Synchronization Patents (Class 370/350)
  • Patent number: 11463969
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless repeater may monitor for transmissions from multiple base stations. For example, a wireless repeater may communicate with a first base station and forward transmissions from the first base station to various user equipment (UEs). Such transmissions may include transmitting synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) for the first base station. The first base station may instruct the wireless repeater to monitor for SSBs from other base stations, where the wireless repeater may indicate the monitoring results in a report to the first base station. Based on the report, the first base station may transmit an indication of a beam pattern to the wireless repeater. The wireless repeater may use the beam pattern for repeating transmissions of SSBs received from the first base station, SSBs received from the second base station, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Junyi Li, Ashwin Sampath, Navid Abedini
  • Patent number: 11445550
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a random access response message, a method of receiving a random access response message and devices thereof are provided. The method of transmitting a random access response message includes: receiving a random access request sent by a UE, and returning a first message to the UE, where the first message carries a random access response (RAR) message and RAR format indication information, the RAR format indication information is at least partially set in the RAR message, or the RAR format indication information is entirely set outside the RAR message; the RAR format indication information is configured to indicate a format of the RAR message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Yang
  • Patent number: 11444655
    Abstract: In an electronic device and an operation method thereof according to certain embodiments, the electronic device may include: a first communication circuit configured to perform a first communication using an ultra-wide band (UWB) communication scheme and a processor. The processor may control the communication circuit to: identify, based on a characteristic of data to be transmitted using the first communication circuit, a frame length of the data to be transmitted; determine, based on the identified frame length, a peak voltage of a signal containing the data to be transmitted; and transmit the data using the signal having the determined peak voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Yang, Hyunchul Kim, Sehwan Choi, Sukgi Hong
  • Patent number: 11444734
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for reporting a group delay-per-frequency lookup table for transmit and receive beams. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives, from a transmission-reception point (TRP), a first downlink reference signal on at least one downlink reference signal resource using a downlink receive beam, transmits, to the TRP, an uplink reference signal on at least one uplink reference signal resource using an uplink transmit beam, determines a parameter representing a difference between a reception time of the first downlink reference signal and a transmission time of the uplink reference signal, transmit the parameter to a network entity, and transmits, to the network entity, a first lookup table or an identifier of the first lookup table, wherein the first lookup table represents per-frequency group delay information for the downlink receive beam and/or the uplink transmit beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Alexander Dorosenco, Jay King, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Joseph Patrick Burke
  • Patent number: 11442876
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an arbitration circuit with virtual link state machines to virtualize link states associated with multiple communication protocol stacks. The apparatus further includes a physical circuit coupled to the arbitration circuit and to interface with a physical link, where the physical circuit, in response to a retraining of the physical link, is to cause a plurality of the virtual link state machines to synchronize with corresponding virtual link state machines associated with a second side of the physical link, and where at least one of the communication protocol stacks is to remain in a low power state during the retraining and the synchronization. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joon Teik Hor, Ting Lok Song, Mahesh Wagh, Su Wei Lim
  • Patent number: 11444817
    Abstract: This application provides a synchronization signal sending method and receiving method, and an apparatus. In the method, a base station determines a frequency domain position of a target frequency resource based on a frequency interval of synchronization channels, wherein the frequency interval of synchronization channels is 2m times a predefined frequency resource of a physical resource block, and m is a preset nonnegative integer. The base station sends a synchronization signal by using the target frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Sun, Zheng Chen, Yan Cheng, Lixia Xue
  • Patent number: 11438133
