Having A Plurality Of Contiguous Regions Served By Respective Fixed Stations Patents (Class 370/328)
  • Patent number: 12295066
    Abstract: In response to revocation of authorization of a first network slice identifier for a User Equipment (UE) (1), an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) node (2) initiates a release procedure to release a PDU session associated with the first network slice identifier. This makes it possible, for example, to properly manage a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session associated with a network slice when authorization for that network slice is revoked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tamura, Tsuyoshi Takakura
  • Patent number: 12294427
    Abstract: An electronic device includes processing circuitry configured to calculate an intra metric based on cross correlation of first reference signal symbols (RSs) included in a first precoding resource block group (PRG) to which a target resource element (RE) belongs, calculate an inter metric based on cross correlation of one or more second RSs and one or more among the first RSs, the one or more second RSs being included in a second PRG adjacent to the first PRG along a frequency axis of a physical channel, the one or more second RSs being in proximity to the target RE, and the physical channel being received from a base station, compare a first ratio between the intra metric and the inter metric with a threshold ratio to obtain a comparison result, and determine a channel estimation mode with respect to the target RE based on the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gyoungil Kwak, Jinho Kim, Sunyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 12294873
    Abstract: Provided are a redundant session establishment method and apparatus, a radio bearer establishment method and apparatus, a node, a terminal and a medium. The redundant session establishment method includes: generating redundant user plane resource information, and transmitting the redundant user plane resource information to a master node; and establishing a redundant session corresponding to a redundant session request in a redundant user plane resource according to the redundant session request from the master node, where the redundant session request is a request generated by the master node according to the redundant user plane resource information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hongjun Liu, Wei Ma, Dongmei Li, Boshan Zhang, Wu Wen
  • Patent number: 12294538
    Abstract: There is disclosed a transmitting node for a Radio Access Network, the transmitting node being adapted for transmitting, based on one or more transmission parameters, of reference signaling, and/or signaling including reference signaling, wherein the reference signaling may comprise phase tracking reference signaling and wherein the one or more transmission parameters comprise a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Martin Hessler, Mattias Frenne, Peter Hammarberg, Lars Lindbom, Vicent Molés Cases, Zhao Wang
  • Patent number: 12294898
    Abstract: It is herein disclosed a wireless device, first and second radio network nodes and methods performed therein for communication. A method performed by a first radio network node for determining a global identity of a second radio network node which is a neighbour of the first radio network node is provided. The method comprises one or more of: receiving length information which specifies a length of the global ID of the second radio network node, from a wireless device which is served by the first radio network node; and determining the global ID of the second radio network node based on the length information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Maximilian Popescu, Pär Gustavsson, Thomas Walldeen
  • Patent number: 12294956
    Abstract: New radio (NR) power headroom report (PHR) design for millimeter wave (mmWave) deployment is discussed. The power control process for mmWave may include beam-specific periodic PHR reporting and user equipment (UE)-specific event-trigger PHR reporting. The periodic PHR reporting may either provide a single PHR that includes power headroom information for each of the serving beams, or the UE may be configured to measure and report PHR for different beams in different slots. When reporting a single PHR with power headroom information for multiple serving beams, a beam index may be included in the reserved bits of the PHR. For the event-trigger PHR, the PHR reported based on a detected event trigger may provide power headroom information only for the current serving beam, or for all serving beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peng Cheng, Keiichi Kubota, Gavin Bernard Horn, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Tao Luo, Linhai He
  • Patent number: 12294892
    Abstract: For example, a non Access Point (AP) (non-AP) wireless communication station (STA) and/or an AP STA may be configured to utilize a mechanism configured to support bandwidth signaling for a link between the non-AP STA and an other non-AP STA. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a non-AP STA to set a channel bandwidth field to indicate a maximum channel bandwidth (BW) for the link between the non-AP STA and an other non-AP STA; and to transmit a frame to an AP STA, the frame including an information element including the channel bandwidth field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Dmitry Akhmetov, Dibakar Das
  • Patent number: 12294939
