公开(公告)号：US11818803B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-14

申请号：US17842123

申请日：2022-06-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tianyan Pu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Wanping Zhang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Pengkai Zhao ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Wei Zhang ,  Ping Wang ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Johnson O. Sebeni

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W72/56

CPC classification number: H04W88/06 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/56 ,  H04W74/0825

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform methods to implement mechanisms for performing a listen again after talk procedure to detect collisions over an access medium. The wireless device may determine a frequency and configuration of modified transmission frames for transmission over an access medium (licensed or unlicensed) and may further determine a timing of the modified transmission frames within a transmission occasion. The wireless device may detect, during a listening period of the modified transmission frame, a collision and may adjust, based, at least in part, on the detected collision, a remaining transmission schedule for the transmission schedule and/or LBT parameters.

公开(公告)号：US11817933B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-14

申请号：US17873934

申请日：2022-07-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jia Tang ,  Beibei Wang ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Pengkai Zhao ,  Ping Wang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yang Li ,  Zhu Ji

IPC: H04B7/08 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W36/06 ,  H04W36/36 ,  H04W36/30 ,  H04W36/32

CPC classification number: H04B7/088 ,  H04B7/0632 ,  H04W36/06 ,  H04W36/36 ,  H04W36/30 ,  H04W36/32

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform methods to implement mechanisms for a UE to request a beam quality measurement procedure. A user equipment device may be configured to perform a method including performing transmitting a request to perform a beam quality measurement procedure for downlink receptions (e.g., a P3 procedure) to a base station/network entity, receiving instructions to perform the beam quality measurement procedure from the base station, and transmitting results of the beam quality measurement procedure to the base station. In some embodiments, transmission of the request may be response to at least one trigger condition and/or detection of a condition at the UE. The request may include an indication of a preferred timing offset. The instructions to perform the beam quality measurement procedure may include a schedule for the beam quality measurement.

公开(公告)号：US11743917B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-29

申请号：US17536303

申请日：2021-11-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Yang Li ,  Zhu Ji ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Wei Zeng ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haijing Hu ,  Xiangying Yang ,  Li Su

IPC: H04W72/23 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W84/04

CPC classification number: H04W72/23 ,  H04W52/0209 ,  H04W52/0216 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W84/042

Abstract: A downlink control information (DCI), such as a blanking DCI (bDCI) message may be transmitted by a base station (e.g., eNB) and received by a mobile device (e.g., UE). The bDCI may indicate that the eNB will not transmit a subsequent DCI to the UE for a duration of time. The UE may be in continuous reception mode or connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) mode. The UE may therefore determine to enter a sleep state or take other action. The bDCI may specify an explicit blanking duration, or an index indicating a blanking duration from a lookup table, and/or the blanking duration (and/or a blanking duration offset value) may be determined in advance, e.g., semi-statically. When the UE is in C-DRX mode, the UE may be configured such that either the sleep/wake period of the C-DRX mode or the blanking period of the bDCI may take precedence over the other.

公开(公告)号：US11671823B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-06

申请号：US17835705

申请日：2022-06-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yuchul Kim ,  Christian W. Mucke ,  Haijing Hu ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Matthias Sauer ,  Johnson O. Sebeni

IPC: H04W8/22 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W88/08

CPC classification number: H04W8/22 ,  H04W8/005 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: A wireless communication device (UE) may provide information pertaining to one or more operating capabilities of the UE to LTE and 5G-NR networks. The UE may transmit information to an LTE base station directly, and to a 5G-NR base station directly, or indirectly via the LTE base station. The information may include preferred values corresponding to any number of different operating parameters associated with wireless communications or wireless communication capabilities of the UE in both LTE and 5G-NR networks, to inform and/or request the LTE and 5G-NR networks to make provisions based on the transmitted information for the wireless communications of the UE on those networks. The UE may thereby provide assistance information to LTE and 5G-NR networks in a multi-radio-access-technology dual-connectivity setting to request the respective networks to adjust certain operating capabilities of the UE in order to alleviate one or more operating issues that may be affecting the UE.

公开(公告)号：US11646822B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-09

申请号：US16582081

申请日：2019-09-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wei Zhang ,  Wanping Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Pengkai Zhao ,  Jia Tang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Haijing Hu ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Johnson O. Sebeni

IPC: H04L1/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/121

CPC classification number: H04L1/0073 ,  H04L1/0026 ,  H04L1/0031 ,  H04L1/0061 ,  H04L5/0055 ,  H04W72/121 ,  H04L2001/0092

Abstract: Groupcast communications between devices of a group of devices, e.g. between vehicles in a platoon, may include a device in the group transmitting a groupcast message in a sidelink transmission to the other devices and receiving feedback information in sidelink transmissions from the other devices within the same channel occupancy time (CoT). The feedback information may be transmitted by the other devices in response to the groupcast message including an information request directed to the other devices. The group of devices may include a designated group leader which may manage one or more aspects of the communications of the other devices in the group. The designated group leader may be dynamically switched based at least on the received feedback information. The devices in the group may use beamforming for intra-group and inter-group sidelink communications for efficient spectrum usage.

