Diversity Patents (Class 375/267)
  • Patent number: 11902972
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may detect a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission associated with a multi-PDSCH semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) that potentially conflicts with a second transmission in a slot. The UE may determine to keep at least one of the PDSCH transmission associated with the multi-PDSCH SPS or the second transmission in the slot based at least in part on one or more rules. The UE may perform, with a base station in the slot, at least one of the PDSCH transmission associated with the multi-PDSCH SPS or the second transmission that is kept based at least in part on the one or more rules. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qingjiang Tian, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Jing Sun, Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Wooseok Nam, Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail, Zhifei Fan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11901987
    Abstract: An apparatus in a wireless communication system is configured to perform a method for directional beam nulling of SRS-based data beams. A base station (BS) includes a transceiver and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit a data beam to at least one user equipment (UE). The processor is also configured to configure the data beam to have a null area in a direction of a satellite earth station (ES), the null area defining a space within a coverage area of the data beam in which a signal from the data beam is suppressed. The data beam is configured by: generating one or more steering vectors to the ES; obtaining a UE channel matrix via a sounding reference signal (SRS) and determining a rank value; and generating a beamforming precoder configured to directional null the data beam in the direction of the ES.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiyang Leng, Hao Chen, Namjeong Lee, Sooyoung Hur
  • Patent number: 11901976
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for improving communications on feedback transmission channels, in which there is a possibility of bit errors. The basic solutions to counter those errors are: proper design of the CSI vector quantizer indexing (i.e., the bit representation of centroid indices) in order to minimize impact of index errors, use of error detection techniques to expurgate the erroneous indices and use of other methods to recover correct indices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.
    Inventors: Bartosz Mielczarek, Witold A. Krzymien
  • Patent number: 11898428
    Abstract: A signal generator, system, and method for electromagnetically heating of a hydrocarbon formation. The method involves determining a desired output signal having a desired power spectral density; generating a plurality of source signals, based on the desired output signal; modulating the plurality of source signals, based on the desired output signal, to provide a plurality of modulated signals capable of providing the desired power spectral density; combining one or more of the plurality of modulated signals into a combined signal; transforming the combined signal to have the desired power spectral density, thereby providing at least one output signal; and applying the at least one output signal to a load having a frequency-dependent impedance to produce at least one standing electromagnetic wave along a length of the load. The at least one standing electromagnetic wave includes at least a partial standing electromagnetic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Acceleware Ltd.
    Inventors: Jorgen S. Nielsen, Michal M. Okoniewski
  • Patent number: 11894965
    Abstract: A Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system in a radio access network (RAN) comprises a virtualized baseband unit, an antenna array; and a fronthaul network that connects the virtualized baseband unit to the antenna array. For a first set of antennas in the antenna array, the virtualized baseband unit generates a first MIMO matrix from channel state information (CSI); computes a sparse update matrix corresponding to an update to the first set of antennas; sums the sparse update matrix with the first MIMO matrix to produce a second MIMO matrix corresponding to a second set of antennas in the antenna array; determines which of the MIMO matrices results in a better CSI, MIMO condition number, peak-to-average-power ratio, or quality metric of spatial subchannels; and based on the determination, selects the first set of antennas or the second set of antennas to transmit or receive signals in the RAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Tybalt, LLC
    Inventor: Steve Shattil
  • Patent number: 11895672
    Abstract: A wireless device may receive at least one radio resource control (RRC) message comprising a field indicating a starting symbol for a physical downlink channel. The wireless device may receive a signal. The physical downlink channel may start from the starting symbol plus an offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11894893
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides communication apparatus and communication method for channel estimation. The communication apparatus comprises a transmitter, which in operation, transmits a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) to one or more other communication apparatus in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless network, the PPDU including a long training field (LTF) that facilitates the one or more other communication apparatus to estimate respective channels for respective communications with the communication apparatus; and a controller, which in operation, establishes the number of LTF symbols (NLTF) for generating the LTF in the PPDU, wherein the NLTF depends on a maximum value (NSTSMAX) of the number of space-time streams for each resource unit (RU) in the PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe, Rojan Chitrakar
  • Patent number: 11895517
