Combining Or Distributing Information Via Code Word Channels Using Multiple Access Techniques (e.g., Cdma) Patents (Class 370/335)
  • Patent number: 10834642
    Abstract: The disclosure relates in some aspects to sharing wireless communication resources. For example, a first type of device allocated to use a first resource pool may dynamically use a second resource pool allocated for a second type of device. The first type of device may use an entry criteria to determine whether to use the second resource pool. In some aspects, the entry criteria may specify that resource sharing is permitted if a ratio of resources used by devices of the second type (relative to the total resources in the second resource pool) is less than a threshold. In addition, the first type of device may use an exit criteria to determine whether to stop using the second resource pool. In some aspects, the exit criteria may specify that resource sharing should stop if a ratio of resources used by devices of the second type is greater than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Zhibin Wu, Shailesh Patil, Junyi Li, Georgios Tsirtsis
  • Patent number: 10833794
    Abstract: A data transmission boosting system includes a boosting server and a client boosting device, wherein the boosting server and the client boosting device are connected to the internet respectively. The client boosting device further includes a data receiving module, a classifying module, and a transmitting module. The data receiving module receives data packets from at least one terminal device. The classify module classifies the data packets as data packets to be boosted, non-boosting data packets, or unknown data packets. The transmitting module transmits the data packets classified as the data packets to be boosted to the boosting server through the internet, and transmits the data packets classified as the non-boosting data packets to the internet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: FORGAMERS INC.
    Inventors: Chih-Jen Huang, Yu-Hsiang Wu, Ming-Tze Hung, Chih-Hsiu Hung
  • Patent number: 10833811
    Abstract: Methods and devices utilizing sidelink transmission between user equipment (UEs) for HARQ retransmission are provided. The sidelink HARQ retransmissions include data from the initial transmission or an outer coded version thereof. HARQ feedback from the targeted receiver of the initial transmission may identify code block groups and/or individual code blocks the target receiver did not successfully decode. A UE that has not successfully decoded an entire transport block, may still cooperate in HARQ retransmission for the targeted receiver of the transport block by retransmitting at least a subset of the code block groups that it was able to successfully decode for the transport block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Cao, Amine Maaref, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 10833902
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to serving wireless communication devices using multi-radio access technology (multi-RAT) transmission diversity are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device in a first frequency band allocated to a first radio access technology (RAT), first data using the first RAT. The first wireless communication device reconfigures a first resource in a second frequency band allocated to a second RAT different from the first RAT from implementing a configuration of the second RAT to implementing a configuration of the first RAT. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device in the second frequency band, second data using the first resource implementing the configuration of the first RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chong Li, Jing Jiang, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 10826666
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a terminal apparatus capable of preventing the degradation of reception quality of control information even in a case of employing SU-MIMO transmission system. A terminal (200), which uses a plurality of different layers to transmit two code words in which control information is placed, comprises: a resource amount determining unit (204) that determines, based on a lower one of the encoding rates of the two code words or based on the average value of the reciprocals of the encoding rates of the two code words, resource amounts of control information in the respective ones of the plurality of layers; and a transport signal forming unit (205) that places, in the two code words, the control information modulated by use of the resource amounts, thereby forming a transport signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 10827529
    Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting a random access preamble; receiving a random access response message that includes a plurality of uplink grants associated with the random access preamble, in which each uplink grant in the plurality of uplink grants is associated with a different transmission resource; selecting an uplink grant from the plurality of uplink grants; and transmitting using the selected uplink grant. A method of wireless communication at a network access device includes receiving a random access preamble; and transmitting a random access response message that includes a plurality of uplink grants associated with the random access preamble, in which each uplink grant in the plurality of uplink grants is associated with a different transmission resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ravi Agarwal, Gavin Bernard Horn, Tingfang Ji, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 10827501
