Time Division Patents (Class 370/280)
  • Patent number: 11357036
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to the communication processes in a FDD wireless communication system based on short TTIs. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, there provide a method for communication by a base station. The method comprise: transmitting, to a user equipment, downlink control information in a downlink TTI of a mth downlink subframe which supports two or more downlink TTIs; and receiving, from the user equipment, uplink data scheduled by the downlink control information carried in a mth or (m+1)th uplink subframe which supports two or more uplink TTIs. The downlink control information transmitted in at least one of downlink TTIs supported by downlink subframes is arranged to schedule uplink data transmission in at least two of uplink TTIs supported by uplink subframes. In the other aspects of the present disclosure, there also provides methods for communication by a user equipment and corresponding apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chuangxin Jiang, Yukai Gao, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11356828
    Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive a narrowband physical downlink control channel (NPDCCH) that includes an uplink scheduling parameter. The UE may determine an uplink scheduling delay for transmission of a narrowband physical uplink shared channel (NPUSCH) in accordance with time-division duplexing (TDD). The uplink scheduling delay may be based on a sum of a predetermined first number of subframes and a variable second number of subframes. The second number of subframes may be based on a window of variable size that starts when the first number of subframes has elapsed since reception of the NPDCCH, and ends when a number of uplink subframes has elapsed since the start of the window. The number of uplink subframes may be indicated by the uplink scheduling parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiaoyang Ye, Debdeep Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 11350444
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station and while operating in a dual connectivity mode, an uplink grant in a first subframe of a set of subframes. The uplink grant may schedule transmission of uplink data. The UE may determine a second subframe of the set of subframes to transmit the uplink data and a third subframe of the set of subframes to monitor for feedback associated with transmission of the uplink data. The second subframe and the third subframe may be determined based on combinations of a primary cell time division duplex (TDD) uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration and a DL-reference UL-DL configuration. each of the combinations may have at least three uplink transmission subframes or three downlink monitoring subframes within a ten-subframe cycle. The UE may thus perform wireless communications in accordance with the transmission timelines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Wanshi Chen, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Peter Gaal, Xiao Feng Wang
  • Patent number: 11350393
    Abstract: The present invention relates to: a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and a system therefor. The present invention can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. In addition, the purpose of the present invention is to provide an operating method and device of a terminal and a base station, which are for transmitting uplink control information in a communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunseok Ryu, Peng Xue, Hyunkyu Yu, Sangwon Choi, Kuyeon Whang
  • Patent number: 11342970
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for a selection of one or more transmission and reception points (TRPs) within a multi-TRP system. In one aspect, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of the selected TRPs and an indication of one or more beams that the selected TRPs may use to communicate with the UE based on a mismatch between a default operating frequency (DOF) of each TRP within the multi-TRP system and a DOF of the UE. For example, the UE may receive an indication of a DOF of each antenna port of the TRPs within the multi-TRP system and the UE may compare the indicated DOFs with a DOF of each antenna module of the UE. The UE may select to communicate with TRPs and select one or more ports that the selected TRPs may use to communicate with the UE based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11343063
    Abstract: A user terminal is disclosed including a transmitting/receiving section that performs transmission and reception by Time Division Duplex (TDD) by using a DL/UL frequency band pair that has a UL frequency band and a DL frequency band configured in a frequency direction in a carrier; and a control section that performs control to switch between a first DL/UL frequency band pair and a second DL/UL frequency band pair, and performs the transmission and the reception. In another aspect, a radio communication method of a user terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11343046
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for receiving and sending a reference signal and a storage medium, the method for receiving includes steps described below. A reference signal resource used for sending the reference signal is determined; and the reference signal sent by using the reference signal resource is received. And the method for sending includes steps described below, a reference signal resource used for sending the reference signal is determined; and the reference signal is sent by using the determined reference signal resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuxin Wang, Zhaohua Lu, YuNgok Li, Chuangxin Jiang, Shujuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11343841