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for data synchronization in a P2P ad hoc network includes retrieving network configuration information identifying a plurality of devices forming the P2P ad hoc network. A time offset between a local physical time at a first device and a local physical time of a second device is determined. A change in a data object of a plurality of data objects stored at a key-value store within the first device is detected, each of the data objects including a synchronization indicator. The data object change is communicated to at least the second device based on the synchronization indicator. Upon receiving confirmation from the at least the second device of receipt of the data object change, the network configuration information is updated with a timestamp based on the time offset and indicative of the local physical time at the first device when the data object change was communicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianjun Chen, Chunfeng Pei, Ye Liu, Marko Dimitrijevic
  • Patent number: 11432387
    Abstract: A modular system includes an LED driver and an LED light engine. The driver includes a switched mode power converter and a first control unit to control a switch of the converter, thereby controlling the supply current to an LED assembly of the light engine. The assembly includes LEDs and one or more switches arranged in series or in parallel with one or more of the LEDs. The light engine also includes a second control unit controlling the one or more switches of the LED assembly so as to control current through the LEDs. The first control unit controls amplitude of the supply current. The second control unit controls duty cycle of the LED current through the LEDs. The first and second control units are configured to synchronize a switching operation of the switched mode power converter with a switching operation of the switches of the light engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: eldoLAB Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Marc Saes, Stephen Haight Lydecker, Tijs Versteegde
  • Patent number: 11431539
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for improving the security of secure long training field (LTF) transmissions. In some implementations, a transmitting device may perform windowing on a secure LTF, in the frequency domain, so that the resulting time-domain LTF signal is difficult, if not impossible, to predict by any device that observes a portion of the LTF signal. In some aspects, the transmitting device may negotiate the windowing of secure LTFs with a receiving device based on fine timing measurement (FTM) negotiation frames exchanged at the start of an FTM procedure. In some other aspects, the transmitting device may dynamically or adaptively perform windowing on secure LTFs. In such aspects, the transmitting device may indicate whether windowing is performed on a secure LTF based on information carried in a signal field of a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) that includes the secure LTF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alireza Raissinia, Bin Tian, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Youhan Kim
  • Patent number: 11432336
    Abstract: An apparatus implements methods for random access in a wireless communication system using beamforming. A Subscriber Station (SS) measures a best downlink transmission beam among downlink transmission beams transmitted from a Base Station (BS), and transmits Random Access Channel (RACH) information, which includes indication information indicating the best downlink transmission beam, to the BS. The BS receives RACH information which includes indication information indicating a best downlink transmission beam among downlink transmission beams, and detects a RACH sequence and the best downlink transmission beam from the received RACH information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Kyu Yu, Tae-Young Kim, Jeong-Ho Park, Su-Ryong Jeong, Joon-Young Choi
  • Patent number: 11424966
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) engaged in a positioning session with a transmission-reception point (TRP) receives, during a first state, a configuration of one or more sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, receives a first association between at least one SRS resource of the one or more SRS resources and at least one random access channel (RACH) resource of one or more RACH resources, switches out of the first state during an ongoing positioning session, and transmits, while outside the first state, at least a first signal of a RACH procedure to the TRP using transmission properties based on the first association between the at least one SRS resource and the at least one RACH resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Hung Dinh Ly
  • Patent number: 11425013
    Abstract: A method for determining timing information in an optical communication link includes transmitting a falling edge from a transceiver positioned at a near end of the optical communication link and simultaneously starting a first timer at the transceiver positioned at the near end of the link. The transmitted falling edge is received at a transceiver positioned at a far end of the link. A falling edge is transmitted from the transceiver positioned at the far end of the link after a response delay. The transmitted falling edge is received at the transceiver positioned at the near end of the link while the first timer is simultaneously terminated at the transceiver positioned at the near end of the link and the elapsed time is recorded. The total link delay is determined based on the elapsed time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: II-VI DELAWARE, INC.