    Abstract: An enhanced sector level sweep procedure is provided herein. A method may include transmitting a plurality of beacon frames in a corresponding plurality of transmit sectors, wherein the plurality of beacon frames are transmitted within a beacon interval. The method may include receiving, from a second communication device, a first transmission including information indicating a first ranking. The first ranking is based on a characteristic of at least a first subset of the transmit sectors. The first transmission is received in a sector corresponding to one of the first subset of transmit sectors. The method may include receiving, from a third communication device, a second transmission including information indicating a second ranking. The second ranking is based on a characteristic of at least a second subset of the transmit sectors. The second transmission is received in a sector corresponding to one of the second subset of transmit sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Hanqing Lou, Xiaofei Wang, Li-Hsiang Sun, Oghenekome Oteri, Rui Yang
  • Patent number: 11894862
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to generating a polar code and also to encoding and decoding data using a polar code. A method of generating a polar code includes obtaining a first matrix as an m-fold Kronecker product of a 2×2 binary lower triangular matrix where m=log 2(M/2), M<N, and N is the length of a polar code to be generated. A second matrix may be obtained, where the inverse of the second matrix is a lower triangular band matrix. A transformation matrix may be generated for the polar code by calculating a Kronecker product of the second matrix with the first matrix. An information set I identifying reliable bit channels for the polar code may be determined. A polar codeword of length N may be obtained using the polar code that is decodable by iteratively applying a sliding decoding window of length M to the polar codeword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Valerio Bioglio, Carlo Condo
  • Patent number: 11895596
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may perform path-loss estimation to support uplink transmit power control. The UE may perform path-loss estimations on path-loss reference signals configured by a base station. In some cases, the base station may update (e.g., activate, deactivate, or both) particular path-loss reference signals using a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE). The UE may determine which path-loss reference signal or signals to use for path-loss estimation based on one or more techniques. For example, the UE may filter path-loss measurements over a time duration or may use a single, unfiltered path-loss measurement for path-loss estimation. Additionally or alternatively, the UE may receive deactivated path-loss reference signals (e.g., for a set amount of time or for any amount of time) or may refrain from receiving deactivated path-loss reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Tianyang Bai, Junyi Li, Kiran Venugopal
  • Patent number: 11888559
    Abstract: Described are embodiments for uplink transmission using multiple panels. In an embodiment, a wireless device receives configuration parameters indicating a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state index is associated with: a first TCI state, of a first antenna panel, for uplink transmissions; and a second TCI state, of a second antenna panel, for uplink transmissions. The wireless device receives a command indicating the TCI state index and determines, based on the configuration parameters, the first TCI state and the second TCI state associated with the TCI state index indicated in the command. The wireless device transmits, via the first antenna panel, one or more first transport blocks based on the first TCI state. The wireless transmits, via the second antenna panel, one or more second transport blocks based on the second TCI state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Kai Xu, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Yunjung Yi, Ali Cagatay Cirik
  • Patent number: 11888555
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to one or more embodiments, a network node is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to receive channel state information, CSI, from each of a plurality of wireless devices and determine at least one null space based on the received CSI from each of the plurality of wireless devices. The processing circuitry is further configured to determine a common precoding matrix index, PMI, where a common beamforming vector is not in the at least one null space and cause a multicast broadcast transmission to the plurality of wireless devices using at least the common PMI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Ratheesh Kumar Mungara, Sairamesh Nammi, Jörg Huschke
  • Patent number: 11881922
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify, for each of one or more candidate beams in a set of candidate beams, a downlink throughput, an uplink throughput, a downlink power consumption, and an uplink power consumption. The UE may select a beam based at least in part on: at least one of the downlink throughput or the uplink throughput, at least one of the downlink power consumption or the uplink power consumption, and one or more throughput thresholds. The UE may communicate using the selected beam. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa, Brian Clarke Banister
  • Patent number: 11876655
    Abstract: A transmitting method includes: configuring a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating a plurality of transmission data to a plurality of areas; and transmitting the frame. The plurality of areas are each identified by at least one time resource among resources and at least one frequency resource among frequency resources. The frame includes a first period in which a preamble is transmitted, and a second period in which the plurality of transmission data are transmitted by at least one of time division and frequency division. The second period includes a first area, and the first area includes a data symbol generated from first transmission data, a data symbol generated from second transmission data and subsequent to the data symbol generated from the first transmission data, and a dummy symbol subsequent to the data symbol generated from the second transmission data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Yoshio Urabe, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11876654
