公开(公告)号：US11849413B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-19

申请号：US17950468

申请日：2022-09-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ajit Nimbalker ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr ,  Sergey Panteleev ,  Gang Xiong ,  Alexey Vladimirovich Khoryaev ,  Mikhail Shilov ,  Sergey Sosnin ,  Andrey Chervyakov

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W4/40 ,  H04W72/23 ,  H04W88/02

CPC classification number: H04W56/001 ,  H04L5/001 ,  H04L5/0048 ,  H04W4/40 ,  H04W72/23 ,  H04L5/0005 ,  H04L5/0007 ,  H04L5/0051 ,  H04L5/0094 ,  H04L5/0098 ,  H04W88/02

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The UE may attempt to decode sidelink synchronization signals (SLSSs) received on component carriers (CCs) of a carrier aggregation. In one configuration, synchronization resources for SLSS transmissions may be aligned across the CCs at subframe boundaries in time, restricted to a portion of the CCs, and restricted to a same sub-frame. The UE may, for multiple CCs, determine a priority level for the CC based on indicators in the SLSSs received on the CC. The UE may select, from the CCs on which one or more SLSSs are decoded, the CC for which the determined priority level is highest. The UE may determine a reference timing for sidelink communication based on the one or more SLSSs received on the selected CC.

公开(公告)号：US11832264B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-28

申请号：US16466446

申请日：2018-06-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gang Xiong ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Joonyoung Cho ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Sergey Panteleev ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W74/04 ,  H04W72/23 ,  H04W84/04 ,  H04W88/08

CPC classification number: H04W72/23 ,  H04L5/0053 ,  H04W84/042 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: An apparatus, method, system and machine-readable medium. The apparatus may be an apparatus of a New Radio (NR) gNodeB or of a NR User Equipment (UE), and may include a memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry for the apparatus of the gNodeB is to: configure a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs) associated with respective numerologies; determine a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including downlink control information (DCI), the DCI including information on scheduled resources including BWP index for a data transmission to or from a User Equipment (UE), the data transmission to occupy one of the plurality of BWPs or multiple ones of the plurality of BWPs; encode the PDCCH for transmission; and process the data transmission based on the DCI. The apparatus of the NR UE is to: process a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from a NR gNodeB, the PDCCH including downlink control information (DCI) indicating scheduled resources for a data transmission to or from the UE, the data transmission to occupy one or multiple ones of a plurality of BWPs configured by the gNodeB; and process the data transmission based on the DCI.

公开(公告)号：US11805432B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-31

申请号：US17643538

申请日：2021-12-09

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Yongjun Kwak ,  Gang Xiong ,  Hong He ,  Yujian Zhang ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Honglei Miao ,  Bharat Shrestha

IPC: H04W24/08 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W84/04 ,  H04W88/02

CPC classification number: H04W24/08 ,  H04L5/0053 ,  H04L5/0048 ,  H04L5/0091 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W84/042 ,  H04W88/02

Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE), operable for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is disclosed. The UE can monitor a downlink (DL) control channel for DL control information (DCI) at a predetermined monitoring occasion, wherein the predetermined monitoring occasion has a periodicity of P slots or P symbols with an offset Os. The UE can monitor a downlink (DL) control channel for DL control information (DCI) at a predetermined monitoring occasion, wherein Os has an offset with respect to a first slot in subframe number zero (SFN #0). The UE can monitor a downlink (DL) control channel for DL control information (DCI) at a predetermined monitoring occasion, wherein P is a positive integer greater than zero.

公开(公告)号：US11695529B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-04

申请号：US16797956

申请日：2020-02-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W48/00 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W48/12 ,  H04W68/02 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04W76/28

CPC classification number: H04L5/0053 ,  H04L5/0048 ,  H04L5/0094 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W48/00 ,  H04W48/12 ,  H04W68/02 ,  H04W68/005 ,  H04W76/28

Abstract: This disclosure relates to implementations to support non-UE-specific (i.e. common) and UE-specific search spaces (SS) for M-PDCCH. One implementation relates to a UE comprising RF circuitry to receive, from an eNB, configuration information of one or a plurality of common Search Spaces (CSSs) for M-PDCCH; and baseband circuitry to monitor the one or more configured CSS for M-PDCCH transmissions; wherein the RF circuitry and/or baseband circuitry is adapted to support a reduced bandwidth (BW). Another implementation relates to an eNB comprising RF circuitry to transmit configuration information of a plurality of CSSs for M-PDCCH to one or more UEs supporting a reduced BW, wherein the plurality of CSSs for M-PDCCH are differentiated by “based on functionality”-differentiation that includes the type of use case and/or an EC level of the UE.