    Abstract: It is disclosed a network node, a communication device and methods therein, for scheduling of uplink resources in multiple time instances and transmitting in accordance with the scheduled UL resources. By including an indicator in an UL grant comprising an UL resource allocation, the indicator indicates that, for at least one UL time instance of the multiple time instances, at least one UL resource is excluded from, or added to, the UL resource allocation of the UL grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Håkan Andersson, Andreas Bergström, Stefan Parkvall, Qiang Zhang, Johan Furuskog, Lars Lindbom
  • Patent number: 11343020
    Abstract: A radio communication method and device are provided. The method includes: performing a compression processing on uplink control information to be transmitted in a target time unit, wherein the compression processing includes a compression processing performed on Coding Block Group (CBG)-based feedback response information included in the uplink control information; and transmitting the uplink control information after the compression processing in the target time unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 11343726
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a method of selecting a cell for communication over a network, the method comprising: determining a round trip delay (RTD) measurement from a device to each of a plurality of base stations, each of the plurality of base stations being in a respective one of a plurality of cells; ranking the plurality of cells based at least in part on the RTD measurements; selecting the highest-ranked cell; and initiating attachment to the selected cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Sequans Communications S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Clairgironnet, Samuli Talvia, Jean Margerin
  • Patent number: 11343735
    Abstract: Procedures for using a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state in wireless communications are described. A base station may send one or more configuration parameters indicating a plurality of cells to be updated with a same TCI state. A wireless device may perform, via the plurality of cells and using one or more parameters associated with the TCI state, at least one of transmission or reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cirik, Esmael Dinan, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Kyungmin Park, Kai Xu
  • Patent number: 11343815
    Abstract: A method and a device for detecting slot format indication, and a method and a device for configuring slot format indication are provided. The method for detecting slot format indication is applied to a terminal and includes: obtaining a bit length of SFI index information of a target cell or a target carrier and a slot format configuration set corresponding to the bit length; detecting the SFI index information of the target cell or the target carrier; and determining a slot format configuration corresponding to the detected SFI index information based on the detected SFI index information and the slot format configuration set corresponding to the bit length of the detected SFI index information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueming Pan, Xiaodong Shen, Lei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11337188
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present invention provides a method by which a terminal transmits uplink control information, comprising receiving uplink scheduling information from a base station; determining, among a plurality of slots, at least one slot for transmitting the uplink control information, based on the uplink scheduling information; and transmitting the uplink control information through the determined at least one slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventors: Jinyoung Oh, Youngbum Kim, Sungjin Park, Jeongho Yeo, Seunghoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11336414
    Abstract: Techniques for transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback by narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) devices are provided. NB-IoT user equipment (UE) can transmit HARQ feedback in response to a narrowband physical downlink shared channel (NPDSCH) received over a downlink (DL). NB-IoT UEs can transmit the responsive HARQ feedback over a narrowband physical uplink shared channel (NPUSCH) or a narrowband physical uplink control channel (NPUCCH). Options for defining the physical structures of the NPUCCH and NPUSCH and user multiplexing on the uplink (UL) are provided. Determination of an UL resource allocation by determining resources in time, frequency, and the code domain for the HARQ feedback transmissions are also provided. Higher level signaling and/or indications provided in downlink control information (DCI) can be used to determine the time, frequency, or code domain resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Debdeep Chatterjee, Seunghee Han
  • Patent number: 11337180
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to channel transmission methods, base stations, and terminal devices. One example method includes receiving a first channel from a network device, determining a frame structure used between the network device and a terminal device according to relationship between a transmission parameter set of the first channel and the frame structure, and communicating with the network device according to the frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zheng Yu, Weiliang Zhang, Xingqing Cheng, Yiling Wu
  • Patent number: 11336418
