Testing Patents (Class 375/224)
  • Patent number: 11936452
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to neural network based channel state information (CSI) feedback. In some aspects, a device may obtain a CSI instance for a channel, determine a neural network model including a CSI encoder and a CSI decoder, and train the neural network model based at least in part on encoding the CSI instance into encoded CSI, decoding the encoded CSI into decoded CSI, and computing and minimizing a loss function by comparing the CSI instance and the decoded CSI. The device may obtain one or more encoder weights and one or more decoder weights based at least in part on training the neural network model. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Taesang Yoo, Weiliang Zeng, Naga Bhushan, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Yongbin Wei, Sanaz Barghi
  • Patent number: 11923934
    Abstract: A base station (BS) can include a site-specific and dynamic codebook design. The BS includes an antenna and a transceiver coupled to the antenna and configured to communicate via a wireless communication medium. The BS also includes a processor coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to: receive, from a user equipment (UE), a measurement report comprising a best beam index and a corresponding received power; estimate a UE channel including a path gain and angle of departure; update the site-specific codebook based on the estimated UE channel; and transmit control and data signals to the UE using the updated site-specific codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianhua Mo, Boon Loong Ng, Vutha Va
  • Patent number: 11902053
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method (100) in a network device for channel estimation. The method (100) includes: transmitting (110) to a terminal device an instruction to precode each of a number, L, of DeModulation Reference Signals, DMRSs, using a number, N, of linearly independent precoders, respectively; receiving (120) from the terminal device L*N precoded DMRSs; estimating (130) an equivalent channel associated with an uplink channel from the terminal device to the network device based on one or more of the L*N precoded DMRSs; and determining (140) the uplink channel from the equivalent channel based on the N precoders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Rui Fan, Hai Wang
  • Patent number: 11892498
    Abstract: A receiving device includes a reception unit that samples a sample signal from a DUT 2; an FFT processing unit 21 that performs an FFT process by multiplying the sample signal by a window function; an FFT length setting unit 34 that, when the signal length of the signal to be measured is shorter than the first FFT length conforming to the communication standard, instead of the first FFT length, sets a second FFT length shorter than the signal length of the signal to be measured, as an FFT length of the FFT process; and a window function setting unit 35 that, when the signal length of the signal to be measured is shorter than the first FFT length, instead of a first window function, sets an asymmetric second window function having a peak separated from a center of a window section, as the window function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ANRITSU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takasumi Ikebe, Kenji Goto, Mayfor Dangkiw
  • Patent number: 11889317
    Abstract: A base station can operate a first serving cell on a licensed carrier frequency and a second serving cell on an unlicensed carrier frequency. The base station can perform a listen before talk (LBT) on the unlicensed carrier frequency for a first time duration. The base station can determine that the unlicensed carrier frequency is free. The base station can transmit an activation command on the first serving cell for receipt by a UE, the activation command being configured to activate the UE to receive transmissions from the base station on the second serving cell. The base station can transmit after determining that the unlicensed carrier frequency is free, a reserve transmission on the unlicensed carrier frequency at least until the base station begins transmission of the activation command on the first serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Ravikiran Nory, Vijay Nangia, Murali Narasimha, Ajit Nimbalker
  • Patent number: 11889535
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for selecting a resource. The method for selecting the resource includes: receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state of a downlink configured by a network side device, where the TCI state at least includes: multiple pieces of Quasi co-location (QCL) information, and the multiple pieces of QCL information at least includes: a reference signal (RS) and a QCL type corresponding to the RS; and selecting, by the UE, an RS to perform radio link monitoring (RLM) according to at least one of the RS or the QCL type. Further provided are a storage medium and an electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuaihua Kou, Xing Liu, Peng Hao
  • Patent number: 11870728
    Abstract: In multi-beam communication, the UE may assist in the scheduling of beams utilized during the multi-beam communication by improving the manner in which the quality of the beam is reported to the network. The apparatus may measure a signal received from a base station on at least one beam. The apparatus may detect a triggering event for providing CSI for the at least one beam. The apparatus may transmit an uplink transmission comprising a CSI report in response to detecting the triggering event. The apparatus may receive an uplink request from a UE for providing CSI for at least one beam. The apparatus may transmit an indication scheduling a CSI report in response to the uplink request. The apparatus may receive an uplink transmission from the UE comprising the CSI report for the at least one beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Kiran Venugopal, Jung Ho Ryu, Xiaoxia Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11817977
    Abstract: In the present invention, in classifying modulation types of a plurality of modulation signals by using a classifier (an artificial neural network model based on machine learning), the classifier may classify the modulation types of the modulation signals by using pieces of I/Q data, sampled with one sampling frequency, as input data, and thus, may quickly classify the modulation signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Byung Chan Kim, Kang Hee Kim, Haeng Sook Ro, Gwang Moon Park, Soo Ho Sohn, Ki Cheol Tae
  • Patent number: 11811569
