Maximum Likelihood Decoder Or Viterbi Decoder Patents (Class 375/262)
  • Patent number: 12212384
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for reducing channel state information feedback channel overhead by compressing coefficients of precoding vectors and reporting a subset of the compressed coefficients based on several parameters including network-signaled parameters. Some embodiments may be used in wireless communication embodiments in which channel state information from many layers and many frequency domain units need to be reported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Hao Wu, Yong Li, Guozeng Zheng, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Ngok Li
  • Patent number: 12213079
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a federated learning configuration comprising an indication of a power control loop for providing an update associated with a machine learning component, wherein the power control loop facilitates receiving the update at a received power that satisfies a received power condition associated with an over-the-air update aggregation procedure. The UE may transmit the update to the base station based at least in part on the federated learning configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 12212442
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for radio frequency (RF) sensing. A method that may be performed by a UE generally includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a configuration for the UE to perform RF sensing. The method generally includes transmitting an RF sensing signal based on the configuration. The method generally includes performing one or more measurements of one or more reflections of the RF sensing signal. Certain aspects of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented in a method for wireless communication by a BS. The method generally includes receiving a RF sensing capabilities message from a UE. The method generally includes transmitting, to the UE, a configuration for the UE to perform RF sensing based on the RF sensing capabilities message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Yuwei Ren, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12212443
    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system and an apparatus supporting the same are disclosed. As an example, a method of operating a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises receiving information related to a configuration for a unique word (UW) from a base station, receiving UW-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols including data from the base station, and processing the UW-OFDM symbols based on the information related to the configuration for the UW.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minseog Kim, Sunam Kim, Jaehwan Kim, Sung Ryong Hong
  • Patent number: 12212386
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a monitoring signal associated with one or more antennas. The UE may identify, based at least in part on the monitoring signal, a blockage associated with the one or more antennas. The UE may perform a beam search using a decreased frequency of occurrence of tracking occasions for the one or more antennas based at least in part on the identification of the blockage associated with the one or more antennas. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 12206482
    Abstract: Beam management performed for user equipment in a network. A method is performed by a network node. The method includes collecting performance feedback per beam upon having started to perform a current run of a beam management procedure. The performance feedback is derived from network statistics. The beam management procedure may include determining a candidate beam set from a set of available beams. The beam management procedure may include determining a beam switching command per user equipment for at least some of the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Irfan Baig, Karol Krakowiak, Bhavinkumar Patel
  • Patent number: 12206471
    Abstract: The application relates to link adaptation for extremely high throughput (EHT) systems. Various approaches are provided to enable transmission of link adaptation parameters for single-user multiple input multiple output (SU-MIMO), and multi-user multiple input multiple output MU-MIMO. In some embodiments, two control IDs in the A-control subfield are used, one for SU-MIMO and one for MU-MIMO. These can both be reserved control IDs, or a combination of a reserved control ID and control ID 2 normally used for HE link adaptation. In some embodiments, a single control ID in the A-control subfield is used. This can be a reserved control ID or control ID 2 normally used for HE link adaptation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan Xin, Jung Hoon Suh, Osama Aboul-Magd, Kwok Shum Au
  • Patent number: 12207243
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to select a set of beams to generate energy in a first coverage region (e.g., an out-of-coverage (OOC) region) to reduce the effects of a distorted electric field. The UE may select the set of beams based on gain parameters associated with a set of antennas at the UE, where the gain parameters are determined for communications in a second coverage region (e.g., an in-coverage (INC) region). In some examples, the UE may use iterative techniques to select the beams. In some examples, the UE may select the set of beams based on calculations using a set of codebook beams associated with the second coverage region. In some examples, the UE may additionally select the set of beams for communications in the second coverage region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Amodh Kant Saxena, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa, Brian Clarke Banister
  • Patent number: 12206433
