at least one from a combination of a 2.4 GHz frequency band and a 5 GHz frequency band; providing a frequency band including a 6 GHz frequency band for allowing wireless data communication; assigning a first data communication channel having a first frequency bandwidth in the frequency band including the 6 GHz frequency band between the access point and the wireless station; and transmitting data packets between the access point and the wireless station via the first data communication channel in the frequency band including the 6 GHz frequency band. Each of the 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tianyu Wu, Wook Bong Lee, Minyoung Park
  • Systems and methods for providing feedback for wireless communication
    Patent number: 11792835
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing feedback regarding a wireless communication channel is disclosed. A responding processor is configured to estimate condition of the wireless communication channel and generate a data field. The data field includes a communication parameter based on the estimated condition of the wireless communication channel. The data field is attached to a control frame, and the control frame is transmitted with the attached data field. A transmitting processor is configured to receive the control frame, and determine whether the control frame includes the data field. The transmitting processor retrieves the data field from the control frame, and selects, based on the communication parameter in the data field, a transmit parameter for transmitting data over the wireless communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruchen Duan, Mostafa Sayed Roshdy Ibrahim, Wook Bong Lee, Srinivas Kandala, Ashok Ranganath
  • SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR ASSOCIATION AND AUTHENTICATION FOR MULTI ACCESS POINT COORDINATION
    Publication number: 20230328519
    Abstract: A method for associating and authenticating a station (STA) with a coordinated access point (AP) group may include generating a pairwise master key (PMK) between the STA and a coordinator of the coordinated AP group, and maintaining an association and authentication state between the STA and the coordinated AP group based on the PMK. The method may further include generating one or more temporal keys between the STA and the coordinator based on the PMK. The method may further include distributing the PMK from the coordinator to a first member AP and a second member AP of the coordinated AP group. The method may further include generating a first temporal key between the STA and the first member AP, and generating a second temporal key between the STA and the second member AP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Sharan NARIBOLE, Srinivas KANDALA, Wook Bong LEE, Ashok RANGANATH
  • RS (reference signal) sequence generation and mapping and precoder assignment for NR (new radio)
    Patent number: 11784863
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are disclosed for generating demodulation reference signals (DM-RS). In one example, a method for a user equipment (UE), includes receiving a configuration of a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs) configured with respective numerologies; generating a first pseudo-random sequence based at least in part on one or more of a physical cell ID, a virtual cell ID, a symbol index, a slot index, a frame index, a scrambling ID, or a UE ID for generation of a first DM-RS sequence, wherein a initialization seed for the first pseudo-random sequence is based on a scrambling ID and a slot index, wherein, for the plurality of BWPs a respective scrambling ID is associated with each BWP, and wherein the slot index is defined in accordance with the numerology of the associated BWP; and mapping, for a first BWP, the first DM-RS sequence to at least one DM-RS symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Debdeep Chatterjee, Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Wook Bong Lee, Dae Won Lee, Sameer Pawar, Jeongho Jeon, Hong He
  • System and method for efficient initialization of memory digital pre-distorter coefficients to reduce calibration time
    Patent number: 11770145
    Abstract: An electronic device configured to apply, to a first power amplifier (PA) input, one or more updated memory digital pre-distorter (mDPD) coefficient values is provided. The electronic device includes a processor; and a memory including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to preload, from values stored in the memory of the electronic device, one or more mDPD coefficient values; transmit a training signal sequence while using the preloaded one or more mDPD coefficient values; receive the training signal sequence; update the one or more mDPD coefficient values based on the transmitted training signal sequence, the received training signal sequence, and the preloaded one or more mDPD coefficient values; and apply the updated one or more mDPD coefficient values to distort the first PA input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventors: Vamadevan Namboodiri, Wook Bong Lee, Donghan Kim, Ruchen Duan, Mostafa Sayed Roshdy Ibrahim
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING POWER USAGE OF A MULTI-LINK DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH A PLURALITY OF RADIO INTERFACES
    Publication number: 20230292240
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing use of power of a wireless communication device configured to communicate over a plurality of radio links. A criterion is detected, and one of the plurality of radio links is selected as a selected radio link based on detecting the criterion. Operation of the selected radio link is switched from a first operating mode to a second operating mode, and operation of one or more remaining radio links of the plurality of radio links is disabled. In response to switching operation of the selected radio link to the second operating mode, the selected radio link oscillates between an awake state and an asleep state. Radio traffic information for the plurality of radio links is received, via the selected radio link, during the awake state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Sharan Naribole, Srinivas Kandala, Wook Bong Lee, Ashok Ranganath
  • System and method for providing a synchronized mode for WLAN operation in a WLAN band
    Patent number: 11758491
    Abstract: A method for providing a mode of wireless local area network (WLAN) operation is disclosed. The method includes: sending an association request from a wireless station (STA) over a discovery channel; receiving an association response at the STA over the discovery channel in response to the association request; and associating the STA to provide a multi-user (MU) enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) mode using a scheduled access channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ravi Gidvani, Ashok Ranganath, Wook Bong Lee, Sharan Naribole, Shailender Karmuchi
  • System and method for beam management procedure configuration
    Patent number: 11742921
    Abstract: Systems and methods of beam reporting for multiple DL processes are described. A UE receives a beam management processes configuration that provides information about beam management reference signals for beam management procedures. The UE transmits a UE capability report that indicates beam management capabilities of the UE and, later, an indication of whether the UE intends to engage in beam refinement. The UE measures the beam management reference signals and receives a beam reporting message that indicates at least one of the beam management procedures to report. In response, the UE transmits the beam report. The beam report contains beam management reference signal measurements of the beam management procedures indicated by the beam reporting message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Huaning Niu, Wook Bong Lee, Alexei Davydov, Guotong Wang