Mitigating a local interference condition caused by concurrent transmissions in a multi-radio access technology and multi-connectivity environment

    公开(公告)号:US11876605B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-16

    申请号:US17311993

    申请日:2019-12-12

    Applicant: Google LLC

    CPC classification number: H04J11/005 H04L27/2601 H04W72/12 H04L27/2626

    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods directed to mitigating a local interference condition caused by concurrent transmissions in a multi-radio access technology and multi-connectivity environment. For a user equipment transmitting data in a multi-radio access technology/multi-connectivity environment, an interference manager application directs the user equipment to determine that an interference condition exists local to user equipment. The interference manager application directs the user equipment to determine a configuration of the user equipment wireless-communication hardware to mitigate the local interference condition and directs the user equipment to transmit a request message to a base station, causing the base station to configure wireless-communication hardware of the base station to receive data transmitted by the user equipment in accordance with the determined configuration of the user equipment wireless-communication hardware that mitigates the determined local interference condition.

    Smartphone charging station connectivity

    公开(公告)号:US11605972B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-14

    申请号:US16966825

    申请日:2019-05-23

    Applicant: Google LLC

    Abstract: This document describes methods, devices, and systems for configuring a smartphone (102) for network connectivity via a charging station (120), in which the smartphone (102) detects a connection or a coupling to the charging station (120). In response to the detection of the connection or coupling to the charging station (120), the smartphone (102) configures a WLAN transceiver (228) as a WLAN access point and forms a mesh WLAN network with one or more other WLAN access points (114). In other aspects, the charging station (120) detects the presence of the smartphone (102) that is connected or coupled to the charging station (120). In response to sensing the presence of the smartphone (102), the charging station (120) configures power and charging circuitry (244) to charge a battery of the smartphone (102) and configures WLAN radio circuitry (232) to relay WLAN communications for the smartphone (102).

    Beamforming enhancement via strategic resource utilization

    公开(公告)号:US11246143B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-08

    申请号:US15844093

    申请日:2017-12-15

    Applicant: Google LLC

    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and apparatuses for beamforming enhancement via strategic resource utilization. In some aspects, an air interface resource is used for exchanging wireless communications using one or more signal beams. In some implementations, end-user devices are classified into a beamforming state—such as active, idle, or inactive—based on an activity level with a base station. To facilitate antenna beamforming between the base station and an end-user device, opportunities for beamforming training are provided by strategically granting resource units based on one or more resource allocation rules. For example, both control and data information can be allocated together on the same frequencies for each end-user device. Also, an uplink or a downlink grant can be provided that precedes a downlink or an uplink allocation, respectively. In some implementations, the resource allocation rules are applied based on the beamforming state to which an end-user device has been classified.

    Enabling 5G NR Non-Standalone E-UTRAN Dual-Connectivity via Roaming

    公开(公告)号:US20210120468A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-22

    申请号:US17254486

    申请日:2019-06-25

    Applicant: Google LLC

    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques and systems for enabling fifth generation new radio (5G NR) non-standalone (NSA) evolved universal terrestrial radio access network new radio dual-connectivity (EN-DC) via dual-connectivity roaming These techniques enable a user device (110) connected to a first service-provider network (602) to dual-connectivity roam onto a second service-provider network (604). The user device (110) can access the second service-provider network (604) (e.g., to support EN-DC in a non-overlapping area of the first service-provider network) while using an anchor link of the first service-provider network (602). In one example, a user device (110) on a Long Term Evolution (LTE) service-provider network (602) can dual-connectivity roam onto a 5G NR service-provider network (604) while using an anchor link of the LTE service-provider network (602) to access the second 5G NR service-provider network (604) and communicate using EN-DC.