    Abstract: This application discloses an Ethernet coding method and apparatus, to adapt to a scenario in which a higher transmission bit error rate is caused by a high bandwidth. The method includes: a transmit end encodes first to-be-encoded information by using a first forward error correction (FEC) codeword, to obtain first encoded data, where the first forward error correction FEC codeword is a Reed-Solomon forward error correction (RS-FEC) codeword; and the transmit end encodes the first encoded data by using a second FEC codeword, to obtain second encoded data, where a code length N and an information bit length K of the second FEC codeword satisfy the following formula: M1*N/K?M2, where M1 is a throughput of the first encoded data, and M2 is a throughput of the second encoded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zengchao Yan, Huixiao Ma, Zhongfeng Wang, Jun Lin
  • Patent number: 12206484
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method (1) for reception of a satellite downlink signal (31) by a signal processor (22) in communication with a plurality of satellite signal receivers (21). The plurality of satellite signal receivers (21) is arranged in accordance with a macro diversity. The method (1) comprises: digitally sampling (11) a first satellite downlink signal received by a reference receiver (21R) of the plurality of satellite signal receivers (21) and at least one further satellite downlink signal received by at least one further receiver (21F) of the plurality of satellite signal receivers (21); and constructively combining (13) the digitally sampled first satellite downlink signal (31R) and the digitally sampled at least one further satellite downlink signal (31F). A system (2) having corresponding features is also disclosed. The methods and systems especially allow for an improvement of a signal-to-noise ratio and a reduction of an antenna size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Steffen Bittner
  • Patent number: 12206611
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for tracking channel variations via a model-based representation of the channel. A first network entity may receive from a second network entity or transmit to the second network entity, a model configuration indicative of a model condition of a channel between the first network entity and the second network entity. The model configuration may be associated with one or more initial parameters. The first network entity may receive a reference signal from the second network entity to measure a condition of the channel between the first network entity and the second network entity, and transmit, to the second network entity, one or more updated parameters for the model configuration based on a measurement of the condition of the channel in comparison to the model condition of the channel based on the model configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Venugopal, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12199714
    Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure includes a communication system and a communication method using reconfigurable intelligent surface and a reconfigurable intelligent surface device. The communication system includes at least one base station, a reconfigurable intelligent surface device, and a control at one least device. The at least one base station respectively transmits at least one beam. The reconfigurable intelligent surface device is coupled to the at least one base station, and measures the at least one beam of the at least one base station to obtain signal measurement results associated with each of the at least one base station. The control device is coupled to the at least one base station. The control device groups the at least one base station and the reconfigurable intelligent surface device into at least one group according to the signal measurement results associated with each of the at least one base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Fang, Chiu-Ping Wu, Hung-Fu Wei, Jen-Yuan Hsu
  • Patent number: 12192812
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may transmit or receive a reference signal to or from a base station using a beam pair including a first beam associated with a first polarization and a second beam associated with a second polarization. The UE may select the first beam from a first set of beams associated with the first polarization and may independently select the second beam from a second set of beams associated with the second polarization. In some examples, the UE may select the first beam and the second beam based on the first beam and the second beam each having a greatest beam strength (at the UE or the base station) relative to a remainder of the first set of beams and the second set of beams, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 12191955
    Abstract: The techniques described herein provide procedures at user equipment (UEs) for performing channel state information (CSI) reporting and sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions based on an ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) block error rate (BLER) target and for reliably receiving PDCCH transmissions. For CSI reporting, a UE may be configured to generate a CSI report based on a BLER target and on received CSI reference signals (CSI-RSs), where the CSI-RSs may be transmitted on one or more groups of quasi co-located antenna ports. For SRS transmissions, a UE may be configured to transmit SRS based on an SRS configuration determined based on a BLER target. For receiving PDCCH transmissions, a UE may be configured to receive and combine DCI received from multiple base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gabi Sarkis, Wanshi Chen, Alexandros Manolakos
  • Patent number: 12191964
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may measure a reference signal over a first subset of a set of measurement occasions using a serving UE receive beam according to a serving beam measurement periodicity. The UE may measure the reference signal over a second subset of the set of measurement occasions using a first subset of candidate UE receive beams of a set of candidate UE receive beams. The UE may measure the reference signal over a third subset of the set of measurement occasions using a second subset of candidate UE receive beams of the set of candidate UE receive beams. The UE may perform beam switching to a candidate UE receive beam of the set of candidate UE receive beams based at least in part on a result of measuring the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Upamanyu Jamwal, Jun Zhu, Kang Gao, Arnab Pal, Nagaraju Gajula, Sumanth Kumar Kota
