04th week of 2020 patent applcation highlights part 71 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20200029310 | DOWNLINK CONTROL FOR MULTIPLE TRANSMIT RECEIVE POINT CONFIGURATIONS - Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive an indication of a set of corresponding physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates that includes at least a first PDCCH candidate included in a first control resource set (CORESET) and a corresponding second PDCCH candidate included in a second CORESET, wherein the first CORESET and the second CORESET have different transmission configuration indication (TCI) states; and selectively perform, based at least in part on a configuration, at least one of: independent decoding of the first PDCCH candidate, independent decoding of the second PDCCH candidate, or joint decoding of the first PDCCH candidate and the second PDCCH candidate. Numerous other aspects are provided. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029311 | USER TERMINAL, BASE STATION, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR MAPPING A DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNAL - A terminal and base station are disclosed where the terminal includes a receiver that receives a signal of a downlink shared channel and a processor that controls reception of a demodulation reference signal included in the downlink shared channel. The processor controls reception of a demodulation reference signal based on one of a first mapping method or a second mapping method. The first mapping method being a method in which the demodulation reference signal is mapped to a fixed symbol within a slot of the downlink shared channel, and the second mapping method being a method in which the demodulation reference signal is mapped to a top symbol of symbols for which the downlink shared channel is scheduled. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029312 | Data Transmissions in Control Regions - According to some embodiments, a method in a wireless device comprises: receiving a control channel (e.g., physical downlink control channel (PDCCH)) that includes control information that indicates a set of time and frequency resources allocated for the wireless device to receive a data transmission; determining that the set of time and frequency resources allocated for data transmission overlaps with a control resource region (e.g., control resource set (CORESET)); and receiving the data transmission in the set of time and frequency resources allocated for data transmission. The control information may include a bitmap that indicates at one or more groups of time and frequency resources excluded/included for the data transmission region. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029313 | Configuration-Dependent DCI Timing - The disclosure relates to a method of operating a wireless device. The method comprises receiving ( | 2020-01-23 |
20200029314 | PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNELS (PDCCH) AND ENHANCED PDDCHS (EPDCCH) IN WIDEBAND COVERAGE ENHANCEMENT (WCE) ARRANGEMENTS - Embodiments of an Evolved Node-B (eNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication are generally described herein. The eNB may encode an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) for transmission in a sub-frame in first physical resource blocks (PRBs). The ePDCCH may indicate: a transmission of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in accordance with a wideband coverage enhancement (WCE), and second PRBs to be used for the transmission of the PDSCH. The eNB may encode the PDSCH for transmission. The eNB may configure transceiver circuitry to transmit the PDSCH in a plurality of subframes, wherein transmission of the PDSCH is repeated in each sub-frame of the plurality of sub-frames in the second PRBs as part of the WCE. The ePDCCH may be transmitted in a starting sub-frame of the plurality in the first PRBs. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029315 | ADAPTATION OF COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS FOR A USER EQUIPMENT - A UE includes a transceiver configured to receive an adaptation request (AR) via a DCI format in a PDCCH. The UE further includes a processor configured to configure the transceiver to operate in a first state associated with a reception of a first DCI format in a first search space set in response to an AR reception outcome, and to operate in a second state associated with a reception of a second DCI format in a second search space set. A BS includes a transceiver configured to transmit an AR via a DCI format in a PDCCH. The BS includes a processor configured to configure the transceiver to operate in a first state associated with a transmission of a first DCI format in a first search space set, and to operate in a second state associated with a transmission of a second DCI format in a second search space set. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029316 | Resource Management for Wireless Communications Using a Power Saving State - Wireless communications using a power saving state are described. A wireless device and/or a base station may provide improved resource management such as by monitoring a reduced resource set in a power saving state. The wireless device may monitor an initial resource set in a non-power saving state and a reduced resource set in a power saving state. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029317 | MULTI-CARRIER SCHEDULING AND SEARCH SPACE ACTIVATION - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for multi-carrier scheduling and search space activation. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029318 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIGH RELIABILITY TRANSMISSION IN VEHICLE TO EVERYTHING (V2X) COMMUNICATION - A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information including resource allocation information for a sidelink and an uplink (UL) channel, wherein the sidelink is established between the UE and another UE; receiving, from the BS, downlink control information (DCI) including sidelink resource allocation information; identifying resources for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) response of the sidelink based on the configuration information and the sidelink resource allocation information; and transmitting, to the BS, the HARQ response of the sidelink via physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029319 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - Embodiments described provide a data transmission method, a network device, and a terminal device. The method includes: sending, by a network device, control information corresponding to target data to a terminal device on a control resource, where the control resource and a data resource have a correspondence, and the control resource is used by the terminal device to determine the data resource on which the target data is received; and sending, by the network device based on the correspondence, the target data to the terminal device on the data resource. In the embodiments, after sending the control information corresponding to the target data on the control resource, the network device can send the target data on the data resource based on the correspondence between the control resource and the data resource, so that terminal devices having different bandwidth capabilities are able to receive the target data. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029320 | DECOUPLED UPLINK/DOWNLINK INITIAL ACCESS - Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for wireless communication are disclosed by the present disclosure. In an example, a user equipment (UE) communicates with a base station on different uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) beam paths. In the example, the UE may indicate to the base station a preferred beam path to use. The UE may indicate the preferred beam path in response to an explicit request from the base station or without an explicit request. The use of different UL/DL beam paths allow beam paths which avoid interference from a user of the UE to be used. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029321 | METHOD FOR USER EQUIPMENT CAPABILITY NEGOTIATION, USER EQUIPMENT AND BASE STATION - A method for UE capability negotiation, a UE and a base station are provided. The UE reports individual capabilities of the UE for respective radio access networks in multiple systems and a merged capability of the UE for all radio access networks in the multiple systems. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029322 | Communication Method, Core Network Device, And Access Network Device - The present disclosure relates to communication methods, core network devices, and access network devices. One example method includes receiving, by a core network device, a first message from an access network device, where the first message carries information used to indicate a slice supported by the access network device, and determining, by the core network device, a location area identity list of user equipment UE based on the information used to indicate the slice supported by the access network device. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029323 | Scheduled UCI Transmission Scheme - A radio network device is operative to transmit uplink data on a physical uplink shared channel aggregating two or more contiguous slots. The device is further operative to transmit, in addition to the uplink data, Uplink Control Information (UCI) in at least one of the aggregated slots. The UCI may comprise a HARQ ACK/NACK. The UCI is configured in response to Downlink Control Information (DCI) received from a serving network node. The DCI also includes a UL scheduling grant for the physical uplink channel. The UCI may be configured in the physical uplink channel transmission in a variety of ways. Various amounts of frequency resource (e.g., subcarriers) may be allocated to UCI. The subcarriers may be non-contiguous. In slot aggregation, the UCI subcarriers may frequency hop from slot to slot. The UCI may be encoded differently in different slots, to facilitate early decoding by a receiver (which may, for example immediately prepare a re-transmission in the case of a NACK). | 2020-01-23 |