    Abstract: Network information may be discoverable without requiring a connection to that network. For example, Access Network Query Protocol (“ANQP”) may allow a device to discover information about a network prior to the device associating with that network. In other words, ANQP allows a network terminal to request additional network information prior to establishing network capability. The additional network information that may be discoverable includes network latency, cellular capabilities, hotspot capabilities, mobility capabilities, neighbor reports, station identification, and multiple hotspot session identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Patent number: 12294920
    Abstract: A method for determining the level of contamination in cities comprising the steps of providing a server, transmitting information from users which report contamination issues by means of a mobile electronic device to the server, providing a wireless sensor network (WSN) for measuring level of contamination, obtaining measured data tagged with a geo-reference tag and a time stamp, and configured for supporting delay-tolerant communications transmitting data measured from sensors to the server, processing data measured and information from users by using big data and machine learning algorithms, and providing reports on contamination levels; and a system for collecting and processing environmental information comprising at least one mobile electronic device, including at least one environmental sensor, at least one wireless communication interface, a geo-location unit, and a storage unit; at least one communication gateway and at least a server for storing and processing the information obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Universidad Santiago de Cali
    Inventors: Claudia Liliana Zuñiga Cañon, Rafael Asorey Cacheda, Darryl Alexander Millan Buelvas, Juan Garcia Haro, Antonio Javier Garcia Sanchez, Juan de Dios Largo Ortiz
  • Patent number: 12289156
    Abstract: The subject matter describes software, devices, networks, and methods to configure a wireless device to establish two or more concurrent wireless links in a wireless network. Embodiments disclosed herein relate to use of computing and communication resources to perform multi-hop wireless communication and to expand the coverage of cellular networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: M87, Inc.
    Inventors: Vidur Bhargava, Peter Matthew Feldman
  • Patent number: 12289635
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a method for managing a network slice load in a wireless network. The method includes: sending, by a CN device, a request message for network slice load information to a base station of the wireless network; determining, by the base station, the network slice load based on the parameter; sending, by the base station, the response message comprising the network slice load information to the core network device for managing the network slice load; determining, by a CN device, the network slice load at the base station based on the response message; and managing, by a CN device, the network slice load at the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satya Kumar Vankayala, Rajesh Challa, Pankaj Bhimrao Thorat, Seungil Yoon, Swaraj Kumar, Ashvin K Joseph
  • Patent number: 12289796
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may initiate a first service, having a first priority during a time interval, associated with a first subscriber identification module (SIM), and a second service, having a second priority during the time interval, associated with a second SIM of the UE, the first priority having a higher priority than the second priority. The UE may identify a first type of communication associated with the second SIM. The UE may adjust, based at least in part on the first type of communication, at least one of the first priority or the second priority during the time interval. The UE may perform a communication in accordance with the adjusted at least one of the first priority or the second priority. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Reza Shahidi, Qingxin Chen, Lan Lan, Cheol Hee Park, James Beckman, Leena Zacharias, Arnaud Meylan, Krishna Chaitanya Mukkera, Ambarish Tripathi, Zhibin Dang, Ashwin Madhur Comandur, Sivaram Srivenkata Palakodety, Sridhar Bandaru
  • Patent number: 12284580
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an eye tracker for tracking a gaze of an occupant of the vehicle. The vehicle has a processor to use gaze direction data to determine if the occupant is gazing at a nearby vehicle sensed by a vehicle-detecting sensor, e.g. a camera, LIDAR or RADAR. The processor determines an identification of the nearby vehicle by optically recognizing characters of a license plate of the nearby vehicle using the camera, or by detecting an identification beacon broadcast by the nearby vehicle using a short-range vehicle-to-vehicle transceiver. The vehicle includes a radiofrequency cellular transceiver to transmit a message to a server to look up the identification of the vehicle and to receive a communication-availability reply message indicating either a communication availability or communication unavailability of the nearby vehicle. The radiofrequency cellular transceiver or the short-range vehicle-to-vehicle transceiver initiates a voice communication with the nearby vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Inventor: Matthew MacGregor Roy
  • Patent number: 12284694
    Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which a communication device forms part of a communication system in which network slicing is supported and in which at least one tenant is able to communicate using at least one slice type associated with that tenant. The communication device receives network slicing related information transmitted by a base station. The network slicing related information may comprise information identifying support for a tenant whose communication is supported via the base station, or a network slice type of a tenant that is supported by the base station. The network slicing related information may comprise information comprising at least one communication parameter that is associated with a specific tenant or a specific slice type of a specific tenant. The communication device uses a slice having a slice type of a tenant with which the communication device is associated, based on the network slicing related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sivapathalingham Sivavakeesar
  • Patent number: 12284602
    Abstract: An AID allocation method for a multi-link device, includes: An access point multi-link device generates and sends a first frame. Correspondingly, a station device receives and parses the first frame to obtain an AID that is allocated to the station device and carried in the first frame. The AID is neither a BSSID that can be supported by a first-type access point in the access point multi-link device nor an identifier of an access point in the access point multi-link device. The first-type access point is an access point for establishing a link between the station device and the access point multi-link device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Gan, Yiqing Li, Yunbo Li, Yuchen Guo
  • Patent number: 12284562
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information corresponding to a Layer 1 or Layer 2 (L1/L2) inter-cell mobility operation associated with an L1/L2 mobility configured cell set. The UE may receive, based on the configuration information, a joint timing advance (TA) and cell activation medium access control control element (MAC CE), wherein the joint TA and cell activation MAC CE comprises a TA command and a cell activation command. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shanyu Zhou, Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12284569
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program for a connectionless asset tracking service in a wireless communication system, and a recording medium thereof. A method for a connectionless asset tracking service in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps in which a first device: receives an advertising packet from a second device; determines whether at least one advertising data structure (AD structure) included in the advertising packet is an AD structure related to a connectionless asset tracking service; and on the basis of the AD structure related to the connectionless asset tracking service, determines the location of the second device, wherein an AD type field of the AD structure related to the connectionless asset tracking service includes a value indicating a connectionless tracking service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jea Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 12284603
    Abstract: The 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 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. A method performed by a terminal in a communication system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donggun Kim, Soenghun Kim, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 12284705
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application relates to a multi-link communication setup method and a related apparatus. The method includes: a non-AP MLD sends an association request frame on a first link, to request multi-link setup. An AP MLD returns an association response frame on the first link, to notify whether multi-link setup succeeds. The AP MLD sets a second status code field of a multi-link element of the association response frame to a newly defined value, to indicate that a cause why a link is not accepted is that the first link is not accepted. This application is applied to a WLAN system that supports a next generation Wi-Fi protocol of 802.11ax, for example, 802.11be, Wi-Fi 7, or EHT, and other 802.11 series protocols; and for another example, a next generation protocol of 802.11be: Wi-Fi 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuchen Guo, Guogang Huang, Yunbo Li, Ming Gan
  • Patent number: 12279262
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving downlink control information to a terminal device, wherein the downlink control information comprises first information, the first information indicates an uplink control channel resource for carrying uplink control information, the uplink control channel resource belongs to a first uplink control channel resource set, wherein each resource in the first uplink control channel resource set occupies a different quantity of symbols, the first uplink control channel resource set comprises at least two uplink control channel resources, wherein the at least two uplink control channel resources include a first uplink control channel resource that occupies one symbol, and a second uplink control channel resource that occupies two symbols; and sending the uplink control information from the terminal device by using the uplink control channel resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yan Cheng
  • Patent number: 12279199
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for supporting service continuity between a first network and a second network are provided, which include: requesting slice analytics for selection of a slice from a network data analytics function (NWDAF) of the first network before a terminal moves from the first network to the second network; and selecting a slice to be used in the second network to provide a service to the terminal based on the slice analytics received from the NWDAF of the first network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Myung Ki Shin, Jihoon Sung, Soohwan Lee