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or base station. The apparatus can select one or more rows or one or more columns in a DFT matrix, the one or more rows being even-numbered rows in the DFT matrix and the one or more columns being even-numbered columns in the DFT matrix. The apparatus can also determine an orthogonal matrix based on the one or more rows or the one or more columns in the DFT matrix, the orthogonal matrix having a size of (M×N)×(M×N) with M×N rows and M×N columns. Also, the apparatus can determine a codebook based on the orthogonal matrix, the codebook including a plurality of codepoints. The apparatus can also transmit at least one signal including a first codepoint of the plurality of codepoints in the codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Wei Yang, Peter Gaal, Hwan Joon Kwon, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Wanshi Chen, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11876585
    Abstract: A network node may decompose a first channel of a first user equipment (UE) to calculate a first set of singular-value decomposition (SVD) values and may decompose a second channel of a second UE to calculate a second set of SVD values. The first SVD values may include a first matrix having left eigenvectors, a second matrix having diagonal eigenvalues, and a third matrix having a first Hermitian of right eigenvectors. The second SVD values may include a fourth matrix having left eigenvectors, a fifth matrix having diagonal eigenvalues, and a sixth matrix having a second Hermitian of right eigenvectors. The network node may communicate using a beamforming weight for a signal-to-leakage ratio (SLR) precoder matrix associated with the first UE and the second UE based on the third matrix and the sixth matrix and not based on the second matrix and the fifth matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Raja Sekhar Bachu, Luca Blessent
  • Patent number: 11870518
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to design of a line panel codebook and a method and an apparatus for transmission and reception based on it in a wireless communication system. A method in which a transmitter transmits a precoded signal to a receiver in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include determining one or more codewords and a panel phase factor for each of a plurality of line panels equipped with the transmitter; precoding data which will be transmitted to the receiver based on the determined one or more codewords and a panel phase factor; and transmitting the precoded signal to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: In Kyu Lee, Zhilin Fu, Ji Hwan Moon, Sang Won Hwang
  • Patent number: 11871355
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a sounding reference signal (SRS) to a base station using an SRS antenna switch (SRS-AS) or an SRS carrier switch (SRS-CS) transmission technique and the UE may feature multiple antenna groups that have separate exposure budgets due to their spatial separation. The UE may employ one or more accounting procedures for tracking energy contributions associated with the SRS across the multiple antenna groups of the UE and may employ one or more power control procedures for setting a transmit power for an uplink signal in accordance with the energy contributions associated with the SRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Farhad Meshkati, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Sanghoon Kim, Troy Curtiss, Dinesh Kumar Devineni, Ashok Mantravadi, Lin Lu
  • Patent number: 11871397
    Abstract: A wireless device and/or a base station may select one or more beams among multiple beams for transmission and/or reception of signals. At least one transmission control indicator (TCI) state of at least two TCI states may be used to receive a downlink signal based on a scheduling offset and the downlink signal overlapping in time with a physical downlink channel transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei, Kyungmin Park, Kai Xu
  • Patent number: 11871357
    Abstract: Provided are a device and method for a wireless communication system, and a computer readable storage medium. The device comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: acquire the current three-dimensional spatial location of a user equipment, and determine a resource for the user equipment according to information showing a mapping relationship at least between three-dimensional spatial regions and resources. According to an aspect of the embodiment of the present disclosure, time delay can be decreased and transmission performance can be optimized by pre-establishing a mapping relationship between three-dimensional spatial regions and resources and assigning to the user equipment an uplink/downlink time-frequency resource on the basis of the mapping relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wenbo Zhang, Jianfei Cao
  • Patent number: 11868209
    Abstract: The system or device may build one or more data packets by dividing a given payload for a packet into data blocks and inserting data checks for each data block sequentially into the packet payload. The device may generate, for each of the data blocks, a corresponding data check block corresponding to data in each data block. The device may send or arrange the data blocks and the corresponding data check blocks such that each of the data blocks is followed by the corresponding error check block in the packet. Using the corresponding check block, each of the data blocks is independently verifiable, so that the data blocks may be used upon receipt, even if the payload is not completely received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ampere Computing LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Robert Erler, Robert James Safranek, Robert Joseph Toepfer, Sandeep Brahmadathan, Shailendra Ramrao Chavan, Jonglih Yu
