Combining Or Distributing Information Via Time Channels Patents (Class 370/336)
  • Patent number: 11082949
    Abstract: 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) is provided. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method for obtaining numerology information by a user equipment (UE) includes detecting synchronization signals, obtaining first numerology information for the synchronization signals, decoding a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) based on the first numerology information, obtaining second numerology information for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) according to a result of the decoding, and receiving control information on the PDCCH based on the second numerology information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Peng Xue, Hyunseok Ryu, Anil Agiwal, Hyunkyu Yu, Yeohun Yun, Namjeong Lee
  • Patent number: 11076417
    Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to downlink transmission scheduling for D2D UE based on subframe pattern. In one embodiment, the D2D UE may provide the BS with information on a pattern of the D2D reception subframes that indicates the usage of at least some of the D2D reception subframes. From the pattern, the BS may determine one or more D2D reception subframes in which the UE wants to monitor the D2D reception and/or the cellular reception. Then the BS may avoid scheduling the downlink transmission in the subframes in which the UE monitors the D2D reception. In the other D2D reception subframes, the downlink transmission can be scheduled. In this way, the UE can properly switch between the D2D reception and cellular reception, without any conflicts or downlink resource waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11075672
    Abstract: This invention presents Capacity Projectors (CaPs) for intelligent control and management that collect information on channel conditions, actual and/or predicted demand for connectivity, data throughput and its distribution for a first time period in the future using signaling and control messages, analyze the collected information to identify the configurations of the BSs and CaPs that are needed to produce desired MU-MIMO communication channels in the first time period to meet the connectivity and data throughput demand and its distribution in the first time period, and adaptively control and configure the CaPs to actively shape the MU-MIMO communication channels to meet the predicted demand and its distribution, wherein controlling and configuring the CaP comprises implementing which of the CaPs to switch to sleeping mode or work mode and adjusting one or more of transmitting power gain, antenna tilt, beam direction and/or pattern of the transmitter and/or receiver, filtering of the receiving and/or transm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: RF DSP Inc.
    Inventors: Ping Liang, Dengkui Zhu
  • Patent number: 11071171
    Abstract: A path switching method includes: determining, by a base station, to switch a first terminal device from a first communication link to a second communication link, and sending, to the first terminal device by using a second terminal device, access information required by the first terminal device to access the base station, so that the first terminal device establishes the second communication link to the base station based on the access information. In the method, the second terminal device may release the first communication link before or after the second communication link is established, or may release the first communication link in a process of establishing the second communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yiru Kuang, Haibo Xu, Jian Wang, Yongbo Zeng
  • Patent number: 11071133
    Abstract: In some aspects, a wireless node, such as a user equipment (UE), may measure a reference signal (RS) on a first group of RS resource sets, wherein each RS resource set in the first group of RS resource sets is associated with a different set of wireless nodes; may detect interference on a first RS resource set in the first group of RS resource sets, wherein the first RS resource set is associated with a first set of wireless nodes; and may measure RS on a second group of RS resource sets based at least in part on detecting the interference, wherein the second group of RS resource sets is determined based at least in part on the first RS resource set, and wherein each RS resource set of the second group of RS resource sets is associated with a subset of the first set of wireless nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Bhattad, Ananta Narayanan Thyagarajan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 11071124
    Abstract: The disclosure of the present invention proposes a method for connecting to a base station. The method may be performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprise: receiving information on a UE-specific bandwidth of a first cell. Here, the UE-specific bandwidth of the first cell is variable based on a bandwidth of a second cell using long term evaluation (LTE) radio access technology (RAT). The information on the UE-specific bandwidth may indicate a bandwidth between a bandwidth between a minimum bandwidth and a maximum bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Kijun Kim
  • Patent number: 11064539