  • Patent number: 12278738
    Abstract: This application provides a model training method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining first capability information and second capability information of a client; determining, based on the first capability information and the second capability information, that the client reports model information to a cloud server or an edge server; and sending first indication information to the client. The first indication information indicates the client to report the model information to the cloud server or the edge server. According to the model training method and apparatus provided in this application, in a horizontal federated training method in a hybrid mode, a manner of reporting local model information by the client may be flexibly selected based on capability information of the client, so that horizontal federated training efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Xin, Weiwei Chong, Xiaobo Wu, Yali Yan
  • Patent number: 12278711
    Abstract: Provided are an information transmission method and apparatus, an information processing method and apparatus, a terminal, a network element, and a storage medium. The information transmission method includes encapsulating non-access stratum (NAS) information and access resource (AS) parameter information in a vendor-specific protocol (VSP) packet, where the NAS information includes NAS system information and NAS customization information, and the AS parameter information is used for wired side resource negotiation; encapsulating establishment signaling of a wired access network control plane channel in a vendor-specific network control protocol (VSNCP) packet; and transmitting, through the VSP packet, the NAS information and the AS parameter information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xueyan Song, Xingyue Zhou, Shuang Liang
  • Patent number: 12279138
    Abstract: A detection method includes: obtaining at least one feature of a first access point (AP), where the at least one feature includes a quantity of target terminals that request to access the first AP within a time period with duration being first duration, and the target terminal is a terminal whose access status is abnormal; and detecting, based on the at least one feature, whether the first AP is a logical edge AP, where the logical edge AP is an AP whose signal coverage area reaches an edge of a signal coverage area of a wireless local area network (WLAN) in which the AP is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changlu Li, Dewei Bao, Qikun Wei, Fuqing Sun
  • Patent number: 12279123
    Abstract: An information transmission method and related device, the method including receiving, by a terminal device, a first synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block measurement timing configuration (SMTC) associated with configuring an occasion for the terminal device to measure a synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB), obtaining an SSB measurement result by measuring the SSB in the occasion configured through the first SMTC, determining that the SSB measurement result is incorrect for an SSB corresponding to any physical cell identifier (PCI) in response to the terminal device failing to measure at least one of the SSB in increasing order, or measure the SSB at a preset location, and reporting. in response to the SSB measurement result being incorrect, a first SMTC report, where the first SMTC report indicates that the SSB measurement result is incorrect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuigen Yang, Feng Han, Wei Tan
  • Patent number: 12279269
    Abstract: A wireless communication method including: transmitting, from a base station, a signal in a second control channel that is used for transmitting information indicating a resource of first resource information indicating a resource of a first control channel, and receiving, by a wireless terminal, second resource information that indicates the resource of the first control channel and that is transmitted from the wireless base station before a transmission of the second control channel from the wireless base station to the wireless terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ohta, Yoshihiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 12279265
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes: controlling circuitry configured to change a value of a first parameter in accordance with a history of uplink multi-user transmission or whether capability of uplink multi-user transmission is in an enabled or disabled state, the first parameter defining an upper limit of duration during which a wireless medium is allowed to be occupied; and a transmitter configured to transmit a first frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: International Semiconductor Group
    Inventors: Narendar Madhavan, Tomoko Adachi
  • Patent number: 12278761
    Abstract: Methods for routing messages to a destination are provided. The method includes determining a destination carrier for a destination telephone number (TN) of a destination associated with an end user. One or more source attributes are determined. A source attribute is associated with initiation of a message from a sender. Each of the one or more source attributes is categorized into one or more message classes associated with the sender. A message routing policy is determined for the message based on the determined destination carrier and the one or more message classes associated with the sender. The message is routed according to the message routing policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Bandwidth Inc.