    Enabling Concurrent Use of Multiple Cellular Network Technologies

    公开(公告)号:US20200296787A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-17

    申请号:US16760672

    申请日:2018-11-09

    Applicant: Google LLC

    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including machine-readable media storing executable instructions, for enabling concurrent use of multiple cellular network technologies. In some implementations, a system includes a first wireless base station configured to support a first wireless connection providing uplink and downlink data transfer to a user device. The system includes a second wireless base station configured to support a second wireless connection providing at least downlink data transfer to the user device. The system includes a communication interface between the first wireless base station and the second wireless base station. The system includes a first scheduler, coupled to the first wireless base station, configured to schedule uplink timeslots such that the user device can use a single radio to concurrently communicate with the first wireless base station using the first wireless connection and with the second wireless base station using the second wireless connection.

    Wireless communication via a mobile relay

    公开(公告)号:US10715215B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-14

    申请号:US16518054

    申请日:2019-07-22

    Applicant: Google LLC

    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques and systems for wireless communication via a mobile relay. These techniques may include a user device that determines that a transceiver is unavailable for communicating with a base station via a wireless connection. The user device then uses a mobile relay to communicate with the base station while the transceiver is unavailable. The mobile relay may be used for transmitting or receiving data from the base station. Additionally or alternatively, the mobile relay may participate in the wireless connection as an external resource of the mobile device or may establish an independent wireless connection with the base station.

    Downlink-only fifth generation new radio

    公开(公告)号:US10477606B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-12

    申请号:US16359541

    申请日:2019-03-20

    Applicant: Google LLC

    Abstract: In aspects of downlink-only fifth generation new radio, a mobile communication device includes a radio frequency transceiver, a radio frequency receiver, and a processor and memory system to implement a radio control manager application that establishes an LTE anchor link with a base station using the LTE transceiver, establishes a 5G NR downlink from the base station to the mobile communication device using the radio frequency receiver, and manages the 5G NR downlink via an uplink of the LTE anchor link. In another aspect, a mobile communication device estimates channel conditions for a 5G NR downlink, selects a precoding matrix to beamform the 5G NR downlink, and provides an indication of the selected precoding matrix via the LTE anchor link.

    Network-Congestion Based Connection Manager
    48.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190342811A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-07

    申请号:US15972140

    申请日:2018-05-05

    Applicant: Google LLC

    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques and systems for selecting and connecting to a wireless-communication network based on network-congestion levels. These techniques and systems include a user device that monitors metrics of a WiFi wireless-communication network to determine a network-congestion level of the WiFi wireless-communication network. The user device also monitors other metrics of a Global System for Mobile (GSM) wireless-communication network to determine another network-congestion level. The user device then selects and connects to a preferred wireless-communication network, where the user device bases the selection on the determined network-congestion levels.

    Opportunistic Beamforming
    49.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190190577A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-20

    申请号:US15842241

    申请日:2017-12-14

    Applicant: Google LLC

    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and apparatuses for opportunistic beamforming for communication over preferred resources of a wireless network. A user device receives a signal from a plurality of antenna arrays of one or more base stations. The signal is transmitted, by the base stations, over a set of dedicated communication resources of a wireless network. Each of the base stations may dedicate a same set of resource elements for narrow-band communication with user devices outside of a standard range of a single antenna array. The user device determines a quality of the signal received over the dedicated communication resources and generates an index to identify preferred resources for communicating with the one or more base stations. The user device then communicates the index to the base stations to enable the base stations to establish a narrow-band wireless connection with the user device.

    Emergency Communication in a Wireless System
    50.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190141507A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-09

    申请号:US15986754

    申请日:2018-05-22

    Applicant: Google LLC

    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and apparatuses for enhancing emergency communications in a wireless system. Implementations can be realized with an end-user device, a base station, or a combination thereof. Described implementations facilitate the institution of emergency communications with a heightened level of reliability to increase the safety of an end-user that is relying on a wireless connection to make an emergency communication. Example implementations include local transmission priority elevation, automatic audio channel modification, transmission power boosting, end-user interaction control, modulation scheme adjustment, robust category selection, prioritized resource assignment, and so forth. In some aspects, an end-user device includes a transmission data buffer to store emergency communication data having a first priority level and other communication data having a second priority level. A transmission priority elevation module elevates the first priority level above the second priority level based on the first priority level being associated with the emergency communication data.

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