    Abstract: Mechanisms enabling link-budget-limited (LBL) devices to more effectively perform random access may include: (1) broadcasting a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) configuration index (PCI) reserved for LBL devices; (2) configuring LBL devices to use a PCI that is offset from the conventional PCI of current cell; (3) configuring LBL devices to transmit PRACH messages using an alternative set of subframes, different from conventionally-defined subframe set; (4) configuring LBL devices to transmit PRACH messages on odd frames when the conventional PRACH configuration specifies even frames; (5) configuring LBL devices to generate and use extra PRACH preambles that are not used by non-LBL devices; (6) configuring LBL devices to use group B preambles while non-LBL devices are configured to use group A preambles; and (7) boosting power of a random access response message after an Nth random access failure with preamble conforming to an LBL-reserved pattern of preambles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Li Su, Sami M. Almalfouh, Venkateswara Rao Manepalli
  • Patent number: 11064476
    Abstract: An electronic device in a wireless communication may include a communication unit configured to receive a signal, and a control unit configured to perform decoding of a control channel of the signal according to a first decoding condition among decoding conditions determined based on system information candidates for system information and to determine whether decoding is successful for the first decoding condition according to a result of performing the decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myeongcheol Shin, Seijoon Shim, Hayoung Yang, Chongdon Kim
  • Patent number: 11064510
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a user equipment (UE) receives, from a fixed reference node, at least one round-trip propagation time (RTT) ranging scheduling message indicating a set of downlink (DL) ranging resource assignments and a set of uplink (UL) ranging resource grants, receives one or more DL ranging signals from the fixed reference node on a first set of resources identified by the set of DL ranging resource assignments, and transmits one or more UL ranging signals to the fixed reference node on a second set of resources identified by the set of UL ranging resource grants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Libin Jiang, Jubin Jose, Junyi Li, Urs Niesen
  • Patent number: 11064527
    Abstract: A random access method and apparatus and a communication system are provided. The method includes: at a first time-frequency resource, a network device receives a first preamble transmitted by a first UE; according to the first preamble, the network device determines a first downlink bandwidth part (DL BWP) transmitting a second message (msg.2A); and the network device transmits msg.2A on the first DL BWP. With this method, according to a time-frequency resource and/or a preamble used by a random access request transmitted by the UE and/or indication information carried by the random access request, the base station may determine a DL BWP feeding back an RAR, thereby ensuring normal access of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Qinyan Jiang, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11064483
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a wireless communication apparatus capable of transmitting and receiving data in accordance with an optimum length of a short transmission time interval in a terminal apparatus among a plurality of lengths of a short transmission time interval at the time of transmission and reception of data at a short transmission time interval shorter than an existing transmission time interval. [Solution] Provided is a wireless communication apparatus including: a frame generation unit configured to generate a frame including a plurality of subframes; a transmission unit configured to transmit the generated frame to another communication apparatus; and a notification unit configured to notify of information regarding a plurality of lengths of a short transmission time interval which is a transmission time interval shorter than one subframe period in the subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11063653
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a best antenna beam. The method includes obtaining a training model, wherein the training model has been trained to provide a best antenna beam based on a plurality of feedback values, determining a first plurality of feedback values indicative of partial estimates of channels of a first plurality of wireless signals and determining a best antenna beam, based on the first plurality of feedback values and the obtained training model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Johan Ottersten, Maria Fresia, Hugo Tullberg
  • Patent number: 11063650
    Abstract: Disclosed by the present invention are a method, a network side device and a terminal for indicating a pilot precoding mode, wherein the method comprises: The network side device assigns at least one group of pilots to the terminal, wherein each group of pilots comprises at least one pilot. The network side device determines pilot precoding indication information for the at least one group of pilots, wherein the pilot precoding indication information is used to characterize whether each pilot in each group of pilots uses the same precoding matrix. The network side device sends the at least one group of pilots and the pilot precoding indication information to the terminal. The present invention may solve the technical problem not disclosed in prior art of a solution for how a base station or a terminal specifically indicates a pilot precoding mode, so as to improve the control efficiency of a network side device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tamrakar Rakesh, Qiubin Gao, Xin Su, Hui Li, Runhua Chen, Qiuping Huang
  • Patent number: 11061103
    Abstract: A system, device and method that enables at least two unsynchronized units with known locations and an unsynchronized unit having an unknown location to communicate with each other and to be a part of enabling navigation by the unit having the unknown location by determining time difference of arrivals of signals between the units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: iSeeLoc, Inc.
