Patents Issued in February 20, 2024
  • Patent number: 11909444
    Abstract: An optical signal receivers, systems including the optical signal receivers, and methods of operating the same include a multimode fiber circulator including a first port, a second port, and a third port, a first multimode fiber cable coupled to the first port and having an input configured to receive a complex modulated optical signal and provide the complex modulated optical signal to the first port of the multimode fiber circulator, a second multimode fiber cable including a low Q optical resonator coupled to the second port of the multimode fiber circulator that is configured to receive the complex modulated optical signal from the second port of the multimode circulator, and a third multimode fiber cable coupled to the third port of the multimode fiber circulator that is configured to receive a reflected optical signal from the third port of the multimode circulator, the reflected optical signal being reflected from the low Q optical resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: James Talamonti, Andrew Kowalevicz, Gary M. Graceffo, Benjamin P. Dolgin
  • Patent number: 11909445
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for an optical domain controller for managing and maintaining a record of network component configuration and interconnections. The optical domain controller detects changes in a configuration of optical network elements in response to a requested service from the network, coordinates additional changes in configurations to optical network elements that may be affected by the detected change, communicates with the optical network elements to incorporate the changes to the configurations of the network element, and stores the configurations and states of the network elements. The use of the optical domain controller may thus replace or supplement a database storing network configuration information by automatically managing changes to the network as new services are instantiated directly on the optical network elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William Feight, Tara Joseph-Labrie, James M. Adkins, III, Clyde David Cooper, III
  • Patent number: 11909446
    Abstract: A data transmission method includes receiving, by an optical line terminal (OLT) from an optical network unit (ONU), uplink burst data that includes a synchronization data block and a payload, where the synchronization data block includes first synchronization data, wherein the first synchronization data includes a first preamble and an ONU identifier, and a first bandwidth occupied by the first frequency distribution of the first synchronization data is narrower than a second bandwidth occupied by the second frequency distribution of the payload, and obtaining, by the OLT from the first synchronization data, the ONU identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuming Wu, Shengping Li, Lei Zhou, Xiaofei Zeng
  • Patent number: 11909447
    Abstract: An optical transceiver module includes a first housing, a second housing, an engagement component, a conductive body, and a circuit board. The first housing has a first sidewall and a first groove. The first groove is closer to a central line of a major axis of the first housing than the first sidewall. The second housing is assembled with the first housing. The second housing has a second sidewall. The second sidewall is extended into the first groove. The engagement component has a first engagement portion. The first engagement portion is extended between the first sidewall and the second sidewall. The conductive body is disposed between the first groove and the second sidewall. The circuit board is disposed between the first housing and the second housing to perform photoelectric conversion. Therefore, the stroke of the engagement component can be fixed, and the electromagnetic interference can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Chia-Lun Ku, Tun-Chuan Chen, Chen-Mao Lu
  • Patent number: 11909448
    Abstract: Provided is a single-fiber bi-directional optical transceiver sub-assembly capable of improving the wavelength separation characteristics of a multiplexing/demultiplexing filter while also attaining a compact size. A single-fiber bi-directional optical transceiver sub-assembly is provided with a housing, an optical receptacle, a multiplexing/demultiplexing filter, a receiving-side photoelectric converter, a transmitting-side photoelectric converter, an isolator, and a collimating lens. The multiplexing/demultiplexing filter is disposed on the optical path between the optical receptacle and the transmitting-side photoelectric converter and on the optical path between the optical receptacle and the receiving-side photoelectric converter. The isolator passes optical signals outputted from the transmitting-side photoelectric converter and blocks optical signals proceeding to the transmitting-side photoelectric converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao Tomita
  • Patent number: 11909449
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate having a first surface and an opposite second surface; a photonic transmitter supported by the first surface of the substrate; a photonic receiver supported by the first surface of the substrate; a microfluidic volume positioned in the second surface of the substrate; a waveguide positioned to direct photonic signal from the photonic transmitter to the photonic receiver, wherein at least a portion of the waveguide is positioned between the first surface of the substrate and at least a portion of the microfluidic volume; and a working fluid in the microfluidic volume to receive heat from the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Vaidehi Oruganti, Bharath Ramakrishnan, Husam Atallah Alissa, Christian L. Belady
  • Patent number: 11909450