20200029324 | COMMUNICATION METHODS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE STATION AND ACCESS POINT - The present invention provides a new trigger frame dedicated to NDP feedback procedure. This NDP feedback trigger frame comprises a specific field allowing stations (non-AP nodes) receiving this trigger frame to identify it as being a dedicated NDP feedback trigger frame. Thanks to this specific field, a receiving station knows that a NDP feedback procedure has started and that a NDP feedback is expected by the access point. The present invention also provides for communication methods using this NDP feedback trigger frame, communication device station and access point configured to implement these methods, and also a wireless communication network comprising such devices. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029325 | METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR PERFORMING UPLINK TRANSMISSION - A method for performing uplink transmission is discussed. The method performed by a wireless communication device includes receiving first information, related to a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) configuration, wherein the first information includes second information related to frequency hopping, wherein the first information includes third information on a plurality of PUCCH resources, and wherein the second information is included for each of the plurality of the PUCCH resources; determining at least one PUCCH resources among the plurality of the PUCCH resource; and transmitting PUCCH signal based on the second information and the at least one of the plurality of the PUCCH resources. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029326 | Methods, Communication Devices and Network Nodes for Enhancing Communication in a Wireless Communication Network - Disclosed is a method performed by a communication device ( | 2020-01-23 |
20200029327 | FRONT LOADED SRS - A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus may be a first UE in a bundled TTI comprising a first TTI and a second TTI. The first UE is configured to receive a first data transmission and a first reference signal from a second UE in the first TTI, to transmit a SRS to the second UE, and to receive a second data transmission having one or more transmission parameters adapted based on the SRS in the second TTI. In certain aspects, the first UE is configured to transmit a first data transmission and a first reference signal to a second UE in the first TTI, to receive a SRS from the second UE, to adapt one or more transmission parameters for a second data transmission in the second TTI based on the SRS, and to transmit the second data transmission to the second UE in the second TTI. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029328 | Method to Determine the Starting Subframe of Data Channel - Apparatus and method are provided to determine the starting subframe of a data channel. In one novel aspect, the UE monitors one or more control channel candidates, which at least one of the control channel candidate occupies a plurality of the subframes. The UE detects a control channel intended for the UE, decodes the control channel and determines the starting subframe of the data channel based on the control channel and a known gap. In another novel aspect, the UE further obtains a subframe indicator from the control channel. The subframe indicator signals either the number of subframes between the starting subframe of the data channel and the starting subframe of the control channel, or the number of subframes of the control channel, or the starting subframe of the data channel. In another embodiment, predefined rule can be applied to the subframe indicator to determining the starting subframe of the data channel. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029329 | USER TERMINAL, RADIO BASE STATION, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A user terminal is disclosed that includes a receiving section that receives a DL channel by using a first time interval in accordance with subcarrier spacing of the DL channel. The user terminal further includes a transmitting section that transmits a UL channel by using a second time interval in accordance with subcarrier spacing of the UL channel. The user terminal further includes a control section that, when the first time interval and the second time interval are different intervals, controls transmission timing of a UL signal in the UL channel based on the first time interval and the second time interval. A radio communication method is also disclosed that includes when the first time interval and the second time interval are different intervals, controlling transmission timing of a UL signal in the UL channel based on the first time interval and the second time interval. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029330 | ADAPTATION OF THE NUMBER OF NR PDCCH CANDIDATES - A user equipment (UE) in communication with a base station may receive downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The UE may receive a configuration of the PDCCH. The UE may determine a number of downlink PDCCH candidates and a number of uplink PDCCH candidates within a search space based on the configuration, wherein the number of downlink PDCCH candidates is different than the number of uplink PDCCH candidates, and a length of each downlink PDCCH candidate is different than a length of each uplink PDCCH candidate. The UE may blindly decode the search space with each PDCCH candidate as a hypothesis to determine whether any of the downlink PDCCH candidates or uplink PDCCH candidates decode to a DCI format. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029331 | BANDWIDTH PART SWITCHING FOR MULTIPLE TRANSCEIVER NODES - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A UE may monitor a first bandwidth part for communications from one or more transceiver nodes. The UE may receive a control message on the first bandwidth part from a first transceiver node that includes an indication of a second bandwidth part different from the first bandwidth part. The UE may determine whether the second bandwidth part is associated with each of the transceiver nodes. The UE may communicate with a second transceiver node on the second bandwidth part based on the control message and on a determination that the second bandwidth part is associated with the second transceiver node. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029332 | TECHNIQUES FOR HANDLING WIDE BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATIONS - Techniques are described for wireless communication. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting, to a network access device, a first indication of a supported radio frequency (RF) bandwidth capability of the UE and a second indication of an RF component configuration of the UE associated with the supported RF bandwidth capability of the UE; and communicating with the network access device based at least in part on the supported RF bandwidth capability of the UE and the RF component configuration of the UE. A method for wireless communication at a network access device includes receiving the first indication and the second indication from the UE, and communicating with the UE based at least in part on the supported RF bandwidth capability of the UE and the RF component configuration of the UE. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029333 | ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS FOR WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - A first communication device determines assignment of at least a first orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) tone block and a second OFDM tone block for communication with a second communication device in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The first OFDM tone block is separated from the second OFDM tone block by a gap in frequency. The first communication device generates a physical layer (PHY) data unit for transmission to the second communication device, including generating a data portion of the PHY data unit that spans the first OFDM tone block and the second OFDM tone block. The first communication device transmits the PHY data unit to the second communication device via the first OFDM tone block and the second OFDM tone block such that no data is transmitted in the third OFDM tone block for the data portion of the PHY data unit. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029334 | Communication Method and Communications Device - Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method and a communications device. The method includes: obtaining, by a first access network device, a first data block; performing network coding on the first data block to generate a plurality of first encoded data blocks; and performing, by the first access network device, offload processing on at least one first encoded data block in the plurality of first encoded data blocks. The offload processing includes: sending a part of the at least one first encoded data block to a second access network device, and directly sending, by using an air interface, another part of the at least one first encoded data block to the terminal device. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029335 | PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL REPETITION CONFIGURATION - Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine, based at least in part on a downlink control information message associated with indicating a physical uplink control channel resource configuration, a physical uplink control channel repetition parameter. The user equipment may transmit a set of transmissions of a physical uplink control channel based at least in part on the physical uplink control channel repetition parameter. Numerous other aspects are provided. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029336 | CHANNEL ALLOCATION AMONG MULTIPLE RADIO FREQUENCY NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and storage media for dynamic allocation of communication channels among multiple wireless networks are disclosed. The example embodiments may provide interference mitigation and control among a plurality of wireless protocols operating in an environment. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029337 | INTERFERING IN TIME-DIVISION DUPLEX COMMUNICATION - A method is presented for disconnecting a wireless time-division duplex communication link between two nodes. A first node transmits during time slots allocated to the first node and the second node transmits during separate time slots allocated to the second node. The first node transmits at differing respective frequency bands during its time slots. The method includes:
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20200029338 | METHOD FOR OPERATING USER EQUIPMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND DEVICE THEREFOR - Provided are a method for operating user equipment (UE) having multiple serving cells set therefor in a wireless communication system and UE using the method. The method comprises: receiving a higher-level signal indicating a mapping between the values of the serving cell index (ServingCellID) of a serving cell and a carrier index field (CIF); and identifying the serving cell on the basis of the higher-level signal. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029339 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A communication device includes a first module, a communication portion communicating with a second module, a memory, and a processor that executes instructions stored in the memory. The instructions cause the processor to perform: executing a processing of changing a first radio communication to a non-restrictive state when a first signal is received from the second module in a state that the first radio communication is in a restrictive state; and executing a first processing of transmitting a second signal for changing a second radio communication to the non-restrictive state to the second module and a second processing of changing the first radio communication to the restrictive state when the priority signal using the first channel is detected in a state that the first radio communication is in the non-restrictive state. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029340 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NR V2X RESOURCE SELECTION - A method of a first user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a second UE via a sidelink, signals including information to select resources for at least one of aperiodic traffic or periodic traffic; decoding sidelink control information (SCI) from the information included in the signals; performing, over a sensing window, a signal measurement of the received signals; identifying a resource selection window based on a latency requirement; reserving the resources for the at least one of aperiodic traffic or periodic traffic in a frequency domain and a time domain based on the decoded SCI and a result of the signal measurement, the resources being identified within a resource selection window; and transmitting, to the second UE via the sidelink, the at least one of aperiodic traffic or periodic traffic using the reserved resources. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029341 | METHODS, BASE STATION, INFRASTRUCTURE NODE AND TERMINAL FOR MEASUREMENTS AND DELAY-SENSITIVE VEHICLE-RELATED COMMUNICATIONS - A method allocating resources in a mobile telecommunications system including a base station, one or more terminals, and one or more infrastructure nodes configured to communicate via a wireless interface allocated for successive time periods. The method includes: obtaining measurements that relate to a link between a first of the terminals and one of the infrastructure nodes; identifying communications between the first terminal and the one infrastructure node as delay-sensitive communications; identifying, based on the obtained measurements and identification of the communications between the first terminal and the one infrastructure nodes as delay-sensitive communications, resources to allocate for the first terminal to communicate with one or more of the infrastructure nodes, selected from two or more of the time periods; and allocating the identified resources for the first terminal to communicate with the one or more of the infrastructure nodes during the two or more time periods. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029342 | Data Transmission Method and Device - Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method and device. The method includes: when a resource position of a first data packet is preempted, generating, by a first device, first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate information about the preempted resource position of the first data packet; and sending, by the first device, the first indication information to a second device, so that the second device receives the first data packet based on the first indication information. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029343 | DATA EXCHANGE METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NETWORK DEVICE - Embodiments provide a data exchange method, a terminal device, and a network device. In accordance with the disclosure, a terminal device can obtain resource information for communicating with another terminal device. The resource information can indicate a time-frequency resource and an antenna port corresponding to an antenna polarization direction. The terminal device can then send scheduling information and data information to the another terminal device using the time-frequency resource and the antenna polarization direction. Time-frequency resources and/or antenna polarization directions used by any two terminal devices to send scheduling information and data information to other terminal devices can be different. In this way, terminal devices using different transmit antenna ports can use a same time-frequency resource, and an optional dimension of resource information is increased, thereby increasing an overall system communication capacity. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029344 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method in a cellular communication system, for avoiding errors in a HARQ process, wherein an NDI flag is used both for indicating either semi-persistent scheduling, SPS activation or SPS retransmissions, and also for indicating, by toggling of the flag, a new transmission in dynamic scheduling mode. The method comprises the steps of receiving, in a scheduling message, an indication that dynamically scheduled transmission will take place; if a semi persistent resource has occurred for the same HARQ process since a previously received indication for dynamically scheduled transmission, then considering the NDI flag to be toggled regardless of the value of the NDI flag. Thus, if the condition is fulfilled, a UE will always regard the NDI flag as indicating or requesting a new data transmission. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029345 | WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER CALIBRATION OPPORTUNITIES - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may perform calibration of a transceiver chain to maintain or improve operation of a device or comply with legal or protocol requirements. The UE may receive one or more wireless signals indicating a first set of resources where the first device is scheduled to transmit or receive communications. The UE may calibrate a wireless transceiver chain of the first device in a second set of resources. The second set of resources excludes the first set of resources and includes at least a portion of a third set of resources. The third set of resources are resource in which the first device has an option to transmit or receive communications based on a protocol configuration. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029346 | SCHEDULING REQUEST RESOURCE CONFIGURATION - There is disclosed a method of operating a user equipment in a radio access network. The user equipment is configured with a reference time resource available, in one or more slots, for transmission of a scheduling request by the user equipment, the reference time resource includes a reference symbol R, wherein each of the one or more slots has a slot duration that is based on a number N of symbols in the slot. The user equipment further is configured with a requesting periodicity P indicating a periodicity with a time period shorter than the slot duration. The method includes transmitting a scheduling request message at a request transmission symbol T which is based on the reference symbol R and the periodicity P. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029347 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, RESOURCE SCHEDULING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK-SIDE DEVICE - A data transmission method, a resource scheduling method, a terminal, and a network-side device are provided. The data transmission method includes: sending, to a network-side device, an operating band information list supported by the terminal and capability indication information indicating whether the terminal supports simultaneous data sending and receiving on an operating band in the operating band information list, where the operating band information list is used by the network-side device to determine an actual operating band of the terminal, and the capability indication information is used by the network-side device to determine a scheduling strategy for the terminal; and performing, when the terminal has a data service requirement, data transmission based on the actual operating band determined by the network-side device and including the at least one pair of an uplink and a downlink frequency range, and scheduling information corresponding to the scheduling strategy determined by the network-side device. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029348 | SCHEDULING REQUEST TRANSMISSION METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE - A scheduling request transmission method and a related device, used to solve the technical problem wherein no technical solution is currently available for providing SR feedback for terminals supporting different transmission time intervals. The method comprises: a terminal acquiring a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource corresponding to a first SR and a second PUCCH resource corresponding to a second SR, the first PUCCH resource being different from the second PUCCH resource; the first SR corresponding to a first transmission time interval (TTI) length, and the second SR corresponding to a second TTI length, the first TTI length being different from the second TTI length; the terminal determining whether the first SR and/or the second SR require transmission; if the first SR and/or the second SR require transmission, the terminal transmitting the first SR and/or the second SR by means of a PUCCH. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029349 | MAXIMUM CHANNEL OCCUPANCY TIME SHARING AND CO-EXISTENCE - Described is an apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB) operable to communicate with a User Equipment (UE) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process one or more configuration transmissions from the eNB carrying one or more parameters for Grantless Uplink (GUL) transmission. The second circuitry may be operable to determine one or more GUL subframes of an acquired Maximum Channel Occupancy Time (MCOT) on time-domain resources allocated for GUL transmission from the UE. The third circuitry may be operable to generate a GUL transmission during the one or more GUL subframes of the acquired MCOT in accordance with the one or more parameters for GUL transmission. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029350 | QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) FOR UPLINK ACCESS IN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN) - This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for managing uplink access in a wireless local area network. A station (STA) may inform an access point (AP) of uplink quality of service (QoS) parameters for a traffic flow from the STA. The AP may control uplink resources to satisfy the QoS parameters. For example, the AP may select from among different access modes (including a single user (SU) access mode, an uplink multi-user (UL-MU) scheduled access mode, a multi-user enhanced distributed controlled access (MU EDCA) access mode, or a low latency (LL) access mode). The AP may cause the STA to use a SU access mode or the LL access mode if the UL-MU scheduled access mode and the MU EDCA access mode are not sufficient to satisfy the uplink QoS parameters for the traffic flow. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029351 | SCHEDULING REQUEST TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS - This application provides a scheduling request transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: configuring, by a network device for a terminal device, a scheduling request (SR) resource carried on an uplink control channel; configuring, by the network device, a mapping relationship between the SR resource and a plurality of available uplink beam pairs for the terminal device; and receiving, by the network device, a scheduling request sent by the terminal device by using the plurality of uplink beam pairs and the corresponding SR resource. According to the scheduling request transmission method and the apparatus that are provided in this application, an SR is sent in a multi-beam communication scenario. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029352 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a first uplink grant used to indicate activation of a semi-persistent scheduling, a higher layer processing unit configured to store the first uplink grant as a configured uplink grant, and a transmitter configured to transmit a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit corresponding to the configured uplink grant, wherein the higher layer processing unit does not generate the MAC protocol data unit in a case that the MAC protocol data unit includes only a MAC control element for a padding buffer status (BSR) report and aperiodic channel state information (CSI) is not requested. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029353 | Resource Request Method and System, and Device - A resource request method and system, and a device are provided, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method may include: triggering, by remote UE, a buffer status report BSR, and sending the BSR to relay UE, where the BSR is used to provide a base station with a size of available to-be-transmitted data in a buffer of the remote UE. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029354 | METHOD FOR DETECTING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A method is disclosed for detecting downlink control information. In particular, the method comprises: a step of detecting first downlink control information transmitted from a specific cell; a step of detecting second downlink control information included in a shortened downlink control channel, based on resource information about the shortened downlink control channel included in the first downlink control information, if the first downlink control information is detected; and a step of changing any one of a shortened downlink data channel, a shortened uplink data channel, and transmission/reception timings of ACK/NACK signals, which are set in advance based on the performance of the terminal, if the first downlink control information is not detected. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029355 | Duplicated DCI Transmission - There is disclosed a network node for a Radio Access Network, the network node ( | 2020-01-23 |
20200029356 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL INFORMATION IN CARRIER AGGREGATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting control information by a base station in a communication system using a plurality of serving cells comprises transmitting is provided. The method includes a terminal, an identifier of a second serving cell identifying where control information regarding a first serving cell is transmitted, transmitting, to the terminal, a predetermined value of a carrier identifier used in the second serving cell, and transmitting the control information regarding the first serving cell including the carrier identifier having the predetermined value through the second serving cell. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029357 | Control Channel Design for Many-Antenna MU-MIMO Systems - Disclosed embodiments include methods for control channel design in many-antenna multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems. A beacon comprising an identifier of a many-antenna base station is encoded into a base sequence. A plurality of synchronization sequences is generated based on the encoded base sequence and a set of orthogonal beam sequences. The many-antenna base-station transmits, using a plurality of antennas, the plurality of synchronization sequences in a plurality of beam directions associated with the set of orthogonal beam sequences for synchronization and associated with users without knowledge of channel state information (CSI). | 2020-01-23 |