    Inventor: Avi Zohar
  • Patent number: 11064528
    Abstract: A communication technique for convergence of internet of things (IoT) technology, a fifth-generation (5G) communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a fourth-generation (4G) system, and a system therefor are provided. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, and services associated with security and safety) based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. An embodiment relates to a method for controlling an uplink time alignment during execution of random access by a base station operating a broadband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehyuk Jang, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11057886
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method performed by a UE, for using subframes of a radio access network for a D2D communication. The method comprises determining subframes available for D2D communication among subframes of the radio access network. The subframes available for D2D communication exclude a number of subframes of the radio access network, such that a periodicity of the D2D communication in number of subframes divides the number of subframes available for D2D communication. The method also comprises using the determined subframes for enabling D2D communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ricardo Blasco Serrano, Marco Belleschi, Hieu Do, Stefano Sorrentino
  • Patent number: 11057783
    Abstract: A communication method, a secondary network node, and a terminal are provided. The method includes: a secondary network node acquires a network state of a cell served by the secondary network node; the secondary network node updates a network configuration of the cell served by the secondary network node according to the network state of the cell served by the secondary network node; the secondary network node sends first update configuration information to a terminal, wherein the first update configuration information is used for updating the network configuration of the cell served by the secondary network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11057100
    Abstract: Technology for a repeater is disclosed. The repeater can include a first multiband filter. The repeater can include a second multiband filter. The repeater can include one or more first-direction signal paths communicatively coupled between the first multiband filter and the second multi-band filter. At least one of the one or more first-direction signal paths can be configured to amplify and filter signals in two or more spectrally adjacent bands. The repeater can include one or more second-direction signal paths communicatively coupled between the first multiband filter and the second multi-band filter. At least one of the one or more second-direction signal paths can be configured to amplify and filter signals in two or more spectrally adjacent bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Wilson Electronics, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Ken Ashworth
  • Patent number: 11057925
    Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more messages comprising configuration parameters for a plurality of cells comprising a secondary cell. A deactivation timer may be disabled for the secondary cell in response to the configuration parameters comprising periodic resource allocation configuration parameters for configuring a periodic resource allocation of the secondary cell. A downlink control information (DCI) indicating activation of the periodic resource allocation may be received. The DCI may comprise a radio resource assignment. One or more transport blocks (TBs) employing the radio resource assignment may be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11057957
    Abstract: A method for joint wireless transmission includes (a) at a master wireless communication device, generating a first coordination signal for coordinating joint transmission of a wireless communication signal by at least the master wireless communication device and a first slave wireless communication device, (b) transmitting the first coordination signal from the master wireless communication device to the first slave wireless communication device, and (c) transmitting a first portion of the wireless communication signal from the master wireless communication device to a wireless base station that is remote from each of the master wireless communication device and the first slave wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Padden, Mark J. Poletti
  • Patent number: 11057780
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives, from a base station, one or more downlink reference signals on an unlicensed carrier. The UE determines that the base station occupies the unlicensed carrier for a predetermined first channel occupancy time based on the one or more downlink reference signals. The UE receives, on the unlicensed carrier and in the predetermined first channel occupancy time, a control burst including a plurality of down link control channels. The UE attempts to decode a first down link control channel directed to the UE from the control burst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chiou-Wei Tsai, Jiann-Ching Guey, Chun-Hsuan Kuo, Cheng-Rung Tsai
  • Patent number: 11051308
    Abstract: Facilitating application and/or traffic status aware intelligent carrier aggregation in advanced networks is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise analyzing a traffic usage parameter of a mobile device and, based on a first determination that the traffic usage parameter consumes more uplink resources than downlink resources, configuring, the mobile device with an uplink carrier aggregation based on a first maximization of the uplink carrier aggregation and, thereafter, configuring the mobile device with an allowable downlink carrier aggregation. Alternatively, based on a second determination that the traffic usage parameter consumes more downlink resources than uplink resources, configuring the mobile device with a downlink carrier aggregation based on a second maximization of the downlink carrier aggregation and, thereafter, configuring the mobile device with an allowable uplink carrier aggregation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ye Chen, Michael Prise, Hongyan Lei, Jason Sikes, Todd Zeiler