    Inventors: John J. DeAndrea, Massimo Di Blasio
  • Patent number: 11402491
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a first node for performing the method of determining a distance between the first and a second node. The method comprises time stamping a data packet to be transmitted from the first node to the second node with a first time stamp, transmitting said data packet to the second node, receiving the transmitted data packet back from the second node, repeating the transmitting and receiving step at least one more time, time stamping the last received data packet from the second node with a second time stamp, and calculating the distance between the first and second node based on the first and second time stamp, the number of repetitions of the repeating step and the internal delays in the first and second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NIDA TECH SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Håkan Dackefjord, Warwick Taws
  • Patent number: 11405122
    Abstract: Systems and methods to enable 5G system support for conveying time synchronization are provided. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for conveying external time domain information is provided. The method includes receiving a message in a first time domain used by the wireless device, the message comprising external time domain information; determining information about a second time domain based on the external time domain information; and conveying information about the second time domain to another node. In some embodiments, timing information is included into a GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) payload, and the wireless device can get timing information directly from the data payload. This minimizes the RAN and/or gNB impact and adds the potential for multiple time domain support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Kun Wang, John Walter Diachina, Anders Höglund, Dinand Roeland, Stefano Ruffini, Magnus Sandgren, Mårten Wahlström
  • Patent number: 11399408
    Abstract: A wireless device receives an RRC release message comprising first configuration parameter(s), second configuration parameter(s) and third configuration parameter(s). The first configuration parameter(s) may indicate transitioning from an RRC connected state to an RRC inactive state. The second configuration parameter(s) may be of a configured grant configuration associated with small data transmission in the RRC inactive state. The third configuration parameter(s) may be of a time alignment timer associated with small data transmission in the RRC inactive state. The wireless device may start the time alignment timer in response to receiving the RRC release message and based on the third configuration parameter(s). The wireless device may transmit a transport block, while in the RRC inactive state, based on radio resources of a first configured grant associated with the configured grant configuration and based on the time alignment timer running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: PanPsy Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11395348
    Abstract: Wireless communications may use a plurality of cell groups. A downlink-uplink cell may be assigned to each cell group of a plurality of cell groups, and each of a plurality of downlink-only cells may be assigned to a cell group of the plurality of cell groups. A wireless device may transmit an uplink signal via a downlink-uplink cell based on a timing advance command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11388154
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, which is communicably connected to an authorization server and a resource server, includes an expiration time generated based on a time of the information processing apparatus in a request for a token for usage of a service provided by the resource server, and sends the request to the authorization server. When time information of the authorization server is received as a response to the request, the information processing apparatus includes an expiration time generated based on the time information of the authorization server in the request for the token, and resends the requests. The information processing apparatus then requests the resource server for time information of the resource server using the token obtained as a response to the resent request, and corrects the time of the information processing apparatus based on the time information of the resource server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11381371
    Abstract: An apparatus receives, from a wireless network, a secondary cell (SCell) activation command. The apparatus determines whether a target SCell is known. Based on a result of the determining, the apparatus performs one or more operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventor: Hsuan-Li Lin
  • Patent number: 11382138
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to random access in a communication system. A first device receives a criterion to select a random access type for performing random access to a second device. The first device further determines whether the first device is allocated a contention-free random access resource for a certain random access type, and then performs the random access to the second device based on the determination and conditionally based on the criterion. As such, in the case where contention-free random access resource has been allocated for a certain random access type, the device can conditionally apply the criterion for selection of the random access type and can thus perform random access with improved efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Samuli Heikki Turtinen, Chunli Wu
  • Patent number: 11382120
    Abstract: This application provides an information transmission method and device. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device when an uplink-downlink configuration between the terminal device and a network device is a first uplink-downlink configuration, a first resource used to transmit first information; receiving, by the terminal device, indication information from the network device, where the indication information is used to indicate that the uplink-downlink configuration is a second uplink-downlink configuration; determining, by the terminal device based on the indication information, a second resource used to transmit the first information; and transmitting, by the terminal device, the first information with the network device on the second resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinfang Zhang, Lei Lu, Lu Rong
  • Patent number: 11368927
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, and a user equipment (UE) may receive, a bitmap that includes a bit sequence to indicate a synchronization signal block (SSB) transmission pattern. The UE may perform rate matching around one or more candidate SSB positions in an initial portion of a window in which SSB transmission is expected, based at least in part on the bitmap, a first parameter indicating a quantity of initial candidate SSB positions in the window subject to rate matching, and a second parameter indicating a quantity of initial bits in the bit sequence that define the SSB transmission pattern. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Andrei Dragos Radulescu, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11363550