    Inventor: David Ress
  • Patent number: 12279166
    Abstract: A method for a network element is provided. The method comprises: encoding a message for transmission to a user equipment (UE) including neighbor cell configuration information that includes a list of a plurality of neighbor cell groups, wherein each of the plurality of neighbor cell groups is associated with a specific cell; and transmitting the message to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiming Li, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Fangli Xu, Yuqin Chen, Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen
  • Patent number: 12279259
    Abstract: A feedback information transmission method can include: selecting a basic sequence according to an information item of sidelink communication; generating feedback information of the sidelink communication according to the basic sequence; and transmitting the feedback information to a second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qun Zhao
  • Patent number: 12273809
    Abstract: Disclosed are a WiFi hotspot management method, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The WiFi hotspot management method may include: taking a connectable network resource of a current network environment as an initial network resource, and obtaining network information of the initial network resource; sending a hotspot enabling command to an external device, the hotspot enabling command carrying the network information of the initial network resource; receiving a feedback message in response to the hotspot enabling command from the external device, and connecting to a target WiFi hotspot enabled on the external device according to the feedback message, a frequency band of the target WiFi hotspot being staggered from a frequency band of the initial network resource; and utilizing the initial network resource and the target WiFi hotspot to transmit data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Cheng Wang
  • Patent number: 12273815
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting user equipments (UEs) may transmit a sidelink indication signal including a sequence (for example, wakeup signal or go-to-sleep signal) for a receiving UE to determine whether to monitor for scheduling sidelink control information (SCI) messages in one or more sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) on durations that overlap in time. The receiving UE may determine (for example, based on an initial value in the sequence, the resource on which the sequence was received, among other examples) a location of an on duration, and may perform a DRX operation (for example, may wake up or may go to sleep) during the on duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qing Li, Junyi Li, Hong Cheng
  • Patent number: 12273159
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method by which a terminal controls the calculations of a deep neural network in a wireless communication system. A method according to one embodiment of the present disclosure receives a downlink from a base station of a wireless communication system by using a multi input multi output (MIMO) operation, pre-processes the downlink on the basis of a result of calculations of a deep neural network in a terminal, acquires the number of a plurality of transmission antennas connected to the terminal, acquires the number of a plurality of reception antennas connected to the terminal, and forms a plurality of overlapping neural networks overlapping in the deep neural network, on the basis of a preset number of reference antennas, the number of transmission antennas, and the number of reception antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kijun Jeon, Sangrim Lee, Hojae Lee, Ikjoo Jung, Taehyun Lee
  • Patent number: 12273858
    Abstract: Idle discontinuous reception (I-DRX) cycles at a user equipment (UE) may be extended via leveraging of paging assistance from a second UE. For example, a low complexity UE may have a connection to a network (e.g., via a link to a base station) as well as a connection to another UE (e.g., via a device-to-device link to a regular UE). In cases where such a low complexity UE receives paging messages from the network, a UE associated with a device-to-device link of the low complexity UE may monitor paging messages on behalf of the low complexity UE. As such, the low complexity UE may extend its I-DRX cycle, as the assisting UE monitors paging information for the low complexity UE. The assisting UE may forward paging information for the low complexity UE according to paging occasions of the extended I-DRX cycle of the low complexity UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qiaoyu Li, Chao Wei, Hao Xu, Huilin Xu, Jing Lei, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Wanshi Chen, Le Liu, Yiqing Cao, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 12267747
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for network assisted side-link resource configuration for unicast and/or multi-cast/groupcast communications in V2X networks. A UE may, after establishing an RRC connection with a base station, transmit, to the base station, V2X connection information. The V2X connection information may include a V2X identifier associated with the UE and a V2X identifier associated with a target UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, a side-link configuration for data transmission with the target UE. The side-link configuration may include a resource allocation defined in time and frequency (e.g., a transmit/receive pool). The UE may communicate with the target UE using the resource allocation included in the side-link configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 12267771
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: identify a plurality of allowed network slices of a terminal; and select at least one network slice among the plurality of allowed network slices of the terminal to be used for at least one signalling connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Anna Sillanpaa, Devaki Chandramouli
  • Patent number: 12267903