  • Patent number: 11051280
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may transmit via a primary uplink carrier data, pilot and control channels for uplink transmissions on both uplink carriers, and transmit a data channel and a pilot channel via a secondary uplink carrier. Alternatively, the WTRU may transmit via a primary uplink carrier data, pilot, and control channels for uplink transmission on the primary uplink carrier, and transmit via a secondary uplink carrier data, pilot, and control channels for uplink transmissions on the secondary uplink carrier. Each uplink carrier may be associated with at least one specific downlink carrier such that the WTRU applies control information received on a downlink carrier to uplink transmissions on an uplink carrier associated with the downlink carrier on which the WTRU receives the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Marinier, Diana Pani, Christopher R. Cave, Benoit Pelletier
  • Patent number: 11051331
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may receive a paired scheduling assignment including a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduling assignment for a PDSCH communication, wherein the paired scheduling assignment is based at least in part on a timing relationship between PDSCH communications, associated with the wireless communication device, and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) communications associated with the wireless communication device; and determine, based at least in part on the paired scheduling assignment, a PUSCH scheduling assignment for a PUSCH communication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Junyi Li, Durga Prasad Malladi
  • Patent number: 11044037
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an information transmission method and a device, so as to improve communication reliability and reduce complexity of processing by a receive end. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a data processing mode, where the data processing mode includes a modulation and coding mode; processing data based on the data processing mode; determining a pilot signal based on the data processing mode; and sending the pilot signal and processed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yiqun Wu, Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 11044060
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application is a method by which a terminal transmits channel state information to a network in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, from the network, information on a specific channel measurement resource and a specific interference measurement resource; calculating the channel state information by using the specific channel measurement resource and the specific interference measurement resource; and transmitting, to the network, the calculated channel state information, wherein independent beamforming is applied in units of symbols to the specific channel measurement resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyungtae Kim, Kijun Kim
  • Patent number: 11044739
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for beamforming based initial access, beam management, and beam based mobility designs for NR systems. Issues are identified and addressed related to, for example, initial access, control channel design, eMBB and URLLC mixing, and beam training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Convida Wireless
    Inventors: Qing Li, Lakshmi R. Iyer, Allan Y. Tsai, Guodong Zhang, Tianyi Xu, Wei Chen, Pascal M. Adjakple, Joseph M. Murray
  • Patent number: 11039397
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that provide a closed loop power control system including adaptively adjusting the desired target SINR over time so as to ultimately achieve a feasible SINR. In one implementation, a method is provided of optimizing uplink closed loop power control in a RAN in which one or more base stations each service a plurality of mobile stations, including: determining a power level for each mobile station for its respective uplink transmissions, including measuring a current achieved SINR for each mobile station; and for each mobile station, adjusting the power level to be sufficiently high to meet desired transmission characteristics but not so high as to cause unnecessary interference with transmissions from other mobile stations, by adjusting a desired target SINR based on factors selected from the following: current and prior achieved SINRs, current and prior interference measurements, and current and prior transmission power control commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Brian Dunn, Hithesh Nama, Srinivas Pinagapany, Jaspreet Singh
  • Patent number: 11039466
    Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Evolved Node-B (eNB) and methods for communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) that indicates an allocation for a new radio (NR) physical uplink shared channel (NR PUSCH) transmission, by the UE, in a channel of multiple physical resource blocks (PRBs) in a slot that comprises: a predetermined data region, and a predetermined control region reserved for NR physical uplink control channel (NR PUCCH) transmissions. The DCI may be configurable to indicate whether the allocation includes one or more of the PRBs in the control region. The allocation may include one or more of the PRBs in one or more symbol periods in the data region and may be configurable to include one or more of the PRBs in one or more symbol periods in the control region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Joonyoung Cho, Hong He, Hwan-Joon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11032778