    Abstract: A wireless communication device including processing circuitry configured to generate first synchronization signal measurement values by combining sets of correlation values, the sets of correlation values being based on a reception signal, and each of the sets of correlation values having a number of correlation values equal to a first accumulation count, determine whether a valid synchronization signal measurement value is detected among the first synchronization signal measurement values based on a criterion, determine a frequency corresponding to the first valid synchronization signal measurement value as a synchronization frequency in response to determining the valid synchronization signal measurement value is detected, determine a second accumulation count in response to determining the valid synchronization signal measurement value is not detected, generate second synchronization signal measurement values based on the second accumulation count, and perform an initial access operation for synchronizati
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haechul Lee, Dahae Chong, Sungyoon Cho
  • Patent number: 11356206
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices related to related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to transmitting data and feedback data between network elements is disclosed. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transmitting data from a first network element to a second network element. The method also includes receiving, at the first network element, feedback data from the second network element, where the feedback data includes a highest delivered packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) sequence number (SN) and information indicative of a range of data that has been successfully delivered to a terminal. The method also includes retransmitting at least a portion of the data from the first network element based on the feedback data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhuang Liu, Yin Gao
  • Patent number: 11356907
    Abstract: A method of transmitting neighbor cell information, a method of processing neighbor cell information, a network side device, and a terminal are provided. The method of processing the neighbor cell information includes: receiving, by a terminal, synchronization-related information of a neighbor cell transmitted by a network side device; and parsing, by the terminal, the synchronization-related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Yang, Yu Ding
  • Patent number: 11349694
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide for data transmission using modulated carrier signals to carry data, where the carrier signal comprises a predetermined sequence of symbols. An embodiment can be used in such applications as data network communications between sensors (e.g., cameras, motion, radar, etc.) and computing equipment within vehicles (e.g., smart and autonomous cars).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Ethernovia Inc.
    Inventors: Hossein Sedarat, Ramin Shirani, Roy T. Myers, Jr., Darren S. Engelkemier
  • Patent number: 11343058
    Abstract: A method for establishing a duplex connection for data transmission between transmission units in a communications system, wherein the transmission units each have a transmit unit and a receive unit, where the duplex connection includes oppositely directed, unidirectional transmission channels, by which a communications link for each data transmission between respective transmit and receive units of the transmission units is established, during a synchronization phase transmit units independently emit in a periodically repeated manner a first synchronization signal respectively, where following detection and synchronization with the respective first synchronization signal by the respective receive unit, the respective transmit unit belonging to the same transmission unit is instructed to emit at least once a second synchronization signal respectively, where a changeover to data transmission is implemented once the second synchronization signal respectively has been detected at least once by respective receive
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert Frankenberg, Jaroslaw Kussyk, Martin Brunner
  • Patent number: 11329926
    Abstract: An example technique for communicating transmission delay includes receiving, at a first communication node, delay information from a second communication node for data packets transmitted from the second communication node to the first communication node, determining, by the first communication node, a transmission delay of the data packets based on the delay information, receiving, at the first communication node, a first message from a third communication node requesting the transmission delay of the data packets; and transmitting, from the first communication node in response to the first message, a second message to the third communication node, the second message including the transmission delay for the data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yang Liu, Zhuang Liu, He Huang
  • Patent number: 11329857
    Abstract: A cellular network includes multiple miniature base stations. The miniature base stations are communicatively connected to each other. Each one of the miniature base stations includes an antenna, a wireless signal transceiver and a digital signal processor. The antenna is arranged at a peripheral area of the miniature base stations and configured to receive and to transmit wireless signals. The wireless signal transceiver is configured to demodulate the wireless signals received from the antenna and to modulate the wireless signals transmitted by the antenna. The digital signal processor is configured to process the wireless signals, which are demodulated or modulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Feng-Ju Tsai, Shyue-Ru Doong
  • Patent number: 11329778
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a resource allocation method and apparatus, and a signal transmission method, which are applicable to various technical scenarios of 5G New Radio (NR). A method for operating a communication node for resource allocation in a communication network includes: allocating first data and a first pilot for a first type service to a first block period of a first subframe; allocating second data and a second pilot for a second type service to a second block period overlapping with the first block period; and transmitting the first subframe to another communication node. Here, at least one of the second data and the second pilot is allocated to an area to which the first data is allocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Ji Hung Kim, Jun Hwan Lee, Jung Hoon Lee, Sung Hyun Moon, Ju Ho Park, Cheul Soon Kim
  • Patent number: 11323978
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for tracking a position of one or more Wi-Fi devices of a plurality of Wi-Fi devices. For tracking the position of the one or more Wi-Fi devices, a Triggering Router triggers the one or more Wi-Fi devices to transmit one of a broadcast probe and a directed probe through broadcasting hidden SSID networks and common SSIDs that increase a probing tendency of the one or more Wi-Fi devices. The plurality of Wi-Fi sniffers, then, collect measurement data associated with the one or more Wi-Fi devices in response to detecting the broadcast probe transmission and the directed probe transmission. Thereafter, the position of the one or more Wi-Fi devices is estimated using an adaptive machine learning model based on an indoor model whose parameters are tuned based on radio frequency (RF) measurements from the plurality of Wi-Fi devices and the measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Ambeent Inc.
