V2X network assisted side-Link reconfiguration after failure of a PC5 data link
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267747
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for network assisted side-link resource configuration for unicast and/or multi-cast/groupcast communications in V2X networks. A UE may, after establishing an RRC connection with a base station, transmit, to the base station, V2X connection information. The V2X connection information may include a V2X identifier associated with the UE and a V2X identifier associated with a target UE. The UE may receive,…
User equipment operating as relay via a sidelink connection
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267909
A first user equipment (UE) is capable of serving as a relay for a second UE using a sidelink connection. The first UE determines that a predetermined condition is satisfied, the predetermined condition associated with the first UE operating as a relay for a second UE, transmits a discovery message and monitors for a signal from the second UE in response to the discovery message.
RNA updating in SDT procedure
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267903
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform a method for supporting a periodical radio access network (RAN) notification area (RNA) mechanism when small data transmission (SDT) is enabled for a user equipment device (UE). The method may include the UE receiving, from a base station, an indication enabling an SDT procedure along with an indication of an RNA timer configuration, transitioning, to a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state, and…
Techniques in measurement gap configuration in new radio (NR) related communications
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267897
Embodiments include methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for measurement gap (MG) configuration in an E-UTRA (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access)-New radio dual connectivity (EN-DC) network, and other new radio (NR) related networks. Various embodiments describe how to configure a measurement gap (MG) based on various conditions in a network, which may include, but are not limited to, different MG types, operating frequencies and modes in the network, timing…
SRS-switching enhancements for mitigating the impact of conflict and blanking
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267882
Reporting potential impacts of sounding reference signal-switching (SRS-switching) to a base station may include determining that SRS-switching is to be performed by a UE. Based on determining that SRS-switching is to be performed, potential impacts to one or more of a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs) caused by performing SRS-switching while sharing radio frequency (RF) front-ends (RFFE) between at least a subset of the plurality of RATS may be processed. The potential…
Allocation of resources for preamble and payload of messages in a 2-step random access (RA) procedure in new radio (NR) systems
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267880
Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive, from a gNB, configuration information related to a 2-step random access (RA) procedure between the UE and the gNB in unlicensed spectrum. The 2-step RA procedure may include: an uplink MsgA message that includes, within a random access occasion (RO), a MsgA preamble and a MsgA payload; and a downlink MsgB message that includes, within another…
COT sharing procedure for configured grants in NR systems operating on unlicensed spectrum
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267814
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a wireless communication system in an unlicensed spectrum. A user equipment (UE) device of the wireless communication system includes a processor circuitry and radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to acquire a channel occupancy time (COT) in the unlicensed spectrum, and determine a number of remaining consecutive subframes allocated for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH)…
Network (NW) techniques for constraints on simultaneous use of network slices
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267800
Techniques discussed herein facilitate configuration of network slices for a User Equipment (UE) supporting constraints on simultaneous operation of slices. Such a technique may comprise: receiving a registration request message to request registration on a set of requested network slices; registering the UE to a set of allowed network slices; and generating a registration accept message for transmission indicating the UE is registered to the set of allowed network slices, wherein the…
Uplink transmit switching with multiple timing advance groups
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267798
This application relates to wireless communications, including methods and apparatus to manage uplink (UL) transmit switching with multiple timing advance groups (TAGs) for wireless devices. A wireless device is configured to use multiple carriers selected from a set of available carriers that can be associated with different TAGs. When a second set of carriers, used after switching from a first set of carriers, includes carriers that belong to different TAGs, the wireless device…
MLD privacy and operation enhancements
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267766
Methods for performing robust discovery of a new access point (AP) in AP MLD, robust link addition to an AP MLD association, AP beaconing modes when the AP is added or deleted to/from an AP MLD, and robust BSS transition management (BTM) signaling to steer a non-AP MLD to a best AP MLD and to most suitable APs, as well as privacy improvements for associated non-AP MLD.
Environment adaptive content
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266069
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide extended reality (XR) environments that include virtual content anchored to objects within physical environments. Such objects may be movable objects. In some implementations, the virtual content is adaptive in that the virtual content is presented based on a characteristic of the movable object. For example, a virtual game piece may be scaled, shaped, etc. to match a physical game piece to which…
Mitigating the degradation of quality of a multimedia data stream at a remote endpoint
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267744
A user equipment (UE) configured to establish a multimedia data stream with a further UE, identify a predetermined condition, wherein the predetermined condition indicates a decrease in quality of the multimedia data stream at the further UE and implement a mechanism to mitigate the degradation of the decrease in quality of the multimedia data stream at the further UE.
User-equipment-based mobility optimization
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267736
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for user equipment (UE)-based mobility optimization are described herein, including machine learning (ML)-assisted techniques.
User equipment network slice information storage and packet data unit session establishment for new radio
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267721
A user equipment (UE) is configured to store information related to network slices. The UE receives network slice related information associated with a first public land mobile network (PLMN), stores the network slice related information in a database locally at the UE, identifies a predetermined condition and removes at least a portion of the network slice information associated with the first PLMN based on camping on a second PLMN and the predetermined condition.
Scaling factor for new radio gap based measurement
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267713
Systems and methods are described for configuring cell identification requirements for a user equipment (UE). The systems and methods can include at least determining a number of measurement objects (MOs) that collide with a target MO for the UE, determining a scaling factor to be used for an inter-frequency cell identification requirement, and transmitting to the UE an indication of the scaling factor.
End-to-end (E2E) performance measurements in 5G networks
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267712
An apparatus of a management service equipment includes processing circuitry. To configure the management service equipment for E2E performance measurements in a 5G network with a plurality of network functions (NFs), the processing circuitry is to decode RAN latency received from a RAN within the 5G network. The RAN latency is associated with transmission of an Internet protocol (IP) packet between a UE and a data network (DN) via the RAN. A user plane function (UPF) latency associated…
Method for beam failure recovery based on unified TCI framework
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267702
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for beam failure recovery based on a unified TCI framework. A UE may receive, from a base station, a configuration for a BFR procedure for a CCG. The CCG may include at least two CCs and the UE may periodically receive, from the base station, at least a first BFD RS and a first CBD RS in a first CC included in the CCG. The UE may detect, based on the first BFD RS, a beam failure in at least the first CC and send, to the base station, a BFRQ. The BFRQ may…
Computer-generated supplemental content for video
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266170
Implementations of the subject technology provide systems and methods for displaying virtual content that is supplemental to video content being displayed to a user. The virtual content can be generated based on the video content being displayed, including based on scene content obtained for the video content and/or detected in the video content. The scene content can be identified, by the device providing the supplemental virtual content, in real time during playback of the video…
In-tree geometry quantization of point clouds
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266141
An example method includes receiving a plurality of points that represent a point cloud; representing a position of the point in each dimension of a three-dimensional space as a sequence of bits, where the position of the point is encoded according to a tree data structure; partitioning at least one of the sequences of bits into a first portion of bits and a second portion of bits; quantizing each of the second portions of bits according to a quantization step size, where the…
Machine learning-based blood flow tracking
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266106
Rendering an avatar may include determining an expression to be represented by an avatar, obtaining a blood texture map associated with the expression, wherein the blood texture map represents an offset of coloration from an albedo map for the expression, and rendering the avatar utilizing the blood texture map.
