Qualcomm Incorporated

Ankit Maheshwari

Akash Kumar

Atul Soni

Sai Pradeep Venkatraman

Rimal Patel

Stephen William Edge

Shruti Agrawal

Parthasarathy Krishnamoorthy

Michael Franco Taveira

Subbarayudu Mutya

Revathi Sundara Raghavan

Ankur Maheshwari

Srinivasan Balasubramanian

Liangchi Hsu

Muthukumaran Dhanapal

Prashanth Hosabettu Mohan

Jifeng Geng

Shravan Kumar Raghunathan

Hargovind Prasad Bansal

Naveen Kumar Pasunooru

Raevanth Venkat Annam

Aritra Ukil

Sudarsan Krishnan

Praveen Kona

Qijia Liu

Niranjan Kumar Vadlamudi

Sri Rama Chakravarthy Vollala

Harish Balakrishnan

Parthiban Rajendran

Techniques are discussed herein for providing notification messages to a user are provided. An example method of providing an alert to a user in an environment with multiple devices includes determining a first notification device based at least in part on a location of the user and one or more notification preferences associated with the user, generating an alert message based at least in part on the first notification device, and sending the alert message to the first notification device.

User location aware smart event handling

Techniques are discussed herein for providing notification messages to a user are provided. An example method of sending an alert message includes receiving a notification from an alerting device, determining a notification recipient associated with the alerting device, determining a location and one or more notification preferences associated with the notification recipient, determining a notification device based on the location and the one or more notification preferences, and sending the alert message to the notification device, wherein the alert message includes an indication of at least one notification preference and the alerting device.

Techniques are discussed herein for providing notification messages to a user are provided. An example method of sending an alert message according to the disclosure includes receiving a notification message for a user, determining a location of the user, determining one or more notification devices based the location of the user, generating the alert message based on one or more notification preferences associated with the user and the one or more notification devices, and sending the alert message to at least one of the one or more notification devices based on the notification preferences.

Various embodiments include methods, devices, and systems of transporting a payload using a robotic vehicle. Various embodiments may include determining whether a payload is securely held by the robotic vehicle, and taking a corrective action in response to determining that the payload is not securely held by the robotic vehicle.

Robotic vehicle insecure pay load detection and response

Various embodiments include methods, devices, and systems of transporting a payload using a robotic vehicle. The methods may determine whether a payload has separated from the robotic vehicle and take a corrective action in response to determining that the payload is not securely held by the robotic vehicle.

Robotic vehicle separated payload detection and response

Apparatuses and methods for user equipment (UE) positioning are disclosed based on a coverage enhancement level or internal signaling delay for the UE. In one embodiment, a method at a UE may include receiving a request capabilities message from a server, determining one or more capabilities of the UE, where the one or more capabilities include at least one of information for at least one internal signaling path of the UE or information for a coverage enhancement level of the UE, sending a first response message to the server, where the first response message includes the one or more capabilities of the UE, receiving a request for location measurements from the server based at least in part on the one or more capabilities of the UE, obtaining the location measurements, and sending a second response message to the server, where the second response message comprises the location measurements.

Positioning of a mobile device using an enhanced exchange of capabilities

A method of supporting emergency services at a server includes: detecting an emergency condition; sending a first notification of the emergency condition to at least one mobile device; determining information for the at least one mobile device; determining a requirement to notify an emergency service provider based, at least in part, on the information for the at least one mobile device; and sending a second notification of the emergency condition to the emergency service provider in response to the requirement to notify the emergency service provider being determined.

Methods and systems for a connected building emergency service

Techniques for reducing the impact of specific absorption rate (SAR) based on a transmit power back-off value in multi-antenna mobile devices are provided. An example mobile device includes a first radio frequency resource associated with first specific absorption information, a second radio frequency resource associated with second specific absorption information, and a processor configured to generate a first signal associated with a first quality of service, generate a second signal associated with a second quality of service, cause the first signal to be transmitted over one of the first radio frequency resource and the second radio frequency resource based at least in part on the first specific absorption information and the second specific absorption information, and cause the second signal to be transmitted over whichever of the first radio frequency resource and the second radio frequency resource is not used to transmit the second signal.

Antenna selection mechanism to enhance user experience

Disclosed are systems and methods for navigating a mobile device based on network connectivity. An aspect includes calculating one or more routes from an origin location to a destination location based on first network connectivity information for a first subscription of a plurality of subscriptions of the mobile device and second network connectivity information for a second subscription of the plurality of subscriptions, providing the one or more routes and an indication of available network connectivity along each portion of the one or more routes based on the first and second network connectivity information, receiving a selection of one of the one or more routes, and setting, based on the first network connectivity information, the first subscription as an active subscription for the mobile device for a first portion of the selected route.

Enhanced navigation with crowd-sourced information

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for location determination at a mobile device comprising sending positioning capabilities of the mobile device to a location server, where the positioning capabilities comprise an identification of a partial Radio Frequency (RF) band that is contained within a complete RF band. The positioning capabilities indicate that the mobile device can measure the partial RF band but cannot measure the complete RF band. The mobile device may subsequently receive location assistance data from the location server, where the location assistance data comprises configuration information for at least one reference signal (RS) in the partial RF band. The mobile device may then obtain at least one location measurement from the at least one RS based on the configuration information, and sends location information to the location server, where the location information is based on the at least one location measurement.

Methods and systems for location determination of a mobile device using partial RF bands

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications. In some aspects, a device may determine a peak to average ratio (PAR) value for a portion of a wireless transmission. In some aspects, the device may cause, based on the PAR value, a voltage to be applied to a power amplifier of the device to cause the device to transmit the portion of the wireless transmission.

Techniques and apparatuses for peak to average ratio (PAR) based power management

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a plurality of resource block allocations corresponding to a plurality of carriers. The user equipment may identify a carrier, of the plurality of carriers, to be used for communication of at least one high priority communication based at least in part on a comparison of a plurality of frequencies corresponding to the plurality of resource block allocations. The user equipment may communicate the at least one high priority communication using the identified carrier. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Techniques and apparatuses for voice over long term evolution (VoLTE) call prioritization for multiple carriers

Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for wireless communication, and more specifically to opportunistic wide area network (WAN) and device to device (D2D) coexistence. According to certain aspects of the present disclosure, a method of wireless communications by an apparatus is provided. The method generally includes communicating with a base station using fewer wireless chains than supported by the apparatus, determining at least a first wireless chain of the wireless chains is available for communicating, and communicating, via device-to-device communications, with another apparatus using one of the at least a first wireless chain while communicating with the base station.

Opportunistic wide area network and device to device coexistence

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. A wireless communication device may determine a plurality of differential back-off values based at least in part on at least one of a set of parameter values relating to one or more of a plurality of uplink carriers associated with uplink carrier aggregation or any uplink grants associated with the plurality of uplink carriers. The plurality of differential back-off values may relate to a specific absorption rate (SAR) back-off or a thermal back-off of the wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may apply the plurality of differential back-off values to a respective plurality of transmit powers associated, respectively, with the plurality of uplink carriers.

Techniques and apparatuses for differential back-off for long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) uplink carrier aggregation (ULCA)

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for smart power saving at a user equipment (UE), comprising a first and second transmit chain. According to aspects, the UE may identify one or more subframes in which the second transmit chain is not scheduled for uplink (UL) transmissions, determine the first transmit chain is scheduled for UL transmissions during at least a portion of the identified subframes, and perform envelope tracking (ET) for a scheduled uplink transmission using, at least portions of the first and second transmit chains during the determined at least a portion of the identified subframes.

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Ankit Maheshwari