    Inventors: Mustafa Ergen, Hasan Şildir, Sinem Çöleri Ergen
  • Patent number: 11323594
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and terminal device for synchronous exposure applicable to a primary camera in a multi-camera system is provided. The method includes: after receiving an instruction for synchronous exposure, obtaining a plurality of initial hardware time codes by acquiring an initial hardware time code of each camera in the multi-camera system, determining a synchronization reference value according to the plurality of initial hardware time codes and, based on the synchronization reference value and the initial hardware time code of each camera, determining a frame compensation value corresponding to each camera, and transmitting the frame compensation value of each secondary camera to the corresponding secondary camera, such that when the primary camera adjusts an image length according to the corresponding frame compensation value, each secondary camera adjusts an image length of the image according to the corresponding frame compensation value, to synchronize exposure time of all cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yongtai Cui, Zhe Yan
  • Patent number: 11323972
    Abstract: A base station may configure at least a first downlink transmission in a regular downlink burst with the first numerology for transmitting at least a portion of a data channel to a UE according to a numerology of a service used for data channel transmission. The base station also may configure at least a portion of a second downlink transmission in a regular downlink burst with a second numerology for transmitting a synchronization signal to the UE. A UE that receives the downlink regular burst may demodulate and decode the symbols in the received transmissions according to the numerology associated with each symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly, Wanshi Chen, Jing Sun, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 11323226
    Abstract: Method for allocating CORESET, method for acquiring CORESET, base station, UE and readable mediums are provided. The method for allocating CORESET includes: configuring time position information of at least one CORESET, the time position information including the number of symbols occupied by the at least one CORESET and a start position of the at least one CORESET, the symbols including symbols in a numerology used by the at least one CORESET; configuring position information of the at least one CORESET in a system frame number; and transmitting the time position information and the position information of the at least one CORESET to the UE, so that the UE selects the start position of the at least one CORESET based on the time position information and the position information. The base station doesn't need to directly indicate the CORESET, which reduces overhead of signaling indicating CORESET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huayu Zhou, Yanan Jia, Shaofei Wang
  • Patent number: 11317325
    Abstract: A device, system, and method improve a call setup time. The method is performed at a device configured to establish first and second network connections where the second network performs circuit switched voice calls. The method includes receiving a call input to perform a call and determining whether the device is registered with a first feature to perform the call based on an Internet Protocol (IP). When the device is registered with the first feature, the method includes determining whether timeouts for attempting previous IP calls is greater than a threshold. When the timeouts are at least the threshold, the method includes deregistering from the first feature and performing a circuit switched fallback (CSFB) procedure including a handover from the first network to the second network. The method includes performing the call as a circuit switched call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sundarraman Balasubramanian, Vijay Venkataraman, Nordine Kadri, Alistair McFarlane
  • Patent number: 11317330
    Abstract: Various implementations described herein are directed to technologies for providing steering for devices of a Wi-Fi network. A steering operation to hand off a client from a first device of the Wi-Fi network to a qualified second device of the Wi-Fi network is initiated based on a performance factor. The steering operation from the first device to the second device is performed in a manner that avoids packet loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: LiDan Chen, Haokeng Yu, Tao Peng, ZiJie Chen
  • Patent number: 11310771
    Abstract: In order to properly notify of resources in which a synchronization signal block is transmitted in the future radio communication system, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives pattern information indicating whether or not a synchronization signal block is transmitted in each of a plurality of transmission candidate positions within a group of transmission candidate positions of the synchronization signal block, and group information indicating a method of applying the pattern information to each of a plurality of groups, and a control section that controls, based on the group information, one of assuming that the synchronization signal block is transmitted in all transmission candidate positions within a particular group, and of determining the plurality of transmission candidate positions within the particular group according to the pattern information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Tomoya Ohara
  • Patent number: 11310782