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform a method for supporting a periodical radio access network (RAN) notification area (RNA) mechanism when small data transmission (SDT) is enabled for a user equipment device (UE). The method may include the UE receiving, from a base station, an indication enabling an SDT procedure along with an indication of an RNA timer configuration, transitioning, to a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state, and initiating an RNA timer based on the RNA timer configuration. The UE may, upon initiation of the SDT procedure, stop the RNA timer and, upon termination of the SDT procedure, start the RNA timer. During the SDT procedure, the UE may receive any of an SDT termination indication, an SDT subsequent transmission indication, or an SDT subsequent transmission termination indication that may include an updated RNA timer configuration (and/or RNA timer reconfiguration).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Murtaza A. Shikari, Ralf Rossbach, Sarma V. Vangala, Srinivasan Nimmala
  • Patent number: 12267197
    Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless communication system is to transmit a reference signal on a common set of resource elements, REs, the common set of REs used by one or more further apparatuses in the wireless communication system to transmit the reference signal so that the reference signals of the apparatus and of the one or more further apparatuses use the same REs. The reference signal is transmit using OFDM symbols and the same sequence having a zero auto correlation property is applied to each OFDM symbol. A phase correction is applied to an OFDM symbol before transmission, wherein a correction factor of the phase correction depends on a comb factor and a comb offset of the OFDM symbol and is independent of the resource element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Mohammad Alawieh, Ernst Eberlein, Marcus Großmann, Birendra Ghimire
  • Patent number: 12267704
    Abstract: A set of AP radios in a wireless network deployment for which configurations are to be deployed is identified. Those configurations deemed to be likely to cause a coverage hole are flagged as high-risk. A candidate deployment order for deploying configurations to the set of AP radios is determined based on deployment ordering criteria. The ordered APs are grouped into candidate deployment batches and a batch refinement process is performed to ensure that no neighbor AP radio is in a same deployment batch as an AP designated to receive a high-risk configuration deployment. The configurations are then deployed to the AP radios in accordance with the refined deployment batches. For any candidate deployment batch that includes a flagged AP radio and a neighbor AP radio, one of the radios is removed from the deployment batch and placed in a re-order list, which is separately subjected to ordering and batching processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Rishabh Gupta, Shubham Saloni, Nethra Muniyappa
  • Patent number: 12267280
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transmitting an ACK/NACK signal for an HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest) in a CA (Carrier Aggregation) system, the method including obtaining at least one transmission resource among first and second transmission resources; configuring a first table showing a relationship in which a combination of at least one of the first and second transmission resources and modulation symbols is mapped to an ACK/NACK signal, and transmitting modulation symbols corresponding to a transmission target ACK/NACK signal in the first table by using transmission resource corresponding to the transmission target ACK/NACK signal in the first table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: PANTECH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Dong Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 12267237
    Abstract: Disclosed are a sensor data transmission method and a device. The method includes: a periodic signal acquisition apparatus receiving a message requesting for data packet description information from a data receiving end and reporting the data packet description information to the data receiving end, wherein the data packet description information includes: signal type information, the acquisition rate for each type of signal, and the sending rate of a data packet; receiving a data reporting request from the receiving end, and sending a data packet to the data receiving end according to the sending rate of the data packet in the data packet description information, wherein the data packet sent to the data receiving end contains a packet header portion and a load portion, the packet header portion includes a frame header field, a load length field, and a check field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: KINGFAR INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Qichao Zhao, Ran Yang, Zhao Li
  • Patent number: 12267893
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for control SL BSR based on different direct links in sidelink communication system is provided. A first wireless device establishes a sidelink between a second wireless device. A first wireless device triggers a sidelink (SL) buffer status report (BSR) based on data available for transmission via the sidelink. A first wireless device detects a failure on the sidelink. A first wireless device cancels the triggered SL BSR based on the failure on the sidelink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Giwon Park, Jongyoul Lee, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 12267158