  • Patent number: 11871427
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method for transmitting data, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first resource indication information from a network device at a first moment, the first moment being located in the n-th time domain resource unit, the first resource indication information indicating a frequency domain resource allocated for transmission of a target channel in the (n+i)-th time domain resource unit, and the target channel including a data channel or a control channel of the terminal device, where n and i are positive integers; and receiving, by the terminal device, second resource indication information from the network device at a second moment after the first moment, the second resource indication information indicating a time domain resource allocated for transmission of the target channel in the (n+i)-th time domain resource unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanan Lin, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 11864016
    Abstract: An invention to perform a method of cell measurement in a wireless network, wherein the wireless network comprises a plurality of frequency layers, the invention configured to: determine a Measurement Gap Length, MGL, for each one of the plurality of frequency layers operational in the wireless network; determine a gap bitmap to indicate a measurement gap availability in a time sequence for each one of the plurality of frequency layers of the wireless network; and transmit gap assistance information for each one of the plurality of frequency layers of the wireless network to a User Equipment, wherein the gap assistance information comprises at least the determined Measurement Gap Length and the determined gap bitmap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Rui Huang, Yuan Zhu, Shuang Tian
  • Patent number: 11863314
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for the granular, interference aware selection of modulation and coding schemes (MCS) per-sub-band, per-stream, and in some examples, per-user. In some examples, channel condition metrics regarding wireless communication conditions, including interference conditions, from a communication node of a wireless access system may be received. Based at least on the received channel condition metrics indicative of interference, a multidimensional interference margin generator may determine a per-sub-band per-stream margin. A modulation and coding scheme may be selected based on the per-sub-band per-stream margin. In some examples, the selected modulation and coding scheme may be transmitted to various modulators/demodulators, encoders/decoders, and/or other communication nodes within the wireless access system. In some examples, a scheduler may select an allocation based at least on the per-sub-band per-stream margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Tarana Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Svantesson, Eric Pierre Rebeiz
  • Patent number: 11863251
    Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-beam Channel State Information (CSI) reporting are provided. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a second node connected to a first node in a wireless communication network for reporting multi-beam CSI includes reporting a rank indicator and a beam count indicator in a first transmission to the first node. The method also includes reporting a cophasing indicator in a second transmission to the first node. The cophasing indicator identifies a selected entry of a codebook of cophasing coefficients where the number of bits in the cophasing indicator is identified by at least one of the beam count indicator and the rank indicator. In this way, feedback for both a rank indicator and a beam count indicator may be possible which may allow robust feedback and variably sized cophasing and beam index indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Shiwei Gao, Robert Mark Harrison, Siva Muruganathan
  • Patent number: 11864220
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to address issues related to poor radio conditions (e.g., SS-RSRP/SS-RSRQ/SS-SINR) associated with poor coverage for user devices (e.g., user equipment (UEs)) positioned between Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) beams emitted from a cell tower. Specifically, Next Generation Node B (gNB) may identify the location of the user devices (reporting poor signal strength due to poor radio conditions) based on angle or arrival and/or timing advance. Systems and methods further include controlling a phase and amplitude of the SSB beam(s) serving the user device to improve the signal strength of these user devices experiencing poor radio conditions, until the signal strength is within/above target threshold value(s). In this manner, user coverage is improved, with the option to prioritize premium subscribers, without the need for employing a more expensive alternative (e.g., building additional cell sites and towers) for improving user coverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Roopesh Kumar Polaganga
  • Patent number: 11863285
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method providing a maximum diversity scheme for improving coverage area and diversity performance of a media system. The method comprises, at an antenna module of the media system, wirelessly receiving, via a receiver antenna of the antenna module, broadband radio frequency (RF) signals from a transmitter of the media system, instantaneously converting, via a converter circuitry of the antenna module, the broadband RF signals into one or more digital baseband components, generating, via a processor unit of the antenna module, a single digital data stream by applying diversity processing to the digital baseband components, and outputting the single digital data stream over a network cable to another device of the media system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: AUDIO-TECHNICA U.S., INC.