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a data transmission method and apparatus. The method comprises: determining on a terminal side whether there is an overlap between a transmission time of an uplink channel which transmits using a first transmission time interval length and a transmission time of an uplink channel which transmits using a second transmission time interval length; when there is an overlap, then selecting a part of the uplink channel for transmission according to a predetermined rule, and abandoning the remaining uplink channel for transmission or puncturing the transmission of the remaining uplink channel. On a network side, determining that the terminal selects one type of uplink channel for transmission according to the predetermined rule, and abandons another type of uplink channel for transmission or punctures the transmission of another type of uplink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan Gao, Xueming Pan
  • Patent number: 11330606
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a new radio base station for a mobile telecommunications system. The new radio base station has a circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment and at least one LTE base station and to establish a new radio cell. The circuitry is further configured to transmit a time division duplexing configuration of the new radio cell to the LTE base station for identifying, based on the received time division duplexing configuration, a coexistence and intermodulation influence on an LTE receiver of the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Yuxin Wei, Anders Berggren, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11329771
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining and utilizing downlink Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) timing when using short Transmit Time Intervals (sTTIs) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device in a cellular communications network comprises determining a downlink HARQ timing k for transmission of downlink HARQ feedback for a downlink transmission received in a downlink sTTI nDL based on a Time Division Duplexing (TDD) uplink/downlink configuration and transmitting, in an uplink sTTI nDL+k, downlink HARQ feedback for the downlink transmission received in the downlink sTTI nDL. In this manner, downlink HARQ timing is determined and utilized when using sTTIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Jingya Li, Laetitia Falconetti, Daniel Larsson, Henrik Sahlin, Gustav Wikström
  • Patent number: 11329923
    Abstract: A network device for a communications network includes a port configured to transmit data to the network at a maximum transmit data rate. The device also includes a transmit buffer configured to buffer data units that are ready for transmission to the network, and a packet buffer configured to buffer data units before the data units are ready for transmission. The packet buffer is configured to output data units at a maximum packet buffer transmission rate faster than the maximum transmit data rate. The device includes a rate controller configured to control a transmission rate of data from the packet buffer to the transmit buffer so that averaged over a period, the transmission rate from the packet buffer to the transmit buffer is at most equal to the maximum transmit data rate, while allowing the transmission rate, at one or more time intervals, to exceed the maximum transmit data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd.
    Inventors: Rami Zemach, Yaron Kittner
  • Patent number: 11323142
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes: a module board including a first principal surface and a second principal surface on opposite sides of the module board; an antenna connection terminal; a diplexer connected to the antenna connection terminal and including at least a first inductor which is a chip inductor; a transmission power amplifier; and a first circuit component disposed on a transmission path connecting the diplexer and the transmission power amplifier. The first inductor is disposed on the first principal surface, and one of the transmission power amplifier and the first circuit component is disposed on the second principal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Sawada, Takayuki Shinozaki, Yukiya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11323988
    Abstract: A DL control channel candidate can be decoded. A determination can be made for which DL OFDM symbol the decoded DL control channel candidate is received in. A determination can be made for a DL resource assignment from the decoded DL control channel candidate. Data can be received based on the DL resource assignment. A determination can be made for a time-frequency resource for transmitting a HARQ-ACK at least based on the determined DL OFDM symbol. The HARQ-ACK can be transmitted in the determined time-frequency resource. The transmitted HARQ-ACK can correspond to the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Hyejung Jung, Ravikiran Nory, Vijay Nangia, Robert Love
  • Patent number: 11324006
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that signaling associated with a resource allocation is associated with a service type. The UE may identify a time-domain resource, for a transmission associated with the service type, in connection with determining that the signaling associated with the allocation is associated with the service type. Numerous othNo errors found.er aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Jing Jiang, Yi Huang, Renqiu Wang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Chih-Ping Li, Tingfang Ji, Seyedkianoush Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11323295
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a sounding reference symbol (SRS) by a terminal in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, SRS configuration information including information indicating an SRS sequence type for generation of an SRS sequence of the terminal; generating the SRS sequence on the basis of the indicated SRS sequence generating type; and transmitting an SRS, to which the generated SRS sequence has been applied, from a corresponding resource to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kukheon Choi, Jiwon Kang, Kyuseok Kim, Minki Ahn, Kilbom Lee