    Abstract: A communication system that includes a cloud server that obtains first sensor data associated with a defined indoor area and second sensor data associated with each of a plurality of optical nodes in defined indoor area. The plurality of optical nodes includes a master communication device, a plurality of optical routing devices, and one or more service communication devices. The cloud server further obtains location coordinates of each of the plurality of optical nodes. The cloud server then causes the master communication device to form a laser beam-based wireless communication network in the defined indoor area. A free-space optical backhaul is constructed by establishing a point-to-point free-space laser link between each pair of optical nodes of the plurality of optical nodes and a RF supervisory link is established between each pair of optical nodes of the plurality of optical nodes for a network monitoring and control function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: WIRELESS PHOTONICS LLC
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Bahram Jalali, Mehdi Hatamian, Arman Rofougaran, Milan Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 11909451
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing bosonic quantum error correction (QEC) using Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states are provided. An ancilla quantum mechanical oscillator is used to probe Gaussian noise experienced by a data quantum mechanical oscillator without disturbing the state of the data quantum mechanical oscillator. The ancilla quantum mechanical oscillator is initialized with a GKP state and entangled with the state of a data quantum mechanical oscillator to correlate any noise experienced by the data state with the state of the ancilla quantum mechanical oscillator. The states are then disentangled, and momentum and position quadrature operators of the ancilla quantum mechanical oscillator are measured and used to perform QEC on the information stored in the data quantum mechanical oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Yale University
    Inventors: Kyungjoo Noh, Steven M. Girvin, Liang Jiang
  • Patent number: 11909452
    Abstract: An optical communication system includes an optical transmitter and one or more processors. The optical transmitter is configured to output an optical signal, and includes an average-power-limited optical amplifier, such as an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). The one or more processors are configured to receive optical signal data related to a received power for a communication link from a remote communication system and determine that the optical signal data is likely to fall below a minimum received power within a time interval. In response to the determination, the one or more processors are configured to determine a duty cycle of the optical transmitter based on a minimum on-cycle length and a predicted EDFA output power and operate the optical transmitter using the determined duty cycle to transmit an on-cycle power that is no less than the minimum required receiver power for error-free operation of the communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Moision, Devin Brinkley, Baris Ibrahim Erkmen
  • Patent number: 11909453
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a method for receiving a near-field radio wave, the wave being received using electromagnetic-wave conduction capacities of the body of a user who is able to make a validation gesture that modifies characteristics of the radio wave. The method includes detecting a first modification of a characteristic of the radio wave, the first modification being resultant from a start of the gesture, and detecting a second modification of a characteristic of the radio wave, the second modification being resultant from an end of the gesture, where the acquisition of a right for the user is dependent on the first modification and the second modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Javaudin, Philippe Dussaume
  • Patent number: 11909454
    Abstract: A method for receiving a signal during an intrabody communication via a user carrying a terminal. The method is performed by the terminal and includes: receiving a signal from a communication device, indicating that the user moved closer to the device between two instants; detecting, in the signal received, a first radio frame generated between the two instants, the first frame being at the same frequency as that of the signal received; detecting, in the signal received, a second radio frame generated between the two instants, the second frame being at a different frequency to that of the signal received; comparing the first frame to the second frame; and validating a transaction based on the presence or absence of information common to the first and second compared frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Orange
    Inventors: Philippe Dussaume, Jean-Philippe Javaudin
  • Patent number: 11909455
    Abstract: A method includes transmitting, by a transceiver configured to concurrently transmit over multiple transmit paths and receive over multiple receive paths, one or more signals, the transceiver comprising multiple transmit antennas and multiple receive antennas. The method also includes, for at least one of the multiple receive antennas: receiving one or more feedback signals from one or more power amplifiers associated with the one or more transmitted signals; calculating one or more estimated self-interference (SI) signals based on the one or more feedback signals using an equalizer array comprising a predetermined channel model; and subtracting the one or more estimated SI signals from one or more receive signals received at the at least one receive antenna to obtain one or more residual signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chance Tarver, Matthew Tonnemacher, Khurram Muhammad
  • Patent number: 11909456