    Inventors: Robert T. Green, III, Brian K. Fair, Jacquelynn A. Green
  • Patent number: 11864121
    Abstract: A communication method is provided, including: determining, by a first device, a relative power ratio between a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) and a data channel; determining, by the first device, a transmit power of the PTRS based on the relative power ratio of the PTRS to the data channel; and sending, by the first device, the PTRS to a second device by using the transmit power of the PTRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xi Zhang, Peng Guan, Xiaoyong Tang
  • Patent number: 11855722
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may generate a report indicating a mapping between antenna panels and reference signal beam indications. The UE may transmit the report and apply the mapping to the antenna panels for reference signals. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11854511
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for reducing latency in augmented reality displays. A display controller receives, from a GPU, a stream of image pixels of a frame of virtual content to be presented on a display of a display device. The stream of image pixels is received via a high-speed bulk interface that transfers data at least as fast as can be consumed by the display. As the stream of image pixel is received, the display controller converts each respective image pixel from a data format used to transmit the stream of image pixels via the high-speed bulk interface to a data format that is compatible for display by the display. Each converted image pixel is stored in a pixel cell of the display, after which the frame is presented on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Wagner, Igor Komir, Dominik Schnitzer, Alex Feinman, Heinrich Fink
  • Patent number: 11855826
    Abstract: Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of wireless communication for applying resource element (RE) skipping to a symbol where a beam change is to occur. A transmitter and a receiver determine that a beam change is to occur during the symbol. The transmitter allocates bits to a subset of REs for the symbol in a frequency domain allocation. Each RE of the subset is spaced apart by a number of empty REs. The transmitter performs an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) on the REs to generate a time domain signal including a number of repetitions of a transmitted waveform. The receiver receives the time domain signal during at least a portion of the symbol. The receiver performs a fast Fourier transform (FFT) on the time domain signal and determines transmitted bits or a channel from the subset of REs output from the FFT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Huilin Xu, Jun Ma, Weimin Duan, Mehmet Izzet Gurelli, Qiang Wu
  • Patent number: 11855733
    Abstract: This application provides a method for adjusting a half-power angle of an antenna, to adjust a maximum half-power angle or a maximum beam gain of an individual transceiver channel. The method includes: first determining that M antenna elements in N antenna elements connected to a first transceiver channel of an access network device need to be turned on or off, where N>M?1, and both N and M are integers, that is, a quantity of antenna elements driven by the first transceiver channel needs to be adjusted; and then sending first indication information to the access network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate to turn on or off the M antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Quanzhong Gao, Hui Gao, Hongjie Hu, Fengyong Qian, Chengzhi Zhu
  • Patent number: 11855765
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a non-coherent data transmission method and a communication apparatus. In the method, a transmit end device determines, in a first constellation, a first constellation point corresponding to first to-be-modulated bits, where the first constellation point corresponds to P first symbols, P=M*N, M is a positive integer, and N is an integer greater than 1; and sends the P first symbols on N resource units by using M antenna ports, or sends P second symbols determined based on the P first symbols, and foregoes sending demodulation reference signals of the P first symbols or the P second symbols. In the method, a constellation is designed, and each constellation point in the constellation corresponds to a plurality of resource units so that data can be transmitted with no need to transmit a reference signal, and only the data needs to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Qin, Fan Wang
  • Patent number: 11855342
    Abstract: A MIMO communication system is provided. The system may include a first antenna comprising a first cavity, a first plurality of RF ports for generating a feed wave within the first cavity, and a first plurality of sub-wavelength artificially structured material elements as arranged on a surface of the first cavity as RF radiators. The first antenna is configured to generate a plurality of radiation patterns respectively corresponding to the first plurality of ports. The system may also include a second antenna comprising a second cavity and a second plurality of sub-wavelength artificially structured material elements arranged on a surface of the second cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Duke University
    Inventors: Insang Yoo, Seyedmohammadreza Faghih Imani, Timothy Sleasman, David R. Smith
  • Patent number: 11855717
    Abstract: An initiator device is provided with a generation circuit for supporting Single User (SU)-Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) operation and generating a first signal including a value that indicates which of a reciprocal MIMO phase and a non-reciprocal MIMO phase is to be applied to SU-MIMO BF training, and a transmission circuit for transmitting the first signal to a responder device. The responder device is provided with a reception circuit for receiving the first signal from the initiator device, and a processing circuit for determining on the basis of the value which of the reciprocal MIMO phase and the non-reciprocal MIMO phase is to be applied to SU-MIMO BF training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Takenori Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11855718