  • Patent number: 11317392
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose an information transmission method, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device receiving a first synchronization signal block and a physical downlink control channel sent by a network device in a first time slot or a first mini-slot, wherein the first time slot or the first mini-slot comprises N symbols, the first synchronization signal block occupies M consecutive symbols in the first time slot or the first mini-slot, the first synchronization signal block comprises a synchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel, M and N are positive integers, and M?N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Hai Tang, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 11316623
    Abstract: This application provides a method and device for transmitting data. This is advantageous to improving data transmission efficiency. The method includes: sending, by a first device, indication information to a second device, where the indication information indicates a first sending manner for a first transport block, and the first sending manner is one of at least two sending manners; and sending, by the first device, the first transport block based on the first sending manner, or receiving, by the first device, the first transport block based on the first sending manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongxia Lyu, Jingnan Wang, Ruixiang Ma
  • Patent number: 11317386
    Abstract: The present invention relates to: a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and a system therefor. The present invention can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. In addition, the purpose of the present invention is to provide an operating method and device of a terminal and a base station, which are for transmitting uplink control information in a communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunseok Ryu, Peng Xue, Hyunkyu Yu, Sangwon Choi, Kuyeon Whang
  • Patent number: 11317452
    Abstract: A device includes circuitry that dynamically changes an uplink/downlink configuration of a time division duplex (TDD) carrier. The circuitry notifies a terminal device of a radio resource for device-to-device communication appropriate for the uplink/downlink configuration. The radio resource is a radio resource of at least one uplink subframe of the uplink/downlink configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11310784
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of operating a wireless device. The method comprises receiving (10), from a network node, control information indicating a timing of a scheduled transmission or reception. The method further comprises determining (20) at least one slot or symbol for the scheduled transmission or reception based on the control information indicating the timing, wherein the determining is dependent on whether the wireless device is configured with a semi-static time division duplex, TDD, uplink-downlink allocation or not. The method also comprises performing (30) the scheduled transmission or reception in the determined at least one slot or symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Stefan Parkvall, Robert Baldemair, Erik Dahlman
  • Patent number: 11310787
    Abstract: The present application discloses a downlink channel receiving method and a terminal device, including: receiving, by a terminal device, first downlink authorization information and second downlink authorization information that are sent by a network device, where the first downlink authorization information is used to indicate that the terminal device receives a first physical downlink shared channel PDSCH in a first time unit, the second downlink authorization information is used to indicate that the terminal device receives a second PDSCH in a second time unit, and at least one symbol of the first time unit and at least one symbol of the second time unit overlap in a time domain; determining, by the terminal device, according to a RNTI used to scramble the first downlink authorization information and the second downlink authorization information, a PDSCH that is preferentially decoded from the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhihua Shi
  • Patent number: 11303395
    Abstract: Disclosed are an uplink control information sending method and apparatus, and a terminal. The method comprises: with respect to a terminal supporting P minimum HARQ timings, determining a downlink subframe set S(n) corresponding to the P minimum HARQ timings, wherein S(n) is a union set of all sets ?(n,Ki); and the terminal sending, on an uplink subframe n, the set S(n) or a HARQ-ACK corresponding to transmission data in the downlink subframe set ?(n,Ki).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunli Liang, Shuqiang Xia, Jing Shi, Xianghui Han
  • Patent number: 11303393
    Abstract: A downlink Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback method is provided, and includes: determining whether a currently used frame structure needs to be reconfigured; determining an uplink subframe for implementing a downlink HARQ feedback corresponds to each downlink subframe according to the currently used frame structure, when no reconfiguration is needed; determining an uplink subframe for implementing the downlink HARQ feedback corresponds to each downlink subframe in a last radio frame before the reconfiguration time point, when the reconfiguration is needed, according to a first frame structure used before a reconfiguration time point and a second frame structure to be used; determining an uplink subframe for implementing the downlink HARQ feedback corresponds to each downlink subframe in a last radio frame before the reconfiguration time point; when receiving downlink data sent by a base station on any downlink subframe, sending a HARQ feedback message for the downlink data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: YULONG COMPUTER TELECOMMUNICATION SCIENTIFIC (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shi-Xiao Liu, Yan-Tao Zhong, Xiong-Wei Guo