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that enable a supplemental voltage to be delivered to a Remote Radio Unit (RRU) to compensate for a voltage loss that occurs between a primary Direct Current (DC) power source and the RRU. A supplemental voltage controller is described that captures current environmental metadata associated with an operation of the RRU and calculates an RRU voltage at the RRU. In doing so, the supplemental voltage controller may generate a supplemental voltage control signal that supplements the RRU with a supplemental DC voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Fischer
  • Patent number: 11909457
    Abstract: A method includes transmitting, by a transceiver configured to concurrently transmit over multiple transmit paths and receive over multiple receive paths, one or more signals, the transceiver comprising multiple transmit antennas and multiple receive antennas. The method also includes, for at least one of the multiple receive antennas: applying a transmit path model to one or more transmitted signals to generate one or more transmit path estimates, the transmit path model determined based on multiple analog power amplifiers associated with the multiple transmit paths; calculating one or more estimated self-interference (SI) signals based on the one or more transmit path estimates using an equalizer array comprising a predetermined channel model; and subtracting the one or more estimated SI signals from one or more receive signals received at the at least one receive antenna to obtain one or more residual signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chance Tarver, Matthew Tonnemacher, Khurram Muhammad
  • Patent number: 11909458
    Abstract: A method for antenna calibration for an active antenna system is disclosed. According to an embodiment, test signals are generated for multiple antennas of the active antenna system. The test signals are transmitted via the multiple antennas. A first signal that results from the transmission of the test signals is received over the air. A second signal is received from a coupler network of the active antenna system. The coupler network is configured to generate coupled signals of the test signals and combine the coupled signals into the second signal. Calibration information for compensating an influence of the coupler network is determined based on the first and second signals. An active antenna system is also disclosed for use in antenna calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Ang Feng, Jinlai He, Yaxin Xing, Guangsheng Guo
  • Patent number: 11909459
    Abstract: The following are executed: received power acquisition processing; propagation loss calculation processing of calculating propagation losses between the transmitter and the receiver, based on received power; median processing of calculating a median of a plurality of the propagation losses calculated in the propagation loss calculation processing in a predetermined time period, and outputting the median as propagation losses to be used for subsequent processing; loss peak acquisition processing of acquiring a maximum value of the propagation losses output in the median processing; distance calculation processing of calculating a distance between the transmitter or the receiver and blocking entities, at least based on the maximum value, heights of antennas, and a wavelength of the radio communication; and congestion degree calculation processing of estimating a congestion degree by calculating the number of the blocking entities in chronological order, based on the distance, integrating the number for a predet
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuki Nakamura, Wataru Yamada, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11909460
    Abstract: Methods and devices are discussed. A device configured to operate in a network comprises communication circuitry and a transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Germany GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Lilia Smaoui, Vladimir Oksman
  • Patent number: 11909461
    Abstract: A communication apparatus acting as a baseband unit (BBU) or being applicable to a BBU, and having instructions for obtaining first coordination information to be sent to a second BBU, determining, based on preset link information, a transmission link corresponding to the second BBU, the transmission link including a first remote radio unit (RRU) and a second RRU, the first RRU belonging to the BBU, the second RRU belonging to the second BBU, and the first RRU and the second RRU being connected through a wired link, sending the first coordination information to the first RRU, sending indication information to the first RRU, the indication information indicating to the first RRU to send the first coordination information to the second RRU through the wired link, the indication information having an identifier of the second RRU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Wang, Chaoyi Yan, Zezhou Luo
  • Patent number: 11909462
    Abstract: Self-powered semi-active electronic tag with autonomous processing capacity and its communication procedure having a semi-active electromagnetic auto-feeding electronic device (nanochip) (without the use of batteries). It has autonomous processing capacity and direct two way intercommunication with another device of the same type and with Wifi communication, Bluetooth, (or similar) to Internet (IoT) for connection via Wifi/Bluetooth, or similar, to Internet with blockchain. It is able to identify transactions machine to machine or machine to user, developed with nanotechnology techniques applicable to any industrial product and even living beings and whose process is carried out in three stages. It is capable of generating its own chain of custody, processing and transmitting information and notifications between tags and between these and authorized networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: YOCTO TECHNOLOGIES, S.L.