    Abstract: A sensor includes a sensing element to produce a sensing element signal and a processor responsive to the sensing element signal to generate a sensor output signal comprising a Single Edge Nibble Transmission (SENT) frame. The SENT frame includes a Status and Communication (SCN) nibble comprising a bit 0 and a bit 1 that represent a status of at least one internal diagnostic indicator and a plurality of data nibbles. At least one of the plurality of data nibbles includes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC), the CRC being an encoding of the bit 0 and the bit 1 of the SCN nibble and the plurality of data nibbles and at least one of the plurality of data nibbles includes a count that indicates a new frame, the CRC being at least a five bit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
    Inventors: Florencia Ferrer, Jesse Lapomardo, Lucas Intile
  • Patent number: 11791911
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for detecting a signal propagation type, the method comprises: when a positioning base station of an ultra-wideband positioning system currently receives a pulse response from a positioning tag, computing an actual value of a specified feature of the received pulse response at least using the received pulse response; selecting, for the specified feature, a predictive model for predicting an adopted value of the specified feature at a future moment on the basis of an adopted value of the specified feature at a historical moment; using the predictive model selected for the specified feature to acquire an adopted value of the specified feature at a future moment, to serve as a predicted value of the specified feature of the received pulse response; and determining the current type of signal propagation between the positioning base station and positioning tag on the basis of the actual value and predicted value of the specified feature of the received pulse
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Zhuoqi Zeng, Steven Liu, Huajun Yu, William Wang
  • Patent number: 11770201
    Abstract: Provided is a sequence allocation method capable of reducing inter-cell interference of a reference signal when a ZC sequence is used as the reference signal in a mobile communication system. In the sequence allocation method, R×M sequences specified by a ZC sequence number r (r=1 to R) and a cyclic shift sequence number m (m=1 to M) are divided into a plurality of sequence groups X (X=1 to R) in accordance with the transmission band width of the reference signal, so that the ZC sequence is allocated to each cell in each sequence group unit. When it is assumed that R=9 and M=6, the number of sequences is 54. Each of the sequence groups is formed by two sequences. Accordingly, the number of sequence groups is 27. The 27 types of sequence groups are allocated to each cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Tomofumi Takata
  • Patent number: 11758044
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a data file comprising a list of interactive voice response (IVR) prompts, identifying a set of IVR prompts within the received data file that are included within a common sequence, assembling text content from each IVR prompt in the set of IVR prompts within the common sequence into a string of text content, and modifying the data file to include the assembled string of text content within a field of the modified data file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Intrado Corporation
    Inventors: Terry Olson, Mark L. Sempek, Roger Wehrle
  • Patent number: 11722384
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for remotely configuring and orchestrating multifunctional cloud devices located on customer premises, in some cases, using a smart cloud adaptive device. In some embodiments, the smart cloud adaptive device, which might have one or more wireless programmable radios configured to communicate with a network termination device, might communicate with a cloud configuration server over a network via the one or more wireless programmable radios (and, in some embodiments, through the network termination device). The smart cloud adaptive device might transmit device identification information associated with a customer and/or service codes indicative of services to be provided to the customer. The smart cloud adaptive device might receive one or more configuration files from the cloud configuration server based on the service codes, and enable functionality among a plurality of functionalities to provision the services, based on the one or more configuration files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Kevin M. McBride, Felipe Castro, Steven M. Casey, Thomas Schwengler
  • Patent number: 11720873
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an intelligent smart glasses that may be worn by a customer. The smart glasses may sense cash information on automated teller machine (“ATM”). The smart glasses may accordingly split up a cash transaction across various ATM units in close to proximity to the customer. The smart glasses may split a requested cash transactions among various ATMs so that if the desired amount/denomination of cash is not available at an ATM to the customer, the customer is seamlessly directed to one or more other ATMs that are capable of dispensing the desired amount of cash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventor: Shailendra Singh
  • Patent number: 11716725
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a request to use a preferred number of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for communications with one or more base stations. The UE may receive an indication to use a number of TCI states based at least in part on the request. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan
  • Patent number: 11714769
    Abstract: A method for operating a data interface circuit whereby calibration adjustments for data bit capture are made without disturbing normal system operation includes initially establishing, using a first calibration method where a data bit pattern received by the data interface circuit is predictable, an optimal sampling point for sampling data bits received by the data interface circuit, and during a normal system operation and without disturbing the normal system operation, performing a second calibration method where the data bit pattern received by the data interface circuit is unpredictable. The second calibration method determines an amount of a timing drift for received data bit edge transitions and adjusts the optimal timing point determined by the first calibration method to create a revised optimal timing point. The second calibration method samples fringe timing points associated with the transition edges of a data bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Uniquify, Inc.