  • Patent number: 12191950
    Abstract: A communication device for use in a cellular network includes a plurality of antenna panels for communication with cells in a cellular network, circuitry for carrying out a panel selection process based on received power level for selecting an antenna panel, and circuitry for performing measurement cycles requiring determination of respective power levels. The circuitry for performing measurement cycles measures a first received power level from said neighbor cell with the antenna panel selected for said neighbor cell and measures a second received power level from said neighbor cell with the antenna panel selected for said serving cell. The circuitry for performing measurement cycles measures a third power level received for said neighbor cell with the antenna panel selected for said serving cell and adjusting said third power level with an offset function, said adjusted third power level being used as the respective power level for said neighbor cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani, Samantha Caporal Del Barrio
  • Patent number: 12192034
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a channel impulse response (CIR) based on multiple ultrawide band (UWB) measurements between a mobile device and a target object. The method also includes estimating a first distance between the mobile device and the target object based on an energy of the CIR. The method also includes estimating a second distance between the mobile device and the target object based on a phase of the CIR. The method also includes obtaining an estimated distance between the mobile device and the target object based on at least one of the first distance and the second distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoang Viet Nguyen, Yuming Zhu, Jiho Shin, Qiang Xie
  • Patent number: 12191959
    Abstract: Aspects presented may enable RF sensing to be adaptive to the environment to improve the sensing, performance, and/or the spectrum efficiency of cellular systems and the power efficiency of RF sensing nodes. In one aspect, an RF sensing node extracts one or more features for a set of objects of an area via at least one non-RF sensor. The RF sensing node transmits, to a network entity, the one or more features or at least one non-RF measurement derived from the one or more features. The RF sensing node receives, from the network entity, an RRS transmission configuration derived based on the one or more features or the at least one non-RF measurement transmitted to the network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weimin Duan, Fei Huang
  • Patent number: 12191970
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for determining a beam for communication between a user equipment and a base station. For example, angle of arrival estimates may be utilized for determining the beam for communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Rohit U. Nabar, Mithat C. Dogan, Parvathanathan Subrahmanya, Han Yan, Louay Jalloul
  • Patent number: 12184453
    Abstract: A receiver device includes circuitry to measure an error vector of a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) sequence in a signal received from a transmitter and control logic coupled to the circuitry. The control logic removes estimated linear components from the measured error vector to generate a non-linear error vector. The control logic further determines, with reference to a set of lookup table (LUT) values, one or more tuning parameters for the PAM sequence based on the non-linear error vector and modifies the set of LUT values according to the one or more tuning parameters. The control logic further provides the modified set of LUT values to the transmitter, which when used by the transmitter to add digital pre-distortion to the PAM sequence, causes the non-linear error to be at least partially removed from the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Bjarke Vad-Miller, Johan Jacob Mohr
  • Patent number: 12184364
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first communication device with multiple antennas, operably coupled to a processor and configured to access a codebook of transformation matrices. The processor generates a set of symbols based on an incoming data, and applies a permutation to each of the symbols to produce a set of permuted symbols. The processor transforms each of the permuted symbols based on at least one primitive transformation matrix, to produce a set of transformed symbols. The processor applies, to each of the transformed symbols, a precode matrix selected from the codebook of transformation matrices to produce a set of precoded symbols. The codebook of transformation matrices is accessible to a second communication device. The processor sends a signal to cause transmission, to the second communication device, of multiple signals, each representing a precoded symbol from the set of precoded symbols, each of the signals transmitted using a unique antenna from the plurality of antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Rampart Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Brandon Robinson
  • Patent number: 12177046
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a device, such as an internet of things (IoT) device, may include a configuration or software (e.g., in baseband) that is common for multiple applications of the device. In some aspects, the device may select a setting for at least some if not each of a set of parameters associated with or defining a device profile of the device based on an application of the device. The device may perform a mapping procedure to map the settings for the parameters associated with the device profile to one or more baseband configurations or baseband handles and the device may customize the baseband of the device using the one or more baseband configurations. As such, the device may operate or communicate using the baseband that is customized based on the device profile and application of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Raghavendra Shyam Ananda, Ganesh Nagamani, Srikanth Menon, Raghuveer Ramakrishna Srinivas Tarimala