公开(公告)号：US20230038005A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-09

申请号：US17968916

申请日：2022-10-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Haitong Sun ,  Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Zhu Ji ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Wei Zhang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Tianyan Pu ,  Pengkai Zhao ,  Wei Zeng

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04B7/024 ,  H04B7/0413 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W88/10

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing downlink control for non-coherent joint transmission. A cellular base station may provide downlink control information associated with a non-coherent joint transmission downlink data communication to a wireless device, which may receive the downlink control information. The downlink control information may be provided as a single downlink control information including scheduling information for two data streams of the non-coherent joint transmission data communication, or a portion of a multi-stage downlink control information transmission. The wireless device may receive the non-coherent joint transmission downlink data communication based at least in part on the downlink control information.

公开(公告)号：US11540276B2

公开(公告)日：2022-12-27

申请号：US16578996

申请日：2019-09-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wei Zhang ,  Pengkai Zhao ,  Wei Zeng ,  Haitong Sun ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Jia Tang ,  Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Ping Wang ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Tianyan Pu

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W16/14

Abstract: A device may wirelessly communicate according to a first radio access technology (RAT) within a first bandwidth part (BWP) of a frequency spectrum in which wireless communications according to other RAT(s) also take place. The device may be instructed to operate/communicate within a second BWP of the frequency spectrum responsive to the device successfully completing a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure within a specified portion of the second BWP, where the second BWP contains the first BWP while the first BWP does not contain the specified portion of the second BWP. The device may also be instructed to operate/communicate within a specified frequency band (SFB) of the frequency spectrum responsive to the device successfully completing an LBT procedure within the SFB, where the SFB is not contiguous with the frequency band that includes the first BWP. The device may then simultaneously operate within the second frequency band and the first frequency band.

公开(公告)号：US11438959B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-06

申请号：US15993934

申请日：2018-05-31

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Beibei Wang ,  Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Zhu Ji ,  Jia Tang ,  Yang Li ,  Tianyan Pu

IPC: H04W76/28 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W28/06 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: A device and method for power optimization for a user equipment (UE) without neighbor cell measurement configuration. The UE may be configured with Connected Discontinuous Reception (C-DRX) functionality including a cycle with an onDuration. The UE may be configured with carrier aggregation (CA) in the unlicensed spectrum including a reference signal (DRS) monitoring timing configuration (DMTC) occasion that occurs outside of the onDuration. The UE determines at least one subframe of the onDuration for the UE to utilize an active mode of processing related to performing measurements corresponding to a cell utilizing the unlicensed spectrum. The UE determines to utilize a sleep mode of processing related to performing the measurements during the DMTC occasion based on detecting a first downlink signal transmitted by the cell during the at least one subframe of the onDuration.

公开(公告)号：US20220191972A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-16

申请号：US17683444

申请日：2022-03-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: This disclosure relates to performing cellular communication using a control information monitoring framework. A wireless device may monitor a control channel for control information according to a first periodic pattern. According to the first periodic pattern, the wireless device may monitor the control channel in a specified slot during each period of the first periodic pattern. Each period of the first periodic pattern may include multiple slots. The wireless device may receive control information during a first slot. The first slot may be a specified slot according to the first periodic pattern. The control information received during the first slot may schedule a data communication. The wireless device may monitor the control channel for control information in at least one slot that is not specified according to the first periodic pattern based at least in part on receiving control information during a specified slot according to the first periodic pattern.

公开(公告)号：US11357003B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-07

申请号：US17008319

申请日：2020-08-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W76/10 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W84/04

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods to dynamically indicate preference for self-contained slots and slot duration by a user equipment device (UE) in communication with a base station (e.g., a gNB) using a 5G NR radio access technology. A UE may determine to send an indication to a gNB indicating a preference for self-contained slots and slot duration for downlink and/or uplink communications utilizing one or more of the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and/or acknowledgement messaging (ACK/NACK) for downlink communications, and utilizing one or more of the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), the PDCCH, and/or the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for uplink communications. The configuration of self-contained slots and slot duration for uplink and/or downlink may be based on one or more of average packet size, average packet rate, traffic type and UE processing capabilities.