    Inventor: Danny Moreno Levy
  • Patent number: 11909463
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may receive, from a base station (BS), an indication of an inter-beam phase factor tracking reference signal configuration for inter-beam phase factor tracking, wherein at least one of the wireless communication device or the BS performs multi-beam combining over at least two static directions or beams from one or more antenna panels. The wireless communication device may perform one or more measurements of an inter-beam phase factor tracking reference signal based at least in part on the inter-beam phase factor tracking reference signal configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Jung Ho Ryu, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11909464
    Abstract: Various example embodiments provide a system for transmission of low power signals based on using transmission time as one coding parameter. A code table may be used at a transmitter and receiver to map different data to different transmission times and/or other parameters. Advantageously, large amount of information may be transmitted with short and power efficient signals, for example to report status of a sensor every now and then. A receiver may use the same code table to decode the signals. Apparatuses, methods, and computer programs are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventor: Timo Tero Joonas Hussa
  • Patent number: 11909465
    Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives one piece of downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a plurality of downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), and a control section that determines either a single TCI state or a plurality of TCI states for the plurality of PDSCHs in at least one of a first case and a second case, the first case being a case that a time offset from the DCI to the plurality of PDSCHs is shorter than a threshold, the second case being a case that a transmission configuration indication (TCI) field is not configured. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, QCL parameters for multi-panel/TRP can be appropriately determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Shaozhen Guo, Jing Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11909466
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for reducing channel state information feedback channel overhead by compressing coefficients of precoding vectors and reporting a subset of the compressed coefficients based on several parameters including network-signaled parameters. Some embodiments may be used in wireless communication embodiments in which channel state information from many layers and many frequency domain units need to be reported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Hao Wu, Yong Li, Guozeng Zheng, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Ngok Li
  • Patent number: 11909467
    Abstract: Provided are a method, an apparatus, a terminal device and a base station for controlling precoding. The method includes: receiving configuration parameters configured by a base station for the precoding, where the precoding is used for feeding back a channel state; determining an upper limit value of a feedback number of coefficients of composition vectors of the precoding according to the configuration parameters; and adjusting the upper limit value of the feedback number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Li, Hao Wu, Guozeng Zheng, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 11909468
    Abstract: A method for pointing an antenna can include positioning, by a positioner, a beam of an antenna mounted on a vehicle to an initial angular position towards a target satellite based on an initial pointing direction for the antenna, the initial pointing direction being defined in a fixed reference plane and communicating, from the antenna, a signal with the target satellite, wherein the positioner controls an orientation of a pedestal of the antenna. The method also includes, executing, by an antenna control unit (ACU), an offset compensation operation of the antenna. The offset correction operation can include adjusting a pointing direction of the antenna to a plurality of angular positions and selecting a scan offset angle based on measured signal metrics for the plurality of angular positions. The method can include calculating a yaw compensation of the antenna based on the initial pointing direction and on a yaw pointing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Viasat, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas J. Merrell
  • Patent number: 11909469
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for transmission opportunity limits, backoff procedures, uplink random access related to uplink multi-user transmission in a High Efficiency WLAN (HEW) are described. An embodiment is a method for performing a frame exchange sequence including an uplink multi-user (UL MU) transmission by an access point (AP) in a wireless local area, the method including acquiring a transmission opportunity (TXOP) for initiating the frame exchange sequence; determining if a time required for the frame exchange sequence not including a control response frame exceeds a TXOP limit; and transmitting a trigger frame to one or more stations (STAs) when the time required for the frame exchange sequence not including the control response frame does not exceed the TXOP limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Atlas Global Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Yongho Seok
  • Patent number: 11909470
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit an encoded transmission via a broadcast to multiple user equipment (UE). Subsequently, the multiple UEs may transmit assistance information to the base station based on attempting to decode the broadcasted encoded transmission. If the decoding is unsuccessful for at least one UE, the base station may then transmit an additional encoded transmission via a unicast or multicast message to the UEs that were unsuccessful. Additionally, the base station may transmit configuration information for the multiple UEs to receive the encoded transmissions and to transmit the assistance information. For example, the configuration information may include portion information for how long the encoded transmission is transmitted via the broadcast, via the unicast, when to transmit the assistance information, etc. In some cases, the configuration information may be based on UE metrics of the multiple UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Liangming Wu, Kangqi Liu, Changlong Xu, Jian Li, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 11909471
