公开(公告)号：US20190306793A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-03

申请号：US16442730

申请日：2019-06-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tianyan Pu ,  Sai Sravan Bharadwaj Karri ,  Wei Zhang ,  Swaminathan Balakrishnan ,  Xiantao Sun ,  Beibei Wang ,  Manish G. Vemulapalli ,  Jia Tang ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Zhu Ji ,  Sachin J. Sane

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04B7/0456

Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for opportunistically depowering receiver chains of a wireless device. Based on control information, a device may determine whether the current number of active receiver chains can be reduced while maintaining a target achievable code rate for a period of data reception associated with the control information. Additionally, the device may generate and use a lookup table to determine whether to depower receiver chains, and which receiver chains to depower.

公开(公告)号：US20190281652A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-12

申请号：US16295517

申请日：2019-03-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wei Zhang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Junsung Lim ,  Haitong Sun ,  Wei Zeng ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Yang Li ,  Zhu Ji ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Johnson O. Sebeni

IPC: H04W76/28 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/25 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a base station to perform a method construct dynamic hierarchical sub-configurations of bandwidth parts (BWPs) for use in a connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRX) communication session with a user equipment (UE) device. The base station may configure a first BWP at a baseband frequency associated with the CDRX communication session as a default BWP, a second BWP with a wider bandwidth than the first BWP as a transmission BWP, and one or more third BWPs as resting BWPs. The transmission BWP and the one or more resting BWPs may be configured to periodically override the default BWP as the active BWP for a predetermined number of CDRX cycles. The transmission BWP may be utilized, when activated to perform data transmission by UE device, and the one or more resting BWPs may be utilized, when activated, for performing channel measurements.

公开(公告)号：US20190239254A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16376370

申请日：2019-04-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Li Su ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Venkateswara Rao Manepalli

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04H20/38 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04J11/00 ,  H04W76/27

Abstract: Mechanisms enabling link-budget-limited (LBL) devices to more effectively perform random access may include: (1) broadcasting a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) configuration index (PCI) reserved for LBL devices; (2) configuring LBL devices to use a PCI that is offset from the conventional PCI of current cell; (3) configuring LBL devices to transmit PRACH messages using an alternative set of subframes, different from conventionally-defined subframe set; (4) configuring LBL devices to transmit PRACH messages on odd frames when the conventional PRACH configuration specifies even frames; (5) configuring LBL devices to generate and use extra PRACH preambles that are not used by non-LBL devices; (6) configuring LBL devices to use group B preambles while non-LBL devices are configured to use group A preambles; and (7) boosting power of a random access response message after an Nth random access failure with preamble conforming to an LBL-reserved pattern of preambles.

公开(公告)号：US20190239185A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16378605

申请日：2019-04-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Li Su ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Venkateswara Rao Manepalli ,  Srinivas Burugupalli ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi ,  Stephan V. Schell

IPC: H04W68/00 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W68/02 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/28

CPC classification number: H04W68/005 ,  H04W64/003 ,  H04W68/02 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/048 ,  H04W76/28

Abstract: Various mechanisms for paging link-budget-limited (LBL) devices are disclosed, including: (1) transmitting paging message with non-conventional paging identifier; (2) transmitting paging message(s) with increased power; (3) repeating transmission of paging message to support combining at receiver. Various mechanisms for UE device to signal LBL status are disclosed, including, transmitting status flag or special value of DRX cycle to network node as part of tracking area update and/or attach request. The network node informs a base station of the device's LBL status as part of a paging message. (The network node may, e.g., assign an S-RNTI to the LBL device from a reserved subset of S-RNTI space.) The base station invokes a paging enhancement mechanism when paging an LBL device. Alternatively, the base station may page UE devices without knowledge of LBL status, e.g., by counting paging attempts for a given UE, and boosting power after the Nth paging attempt.

公开(公告)号：US10219221B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-26

申请号：US15839252

申请日：2017-12-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Li Su ,  Stephan V. Schell ,  Jianxiong Shi ,  Sami M. Almalfouh

IPC: H04L12/28 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04J3/16 ,  H04W72/02

Abstract: In some embodiments, a user equipment device (UE) implements improved communication methods which include radio resource time multiplexing, dynamic sub-frame allocation, and UE transmit duty cycle control. In some embodiments, the UE may communicate with base stations using radio frames that include multiple sub-frames, transmit information regarding allocation of a portion of the sub-frames of a respective radio frame for each of a plurality of the radio frames, and transmit and receive data using allocated sub-frames and not using unallocated sub-frames. In some embodiments, the UE may operate according to a sub-frame allocation based on its current power state. The UE may transmit information to the base station and receive the sub-frame allocation based on at least the information. In some embodiments, the UE may switch transmit duty cycles based on an occurrence of a condition at the UE. The UE may inform the network of the switch.