  • Patent number: 11303419
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to wireless communications systems, and more particularly, to techniques that may help reduce or eliminate ambiguity in acknowledging multiple physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions in a single transmission time interval (TTI). According to aspects, a codebook with fewer fields than a number of PDSCH candidates may be used to provide acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yang Yang, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Wanshi Chen, Huilin Xu, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11304143
    Abstract: This disclosure disclose a terminal control method and a terminal. The method may include: when detecting that the front-facing camera is in a low power consumption mode, sending, by the second processor, a first message to the first processor, where the first message indicates that the front-facing camera is in the low power consumption mode; after receiving the first message, controlling, by the first processor, the front-facing camera to collect a low-power-consumption-mode image in the low power consumption mode; receiving, by the first processor, the low-power-consumption-mode image and identifying whether there are a predetermined quantity of consecutive low-power-consumption-mode images that include preset characteristic information, where the preset characteristic information is characteristic information indicating that a user currently needs to use the terminal; and adjusting, by the first processor, brightness of a screen of the terminal according to an identification result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengwei Gong, Xiaojun Ma
  • Patent number: 11296848
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device for transmitting information in a wireless communication system. In the method for transmitting information in a wireless communication system provided by embodiments of the present disclosure, a granularity is provided, when uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) adopt different numerologies, and a corresponding timing is provided by taking the granularity as a unit, which provides a basis for scheduling design of 5G New Radio (NR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignees: China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd Research Institute, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jing Dong, Xueying Hou, Lijie Hu, Liang Xia, Xiaodong Xu, Ting Ke
  • Patent number: 11296799
    Abstract: An optical transmission system includes ground stations; optical-terminating devices; a traffic-monitoring unit that detects a traffic amount of the uplink signal transmitted in a time-division multiplexing manner for each of the optical-terminating devices; and a bandwidth allocation calculation unit that estimates one optical-terminating device of the optical-terminating devices connected to one ground station of the ground stations having a cell where the moving object is positioned on the basis of the traffic amount, and calculates a first allocation amount of a bandwidth allocated to the uplink signal of the one optical-terminating device connected to the one ground station having the cell where the moving object is positioned and a second allocation amount of a bandwidth allocated to the uplink signal of another optical-terminating device of the optical-terminating devices connected to another ground station of the ground stations having a cell adjacent to the cell where the moving object is positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Hisano, Tatsuya Shimada, Hiroshi Ou, Hiroko Nomura
  • Patent number: 11297645
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may perform a random access channel (RACH) procedure with a base station. The UE may receive a message configuring a RACH preamble occasion and an uplink data occasion. The message may be a radio resource control (RRC) message or a system information (SI) message. In some cases, the UE may determine if the RACH preamble occasion, the uplink data occasion, or both are restricted for cancellation based on the message. The UE may determine when to monitor a downlink control channel for dynamic scheduling based on determining which occasions are restricted for cancellation and may transmit a RACH message based on monitoring—or not monitoring—the downlink control channel for dynamic scheduling preempting a RACH occasion. In some other cases, a base station may schedule transmissions to not overlap with configured RACH occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Wanshi Chen, Linhai He
  • Patent number: 11296833
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an acknowledgment message resource allocation method applicable to an NB-IoT TDD cell, and a corresponding base station and corresponding user equipment for performing the method. The user equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a receiving unit, configured to receive allocation information of acknowledgment message transmission resources, the allocation information including offset indication information instructing an offset j0 of a start time of the acknowledgment message transmission resources with respect to a reference time, and the offset j0 instructing an offset expressed by a number of NB-IoT uplink slots; and a transmitting unit, configured to perform acknowledgment message transmission based on the allocation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chao Luo, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11296856