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for antenna selection and reporting for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications. One or more grouping parameters may be provided to a wireless node, which may indicate a subset of antennas that are to be used for MIMO communications, may indicate one or more target nodes for MIMO communications, or combinations thereof. The wireless node may measure one or more channel parameters based on the grouping parameters and determine one or more antenna subsets or target nodes that meet MIMO communication parameters (e.g., an antenna group or target node that will support a certain rank of MIMO communications). The wireless node may report an indication of the identified antenna subsets or target nodes to a control entity for scheduling of MIMO communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bilal Sadiq, Juergen Cezanne, Danlu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11909472
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method of providing implicit channel state information (CSI) feedback from a user equipment (UE). The method includes determining a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) selection decision metric, selecting one of a sub-band (SB) linear combination coefficient (LCC) selection method, a wideband (WB) LCC selection method, or a sub-band group (SBG) LCC selection method, based on the determined PMI selection decision metric, determining, using the selected LCC selection method, PMI indices based on sub-bands configured by a base station, and transmitting the determined PMI indices to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Federico Penna, Hyukjoon Kwon, Dongwoon Bai, Jaein Kim, Junho Lee, Hui Won Je
  • Patent number: 11909473
    Abstract: Methods, a base unit and a remote unit are disclosed. A method comprises determining two or more SRS resource sets for codebook or non-codebook based UL transmission of the mobile unit in the condition that the number of antenna ports simultaneously used by the mobile unit for transmitting is smaller than the number of antenna ports simultaneously used by the mobile unit for receiving; and transmitting a trigger associated with the two or more SRS resource sets to the mobile unit to trigger SRS resource transmissions by the mobile unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Bingchao Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Lingling Xiao
  • Patent number: 11909474
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a technique for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The UE implements the technique to detect that a decoding failure of a first multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmission, sent by a network entity on a first number of layers, is caused by a rank mismatch. The UE then sends a rank correction request to a network entity. The UE then combines samples from the first MIMO transmission and a second MIMO transmission, sent by the network entity using a space-time code (STC) with a second number of layers in response to the rank correction request, to recover data lost due to the decoding failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Tal Oved, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger, Assaf Touboul
  • Patent number: 11909475
    Abstract: Methods provide wireless communication using a plurality of Antenna Processing Units APUs distributed along a radio stripe and sharing a bus along the radio stripe. Access is provided to a plurality of APU activation/deactivation states for a respective plurality of environmental conditions, wherein each one of the plurality of APU activation/deactivation states defines APUs of the plurality of APUs that are activated and APUs of the plurality of APUs that are deactivated for the respective one of the plurality of environmental conditions. Responsive to detecting a first one of the plurality of environmental conditions, a first one of the plurality of APU activation/deactivation states corresponding to the first one of the plurality of environmental conditions is applied to activate a first subset of the APUs and to deactivate a second subset of the APUs, wherein the first and second subsets of APUs are mutually exclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Senthamiz Selvi Arumugam, Ramamurthy Badrinath, Ankit Jauhari, Anusha Pradeep Mujumdar, Vijaya Yajnanarayana
  • Patent number: 11909476
    Abstract: In a first example embodiment, a control transmission portion of a mmWave communication is received at a user equipment. The control transmission portion is divided into a plurality of control transmission portion sub-regions, each sub-region scheduling a data transmission for a corresponding sub-region of a data transmission portion of the mmWave communication. Then a first of the control transmission portion sub-regions is demodulated and decoded. A receive analog antenna beamforming is armed according to the demodulated and decoded first of the control transmission portion sub-regions. Beamforming is performed on a first sub-region of the data transmission portion of the mmWave communication, the first sub-region of the data transmission portion corresponding to the first of the control transmission portion sub-regions. During the arming and performing, a second of the control transmission portion sub-regions is demodulated and decoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Qian Cheng, Weimin Xiao, Jialing Liu
  • Patent number: 11909477
    Abstract: A method comprises: determining, from an indication that an initial uplink beam between a user equipment and a network node is misaligned with respect to a downlink beam between the network node and the user equipment, at least one misalignment angle between the initial uplink beam and the downlink beam; and reconfiguring the uplink beam based on the misalignment angle to produce a reconfigured uplink beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Samantha Caporal Del Barrio, Frederick Vook, Johannes Harrebek, Simon Svendsen, Jun Tan, Benny Vejlgaard, Kim Nielsen
  • Patent number: 11909479