    Abstract: An example technique is provided for receiving, by a base station in a wireless network, a priority map that indicates a mapping of a first set of priority classes for one or more radio bearers provided between the base station and a relay user device and a second set of priority classes for one or more proximity services (ProSe) sidelink logical channels provided between the relay user device and a remote user device, and allocating (or scheduling), by the base station based on the priority map, wireless resources to the relay user device to transmit data to the remote user device for one or more of the ProSe sidelink logical channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Ling Yu, Curt Wong, Vinh Van Phan, Manivannan Thyagarajan, Michael Dolan, Gyorgy Tamas Wolfner
  • Patent number: 10820322
    Abstract: It is provided a method for reducing bit rate requirement over an uplink fronthaul link. The method is performed in a fronthaul transmitter of a radio network node and comprises the steps of: determining a group of frequency-domain resource elements having been received over a wireless channel (40); estimating channel information (42); reducing a number of bits for representing the respective frequency-domain resource element, to thereby obtain a modified resource element (44); transmitting the modified resource elements of the group over the fronthaul link to a fronthaul receiver (46); and transmitting compression metadata (48), indicating how the reduction was performed, over the fronthaul link to the fronthaul receiver which performs the steps of receiving the modified resource elements (50), receiving the compression metadata (52) and expanding the resource elements to increase the number of bits for representing the frequency-domain resource elements (54).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Miguel Berg, Chenguang Lu, Daniel Cederholm, Per-Erik Eriksson
  • Patent number: 10819413
    Abstract: A base station is configured to provides a beam change feedback channel for a user equipment to communicate unsolicited beam change feedback to the base station. If the user equipment determines that a beam other than the beam to which the user equipment is tuned has a stronger signal, the user equipment initiates a transmission on the beam change feedback channel to the base station indicating a beam change. The base station uses the feedback from the user equipment to update the beam to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jayesh H. Kotecha, Jayakrishnan Cheriyath Mundarath
  • Patent number: 10820326
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive information identifying a reserved resource allocation, wherein the reserved resource allocation is associated with a reserved resource; receive information identifying another resource allocation, wherein the other resource allocation overlaps with the reserved resource allocation at an overlapped portion; and selectively perform a communication using the overlapped portion for the reserved resource allocation or the other resource allocation based at least in part on at least one of: respective traffic types of the reserved resource allocation and the other resource allocation, or respective priority levels associated with the reserved resource allocation and the other resource allocation. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vinay Joseph, Srinivas Yerramalli, Rajat Prakash, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Prashanth Haridas Hande
  • Patent number: 10805395
    Abstract: Technology for a vehicle-to-anything (V2X) a user equipment (UE) to perform V2X communication within a wireless communication network is disclosed. The V2X UE can process, by the V2X UE, for transmission to a V2X function a V2X service registration request having one or more parameters to confirm and authorize the V2X service registration request. The V2X UE can process a V2X service registration authorization response and V2X operation parameters, received by from the V2X function, for permitting the V2X UE to operate in one of a plurality of V2X operation modes. The V2X UE can operate in the one of the plurality of V2X operation modes using the V2X operation parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dave Cavalcanti, Ana Lucia Pinheiro
  • Patent number: 10804959
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, a transmission device includes a transmitter configured to generate a transmit signal conveying transmit data in accordance with a communication protocol having first protocol transmit parameters. A coupler is configured to convert the transmit signal to transmitted guided electromagnetic waves that propagate along a surface of a transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path. The coupler is further configured to convert to a receive signal, received guided electromagnetic waves from a remote device that propagate along the surface of the transmission medium, wherein the remote device is configured to receive the transmitted guided electromagnetic waves. A corona discharge detector is configured to generate, based on the receive signal, corona discharge data that indicates corona discharge activity in proximity to the transmission medium during a time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Bennett, Farhad Barzegar, Donald J. Barnickel, Giovanni Vannucci, Irwin Gerszberg, Paul Shala Henry, Peter Wolniansky, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 10797748
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support pairwise cross correlation sequences for non-orthogonal multiple access wireless communications. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication of a spreading factor and a number of transmitters in a group of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmitters configured for concurrent transmissions. The UE may determine, based on the spreading factor and the number of transmitters, a first spreading sequence of a set of spreading sequences from a first codebook, the first spreading sequence having a defined value for pairwise cross correlation with each spreading sequence of the plurality of spreading sequences. The first UE may identify data to be transmitted in an uplink transmission, apply the first spreading sequence to the data to be transmitted in the uplink transmission, and transmit the uplink transmission to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyong Park, Jing Lei, Renqiu Wang, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Naga Bhushan, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 10798687