    Abstract: A service packet transmission method and apparatus, the method including receiving, by the source mobile edge computing network element, after a source mobile edge computing network element receives a second uplink service packet, a first uplink service packet sent by a source user plane network element and that is from a target user plane network element, where the second uplink service packet is the last uplink service packet sent by the source mobile edge computing network element to a source application server, sending, by the source mobile edge computing network element, the first uplink service packet to a target mobile edge computing network element, and sending, by the source mobile edge computing network element, first indication information to the target mobile edge computing network element, the first indication information indicating that the sending of the first uplink service packet by the source mobile edge computing network element ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fang Yu, Yan Li, Hui Ni, Yongcui Li
  • Patent number: 12267723
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Aspects of the disclosure relate to enhanced load reporting between network entities (e.g., provided by a distributed unit (DU) to a centralized unit (CU) or by a CU to another CU). In some examples, the CU may provide one or more triggering events which may be used by the DU (or a second CU) to trigger the provisioning of a load report to the CU. Accordingly, the DU (or second CU) may be able to initiate a load report without relying on periodic reporting criteria. In some examples, the DU may initiate a load report to the CU without being configured with triggering events. In some examples, a DU may report measurements made associated with a communications load involving communications with both a parent network entity (e.g., a CU) and at least one child network entity (e.g., a user equipment).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Naeem Akl, Rajeev Kumar
  • Patent number: 12267822
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a control signal (for example, PDCCH signal) in an asymmetric multicarrier environment. The method for transmitting a control signal for an asymmetric multicarrier in a wireless connection system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: determining the size of a carrier indicator field (CIF) indicating a downlink component carrier (DL CC) by which downlink data is transmitted, on the basis of a maximum value of the number of DL CCs and of the number of uplink component carriers (UL CCs) being managed in a base station; transmitting the CIF on a 1st DL CC to a terminal through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and transmitting downlink data on a 2nd DL CC indicated by the CIF to the terminal through a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Chung, So Yeon Kim, Sungho Moon, Seunghee Han, Yeong Hyeon Kwon
  • Patent number: 12261673
    Abstract: A relay node within a network, the network further comprising at least one donor node coupled to the relay node, and a mobile termination coupled to the relay node and at least one donor node, the relay node comprising means for: receiving a configuration message; configuring the relay node, based on the configuration message, to perform at least one of: receiving packets from the mobile termination and originating from one of the donor nodes; and sending packets to one of the donor nodes by transmitting them to the mobile termination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Henri Markus Koskinen, Dawid Koziol, Esa Mikael Malkamaki
  • Patent number: 12262335
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) monitors for a synchronization signal block (SSB) to synchronize with a cell of a network. The UE monitors a frequency band during a discovery reference signal (DRS) window for a synchronization signal block (SSB) transmitted by a cell of the network, determines an SSB index based on information received from the cell of the network and synchronizes with the cell based on the SSB index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12262422
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) procedure for the random access channel (RACH) response message in a two-step RACH procedure. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes sending a RACH message to a base station (BS) during a two-step RACH procedure. The RACH message includes a RACH preamble and a RACH payload. The UE monitors a RACH response message from the BS during a random access response (RAR) window. The UE transmits a retransmission of the RACH message, an acknowledgement (ACK) to the RACH response message, a negative acknowledgment (NACK) to the RACH response message, or does not transmit, to the BS based on whether a RACH response message carrying a success RAR or a fallback RAR, or no RACH response message, is received from the BS during the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Yi Huang, Wanshi Chen, Linhai He, Ruiming Zheng, Peter Gaal, Joseph Binamira Soriaga
  • Patent number: 12261891
    Abstract: A session management function (SMF) receives, from a wireless device, a protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment request message including a parameter indicating a request for synchronization of multiple data flows. The session management function sends, to a user plane function (UPF) and based on the parameter, a user plane rule indicating that the UPF performs synchronized forwarding of packets of the multiple data flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Weihua Qiao, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Peyman Talebi Fard, Jinsook Ryu, Taehun Kim
  • Patent number: 12262427
    Abstract: An apparatus including means for receiving, from a first user equipment associated with a network via a first path, a request at a second user equipment associated with the network, for the second user equipment to act as a relay node for the first user equipment acting as a master node to provide a second path between the first user equipment and the network, wherein the first user equipment and the second user equipment are connected using a proximity service interface, performing, at the second user equipment, an authorisation procedure with the network to act as a relay node for the first user equipment and providing an indication to the first user equipment that the second user equipment is authorised to act as a relay node for the first user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Saurabh Khare, Devaki Chandramouli