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose an uplink channel power allocation method, including: determining, by a terminal device, priorities of N uplink channels based on a service set corresponding to each of the N uplink channels in a first time period, where each service set is corresponding to one priority, and at least one of service sets corresponding to the N uplink channels includes at least one service; and allocating, by the terminal device, transmit power to at least one of the N uplink channels based on the priorities of the N uplink channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Sha Ma
  • Patent number: 11032740
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for performing a re-establishment of PDCP entity associated with UM RLC entity in wireless communication system, the method comprising: when a re-establishment of a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) entity is triggered, stopping and resetting, by the PDCP entity, a reordering timer of the PDCP entity if the reordering timer of the PDCP entity is running; and delivering, by the PDCP entity, all stored PDCP Service Data Unit (SDU) to upper layers in ascending order of associated COUNT values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Geumsan Jo, Seungjune Yi
  • Patent number: 11031991
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a first base station using a first antenna array of a set of antenna arrays of the UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, an indication that the UE is to use a second antenna array of the set of antenna arrays to transmit a random access signal. The UE may transmit, to the first base station or a second base station, the random access signal using the second antenna array based on the received indication. The UE may transmit the random access signal to the first base station as part of determining an updated timing advance (TA) value for the second antenna array. The UE may transmit the random access signal to the second base station as a part of initial access or handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Tianyang Bai, Kiran Venugopal, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11032807
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a communication method. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, first uplink control information and second uplink control information. In those embodiments, a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the first uplink control information is less than a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the second uplink control information. The first uplink control information or the second uplink control information comprises at least one of hybrid automatic repeat request information, channel state information, and scheduling request information. When the time domain resource corresponding to the first uplink control information overlaps with the time domain resource corresponding to the second uplink control information, the terminal device is configured to transmit third uplink control information on the overlapping time domain resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zuomin Wu, Chaojun Li, Yongxia Lyu, Sha Ma
  • Patent number: 11025386
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to signaling information in physical broadcast channel (PBCH) demodulation reference signals (DMRS). In one example, a network entity may transmit the signaling information carried by a DMRS in one or more resource elements of physical broadcast channel (PBCH) symbols within a bandwidth of a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal of a synchronization signal block. In another example, a user equipment (UE) may receive the signaling information carried by the DMRS within one or more resource elements of PBCH symbols within a bandwidth of a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal of a synchronization signal block on a broadcast channel from the network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Ly, Tao Luo, Heechoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11025456
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for time domain resource allocations in wireless communications systems. Disclosed embodiments include time-domain symbol determination and/or indication using a combination of higher layer and downlink control information signaling for physical downlink shared channel and physical uplink shared channel; time domain resource allocations for mini-slot operations; rules for postponing and dropping for multiple mini-slot transmission; and collision handling of sounding reference signals with semi-statically or semi-persistently configured uplink transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Debdeep Chatterjee, Sergey Panteleev, Gang Xiong, Ajit Nimbalker, Hong He
  • Patent number: 11026249
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for configuring scheduling signaling on an unlicensed carrier. The method includes: configuring, by a base station, a carrier scheduling configuration message of a scheduled cell on the unlicensed carrier, the carrier scheduling configuration message comprising a scheduling type identifier, a scheduling cell identifier, and Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) starting symbol position information of a scheduling cell, and the scheduling type identifier indicating an uplink and downlink semi-persistent self-scheduling, an uplink and downlink semi-persistent cross-carrier scheduling, or a dynamic scheduling; and sending, by the base station, Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling to user equipment that carries the carrier scheduling configuration message. Scheduling flexibility on an unlicensed carrier and throughput of communication systems can be improved by implementing the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: YULONG COMPUTER TELECOMMUNICATION SCIENTIFIC (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Ju Li