    Abstract: A network device (e.g., an evolved Node B (eNB), user equipment (UE) or the like) can operate to enable scheduling UL transmissions on transmission opportunities outside of the UL grants or for multi-carrier UL scheduling. A communication component of the device can operate to process or generate communications on an unlicensed band or a licensed band in response to UL grants and indications provided via a DL transmission for scheduling. An eNB can provide indications to a UE for processing that indicate whether a transmission opportunity is on the same transmission opportunity as the UL grants or an external/outside transmission opportunity. The indications can further trigger an listen-before-talk (LBT) protocol, which can vary between a category 4 LBT or a single LBT interval that is shorter than the category 4 LBT, depending on the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Abhijeet Bhorkar, Huaning Niu, Qiaoyang Ye, Jeongho Jeon
  • Patent number: 10795013
    Abstract: A system and method to perform multi-target detection in a code division multiple access (CDMA) radar system involve transmitting, from each transmitter among T transmitters, a transmitted signal with a different code, and receiving, at each receiver among one or more receivers, a received signal that includes reflections resulting from each of the transmitted signals with the different codes. The method includes processing the received signal at each of the one or more receivers by implementing T processing chains. Each of the T processing chains is iterative. The method also includes detecting an object at each completed iteration at each of the T processing chains, and subtracting a subtraction signal representing a contribution of the object to the received signal prior to subsequent iterations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Gaston Solodky, Shahar Villeval, Oren Longman, Igal Bilik
  • Patent number: 10797775
    Abstract: Discloses is a backhaul transmission method for wireless communication, a controller, a base station, and a gateway. The method includes: sending, by a first base station, information about a backhaul requirement of the first base station to a controller; obtaining, by the first base station, information about a codebook from the controller, where the information about the codebook is determined based on the backhaul requirement of the first base station; and performing, by the first base station, backhaul transmission with a gateway by using the codebook. Information about a codebook used in backhaul transmission is determined based on a backhaul requirement of a base station, so that backhaul requirements of different base stations can be met, and a backhaul capacity of a system is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongcheng Zhuang, Zezhou Luo
  • Patent number: 10791570
    Abstract: A base station able to maintain backward compatibility with an LTE mobile station while minimizing the amount of increase in uplink scheduling information reception and demodulation/decoding processing in independent uplink/downlink cell data transmission. A wireless communication system includes a cell #1, a cell #2, and an LTE-A mobile station, and supports independent uplink/downlink cell data transmission. The base station of the cell #2 arranges a PDCCH+, which includes uplink scheduling information from the LTE-A mobile station to the base station of the cell #2, in a downlink data region in the downlink connection of the base station of the cell #1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Atsushi Sumasu, Shozo Okasaka, Shinsuke Takaoka, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 10784998
    Abstract: A buffer status reporting scheme for a terminal (10) wishing to transmit data simultaneously in multiple RATs of a wireless communication network, which enables the co-ordination of multiple base stations (12, 14) of different RATs (e.g. LTE eNB, UMTS base station, WiFi access point, etc.) with the assistance of the terminal (10) in order to achieve efficient radio resource scheduling for multi-RAT multi-flow aggregation in uplink. A radio bearer is configured for multi-RAT multi-flow aggregation by the network, and multiple logical channel IDs are assigned to this RB that may be associated with different RATs. Logical channels associated with a certain RAT (or a given set of RATs) may be grouped into one logical channel group for radio resource scheduling reason. The terminal (10) performs buffer status reporting, according to the configuration, on all involved RATs and sends reports/indications to one or more involved base stations (12.14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhaojun Li, Timothy Moulsley, Paul Bucknell, Milos Tesanovic
  • Patent number: 10784935
    Abstract: A wireless transmitter includes a signal processing circuit configured to generate a plurality of first and second spatial streams signals. The transmitter includes a frequency shift circuit configured to selectively apply different frequency shifts to the first and second spatial streams signals. A wireless receiver includes a frequency shift circuit configured to selectively apply different frequency shifts to the received first and second spatial streams signals. The receiver also includes a signal processing circuit configured to process the first and second frequency shifted signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Phazr, Inc.