    Abstract: A method for shaping a mmWave wireless channel in a wireless network is presented. The method includes enabling communication between a multi-antenna transmitter and a multi-antenna receiver, positioning a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in a vicinity of the multi-antenna transmitter and the multi-antenna receiver, constructing the RIS as a uniform planar array (UPA) structure forming a multi-beamforming framework, a surface of the UPA defining an array of discrete elements arranged in a grid pattern, wherein parameters of the discrete elements of the UPA are controllable to achieve multiple disjoint beams covering different solid angles, and enabling the plurality of users of the plurality of mobile devices positioned in blind spots of a coverage map to communicate with the multi-antenna transmitter by employing the MS to generate sharp and effective beams having almost uniform gain in a desired angular coverage interval (ACI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammad Khojastepour, Nariman Torkzaban
  • Patent number: 11909480
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for reduction of the signaling/resource overhead caused by SRS transmission in UL are disclosed. One method of a UE for the reduction of the signaling/resource overhead caused by SRS transmission in UL includes performing precoding on UL transmission with a precoding matrix corresponding to a CRI, in the case of a frequency of UL and DL being in a same band and Tx/Rx beam correspondence, wherein, the CRI corresponding to the precoding matrix is determined according to a measurement on DL channel quality; and transmitting a report of the measurement on DL channel quality to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Wei Ling, Yingying Li
  • Patent number: 11909481
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented in a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes determining whether a plurality of beam configurations configured for processing one or more downlink (DL) signals are different than a first beam configuration for processing at least one CSI-RS, the one or more DL signals to be received in the same symbol as the at least one CSI-RS; selecting a second beam configuration for processing the at least one CSI-RS based on the determination; receiving the at least one CSI-RS; and processing the at least one CSI-RS based on the selected second beam configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Wooseok Nam, Huilin Xu
  • Patent number: 11909482
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a client may determine, using a conditioning network and based at least in part on an observed environmental vector, a set of client-specific parameters. The client may determine a latent vector using a client autoencoder and based at least in part on the set of client-specific parameters and the set of shared parameters. The client may transmit the observed environmental vector and the latent vector to a server. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: June Namgoong, Taesang Yoo, Naga Bhushan, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Pavan Kumar Vitthaladevuni, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Hwan Joon Kwon, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11909483
    Abstract: Aspects are provided which allow a base station to segment a code block into individual code block segments and a UE to determine and indicate a quality of the individual code block segments in a CSI report to a base station. The base station transmits a code block to the UE which includes a plurality of code block segments. The UE determines a code block segment quality of each of the code block segments, and sends a CSI report including one or more of the code block segment qualities to the base station. Thus, the code block segment qualities indicated by the UE allow the base station to determine which segments of the code block should be re-transmitted, for example, based on a best RV to be applied for the code block retransmission, thereby improving retransmission performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Elshafie, Yi Huang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11909484
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for Uplink Control Information (UCI) design. The method comprises determining, at a terminal device, a matrix comprising a set of non-zero linear combination coefficients for quantizing a channel between the terminal device and a network device, the matrix having spatial components and frequency components; shifting the frequency components of the matrix circularly, such that a target coefficient of the set of non-zero linear combination coefficients is located in a frequency component with a predetermined index of the frequency components in a shifted matrix; generating a first indication indicating the spatial component associated with the target coefficient in the matrix; and transmitting, to the network device, uplink control information comprising the first indication. In this way, a new solution for designing the UCI may reduce the overhead for reporting the parameters in the UCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Filippo Tosato, Marco Maso, Nhat-Quang Nhan, Hao Liu
  • Patent number: 11909485
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods, device, system that provide a codebook indication operation. In one example, a codebook indication method includes: receiving by a terminal device, a transmission parameter indication information indicating an index of one codebook subset configuration of three codebook subset configurations in the terminal device from a base station, wherein the three codebook subset configurations in the terminal device are related to fully coherent, partial coherent, and incoherent respectively, and the codebook subset configuration related to fully coherent includes M indexes, the codebook subset configuration related to partial coherent includes N indexes, and the codebook subset configuration related to incoherent includes K indexes, wherein M is an integer larger than N, and N is larger than K; and determining a transmission layer and precoding matrix associated with the index according to the transmission parameter indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xianda Liu, Kunpeng Liu, Zukang Shen, Yan Cheng
  • Patent number: 11909486