  • Patent number: 11026075
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods provide for scheduling downlink control information in a wireless network. The apparatuses and methods may determine at least one control message for a user equipment and a downlink grant to be scheduled, and schedule transmission of one of the at least one control message with the downlink grant to precede transmission of related data on a downlink data channel. The apparatuses and methods may alternatively schedule a control message other than downlink grant for a user equipment, determine a downlink grant to be scheduled, and schedule a control message with the downlink grant to end last among all control messages in a search space. The apparatuses and methods may further alternatively schedule control messages for a user equipment, including one control message with a downlink grant and scheduled to end at the same time as or a later time than other control messages in a search space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM HONG KONG LIMITED
    Inventors: Karl Marko Juhani Lampinen, Arto Johannes Lehti
  • Patent number: 11026214
    Abstract: Provided is a method of transmitting and receiving data using a persistent allocation scheme in order to effectively support a voice service between a base station and a mobile terminal in a packet based mobile communication system. When an error occurs in transmitting control information that indicates whether to use a radio resource using the persistent allocation scheme, the base station may retransmit the control information and thereby maintain a communication quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kyoung Seok Lee, Jae Heung Kim, Soo Jung Jung, Jae Young Ahn
  • Patent number: 11019172
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for a hardware forwarding element. Based on a set of characteristics of a packet, the method determines to copy a packet to a particular temporary storage of a set of temporary storages of the hardware forwarding element. Based on a property of the particular temporary storage, the method stores only a particular portion of the packet in the particular temporary storage. A same size portion of each packet copied to the particular temporary storage is stored in the particular temporary storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Barefoot Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Parag D. Bhide, Alain Loge, Chaitanya Kodeboyina, Anurag Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11018920
    Abstract: In user terminal 20, reception section 202 and signal separation section 204 receive a data signal and a demodulation reference signal mapped to a downlink resource, and demodulation and decoding section 208 uses the demodulation reference signal to demodulate the data signal. A correction reference signal is mapped to the downlink resource according to a parameter related to user terminal 20 signaled to user terminal 20. Reception section 202 and signal separation section 204 specify a mapping pattern of the correction reference signal based on the parameter, and demodulation and decoding section 208 uses the correction reference signal to demodulate the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Keisuke Saito, Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11012964
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprising: receiving an indication of a timing difference over a wireless backhaul link, the indication received at a first node in a wireless communication system and received from a second node in the wireless communication system, the timing difference between a first time at which the second node received uplink signal on the wireless backhaul link from the first node and a second time at which the second node transmitted downlink signal on the wireless backhaul link to the first node; determining by the first node a new timing advance based on a current timing advance and on the received timing difference; and using the determined new timing advance for one or more transmissions by the first node over one or more wireless links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Juha S. Korhonen, Keeth S. Jayasinghe, Ilkka Keskitalo, Esa T. Tiirola
  • Patent number: 11013028
    Abstract: A wireless device receives uplink grants indicating resources of cells. First uplink grants of the uplink grants are processed as a group according to an order. The group is based on the first uplink grants being received during one or more coinciding time durations that the wireless device is configured to monitor at least one control channel for the cells. The processing comprises multiplexing data of one or more logical channels into transport blocks based on the first uplink grants. The transport blocks are transmitted based on the first uplink grants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Dinan
  • Patent number: 11012944
    Abstract: A method by which a terminal transmits an uplink signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: determining whether transmission power of a plurality of uplink channels, which are simultaneously transmitted in a plurality of serving cells and has transmission time intervals (TTIs) of different lengths, exceeds maximum power of a terminal; and transmitting an uplink channel excluding an uplink channel, which is determined according to a preset priority rule, among the plurality of uplink channels when the transmission power of the plurality of uplink channels exceeds the maximum power of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunho Lee, Yunjung Yi, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11012999