    Inventors: Farooq Khan, Robert Clark Daniels, Khurram Muhammad, Eran Pisek, Paul Gilliland, Khalil Haddad
  • Patent number: 10779281
    Abstract: A data transmission method is provided to expand coverage of a broadcast channel, including: determining, by a base station, a plurality of data blocks carried on N broadcast channels, where an ith broadcast channel in the N broadcast channels corresponds to an ith antenna port (group) in N antenna ports (group); scrambling, by the base station, the data blocks carried on the N broadcast channels, to obtain scrambled code blocks carried on the N broadcast channels; and sending, by the base station on different time resource units by respectively using the N antenna ports, corresponding scrambled code blocks carried on the broadcast channels, or sending, by the base station on different time resource units by respectively using the N antenna port groups, corresponding scrambled code blocks carried on the broadcast channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongfeng Li, Ning Wu, Youtuan Zhu, Yongzhao Cao
  • Patent number: 10778303
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for generating a frame for communication using beamforming in a wireless communication system are provided. A method for transmitting a signal in a transmitting stage includes determining a beam change time of a region for transmitting information in a frame, and transmitting the information to a receiving stage over the region for transmitting the information by considering the beam change time. The frame includes a plurality of regions divided based on a type of the information transmitted to the receiving stage, and the plurality of the regions includes different beam change times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yung-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 10772080
    Abstract: A wireless communication device, a wireless communication method, and a program capable of contributing to improvement of wireless communication technology related to IDMA. The wireless communication device includes: a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication using interleave division multiple access (IDMA) with another wireless communication device; and a controller that controls an interleave length in an interleave process for IDMA by the wireless communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Sho Furuichi, Ryo Sawai
  • Patent number: 10771117
    Abstract: A method scheduling allocation of radio resources in a cellular network, including: selecting at least one first user equipment for performing a first type data exchange based on Coordinated Multi-Point technique and a second type data exchange not based on Coordinated Multi-Point technique, and selecting at least one second user equipment for performing only the second type data exchange; selecting at least one network node for performing the first type data exchange with the at least one first user equipment and the second type data exchange with at least one among the first and second user equipment; determining, for the at least one network node, a radio resource parameter indicative of a number of radio resources to be allocated for the first type data exchange and a number of radio resources to be allocated for the second type data exchange; allocating the radio resources based on the radio resource parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.