  • Patent number: 12177060
    Abstract: A wireless communications system includes a pre-distortion actuator configured to receive a carrier-modulated signal and convert the carrier-modulated signal into an output signal, the pre-distortion actuator comprising a behavioral model that models a transmit chain of the system including at least one amplifier and at least one antenna and predict an input-output relationship of the transmit chain of the system between an input to the transmit chain to an output of the transmit chain. The system includes a phased antenna array configured to transmit the output signal. The phased antenna array includes a plurality of antenna elements, each antenna element electrically coupled to a respective power amplifier. The pre-distortion actuator is configured to generate the output signal by applying a correction to the carrier-modulated input signal that cancels out nonlinearities The behavioral model is updated based on feedback from a receiver from a previous output signal transmitted to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Martin S. McCormick, Feipeng Wang
  • Patent number: 12176924
    Abstract: Systems, methods, non-transitory computer-readable media configured to perform operations associated with a storage medium. One system includes the storage medium and an encoding/decoding (ED) system, the ED system being configured to receive a set of input log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) of a component of the plurality of components, determine an extrinsic estimation function based on a set of features of the set of input LLRs, analyze the extrinsic estimation function to obtain a plurality of extrinsic LLR values, map the plurality of extrinsic LLR values to an input LLR of the set of input LLRs, and output, for each component, a plurality of updated LLR values based on the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Avi Steiner, Ofir Kanter, Hanan Weingarten, Assaf Sella, Nimrod Bregman, Yasuhiko Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 12177092
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for improving wireless network performance and efficiency by dynamically configuring network selection and session management functions within a wireless networking environment are described. In some cases, a network and service management system within the wireless networking environment may perform adjustments to the configuration of network slices and protocol data unit (PDU) sessions associated with user equipment (UE) devices utilizing network services provided by the wireless networking environment. The network and service management system may utilize machine learning techniques to provide real-time selection and reconfiguration of network slices and PDU sessions running within the wireless networking environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: DISH WIRELESS L.L.C.
    Inventors: Laurens Johannes Adriaanse, Robyn Skyler-Lott Casias, Bassem Abi-Farah, Vaibhav Singh Rajput
  • Patent number: 12176975
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for signaling a multi-user packet. More specifically, provided are a wireless communication terminal including a communication unit; and a processor configured to process signals transmitted and received through the communication unit, wherein the processor receives, through the communication unit, a high efficiency multi-user PHY protocol data unit (HE MU PPDU), wherein a preamble of the HE MU PPDU includes high efficiency signal A field (HE-SIG-A) and high efficiency signal B field (HE-SIG-B), and decodes the received HE MU PPDU based on information obtained from the HE-SIG-A, wherein a configuration of the HE-SIG-B is identified based on information obtained from at least one subfield of the HE-SIG-A and a wireless communication method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak, Geonjung Ko, Woojin Ahn
  • Patent number: 12166719
    Abstract: A method performed by a User Equipment (UE) for handling a Control Resource Set (CORESET) from a network node in a wireless communications network is provided. The UE operates with a reduced bandwidth. The UE detects a CORESET from the network node, and that a bandwidth of the CORESET is larger than the bandwidth of the UE. Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) candidates are transmitted in the CORESET. The UE determines which part of the CORESET to skip, to make the bandwidth of the CORESET equal or smaller than the bandwidth of the UE, such that the UE is capable of receiving the CORESET. The part of the CORESET to be skipped is determined based on a predicted decoding performance of the PDCCH candidates in the CORESET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Mohammad Mozaffari, Yi-Pin Eric Wang, Kittipong Kittichokechai, Mehrnaz Afshang, Yutao Sui, Zhilan Xiong, Saeedeh Moloudi
  • Patent number: 12166510
    Abstract: A switching circuit comprises a first filter, a second filter and a plurality of switches. The first filter is configured to filter a first frequency band, a second frequency band that is adjacent to the first frequency band and a gap band between the first frequency band and the second frequency band. The second filter is configured to filter the second frequency band. The plurality of switches is configured to route signals from an antenna through one of the first filter and second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: David Richard Pehlke
  • Patent number: 12166544
    Abstract: A method and Radio Access Network (RAN) Intelligent Controller (RIC) modeling interference patterns in a Massive Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) network. Information associated with beams transmitted in an Open RAN (O-RAN) is obtained. An interference matrix identifying interference patterns is generated based on the information associated with the beams transmitted in the O-RAN. One or more optimization solutions are determined based on the interference patterns identified in the interference matrix. One or more signals are sent to one or more elements in the O-RAN to implement the one or more optimization solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: RAKUTEN SYMPHONY, INC.
