公开(公告)号：US11765772B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-19

申请号：US17949983

申请日：2022-09-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Carlos H. Aldana ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Yingyang Li ,  Salvatore Talarico

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W74/08

CPC classification number: H04W74/0808 ,  H04W72/12

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for a UE and its serving base station in 5G NR systems to signal channel scan or channel sensing to allow channel occupancy time (COT) sharing before transmissions. The COT sharing may be initiated by the base station or by the UE by asserting a CCA indication to enable channel sensing by a UE or base station, respectively. When the UE receives and decodes the asserted CCA indication during downlink transmission, the UE may perform channel sensing during a short interframe space (SIFS) between the downlink transmission and a scheduled uplink transmission. When the UE detects that the sensed RF energy across an intended transmission band is greater than an energy detect threshold, the UE may refrain from transmitting during the scheduled uplink transmission. Otherwise, or when the CCA indication is de-asserted, the UE may transmit during the scheduled uplink transmission without performing channel sensing.

公开(公告)号：US20230007635A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-05

申请号：US17903376

申请日：2022-09-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Gang Xiong ,  Hwan-Joon Kwon ,  Sergey Sosnin ,  Yongjun Kwak

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04L1/08

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The UE may receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that schedules a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a slot, and on a component carrier (CC) of a plurality of CCs. The PDCCH may include a total downlink assignment index (DAI) and a counter DAI for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback of the PDSCH. The total DAI may indicate a total number of pairs of CCs and slots for the HARQ-ACK feedback. The UE may encode the HARQ-ACK feedback to include a bit that indicates whether the PDSCH is successfully decoded. A size of the HARQ-ACK feedback may be based on the total DAI, and a position of the bit may be based on the counter DAI.

公开(公告)号：US20220330381A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-13

申请号：US17830016

申请日：2022-06-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gang Xiong ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Dae Won Lee ,  Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov ,  Seunghee Han ,  Jie Zhu ,  Dmitry Belov ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Andrey Chervyakov ,  Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr ,  Hong He ,  Toufiqul Islam ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Alexey Vladimirovich Khoryaev ,  Lopamudra Kundu ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Jose Armando Oviedo ,  Sergey Panteleev ,  Mikhail Shilov ,  Sergey Sosnin ,  Salvatore Talarico ,  Jan Zaleski

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04J13/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry coupled to memory. To configure the UE for New Radio (NR) communications above a 52.6 GHz carrier frequency, the processing circuitry is to decode radio resource control (RRC) signaling to obtain a cyclic shift value in time domain. The cyclic shift value is associated with a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) antenna port (AP) of a plurality of available DM-RS APs. A single carrier based waveform DM-RS sequence corresponding to the DM-RS AP is generated using a base sequence and the cyclic shift value. The single carrier based waveform DM-RS sequence is encoded with uplink data for transmission to a base station using a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) using a carrier above the 52.6 GHz carrier frequency.

公开(公告)号：US11388730B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-12

申请号：US16483252

申请日：2018-03-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Wook Bong Lee ,  Gang Xiong ,  Hong He ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Daewon Lee ,  Seung Hee Han ,  Alexei Davydov ,  Guotong Wang

IPC: H04W72/08 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04W76/19 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: An apparatus is configured to be employed within a base station. The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to select one or more recovery channels based on one or more recovery factors; determine a beam recovery frame structure using the selected one or more recovery channels and based at least partially on beam correspondence capabilities; and provide the selected one or more recovery channels and the determined beam recovery frame structure to the RF interface for transmission to a user equipment (UE) device.

公开(公告)号：US20220183063A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-09

申请号：US17438572

申请日：2020-03-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Salvatore Talarico ,  Gang Xiong ,  Yingyang Li ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Carlos H. Aldana

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W74/00 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W76/28

Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for adjusting contention window size (CWS). An example method includes selecting a downlink (DL) burst transmitted by the gNB for use in determining the CWS and adjusting the CWS based on Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback received with respect to the selected DL burst.

公开(公告)号：US20220174722A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-02

申请号：US17442569

申请日：2020-07-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Salvatore Talarico ,  Gang Xiong ,  Yingyang Li ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Jose Armando Oviedo

IPC: H04W72/14 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W74/00

Abstract: The present application relates to wireless devices, and more particularly to apparatus, systems, and methods for multiplexing configured Grant (CG) transmissions in New Radio (NR) systems operating on unlicensed spectrum. In some embodiments, uplink control information may be transmitted in one or more configured grant physical uplink shared channels mapped to a respective one or more mini-slots.

公开(公告)号：US20220141075A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-05

申请号：US17435730

申请日：2020-03-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Bishwarup Mondal ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Daewon Lee ,  Avik Sengupta

IPC: H04L27/26 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for maximizing use of discovery reference (DRS) resources for remaining minimum system information (RMSI) allocation. An example method includes configuring Type 0 physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) CORESET monitoring to include monitoring in either a first slot or a first slot and a second slot; generating a synchronization signal block (SSB) encoding the configured PDCCH CORESET monitoring; and transmitting the SSB to a user equipment (UE) by way of a discovery reference signal (DRS).

公开(公告)号：US11304157B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-12

申请号：US16625131

申请日：2018-06-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov ,  Avik Sengupta ,  Gang Xiong ,  Hong He ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Dae Won Lee

IPC: H04J11/00 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode synchronization information within a synchronization signal (SS) block, the SS block received within a SS burst set and occupying a subset of a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols within a slot. At least one of the symbols in the subset coincides with a pre-defined symbol location associated with a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). A synchronization procedure can be performed with a next generation Node-B (gNB) based on the synchronization information within the SS block. The DM-RS can be detected within the slot, where the DM-RS starts at a symbol location that is shifted from the pre-defined symbol location and following the subset of symbols. Downlink data received via the PDSCH is decoded based on the detected DM-RS.

公开(公告)号：US20210251042A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-12

申请号：US17241586

申请日：2021-04-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jeongho Jeon ,  Seau Lim ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Anthony Lee ,  Hwan-Joon Kwon ,  Joonyoung Cho ,  Huaning Niu

IPC: H04W88/02 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W72/14 ,  H04W88/04 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W74/00

Abstract: A network device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), or a new radio NB (gNB)) can process or generate a configuration of a physical random access channel (PRACH) over physical resource blocks (PRBs) that are interlaced in an unlicensed band in an NR unlicensed (NR-U) communication. The PRBs in the PRACH can be based on an occupied channel bandwidth (OCB) of the unlicensed band in the NR-U communication. A random access channel transmission in the PRACH can then be generated by interlacing the PRBs defining the PRACH.

公开(公告)号：US20200267803A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-20

申请号：US16645534

申请日：2018-09-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yongjun Kwak ,  Dae Won Lee ,  Gregory Vladimirovich Morozov ,  Seunghee Han

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode system information block (SIB) information including a PRACH configuration index. The PRACH configuration index indicates at least a first preamble format and a second preamble format. A PRACH preamble is encoded for transmission to a base station within a PRACH resource indicated by the PRACH configuration index. The PRACH preamble is associated with the first preamble format or the second preamble format. A random access channel response (RAR) message from the base station is decoded. The RAR message includes an uplink grant for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission. Data is encoded for transmission on the PUSCH based on the uplink grant. The PRACH resource comprises a plurality of PRACH occasions, where the PRACH preamble is transmitted within a PRACH occasion from the plurality of PRACH occasions with a starting symbol indicated by the PRACH configuration index.