    Inventors: Jung Lee, Venkat Iyer, Brett Murdock
  • Patent number: 11709708
    Abstract: A function resource configuration method includes receiving, by a wearable device, a distribution request sent by a first terminal, where the distribution request is used to request the wearable device to distribute a first function resource of the wearable device to the first terminal, and where the first function resource is already occupied by a second terminal. The wearable device determines, based on the distribution request, whether to allow the first terminal to use the first function resource. If the wearable device allows the first terminal to use the first function resource, the wearable device sends a notification message to the first terminal that instructs the first terminal to use the first function resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Zhao, Siqi Hao, Xiangyang Wang, Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 11705976
    Abstract: A method of beamforming calibration is disclosed for a multi-antenna transceiver configured to communicate with one or more other transceivers. The multi-antenna transceiver has a plurality of transceiver chains connectable to respective antenna elements of the multi-antenna transceiver. Each transceiver chain comprises a transmitter path and a receiver path. The method comprises (for each transceiver chain) feeding an analog signal from the transmitter path to the receiver path via connection circuitry between the transmitter path and the receiver path to provide a digital calibration signal, and determining a beamforming calibration factor for the transceiver chain based on the digital calibration signal. Corresponding apparatus, multi-antenna transceiver, wireless communication node, and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Joao Vieira, Andres Reial, Muris Sarajlic
  • Patent number: 11705952
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may measure, using one or more receive beams, a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) transmitted on a transmit beam of the CSI-RS according to a beam management configuration for periodic CSI-RSs, where the UE performs measurements according to a static beam sweeping schedule or a dynamic beam sweeping schedule associated with the transmit beam of the CSI-RS based at least in part on the beam management configuration. In some aspects, the UE may transmit a measurement report indicating one or more measurements of the CSI-RS based at least in part on measuring the CSI-RS. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Ruhua He, Yong Li, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 11696267
    Abstract: A data transmission method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining, by a base station, a time-domain interval of available time-frequency resources in an unlicensed spectrum, where the available time-frequency resources are continuous time-frequency resources in a time domain; sending, by the base station, a preamble signal in a first subframe in the interval, where the first subframe is an initial subframe in the interval; and sending, by the base station, downlink control information and data after sending the preamble signal, where the data is in the first subframe, the downlink control information includes scheduling indication information, and the scheduling indication information is used to indicate a frequency-domain location of the data. According to the present invention, spectrum utilization can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bingzhao Li, Zhenxing Hu, Wei Quan, Jian Zhang, Jinhua Miao, Xiaodong Yang
  • Patent number: 11687429
    Abstract: An error rate measuring apparatus includes an operation unit that sets a codeword length and an FEC symbol length, a display unit that displays bit string data obtained by converting a signal from a device under test, a codeword position calculation means for calculating a codeword head position from the FEC symbol length, codeword head symbol information, and an FEC symbol position, calculating codeword position information of a zeroth address of a display screen from the codeword head position, the codeword length, and the FEC symbol length, and calculating position information of a codeword at a currently selected position of a cursor from the codeword position information of the zeroth address of the display screen, the codeword length, the FEC symbol length, and a position of the cursor on the display screen, and display control means for displaying the calculated position information of the codeword on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: ANRITSU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Onuma
  • Patent number: 11677513
    Abstract: A radio node is configured for use in a wireless communication system. The radio node in this regard is configured to transmit a signal that is punctured by another signal to another radio node. The radio node is also configured to estimate a probability of decoding failure that characterizes a likelihood that the another radio will fail to decode the punctured signal. The radio node is further configured to retransmit at least a punctured portion of the punctured signal if the estimated probability is above a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Caner Kilinc, Sara Sandberg, Mattias Andersson
  • Patent number: 11665658