    Abstract: Channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system is disclosed. User equipment transmits a CSI feedback signal via a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH). If the UE is configured in a first feedback mode, the CSI comprises a first report jointly coding a Rank Indicator (RI) and a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI1), and a second report coding Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) and a second precoding matrix indicator (PMI2). If the UE is configured in a second feedback mode, the CSI comprises a first report coding RI, and a second report coding CQI, PMI1 and PMI2. The jointly coded RI and PMI1 employs codebook sub-sampling, and the jointly coding PMI1, PMI2 and CQI employs codebook sub-sampling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Runhua Chen, Eko Onggosanusi, Ralf M. Bendlin
  • Patent number: 11855684
    Abstract: A user device, UE, and a base station, BS, for a wireless communication system is described. Each is using a transmission scheme on a radio resource, and is to determine one or more parameters of a radio channel associated with the radio resource, and to adapt the transmission scheme by selecting an additional radio resource on the basis of the determined one or more parameters. Further a wireless communication system, comprising two or more of the above devices, corresponding methods and a computer program product are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Dommel, Zoran Utkovski, Thomas Haustein, Michel Massanet-Ginard, Dennis Wieruch, Lars Thiele
  • Patent number: 11856428
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to an investigator device and a method for determining a condition of an antenna of an access point (AP). At least one investigator device may receive one or more antenna condition test frames transmitted via a plurality of antennas of the AP Further, the at least one investigator device may determine an average received signal strength indicator (RSSI) value corresponding to each of the plurality of antennas based on the one or more antenna condition test frames. A condition of the plurality of antennas of the AP may be determined based on a relative comparison between the average RSSI value corresponding to each of the plurality of antennas of the AP. Moreover, in some examples, the at least one investigator device may send a notification to an administrator of the AP based on the condition of the plurality of antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Shubham Saloni, Myung Cheol Kim, Abhiruchi Dakshinkar
  • Patent number: 11855738
    Abstract: Aspects relate to beam management reports that enable selection of best antenna panel and beam combinations for uplink transmissions from a user equipment (UE) when one or more antenna panels of the UE are subject to a maximum permissible exposure (MPE) limit. The UE receives a reference signal at a plurality of antenna panels, wherein the reference signal is received in different beams on each of the plurality of antenna panels. The UE determines N beams providing highest measured strengths of the reference signal on at least one of the plurality of antenna panels, wherein the MPE limit is to be applied to the at least one of the plurality of antenna panels for uplink transmissions. The UE transmits a beam management report including reduced highest measured strengths of the reference signal in the N beams to account for the MPE limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shanyu Zhou, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11848477
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a housing including a first conductive portion, a second conductive portion electrically isolated from the first conductive portion, and a third conductive portion electrically isolated from the first conductive portion and the second conductive portion, a first wireless communication circuit disposed in the space and to transmit or receive a first signal and a second signal, which have a frequency in a first frequency range, through Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) using the first conductive portion and the second conductive portion, respectively, and a second wireless communication circuit disposed in the space and transmit or receive a third signal and a fourth signal having a frequency in a second frequency range through Carrier Aggregation (CA) using the third conductive portion and the conductive pattern, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongju Lee, Bongsup Son, Kyoungsun Lee, Wonjin Choi, Jiwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11848730
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support mechanisms for signaling metrics associated with antenna modules of a UE in a wireless communication system. A user equipment (UE) determines one or more metrics associated with at least one antenna module of the UE. The UE transmits a message including the one or more metrics associated with at least one antenna module of the UE (e.g., to a base station or to another sidelink UE). In certain aspects, the message including the one or more metrics is transmitted to the base station during an initial establishment of a communication session between the UE and the base station. In some aspects, the UE transmits the message including the one or more metrics as a broadcast message, in a radio resource control (RRC) message, and/or in a medium access control (MAC)-control element (CE) message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11844061
    Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) operating with a new radio (NR) radio access technology (RAT). The method comprises receiving synchronization signals and a master information block (MIB) in a first bandwidth (BW) and receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a second BW, wherein the second BW is indicated by an offset in the MIB relative to the first BW and the PDCCH conveys a downlink control information (DCI) format that configures a reception of a first system information block (SIB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 11838163