    Inventors: Claudio Ettore Casetti, Maurizio Fodrini, Fabrizio Gatti, Mohamad Tavakoli Sanij
  • Patent number: 10771204
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may communicate with a user equipment (UE) using frequency resources (e.g., subcarriers) with scalable channel spacing and time resources (e.g., slots) with variable slot durations. The individual slots may include multiple symbols, and each symbol may be allocated for communication in a specific link direction (e.g., uplink, downlink, or sidelink). For UEs configured to operate in a half-duplex mode, the base station may allocate sufficient time for the UE to transition between uplink and downlink configurations. In other cases, for carrier aggregation, the base station may coordinate with the UE to prevent conflicting communications (e.g., simultaneous uplink and downlink transmissions). UEs or other devices may communicate directly with one another in a device-to-device configuration using the same or a similar scheme to allow for half-duplex devices to transition between sending and receiving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Tingfang Ji, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 10764930
    Abstract: A random access (RA) scheme exhibiting a non-isometric frame duration and a low latency. The RA and data messages have a duration with a different time unit and the time slot of the RA message is much shorter than the duration of one data frame. A specific signature, which is designed to be robust against the collisions, is transmitted during the RA request, the signature being either a unique sequence or a compressed signature. The user equipment device transmits the data message immediately after receiving its resource through a frame structure showing a time misalignment between adjacent data frames located in different or identical frequency sub-bands. A frequency guard band is inserted between its resource and an adjacent resource assigned to another user equipment device, the frequency guard band having an adaptive size according to the level of time misalignment and its impact on the distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chan Zhou, Liang Hu, Malte Schellmann
  • Patent number: 10762014
    Abstract: A method for implementing a baseband resource pool in an LTE base station is provided. The LTE base station includes a main control module, a master board a slave board. The master board and the slave board each include a baseband processing module. The main control module configures information of a cell needing load sharing on the master board to the slave board, and configures user information in the cell to each of the master board and the slave board, or configures the user information to each of the master board and the slave board according to load balance. The master board and the slave board each perform load sharing processing on an SRS signal of a user. The slave board including the baseband processing module is added, thereby improving the baseband processing capability of the LTE base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Aiming Zhou, Chunjing Wu
  • Patent number: 10763982
    Abstract: A method (200) of over-the-air testing of a transmission equipment (20). The method comprises transmitting (202) a transmission signal from the transmission equipment. The transmission signal as transmitted comprises emissions in an in-band domain (102) and emissions in an unwanted domain (110). The method comprises arranging a frequency selective surface (40) to receive the transmission signal. The frequency selective surface (40) attenuates the transmission signal in the in-band domain (102) of the transmission signal. The frequency selective surface (40) allows propagation of the transmission signal in the unwanted domain (110) of the transmission signal. The method further comprises measuring (206) in a measuring equipment (25) a parameter of the transmission signal in the unwanted domain. The frequency selective surface (40) is arranged between the transmission equipment (20) and the measuring equipment (25).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Peter Olanders, Elena Pucci
  • Patent number: 10756791
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions of control information using downlink control channel resources, such as physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) resources. The MIMO transmissions may provide control channel transmissions to multiple UEs using the same time-frequency resources. A base station may use a subset of control channel monitoring entities for MIMO control channel transmissions, and another subset of control channel monitoring candidates for non-MIMO control channel transmissions. Control channel monitoring entities for MIMO transmissions may be defined separately from non-MIMO or legacy control channel candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ayan Sengupta, Alberto Rico Alvarino
  • Patent number: 10757650
    Abstract: A random access procedure between a mobile terminal and a network is performed based upon the characteristics of a RACH preamble transmitted by the terminal. A first type of random access preamble is selectable by the terminal from a set of random access preambles, and a second type of random access preamble is directly allocated to the terminal by the network. The network responds with a random access response. The terminal performs a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation that allows it to monitor a downlink control channel discontinuously. The DRX operation includes an active time period during which the terminal monitors the control channel after successful reception of the random access response for the second type of random access preamble until a transmission from the network addressed to a Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI) associated with the terminal is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Optis Cellular Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Seung-June Yi, Sung-Jun Park, Young-Dae Lee, Sung-Duck Chun
  • Patent number: 10749722