    Abstract: A first apparatus may receive, on a first control channel, information indicating a first set of resources allocated on a second control channel; send, to a second UE based on the first set of resources allocated on the second control channel, information associated with communication on a data channel; and send data to the second UE on the data channel based on the information associated with the communication on the data channel. A second apparatus may receive, on a first control channel, information indicating a first set of resources allocated on a second control channel; receive, from a second UE based on the first set of resources allocated on the second control channel, information associated with communication on a data channel; and receive data from the second UE on the data channel based on the information associated with the communication on the data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Junyi Li, Tao Luo, Jung Ho Ryu, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11300688
    Abstract: Systems and methods of storing phase history, and enhancing and restoring phase accuracy for a embedded Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver include storing a phase history of the GNSS receiver output; determining an expected value of phase of the GNSS receiver output based on the phase history; and, responsive to a degradation of the GNSS receiver output, adjusting the GNSS receiver output utilizing the expected value of phase. The systems and method can further include, responsive to degradation being a loss of the GNSS receiver output, utilizing a holdover output from a physical frequency reference and with a phase adjusted based on the expected value of phase, and, responsive to the variation, utilizing the phase history to re-generate the GNSS receiver output for performance enhancement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaojin Liu, Bashar Abdullah, Michel Desjardins
  • Patent number: 11296900
    Abstract: A mobile station may comprise a receiver configured to receive, from a base station, a broadcast signal indicating a first subframe configuration for use in an uplink direction and a downlink direction and a second subframe configuration for use in at least a downlink direction. The mobile station may be configured to receive first downlink data and transmit first uplink data, during a single subframe of one or more radio frames, using the first subframe configuration. The mobile station may receive second downlink data, during a single subframe of the one or more radio frames, using the second subframe configuration. The first subframe configuration and the second subframe configuration may be different OFDM subframe configurations and a first subframe configured in accordance with the first subframe configuration and a second subframe configured in accordance with the second subframe configuration may have a same duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Neo Wireless LLC
    Inventors: Haiming Huang, Xiaodong Li, Titus Lo, Kemin Li
  • Patent number: 11297653
    Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, user equipment for transmitting a preamble at any timing after synchronization with a base station includes a reception unit that detects a synchronization signal or a physical broadcast channel from the base station; a resource selection unit that determines resources available for transmission of the preamble based on configuration information for preamble transmission, and selects, from the resources available for transmission of the preamble, a resource for transmitting the preamble according to the detected synchronization signal or the detected physical broadcast channel based on a mapping rule; and a transmission unit that transmits the preamble to the base station on the selected resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoya Ohara
  • Patent number: 11297678
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a Discontinuous Reception, DRX, function at a user equipment. The UE is configured with at least one licensed cell and at least one unlicensed cell and operates the DRX function. The UE receives, from a radio base station, a DRX-active instruction to be in DRX Active Time at least on the unlicensed cell until receiving the next downlink control information related to a downlink data transmission to be received via the unlicensed cell. Correspondingly, in response to the received DRX-active instruction, the UE is in DRX Active Time at least on the unlicensed cell, comprising continuously monitoring a downlink control channel for downlink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Joachim Loehr, Prateek Basu Mallick, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11291055
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system according to the present invention, a plurality of synchronization signals may be transmitted on a cell. The plurality of synchronization signals may be respectively associated with a plurality of random access channel establishments. A user equipment may receive at least one of the plurality of synchronization signals. The user equipment may transmit a random access channel using a random access channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Eunsun Kim, Kijun Kim, Hyunsoo Ko, Suckchel Yang, Yunjung Yi, Kilbom Lee
  • Patent number: 11284368
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to coordinated multipoint wireless communications methods. One example method includes predicting a first delay difference between receiving, by a terminal device, downlink data from a beam A of a first node and receiving, by the terminal device, the downlink data from a beam B of a second node, where the terminal device is located in a coverage area in which the beam A intersects with the beam B, and determining a first adjustment time period based on the first delay difference, where the first adjustment time period is used to adjust a transmission time in which the first node transmits the downlink data to the terminal device by using the beam A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianbiao Xu, Liwei Ge, Youtuan Zhu, Yiping Qin