    Inventors: Raghavendra Madanahally Ramakrishna, Manjari Chhawchharia
  • Patent number: 12166558
    Abstract: Selective radiation of radio frequency (RF) reference beams in a wireless communications system (WCS) based on user equipment (UE) locations is disclosed. The WCS may include a radio node that communicates RF communications signals in a coverage area via RF beamforming. Thus, the radio node is required to periodically radiate a number of RF reference beams in different directions of the coverage area to help UEs to identify a best-possible RF beam(s). However, radiating the RF beams in different directions periodically can increase power consumption of the radio node, particularly when the UEs are concentrated at a handful of locations in the coverage area. In this regard, the radio node can be configured to selectively radiate a subset of the RF reference beams based on a determined location(s) of the UE(s) in the coverage area, thus making it possible to reduce computational complexity and power consumption of the radio node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: Siddhartha Dhananjaya Kundalkar, Shirish Nagaraj, Farhan Aslam Qazi
  • Patent number: 12155436
    Abstract: This application relates to a method of performing wireless communications between a hub station and a plurality of user terminals. The method comprises transmitting radio signals to subsets of user terminals among the plurality of user terminals with sets of active beams, wherein the active beams have beam centers that are determined based on locations of the user terminals. The method further comprises, for each of a plurality of radio resource blocks: selecting a subset of user terminals among the plurality of user terminals; for each user terminal among the subset of user terminals, determining a beam center based on a location of the respective user terminal; and transmitting, using the respective radio resource block, radio signals to the user terminals among the selected subset of user terminals, in beams corresponding to the determined beam centers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
    Inventors: Riccardo De Gaudenzi, Piero Angeletti
  • Patent number: 12155589
    Abstract: Provided are a method for transmitting an information element, a communication node, a system and a storage medium. The method includes the following steps: a first communication node performs at least one of the following: the first communication node sends capability information to a second communication node; the first communication node receives parameter information of an information element configured by a second communication node; or the first communication node receives a channel characteristic hypothesis of the information element configured by a second communication node; the first communication node determines a manner of receiving the information element according to at least one of the following: the capability information, the parameter information, or the channel characteristic hypothesis of the information element. The information element includes at least one of: Q1 reference signals, Q2 data channels or Q3 control channels, where Q1, Q2 and Q3 are integers greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Zhaohua Lu, Chuangxin Jiang, Hao Wu, Nan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12149310
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus may determine a time-averaged power limit of a set of antennas. The apparatus may modify an antenna switching configuration based at least in part on the time-averaged power limit. The apparatus may transmit a signal using an antenna, from the set of antennas, associated with the modified antenna switching configuration, wherein the antenna is associated with a higher power limit than one or more other antennas. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Sridhar Bandaru, Brian Clarke Banister, Reza Shahidi, Troy Curtiss, Akhil Deodhar, Lin Lu, Jagadish Nadakuduti
  • Patent number: 12149316
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. Various aspects support beam switching and changing antenna array configurations for communicating in a near field range. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a beam group indicator to a network entity, and the UE and the network entity may perform beam switching operations associated with switch communication beams in association with changes to a distance between the UE and the network entity. In some such examples, the beam switching may switch from using beam weights for communications in a far field range to beam weights for communications in a near field range. Additionally or alternatively, the network entity may change configurations of an antenna array used to communicate with the UE in association with changes to the distance. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Juergen Cezanne, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Yu-Chin Ou, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12149323
    Abstract: A method is disclosed performed by a transmitter node, for enabling reception beam selection at one or more receiver nodes. The method comprises obtaining a polarization profile, wherein the polarization profile defines a respective polarization for a sequence of probing occasions. The method comprises transmitting a pilot signal in each probing occasion of the sequence of probing occasions according to the polarization profile, in one single transmission beam. The polarization profile defines a first polarization to be used in N probing occasions and a second polarization to be used in M probing occasions in the sequence of probing occasions, where M is smaller than N and M is non-zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Jose Flordelis, Fredrik Rusek, Erik Bengtsson, Olof Zander, Kun Zhao
  • Patent number: 12149306
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein use channel state information (CSI) reports from a user equipment (UE) having additional CSI beyond CSI directly derived according to a current MIMO configuration between a base station and the UE. In some embodiments, a channel quality indicator (CQI) according to a selected layer of a plurality of layers used to receive the MIMO transmission as determined relative to the MIMO transmission is reported. In some embodiments, a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) according to a selected layer of a plurality of layers useable to receive rank 1 transmissions is reported along with a CQI determined according to that layer, or according to a layer used to receive the MIMO transmission as determined relative to the MIMO transmission. In some embodiments, a base station configures a UE to report more fulsome CSI according to each of a plurality of ranks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 12149311