公开(公告)号：US10200897B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-05

申请号：US15476632

申请日：2017-03-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Li Su ,  Sai Sravan Bharadwaj Karri ,  Chiranjeevi M. Kosuri ,  Karthik Chockalingam ,  Swaminathan Balakrishnan

IPC: H04W24/08 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04B17/336

Abstract: This disclosure relates to radio link monitoring techniques. According to some embodiments, a wireless device may establish a radio link with a cellular base station according to a radio access technology. The base station may provide reference signals, control signals, and data signals to the wireless device via the radio link. The wireless device may perform radio link monitoring of the radio link using characteristics of decoding performance for one or more of the control signals and the data signals. Performing radio link monitoring of the radio link may include determining whether the radio link is in-sync or out-of-sync and determining whether radio link failure has occurred.

公开(公告)号：US20180368153A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-20

申请号：US15969653

申请日：2018-05-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yang Li ,  Wei Zeng ,  Zhu Ji ,  Beibei Wang ,  Jia Tang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Haijing Hu ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Xiangying Yang ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Wei Zhang ,  Tianyan Pu

IPC: H04W72/12

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform simultaneous uplink activity for multiple RATs in the same carrier using frequency division multiplexing. The wireless device may establish a first wireless link with a first base station according to a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second wireless link with a second base station according to a second RAT. The first base station may provide a first cell operating in a first system bandwidth and the second base station may provide a second cell operating in a second system bandwidth. The wireless device may determine whether the wireless device has uplink activity scheduled according to both the first RAT and the second RAT. If so, the wireless device may perform uplink activity for both the first RAT and the second RAT in the first system bandwidth using frequency division multiplexing.

公开(公告)号：US10085213B1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-25

申请号：US15595465

申请日：2017-05-15

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Srirang A. Lovlekar ,  Venkateswara Rao Manepalli ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Li Su ,  Jianxiong Shi ,  Daniel D. Schucker ,  Ajoy K. Singh ,  Vijay Venkataraman

IPC: H04W24/00 ,  H04W52/02 ,  G06F1/16

CPC classification number: H04W52/0229 ,  G06F1/1698 ,  H04W52/0261 ,  Y02D70/00 ,  Y02D70/10 ,  Y02D70/12 ,  Y02D70/126 ,  Y02D70/1262 ,  Y02D70/142 ,  Y02D70/144 ,  Y02D70/21 ,  Y02D70/23 ,  Y02D70/24 ,  Y02D70/26

Abstract: A device, system, and method uses a high power mode for a cellular connection. The method is performed at a device that is configured to establish a network connection to a network. The method includes detecting a number of at least one event that has occurred over a time period, the at least one event associated with operations used through the network connection, the at least one event indicative of a power to perform the operations that is greater than a predetermined power. When the number is at least a predetermined threshold, the method includes identifying the network connection as being in a high power state. The method includes activating settings when the network connection is in the high power state, the settings reducing a usage of the operations over the network connection.

公开(公告)号：US10039148B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-31

申请号：US14868288

申请日：2015-09-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ajoy K. Singh ,  Paul V. Flynn ,  Wen Zhao ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Sanil H. Fulani ,  William S. Burchill

IPC: G01R31/08 ,  H04L5/14 ,  H04L12/28 ,  H04J3/00 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W76/02 ,  H04W88/06

CPC classification number: H04W76/15 ,  H04W88/06

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may be configured to effectively manage coexistence of multiple radio access technologies (RATs) on the device. Respective controllers responsible for at least partially managing wireless communications according to corresponding respective RATs may communicate to each other expected data transfer patterns that take place over their respective communications links, including application-specific data transfer patterns and data-transfer-mechanism-specific data transfer patterns. The RAT controllers may manage their respective data transfers according to the expected data-transfer pattern information associated with the other RATs received from each in order to prevent data transmission by the device over one RAT link interfering with data transmission of the device over another RAT link. The expected data pattern information may be sent in messaging of a specific type with indexes determined based at least on a status of the data transfer mechanism and a connectivity status of the UE device.

公开(公告)号：US09979509B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-22

申请号：US15191574

申请日：2016-06-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Li Su ,  Jianxiong Shi ,  Sami M. Almalfouh

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L5/00

CPC classification number: H04L1/0038 ,  H04L1/0046 ,  H04L1/0072 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: A wireless communication device (UE) may reliably decode control information during wireless cellular communications. The UE may decode the Physical Control Format Indicator Channel (PCFICH) for a given wireless network, and if the decode is unsuccessful, the UE may perform a blind decode of the PCFICH. The UE may decode, for the network, a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) for a current subframe using a specified control format indicator (CFI) value. If the decode of the PDCCH is successful, the UE may communicate over the NW, using the specified CFI value. If the decode for the current subframe is unsuccessful, the UE may decode the PDCCH for a different next subframe using a different CFI value until the PDCCH for the NW has been successfully decoded. The CFI value may be specified based at least on common signaling present in certain subframes received by the UE.