公开(公告)号：US20220077989A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-10

申请号：US17509429

申请日：2021-10-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Seunghee Han ,  Hwan-Joon Kwon ,  Gang Xiong

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/14

Abstract: Devices and methods of reducing overall Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) of user equipment (UE) using a large amount of carrier aggregation are generally described. The UE may receive a subframe from an enhanced NodeB (eNB). The subframe may contain a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) formed in accordance with a Downlink Control information (DCI) format. The DCI format may comprise a Downlink Assignment Index (DAI) for Time Division Duplexed (TDD) and Frequency Division Duplexed (FDD) operation. The UE may determine, dependent on the DAI, a number and ordering of Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) bits to be transmitted on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) and subsequently transmit the HARQ-ACK bits.

公开(公告)号：US11184128B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-23

申请号：US16536818

申请日：2019-08-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Seunghee Han ,  Hwan-Joon Kwon ,  Gang Xiong

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/14

Abstract: Devices and methods of reducing overall Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) of user equipment (UE) using a large amount of carrier aggregation are generally described. The UE may receive a subframe from an enhanced NodeB (eNB). The subframe may contain a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) formed in accordance with a Downlink Control information (DCI) format. The DCI format may comprise a Downlink Assignment Index (DAI) for Time Division Duplexed (TDD) and Frequency Division Duplexed (FDD) operation. The UE may determine, dependent on the DAI, a number and ordering of Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) bits to be transmitted on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) and subsequently transmit the HARQ-ACK bits.

公开(公告)号：US11184056B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-23

申请号：US17087444

申请日：2020-11-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dae Won Lee ,  Seunghee Han ,  Ajit Nimbalker ,  Alexei Davydov ,  Paul C. Wei ,  Dmitry Dikarev

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04B7/0413 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: Embodiments of a Generation Node-B (gNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication are generally described herein. The gNB may map data symbols to resource elements (REs) of virtual resource blocks (VRBs). The gNB may interleave the data symbols, on a per-VRB basis, to spatial layers of a multi-layer multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission. The data symbols may be interleaved based on different interleave patterns of VRB indexes for the spatial layers. The gNB may map the interleaved data symbols of the spatial layers to REs of physical resource blocks (PRBs) for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission.

公开(公告)号：US11140749B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-05

申请号：US16349556

申请日：2017-12-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Alexei Davydov ,  Wook Bong Lee ,  Dae Won Lee ,  Seunghee Han

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04B7/024 ,  H04B7/0417 ,  H04B7/0456 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), a generation Node-B (gNB) and methods for communication are generally described herein. The UE may the UE 102 may receive from a gNB, control signaling that indicates: a first pre-coding matrix indicator (PMI) that indicates a first pre-coder for a first sub-band; and a second PMI that indicates a second pre-coder for a second sub-band. The first and second pre-coders may be included in predetermined candidate pre-coders. The UE may encode a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) block for transmission. The UE may scale the PUSCH block in the first sub-band by the first pre-coder. The UE may scale the PUSCH block in the second sub-band by the second pre-coder.

公开(公告)号：US11140710B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-05

申请号：US16408378

申请日：2019-05-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Seunghee Han ,  Gang Xiong ,  Huaning Niu

IPC: H04W74/04 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L5/14 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04W40/30 ,  H04L12/825 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04B7/26 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W72/02 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W80/06 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W88/10 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses and methods for signal designs for device-to-device (D2D) subframes. Various embodiments may include a UE with a radio transceiver to communicate with another UE via D2D communications. The UE may further include processing circuitry to generate a cyclic prefix (CP) for a first or second symbol of a D2D subframe at an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) resource block or a single-carrier frequency-division multiple access (SC-FDMA) resource block. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

公开(公告)号：US11089651B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-10

申请号：US16376333

申请日：2019-04-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yongjun Kwak ,  Dae Won Lee ,  Gregory V. Morozov ,  Seunghee Han ,  Hong He ,  Candy Yiu ,  Kyeongin Jeong

IPC: H04W88/02 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04W52/00

Abstract: An apparatus is configured for a user equipment (UE) device. The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry and/or application circuitry which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to generate a physical random access channel (PRACH) within a slot at a medium access control (MAC) layer, generate a scheduling request (SR) within the slot at the MAC layer, determine a PRACH prioritization and an SR prioritization at a physical layer according to a prioritization rule; and provide the PRACH and the SR to the RF interface for transmission according to the prioritization rule.

公开(公告)号：US11039334B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-15

申请号：US16153584

申请日：2018-10-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Seunghee Han ,  Gang Xiong ,  Alexey Khoryaev

IPC: H04W28/02 ,  G01S5/02 ,  H04B7/26 ,  H04J13/00 ,  H04J3/02 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L5/14 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/04 ,  H04W4/14 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W28/12

Abstract: Technology for transmitting physical broadcast channel (PBCH) contents is disclosed. An evolved node B (eNB) may configure one or more repetitions of PBCH content for transmission, to a user equipment (UE), from a cell at a selected time interval. The eNB may select a scrambling code for the one or more repetitions of PBCH content transmitted from the cell. The eNB may apply the scrambling code to one or more repetitions of PBCH content.

公开(公告)号：US20210112516A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-15

申请号：US17099969

申请日：2020-11-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Seunghee Han ,  Shafi Bashar ,  Yuan Zhu ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04W64/00 ,  H04J11/00 ,  G01S1/20 ,  G01S3/48 ,  G01S5/00 ,  G01S5/10 ,  G01S5/12 ,  G01S5/02

Abstract: User equipment (UE), an enhanced NodeB (eNB) and method of improving positioning accuracy and enabling vertical domain positioning of the UE are generally described. The UE may receive a prsInfo control signal having at least one PRS configuration and subsequently a plurality of Reference Signals (RSs). The RSs may have a first Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) pattern in a first set of PRS subframes and a second PRS pattern in a second set of PRS subframes received prior to a subsequent first set of PRS subframes. The RSs may have a vertical positioning RS and a lateral positioning RS. The UE may measure PRS resource elements (REs), each having a PRS, in the first and second PRS pattern. The UE may transmit a measurement of the PRS in the first and second PRS pattern. The patterns may enable horizontal and vertical positioning to be determined.

公开(公告)号：US10952188B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-16

申请号：US16406808

申请日：2019-05-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ralf Matthias Bendlin ,  Gang Xiong ,  Jong-Kae Fwu ,  Hong He ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Seunghee Han ,  Yuan Zhu

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04B1/7143 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) over an OFDMA-based uplink. In some embodiments, UCI symbols are mapped to resource elements (REs) in the time/frequency resource grid to maximize frequency diversity. In some embodiments, UCI is mapped in a manner that takes into account channel estimation performance by mapping UCI symbols to those REs that are closest (in terms of OFDM subcarriers/symbols) to REs that carry reference signals.

公开(公告)号：US10931425B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-23

申请号：US15759034

申请日：2015-12-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Seunghee Han ,  Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov ,  Gang Xiong

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/16 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: Future LTE systems will support massive carrier aggregation that necessitates transmission of a large number of acknowledgement signals (HARQ-ACKs) in response to downlink data transmitted over multiple component carriers. Described herein are methods for HARQ-ACK transmission over the PUCCH (physical uplink control channel) that relate to HARQ-ACK codebook size adaptation, DAI (downlink assignment index) design options, HARQ-ACK bit channel coding and interleaving, and, frequency hopping configuration for a new PUCCH format.