    Abstract: For Type-II codebook compression, methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. One apparatus includes a transceiver and a processor coupled to the transceiver, the processor being configured to cause the apparatus to: receive a reference signal, identify a set of taps over a layer based on the reference signal, where the set of taps correspond to a set of sub-band indices. The processor is configured to cause the apparatus to generate a combinatorial codeword representing the set of taps and transmit a CSI report indicating the combinatorial codeword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Udar Mittal, Tyler Brown, Ahmed Hindy
  • Patent number: 11838092
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus performs a first processing for changing the receiving beam in a first direction to determine a first angle for the receiving beam. The wireless communication apparatus performs a second processing for changing the receiving beam in the first direction from the first angle to determine a second angle that is a final angle for the receiving beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Tanabe, Nader Zein, Jun Qian, Christos Masouros
  • Patent number: 11838084
    Abstract: Disclosed are a codebook constraint and codebook parameter determination method and apparatus, and same are used for preventing the generation of a beam with an orientation bringing about interference, and to prevent interference. The codebook constraint method includes determining codebook sub-set constraint indication information for indicating that one or more beam groups in a candidate combination beam set are constrained and coefficients in a first coefficient set corresponding to each beam of the beam groups are constrained, and sending the codebook sub-set constraint indication information to a terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Li, Qiubin Gao, Runhua Chen
  • Patent number: 11831373
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for channelizing and beamforming a wideband waveform are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for transmitting and receiving wideband waveforms that are beamformed on a per-channel basis during generation of the wideband waveforms. A transmitter may separate a first wideband signal into segments, with each segment bandwidth corresponding to a channel of the system bandwidth, and may map the segments to channels. The segments may be replicated to generate multiple copies of each segment. The transmitter may beamform and combine the copies of the segments to generate multiple wideband waveforms, and transmit each wideband waveform using a different antenna. A receiver may receive multiple wideband waveforms using multiple antennas and may separate each wideband waveform into segments, then beamform and de-map the segments. The techniques may be used to transmit and receive beamformed wideband waveforms over tactical data links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael T. Kretsch, David C. Jacobs, David J. Trusheim, Robert T. Short
  • Patent number: 11824807
    Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more configuration parameters indicating a plurality of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for uplink transmissions. The wireless device transmits, for a random access procedure, a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission with a spatial filter. The wireless device receives a medium access control control element (MAC CE) indicating activation of more than one TCI states of the plurality of TCI states. The wireless device transmits, with the spatial filter used during the random access procedure, one or more uplink signals before receiving a downlink control information (DCI) indicating a TCI state from the more than one TCI states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Jonghyun Park, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Kai Xu
  • Patent number: 11825505
    Abstract: A channel measurement method, a terminal device, and a network side device are provided. The channel measurement method is applied in a user equipment (UE) and comprises: receiving M measurement reference signals sent by a network side device on the measurement resource, M being an integer greater than 1; the measurement resource comprising N measurement sub-resources; the measurement sub-resources being continuous in a time domain and a frequency domain; N being an integer greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Wu, Xueming Pan, Dajie Jiang
  • Patent number: 11824558
    Abstract: An encoding apparatus is provided. The encoding includes a low density parity check (LDPC) encoder which performs LDPC encoding on input bits based on a parity-check matrix to generate an LDPC codeword formed of 64,800 bits, in which the parity-check matrix includes an information word sub-matrix and a parity sub-matrix, the information word sub-matrix is formed of a group of a plurality of column blocks each including 360 columns, and the parity-check matrix and the information word sub-matrix are defined by various tables which represent positions of value one (1) present in every 360-th column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong-sil Jeong, Se-ho Myung, Kyung-joong Kim
  • Patent number: 11824691
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving first signaling and second signaling, wherein the first signaling includes first Phase Tracking Reference Signaling, PT-RS, on a first set of subcarriers, and the second signaling includes second PT-RS on a second set of subcarriers, wherein the first set of subcarriers is non-overlapping with the second set of subcarriers, wherein receiving the first signaling is based on estimating a phase noise for the first signaling based on the first PT-RS and the second PT-RS. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Jung-Fu Cheng, Mehrnaz Afshang, Yuhang Liu, Stephen Grant