    Abstract: Provided are a method for transmitting information and a device. The method comprises: a receiving end device receiving, within a first time unit, first information sent by a sending end device; and the receiving end device sending, within a second time unit, second information corresponding to the first information to the sending end device, wherein the duration of the first time unit is different from that of the second time unit. By means of the method for transmitting information in the embodiments of the present invention, when different transmission time intervals are used for an uplink and a downlink or a plurality of types of transmission time intervals are used for a communication system, rational scheduling and a time sequence fed back can be determined for devices at a receiving end and a sending end so as to ensure normal transmission of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Bin Feng
  • Patent number: 11290241
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless communications network may set priorities for cell groups in dual connectivity. A higher priority cell group may reserve slots and indicate the reserved slots to the lower priority cell group, for example by a backhaul connection. The high priority cell group may also indicate additional, non-reserved slots, which the lower priority cell group may reserve or use for scheduling. One of the cell groups may transmit a slot format indication (SFI) to a user equipment (UE) in the dual connectivity to indicate the slot reservations. In some cases, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing parameter may be based on a number of reserved slots. In some cases, power control may be varied based on whether the UE is capable of simultaneous uplink and downlink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Pui Lok Ang, Xiao Feng Wang, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Heechoon Lee, Joseph Binamira Soriaga
  • Patent number: 11291022
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to support appropriate CSI measurements and reporting even when shortened TTIs and/or processing time reduction are introduced. A user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention communicates in a cell, which uses a shortened transmission time interval (TTI) that has a shorter TTI duration than 1 ms and/or in a cell in which communication is controlled by applying shortened processing time that is shorter than processing time in an existing LTE system, and this user terminal has a measurement section that measures channel state information (CSI) by using a CSI reference resource, and a transmission section that transmits the CSI in a given subframe, and the CSI reference resource is found in a subframe that is located a period before the given subframe, the period being shorter than a given time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang
  • Patent number: 11290248
    Abstract: TDD configuration may be dynamically and/or semi-statically signaled to user equipment devices by a base station. Semi-static TDD configuration may include: an initial portion for downlink transmission; a flexible portion; and a terminal portion for uplink transmission. TDD structure of the flexible portion may be determined later by transmission of dynamic physical layer configuration information such as downlink control information (DCI) and/or slot format indicator (SFI). (The SFI may be included in a group common PDCCH of a slot.) The downlink portion and/or the uplink portion may include subsets whose nominal transmit direction is subject to override by transmission of dynamic physical layer configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuchul Kim, Wei Zeng, Xiangying Yang, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11290218
    Abstract: Disclosed is a base station in a wireless communication system. Each base station in wireless communication comprises: a communication module; and a processor. The processor generates a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-ACK codebook comprising one or more bits and indicating whether or not reception of a channel or signal is successful, and transmits the HARQ-ACK codebook to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Kyungjun Choi, Minseok Noh, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 11290991
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication method and a system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, a smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a higher signal including a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource information, determining a PUCCH format and resource for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information corresponding to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and transmitting the HARQ feedback information based on the determined PUCCH format and the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seunghoon Choi, Jinkyu Kang, Youngbum Kim, Taehyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11291000
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) signal including a system information block (SIB) with a first time division duplex (TDD) uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) configuration. Also, the WTRU may receive a second PDSCH signal including dedicated radio resource control (RRC) signaling with a second TDD UL/DL configuration; and may receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal including an uplink grant indicating at least one repetition transmission on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). Further the WTRU may determine at least one time interval of the at least one repetition transmission would overlap with a downlink time interval indicated by the first TDD UL/DL configuration, the second TDD UL/DL configuration, or both. Also, the WTRU may transmit at least one repetition transmission on the PUSCH in at least one time interval that is non-overlapping with the indicated downlink time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Moon-il Lee, Pouriya Sadeghi, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz
  • Patent number: 11291001
    Abstract: Time-division duplexing (TDD) in distributed communications systems, including distributed antenna systems (DASs) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a control circuit is provided and configured to control the TDD transmit mode of a DAS to control the allocation of time slots for uplink and downlink communications signal distribution in respective uplink path(s) and downlink path(s). The control circuit includes separate power detectors configured to detect either a transmit power level in a downlink path or a receive power level in an uplink path. If the transmit power detected in the downlink path is greater than receive power detected in the uplink path, the control circuit switches the TDD transmit mode to the downlink direction. In this manner, the control circuit does not have to control the TDD transmit mode based solely on detected power in the downlink path, where a directional coupler may leak uplink power in the downlink path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Dror Ben-Shlomo, Isaac Shapira
  • Patent number: 11284467
    Abstract: Dynamic reconfiguring of dual-connectivity service of a UE includes detecting that quality of the UE's second air-interface connection with a second access node is threshold poor and responsively reconfiguring the dual-connectivity service from (i) a first mode in which user plane communication of the dual-connectivity service is downlink on both the first and second air-interface connections and is uplink on the second air-interface connection but not on the first air-interface connection to (ii) a second mode in which the user-plane communication of the dual-connectivity service is downlink on both the first and second air-interface connections and is uplink on the first air-interface connection but not on the second air-interface connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Rajveen Narendran, Anurag Thantharate
  • Patent number: 11284280
    Abstract: A user apparatus for use in a mobile communication system including a first base station and a second base station that communicate with the user apparatus by inter-base station carrier aggregation, including: measurement means configured to measure a time difference between a subframe in the first base station and a subframe in the second base station; and notification means configured, when detecting a predetermined notification trigger, to notify the first base station or the second base station of time difference information on the time difference measured by the measurement means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Kunihiko Teshima, Hiroshi Chin
  • Patent number: 11283553
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data processing method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a first device, control information, where the control information includes information about a first resource and information about a HARQ process; receiving, by the first device on a second resource, data associated with the control information; and placing the data into a buffer of a HARQ process of a HARQ entity associated with the first resource. The associated data is sent on the plurality of resources. The initially transmitted data and the retransmitted data are stored in the buffer of the specified process of the specified HARQ entity according to an indication of the control information, to improve a decoding success rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Tang, Jinlin Peng, Pengpeng Dong, Zhenfei Tang
  • Patent number: 11279459
    Abstract: According to embodiments described in the specification, a hover attachment includes a housing operable to receive a mobile device having a processor, a memory, and a display, at least one sensor operable to detect a position parameter of the mobile device relative to an object under tracking, and a regulator operable to maintain, responsive to the detecting, the mobile device in a hover relation to the object under tracking, wherein the display of the mobile device is a situational display. An exemplary method includes providing a situational display interface on a display of a mobile device mounted in a hover attachment, detecting a movement of an object under tracking in hover relation to the mobile device, and when the detected movement is associated with a position change function, controlling the hover attachment to maintain the hover relation between the mobile device and the object under tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventor: Hossein Rahnama
  • Patent number: 11283428
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) filter having a first passband and including a first circuit connected to a first node and a second node disposed on a path that connects a first terminal and a second terminal, and a second circuit connected to the first node and the second node. The first circuit includes a first filter having a second passband that includes a portion of a frequency range of the first passband and a bandwidth narrower than a bandwidth of the first passband. The second circuit includes a second filter having a third passband that includes a portion of a frequency range of the first passband and has a bandwidth narrower than the bandwidth of the first passband. The RF filter also includes a first phase shifter connected to a first terminal of the second filter; and a second phase shifter connected to a second terminal of the second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Nosaka