    Abstract: A system may include a transmitter node and a receiver node. Each node may include a communications interface including at least one antenna element and a controller operatively coupled to the communications interface, the controller including one or more processors. Each node may be time synchronized to apply Doppler corrections to said node's own motions relative to a stationary common inertial reference frame. The stationary common inertial reference frame may be known to the transmitter node and the receiver node prior to the transmitter node transmitting signals to the receiver node and prior to the receiver node receiving the signals from the transmitter node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: William B. Sorsby, Eric J. Loren, Tj T. Kwon
  • Patent number: 11663041
    Abstract: A function resource configuration method includes receiving, by a wearable device, a distribution request sent by a first terminal, where the distribution request is used to request the wearable device to distribute a first function resource of the wearable device to the first terminal, and where the first function resource is already occupied by a second terminal. The wearable device determines, based on the distribution request, whether to allow the first terminal to use the first function resource. If the wearable device allows the first terminal to use the first function resource, the wearable device sends a notification message to the first terminal that instructs the first terminal to use the first function resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Zhao, Siqi Hao, Xiangyang Wang, Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 11664837
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media for spread spectrum (SS) receiver interference mitigation are presented. An interference mitigation unit can include an interference analyzer that receives a complex-valued signal and estimates statistical characteristics of at least a portion of the complex-valued signal, a unit controller that receives the estimated statistical characteristics from the interference analyzer, classifies the interference distribution based on statistical characteristics as a Gaussian, long-tail, or short-tail, selects a non-linearity for that distribution, and a programmable non-linear module that performs a non-linear functional conversion of an envelope of the received complex-valued signal using a non-linear input-output characteristic based on the classification by the unit controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Gennady Y. Poberezhskiy, Antoine J. Rouphael, Phillip M. Izdebski, Allison Y. Pern
  • Patent number: 11653238
    Abstract: Example methods and devices are disclosed. One example method includes receiving, by a first device, configuration information from a second device, where the configuration information is used by the first device to report information about an association relationship between a zero power-reference signal resource and a non-zero power-reference signal resource. The first device can then report the information about the association relationship based on the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Qin, Yu Sun, Zhongfeng Li, Chi Zhang, Ming Wu
  • Patent number: 11626934
    Abstract: An eye diagram is generated for a digital interface, such as a Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) interface. A probability map is captured by stepping through a fixed sequence of phase and reference voltage levels and counting a number of highs or lows. The switching of phase includes merely increasing the phase difference rather than performing complex phase/data analysis. The probability map can then be used to generate an eye diagram through simple differentiation. For example, the differentiation between various pixel locations in the probability map can be used to yield the edges of the eye in an eye diagram. The standard Serdes parameters can then be extracted from the eye diagram. The parameters can then be used to determine if the serial connection is problematic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Tully, Teja Adike
  • Patent number: 11611378
    Abstract: Enhanced channel state information (CSI) feedback is disclosed for full dimensional multiple input, multiple output (FD-MIMO) operations. In one aspect, a single CSI process is defined that is configured with an azimuth and elevation CSI-reference signal (RS) ports. A user equipment (UE) will send a precoding matrix indictor (PMI) report including a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) for the azimuth ports and a PMI for the elevation ports. One of the PMIs is assigned a low rank. The base station will use the two PMIs to create a whole channel precoding matrix. In another aspect, a single CSI process is configured having a plurality of CSI-RS resources. The UE generates channel measurement information for each of the CSI-RS resources, but only sets a CSI report to the base station of a subset of the total number of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chao Wei, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11581917
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system that facilitates receiving a first electromagnetic wave propagating along a transmission medium, detecting, according to the first electromagnetic wave, an obstruction on a first portion of an outer surface of the transmission medium, responsive to the detecting the obstruction, configuring a material to have similar properties to the obstruction, the material being positioned along a second portion of the outer surface of the transmission medium, and generating a second electromagnetic wave that propagates along the transmission medium without relying on an electrical return path to facilitate propagation of the second electromagnetic wave along the transmission medium, the material facilitating propagation of the second electromagnetic wave from the second portion of the outer surface of the transmission medium to the first portion of the transmission medium affected by the obstruction. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Giovanni Vannucci, Peter Wolniansky, Thomas M. Willis, III, Robert Bennett, Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Donald J. Barnickel