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer readable medium for special thermal density reduction by antenna thinning. A system comprises N transmit/receive (TX/RX) chains, where each TX/RX chain comprises an RFFE and each RFFE comprises one or more thermal sensors configured to measure heat in the RFFE. An antenna array coupled to the plurality of TX/RX chains. A codebook that comprises a plurality of code words configured to respond to real-time heat measurements from the thermal sensors in each TX/RX chain is configured to switch off selected TX/RX chains to reduce thermal density at the antenna array while maintaining M RFFEs switched on, where M<N and the desired beamforming gain is 10 log 10(M).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Brent Elliott, Hosein Nikopour, Eren Sasoglu, Shilpa Talwar
  • Patent number: 12143178
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of processing received signal using a massive MIMO base station (BS). The BS includes at least a radio unit (RU), a distributed unit (DU) and an interface. The method includes at least receiving a plurality of signals corresponding to the plurality of antennas, said signals include at least one of data signals, demodulation reference signals (DMRS) and sounding reference signals (SRS). The RU or DU performs a grouping operation on a subset of the plurality of signals corresponding to a subset of antennas to generate signal groups. The RU performs a first stage filtering on the signals associated with each group using group specific filters to obtain group specific filtered signals. The DU performs a second stage filtering on the group specific filtered signals to obtain second stage filtered signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: WISIG NETWORKS PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Kiran Kumar Kuchi, Saidhiraj Amuru
  • Patent number: 12143175
    Abstract: Wireless communication is established between a first station and a second station in a wireless communication system, the first station having a beamforming network configured to form a succession of beams using antenna weight vectors selected from a pre-determined plurality of antenna weight vectors. The orientations of the beams are arranged in a grid comprising a plurality of rows. The beams of each row are spaced in angular position such that at least one beam in a respective row is positioned mid-way between the positions of two beams on an adjacent row. A succession of beams is formed to send first messages using a selected first sub-set of the antenna weight vectors. If a first message in a first beam is received at the second station, a further succession of beams is formed using a second sub-set of the antenna weight vectors selected to form beams adjacent to the first beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Cambium Networks Ltd
    Inventors: Nigel Jonathan Richard King, Thirumaran Muthiah, Matt Fuller
  • Patent number: 12136978
    Abstract: A method in a user equipment, UE, for reporting channel state information, CSI, to a network includes determining a number of subbands of a bandwidth part, BWP, to report CSI. The method further includes determining a CSI computation time including a CSI computation delay requirement. The method further includes performing CSI estimation for a plurality of the number of subbands based on the CSI computation time. The method further includes reporting the CSI report for at least one of the number of subbands. Analogous UEs, computer programs and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Bikramjit Singh, Jonas Fröberg Olsson, Yufei Blankenship, Mattias Andersson, Kittipong Kittichokechai, Zhenhua Zou, Siva Muruganathan, Shiwei Gao
  • Patent number: 12136971
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may generate blockage transformation information associated with one or more blockage scenarios based on one or more adaptive beam weights used for blockage mitigation at the UE associated with respective positions of a body or hand relative to one or more antennas of the UE. The blockage transformation information may include an indication of a transformation matrix used for a transformation of a first electric field matrix associated with a non-blockage scenario to a second electric field matrix associated with a blockage scenario. The UE may transmit a message indication the blockage transformation information to a machine learning server, which may generate adaptive beam weights for hand or body blockage mitigation based on messages received from multiple UEs. The machine learning server may transmit the adaptive beam weights to a UE entering a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji
  • Patent number: 12136989
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for estimating one or more user terminal locations over a target coverage area by wireless signals transmitted by one or more access points and reflected by one or more reconfigurable intelligent surface panels. The method includes transmission of one or more pilot signals by each of the one or more access points, reflecting, by at least one of the one or more reconfigurable intelligent surface panels, the one or more pilot signals according to one or more predetermined reflection patterns, receiving the reflections by the user terminal, extracting one or more features from the reflections, and estimating of a user terminal location by a method based on a database comprising pairs of locations and the one or more features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Haralabos Papadopoulos
  • Patent number: 12136977