    Abstract: A technology enabling a terminal to receive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (NACK) information about data transmitted from the terminal is provided. The method includes receiving cyclic shift information for a reference signal from the base station; transmitting, to the base station, the data and a reference signal which is cyclic-shifted using a cyclic shift value, the cyclic shift value being determined based on a dynamic cyclic shift value mapped one-to-one to the cyclic shift information for the reference signal; and receiving, from the base station, the ACK/NACK information about the transmitted data through a radio resource of a downlink channel, the radio resource of the downlink channel being identified based on a modifier mapped one-to-one to the cyclic shift information for the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Taegyun Noh, Jae Young Ahn
  • Patent number: 10743212
    Abstract: Provided are a method by which a terminal transmits a wireless local area network (WLAN) offloading availability indication in a wireless communication system, and a device for supporting the same. The terminal can determine whether traffic offloading to a WLAN is available and transmit, to a network, a WLAN offloading availability indication indicating whether the traffic offloading is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Youngdae Lee
  • Patent number: 10736083
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system may be configured to use particular resources to send one or more uplink transmissions. However, sometimes during operation the particular resources the UE is configured to use are not well suited to the channel conditions at that time or result in interference or collision with other uplink transmissions. Systems and method are disclosed in which downlink control information (DCI) may be used to reconfigure one or more resources used by the UE for an uplink transmission. In some embodiments, resource reconfiguration instructions are sent by the base station along with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback. In some embodiments, a unified downlink signaling format is disclosed that may be used for UEs having different capabilities, with the bits of the unified downlink signaling relaying different instructions to different UEs depending upon the capability of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toufiqul Islam, Mohamed Adel Salem
  • Patent number: 10736125
    Abstract: Techniques for managing Radio Access Technology (RAT) aggregation on a shared communication medium are disclosed. Control signaling may be sent, over a shared communication medium to an access terminal, in accordance with a first RAT. Data traffic may be scheduled for transmission to the access terminal based on one or more operating mode criteria for selecting between RATs. The scheduled data traffic may be transmitted, over the shared communication medium to the access terminal, in accordance with a second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Ahmed Kamel Sadek
  • Patent number: 10736067
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes a first radio device and a second radio device. The first radio device includes: a generator configured to generate a transmission signal sent to the second radio device; an adjuster configured to adjust timing of transmission of the transmission signal generated by the generator according to information on transmission timing; a transmitter configured to transmit the transmission signal at the timing of transmission adjusted by the adjuster; and a timer configured to measure elapsed time after the timing of transmission adjusted by the adjuster is set at given synchronization timing. The generator generates a transmission signal in which at least one symbol contains no data when the elapsed time measured by the timer is equal to or larger than a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10728000
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide a number of groups of transmitters, each group of transmitters having at least one user equipment (UE), and each group of transmitters having an associated transmission opportunity (TXO) for transmission of a reference signal. A number of UEs may transmit transmissions to a base station according to non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) techniques in which two or more UEs concurrently transmit to the base station. Depending upon a number of UEs, a number of groups of transmitters, an overloading factor of NOMA transmissions, a system bandwidth, a time span of the reference signal TXO, or any combination thereof, a binary or non-binary orthogonal cover code (OCC) may be applied to transmitted reference signals, which the base station may use to identify reference signals from particular UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Seyong Park, Renqiu Wang, Jing Jiang, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tingfang Ji, Naga Bhushan, Yi Huang, Ying Wang
  • Patent number: 10728894
    Abstract: A communication relay device is assigned with a specific slot in a communication schedule divided into a plurality of time slots. The communication relay device includes: a communication controller that switches a state between an active state and a sleep state and performs communication in the active state; and a slot determiner that determines arrival of a specific slot and arrival of a relay slot that is a time slot assigned to another lower-layer communication relay device. The communication controller changes to the active state and performs a predetermined communication process if the slot determiner determines arrival of the specific slot, and changes to the active state and performs a relay process if the slot determiner determines arrival of the relay slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: TLV CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazunari Hagihara
  • Patent number: 10727997