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to concurrently communicating with a base station over multiple frequency bands using a same first beam, and switching, according to beam switching criteria, from the first beam to a second beam during a time period, wherein the time period is based on a timing reference associated with a reference band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Changhwan Park, Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu
  • Patent number: 11909487
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a network node for beamforming, to a network node and to a system including a network node. One aspect of the disclosure provides a method (900) comprising: obtaining (910), at the network node (800), information relating to a plurality of signals received or transmitted using a set of receiving beams or a set of transmitting beams of the network node (800), each individual beam of the set having a unique beam direction; determining a set of candidate beams for use by the network node (800) for synchronisation signal, SS, transmission or random access channel, RACH, detection; based on the obtained information, selecting one or more of the determined candidate beams; and using the selected one or more of the determined candidate beams for SS transmission or RACH detection by the network node (800).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Henrik Asplund, Arne Simonsson, David Astely
  • Patent number: 11909488
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for SCell Beam Failure recovery. One apparatus includes a transceiver that communicates with a SCell in a wireless communication network. The apparatus includes a processor that receives a SR configuration from a wireless communication network, the SR configuration comprising a set of PUCCH resources, where the SR configuration corresponds to one or more logical channels. The processor detects that beam failure procedure has been triggered for the SCell. The processor triggers a scheduling request for SCell beam failure recovery in response to determining that there are no UL-SCH resources available for a new transmission for the transmission of a beam failure MAC CE. The processor transmits SR on the PUCCH resources of the SR configuration in response to triggering the scheduling request for SCell beam failure recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joachim Loehr, Hyejung Jung, Vijay Nangia, Prateek Basu Mallick, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 11909489
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes measuring beamformed reference signals, selecting one or more beams in accordance with the measured beamformed reference signals, and determining, by the UE, that an uplink transmit power of the UE on a subset of the one or more beams is limited by emission criteria, and based thereon, transmitting, by the UE, a beam report indicating the one or more beams and an uplink transmit power limitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bin Liu, Pengfei Xia, Young Hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11909490
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide a scheduling request transmitting method, a scheduling request receiving method, a terminal, and a network device. The scheduling request transmitting method includes: in a case that a first trigger condition is met, transmit a scheduling request SR to a network device; and in a case that a second trigger condition is met, cancel transmission of the SR, or skip transmission of the SR for N times, where N is an integer greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Yang, Yumin Wu
  • Patent number: 11909491
    Abstract: Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of wireless communication. A user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration indicating whether a beam switching gap is expected at a first symbol position within a subframe of a physical channel for the UE, the first symbol position having a first cyclic prefix length that is longer than a second cyclic prefix length of a second symbol position within the subframe of the physical channel for the UE. The UE may determine whether a transmission includes a missing symbol for the beam switching gap based on the configuration and the symbol position of a symbol where a beam switch is scheduled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11909492
    Abstract: A transmission method for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. Each signal has been modulated according to a different modulation sheme. The transmission method applies precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix, applies different power change to each signal, and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11909493
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus for supporting communication with multiple transmission and reception points (TRPs) includes a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) configured to receive a first reference signal from a first TRP and a second reference signal from a second TRP, and processing circuitry configured to estimate channels of a plurality of subcarriers based on at least one of the first reference signal or the second reference signal, determine a beamforming parameter based on the estimated channels, the beamforming parameter being determined based on a capacity of an effective channel between the wireless communication apparatus and both the first TRP and the second TRP, and adjust a reception beam based on the beamforming parameter, and the RFIC being configured to receive a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) from the first TRP through the adjusted reception beam, and receive a second PDSCH from the second TRP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongsik Yoon, Jungmin Park, Junho Lee
  • Patent number: 11909495
    Abstract: A UE may determine use of a sensor or an interface of the UE, and in response, may adjust at least one of a beam selection, a transmission power, an operation mode, or a performance of carrier aggregation for the UE. A base station may receive an indication from the UE that a carrier for which the UE is configured has an effect on performance of a sensor or an interface of the UE. The base station may adjust a configuration of the carrier or adjusting uplink grants for the carrier in response to receiving the indication from the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Akash Kumar, Dharmendra Kumar Prasad