  • Patent number: 11575493
    Abstract: A time synchronization method, applied to a power-line communication (PLC) network that includes a head end node and at least one tail end node coupled to the head end node. The method includes the head end node generates data about voltage zero-crossing points based on reference time, where the data about the voltage zero-crossing points includes zero-crossing time points of the voltage zero-crossing points. When a first timing point arrives, the head end node sends first information to the tail end node, where the first information includes a timestamp of a first zero-crossing point, the first zero-crossing point is a voltage zero-crossing point closest to the first timing point, and the timestamp of the first zero-crossing point is used by the tail end node to determine a zero-crossing time point of a second zero-crossing point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yueping Leng, Kuichao Song
  • Patent number: 11558131
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for measuring wireless performance of a receiver of a wireless terminal, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The method includes the following. A measured signal of a receiver to be measured is determined. Measured signals of other receivers except the receiver to be measured are zero. Multiple transmitted signals are determined based on the measured signals. The multiple transmitted signals are transmitted through multiple measurement antennas. When a bit error rate of the receiver to be measured does not equal a preset bit error rate, the measured signal is adjusted, determining the multiple transmitted signals based on the updated measured signal. When the bit error rate equals the preset error rate, a power of the measured signal is determined as the radiant sensitivity of the receiver to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL TEST SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Wei Yu, Yihong Qi, Penghui Shen
  • Patent number: 11553368
    Abstract: A non-AP/PCP communication apparatus comprises: a receiver which receives a measurement request which is transmitted from an AP/PCP communication apparatus and which requests measurement used in SPSH executability determination; and a transmitter which transmits to the AP/PCP communication apparatus the result of carrying out the measurement on the basis of the measurement request. Using a first period, which is a period in which communication is to be carried out with a first non-AP/PCP communication apparatus, the transmitter and the receiver carry out communication with the first device using a first protocol, and in a second period which is included in the measurement request and in which communication is not carried out with the first device, the receiver carries out measurement of a received signal using the first protocol. The result includes information relating to the measurement of the received signal and information relating to the first protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Takenori Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11546191
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method (100) in a network device for channel estimation. The method (100) includes: transmitting (110) to a terminal device an instruction to precode each of a number, L, of DeModulation Reference Signals, DMRSs, using a number, N, of linearly independent precoders, respectively; receiving (120) from the terminal device L*N precoded DMRSs; estimating (130) an equivalent channel associated with an uplink channel from the terminal device to the network device based on one or more of the L*N precoded DMRSs; and determining (140) the uplink channel from the equivalent channel based on the N precoders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Rui Fan, Hai Wang
  • Patent number: 11536852
    Abstract: A GNSS receiver having test signal based failure detection, comprises: a signal generator configured to generate a test signal, the test signal having characteristics of a GNSS signal; one of more amplifiers configured to amplify the test signal; a signal chain configured to receive the amplified test signal at an input node of the signal chain and process the received test signal; and a signal processor configured to: monitor the test signal by: obtaining one or more output signals of the device at one or more output node; recovering the test signal from the one or more output signals, and determining whether one or more errors occurred based on parameters of the recovered test signal based on parameters of the recovered test signal; identify a device failure based on the determined one or more errors; and generate notifications relating to the device failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: U-BLOX AG
    Inventors: Zhenlan Cheng, Toni Huovinen, Eero Aho, Thomas Brauner, Barbara Baggini
  • Patent number: 11525732
    Abstract: System and method for narrowing the transmission curves obtained using a spectral imager in which spectral images are acquired using a MEMS Fabri-Perot (FP) tunable filter. A method includes acquiring a first plurality of broad-band spectral images associated with respective MEMS FP etalon states and processing the first plurality of broad-band spectral images into a second plurality of narrow-band spectral images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: UNISPECTRAL LTD.