    Abstract: A Method of scrambling reference signals, device and user equipment using the method are provided. In the method, a plurality of layers of reference signals assigned on predetermined radio resource of a plurality of layers of resource blocks with the same time and frequency resources are scrambled, the method comprising: an orthogonalizing step of multiplying each layer of reference signal selectively by one of a plurality of orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) with the same length wherein the OCC multiplied to a first layer of reference signal can be configured as different from those multiplied to other layers of reference signals; and a scrambling step of multiplying all of symbols obtained from the OCC multiplied to each of the other layers of reference signals by a symbol-common scrambling sequence wherein the symbol-common scrambling sequences can be different from each other for reference signals multiplied by the same OCC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Ming Xu, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 10725183
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses for multipath mitigation of received global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals by using pattern recognition are described. One method includes summing correlations of received GNSS signals over time to generate a correlation window. The present system/method recognizes a pattern of a stored correlation window which matches the generated correlation window. The stored correlation window is one of a plurality of stored correlation windows, and each of the plurality of stored correlation window is stored with a corresponding range error. The stored range error corresponding to the matching stored correlation window is used to improve GNSS range measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Gary Lennen
  • Patent number: 10727984
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a method implemented by a wireless communication device (10). The wireless communication device (10) transmits data to a radio node (12) of a wireless communication network (1). The wireless communication device (10) monitors for a positive acknowledgement or a negative acknowledgement of the data from the radio node (12). The wireless communication device (10) retransmits the data to the radio node (12) when said monitoring indicates reception of a negative acknowledgement of the data. The wireless communication device (10) refrains from retransmitting the data to the radio node (12) when said monitoring indicates reception of a positive acknowledgement of the data. The wireless communication device (10) also refrains from retransmitting the data to the radio node (12) when said monitoring indicates neither reception of a positive acknowledgement of the data nor reception of a negative acknowledgement of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Marco Belleschi, Björn Nordström, Ying Sun, Riikka Susitaival, Mattias Tan Bergström
  • Patent number: 10728743
    Abstract: Methods and Devices that provide mechanisms for an air interface capability exchange are disclosed. The air interface capability exchange enables a user equipment device to signal its air interface configuration capabilities to a network device to facilitate software configurable air interface (SoftAI) optimization. The air interface capability exchange involves a UE device signaling information regarding an air interface configuration capability type of the device's air interface. The air interface configuration capability type identifies whether the device supports multiple air interface configurations of the air interface. The UE device may also transmit information regarding air interface configuration options that it supports. The network device may determine a configuration for the UE device's air interface based at least in part on the information provided by the UE device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kelvin Kar Kin Au, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 10721123
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing a provisional mode in a multi-mode network device (i.e., a network device that supports at least first and second modes of operation) are provided. According to one embodiment, the network device can receive, while running in the first mode, a request to enter the second mode. In response to the request, the network device can enter a third mode that is a provisional version of the second mode. Then, while running in the third mode, the network device can accept one or more configuration commands or settings for the second mode while simultaneously processing live network traffic according to the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Kwun-Nan Kevin Lin, Tian Lei
  • Patent number: 10715961
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for enabling location identification and related services in a premises. In one embodiment, location identification services are provided via a gateway device using data extracted from a wireless signal. The data is used to estimate a location of a device (based on comparison to previously gathered and/or reference data). In another embodiment, infrared (IR) or other short range wireless signals are broadcast from the client devices to a set-top-box (STB), and the STB or gateway correlates the signals to a location within the premises. A profiling process is used to establish specific locations within a premises, and associate location-specific services therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Peter Stern, Chris Cholas, Roger Graham Stafford
  • Patent number: 10715233
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses relate to sounding reference signal (SRS) transmit antenna selection in wireless communication systems. For example, a user equipment (UE) may select, from a set of antennas, a subset of antennas for SRS transmission based on at least one antenna selection parameter. The UE may further transmit, on an uplink communication channel, the SRS using the subset of antennas to a network entity. In some aspects, the at least one antenna selection parameter may include a reference signal receive power (RSRP) value, a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) value, a spectrum efficiency value, and/or an SNR value and a channel correlation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hongbo Yan, Supratik Bhattacharjee, Gregory Foerster, Prashant Udupa Sripathi