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for hybrid beamforming. An example method can include determining a plurality of digital beamforming weights associated with a plurality of digital beamforming paths between digital beamformers and groups of analog beamforming circuits in a phased array antenna, each digital beamforming path being coupled to a group of analog beamforming circuits and each analog beamforming circuit being coupled to a respective set of antenna elements of the phased array antenna, and determining analog beamforming weights associated with the groups of analog beamforming circuits. The analog beamforming weights are estimated to put analog beamforming paths associated with the groups of analog beamforming circuits in a desired phase and gain relationship with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Eric Pepin, Kim W. Schulze, Amir Agah, Dean A. De Carli, Philippe Riondet
  • Patent number: 12126424
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a synchronization signal block (SSB) transmitted by a base station. The UE may receive system information that includes reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) or repeater assisted initial access information that identifies a set of SSBs that are associated with an RIS or a repeater and a modulation signature associated with the RIS or the repeater. The UE may selectively perform initial access using the SSB or search for another SSB based at least in part on the RIS or repeater assisted initial access information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Yucheng Dai, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal, Junyi Li, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 12126409
    Abstract: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) mode configuration method is applied to a terminal, and includes: determining a triggering factor, the triggering factor including terminal information that triggers MIMO mode adjustment; sending a first instruction, the first instruction being used for requesting a network device to configure an MIMO mode matched with the triggering factor for the terminal; and obtaining a second instruction, the second instruction being used for representing the MIMO mode configured by the network device for the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Du, Juejia Zhou
  • Patent number: 12126408
    Abstract: A method for pointing an antenna can include positioning, by a positioner, a beam of an antenna mounted on a vehicle to an initial angular position towards a target satellite based on an initial pointing direction for the antenna, the initial pointing direction being defined in a fixed reference plane and communicating, from the antenna, a signal with the target satellite, wherein the positioner controls an orientation of a pedestal of the antenna. The method also includes, executing, by an antenna control unit (ACU), an offset compensation operation of the antenna. The offset correction operation can include adjusting a pointing direction of the antenna to a plurality of angular positions and selecting a scan offset angle based on measured signal metrics for the plurality of angular positions. The method can include calculating a yaw compensation of the antenna based on the initial pointing direction and on a yaw pointing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Viasat, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas J. Merrell
  • Patent number: 12126467
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide for deep learning-based architectures and design methodologies for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver under the constraint of one-bit complex quantization. Single bit quantization greatly reduces complexity and power consumption in the receivers, but makes accurate channel estimation and data detection difficult. This is particularly true for OFDM waveforms, which have high peak-to average (signal power) ratio in the time domain and fragile subcarrier orthogonality in the frequency domain. The severe distortion for one-bit quantization typically results in an error floor even at moderately low signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) such as 5 dB. For channel estimation (using pilots), various embodiments use novel generative supervised deep neural networks (DNNs) that can be trained with a reasonable number of pilots. After channel estimation, a neural network-based receiver specifically, an autoencoder jointly learns a precoder and decoder for data symbol detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Jeffrey Andrews, Eren Balevi
  • Patent number: 12119912
    Abstract: Aspects relate to configuring active groups of antenna ports. An apparatus may support different groups of antenna ports. One or more of these groups may be designated as active (e.g., for a scheduled transmission). In some examples, a first apparatus may send to a second apparatus an indication of the active groups. The second apparatus may then use the active groups for a transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Yu Zhang, Runxin Wang, Hyojin Lee
  • Patent number: 12119962
    Abstract: A sampling circuit includes: a first transmission line that transmits an input signal; a second transmission line that transmits a clock signal; and a plurality of sample-hold circuits that are connected to the first and second transmission lines at a constant line distance, wherein the first transmission line transmits the input signal at a first propagation time for each of the line distances, and the second transmission line transmits the clock signal at a second propagation time that is a sum of a preset sampling interval and the first propagation time for each of the line distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Terao, Munehiko Nagatani, Hideyuki Nosaka
  • Patent number: 12107610
    Abstract: A method for calibrating an isolator product includes receiving a calibration signal on a differential pair of nodes of a receiver signal path of a first integrated circuit die of the isolator product. The method includes generating a diagnostic signal having a level corresponding to an average amplitude of the calibration signal on the differential pair of nodes. The method includes configuring a programmable receiver signal path based on the diagnostic signal. Generating the diagnostic signal may include providing an analog signal based on a full-wave rectified version of the calibration signal on the differential pair of nodes. Generating the diagnostic signal may include converting the analog signal to a digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Carlos J. Briseno-Vidrios