20200029358 | DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION RESPONSE TO IDLE MODE REQUESTS - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a request message to a base station while operating in an idle mode. The base station may generate, in response to the request message, a response message including a random access preamble index corresponding to the received request message. In some cases, the base station may determine a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) based on the random access preamble index and scramble a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the response message with the RNTI. In some examples, the random access preamble index may be included in a payload of the response message. The UE may monitor a physical downlink control channel for the response message to the request message and receive the response message on the physical downlink control channel. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029359 | RANDOM ACCESS RESPONDING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RANDOM ACCESS METHOD AND DEVICE - A random access/responding method and device are provided. In some embodiments, at least two random access preambles can be received before responding to random access of a terminal device, where each of the at least two random access preambles includes at least one sequence. In some embodiments, one random access preamble can be received before responding to random access of a terminal device, where the one random access preamble includes at least two sequences. The sequences in the received random access preambles can be checked. A successfully detected sequence or a random access preamble with the successfully detected sequence can then be responded to. In this way, responding to a plurality of successfully detected random access preambles or a plurality of successfully detected sequences included in one random access preamble is implemented. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029360 | Network Node and Methods in a Mesh Network - A method performed by a first network node for reducing the number of colliding transmissions in a mesh network is provided. The first network node and the second network node are configured to use periodic advertising for transmissions in the mesh network. The first network node calculates ( | 2020-01-23 |
20200029361 | AUTOMATIC MULTI-CELL ENABLEMENT FOR COEXISTENCE WITH UNLICENSED INTERFERER WAVEFORMS - In a wireless local area network (WLAN) that includes one or more wireless access points capable of serving one or more wireless clients, presence of one or more instances of interference from a particular type of interferer is detected on at least one channel in an unlicensed frequency band. In response to detecting the interference, a radio resource management process is biased to continue operation of at least one of the one or more access points, or individual radios of a multi-radio access point, on the channel to make at least some use of the channel for one or more wireless clients. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029362 | WIRELESS DEVICES IMPLEMENTING AN ACCESS POINT OR A STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - An asymmetric handshaking design between an access point (AP) and a station (STA) is introduced. An access point is controlled to transmit packets in a first packet format. In response to packets transmitted from the access point in the first packet format, a station is switched to use a second packet format to transmit packets to form asymmetric handshaking with the access point when the station fails to use the first packet format to answer the access point. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029363 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A method for performing, by a station (STA) apparatus, uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmission in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes performing carrier sensing on a channel, receiving a trigger frame including information for UL MU transmission and a carrier sense indicator indicating whether a result of the carrier sensing is to be reflected from an access point (AP), and transmitting an UL MU frame through the channel based on the information for UL MU transmission. The UL MU frame is transmitted through the channel based on a result of the carrier sensing if the carrier sense indicator indicates the reflection of a result of the carrier sensing. The UL MU frame is transmitted through the channel regardless of a result of the carries sensing if the carrier sense indicator does not indicate the reflection of a result of the carrier sensing. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029364 | Methods and Apparatus Relating to Random Access in a Wireless Communications Network - The disclosure provides methods and apparatus relating to random access in a wireless communications network. In one aspect, a method in a user equipment comprises: detecting an event triggering a random access procedure; determining an adjustment for a random access parameter as a function of one or more of: a type of the event triggering the random access procedure; and a characteristic of data to be transmitted or received by the UE upon completion of the random access procedure; applying the adjustment to a configured value for the random access parameter to obtain an adjusted value for the random access parameter; and performing the random access procedure with a base station operable in the wireless communications network, using the adjusted value for the random access parameter. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029365 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REQUESTING SYSTEM INFORMATION - Provided are a method for requesting, by a user equipment (UE), system information in a wireless communication system and a device supporting the same. The method may include: initiating a random access procedure; requesting system information from a base station (BS) in the initiated random access procedure; receiving, from the BS, a broadcast indication indicating that the requested system information is broadcast in the initiated random access procedure after requesting the system information from the BS; and stopping the initiated random access procedure. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029366 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING A RANDOM ACCESS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a pre-5 | 2020-01-23 |
20200029367 | Method for Terminal Device to Access Network, Terminal Device and Network Device - A method for a terminal device to access a network, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method includes: sending a random access preamble by a terminal device; receiving, by the terminal device, indication information sent by a first network device; and receiving, by the terminal device, random access response information sent by at least one network device according to the indication information, wherein the at least one network device comprises the first network device. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029368 | METHOD FOR RANDOM ACCESS, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK DEVICE - Disclosed are a method for random access, a terminal, and a network device. The method comprises: a first terminal transmits a random access request to a network device; the first terminal receives a random access response transmitted by the network device; and the first terminal transmits uplink synchronization information and/or an uplink resource to the second terminal, the uplink synchronization information being used by the first terminal and/or the second terminal for uplink synchronization with the network device, and the uplink resource being used by the first terminal and/or the second terminal for communication with the network device. For embodiments of the present application, the first terminal requests the uplink synchronization information and/or the uplink resource from the network device, the uplink synchronization information is used by the first terminal and/or the second terminal for uplink synchronization with the network device, and the uplink resource is used by the first terminal and/or the second terminal for communication with the network device. In other words, the first terminal can assist the second terminal in requesting the uplink synchronization information and/or the uplink resource from the network device, thus increasing the flexibility of a random access process for the first terminal and the second terminal in a relay scenario. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029369 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present disclosure provides a random access method and apparatus. The method comprises: receiving random access resource selection criterion information and random access resource information broadcasted by a network side device; determining, from the random access resource information, target random access resource information corresponding to the random access resource selection criterion information; and initiating a random access request to the network side device according to the target random access resource information. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029370 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a random access method and an apparatus. PRACH configuration information of is acquired, and a preamble is sent from a corresponding start PRACH resource. The solution includes: acquiring at least one group of physical random access channel PRACH configuration information carried in system information, parsing the at least one group of PRACH configuration information to obtain a corresponding start PRACH resource; and sending a preamble to a base station starting from the start PRACH resource. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029371 | BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY CONNECTION MANAGEMENT - A Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-enabled digital device, such as a smartphone, can communicate with a BLE-enabled peripheral device via a BLE connection. The peripheral device may be a vaporizer, and the smartphone can include feature(s) related to control of the vaporizer. A method for maintaining a BLE connection between the smartphone, which may execute an Android operating system, and the peripheral device is also provided. The method may include utilizing a library of suspension functions in the form of an Application Programming Interface (API) for an Android BLE framework. The suspension functions can be implemented using coroutines that allow suspending BLE operations without locking a thread. The library may include a module communicating with a core of the library and configured to suspend requested BLE operations while attempting to reestablish a lost connection until a timeout event occurs. The module can be configured to handle BLE state machine complexities. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029372 | WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION - This disclosure provides a computer-implemented process for an attachment process to a network. The method comprises, receiving a data request from a user equipment, connecting the user equipment is to a mobile communication network through a first base station, determining a router bound to the user equipment, connecting the router to the mobile communication network through a second base station, establishing a connection between the user equipment and the router through the first base station and the second base station. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029373 | OPTIMIZATIONS FOR PROSE COMMUNICATIONS - A method of communicating using proximity services (ProSe) is disclosed. A base station receives at least one aggregate maximum bit rate (AMBR) parameter from a network entity. The at least one AMBR parameter comprises a maximum bit rate that a first wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) can use for data sent on one or more ProSe bearers. The base station receives a request from the first WTRU to establish the one or more ProSe bearers with a second WTRU. The request comprises priority information of the one or more ProSe bearers determined by the first WTRU. The base station sends an indication to the first WTRU to establish a ProSe communication over the one or more ProSe bearers based on at least the AMBR parameter and the priority information of the one or more ProSe bearers. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029374 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mobile communication system | 2020-01-23 |
20200029375 | SESSION CONNECTION ESTABLISHMENT METHOD AND CONTROL PLANE NETWORK ELEMENT - Embodiments of the application disclose a session connection establishment method and a control plane network element, to select a proper user plane network element from a plurality of distributed user plane network elements for a terminal device that requests a service. In one embodiment, the control plane network element may determine a first user plane network element set from a plurality of distributed user plane network elements based on a service, to select, from the first user plane network element set, a first target user plane network element that supports the service, and establish a session connection of a terminal device. According to the embodiment, a proper user plane network element can be selected from a plurality of distributed user plane network elements for a terminal device that requests a service, thereby improving working efficiency when the control plane network element establishes a session connection of the terminal device. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029376 | SELECTIVE RETRANSMISSION PROCEDURE - This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for an access point (AP) and a station. In one aspect, the AP can transmit a first trigger frame to the station. The AP may receive a packet from the station including one or more information units, an identifier of the information units, and a wireless device identifier. The AP can determine at least one information unit to be retransmitted by the station and transmit a second trigger frame identifying the information unit. In some aspects, the AP can determine a proxy arrangement with a proxy AP that can transmit the second trigger frame. In some aspects, the AP can transmit the first trigger frame to multiple stations and determine an information unit to be retransmitted based on a tunneled direct link setup (TDLS) link. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029377 | FLEXIBLE CARRIER DOWNLINK AND UPLINK PAIRING FOR ADVANCED NETWORKS - Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for flexible carrier uplink and downlink pairing for 4G, 5G and future networks. Downlink and uplink channels can be assigned to different bands that are not contiguous or bands that have different bandwidths. This enables base station devices to have the flexibility to assign uplink and downlink communications to bands that have lower load and thus improve the efficiency and throughput of the communication link for both uplink and downlink. The base station device can also assign uplink and downlink pairing in order to minimize passive intermodulation interference. Passive intermodulation interference from a transmission can cause interference in bands near the transmission band, and so the base station device can assign downlink and uplink bands that are separate from each other in order to reduce the passive intermodulation interference. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029378 | USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION, AND RELATED METHODS - The present disclosure provides user equipment (UE), a base station, and related methods. A method executed by UE, the method comprises: sending to a master base station UE capability information related to bearer types supported by the UE, wherein the bearer types comprise New Radio (NR), Long Term Evolution (LTE), and/or enhanced Long Term Evolution (eLTE); and receiving, from the master base station, configurations of the bearer types. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029379 | RADIO CONFIGURATION METHOD, USER EQUIPMENT, AND BASE STATION - The present application provides a method executed by user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the RRC signaling comprising configuration information used for configuring, for the UE, a data radio bearer (DRB) supporting packet duplication; establishing a corresponding DRB according to the configuration information; and calculating transmittable data of a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity for a logical channel corresponding to the established DRB. The present application also provides corresponding UE, a base station, and a corresponding method executed by a base station. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029380 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, GATEWAY, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - To provide a communication control means for establishing a session suitable for a terminal apparatus connecting to multiple access networks of various kinds and a network apparatus, a user data communication control means suitable for a terminal apparatus that has established sessions via multiple access networks and a network apparatus, and the like. This provides a communication control means suitable for a terminal apparatus and a network apparatus that support connection to multiple access networks of various kinds. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029381 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING RADIO BEARER MODE - The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for determining a radio bearer mode. The method includes: a terminal receiving bearer configuration information; and in the case where a bearer corresponding to a bearer identifier in the bearer configuration information has been established at the terminal and is an MWA bearer, and a bearer type indicated in the bearer configuration information is a dual-connection bearer, the terminal establishing or reconfiguring the dual-connection bearer according to the bearer configuration information. With the technical solutions provided by the present disclosure, scenario handover is performed on a terminal configured with an MWA technology, and a data transmitting and receiving mode of the terminal is switched, avoiding a situation in which the terminal is configured with two types of radio bearers, that is, both an MWA radio bearer and a dual-connectivity radio bearer, thereby reducing a processing complexity of data transmitting and receiving of the terminal, and also providing a more flexible data transmitting and receiving mode, and improving the efficiency of data transmitting and receiving of the terminal. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029382 | Multipath TCP with Mesh Access - Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for providing Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) with mesh access. A multi Radio Access Technology (RAT) base station gateway having a MPTCP proxy, proxies an initial MPTCP connection from a User Equipment (UE). The multi-RAT base station gateway determines if the UE is capable of MPTCP to provide MPTCP. When the UE is capable of MPTCP, then the multi-Rat base station provides a Wi-Fi connection and an LTE connection. When the UE is not capable of MPTCP, then the multi-RAT base station provides an LTE connection. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029383 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO BEAM RECOVERY IN THE SECONDARY CELL - Various aspects and features described herein relate to methods for beam failure recovery in a SCell with assistance from a PCell. In an aspect, an apparatus (e.g., a UE) may detect an SCell beam failure, and send a scheduling request in response to detection of the SCell beam failure to a base station via a PCell. The UE may receive a first message including one of an uplink grant or a trigger for an UL report from the base station via the PCell. The UE may send a second message via the PCell indicating the SCell beam failure and a preferred candidate beam associated with the SCell. The UE may receive CORESET TCI state activation from the base station via the PCell, and determine, based on the CORESET TCI state activation signal, a control channel associated with the preferred candidate beam. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029384 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING PATH RESELECTION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - The present specification provides a method for performing a radio link failure (RLF) recovery procedure in a wireless communication system. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029385 | ACTIVE TIME HANDLING WITH 2-STEP GRANTING - A wireless communications device, operating according to a DRX configuration and configured to receive two-step grants for uplink transmissions, determines whether the device has received a first trigger of a two-step grant. The device enters a state in which the device listens on a physical downlink control channel for messages from the network, in response to determining that the device has received the first trigger, without necessarily receiving the second trigger. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029386 | WAKE-UP BEAM MANAGEMENT FOR CONNECTED-MODE DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION (C-DRX) OPERATION - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wake-up signal beam management. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029387 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVELY ENABLING RECEPTION OF DOWNLINK SIGNALING CHANNELS - A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is disclosed that comprises a processor configured to selectively enable and disable reception of downlink signaling and configured to monitor a buffer of the WTRU for data to transmit. The WTRU comprises a transmitter configured to transmit, while reception of the downlink signaling is disabled, a channel allocation request in response to data in the monitored buffer. The processor is configured, in response to the data in the monitored buffer, to enable reception of the downlink signaling to allow the WTRU to receive an uplink channel allocation. The transmitter is configured, in response to the WTRU receiving an uplink channel allocation, to transmit uplink data on an uplink channel. The processor is configured to track a time when HARQ feedback is expected to be received in response to the transmitted uplink data, and configured to receive the HARQ feedback at the expected time. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029388 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SESSION MANAGEMENT - A network architecture and methods of managing packet data unit (PDU) sessions in a network are provided. The methods include PDU session establishment procedures, PDU session modification procedures, PDU session state transfer procedures, PDU session release procedures, and user equipment (UE) handover procedures. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029389 | RACE CONDITION AVOIDANCE BETWEEN MASTER BASE STATION INITIATED SECONDARY BASE STATION RELEASE AND SECONDARY BASE STATION INITIATED SECONDARY BASE STATION CHANGE PROCEDURES - Systems and methods are disclosed herein that relate to Dual Connectivity (DC) for a wireless device is a wireless communication network. In some embodiments, a method in a secondary node for providing, along with a master node, DC for a wireless device such that the wireless device is configured to utilize resources provided by both the master node and the secondary node in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from the master node, a release request. The release request is a request to release a wireless device context of the wireless device or to release resources for the wireless device. The method further comprises sending a release reject to the master node. The release reject is an indication that the secondary node rejects the release request | 2020-01-23 |
20200029390 | RE-TRANSMISSION OF PDCP PDUS BY CENTRALIZED NODES OF A RAN ARCHITECTURE - A centralized RAN architecture that includes lower layer transmission nodes (referred to as distributed units (DUs) herein) that connect to an upper layer RAN node (referred to as a centralized unit (CU) herein). A centralized RAN architecture may include a functional split, between the CU and DU, corresponding to the Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) and Radio Link Control (RLC) layers. In one embodiment, a CU may store copies of downlink PDCP PDUs that are transmitted to a first DU. The CU may retransmit, to a second DU, those of the PDCP PDUs which were previously transmitted to the source DU but have not been acknowledged as successfully delivered by the source DU. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029391 | DATA FORWARDING SUPPORT - Apparatuses and methods in a communication system, are provided. The method comprises controlling ( | 2020-01-23 |
20200029392 | ANCHOR CHANNEL DESIGN FOR UNLICENSED INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) - Technology for a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) operable to communicate over an anchor channel for Unlicensed Internet of Things (U-IoT) is disclosed. The gNB can encode control information for periodic transmission on a set frequency of an anchor channel for U-IoT in an adaptive frequency hopping system. The anchor channel can include a clear channel assessment (CCA) period, an extended CCA (eCCA) period when a failure occurs during the CCA period, a tuning period for radio frequency (RF) retuning with frequency hopping, and a control information communication period for communication of the control information. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029393 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS BACKHAUL IN A LOCAL NETWORK - A network device receives, from a user device, a data packet on a first wireless channel between the user device and the network device. The network device processes the data packet based on receiving the data packet, and transmits the processed data packet to a second network device on a second wireless channel between the network device and the second network device. The network device, the second network device, and the user device are included in a local network. The first network device and the second network device are communicatively connected via a wireless full-duplex link that includes the second wireless channel and a third wireless channel. The first wireless channel, the second wireless channel, and the third wireless channel are different wireless channels. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029394 | Heating Cable - A cable includes a first wire-shaped metal conductor, a second metal conductor extending a predetermined distance away from and parallel to the first conductor, and a matrix made of a PTC material extending along the conductors, touching the latter and connecting them to one another electrically, with temperature-dependent electrical resistance and a positive temperature coefficient. At least one electrically insulating outer insulation layer surrounds the conductors and the matrix annularly. At least a third and a fourth metal conductor extend a predetermined distance away from and parallel to the first conductor, touch the matrix and are connected electrically by means of the latter to the first conductor, the second, the third and the fourth conductor being made in a wire shape and, considering the cross-section of the cable, being arranged distributed evenly over a circular track surrounding the first conductor. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029395 | System and Method for Controlling Multiple IGBT Temperatures in a Power Converter of an Electrical Power System - A method for monitoring and controlling IGBT temperature in a power converter of an electrical power system includes generating a plurality of temperature signals from a plurality of switching devices via a plurality of temperature sensors. The method also includes selecting a primary switching device from the plurality of switching devices to estimate a primary temperature thereof. Further, the method includes determining the primary temperature of the primary switching device via a temperature measurement circuit communicatively coupled to the primary switching device. Moreover, the method includes comparing remaining temperature signals (or a function thereof) to the primary temperature via at least one comparator circuit. If one of the remaining temperature signals (or the function thereof) exceeds the primary temperature, the method also includes implementing a control action to address the increased temperature. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029396 | THERMAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR METALLIC MATERIALS - A method of thermally processing a material with a thermal processing system includes providing a material for treating in an in-line thermal process to a heating system, providing a force to the material at a portion of the material configured to be heated by the heating system, adjusting the heating system to a specified temperature value, and heating the portion of the material to the specified temperature value while the portion of the material is under the force to change a magnetic property in the portion of the material. The heating system is moveable from a first position that is away from a path of the material through the in-line thermal process to a second position in which the heating system is configured to heat the portion of the material to the specified temperature value. The heating system can include induction-based heating. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029397 | INDUCTION HEATING DEVICE PERFORMING CONTAINER SENSING FUNCTION - An induction heating device includes an induction heating circuit, a sensor configured to measure current applied to the induction heating circuit, and a controller. The controller includes: a switch driving unit configured to control operation of an inverter unit and to allow a resonance of the current, a container sensing unit, and a control unit. The container sensing unit is configured to: convert a first current value before the resonance into a first voltage value; control the switch driving unit to charge a working coil; compare the first voltage value with a resonance reference value; convert a second current value after the resonance into a second voltage value; generate one or more output pulses; and compare the second voltage value with a count reference value. The control unit is configured to determine whether an object is present on the working coil based on the one or more output pulses. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029398 | METHOD FOR SENSING CONTAINER USING RESONANT CURRENT - A method for sensing a container includes: charging an induction heating circuit; sensing a current applied to the induction heating circuit, converting a current value of the current into a first voltage value; comparing the first voltage value with a resonance reference value; generating a resonance of the current; sensing a resonant current generated in the induction heating circuit; converting the resonant current into a second voltage value; comparing the second voltage value with a count reference value; generating one or more output pulses; comparing a count of the one or more output pulses with a reference count, or comparing an on-duty time of the one or more output pulses with a reference time; and based on (i) the comparison of the count with the reference count or (ii) the comparison of the on-duty time with the reference time, determining whether an object is present on a working coil. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029399 | HOB SYSTEM - In a hob system having at least one induction hob and an extractor apparatus, a control device for the control of the extractor apparatus is arranged in an induction generator housing. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029400 | DOMESTIC APPLIANCE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A DOMESTIC APPLIANCE DEVICE - A household appliance device, in particular cooking appliance device, includes an energy storage unit and a discharge unit which is configured to discharge in a discharging operating mode the energy storage unit at least partially in an at least essentially linear manner. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029401 | TOP HOOD AND A MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - The invention relates to a top hood for covering food in a microwave oven. Top hood (HI) comprises a microwave transparent wall structure comprising side wall (SW) and top part (TP). Side wall (SW) and top part (TP) defines the internal area (IA) covered by said top hood (HI). Attached to the wall structure of the top hood (HI), the top hood (HI) comprises a temperature sensor (TS) for measuring the temperature within the internal area (IA) covered by said top hood (HI). Top hood further comprises a wireless transmitter (WT) for transmitting the measured temperature information to an external display unit (DU). | 2020-01-23 |
20200029402 | COOKING APPLIANCE - A cooking appliance includes a bottom plate and a turntable. The bottom plate defines an aperture that receives the turntable such that the turntable is flush-mounted with the bottom plate to provide a floor of a cooking cavity as substantially continuous. A rotary hub engages with an underside of the turntable to transmit rotational motion to the turntable from a motor. The turntable includes a first material and the bottom plate includes a second material. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029403 | ENCAPSULATED LED ENGINE AND A PROCESS FOR ENCAPSULATING AN LED ENGINE - An encapsulated LED engine including a printed circuit board, a plurality of LED arrays, each of the LED arrays mounted on the printed circuit board, and electrically connected to each other wherein, in each of the LED arrays, LEDs are electrically connected to each other; and an encapsulation layer configured to encapsulate each of the LED arrays and the electrical connections therebetween, wherein the encapsulation layer includes at least one blister configured to encapsulate at least one LED, and is further configured to transform the light emitted by said LED into a desired light beam pattern; and at least one planar portion configured to encapsulate at least one electrical connection formed on the printed circuit board. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029404 | CURRENT INRUSH PROTECTION APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A shorting cap apparatus is provided for enabling remote application of power, by an external system, to a load connected to the shorting cap apparatus while protecting components of the external system from potential damage due to high inrush current to the load. The shorting cap apparatus comprises a housing, a connector, and inrush current protection circuitry. The connector of the shorting cap apparatus may be connected to a corresponding connector associated with the load. Once the external system applies power, the protection circuitry provides a time delay to allow the load to sufficiently charge via a first set of resistors of the protection circuitry over a period of time before a set of switches of the protection circuitry are transitioned to a conducting state. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029405 | Methods and Apparatus for Image Analysis for Lighting Control - Camera images may be analyzed to identify perceptual control axes for a lighting system. These control axes may correspond to how human users perceive lighting scenes. A camera may capture high-dynamic-range images of a new room under various lighting conditions. Dimensionality-reduction may be applied to the images to create an image-based map. In this map, each datapoint may correspond to one of the images. The map may be transformed to align it with how human users perceive lighting scenes in the new room. The transformed map may be employed as a control space for the lighting system. In some cases, the map is created without gathering user ratings of lighting scenes for the new room. In other cases, creating the map involves gathering user ratings for as few as three lighting scenes for the new room. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029406 | FIBER OPTIC TWINKLING STAR PATTERNS BY MEANS OF LIGHT ENGINE AND SPECIALIZED OPTICS - Systems, methods, and apparatus for fiber optic lighting panels that produce twinkling star patterns by means of a light engine and specialized optics are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a disclosed panel for creating a lighted scene comprises a substrate comprising a first surface, a second surface spaced from the first surface, and a plurality of apertures through the first and second surfaces. The panel further comprises an optical lens disposed on the first surface within each of the apertures. Also, the panel comprises a light distribution unit (LDU) comprising a plurality of light sources coupled to the second surface. Further, the panel comprises a bundle of optical fibers coupled to each of the light sources, where each of the optical fibers is in communication with one of the optical lenses for transferring light emitted by the light sources to create the lighted scene. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029407 | LIGHT GUIDE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND GAME MACHINE - Provided is a light guide for achieving an appearance resembling a stainless-steel surface with polishing marks. A light guide ( | 2020-01-23 |
20200029408 | APP BASED FREE SETTING METHOD FOR SETTING OPERATING PARAMETER OF SECURITY LIGHT - An on line free setting method for setting an operating parameter of a lighting device is disclosed. The method involves using a user interface APP comprising at least one free setting algorithm preloaded in a mobile device to transform a user's setting decision into an operating variable of an operating parameter of the lighting device, wherein the user interface APP is operable on a touch screen panel of the mobile device; wherein the free setting algorithm is a capacity scale simulation process implemented by operating a visual configuration of a free setting operator interacting with a capacity scale simulator and an indicator of the capacity operating rate to facilitate making the user's setting decision, wherein the operating parameter is used for controlling various functional performances of the lighting device including light intensity, light color temperature, delay time and detection sensitivity. | 2020-01-23 |
20200029409 | SOLAR POWERED LIGHT ASSEMBLY TO PRODUCE LIGHT OF VARYING COLORS - A lighting device having a light diffuser and a circuit with at least two lamps of different colors mounted to direct light through a part of the light diffuser, and connections for at least one rechargeable battery to power said circuit. The circuit includes a light sub-circuit to independently control delivery of power to each of said lamps so as to vary the intensity of light emitted over time to produce a continuous color changing cycle. A spike is provided for positioning said connections above a ground surface. | 2020-01-23 |