  • Patent number: 10708919
    Abstract: When a first node is subject to a maximum permissible exposure (MPE) condition, it may be beneficial for the first node to signal, to a second node, an uplink beam to be used for communications and/or one or more properties of the uplink beam. For example, the first node may signal a downlink beam, from a first reciprocal beam pair, and an uplink beam, from a second reciprocal beam pair, to be used for communications, and/or may signal one or more properties of the uplink beam and/or the downlink beam. Additionally, or alternatively, the second node may transmit, to the first node, a signaling state (e.g., a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state) that indicates properties to be used to configure an uplink beam and/or a downlink beam. In this way, the first node and the second node may configure beams in a manner that accounts for MPE limitations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sundar Subramanian, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Jianghong Luo, Ashwin Sampath, Junyi Li, Juergen Cezanne, Bilal Sadiq, Navid Abedini
  • Patent number: 10708743
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technology for a sensor network, a machine to machine (M2M), a machine type communication (MTC), and internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be used for an intelligence service (smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, and security and safety-related service). An electronic device and an operation method for sharing a service or contents between electronic devices through a user's simple motion are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong-Hee Park, Heesu Kim, Myounghwan Lee, Chilyoul Yang, Janghee Lee, Sungmin Jo, Kwanghoon Han
  • Patent number: 10708840
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a circuit switched fallback (CSFB) method is provided. The method comprising: receiving, by a first base station, a user equipment (UE) context modification request message from a mobility management entity (MME), wherein the UE context modification request message includes a CSFB indicator; receiving, by the first base station, a radio link failure (RLF) indication message from a second base station; and determining, by the first base station, whether to trigger a handover procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Lixiang Xu, Xiaowan Ke, Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 10698520
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication enhancement method for a mobile terminal, and a mobile terminal. A force touch technology and a communications technology are combined, to enhance user communication by means of force touch; and a quantity of transmit and receive antennas, a transmit power, a transmission bandwidth, a transmission rate, a quantity of connections, and the like for mobile communication are adjusted, thereby providing users with better communication experience. The method provided in the present invention includes: obtaining, by a mobile terminal, a sensing signal generated from a press of a user; detecting, by the mobile terminal, a strength value of the sensing signal; and determining, by the mobile terminal, an uplink communication transmission capability according to the strength value of the sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Rongdao Yu
  • Patent number: 10697752
    Abstract: Quasistatic through-the-wall non-line-of-sight coupling between a mobile transmitting device located within a metallic enclosure, and a fixed receiving device located outside the enclosure, enables positioning of the transmitting device through the wall of the enclosure and in non-line-of-sight environments. The coupling of the magnetic and electric quasistatic fields occurs through a small aperture in the metallic enclosure, such as the gap normally present in the hatch of industrial metallic enclosures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Darmindra D. Arumugam
  • Patent number: 10700796
    Abstract: Aspects relate to allocation of Almost Blank Subframes. According to some embodiments, a plurality of base stations may provide an overlapping coverage area. A first base station may transmit a first message comprising a first subframe allocation repetition period, a first subframe allocation offset, and a first subframe allocation bitmap. The first subframe allocation bitmap may indicate configuration of a first plurality of Almost Blank Subframes. Another base station may transmit a second message comprising the first subframe allocation repetition period, the first subframe allocation offset, and a second subframe allocation bitmap. The second subframe allocation bitmap may indicate configuration of a second plurality of Almost Blank Subframes. The second plurality of Almost Blank Subframes may not substantially overlap in time with the first plurality of Almost Blank Subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 10701731
    Abstract: It is presented a method for determining whether to initiate transmission of data on a candidate radio channel during a candidate period. The method is performed in a transceiver device and comprises the steps of: obtaining a first signal metric indicating a signal level of the candidate radio channel; determining that the first signal metric indicates a signal level being greater than a first threshold; obtaining a second signal metric indicating a signal level of at least one adjacent radio channel, being adjacent in frequency to the candidate radio channel; refraining from initiating transmission on the candidate radio channel in the candidate period when the second signal metric indicates a lower signal level than the first signal metric; and initiating transmission of data on the candidate radio channel in the candidate period when the second signal metric indicates a higher signal level than the first signal metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Marko E. Leinonen, Kauko Heinikoski