公开(公告)号：US20220124542A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-21

申请号：US17423704

申请日：2020-01-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qian Li ,  Binita Gupta ,  Carlos Cordeiro ,  Puneet Jain ,  Necati Canpolat ,  Sangeetha L. Bangolae ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W28/02

Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for mechanisms to converge the Wi-Fi access network with the 5G New Radio (NR) access network within the radio access network. Some embodiments are direct to a base station (BS) apparatus. The BS apparatus can include at least a cellular distributed unit (DU); a cellular central unit Communicating with a 5G core network (5GC) via a (CU), coupled to the cellular DU; a wireless local area network (WLAN) CU, coupled to a WLAN DU; and the WLAN CU, coupled to the cellular CU.

公开(公告)号：US12289639B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-29

申请号：US17596618

申请日：2020-06-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Binita Gupta ,  Qian Li ,  Jing Zhu ,  Sangeetha L Bangolae ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Puneet Jain ,  Necati Canpolat ,  Carlos Cordeiro ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W28/06 ,  H04W28/086 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: A next generation NodeB (gNB) implements a radio access network (RAN) convergence functionality for new radio (NR) and wireless local area network (WLAN) access, the gNB further implementing a split architecture comprising a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU) for each of the NR access and WLAN access. The gNB receives a data packet for transmission to a user equipment (UE) implementing the RAN convergence functionality, the data packet comprising one of a control plane (CP) packet or a user plane (UP) packet. The gNB splits the data packet via a convergence layer residing on the NR CU or a convergence layer residing on the WLAN CU and transmits the split data packet over the NR access and the WLAN access.

公开(公告)号：US10784947B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-22

申请号：US16379047

申请日：2019-04-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yang Tang ,  Shuang Tian ,  Andrey Chervyakov ,  Jie Cui ,  Hua Li ,  Dmitry Belov ,  Carlos Cordeiro ,  Geng Wu ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Puneet Jain ,  Qian Li ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Anthony Lee ,  Seau S. Lim

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W24/08

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE receive training signals from a plurality of transmit-receive points (TRPs) associated with the gNB. Each training signal may comprise a reference signal resource identifier (ID) to indicate a corresponding TRP and a corresponding transmit direction of a plurality of transmit directions. The UE may, for each transmit direction of the plurality of transmit directions, determine an average signal quality measurement based on individual signal quality measurements in multiple receive directions. The UE may select, for reporting to the gNB, a subset of the average signal quality measurements to ensure that the average signal quality measurements excluded from the subset are less than or equal to a minimum value of the average signal quality measurements in the subset.

公开(公告)号：US12058555B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-06

申请号：US17423704

申请日：2020-01-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qian Li ,  Binita Gupta ,  Carlos Cordeiro ,  Puneet Jain ,  Necati Canpolat ,  Sangeetha L. Bangolae ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W28/02 ,  H04W84/12

CPC classification number: H04W28/02 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for mechanisms to converge the Wi-Fi access network with the 5G New Radio (NR) access network within the radio access network. Some embodiments are direct to a base station (BS) apparatus. The BS apparatus can include at least a cellular distributed unit (DU); a cellular central unit Communicating with a 5G core network (5GC) via a (CU), coupled to the cellular DU; a wireless local area network (WLAN) CU, coupled to a WLAN DU; and the WLAN CU, coupled to the cellular CU.

公开(公告)号：US10701641B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-30

申请号：US16159236

申请日：2018-10-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Navid Naderializadeh ,  Hosein Nikopour ,  Shilpa Talwar ,  Oner Orhan ,  Bahareh Sadeghi ,  Carlos Cordeiro ,  Hassnaa Moustafa

IPC: H04W52/24 ,  H04W52/28 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W72/08 ,  H04W52/34 ,  H04L12/70 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04B17/373

Abstract: Aspects for interference mitigation in ultra-dense networks are described.

公开(公告)号：US11012847B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-18

申请号：US16548528

申请日：2019-08-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Emily H. Qi ,  Carlos Cordeiro ,  Po-Kai Huang ,  David J. McCall ,  Robert D. Hughes

IPC: H04W8/00 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04W76/23 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04W88/06

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for a wireless communication device switching between lower energy and higher energy wireless communication techniques are disclosed. The wireless communication device includes processing circuitry to: receive a packet in accordance with a lower energy wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) network communication technique from a service provider wireless device, wherein the packet indicates one or more services provided by the service provider wireless device. The processing circuitry may be further to: determine to switch to a higher energy wireless P2P communication technique to communicate with the service provider wireless device based on a determination that a target service is provided by the service provider wireless device. The processing circuitry may be further to: perform a connectivity setup with the provider wireless device to use the target service in accordance with the higher energy wireless P2P communication technique.

公开(公告)号：US20200322896A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-08

申请号：US16896981

申请日：2020-06-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Navid Naderializadeh ,  Hosein Nikopour ,  Shilpa Talwar ,  Oner Orhan ,  Bahareh Sadeghi ,  Carlos Cordeiro ,  Hassnaa Moustafa

IPC: H04W52/24 ,  H04W52/28 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W72/08 ,  H04W52/34 ,  H04L12/70

Abstract: Aspects for interference mitigation in ultra-dense networks are described. Configuration information for at least one co-located hotspot may be determined based on information received from a respective UE of a plurality of UEs and the configuration information may be provided to the at least one co-located hotspot. The configuration information may include an identifier for a channel on which the at least one co-located hotspot is to operate and/or a duration for which the configuration information is to remain valid.