公开(公告)号：US11595925B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-28

申请号：US17397849

申请日：2021-08-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Salvatore Talarico ,  Qiaoyang Ye ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Seunghee Han ,  Dae Won Lee

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04J11/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26

Abstract: Embodiments of efeMTC synchronization signals for enhanced cell search and enhanced system information acquisition are described. In some embodiments, an apparatus of a base station (BS) is configured to generate a length-x sequence for an efeMTC synchronization signal, the length-x sequence configured for repetition in frequency domain within 6 physical resource blocks (PRB). In some embodiments, to generate the length-x sequence, the BS may be configured to select any one index of the set of root indices {1, 2, 63}, excluding the root indices 25, 29 and 34, to correspond to a different physical-layer cell identity (PCID). In some embodiments, the BS may be configured to encode RRC signaling to include a System Information Block (SIB) comprising configuration information for transmission of the efeMTC synchronization signal, and transmit the length-x sequence as the efeMTC synchronization signal in frequency resources according to the SIB.

公开(公告)号：US20230047403A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-16

申请号：US17968863

申请日：2022-10-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gang Xiong ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr ,  Toufiqul Islam ,  Sergey Panteleev

IPC: H04L1/18 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: A device of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method and a machine readable medium to implement the method. The device includes a Radio Frequency (RF) interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the RF interface, the processing circuitry to: determine that the UE is configured with a feature of multiple Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources with HARQ-ACK feedback within a slot; determine a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource to carry Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback in response to a scheduled Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) resource; and encode for transmission to a NR evolved NodeB (gNodeB) the PUCCH resource, the PUCCH resource to carry the HARQ-ACK feedback and: another PUCCH resource carrying Uplink Control Information (UCI) other than HARQ-ACK feedback, and a scheduled Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resource.

公开(公告)号：US11528733B2

公开(公告)日：2022-12-13

申请号：US17075562

申请日：2020-10-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Hong He ,  Seung Hee Han

IPC: H04W72/14 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: A method of support of aggressive user equipment (UE) minimum processing times for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) processing and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) preparation in new radio (NR) is disclosed. The method includes indicating or causing to indicate a capability from the UE to the network in the form of capability reporting for support of Capability 2 processing times, and multiplexing or causing to multiplex scheduling instances with Capabilities 1 or 2 based on the indication. The method also includes applying or causing to apply a relaxation to the minimum UE processing times, N1, indicating time between end of PDSCH to earliest start of corresponding hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) feedback transmission when the PDSCH has specific durations and/or mapping types or has time-domain overlaps with the scheduling physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). A corresponding apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium are also disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US11516789B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-29

申请号：US16638086

申请日：2018-08-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Seunghee Han ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Qiaoyang Ye

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive, from a gNB, a narrowband physical downlink control channel (NPDCCH) that indicates a number of narrowband internet-of-things (NB-IoT) downlink subframes for a downlink scheduling delay of a narrowband physical downlink shared channel (NPDSCH) in one or more radio frames configured for time-division duplexing (TDD) operation. Subframes of the one or more radio frames may include uplink subframes, NB-IoT downlink subframes for downlink NB-IoT transmissions, and downlink subframes for other downlink transmissions. The UE may determine the downlink scheduling delay based on an earliest subframe for which a count of NB-IoT downlink subframes is equal to the number of NB-IoT downlink subframes indicated in the NPDCCH.

公开(公告)号：US11432278B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-30

申请号：US16953769

申请日：2020-11-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexei Davydov ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Hong He ,  Gang Xiong ,  Hwan-Joon Kwon

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W28/22 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: An apparatus configured to be employed in a gNodeB associated with a new radio (NR) communication system that support resource sharing between NR physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and NR physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a processing circuit configured to generate a PDSCH dynamic rate matching resource set configuration signal comprising information on one or more overlap resource sets, wherein each the one or more overlap resource sets comprises time-frequency resources on which any overlapping PDSCH may or may not be mapped, based on an indication provided within a PDSCH rate matching indicator signal. The apparatus further comprises a radio frequency (RF) interface, configured to provide the generated PDSCH dynamic rate matching resource set configuration signal, to an RF circuitry, in order to subsequently provide the PDSCH dynamic rate matching resource set configuration signal to a user equipment (UE), in order to enable the UE to identify the one or more overlap resource sets.

公开(公告)号：US11356828B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-07

申请号：US16637239

申请日：2018-08-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qiaoyang Ye ,  Debdeep Chatterjee

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04B1/713 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L5/14 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W74/08

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive a narrowband physical downlink control channel (NPDCCH) that includes an uplink scheduling parameter. The UE may determine an uplink scheduling delay for transmission of a narrowband physical uplink shared channel (NPUSCH) in accordance with time-division duplexing (TDD). The uplink scheduling delay may be based on a sum of a predetermined first number of subframes and a variable second number of subframes. The second number of subframes may be based on a window of variable size that starts when the first number of subframes has elapsed since reception of the NPDCCH, and ends when a number of uplink subframes has elapsed since the start of the window. The number of uplink subframes may be indicated by the uplink scheduling parameter.