    Inventors: Ariel Raz, Shahar Katz, Hila Gabay, Efrat Immer, Eliahu Chaim Ashkenazi
  • Patent number: 11525854
    Abstract: An integrated circuit capable of on-chip jitter tolerance measurement includes a jitter generator circuit to produce a controlled amount of jitter that is injected into at least one clock signal, and a receive circuit to sample an input signal according to the at least one clock signal. The sampled data values output from the receiver are used to evaluate the integrated circuit's jitter tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Hae-Chang Lee, Jaeha Kim, Brian Leibowitz
  • Patent number: 11516689
    Abstract: A method for operating a base station comprises receiving channel information from a plurality of UEs; determining, based on the channel information, one or more UEs on which to base a channel prediction; computing a first set of metrics and a second set of metrics corresponding to the plurality of UEs, wherein computing the first set of metrics has a lower complexity than computing the second set of metrics; performing a selection process on the plurality of UEs based on the first and second set of metrics associated with the plurality of UEs; selecting a first subset of UEs from the plurality of UEs based on a first set of metrics; selecting, from the first subset, a second subset of UEs based on a second set of metrics; and performing the channel prediction based on the second subset of UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeqing Hu, Yang Li, Tiexing Wang, Junmo Sung, Rui Wang, Jianzhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11507476
    Abstract: A noise estimation method includes decomposing a first matrix in which values of elements are represented by binary values into a coefficient matrix and a basic matrix, and estimating an element including noise among elements of the first matrix based on a result of comparison between a second matrix obtained by combining the coefficient matrix with the basic matrix and the first matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Makiko Konoshima
  • Patent number: 11503612
    Abstract: A wireless communication device and method for operating the same for mitigating interference in a wireless communication network are provided. Generally, the method includes sensing with the wireless communication device pulses of electromagnetic radiation recurring within a band of frequencies used by the device for communication of signals, identifying the pulses as interference, and determining a number of frequencies of the interference within the band of frequencies used by the wireless communication device. Next, a sensitivity of the wireless communication device is reduced upon sensing one of the pulses and repeated at a frequency corresponding to the frequency of the interference. Thus, a spectrum of electromagnetic radiation around the wireless communication device is perceived by the device as free of interference, enabling it to transmit and/or receive more often. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Kiran Uln, Kamesh Medapalli
  • Patent number: 11486922
    Abstract: An over-the-air (OTA) measurement system is described. The OTA measurement system includes a plurality of measurement antennas, a DUT positioner, and a controller (e.g., control circuit). The DUT positioner is configured to position a device under test at a test location. At least two measurement antennas of the plurality of measurement antennas are arranged at different distances from the test location. The at least two measurement antennas are arranged at different elevation angles and/or at different azimuth angles with respect to the test location. The controller is configured to control the DUT positioner to rotate the device under test at the test location in azimuth and/or elevation. The controller is configured to control the DUT positioner to rotate the device under test into a first orientation for a first OTA power measurement by a first one of the at least two measurement antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Benoit Derat
  • Patent number: 11483020
    Abstract: A gain adjustment circuit is coupled with a transmitting device and a receiving device that are in proximity to each other. The gain adjustment circuit receives a baseband signal that is generated based on gain signals and a power associated with a reception of a data packet by the receiving device. The gain adjustment circuit further receives previous transmission information of the transmitting device. The gain adjustment circuit predicts a time of transmission of a control packet from the transmitting device and determines whether the time of transmission overlaps with a time period of reception of the data packet by the receiving device. The gain adjustment circuit further generates and provides gain signals to the receiving device such that a signal interference during the transmission of the control packet and the reception of the data packet is mitigated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Sriharsha Madhira
  • Patent number: 11452173
    Abstract: Provided a Remote Radio Head (RRH) with multiple antennas generating a plurality of analog beams in a wireless communication system serving at least one user terminal, including a metric calculator that calculates at least one metric representing a traffic demand as a function of spatial direction by using at least a signal of each Radio Frequency chain and a beam former that generates analog beams directed towards a spatial direction determined based on the calculated at least one metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dileep Kumar, Kazushi Muraoka, Naoto Ishii
  • Patent number: 11444704