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a UE (User Equipment). In one embodiment, the method includes the UE being configured with a control resource set (CORESET). The method further includes the UE receiving a Downlink Control Information (DCI) on the CORESET, wherein an index is included in the DCI and the index indicates a time domain resource allocation pattern. The method also includes the UE receiving data in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols determined according to the time domain resource allocation pattern, wherein a range of the time domain resource allocation pattern starts from the first OFDM symbol of the CORESET or after an offset from the first OFDM symbol of the CORESET, and the range of the time domain resource allocation pattern may end across a slot boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Huang, Richard Lee-Chee Kuo
  • Patent number: 11013034
    Abstract: A method for operating an access node includes receiving a first random access preamble in a first random access resource, wherein the first random access preamble and the first random access resource at least partially identifies a first beam selected by a user equipment (UE), and wherein the first random access resource is one of a plurality of random access resources assigned to the UE, and determining that first additional information associated with the first beam is needed, and based thereon, sending a first message responsive to the first random access preamble, the first message including a first information set to request the additional information associated with the first beam, and receiving a second message including the first additional information associated with the first beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Young Hoon Kwon, Pengfei Xia, Bin Liu
  • Patent number: 11006246
    Abstract: A base station is configured to control a wireless communication network cell of a wireless communication network and is configured to use a coarse position information related to a coarse position of a user equipment to determine a direction towards the user equipment. The base station is configured to transmit a positioning signal to the user equipment and to direct the transmission of the positioning signal towards the user equipment. The positioning signal is adapted to allow for a determining of a fine position information relating to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Martin Kurras, Lars Thiele, Markus Landmann, Marcus Großmann, Niels Hadaschik, Norbert Franke
  • Patent number: 11006417
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a multiplexed uplink control channel and localized sounding reference symbol (localized SRS) by a terminal comprises a step of dividing the uplink control channel into a plurality of uplink control channel sub-blocks in a frequency domain and then transmitting the divided uplink control channel, when a frequency bandwidth of the localized SRS is smaller than or equal to a coherent bandwidth, wherein the divided uplink control channel sub-blocks may be frequency-division-multiplexed together with at least one localized SRS and then transmitted in one symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kukheon Choi, Ilmu Byun, Kyuseok Kim, Minki Ahn, Kilbom Lee
  • Patent number: 11005639
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for associating carriers in a wireless communication network. One embodiments provides a method in a wireless terminal device. The wireless terminal device is configurable with a plurality of carriers for communication with one or more network nodes of a wireless network. The plurality of carriers comprise a first carrier operated by a first network node of the wireless network located at a first cell site. The method comprises: responsive to a determination that a second carrier of the plurality of carriers is operated by the first network node or a second network node of the wireless network that is located at the first cell site: obtaining one or more measured values for one or more radio characteristics for the first carrier; and utilizing the one or more measured values to transmit a wireless radio message over the second carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Muhammad Kazmi, Oscar Ohlsson, Yutao Sui
  • Patent number: 10999018
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for reporting, by a terminal, acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) to a base station. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a network, data signals for providing a plurality of broadcasting services during a preset subframe; generating, in subframe units, pieces of ACK/NACK information with respect to each of the data signals; bundling the pieces of ACK/NACK information; and reporting the bundled pieces of ACK/NACK information to the network from a single subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Suckchel Yang, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 10993264
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for multiplexing channel state information (CSI) reports in scenarios involving multiple transmit-receive points (TRPs). In one aspect, a user equipment (UE) may receive at least one configuration that identifies a resource for multiplexing CSI reports that have a potential to collide in a slot. The UE may receive the at least one configuration from either, or both, of a first TRP or a second TRP. The UE may transmit at least one of a first set of CSI reports to the first TRP or a second set of CSI reports to the second TRP, multiplexed in the resource, according to the at least one configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Yi Huang, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun