Combining Or Distributing Information Via Frequency Channels Patents (Class 370/343)
  • Patent number: 11664958
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and baseband processors are provided to generate or process symbols in a synchronization subframe. In one example, a method includes selecting non-consecutive orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a synchronization subframe. A transmitter is instructed to transmit demodulation reference symbols (DM-RS) on identical first sets of subcarriers in respective OFDM symbols of the selected non-consecutive OFDM symbols for a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) using a same transmit beam, wherein a gap between two subcarriers in a respective set of the identical first sets of subcarriers is three subcarriers. The transmitter is instructed to transmit the PBCH on identical second sets of subcarriers in respective OFDM symbols in the selected non-consecutive OFDM symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peng Lu, Qiaoyang Ye, Gang Xiong, Glenn J. Bradford, Joonyoung Cho, Jong-Kae Fwu, Bishwarup Mondal
  • Patent number: 11658701
    Abstract: Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology exploits modulated coded impulses over a wide frequency spectrum with very low power over a short distance for digital data transmission. Today's leading edge modulated sinusoidal wave wireless communication standards and systems achieve power efficiencies of 50 nJ/bit employing narrowband signaling schemes and traditional RF transceiver architectures. However, such designs severely limit the achievable energy efficiency, especially at lower data rates such as below 1 Mbps. Further, it is important that peak power consumption is supportable by common battery or energy harvesting technologies and long term power consumption neither leads to limited battery lifetimes or an inability for alternate energy sources to sustain them. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for next generation applications to exploit inventive transceiver structures and communication schemes in order to achieve the sub nJ per bit energy efficiencies required by next generation applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Transfert Plus, Société En Commandite
    Inventors: Frederic Nabki, Dominic Deslandes, Mohammad Taherzadeh-Sani, Michiel Soer
  • Patent number: 11650612
    Abstract: A client device manages consumption of power supplied by an electric utility to power consuming devices. Power flow to the power consuming devices is selectively enabled and disabled by one or more controllable devices controlled by the client device. The client device receives a power control message from a load management server. The power control message indicates at least one of an amount of electric power to be reduced and an identification of at least one controllable device to be instructed to disable a flow of electric power to one or more associated power consuming devices. Responsive to the power control message, the client device issues a power management command to one or more controllable devices under the client device's control. The power management command causes the one or more controllable devices to disable a flow of electric power to the one or more associated power consuming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CAUSAM ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventor: Joseph W. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11621732
    Abstract: A high-frequency front end module includes a primary antenna terminal and a secondary antenna terminal, a first multiplexer and a second multiplexer, a switch circuit, and a first amplifier and a second amplifier. The first multiplexer has a first transmission filter and a first reception filter. The second multiplexer has a second transmission filter and a second reception filter. The switch circuit exclusively switches connection between the primary antenna terminal and the first multiplexer and connection between the primary antenna terminal and the second multiplexer, and exclusively switches connection between the secondary antenna terminal and the first multiplexer and connection between the secondary antenna terminal and the second multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoji Tsuda, Takayuki Nakamura, Daerok Oh
  • Patent number: 11616555
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein for facilitating spatial misalignment tracking for OAM beams in millimeter wave and higher frequency bands. An example method for wireless communication at a first communication device includes receiving, from a second communication device, a first misalignment tracking RS and a second misalignment tracking RS for an OAM transmission. The example method also includes determining a misalignment based on the first misalignment tracking RS, the second misalignment tracking RS, and using a subset of antenna elements of an antenna array of the first communication device. Additionally, the example method includes adjusting reception of a subsequent OAM transmission from the second communication device at the antenna array of the first communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shay Landis, Ran Berliner, Yehonatan Dallal, Assaf Touboul, Idan Michael Horn, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger
  • Patent number: 11616520
    Abstract: A device includes, in part, an antenna adapted to receive an RF signal that includes modulated data, a splitter/coupler adapted to split the received RF signal, a receiver adapted to demodulate the data from a first portion of the RF signal, and a power recovery unit adapted to convert to a DC power a second portion of the RF signal. The splitter/coupler is optionally adjustable to split the RF signal in accordance with a value that may be representative of a number of factors, such as the target data rate, the DC power requirement of the device, and the like. The device optionally includes a switch and/or a power combiner adapted to deliver all the received RF power to the receiver depending on any number of operation conditions of the device or the device's distance from an RF transmitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Hajimiri, Florian Bohn, Behrooz Abiri
  • Patent number: 11601161
    Abstract: Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology exploits modulated coded impulses over a wide frequency spectrum with very low power over a short distance for digital data transmission. Today's leading edge modulated sinusoidal wave wireless communication standards and systems achieve power efficiencies of 50 nJ/bit employing narrowband signaling schemes and traditional RF transceiver architectures. However, such designs severely limit the achievable energy efficiency, especially at lower data rates such as below 1 Mbps. Further, it is important that peak power consumption is supportable by common battery or energy harvesting technologies and long term power consumption neither leads to limited battery lifetimes or an inability for alternate energy sources to sustain them. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for next generation applications to exploit inventive transceiver structures and communication schemes in order to achieve the sub nJ per bit energy efficiencies required by next generation applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Transfert Plus, Société En Commandite
    Inventors: Frederic Nabki, Dominic Deslandes, Mohammad Taherzadeh-Sani, Michiel Soer
  • Patent number: 11523466
    Abstract: A channel access process method in a wireless local area network is provided. The method includes: generating, by a station, a backoff counter value; then performing, by the station, a backoff operation after receiving a first trigger frame, where the backoff operation includes: deducting, from the backoff counter value, a quantity N of subchannels for random access, to obtain a new backoff counter value; and when the new backoff counter value is 0 or a negative number, randomly selecting, by the station, one subchannel from the subchannels for random access, and then accessing the subchannel to send an uplink frame. The present application further provides a corresponding channel access apparatus. Applying the method and the apparatus of the embodiments of the present application improves system access efficiency and avoids a waste of system resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunbo Li, Yanchun Li, Yi Luo
  • Patent number: 11456812
    Abstract: A multi-stage demultiplexing circuit in which a plurality of circuits each combining a selector and a frequency decimation circuit are connected is included. The selector selects one of input signals based on a control signal, and generates a plurality of output signals. The plurality of output signals output from the selector are input to the frequency decimation circuit, and the frequency decimation circuit performs frequency conversion processing, low pass filter processing, and down-sampling processing based on a control signal to generate an output signal. Two or more reception signals are input to the multi-stage demultiplexing circuit, and the multi-stage demultiplexing circuit executes demultiplexing processing based on a control signal so that an output signal that includes an unused band portion is prevented from being output downstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Takemoto, Akinori Fujimura, Yuichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11444656
    Abstract: Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology exploits modulated coded impulses over a wide frequency spectrum with very low power over a short distance for digital data transmission. Today's leading edge modulated sinusoidal wave wireless communication standards and systems achieve power efficiencies of 50 nJ/bit employing narrowband signaling schemes and traditional RF transceiver architectures. However, such designs severely limit the achievable energy efficiency, especially at lower data rates such as below 1 Mbps. Further, it is important that peak power consumption is supportable by common battery or energy harvesting technologies and long term power consumption neither leads to limited battery lifetimes or an inability for alternate energy sources to sustain them. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for next generation applications to exploit inventive transceiver structures and communication schemes in order to achieve the sub nJ per bit energy efficiencies required by next generation applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Transfert Plus, Societe En Commandite
    Inventors: Frederic Nabki, Dominic Deslandes, Mohammad Taherzadeh-Sani, Michiel Soer
  • Patent number: 11438019
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for mitigating interference in a communications network. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises obtaining a packet. The packet has been wirelessly received in an uplink direction by a transmission and reception point of the network node and from a packet sender. The packet is indicative of scheduled transmission of a further packet within a predefined time interval from the transmission and reception point has wirelessly received the packet. The method comprises determining beamforming weights such that interference caused by transmission from the transmission and reception point of the network node in a downlink direction being reversed to the uplink direction is less than a threshold interference value. The method comprises initiating transmission in at least one beam using the determined beamforming weights. The beamforming weights are used for the transmission at least within the predefined time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Thomas Nilsson, Dzevdan Kapetanovic
  • Patent number: 11425776
    Abstract: An electronic device is detected as no longer being connected to a first wireless network via which the electronic device had network connectivity. Over a wireless sideband communication channel, a host computing device subsequently communicates to the electronic device network credentials for a second wireless network that is accessible by the electronic device and for which the host computing device has the network credentials. The electronic device responsively connects to the second wireless network using the network credentials communicated from the host computing device. The electronic device then has the network connectivity via the second wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Kenneth K. Smith
  • Patent number: 11399413
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode system information block (SIB) information including a PRACH configuration index. The PRACH configuration index indicates at least a first preamble format and a second preamble format. A PRACH preamble is encoded for transmission to a base station within a PRACH resource indicated by the PRACH configuration index. The PRACH preamble is associated with the first preamble format or the second preamble format. A random access channel response (RAR) message from the base station is decoded. The RAR message includes an uplink grant for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission. Data is encoded for transmission on the PUSCH based on the uplink grant. The PRACH resource comprises a plurality of PRACH occasions, where the PRACH preamble is transmitted within a PRACH occasion from the plurality of PRACH occasions with a starting symbol indicated by the PRACH configuration index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjun Kwak, Dae Won Lee, Gregory Vladimirovich Morozov, Seung Hee Han
  • Patent number: 11399336
    Abstract: Discontinuous access to unlicensed spectrum is facilitated in a new radio access environment. According an embodiment, a system can comprise performing a scanning procedure that determines whether a first subband and a second subband is available for transmission. The system can further facilitate determining whether the first subband and the second subband are adjacent, wherein a first channel formed at the first subband comprising a first guard band and a second channel formed at the second subband comprising a second guard band that is adjacent to the first guard band. The system can further facilitate in response to determining that the first subband and the second subband are adjacent and available for transmission, eliminating the first guard band and the second guard band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Aditya Chopra, Arunabha Ghosh, Abdulrauf Hafeez
  • Patent number: 11381217
    Abstract: A radio frequency circuit includes a multilayer substrate, series arm circuits in a first path connecting the input/output terminals (T1 and T2) on the multilayer substrate, a parallel arm circuit in a second path connecting a node on the first path and a ground, a wiring A on the multilayer substrate connected to the input/output terminal (T1) as a part of the first path, a wiring B on the multilayer substrate connected to the input/output terminal (T2) as a part of the first path, and a wiring C on the multilayer substrate as a part of the second path. The parallel arm circuit includes an impedance variable circuit, the wiring A and the wiring B in a layer different from the multilayer substrate. When viewed in a plan view, the wiring C does not overlap with the wiring A and the wiring B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Mori, Hideki Tsukamoto, Taizo Hisano
  • Patent number: 11368173
    Abstract: Wireless mesh network (WMN) architectures of network hardware devices organized in a mesh topology is described. One device communicates, using a first radio, first data with a second device via a first wireless link between the device and the second device. The device communicates, using a second radio, second data with a third device via a second wireless link between the device and the third device. The device communicates, using a third radio, third data with a fourth device via a third wireless link between the device and the fourth device. The device communicates, using a fourth radio, fourth data with a server of a content delivery network (CDN) via a point-to-point wireless link between the device and the server. The device is an only ingress point for content files for a mesh network that includes at least the device, the second device, and the third device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Varadarajan Gopalakrishnan, Andrew David Price, In Chul Hyun, Jin Dong Kim, Subram Narasimhan
  • Patent number: 11368967
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transmission and reception of data in a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system supporting aggregation of a plurality of component carriers and an additional carrier accessible by a listen before talk approach. In particular, monitoring is performed of a search space on a cross-scheduling component carrier for detecting downlink control information having a carrier identification field indicating the cross-scheduling component carrier as well as for detecting downlink control information with the carrier identification field indicating the additional carrier, wherein the search space is specified by a subset of resources, associated with carrier identification of the cross-scheduling component carrier but is not associated with carrier identification of the additional carrier. Then data are transmitted or received on the carriers in accordance with the received downlink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11362692
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the disclosure related to communications apparatus provides isolation between wireless protocols when operating currently while incurring the additional insertion loss based on providing the isolation only when needed. In an aspect, an apparatus include a switched filter coupled to an antenna where the switched filter includes a filter and a bypass line along with switching circuitry configured to selectively establish a bypass signal path including the bypass line or a filtered signal path including the filter. The apparatus further includes a switched filter controller configured to cause the switching circuitry to selectively connect a transceiver unit to the antenna via the bypass signal path or via the filtered signal path based at least on a frequency band of a carrier signal and a bandwidth of the carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Steve Andre Beaudin, Patric Heide, Wai San Wong, Michael Kohlmann, David Maldonado, Ryan Scott Castro Spring, Stefan Freisleben, Mykola Shevelov, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai
  • Patent number: 11350411
    Abstract: A control message prospectively indicates a need of a communication device sending a data packet of a first class of data employing radio resources. The radio resources are reserved at least for the first class of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Shehzad Ali Ashraf, Nadia Brahmi
  • Patent number: 11350259
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a wireless peripheral for wireless communication with a master device. Example embodiments disclosed include a wireless peripheral for wireless communication with a master device and comprising a first peripheral device and a second peripheral device, wherein: at least one of the first peripheral device (500a) and the second peripheral device is arranged to communicate with the master device (100) by transmitting and receiving first wireless signals conveying first packets occupying transmit and receive time slots comprising inter-frame space; and the first peripheral device and the second peripheral device are arranged to communicate with each other by transmitting and receiving second wireless signals conveying second packets within said inter-frame space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Catena Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Geert Hendrik Weinans
  • Patent number: 11323946
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for enabling communications in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A wireless transmit and receive unit (WTRU) may receive, from an access point (AP), a management frame comprising capability information. The capability information may comprise an indication of support for reception via non-contiguous channels. The WTRU may transmit, on a condition that reception via non-contiguous channels is supported, at least one data packet, to the AP, via multiple non-contiguous channels. The multiple non-contiguous channels may be used simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventor: Sudheer A. Grandhi
  • Patent number: 11290171
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for signal detection in a MIMO communication system. A receiver device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a remote unit and a baseband unit. The remote radio unit is configured to receive a first set of signals from a first number of receiving antennas, and the baseband unit comprises: an interfacing unit, configured to obtain the first set of signals from the remote radio unit; a beamforming unit, configured to generate a second set of signals associated with a second number of virtual antennas by performing receiving beamforming for the obtained first set of signals, the second number being less than the first number; and a detecting unit, configured to detect the second set of signals generated by the beamforming unit. Embodiments of the present disclosure may reduce complexity of signal detection and cost of implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Zhijun Liao, Liang Xing, Junjie Zeng, Shenglin Shi
  • Patent number: 11290135
    Abstract: A high-frequency front end module includes a primary antenna terminal and a secondary antenna terminal, a first multiplexer and a second multiplexer, a switch circuit, and a first amplifier and a second amplifier. The first multiplexer has a first transmission filter and a first reception filter. The second multiplexer has a second transmission filter and a second reception filter. The switch circuit exclusively switches connection between the primary antenna terminal and the first multiplexer and connection between the primary antenna terminal and the second multiplexer, and exclusively switches connection between the secondary antenna terminal and the first multiplexer and connection between the secondary antenna terminal and the second multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoji Tsuda, Takayuki Nakamura, Daerok Oh
  • Patent number: 11224081
    Abstract: This document describes methods, devices, systems, and means for disengaged-mode active coordination set (ACS) management. A user equipment (110) uses an ACS for joint wireless communication between the user equipment (110) and multiple base stations (120) included in the ACS. The user equipment (110) receives a resource configuration for an ACS Disengaged-mode Reference Signal (ADRS). The user equipment (110) transitions to a disengaged mode (424) and receives the ADRS. The user equipment (110) determines that an updated ACS is required, transmits a message or a sounding signal indicating the need for the updated ACS, and in response, receives the updated ACS from a master base station (121).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Patent number: 11212047
    Abstract: Provided are a receiver, a transmitter and a radio communication method capable of using non-orthogonal multiple access while suppressing cost increase and processing delay. A mobile station 200A includes a target user control signal detector 230 and an interfering user control signal detector 240 which are configured to receive a control signal to be used to cancel a non-orthogonal signal by interference canceller. The control signal includes control information containing a radio resource block allocated to the non-orthogonal signal addressed to another mobile station. The mobile station 200A demodulates and cancels the radio signal addressed to the other mobile station on the basis of the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 11206010
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes a switch circuit that includes selection terminals, a filter that allows the signal in the first frequency band to pass therethrough, a filter that allows the signal in the second frequency band to pass therethrough, a phase adjustment circuit that is connected to the selection terminal and the filter, and a phase adjustment circuit that is connected to the selection terminal and the filter. The filter includes an acoustic wave resonator that is formed on a substrate that has piezoelectricity. The filter includes an acoustic wave resonator that is formed on a substrate that has piezoelectricity. At least one of circuit elements that are included in the phase adjustment circuit is formed on the substrate. At least one of circuit elements that are included in the phase adjustment circuit is formed on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11190327
    Abstract: A method is provided to generate and control transmission of reference symbols in a synchronization subframe, wherein a reference symbol includes reference values mapped to a block of K subcarriers. The method includes generating data corresponding to a basic subsequence of K?R1?R2 reference values, where R1 and R2 are integers such that 1?R1+R2<K, and mapping the data corresponding to the basic subsequence to an original range of K?R1?R2 contiguous subcarriers in the block such that there is a first set of R1 unmapped subcarriers above the original range of subcarriers and a second set of R2 unmapped subcarriers below the original range of subcarriers. Data corresponding to last R1 values in the basic subsequence is mapped to the first set of unmapped subcarriers. Data corresponding to first R2 values in the basic subsequence is mapped to the second set of unmapped subcarriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peng Lu, Qiaoyang Ye, Gang Xiong, Glenn J. Bradford, Joonyoung Cho, Jong-Kae Fwu, Bishwarup Mondal
  • Patent number: 11184949
    Abstract: Technologies directed to Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) channel assessment mechanisms are described. A processing device of a first wireless device identifies a channel identifier corresponding to a first operating channel being used by a first radio of the first wireless device to communicate with a first access point (AP) enabled on a radio of a second wireless device. The processing device identifies multiple devices in proximity to the first wireless device using a second radio. The processing device determines an airtime utilization percentage value for each operating channel of the second radio and determines a number of radar events for each DFS channel. The processing device determines a second channel identifier having a fewest number of radar events and selects a second operating channel for a second AP on the second radio, the second channel corresponding to the second operating channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yufeng Wang, Shao-Cheng Wang, Qinghai Gao
  • Patent number: 11172546
    Abstract: A wireless device is a device in a first communication system that uses a first band. A communication interface performs communication by using the first band; A monitoring interface monitors a situation of use of a second band for use by the communication interface and different from the first band, the second band being used in a second communication system different from the first communication system that uses the first band. A controller 18 changes a setting for communication in the communication interface when the situation of use monitored by the monitoring interface changes from non-use to use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryosuke Goto
  • Patent number: 11172473
    Abstract: Embodiments herein include a method in a user equipment (UE) for transmitting uplink control information in time slots of a subframe over a radio channel to a radio base station. The uplink control information is comprised in a block of bits. The UE maps the block of bits to a sequence of complex valued modulation symbols. The UE block spreads the sequence across Discrete Fourier Transform Spread-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (DFTS-OFDM) symbols. This is performed by applying a spreading sequence to the sequence of complex valued modulation symbols, to achieve a block spread sequence of complex valued modulation symbols. The UE further transforms the block-spread sequence, per DFTS-OFDM symbol. This is performed by applying a matrix that depends on a DFTS-OFDM symbol index and/or slot index to the block-spread sequence. The UE also transmits the block spread sequence, as transformed, over the radio channel to the radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, David Astely, Dirk Gerstenberger, Daniel Larsson, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 11147072
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some cases, devices such as band limited (BL) or coverage enhancement (CE) user equipment (UE) having limited transmitting and receiving capability may operate using a subset of a system bandwidth of a carrier (e.g., narrowbands). To support frequency hopping or frequency diversity in transmissions, for example, such devices may utilize retuning when a resource allocation moves from a first narrowband to a second narrowband. Retuning, however, may create challenges when transmitting and receiving capability is limited. Aspects of this disclosure may support a flexible starting physical resource block (PRB) for indicating new resource allocations for BL or CE UEs. In some aspects, a UE is disclosed which may retune between consecutive transmission time intervals (TTIs) or subframes, for example, from a first tuning band to a second tuning band (e.g., a newly defined retuning narrowband).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Vijayvaradharaj Tirucherai Muralidharan, Murali Menon
  • Patent number: 11140608
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for millimeter wave (mmW) beam acquisition are disclosed. An apparatus may include a processor and a transceiver configured to receive configuration information from a first network node using a first radio access technology (RAT). The configuration information may include an index associated with a beam of a second network node and timing information corresponding to the first RAT. The second network node may use a second RAT. The apparatus may be further configured to transmit a measurement report to the first network node that includes a measurement of the beam and index associated with the beam of the second network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Wang, Yingxue K. Li, Onur Sahin, Philip J. Pietraski, Ravikumar V. Pragada, Gregg A. Charlton
  • Patent number: 11133901
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities may be disclosed for implementing a flexible radio access communication system. A flexible radio access communication system may be supported using spectrum of varying size, including aggregation of non-adjacent carriers in the same and/or in different frequency bands. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a first transmission via a common downlink control channel. The first transmission may include first control information. The first control information may include information regarding the configuration of a first dedicated downlink control channel of one or more dedicated control channels. The WTRU may receive a second transmission via the first dedicated downlink control channel of the dedicated control channels. The second transmission may include second control information. The second control information may be associated with a transmission of a first transmission type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: IDAC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Moon-il Lee, Paul Marinier, Diana Pani, Benoit Pelletier, Ghyslain Pelletier, Marian Rudolf
  • Patent number: 11108263
    Abstract: Systems for providing operating reserves to an electric power grid are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system comprises at least one power consuming device, at least one controllable device, and a client device constructed and configured in network communication. The at least one controllable device is operably coupled to the at least one power consuming device. The at least one controllable device is operable to control a power flow from the electric power grid to the at least one power consuming device responsive to power control instructions from the client device. Each of the at least one power consuming device has an actual value of power reduced and/or to be reduced based on revenue grade metrology, and confirmed by measurement and verification. The actual value of power reduced and/or to be reduced is a curtailment value as supply equivalence and provides operating reserve for the electric power grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CAUSAM ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventor: Joseph W. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11063696
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which optimize one or more metrics of a communication system by intentionally changing symbols in a bitstream after encoding by, an error correction coder, but prior to transmission. The symbols may be changed to meet a communication metric optimization goal, such as decreasing a high PAPR, reducing an error rate, reducing an average power level (to save battery), or altering some other communication metric. The symbol that is intentionally changed is then detected by the receiver as an error and corrected by the receiver utilizing the error correction coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Amer Aref Hassan
  • Patent number: 11022995
    Abstract: A client device manages consumption of power supplied by an electric utility to power consuming devices. Power flow to the power consuming devices is selectively enabled and disabled by one or more controllable devices controlled by the client device. The client device receives a power control message from a load management server. The power control message indicates at least one of an amount of electric power to be reduced and an identification of at least one controllable device to be instructed to disable a flow of electric power to one or more associated power consuming devices. Responsive to the power control message, the client device issues a power management command to one or more controllable devices under the client device's control. The power management command causes the one or more controllable devices to disable a flow of electric power to the one or more associated power consuming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: CAUSAM ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventor: Joseph W. Forbes, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11025471
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for providing a code cover to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a multiple user system. A data sequence is received from each of a plurality of users. Further, a reference sequence is generated for the data sequence of each of the plurality of users. Each of the reference sequence is multiplied with a code cover which are orthogonal to each other. Each of the reference sequence is time-multiplexed with corresponding data sequence, to generate a corresponding multiplexed sequence. Further, a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is performed on each of the multiplexed sequence to generate a corresponding DFT-spread-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) symbol. Lastly, the corresponding DFT-s-OFDM symbol is processed for transmitting over corresponding one or more channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventor: Kiran Kumar Kuchi
  • Patent number: 11026070
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for performing V2X communication in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Taehun Kim, Jaewook Lee, Jongwoo Hong
  • Patent number: 11019582
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for transmitting/receiving a reference signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system. According to the present disclosure, the terminal receives control information from a base station and receives the reference signal based on the control information. The reference signal is transmitted on a specific antenna port and is positioned in the same symbol, on a time axis, and in the same subcarrier, on a frequency axis, as a different reference signal transmitted on at least one other antenna port. A method and a device may be provided, in which an Orthogonal Cover Code (OCC) is applied to the specific antenna port and at least one other antenna port and multiplexed through a Code Division Multiplexing (CDM) scheme and the OCC or a value acquired by shifting the OCC is applied to the subcarrier according to the index of the subcarrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyungtae Kim, Jiwon Kang, Kijun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11005635
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication. A transmitter may receive feedback that a station failed to decode a packet sent over a first channel, and the transmitter may determine to re-send the packet or to send parity bits over the first channel or over a second channel to assist in decoding the failed packet. The first channel may be in an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum, and the second channel may be in a licensed radio frequency spectrum and may have a higher reliability level compared to the first channel. The transmitter may determine a first channel degradation level, which may be based on a signal-to-noise ratio received from the station, and may determine an amount of parity bits to send based on the degradation. The transmitter may determine the reliability level of each channel, which may be based on a channel quality indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shrinivas Kudekar, Thomas Joseph Richardson, Xinzhou Wu, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11006400
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described that includes a control channel receiver configured to monitor, in a license-assisted-access (LAA) cell, a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and to monitor a second PDCCH. The first PDCCH includes a DCI format having a field for indicating an occupied-OFDM-symbol configuration for a subframe in which the first PDCCH is detected. The second PDCCH is a PDCCH of which detection indicates a transmission of a PDSCH on the LAA cell. A reference signal receiver is configured to receive reference signals of which resource element position within the subframe is determined depending on the occupied-OFDM-symbol configuration. A shared channel receiver is configured to receive the PDSCH assuming the same antenna port is used as for the reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Zhanping Yin
  • Patent number: 11005543
    Abstract: This invention is a transmission device capable of enhancing the reception characteristics of a terminal when employing transmit diversity using two antenna ports in an ePDCCH. In a base station (100) that transmits a reference signal to a terminal (200) using two antenna ports, a setting unit (102), on the basis of the reception quality of the terminal, sets as the aforementioned two antenna ports either a first antenna port pair for which DMRS (reference signals) do not undergo mutual code multiplexing, or a second antenna port pair for which the DMRS do undergo code multiplexing. A transmitter (109) transmits the DMRS from the two antenna ports set in the setting unit (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tadashi Yoshida, Ayako Horiuchi, Takashi Iwai, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 10993094
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for performing V2X communication in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Taehun Kim, Jaewook Lee, Jongwoo Hong
  • Patent number: 10985959
    Abstract: A wireless device (810) obtains (904) a first transmission time interval (TTI) for transmitting a first signal, and determines (908), based on the first TTI, a first transient time associated with the first TTI that defines a first duration during which a transmit power level of the wireless device changes. The wireless device transmits (912) the first signal using the first transient time. The wireless device obtains (916) a second TTI for transmitting a second signal, wherein a length of the second TTI is different from a length of the first TTI. The wireless device determines (920), based on the second TTI, a second transient time associated with the second TTI that defines a second duration during which the transmit power level of the wireless device changes that is different from the first transient time. The wireless device transmits (924) the second signal using the second transient time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Imadur Rahman, Dominique Everaere, Laetitia Falconetti, Muhammad Kazmi, Mårten Sundberg
  • Patent number: 10985562
    Abstract: Based on information from a controller scheduling data traffic in a processing arrangement, a super capacitor unit is activated, whereby reactive power is fed to a system bus of said power system. The controller is configured to have information at time t(n) about the data traffic workload of the processing arrangement at time t(n+1). By triggering discharge of the super capacitor unit based on super capacitor data at time t(n+1), transients on a system bus voltage are, at least in part, smoothed out at time t(n+1), which reduces the need for reactive power of the power system, where said transients are related to the data traffic workload of the processing arrangement. The power efficiency of the power system can be improved by 3-4% by the reduction of the need for reactive power from a power grid, for which reason the electrical bill of an operator is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Lackis Eleftheriadis, Athanasios Karapantelakis, Konstantinos Vandikas
  • Patent number: 10958297
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for mitigating interference in a communications network. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises obtaining a packet. The packet has been wirelessly received in an uplink direction by a transmission and reception point of the network node and from a packet sender. The packet is indicative of scheduled transmission of a further packet within a predefined time interval from the transmission and reception point has wirelessly received the packet. The method comprises determining beamforming weights such that interference caused by transmission from the transmission and reception point of the network node in a downlink direction being reversed to the uplink direction is less than a threshold interference value. The method comprises initiating transmission in at least one beam using the determined beamforming weights. The beamforming weights are used for the transmission at least within the predefined time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Thomas Nilsson, Dzevdan Kapetanovic
  • Patent number: 10958395
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for transmitting DFT-s-OFDM symbols. A data sequence for transmitting as an OFDM symbol is received as input from a data source. A reference sequence for transmitting along with the data sequence as the OFDM symbol is generated and time-multiplexed with the data sequence, to generate a multiplexed sequence. Thereafter, a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) operation is performed on the multiplexed sequence to generate a DFT-spread-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) symbol that is further processed for transmitting over a channel. The transmission of the reference sequence and the data sequence in a single OFDM symbol provides better bandwidth utilization and flexibility in modulation of the reference sequence and the data sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Inventor: Kiran Kumar Kuchi
  • Patent number: 10951031
    Abstract: Based on information from a controller scheduling data traffic in a processing arrangement, a super capacitor unit is activated, whereby reactive power is fed to a system bus of said power system. The controller is configured to have information at time t(n) about the data traffic workload of the processing arrangement at time t(n+1). By triggering discharge of the super capacitor unit based on super capacitor data at time t(n+1), transients on a system bus voltage are, at least in part, smoothed out at time t(n+1), which reduces the need for reactive power of the power system, where said transients are related to the data traffic workload of the processing arrangement. The power efficiency of the power system can be improved by 3-4% by the reduction of the need for reactive power from a power grid, for which reason the electrical bill of an operator is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Lackis Eleftheriadis, Athanasios Karapantelakis, Konstantinos Vandikas
  • Patent number: 10917875
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for multicast/broadcast for enhanced machine type communications (eMTC) and/or narrowband internet-of-things (NB-IoT). In one aspect, a method is provided which may be performed by a wireless device such as a user equipment (UE), which can be a low cost device such as an eMTC UE or NB-IoT device. The method generally includes determining at least one narrowband region of a wideband region for receiving at least one of: multicast information or broadcast information in at least one subframe; and receiving the at least one of: the multicast information or the broadcast information in the determined at least one narrowband region in the at least one subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Hao Xu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Renqiu Wang, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 10904903
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method, including determining, by a user equipment, whether the user equipment is scheduled in one or more time frequency resources of a first transmission time interval or in one or more time frequency resources of a second transmission time interval, where the second transmission time interval is shorter than the first transmission time interval; and based on the determining, adjusting the monitoring of scheduling opportunities within a duration of the first transmission time interval, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Benoist Sebire, Chunli Wu, Elena Virtej