    Abstract: A network device obtains data associated with transmissions received at one or more receive antennas from multiple transmit antennas located at different locations. The network device solves, based on the data and using an antenna transmission model, for unknown variables associated with the one or more receive antennas or the multiple transmit antennas to produce solution results that include solved parameters corresponding to the unknown variables. The network device modifies antenna profiles associated with the one or more receive antennas, in an antenna profile database, based on the solution results. The network device uses the modified antenna profiles to estimate a location of one or more of the multiple transmit antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas D. Butcher
  • Patent number: 11403249
    Abstract: A circuit for a bus system is provided. The circuit includes: an ascertainment circuit, which is configured to ascertain a first state in which an absolute difference of a voltage between two bus-side terminals is above a threshold value, to ascertain a second state in which the absolute difference of the voltage between the two bus-side terminals is below a threshold value, to ascertain a bit boundary as a function of a number of state transitions between the first and second state, and a suppression circuit, which is configured to connect a suppression circuit between the two bus-side terminals before the bit boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Arthur Mutter, Steffen Walker
  • Patent number: 11397204
    Abstract: An S-parameter of a reference impedance is determined and converted to a desired mode of operation. Example modes of operation include a single-ended input output mode, a differential input output mode, and a common input output mode. The complex values of the impedance at each port as a function of frequency can be computed using the novel closed-form quadratic S-parameter equation which utilizes the concept of matched networks by setting the reflections and re-reflections to zero through S-parameter renormalization. Using the S-parameter renormalization, the insertion loss corresponding to zero reflections and re-reflections is calculated. Based on the determination of the matching impedance used to reduce the reflections and re-reflections to zero, a parameter of a circuit comprising the network may be modified to reduce noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Achronix Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Hansel Desmond Dsilva, Amit Kumar
  • Patent number: 11394574
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for organizing automatic control in automation systems from a system description, using deconstruction of complex equipment graphs. A system control scheme is automatically generated from a deconstruction of an equipment graph into controllable sets of prioritized sub-systems. An equipment graph comprises one or more subsystems of equipment. Prioritized sub-systems comprise a unique routing path through an equipment graph. Prioritized sub-systems comprise the ability to be actuated and are divided into groups of sub-system sets. Groups of sub-system sets comprise synchronous and asynchronous sets and are created for conjoined routing paths of parallel sub-systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventor: Troy Aaron Harvey
  • Patent number: 11394473
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method is performed by a radio node in order to configure a transmitter to communicate a signal. The method determines an Error Vector Measure (EVM) window for the signal. The EVM window is based on at least one of a signal bandwidth, a spectrum utilization, and a cyclic prefix length. The method adjusts the transmitter based on the EVM window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Thomas Chapman, Esther Sienkiewicz
  • Patent number: 11357069
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a wireless communication method and a wireless communication device. An electronic device in communication with a counterpart communication device comprises a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured to: determine the state of a link between the electronic device and the counterpart communication device by means of measuring a link maintenance message transmitted by the counterpart communication device when a predetermined condition relative to the counterpart communication device is met, but not to transmit a feedback message for the link maintenance message, wherein the link maintenance message is used for confirming that the link is maintained between the electronic device and the counterpart communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xu, Mengying Sun, Shiqing Zhang, Wenbo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11356166
    Abstract: A beam failure caused by an event initiated by the UE such as folding of the UE or shutting down of a UE antenna penal may be predictable. Accordingly, the UE may declare a beam failure detection (BFD) without going through a potentially long detection procedure. Disclosed herein are apparatus and methods for detecting beam failure and terminating BFD earlier than the current DFD process would have. The method may include identifying a beam failure (BF) event at the UE that impacts at least one beam pair link (BPL) and communicating a request to an associated base station to stop communicating on an impacted beam pair link, without going through an entire BFD process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Vasanthan Raghavan, Jung Ho Ryu, Kiran Venugopal, Juergen Cezanne, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11342977
    Abstract: A method for beam management by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes determining reference signal measurements from signals received from one or more base stations. The method also includes obtaining, from a motion sensor, motion information of the UE. The method further includes generating beam management information for the beam management based on the reference signal measurements and the motion information. The method additionally includes identifying a beam based on the generated beam management information. The method also includes performing wireless communication based on the identified beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anum Ali, Jianhua Mo, Khuong N. Nguyen, Boon Loong Ng, Vutha Va