  • Patent number: 11284366
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for dynamic beam sweeping a synchronization signal based on historical usage patterns. In response to determining a recurring pattern of a plurality of user devices being disposed within a certain portion of a sector during a time period, a modified beam sweeping protocol may be implemented. The modified beam sweeping protocol decreases the average periodicity of a series of synchronization signals that are transmitted to a distinct portion of the sector using a distinct beamform, increasing the likelihood of synchronization between user devices and a network, decreasing interference and other undesirable network conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Hemanth Pawar, Krishna Sitaram, Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas
  • Patent number: 11284395
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of system information transmission technologies, and in particular, to a method for transmitting system information and an apparatus. A related method for receiving system information includes: determining, by a terminal device, resource information, where the terminal device uses one beam to perform communication on a resource indicated by the resource information; and receiving, by the terminal device based on the resource information, system information on the resource indicated by the resource information. According to the method for transmitting system information and the apparatus in this application, a probability of successfully receiving system information by a terminal device can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Chai, Jian Zhang, Kunpeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11277295
    Abstract: An example of the present specification proposes a technique for decoding a plurality of wireless signals having different characteristics. For example, the plurality of wireless signals may have different CP lengths, be received in different frequency bands, or be configured by different channels. An example of the present specification proposes an example of performing of decoding by using a plurality of reception windows on the basis of a specific wireless signal. Another example of the present specification proposes an example of a proposal of feedback information to a transmission UE on the basis of a specific wireless signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Heejin Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 11277192
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may monitor multiple beam pair links (BPLs) including a first BPL currently used by the UE to communicate with a network node (e.g., a base station), and a second BPL. The first BPL comprises a first network beam and a first UE beam, and the second BPL comprises a second network beam and a second UE beam. The UE may decide to switch beams from using the first BPL to using the second BPL based on signaling from the network node or autonomously. When the beam switch is made, the UE switches uplink (UL) transmission from over the first UE beam to over the second UE beam. After the beam switch is made, the UE transmits in the UL over the second UE beam using UL timing adjusted based on the first and second propagation delays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hongbo Yan, Raghu Narayan Challa, Guy Wolf, Michael Levitsky, Ran Berliner, Awlok Singh Josan
  • Patent number: 11272474
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for a terminal receiving a sidelink signal for each geographical area in a wireless communication system supporting a sidelink, and a device therefor according to various embodiments. Disclosed are a method for a terminal receiving a sidelink signal for each geographical area and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving at least one synchronization signal transmitted for each geographical area; and configuring reception timing for each geographical area on the basis of the at least one synchronization signal and receiving a sidelink signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Hanbyul Seo, Sukhyon Yoon, Changhwan Park
  • Patent number: 11265835
    Abstract: A system and method of effecting time synchronization between disparate nodes on a network where at least one node has knowledge of the true network time, at least one other node requires synchronization to the true network time, and a third node is utilized to facilitate the synchronization process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Birket IP Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: David Wayne Russell, Cory James Russell
  • Patent number: 11265829
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) to synchronize with a first transmit-receive point (TRP) is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by the UE, beam information of the first TRP from a second TRP; detecting, by the UE, a synchronization signal in a beam from the first TRP based on the beam information; transmitting, by the UE, a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble to the first TRP to synchronize with the first TRP; where the first TRP operates in a first frequency, and the second TRP operates in a second frequency lower than the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chie-Ming Chou, Yu-Hsin Cheng